Design
San Francisco's Drug Needle-Covered Dirt Becomes Artistic Dishware
These kitchen bowls were made from soil beneath the city's notoriously nasty Tenderloin neighborhood.
When shopping for quality dishware, many people look to where it was made: The ceramics of Japan can be impeccable, for instance, and nice things are said about England's bone china. In the case of Ilana Crispi's homemade bowls, however, perhaps it's best not to know where they originated – under the needle-infested plague-turf of San Francisco's famously filthy, drug-infested neighborhood, the Tenderloin.