Tableware

Tableware is essential to customize the kitchen. Plates, cutlery, and glasses are but some among other items that can be chosen with care and attention in order to unleash your creativity and complete the space furniture. Tableware is available in a multitude of colors, materials, and shapes, ranging from a classic to a modern style, and is designed to meet any furnishing requirement.

How to choose tableware

The set of plates is definitely the first crucial element in a kitchen and dining room. It can be essential and therefore only include flat plates, soup plates, and side dishes, or it can be richer and more comprehensive, including, for instance, bowls, saucers, serving dishes, and a coordinated salad bowl. For a daily mise en place, a set in ceramic, terracotta, or porcelain stoneware is essential, one that is resistant to wear and possibly to dishwasher and microwave use. A second set for special occasions can be made of porcelain and feature precious decorations that require extra delicacy in the cleaning process and are not suitable for the dishwasher. Today’s cutlery sets are no longer just made of stainless steel with the classic finish (or of silver for important occasions), but are available on the market with many different finishes, glossy or matte. Among others, PVD certainly stands out, obtained through a chemical-physical process on steel, giving it desaturated or, on the contrary, vibrant and utterly original colors for the table while always guaranteeing a high level of resistance, as needed for items that are intensively used. The offer also includes cutlery made of valuable metals, as well as wood and plastic. Glasses are yet another element to be combined. For daily use, low models in transparent or colored glass, according to personal taste, are more recommended. For special dinners or events, however, it is better to also have crystal wine glasses, beer glasses, and champagne flutes, so as to be well equipped for every occasion.

Mix & match: learn how to combine styles, colors, and materials

While many people like to have all elements coordinated and reflect a unique style or color, others believe that a well-dressed table is only achieved through a wise mixture where all items are not necessarily matched. So green light to creativity and imagination, shaping combinations even with contrast, by placing on the table bowls and trays, napkin holders, drink coasters, sugar bowls, salt and pepper sets, salad bowls, bread bins, carafes, decanters—just to name a few examples, but the possibilities are endless. The mix & match approach will allow elements that perhaps we have inherited from our family of origin (very often sets that miss many pieces but to which we are emotionally attached) to coexist on the same table with other tableware decidedly more contemporary. Or, on a neutral base, such as a nice set of plates or cutlery, you can play with color, inserting different colored plates and serving bowls, elements that are perhaps different from one another and of diverse origin. This type of mise en place should not be reserved for special occasions but can be put into practice every day: setting the table becomes a fun experience, able to stimulate the imagination, put us in a good mood, and allow us to fully enjoy the flavors of the dishes we have cooked.