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Mottahedeh fine china

  1. Mottahedeh Takes a Leaf from Nature

    Mottahedeh Takes a Leaf from Nature and we fused it onto our plates. We share with you here an article written by Tableware Today and thank Amy Stavis for spelling it all out.  We hope you enjoy it and it leads you to know more about us!
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    By: Wendy
  2. Create Tables as Brilliant Experiences

    In my book, From Drawing Board to Dinner Table, we show a number of historic tableware designs that come with great stories. Written there, “We all need to eat. It is a fact essential to our material existence and a characteristic that humans share with animals. But humans are essentially different than animals in that they have a rational soul...
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    By: Wendy
  3. What to Look for in an Excellent Piece of Porcelain.

    Purity of Body Porcelain is a specific type of ceramic material.   The necessary ingredient that differentiates porcelain from other ceramics is a naturally occurring ore called Kaolin.  It is a pure white powdery substance that is actually decomposed granite.  It enables ceramics to be fired at an incredibly high temperature that fuses the clay into a durable solid. Just like...
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    By: Wendy
  4. Tableware Today: Favorite Patterns

    This summer Tableware Today had a fairly large spread on people's favorite china patterns. Three of our patterns were mentioned: R. Haviland & C. Parlon's Syracuse Taupe, Mottahedeh's Tobacco Leaf and Duke of Gloucester! These are some of our favorites too! Check back in a month or so to see which patterns are Mottahedeh employs' favorites! Make It Yours!  ...
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    By: Wendy
  5. Mini Doughnut Lace Overload!

    I've been on a Mini Doughnut kick for the past couple of weeks. I mean, how can you not LOVE these adorable little morsels of absolute deliciousness?! Not to mention, they're not fried - so they're a little better for me... right? Right. So it's totally okay that I've had three dozen in the past 24 hours... right? Well, it...
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    By: Wendy
  6. Black,White and Red Prosperity and Lace

    I have to admit, before I had my husband I was not the biggest fan of V-Day. I saw it as a hokey gift-card holiday riddled with cheap candy, even cheaper trinkets, and over-priced flowers. It was still fun to celebrate the day of "love" with my loved ones though; all my single ladies! And we even had a "PINK...
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    By: Wendy
  7. From Drawing Board to Dinner Table

    If you ever wanted to learn a little bit more about the whole process of porcelain development, about the history behind some of our most popular patterns, or how Mottahedeh came to be - we sell a beautiful full color coffee table book called From Drawing Board to Dinner Table written by the CEO of Mottahedeh herself, Wendy Kvalheim. I...
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    By: Wendy
  8. Traditional Home: Holiday 2010 - Farahnaz and Lace!

    Look for us in this holiday season's Traditional Home! Find our Apple Lace Service Plate on page 21. And Robert Haviland & C. Parlon's Farahnaz on page 22. "Festoon a napkin with layers of ribbon. 'Sauvage' porcelain dinnerware, from $75; Bernardaud. 'Lace' service plate, $115; Mottahedeh. Silk napkin from Schumacher." "Black-and-White feathers tucked into a napkin ring give this place...
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    By: Wendy
  9. Mottahedeh Memo: How is a Formal Table Set? (Part 1)

    Remember the "Mottahedeh Memo" post I had been talking about a week or so ago? Well, here we are ready to kick-start a short series of "how-to's". Refresh your memory by first clicking on this link here - CLICK. If you ask a child to set the table before they've been exposed to table manners you'll probably get a pile...
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    By: Wendy
  10. Mottahedeh Memo: Intro

    Etiquette at the Table: Mottahedeh Memo Eating is an experience we take part in every day. But dining is an experience that elevates the act of eating to a cultural and social interaction that can be uplifting to everyone involved. The beauty of nature is a standard for the beauty and unity that can be created in our man-made surroundings...
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    By: Wendy

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