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Daily Mirror
11-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mirror
Home Bargains 'beautiful' £1.99 tableware set rivals £244 Denby set
A shopper has shared her love for Home Bargains after spotting the budget retailer's new range of tableware in stores Home Bargains has thrilled customers with its latest collection of dinner plates and bowls, each priced affordably and resembling one particular high-end designer style. This budget-friendly superstore has become a favourite among many Brits for its economical homeware and essential items. The retailer frequently introduces new products that could easily be mistaken for luxury brands, and its newest tableware line is no different. Lifestyle blogger Katie, known as Our_home_on_thehill on Instagram, shared her excitement about the new collection after discovering it in stores and posted a video showcasing how she has incorporated the set into her home decor. To her 137k followers, she said: "I found the most beautiful dinnerware set, and you won't believe the price." The new items belong to Home Bargains' updated Tranquillity range. While not yet listed on the brand's website, the 'stylish' tableware is available in-store. What really sets this collection apart, according to Katie, is its similarity to Denby's Halo Speckle 12 Piece Coupe Tableware Set. This high-end set is priced up to £244, making Home Bargains' offering—a mere £1.99 for a bowl, £1.99 for a side plate, and £2.99 for a dinner plate—an exceptionally wallet-friendly alternative, reports the Liverpool Echo. In her post caption, Katie said: "Dinnerware that looks designer without the designer price tag. Just how beautiful is this 'tranquillity' dinnerware?! I can't believe how similar it is to the £170 Denby version, but for a fraction of the price." She went on to say: "Perfect for elevating your tablescape on a budget, whether it's a cosy dinner for two or spring hosting with friends. It's all in the details, and this stunning design sits perfectly in a modern country kitchen. Home Bargains has really stepped up their homeware game. These beauties probably won't stay in stock for very long." Followers quickly filled the comment section with expressions of amazement. One replied: "They are beautiful." A second said: "Love these! So gorgeous and look much more expensive than they are." Another put: "Wow good find!! They're lovely." An additional admirer commented: "Wow, an absolute bargain! What a find," joined by others, who said similar things like: "Wow that's a fab find," and: "Wow good find!! They're lovely." After reading the comments, Katie responded: "I'm honestly blown away by how beautiful this dinner set is. It's a total Denby [alternative]." Someone else added: "Such a pretty collection at a wonderful price." Home Bargains reposted Katie's content on its Instagram, captioning it: "Designer Dinnerware without the designer price tag. Thanks to the lovely @our_home_on_thehill for the content." In the comments, one person said: "It's a gorgeous set ... shared it on my stories last week... got lots of response." Another commented: "Beautiful shade for these plates." A different user complimented: "Such a beautiful set." Meanwhile, another follower made a request, saying: "Love these! Pretty please bring them out in green." A description of the Denby set online reads: "A beautiful and functional 12 piece tableware set from our Halo Speckle range. With a beautiful soft textured glaze the 12 piece set includes 4 Coupe Dinner Plates, 4 Medium Coupe Plates and 4 Cereal bowls. Perfect for all meal occasions from everyday dinners to special occasions."
