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You probably won't find pieces from Sarah Cihat's Rehabilitated Dishware stacked neatly in Grandma's cupboard. Born as her thesis project at the Parsons School of Design, the line reflects Cihat's gift for thrift-store digging. It has also proved to be a profitable experiment in sustainability: Cihat buys and reglazes discarded dishware, modernizing snooze-worthy servers with funky images and colors.

Guitar-slinging rock stars, pinup girls, and cassette tapes are just a few of the more than 20 retro designs that the designer stencils onto candy-colored china. Not one for living amid excess, Cihat explains that her bestselling collection of tableware represents "a subtle statement of the importance of recycling, and the renewed value of unwanted things."

"I don't believe in buying new stuff just for the sake of buying new things," Cihat says. Rehabbed plates, platters, bowls, and mugs are sold at a number of specialty stores, which are listed on her website; custom pieces, in almost any design motif, can be purchased directly through the site.

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