Trends Column Themes Tableware Donna Ferrari has worked in magazine publishing for over Trend thirty years. As a consumer Analyst magazine editor she specialised from Donna Ferrari in the tableware, homeware and bridal markets, and styled and produced stories related to bridal gift registry, wedding nature reception design and at-home entertaining. Personally, A potpourri of new dinnerware she has eleven different sets featuring freshly arranged botanicals, of dinnerware and closets dedicated just to tabletop deconstructed flowers, roses by the accessories; she says she loves dozens, bits of woodland wisps and a not ever having to set her table plenitude of birds and bugs are flourishing the same way twice. Floral hybrids Olivier Gagnère, intends to tell More than a bunch of the flowery Gien’s storied history in a new way: patterns arriving at market are crossing the message, a brand with continuity traditional flower imagery with atypical and relevant designs; the method of floral design elements; the result — telling it, Gagnère couples Gien’s past Robert Haviland design hybrids that give new direction designs featuring hallmarks, heraldry & C. Parlon to one of tabletop’s perennially loved and its classic Tulipes Noires pattern genres. Woodland Floral, a porcelain with bold graphic elements delivering pattern from Kim Parker for Gourmet a contemporary vibe. Remastering old Basics by Mikasa delivers flowers and designs into new ones has arrived as a leaves with a charming retro sensibility, major direction in designing tableware. but their ad hoc deconstruction Royal Limoges’s Paradis pattern has updates them into an unfussy floral been in production since the Belle Arzberg arrangement. At Arzberg, as a study in Époque era, but the brand is not resting harmony between pattern and shape, on its laurels. The exuberant Paradis the Serena design brings fresh focus to décor previously decorating a round the brand’s longstanding Profi body. body has been reincarnated onto the The white outline of each petal of the Nymphea body — which is full-blown décor, a stylised geometric floral, like a flower.Voila , the new Nymphea Royal echoes the distinctive white Paradis pattern ready for its run until at Limoges perimeter that outlines the least the next fin de siècle. Profi shape. Inspiration for the Serena concept traces to the Coming up roses outlined images in stained As Millennials enthuse about retro glass windows. Other styles it is unsurprising that the rose, the understated yet impactful quintessential romantic flower, adorns use of outlines can be seen so many new collections. Plucked on Bernardaud’s Rêve from archives and then tweaked, or Limoges porcelain where cultivated as artistic specimens, here branches with white blossoms are some rose patterns in the tabletop Floral hybrids are simply outlined in silhouette limelight. Villeroy & Boch’s Rose against a backdrop of small gold Cottage premium porcelain with dots, and on Medard de Noblat’s its fusion of an heirloom botanical Ombelles Limoges porcelain where rose image and a sprigs of wild plants and grasses are stylised floral print presented as line drawings. Isabelle embodies both Juliska Barthel’s creation, Jardin de Louise, a homespun appliqué Limoges porcelain pattern for Robert work and the edgy fashion Haviland & C. Parlon, represents trend for “mish-mashing” verdant stems topped with leaves; prints. Royal Albert’s touches of gold stand in for speckles Cheeky Pink fine bone china of sunlight. Underlying the green and gives old-fashioned roses turquoise colours, hints of grey are used a modern makeover by to show the backstory of the designer’s adding a top note of playful first pencil sketch for the pattern. polka dots; and although Faïencerie de Gien’s Allure collection, lighthearted, the pattern Mikasa a project created with ceramic artist offers a pleasing soupçon 28 TABLEWARE INTERNATIONAL Faïencerie de Gien Kate Spade New York Villeroy & Boch Coming up roses Twig New York Ted Baker Birdwatching Portmeirion Richard Ginori 1735 Royal Albert of formality. Kate Spade New York’s cross section of a tree trunk, however, Molly Hatch Rose Park bone china by Lenox has the these tree rings are created with 24k is clearly in step panache of easy-breezy chic recalling gold. Vietri’s elegant Bellezza Bloom with the pop the nonchalant glamorous illustration White Daisy collection, modelled after culture taste for new styles of the Sixties. Q Squared NY’s designs by artisan Stefano Roselli, is designs reminiscent of Cambridge Rose Cobalt tableware made from terracotta which in Italian vintage styles. takes its looks from traditional English literally means ‘baked earth’. Iittala blue and white china rose patterns of engaged illustrator Lotta Olsson to Bugs to behold the past and its durability from being design the Varpu pattern for its Sarjaton The reboot of interest in the natural made of 100 per cent melamine. porcelain line. Nature and fantasy world has consumers welcoming bugs Whilst the six heirloom roses shown connect in the sylvan – fairyland scale and insects into their homes – well, on Portmeirion’s new earthenware – motifs depicting aspects of an Arctic at least in as much as these masterpieces of nature look Botanic Roses range stay true to a woodland. Porcelaines Raynaud botanist’s point of view, Ted Baker great visualised on tableware. Portmeirion willingly takes a modish Birdwatching At Herend four different life-like turn with the Rosie Lee range. Rosie Beautiful bird designs continue to flock dragonflies are meticulously hand Lee – cockney slang for tea – features to tableware. Two of the newest bird- painted on the brand’s porcelain a design Ted Baker used in his 2015 centric patterns are very fine feathered Dragonfly dessert set. From Vista apparel line, and which he described as indeed: Porcelaines Raynaud Alegre, the porcelain Caribe collection, having “vintage-inspired flair”. The fine and Fromental – a specialist brand designed with the Christian Lacroix bone china range includes niceties like in couture wall coverings and brand, is decorated with fantastical a domed butter pat dish. fabrics – collaborated to create their elements, in particular a Paradis pattern of Limoges porcelain technicolour array of insects Naturalistic impressions decorated with luxuriant and dream- that whirl around the gear- Several collections represent nature’s like images of nature, characteristic of shaped dinner plate. The charms as naturally as possible. those seen in 18th-century chinoiserie eponymous designer of Juliska’s Forest Walk stoneware is furnishings. The rich but subtle Lou Rota London shows Vista Alegre bestrewn with renderings of the colours of the bird’s plumage, and her penchant for creating twigs, leaves, feathers, mushrooms the foliage and flowers are offered products like the Scarab and other things collected on a forest on either a light turquoise or white Beetle fine bone china walk the designer took with her family. background. At Richard Ginori 1735 pattern that speak to the Dibbern’s Golden Timber bone china Volière, designed in company with nascent but fast-growing pattern, designed by Bodo Sperlein, is Atelier Sandro Barros, also makes trend for idiosyncratic, offbeat Bugs to behold decorated with concentric for a splendid aviary-esque porcelain and surreal designs for tableware. rings like those in the dinnerware set. The collection presents Lastly, as the story goes, ladybugs twelve different birds wreathed by bring good luck, one of the reasons gold bands and plants and perched they are universally cherished. on festoons identifying their Prouna holds them dear too: on species. More informally, at their My Ladybug fine bone china Vietri Twig New York the Blue pattern ladybugs are spotted Bird fine bone china using Swarovski crystals. Naturalistic pattern designed by impressions Herend TABLEWARE INTERNATIONAL 29 Lou Rota London Iittala.