Liberte Egalite Paper Party Plate

Liberte Egalite Paper Party Plate

9"
$9.00
Sale price  $9.00 Regular price 
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Liberte Egalite Paper Party Plate
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Liberte Egalite Paper Party Plate

$9.00
Sale price  $9.00 Regular price 
Description

The Liberté-Égalité plate takes the most durable phrase of the French Republic and places it on the table in the manner of the commemorative faïence of the Revolutionary period: the text as the design, the declaration as the decoration, the inscription pressed into the border in the way that the workshops of Nevers and Rouen pressed patriotic motifs into the glazed surfaces of their most political pieces.

The design belongs to the La Révolution collection — a series of paper tableware objects drawn from the graphic vocabulary of the French Revolutionary period. This plate is the most direct piece in the collection: no chevron, no cipher, no border pattern. Just the words, in the typeface of the period, in the colors of the Republic. Available in 9″ dinner and 7″ salad or dessert sizes.

A Note from Jeff

Liberté. Égalité. Fraternité. The three words that constitute the moral architecture of the Republic have been inscribed on public buildings, stamped on coins, pressed into faïence, and written on the lintels of post offices for two and a half centuries. They wear familiarity well. This plate puts them on the table, where they belong: among the people and the occasion they were written for.

The most direct piece in the La Révolution collection.

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