Daily Mail
26-04-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Elevate your kitchen with timeless dinnerware from Denby - each with a 10-year guarantee
The dinner table brings people together with food, family, and fun — but the kitchenware is the true unsung hero of the dining room. When it comes to setting the table in your home, you want to have pieces that feel cozy but can also get the job done time and time again. Whether you live alone or are feeding a family of five, having the right tools really does make all the difference. Denby Pottery Upgrade your kitchen with pieces from the best! Denby Pottery has been offering shoppers handcrafted pieces for decades at accessible prices. From plates to bowls and all the in-between — you can make mealtime meaningful again with their one of a kind ceramics. When you shop today you can enjoy some of the lowest prices of the year with up to forty percent off. SHOP NOW Shop That's why Denby Pottery has become such a pivotal destination for dinnerware. The English brand has been making handcrafted ceramics for nearly 200 years with a focus on sustainability, craftsmanship, and timelessness. Their pieces range from bowls to mugs and everything in between, with one-of-a-kind pieces being sent out daily. Right now, you can restock your cabinets on sets of all sizes! Imperial Blue 4 pc Set A gorgeous handcrafted ceramic dinnerware set made from locally sourced clay in England? Sounds too good to be true! The Imperial Blue set is a stunning and vibrant kitchen addition. Though it only comes with four pieces, you can easily add on more orders to fit your family size. The glassy blue finish is bold but timeless, and the best part is that everything is machine washable! $116.20 (was $166) Shop Studio Grey 16 Pc Set You can score this massive top-rated dinnerware set for twenty-five percent off right now! This neutral grey set comes with a whopping 16 pieces, from mugs to dinner plates. All the pieces are handcrafted in England and are glazed with a chip-proof finish. If your kitchen takes on a minimalistic energy, this matte style set is a great addition that will make mealtime feel chic. $408 (was $544) Shop Heritage Pavilion Coupe 12 Pc Set This gorgeous 12-piece set is by far our Denby favorite! The soft blues make the perfect subtle pop of color in any kitchen with plates and bowls galore. Made from quality clay, these ceramic dinnerware pieces are a take on a retro country aesthetic. $240 (was $400) Shop White By Denby 4 pc Set If you want quality dinnerware without breaking the bank then this Denby all white set is for you. This four piece buy comes with everything needed for one person including a mug, dinner plate, bowl, and salad plate. Plus, right now the set is a huge forty percent off! For anyone who lives alone this set is perfect but we also think couples could suffice with purchasing two sets (for just $123!). $61.80 (was $103) Shop Heritage Orchard Set of 4 Accent Medium Plates We are obsessed with these dainty printed plates from Denby. The Heritage Orchard dinnerware invites the outside in with beautiful spring colors and delicate designs. The chip resistant ceramic makes them durable even in their handcrafted state. These medium sized plates are the perfect size for appetizers, desserts, or salads! $140 (was $84) Shop Heritage Piazza Medium Pet Bowl These chic pet bowls will have your pup saying 'WOOF!' Made from quality pet-safe ceramic, these bowls are as functional as they are aesthetic. Explore multiple color variations and take your pets dinner time to the next level. $27 (was $45) Shop
Daily Mail
25-04-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Elevate your kitchen with timeless dinnerware from Denby - Now up to 40% OFF
The dinner table brings people together with food, family, and fun — but the kitchenware is the true unsung hero of the dining room. When it comes to setting the table in your home, you want to have pieces that feel cozy but can also get the job done time and time again. Whether you live alone or are feeding a family of five, having the right tools really does make all the difference. Denby Pottery Upgrade your kitchen with pieces from the best! Denby Pottery has been offering shoppers handcrafted pieces for decades at accessible prices. From plats to bowls and all the in-between — you can make mealtime meaningful again with their one of a kind ceramics. When you shop today you can enjoy some of the lowest prices of the year with up to forty percent off. Up to 40% OFF Shop That's why Denby Pottery has become such a pivotal destination for dinnerware. The English brand has been making handcrafted ceramics for nearly 200 years with a focus on sustainability, craftsmanship, and timelessness. Their pieces range from bowls to mugs and everything in between, with one-of-a-kind pieces being sent out daily. Right now, you can restock your cabinets for less while