Your potato salad just got an upgrade:
Picnic plates have gone old-school chic
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Mad for Melamine: Clockwise from top: “Artifacts” plate by Thomas Paul, $20 for a set of four at thomaspaul.com; personalized plate, $22 at laplates.com; “Scrimshaw” whale tray by Thomas Paul, $20; Jill Fincechill green plate $10 at Elements, Chicago; “Flourish” coaster and blue “Scrimshaw” coaster by Thomas Paul, $16 for four
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Bill Hogan/Tribune photos; styling, Daniel Krause, Ford Chicago
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Mad for Melamine: Clockwise from top: “Artifacts” plate by Thomas Paul, $20 for a set of four at thomaspaul.com; personalized plate, $22 at laplates.com; “Scrimshaw” whale tray by Thomas Paul, $20; Jill Fincechill green plate $10 at Elements, Chicago; “Flourish” coaster and blue “Scrimshaw” coaster by Thomas Paul, $16 for four
