Call it Melamania. I have it. A love of melamine that comes on strong every summer. John Derian's newly launched collection of plastic plate designs set it in motion.
Elevating the act of eating outside, classic French Faience pottery designs have migrated onto plastic. Derian, known for creating decoupage plates and accessories out of old book drawings and artwork gets it right with these four French designs, and they even have the high and low relief that make them feel like the real thing. Originally, the earthenware was produced in Luneville, France in the mid 1700's. Just don't stick these in the microwave, they won't like it.
Tres chic. Bon appetite.
Photos courtesy of John Derian
Raised at the rim, the Fleurs Isolees Dinner Plate has a sweet bloom and leaf design. If you love flowers this pattern is for you with the traditional tulips and roses.
Raised at the rim, the Fleurs Isolees Dinner Plate has a sweet bloom and leaf design. If you love flowers this pattern is for you with the traditional tulips and roses.
Faience Italo-Nivernais Melamine Plate with a naive scenic band and center, all in blue and white.
Birds, butterflies and blooms dance around the border of the salad plate in Faience a la Corne
With the Faience Slice Charger in a generous size, blue and white always looks right. It mixes with other colors well and the symmetrical petal sections filled with scroll work have a charm that look old world yet fresh. I recall loving this plate in decoupage, now I can spring for more than just one.
2 comments:
Loving the blue and white!
Love these plates. Who said plastic wasn't chic?
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