SETTING THE TABLE for buyers & sellers
Like all good ideas, this one started at a kitchen table. Only Tom Johnson’s kitchen table was filled with his mother’s Franciscan Starburst and Red Rooster Metlox Poppytrail dinnerware.
Johnson was just a kid when the idea took root. He had no way of knowing where all those kitchen table meals on splashy dishes that captured his imagination would take him, but they were certainly shaping his future – a wildly fun and brightly colored future filled with mid-century flair.
It didn’t hurt that his grandmother had Holt-Howard ceramic roosters – a flock he would inherit one day – and a fantastic spaghetti poodles collection.
That kind of stuff sticks with a kid like, well, spaghetti tossed on a wall. Turns out, the spaghetti poodles sealed the deal, so much so that Johnson has a poodle-themed guest room in his Naples, Florida, home.
But that’s now. We need