Denby is offering some major savings of up to forty percent on sets of all sizes! Imperial Blue 4 pc Set A gorgeous handcrafted ceramic dinnerware set made from locally sourced clay in England? Sounds too good to be true! The Imperial Blue set is a stunning and vibrant kitchen addition. Though it only comes with four pieces, you can easily add on more orders to fit your family size. The glassy blue finish is bold but timeless, and the best part is that everything is machine washable! $116.20 (was $166) Shop Studio Grey 16 Pc Set You can score this massive top-rated dinnerware set for twenty-five percent off right now! This neutral grey set comes with a whopping 16 pieces, from mugs to dinner plates. All the pieces are handcrafted in England and are glazed with a chip-proof finish. If your kitchen takes on a minimalistic energy, this matte style set is a great addition that will make mealtime feel chic. $408 (was $544) Shop Heritage Pavilion Coupe 12 Pc Set This gorgeous 12-piece set is by far our Denby favorite! The soft blues make the perfect subtle pop of color in any kitchen with plates and bowls galore. Made from quality clay, these ceramic dinnerware pieces are a take on a retro country aesthetic. Right now, you can stock all your cabinets for less while the set is nearly $200 off! $240 (was $400) Shop White By Denby 4 pc Set If you want quality dinnerware without breaking the bank then this Denby all white set is for you. This four piece buy comes with everything needed for one person including a mug, dinner plate, bowl, and salad plate. Plus, right now the set is a huge forty percent off! For anyone who lives alone this set is perfect but we also think couples could suffice with purchasing two sets (for just $123!). $61.80 (was $103) Shop Heritage Orchard Set of 4 Accent Medium Plates We are obsessed with these dainty printed plates from Denby. The Heritage Orchard dinnerware invites the outside in with beautiful spring colors and delicate designs. The chip resistant ceramic makes them durable even in their handcrafted state. These medium sized plates are the perfect size for appetizers, desserts, or salads! $140 (was $84) Shop Heritage Piazza Medium Pet Bowl These chic pet bowls will have your pup saying 'WOOF!' Made from quality pet-safe ceramic, these bowls are as functional as they are aesthetic. Explore multiple color variations and take your pets dinner time to the next level for less. $27 (was $45) Shop
New York Times
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Four ‘Eminent Jews' Walk Into a Book
Every book deserves to be judged on its own terms: Did the author accomplish what he or she set out to do? By this standard, David Denby succeeds marvelously in 'Eminent Jews,' his portrait of four icons who defined American culture in the second half of the 20th century: the humorist Mel Brooks, the writer Norman Mailer, the feminist Betty Friedan and the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. By his own account, Denby set out to write 'a celebratory book, a happy book.' Here, the Upper West Side is the center of the world, and resorts fill the Catskills with bubbling Yiddishkeit. Well-dressed people read books, debate ideas and listen to Mahler symphonies. Everyone smokes and nobody gets canceled. By the time E. Digby Baltzell's 'The Protestant Establishment' was published in 1964, his subject was being overtaken by those only a generation or two removed from the New World shtetl of Orchard Street. 'America poured into them, and they, as Jews, poured into America, a happy intermingling made possible by freedoms that Jews had never known before,' Denby writes. The biographies frequently intersect. Mailer and Brooks both started out in Brooklyn and came of age in the U.S. Army during World War II, forever to be marked by what they saw. No longer confined to the 'Jewish Harvard' that had been the City College of New York, Mailer and Bernstein headed to Cambridge, Mass., for the real deal, there to be inculcated into the largely WASP culture they would help displace. Mailer confronted Friedan's ideas at a contentious 1971 public debate. Contrary to the stereotype of the abstemious Jew, the book contains much hard drinking (Mailer's, but also Friedan's). There was enough sexual angst to keep a brigade of psychoanalysts and gossipmongers busy; Denby is especially strong when sensitively delineating Bernstein's tortured homosexual longings. America in the postwar years enjoyed no shortage of influential Jews: Philip Roth, whose 1969 paean to onanism, 'Portnoy's Complaint,' dispelled the lingering sexual mores of the Eisenhower years; Bella Abzug, the New York radical who prefigured the progressivism of contemporary figures; Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate who revolutionized physics. To say nothing of Bob Dylan. The desire to draft my own team ('the Hebraic Heroes'?) may well be evidence that Denby's foundational premise has merit. Throughout, he makes a convincing case that his subjects exercised a 'moral strenuousness' that accounts for the longevity of their works and ideas. 