Les Desserts Napkins — Pièce Montée

Les Desserts Napkins — Pièce Montée

Dinner Napkin
$11.00
Sale price  $11.00 Regular price 
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Les Desserts Napkins — Pièce Montée

$11.00
Sale price  $11.00 Regular price 
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The pièce montée — the croquembouche, that spun-sugar tower of choux the French raised for weddings and christenings, the centerpiece as edifice.

Les Desserts brings the 19th-century pâtisserie plate to the napkin, drawn with the precision of a pastry catalogue. Four formats — dinner and luncheon napkins for the place setting, cocktail napkins for the tray, and a guest towel for the washstand — each in packs of 20.

A Note from Jeff

The French pâtisserie is one of the great applied arts of the 19th century, and Carême’s illustrated publications are among the most extraordinary objects produced by a chef at any period: volumes of engraved plates documenting confections that no longer exist, rendered with the precision of botanical illustration and the ambition of architectural drawing. A napkin printed with a numbered dessert vignette carries something of that seriousness to the table — which is, I think, exactly right for a dessert course that deserves to be taken seriously.

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Les Desserts Napkins — Pièce Montée

Dinner Napkin