Famiware Stoneware Dinnerware Set for 8, 24-piece

Open the box and you find twenty-four pieces of stoneware: dinner plates, salad plates, and bowls. They are dense and heavy in the hand, fired until the body vitrifies. The set serves eight, and every piece is meant to be used every day, not brought out for occasions.

You set eight places without thinking about which plate goes where. The bowls stack two high. The plates nest. They go from dishwasher to microwave and back without complaint. Stoneware chips at the rim if knocked, but it holds heat and sits steady on the table.