Dinnerware
Portmeirion Introduces Ted Baker Rosie Lee
Award-winning tableware manufacturer, Portmeirion® Group, and leading fashion house, Ted Baker, have together created Rosie Lee, a beautiful fine bone china dinnerware collection. This collaboration between two iconic British brands puts the fine into dining using Ted Baker’s signature prints.
Inspired by the Ted Baker Spring/Summer 2015 apparel collection – a selection that bursts into life with flashes of bold prints, strong textured fabrics and vivid colors – Ted Baker Portmeirion Rosie Lee is a nod to vintage floral patterns, colors and shapes.
“From the beginning Portmeirion has pushed the boundaries of the tabletop category,” explains Wendy Motlaq, Corporate Vice President of Portmeirion Group USA. “When Susan Williams-Ellis launched her ground breaking Botanic Garden design in the 1970s it featured mismatched dinnerware before any other manufacturer. Ted Baker has done the same and shaken up the fashion world. The creation of Rosie Lee is a natural combination for Portmeirion and Ted Baker.”
The formal Rosie Lee floral pattern features large roses in muted pastel tones of pink, mint, lemon and lilac, on a mixture of white, black or pastel backgrounds. Dragonflies dance around the whimsical design. Rosie Lee is Cockney Rhyming slang for tea and the collection is indeed perfect for creating an afternoon tea or a formal dinner party. The 41-piece bone china collection is hand gilded with 22-carat gold and presented in stunning gift packaging.
The Ted Baker Portmeirion Rosie Lee collection suggested retail price ranges from $14.99 to $149.99. A 22-piece porcelain giftware and dinnerware range, Ted Baker Casual, is also available. For more information, visit www.portmeirion.com.
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Vista Alegre Wins Multiple International Design Accolades
Orquestra Large Oval Platter
Vista Alegre, a worldwide leader in fine porcelain and crystal tableware and giftware, recently received three distinguished design honors: the 2015 Wallpaper* Design Award for the Orquestra tableware collection and two Red Dot Awards for Plissé and Orquestra.
These esteemed awards are among the most highly-regarded honors within the global design community, reinforcing Vista Alegre’s commitment to developing distinctive, high-quality and aesthetically pleasing products.
“We are honored to have received such renowned awards from Wallpaper* magazine and Red Dot for the Orquestra and Plissé collections, and will continue to provide consumers with innovative tabletop products of the highest standards for the home,” said Daniel Da Silva, President of Vista Alegre USA.
Orquestra Bread & Butter Plate
Orquestra, designed by David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem, made its debut at the New York Tabletop Show in April 2014, and features a combination of different geometric patterns that symbolize the complexities of musical harmony and rhythm. The collection was selected as a Wallpaper* Design Awards winner for the “Best Coffee and Cake” category.
Now in its 11th year, the Wallpaper* Design Awards are given to an array of extraordinary people, places, pieces and phenomena that have produced groundbreaking work over the previous year. A total of 44 nominees are selected from a panel of renowned artists, designers and entrepreneurs, as well as the Wallpaper* staff and its international network of contributors.
Plissé Large Box
Additionally, Vista Alegre received two awards from Red Dot, another prestigious international association that recognizes the most outstanding and innovatively designed products. The company’s Plissé and Orquestra collections were chosen among numerous other products entered by manufacturers, designers and architects from around the world.
Plissé is the culmination of Vista Alegre’s expertise in producing exquisite porcelain pieces. This unique, decorative collection includes three textured ornamental boxes that feature various intricate, geometric patterns and offer a sense of luxury and elegance to consumers with discriminating tastes.
For more information, visit www.myvistaalegre.com.
Zak Designs Expands Popular Spirit Collection
Red, white, and blue has always been a popular color story from sea to shining sea, but lately, customers across the globe are discovering the visual appeal of this timeless color combination, and it’s showing up on retail shelves and in homes from Amsterdam to Argentina. To help give customers around the world access to America’s favorite colors, Zak Designs has expanded its popular Spirit collection. Among the new products in the collection are:
Confetti Shallow Serve Bowls – Designed with a shallow profile to make it easier and more visually appealing to serve salads, pastas, and other dishes where it helps to have the toppings spread out more evenly. Suggested retail price: $39.99
Confetti Prep Bowls – Whether they’re used as prep bowls for baking or toppings and tapas bowl for parties, the Confetti Prep Bowls are always in demand. Suggested retail price: $13.99 for a set of four
Stripe Tumblers – Available in two sizes that both feature a slow transition of colors from red to white to blue as they cascade down the tumbler. Suggested retail price: $5.99 for a 22-ounce HiBall; $4.50 for a 11.5-ounce Double Old Fashioned Tumbler
Measuring Spoons and Cups – Durable melamine measuring spoons and cups ensure that the Spirit color story goes from the kitchen to the patio and everywhere in between. Suggested retail price: $7.99 measuring spoons; $9.99 measuring cups
More information is available at www.zak.com.
