Tableware

vivo Launch Lucky Loop and Lucky-U Tableware

 vivo Launch Lucky Loop and Lucky-U Tableware Designs

Vivo, the new stand-alone tableware brand from Villeroy & Boch, has launched two new lines for 2009; designed to bring a touch of playfulness to everyday tableware, the vivo brand offers innovative and high quality pieces, aimed at the younger, style-loving consumer.

The New lines include Lucky Loop and Lucky-U; fun and flexibility are the keynotes of the vivo brand – the products are extremely versatile and many are multi-functional:

The new Lucky Loop design in our picture, features a vibrant graphic pattern of concentric circles in orange, blue and blackberry.

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Bold & Beautiful China Collections From Joanna Wood

Bold & Beautiful China Collections From Joanna Wood

With bold colours and African prints dominating the catwalks for summer 2009, the new Zenaba china collection available from Joanna Wood ensures your home as well as your wardrobe, will be on trend this season.

The tropical hues combined with powerful patterns are sure to make a statement and this magnificent collection features serving platters, letter trays and bottle coasters, each adorned with a mixture of leaping gazelles, zebras and leopards.

Aztec and floral trends are huge in the fashion houses too and Joanna Wood has a variety of products to match.

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Meissen Celebrates 270 Years Of The Blue Onion Pattern

Meissen Celebrates 270 Years Of The Blue Onion Pattern

In 2009, Meissen is celebrating the 270th anniversary of its most important and probably best-known décor: the Blue Onion pattern.

As an anniversary promotion and a special ‘thank you’ to all loyal fans of Meissen porcelain, the company has dropped the prices of all items in the onion pattern by 20 percent – for the whole year!

Today, Meissen produces more than 750 different pieces featuring the onion pattern:

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New Beakers For Summer From Emma Bridgewater

New Beakers For Summer From Emma Bridgewater

Emma Bridgewater has introduced a colourful new range of melamine beakers just in time for summer, in the six patterns most favoured by customers.

They are ideal for picnics and outdoor parties; lightweight and tough too.
Whoever gets the job of carrying the hamper will be so grateful!

Priced at £3.50 each or in sets of six for £21 – as featured here.

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Ochre & Ocre Icons By Jo Verity

Ochre & Ocre Icons By Jo Verity

Ochre & Ocre is launching its new Icons Collection this May; a range of unique pieces exclusively designed and individually made by UK craftspeople. Each piece is a unique modern heirloom that is designed to last.

The Jo Verity Collection:

Ochre & Ocre have teamed up with the very talented jeweller, Jo Verity, to produce a gorgeous new range of napkin rings that complement the Ochre & Ocre table linens.
Jo has designed and made the napkin rings using her unique paper beads, which she makes individually by hand.

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The Peter Fagg Collection From Ochre & Ocre

The Peter Fagg Collection From Ochre & Ocre

Ochre & Ocre have also commissioned Peter Fagg, a wood turner from Northamptonshire, to make a range of wooden napkin rings.

Using native coppiced wood, Peter’s designs emphasises the natural beauty of wood.

Due to the nature of the material, each piece is slightly different, and the wood is finished with pure beeswax to bring out the grain; each set is turned out of one piece of wood.

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Pretty As A Picture – The PEONY From Herend

Pretty As A Picture – The PEONY From Herend

The New Peony Design from Herend is a modern take on the famous Victoria Pattern from 1851.

This new pattern picks out a single strand Peony from the bouquet and enlarges it, so that it gracefully curves around the surface of the white porcelain.

Peony comes in two colour ways: PIRO2L a delicate purple enhanced by green leaves and PIRO1H a soft peach with delicate blue leaves.

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Fashion Conscious Wine Cooler From Menu

Fashion Conscious Wine Cooler From Menu

Menu has turned things upside down; now wine needs a coat to stay cool! Cool Coat, Menu’s creative wine cooler, lives up to its name.

It’s really cool! A fully innovative, ingenious alternative, to the traditional wine cooler with ice that leaves melted water on the table, every time you take the bottle out of the bucket.

Cool Coat is the invention of designer Jakob Wagner, who is also the man behind many of the items in Menu’s Vignon series, which consists of an array of accessories for handling, storing and serving wine.

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The DotcomGiftShop’s Summer Garden

The DotcomGiftShop’s Summer Garden

Spring seems to be with us at last, and it won’t be long before we’ll be spending long summer afternoons in the back garden or chic urban balcony.

After a morning spent planting, using the Flowerpower gardening tools, festoon your oasis with Dotcomgiftshop bunting and decorations in preparation for the afternoon feast – cooked slowly over one of their colourful BBQ buckets.

Then sit back and savour the summer sun on one of the bargain metal chair and table sets – all at really affordable prices:

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Thea’s Unique Range Of Hand-Painted Ceramics

Gallery Thea’s Unique Range Of Hand-Painted Ceramics

Gallery Thea is a working studio, shop and gallery situated on the East Anglian coast in Suffolk, in the vibrant coastal town of Southwold.

The studio was first set up by artist Thea Cutting in 2000, and in 2004 she was selected as one of the finalists in Country Living magazine’s Rural Women in Business Award.

Gallery Thea offers a unique range of hand-painted and personalised ceramics, such as items from the Nursery Collection featured here, available mail order and online at www.gallerythea.co.uk.

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