Blog: Guides
Gien Filet Noël: Christmas Dinnerware with a French Accent
Gien's Filet Noël dresses the classic scalloped Filet shape for Christmas with colored-pencil and watercolor drawings – dinner plates, dessert plates, mugs, a serving tray and styling ideas.
How Gien Faience Is Made in the Loire Valley
From a 200-year-old clay recipe to three firings and hand painting, here is how Gien makes its French faience in the Loire Valley – plus the patterns that show the handwork best.
A Guide to Jay Strongwater: Jeweled Treasures for Every Occasion
A guide to Jay Strongwater, the American atelier known for jewel-encrusted objets d'art: hand-enameled, crystal-set picture frames, Christmas ornaments, figurines, boxes, compacts and vases, and how to collect them by motif.
A Guide to Bernardaud Dinnerware
A guide to Bernardaud Limoges porcelain dinnerware: how to build a place setting, the everyday white Origine, Ecume in gold, platinum and pearl, Botanique, Jardin Indien and the Noël holiday collection, plus registry and care tips.
A Guide to Christofle Flatware Patterns
A guide to Christofle flatware patterns: silver plate, sterling or stainless steel, the classic Perles, Cluny, Malmaison and Marly, the modern America, Albi, Jardin d'Eden, Aria and MOOD, and everyday Osiris and L'Âme de Christofle.
A Guide to Herend Figurines: Colors, Animals and Collecting
A practical guide to Herend figurines: how the hand-painted fishnet colors work, six animal families to start with, sizes from miniature to showpiece, and tips for building a collection.