'The combination of asserted freedom and ethical purpose unites these four as examples of a new kind of American Jew,' Denby writes. Their lives are intense and noisy, crowded with achievements and failures, with nary a nebbish in sight. A longtime writer for The New Yorker, Denby, an obviously talented raconteur, perfects the ironic erudition that has long characterized that magazine's style. And so Friedan partakes 'in a Hamptons specialty: the Big Liberal Party that raises money for a cause,' while Mailer's forays to college campuses 'turned into profane revels, curses lobbed back and forth like water bombs.' But Denby pulls punches. In his preface, he acknowledges the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, as well as the global recrudescence of antisemitism that followed. Otherwise, though, he insistently dwells in an irenic past. Determined to write a happy book, Denby has come dangerously close to writing an oblivious one by barely nodding to how fraught Jewishness has recently become. We needed more than his 'note of mourning' to temper the joy that follows. This was very clearly a conscious choice, one I understand in a moment when a writer has every incentive to lie low, to say nothing that could engender controversy or cause offense. Only, one does then risk saying nothing at all. Some of the omissions are glaring. Denby barely brings himself to acknowledge Mailer's 'The Castle in the Forest,' a novel that reimagines Hitler's childhood. 'I won't go there,' Denby writes. It is, indeed, an uncomfortable book — which is precisely why it deserves consideration, especially when zealots on the political fringes hauntingly embrace ancient hatreds. I would have welcomed at least a mention of the recriminations surrounding a posthumous 2022 Mailer essay collection. Though the sourcing was thin, the subsequent debate about Mailer's legacy was not irrelevant. Denby's cheerful loquacity surely springs from genuine enthusiasm, but 'Eminent Jews' would have benefited from more willingness to dwell in what Walt Whitman called 'the dark patches.' Denby does cover Bradley Cooper's turn as Bernstein in the 2023 biopic 'Maestro,' but he leaves out the debate over Cooper's use of a prosthetic nose. What a fascinating conversation to be having in the 21st century — and what a shame to ignore it altogether. I get it, discussing this sort of thing would have made 'Eminent Jews' a less happy book. But it would have also been a more courageous one.
Wall Street Journal
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Eminent Jews' Review: Pushing the Boundaries
The title 'Eminent Jews' naturally evokes 'Eminent Victorians,' Lytton Strachey's takedown of Victorian culture through crushing biographical essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and Charles George Gordon. Unlike the Strachey volume, David Denby's 'Eminent Jews' has been written not to crush but to celebrate Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein. The celebration does not come off. Mr. Denby hopes his book will exhibit 'a composite picture of the ideology and practice of postwar Jewish cultural achievement.' Yet even though Mr. Denby is himself Jewish, his 'Eminent Jews' could as easily be read as promoting antisemitic stereotypes—the book's cover features the prominent, or as I think of them the chosen, noses of its four subjects—emphasizing as it does Jews who specialized in vulgarity (Mel Brooks), intractable leftism (Betty Friedan), relentless self-promotion (Norman Mailer) and flamboyant egotism (Leonard Bernstein). Not, any of this, likely to bring much pleasure in the offices of the Anti-Defamation League. All four of Mr. Denby's subjects were ostjuden, or Eastern European Jews, and thus Ashkenazi. Eastern European Jews, who came to the U.S. in profusion in the last two decades of the 19th and the first two decades of the 20th centuries, were once viewed in contrast to the more determinedly assimilationist German Jews, whom the Eastern European Jews called yekkes—Yiddish for jackets—denoting the formality of the German Jews in never removing their suit jackets. A joke of the time asked, 'What is the difference between a yekke and a virgin? The answer: A yekke remains a yekke.' Mr. Denby devotes roughly 80 pages to each of his four subjects. He begins with Mel Brooks, whose specialty was to go up to the line of bad taste—and cross it. For Mr. Denby, Mr. Brooks 'was a more complicated Jewish clown than the world was ready to acknowledge' and 'a significant figure in Jewish history.' At one point he compares Mr. Brooks to Franz Kafka. Informed of the comparison, one imagines Kafka, not a man given to mirth, would have enjoyed a hardy, falling-off-the-couch laugh.
