{"id":282866,"date":"2021-06-24T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/inside-fishs-eddys-secret-tableware-museum\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:01:05","slug":"inside-fishs-eddys-secret-tableware-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-fishs-eddys-secret-tableware-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"#Inside Fishs Eddy’s secret tableware museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Inside Fishs Eddy’s secret tableware museum<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018You here for the tour?\u2019 \u201d quips Julie Gaines, the co-founder of the iconic downtown home goods store Fishs Eddy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Though the shop has long been known for selling quirky kitchen items \u2014 including plates and mugs with an illustration of country music legend Dolly Parton that say \u201cHello Dolly!\u201d \u2014 Gaines has something new to show off that, until this month, only lucky eyes could see.<\/p>\n

Just one flight of stairs up from the store stands a free-admission, one-room museum that Gaines opened in early June. <\/p>\n

Welcome to the Museum of American Restaurant China, which showcases thousands of pieces of vintage restaurant-ware \u2014 with piles of dishes on the floor, plates across the walls and rustic-looking shelves stuffed with mugs and creamers. <\/p>\n

These items \u2014 including bits from New York Central Railroad dining cars \u2014 aren\u2019t for sale, but reflect a big part of Fishs Eddy\u2019s identity. Since the 1980s, the store has lured shoppers looking for vintage dishware from diners, corporate dining rooms and hotels.<\/p>\n

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On Thursdays through Saturdays, head upstairs to see her favorite, and not-for-sale, collection. <\/figcaption>
Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI love bringing people up here,\u201d said Gaines, 57, adding that when she previously saw customers rummaging through the vintage section in the back of the store, she\u2019d quietly invite them up to this room for fun. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s where Gaines and her then-husband David Lenovitz kept select items from the troves of plates, bowls and sometimes bouillon cups they found over the years in the basements of Bowery restaurant supply stores, and even in upstate New York barns. (They sold the rest.)<\/p>\n

\"Julie
Gaines is thrilled to show off just how weird, wild and creative restaurantware can be. <\/figcaption>
Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c \u2018You want to see somethin\u2019?\u2019 It sounds like I\u2019m taking them to a dark place or something, but it\u2019s an a-ha moment \u2014 and I\u2019ve gotten letters from people saying, \u2018We came to New York and that was the highlight.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Browsing this collection is a trip<\/a> through time. Gaines is quick to point out record books from since-shuttered manufacturers, such as Syracuse China, showing illustrations of custom-designed dishes that date back to 1912 \u2014 as well as other items peppered across a large dining table, like a bowl used to serve food during the 1939 New York World\u2019s Fair.<\/p>\n

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The store has long been a popular source of vintage, and sometimes inexpensive, vintage restaurantware that Gaines has spent years sourcing.<\/figcaption>
Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The point of this museum is not just to celebrate good design and functionality of all these sturdy pieces, but also \u201cto share an app<\/a>reciation for it, because it was a great American industry that\u2019s gone now \u2014 if we don\u2019t share it, who will?\u201d<\/p>\n

The display also includes small, but meaningful, items from famed New York City spots. <\/p>\n

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A mould for a ceramic creamer in Gaines\u2019 vast collection. <\/figcaption>
Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are floral-printed mugs and bouillon cups from the glam Hotel Astor in Times Square, which shut in 1967. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a small white creamer with blue trim that spells out a familiar name: Macy\u2019s. (\u201cThat\u2019s from their corporate dining room,\u201d said Gaines.) <\/p>\n

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I wish I kept more.<\/p>\n

Julie Gaines, Fishs Eddy\u2019s co-founder<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

A white mug with red letters shows the cursive logo of Junior\u2019s \u2014 a small vestige from the original 1950s diner in Brooklyn. \u201cI love this,\u201d she said while holding it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one goes to a diner and thinks about the history of the mug they\u2019re drinking out of,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

It could take hours for a visitor to browse through the assortment of the museum, open on Thursdays (2 p.m. to 4 p.m.), Fridays and Saturdays (both days 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.) \u2014 but Gaines thinks the space merits more pieces to show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I kept more,\u201d she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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