Seven up-and-coming Chicago artists to collect now: Laura Letinsky

The Molosco Dinner Set by Laura Letinsky

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Molosco dinner set.

Expo Chicago 2024—Learning from Mollusks: A Consideration of Laura Letinsky’s Porcelain Line Molosco at Four Season Hotel by Bianca Bova

vis-à-vis ft MOLOSCO PORCELAIN: ‘VESSEL’ WED, 2/14

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When artist Laura Letinsky began making dinnerware, she knew she wanted to use porcelain: it’s responsive to the touch, mercurial when fired, shifting in dimension and shape. Porcelain has an inherent aliveness, changing with its conditions, always full of surprise. @molosco_porcelain is Letinsky’s line of porcelain dinnerware, and its name is meant to evoke a sense of holding, of cupping, of a network of mollusks, as the name suggests. Mollusks, who carry their home with them, both vessel and body are one. 

For this 6-course dinner, dishes will be inspired by the vessels themselves. How shape, contour, or heft might inform what foods to serve and how they should be eaten. And we’d be remiss not to go all in on a mollusk themed dinner, so you can expect a fair smattering of shellfish and cephalopods, bi-valves and more, like a buttermilk fried oyster with shiso and seaweed remoulade; or a scallop crudo with water chestnuts, herby zhoug, and persimmon kosho; and a nod to one of our favorite Sardinian dishes, fregola and clams. And the artist herself will be here to wax on process, practice, and inspiration. 

The dinner falls on Valentine’s Day, so come with a lover, or leave with one. (We are serving the world’s oldest aphrodisiacs, after all.) We’ll be serving a welcome cocktail and also encourage you to BYOB for this very special dinner. Just a few spots left, so scoop em fast.