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NY Design Week 2011: Sepi Alavi's Separelli Cake Stands

By Jamie Hall - May 15, 2011

in Sustainable Design | Homeware | NYCxDesign

Separelli's cake stands—Vintage plates paired with antique glassware.

This year, at ICFF Design Boom, amidst a sea of sleek, modern and sustainable sits Southern Vermont-based Separelli. A simple concept, Separelli takes vintage and antique dinner plates—the individual survivors of sets long-since broken and lost—and gives them a second life as cake platters. While it's hard to say what a dinner plate aspires to in terms of nirvana, coming back as a cake platter seems a fair assumption.

Designer Sepi Alavi combs through antique stores in the search of perfect plates and then pairs the plates with vintage glassware, which functions as the platter's stem. Using a two-part epoxy compound to marry the two pieces, Alavi makes one-of-a-kind, repurposed displays that are a functional (the epoxy is water resistant!) blast from the past.

Constructed with a two-part, water proof epoxy—Separelli's individualized platters.

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Sandra Sanchez

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These are so innovative and beautiful! We must feature them on orglamic soon :)
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Brenda Laurel

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Oh, these are just WONDERFUL, Sepi! Congratulations!

Sepi earned her MFA from the Graduate Program in Design at CCA back in 2008.
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