Tear Away Vintage Floral Paper Party Placemat

The vintage floral illustration tradition — the obsessively observed botanical plates produced for the great herbaria and horticultural journals of the 18th and 19th centuries — is one of the most compelling intersections of scientific precision and decorative beauty in the history of European art. The Vintage Floral placemat carries that tradition to the table: botanical imagery in the manner of the period illustration, rendered in full color on a warm ground that recalls the aged paper of a well-used archive.

The pattern fills the full face of the placemat, the botanical forms reading at dining table scale with the detail and depth of the original illustration tradition. A tear-away pad of 25 sheets. Dimensions 12″ × 18″. For the table that wants its setting to carry some visual intelligence.