Tableware

With a hot summer promised -it’s time to prepare for eating in the garden, so dust down the garden furniture and stock up on barbeque charcoal and then have a good look through Emma Bridgewater’s lovely range of pottery for summer eating, especially Figs (just relaunched) and Kitchen Garden.

The striking Figs Pattern featured here, offers a choice of eight functional pieces including; Four Cup teapot; ½ Pint Jug; Comport and mugs bowls and plates.

Kitchen Garden includes useful trays, cake tins and canisters as well as stylish pottery pieces, all beautifully painted with colourful fruits and berries.

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A nice cuppa is welcome anytime of day and night and it is extra pleasurable to serve it in a beautiful, unusual teapot, which prepares it just right.

Menu the design company, has introduced Pernille Vea, a novel new tea set that forms part of a new generation of their popular Black Contour tableware series.

Tea connoisseurs know that the best taste and aroma is achieved if the tea floats freely in boiling hot water; therefore, the tea is placed in the supplied large tea-egg, which lifts up into the lid when the tea is ready, stopping the infusion from getting too strong and bitter.

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Entertaining in the summer is all about ease. Barbecues on the patio, vegetables and dips, fruit and salads, go on help yourself!

Mono accessories are beautiful timeless objects for every day, every occasion, and every purpose.

The company has launched the perfect serving dishes – simple glass bows set in stainless steel; the hanging version pictured here, looks spectacular over a breakfast bar.
 
The versatility of these stainless steel and glass containers is endless – limited only by your own imagination: they are ideal for salads, dips, fruit, and cereal and can also be used for flowers or other table decoration.

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Royal Copenhagen has introduced a new Fungi Flora Danica Collection. This is the first time since 1790 that the painters at Royal Copenhagen have painted an individual collection of fungi motifs on the gilt-edged porcelain.
 
The magnificent Common Puffball stands proudly in shades of café au lait on the shiny white porcelain, so true to nature that you can almost smell the mossy forest floor and feel the thrill of finding mushrooms in the countryside.

The botanical accuracy and precise reproduction of the flora has ensured that Flora Danica porcelain is world famous. The painter’s personal enthusiasm and artistic skill give the motif depth and fine nuances, so that it seems to rise expressively in three dimensions from the surface of the plate.
 
The colours used for the series of 26 motifs of fungi were determined autocratically by nature, with browns and greys, white, fiery reds and a few purple shades among the golden hues of the forest floor. The result is striking, uncompromising and alluring.

This new Flora Danica collection of fungi is available in a set of twelve dinner plates with different motifs, twelve deep plates with twelve more motifs, and two oval dishes. Altogether twenty-six different fungal motifs have been selected and they can also be bought individually. The plates are available either with or without the exclusive lace edge.

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The Cornflower pattern combined with the successful Waves shape is part of the new tableware collection from Meissen this spring.
 
The cornflower’s special charm derives from the Romantic Movement, in which the blue flower symbolises the longing for love and eternity.

Holger Schill, Meissen’s head of floral painting, has captured shades of blue in summer meadows beautifully in the brushwork.
 
The service, which is available as a dinner service as well as coffee and tea service, looks fresh and spring like on the table and also looks spectacular when used together with the Poppy service launched last year, which is the same shape..
 
All Meissen porcelain is hand-painted by skilled craftsmen, just as it has been ever since porcelain was first re-invented at Meissen in 1710.
Retail price from £155.00
 
Web: http://www.meissen.com
Tel: (020) 7589 0128

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Hard porcelain meets soft silicone in Royal Copenhagen’s new Contrast cup, which is, quite deliberately, both traditional and innovative – the fluted porcelain dating back to 1775, while silicone is a new material for the porcelain factory.

The Contrast cup has been developed in cooperation with industrial designer Hans Christian Gjedde and more pieces will be added to the range in 2008.
 
With this new item Royal Copenhagen is appealing to a young, urbane audience that signals personality through colour choice in the home.

The generous size of the cup contrasts with the subdued pastels and masculine meets feminine, when black and amethyst are put on the table together:
 
The Emerald Green cup is just right for mint tea, while Anthracite Black is the perfect match for a laptop.

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The new Fodo Oriental Vendors service to be launched by Herend was inspired by the vendors of the ancient orient. Tradesmen in various guises grace this beautiful service on plates, tea and coffee pots and cups.
 
The rim of each snow-white porcelain piece: cup, pot, sugar bowl and milk jug handles, the lid knobs and the spouts of the pots are lavishly gilded; the dishes are adorned with various combinations of six Chinese figures, six exotic birds and dragons and plants in a gold-speckled background.

The FODO (Oriental Vendors) pattern was inspired by a pair of cups created in the Vienna porcelain manufactory in the early 19th century.

Initially, the motifs on European porcelain pieces were copies of their Far-Eastern models; this style, known as Chinoise, was widely used in art and design, and this set depicting Oriental characters is a gorgeous example.
 
The Herend Porcelain Manufactory was authorised by the Emperor Franz Joseph to use the patterns of the Viennese porcelain factory after it was closed down in 1864.

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