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Pour des repas festifs ou des dîners à thème, le service de table a une importance capitale ! Du choix des assiettes aux couteaux de table, tout est bien étudié pour un dressage sans faute. De belles porcelaines et des couverts de bonne facture, chaque détail compte ! Étape par étape, vous verrez entre les lignes, le secret pour sélectionner et harmoniser votre service de table.
For festive meals or theme dinners, the dinner service is of prime importance! From plates to table knives, everything is carefully considered for a perfect presentation. Beautiful porcelains and quality cutlery, each detail matters! Step by step, discover our secrets to select and harmonise your dinner service.
The criteria to choose your cutlery
You want to provide your guests with the best dishes! That is why your cutlery must be worthy and adapted. So, choose your dinner service carefully. It is useless to say that the most elegant cutlery pieces are welcome. Beyond the aesthetic aspect, also think about quality and use comfort.
To make the right choice, each detail is important. As for the blade of your table knife, you can find pointed or rounded shapes, depending on your tastes. The cutting-edge of the blade can also vary and be smooth, serrated or micro-serrated. As for table cutlery handles, at “Les Artisans du Couteau”, there are chic, elegant and noble materials made by our French cutlers, in every possible colours.
Comfort
Table knives must be easy to handle to enjoy a soft cheese or a good piece of meat! This is essential for the comfort and well-being of your guests. Each cutlery piece, through its shape and size, is designed for the degustation of a particular dish. Comfort is all about usability. It is essentially related to the material and the quality of the handle. Les Artisans du Couteau provides you with noble woods, or ABS, with countless colours, matched woods, stainless steel, horn handles, graphite… everything is possible!
Manufacturing quality
Beyond the aesthetic aspect, think about the brand and quality of your dishes. Although there is a wide range of dinner services, quality makes the difference. A table knife from a great French cutlery factory, for example, is noticeable thanks to its elegance and finishing.
The made-in-France dinner service perfectly respects traditions and remains widely appreciated for its authenticity.
Harmony
Do your shopping thanks to Les Artisans du Couteau, and compose your table the way you love it. Choose your forks, spoons, knives, services or cheese services in your favourite shape, to create the atmosphere you want your guests to feel. Add colours: the website of Les Artisans du Couteau provides you with around fifty trendy colours, and gradations to match you plates or porcelains. Some shall prefer the comfort provided by the handles of wooden or stainless-steel cutlery. Everything is here for you to create a chic and convivial table!
Choosing a dinner service is also about harmonizing materials, colours and styles. Both plates and table knives must be matched and that requires subtlety. If you do not excel at matching prints and colours, opt for neutrality. With elegance, white china and stainless-steel cutlery shall be the perfect match for festive events.
Today, beyond china dishes, wonderful stoneware services, both trendy and less rustic than they used to be, are available on the market. You can easily match them and harmonise beautiful tables using modern and chic cutlery with superb, elegant and colourful stoneware plates.
By opting for a complete service, you shall always have cutlery if a surprise guest shows up. By the way, you can order a big box of 24 matched cutlery pieces to create a harmonious presentation.
The composition of a dinner service
A big dinner service box is the best to prevent any bad style matching. Basic cutlery generally includes four table forks, spoons and knives for various uses. Each of these four variations shall be used to enjoy a specific dish, whether it is a pudding or a dessert.
Same thing for plates; there are large plates, dinner plates or soup plates in a dinner service, but also cups and saucers. However, the content of a dinner service box can extend to a variety of accessories such as salt cellars or butter dishes.
How to create a beautiful table?
Cover your table with a clean neutral-colour tablecloth before putting you plates and cutlery on it. Leave at least 40 cm between each plate, without exceeding the edge of the table. Put the soup plate on the dinner plate, parallel to the chair. When it is time to serve the third dish, you can add another plate.
The art of hosting “à la française” also requires a few rules in terms of cutlery disposition. Pieces placed the closest to the plate shall be used first. Forks are on the left side of the plate. To the right, are knives and spoons. French tradition also requires that the fork and the spoons are face down.