Fiesta Dinnerware’s New Color Introduction Is Twice As Nice
The Homer Laughlin China Company™, manufacturer of the colorful and iconic made in America Fiesta® Dinnerware, continued the tradition of launching its Fiesta color of the year during the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. However, this year there’s a catch because the company announced TWO colors of the year – Slate and Sage.
“Fiesta history has always leaned toward a bright fashionable palette. Today’s current updates in home fashion add rich Slate grey and accents of Sage green to provide a strong balance and complement to Fiesta’s bright color palette. The current throwback to mid-century modern and vintage styling includes a dominating accent of bright colors combined with cool grays and greens. In today’s fashions, these color combinations do not exist without one another,” according to Rich Brinkman, VP of Sales and Marketing at Home Laughlin.
“Plus, the addition of Slate and Sage allow Fiesta enthusiasts to now have fun with multiple color palette: the more traditional Fiesta all-over-bright colors that you have been seeing in recent years and the new earthy influence intertwined with the bright colors,” Brinkman says.
“Slate is the quintessential neutral color, as it is thought of as classic and enduring. It will work with all of the other colors in Fiesta Dinnerware – everything from the most vibrant orange tones to the quietest pastel shades. And even though most people don’t think of green as a neutral, if we look to nature for inspiring color combinations (as we often do), think of all of the colors that work against green foliage similar to this lovely herbal Sage shade. The possibilities are endless and such fun to create!” says color expert Leatrice Eiseman, of colorexpert.com and eisemancolorblog.wordpress.com.
At any given time, Fiesta Dinnerware has only 15 colors in its spectrum. So, with the addition of Slate and Sage, Black and Peacock will retire. Peacock has been in production since 2005 and Black since 1986, when the Fiesta Dinnerware line was brought back after a hiatus in production from 1969 – 1985.
Standard dinnerware pieces will be available in Slate and Sage, including 4- and 5- piece sets, and a variety of plates, platters, bowls, mugs, and the signature disk pitcher, as well as select serving pieces (sold separately). Suggested retail price for the 4- and 5-piece place settings is $32.99 (MAP) and $56.00 (MSRP). Presale starts May 15th, 2015 and items will be in better department, .coms and specialty stores. Available mid June 2015.
ThermoServ to Debut Tableware, Drinkware Line at IH+HS
ThermoServ will be unveiling a new line of premium tableware and coordinating drinkware at the International Home + Housewares show in Chicago.
The new collection of Mix and Match tableware is made of 100 percent melamine with no filler and provides a break-resistant and easy-to-clean alternative to glass, ceramics and stoneware. With the casual entertainment segment gaining popularity across a variety of audiences, the collection fills a need in the dining space by delivering functional, fashion-forward products that are casual enough to use every day but elegant enough to create a beautiful backyard table setting.
In conjunction with this new line of tableware, ThermoServ has evolved its 50-year-old brand image to reflect its ongoing commitment to provide attractive, durable and safe products. The refreshed branding features a new logo that reflects the company’s consumer-friendly focus and tagline, “Serving You. Innovation. Convenience. Fun.” The company also launched a new website in January that is designed to reintroduce audiences to the ThermoServ brand while also making its products more accessible to customers.
“This is an exciting time for ThermoServ as we announce our new retail collection and brand refresh,” said ThermoServ President, Tom Neth. “We have always been known for our superior domestically produced drinkware products, and now the addition of domestically produced melamine provides a combination that is unmatched in the industry. This shift in focus towards casual entertaining provides a great opportunity for retailers to take another look at the ThermoServ brand, and we think they’ll be excited at what they find.”
Show visitors at the International Home + Housewares show in Chicago on March 7-10 will be able to view the full collection of Mix and Match products, as well as a broad selection of licensed drinkware and tableware, travel and coffee items in person. Merchandising and packaging solutions will also be on display throughout the show.
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