Copywright, NYTimes, Michael Schmelling
Check out this article from NYTimes T Magazine which discusses, among other people, a couple with a zest for collecting:
"Their collection now numbers well over 3,000 dishes, including coveted designs by Eva Zeisel, Russel Wright, Ben Seibel and other modernist masters. The dishes are arrayed on custom-built shelves, in cabinets and in 1950's built-in drawers. Not a few of them are usually being washed." (emphasis mine)
It's worth a read and definitely helped me to put my collection in perspective: I certainly don't have as much as those weirdos, so I'll have to buy more.
Read it here.
Never stop shopping!