L'afrodisiac Dessert Plate

Description: Fontana's interest in food and cooking was awoken while living in New York as she worked with former Top Chef host, Padma Lakshmi. The model come chef was writing a cookbook and enlisted Fontana to be part of the process. During this experience, she was introduced to different Asian food markets in all their glory. It inspired her to photography unique vegetables, fruits, fish, and noodles in an other wordly way - something she became particularly obsessed with during the pandemic when she was experimenting with different cuisines.

Dishwasher safe. Fine bone china. Pre-order only- items will ship in approx. 2 weeks.
Measurements: Ø7 in
Condition: New
Design: US OS
Color: Dark Olive Green
Seller: Shayna Fontana
Chicago-born artist Shayna Fontana is a conceptual artist whose practice focuses on surrealist photography. Fontana quickly establishing a career shooting fashion editorials and advertisements in New York City with clients that include Gucci, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar. Now based in Dallas, Fontana has become acclaimed for her perspective-shifting fine-art photography, using a singular point of view and fresh perspective to reimagine and reframe ordinary items—shoes, cherries, tennis rackets—into dynamic objects. Her collaboration with Prospect continues Fontana’s exploration of the boundaries at the intersection of art and the everyday. BEYOND THE WORLD SERIES In Fontana’s latest project, she combines her two favorite artistic expressions - her passion for the culinary and her immense talent in photography. With this collection of fine-bone porcelain plates and platters, Fontana challenges our notion of dining in a fantastical fashion, blurring the line between fact and fiction in the vein of Dalì and Oppenheim.