Blue & yellow is such a classic combination, and with good reason. Evocative of Provence, it conjures up visions of summer – blue skies, warm sunshine, gentle breezes…
And what better way to enjoy all that than drifting along in a hot-air balloon!
This series of plates is from Williams Sonoma, and is oddly called “Montgolfiere”. Intrigued, I did some research and discovered it is named after two brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon. Their first experiments lifted a balloon into the sky in 1782. They were the twelfth and fifteenth children out of sixteen, and the family were paper manufacturers. I don’t quite see the connection to ballooning, but it may have been a matter of necessity being the mother of invention. Can you imagine how exciting (and terrifying) those first experiments must have been?
There are four salad plates in the series.
- Dinner Plate
- Green Salad Plate
- Blue & Green Salad Plate
- Yellow Salad Plate
- Purple & Red Salad Plate
The series is discontinued, and only the salad plates are available. from Replacements.com. I quite like the dinner plate, but was unable to procure any, so styled the plates with the blue dinner plate from the Pistoulet pattern by Pfaltzgraff (very French – seemed appropriate!)
The blue water goblets are from Pier 1, a million years ago, and the placemats are also Pier 1, but more recent. The cutlery is a pattern from Williams Sonoma, long discontinued. The napkins are a blue & white checked set of eight I’ve had for years.
A bright, sunny table to help tide us over while we await warmer days.
I’m sharing this post with Between Naps on the Porch.