The Marie Daâge x VERANDA Dessert Plate Set Is What Your Party Closet Has Been Missing
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Marie Daâge begins her day with calls to Asia and ends them with Zoom conferences in the States. It's a wonder how in-between it all she finds time to design some of the most coveted hand-painted porcelain in the world. An endeavor that now also includes her daughters, Marie bounces between artist and entrepreneur, striking a delicate balance of creative intuition and business acumen first conceived in a sixth-floor walk-up on Rue de Rivoli three decades ago. Daâge now employs an entourage of Limoge painters to execute her exacting hand-painted designs onto plates, vases, and any other type of tableware imaginable.
Getting stuck in a design rut has never been a worry for Marie. Whether newlyweds, restauranteurs, or even interior designers, Daâge works with each client to create a one-of-a-kind design that feels completely unique yet still carries the distinct brushstrokes of her signature painterly aesthetic. It was the intricacies of fabric that first stirred Marie Daâge's emotions for pattern. "As a child, I spent days and days in showrooms with my mother, a lover of decoration," says the Paris-based porcelain visionary, who recently reinterpreted antique textile designs into decadent dessert plates in collaboration with VERANDA.
Inspired by a watercolor design of an 18th-century ikat fabric discovered in the V & A archives, Veranda approached Marie with the idea of imbuing this antique design with new life. These small little sketches were often collected in a textile book as a catalogue for both client and factory alike to reference in the 17th and 18th centuries. At the first sight of tiny florals and vibrant pink hues, Marie was transported to Le Petite Trianon and the age of Marie Antoinette. Outside of sharing the first name, both come from Austrian lineage and revel in(revel or reveled? once dead one isn't :)) a love for decoration. Daâge notes, "I love the soft Baroque colors of silk and taffetas used in the Marie Antoinette period."
While readers can enter to win one of fives sets of dessert plates (4 plates in a set), the Hameau de la Reine Marie Daâge x VERANDA collection will also be exclusively offered online through Moda Operandi starting March 3rd. The collection comes in an array of springy hues, and includes tea cups and goblets as well as dessert plates.
Like all her hand-painted designs, no two dishes are alike. "It's nice when plates can tell a story around the table, answer each other," she adds. "For me, creativity is about translation. The fabric artist had a loom, and I have a brush."
WIN THESE DESSERT PLATES!
We're giving away 5 of these dessert plate collections by Marie Daâge. Visit our sweepstakes page (see details here) and enter for a chance to win. (Retail value: $710.)
Featured in our March/ April 2021 issue. Photography by Laurey W. Glenn; produced by Sara Clark; written by Ellen McGauley.
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