Fête du Thé Dessert Tray

Fête du Thé Dessert Tray

Large Tray (17 x 13")

$108.95

$108.95

Fête du Thé Dessert Tray

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Fête du Thé Dessert Tray

Fête du Thé Dessert Tray

$108.95

$108.95

The plateau has been a fixture of French domestic life since at least the 18th century: a surface on which things are carried, presented, and set down with the implication that what arrives on it matters. The Fête du Thé dessert tray carries vintage French dessert illustrations in warm red and golden tones, bringing the visual vocabulary of the 19th-century pâtisserie catalogue to an object designed for repeated, daily use.

The French pâtisserie tradition produced some of the most precise and beautiful food illustration of the 19th century: each confection rendered in engraved detail, numbered and classified with the seriousness of a scientific specimen. The dessert illustrations on this tray draw on that tradition — rendered in warm red and golden tones against a ground that recalls the aged paper of a well-used recipe archive. On a glossy tray surface, that quality of careful observation translates into something that improves the look of whatever is placed upon it.

Part of the Fête du Thé collection. Designed to work alongside the Les Desserts napkins and the Fête du Thé paper plates.

There is a particular pleasure in the French afternoon tea that has nothing to do with the tea itself and everything to do with the sequence of objects that surround it: the right pot, the right cup, the right small plate, and, ideally, something on which all of it arrives. The plateau is not a grand object. It is a practical one. But the French have always understood that practical objects are worth making well, and that the difference between a tray that is merely functional and one that is also worth looking at is smaller than most people assume.

This tray is the object in the Fête du Thé collection that does the most work. It is also, I think, the one that makes the clearest argument for why the collection exists at all.

Tray Size Large Tray (17 x 13") Small Tray (10.5 x 8") Slim Tray (17 x 5.3") Desk Tidy (7.8 x 4.5")

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