Les Fleurs Crimson Floral Plate (Pack of 8)

The Les Fleurs paper plates place vintage botanical illustrations against hand-marbled grounds in the tradition of the finest French decorated papers: roses and open-faced blooms rendered with the careful draftsmanship of a 19th-century horticultural plate, set against the fluid, unrepeatable patterns of marbled paper in warm crimson, magenta, and gold. The combination is not decorative in the ordinary sense. It is a collision of two serious 19th-century traditions, each demanding precision of a different kind, producing something that looks equally at home on a formal table and a garden lunch.

The floral illustrations in the Les Fleurs collection are drawn from vintage botanical sources: the carefully observed, meticulously rendered studies produced for horticultural journals and scientific publications across the 19th century, at a moment when the documentation of plant species was considered work of genuine intellectual importance.

The marbled grounds are drawn from the tradition of the finest 19th-century bookbinders: hand-pulled patterns in which pigment floated on size produces the characteristic cellular, fluid forms that no two pulls replicate exactly. Available in 9″ dinner and 7″ salad or dessert sizes.