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Tableware for Christmas: Choosing a Gift They Will Enjoy
December. 2020
Christmas is approaching. What kind of gift would make that person smile?
For the person who is always introducing you to something delicious, consider a piece of tableware this Christmas.
For someone who cares about food, tableware that makes meals or tea breaks feel special can be a thoughtful gift.
In this feature, we explore choosing tableware around the recipient's interests, with examples from Mulet, a collection that sits comfortably in many settings.
Contents
1. How to choose a thoughtful tableware gift
2. A Christmas gift for someone who loves sweets
3. A Christmas gift for a coffee lover
4. A Christmas gift for someone who loves cooking
5. A gift that looks special, too
6. A final thought
When choosing tableware for someone else, it is natural to wonder how it will look in their home and beside the pieces they already own.
There are three useful starting points when choosing tableware as a gift.
1. Find out what they enjoy eating and drinking
2. Picture a specific moment when they might use it
3. Choose a design that will suit their home
POTPURRI's Mulet collection, for example, has found admirers across different ages and tastes.
Mulet means overcast in Swedish.
Dark clay shows faintly through the thick, creamy white glaze. Together with the softly irregular shape, it gives the pieces a cloudlike quality.
Mulet's simple appearance reveals carefully considered techniques and glazes, with a warmth that comes from handwork.
The collection sits comfortably with Western meals and sweets, as well as Japanese dishes and tableware.
The range includes Scandinavian-inspired animal and plant motifs, clean-lined decoration and pieces that resemble vintage ornaments. That variety gives you room to find something suited to the person.
Using Mulet as an example, let us look at two of those starting points: the recipient's tastes and the moments when they might use the piece.
Mulet / Right: Bird Bowl S — JPY 800 excluding tax at the time of publication
Below: Macaron Tray — JPY 1,000 excluding tax at the time of publication
Left: Hand 15 cm Plate — JPY 1,500 excluding tax at the time of publication
For someone who loves sweets, a special dessert plate can make teatime feel a little more indulgent.
A 15 cm plate for a slice of cake or a baked sweet, a small bowl for jam or syrup, and a tray for macarons each give a favorite treat its own place.
For someone who enjoys a romantic teatime setting, a decorative plate can be a lovely choice.
A softly glazed plate, a tiny bird-shaped bowl or a Macaron Tray with a frill-like edge offers a different way to dress the table.
Choose a piece to suit the recipient's favorite sweet treat.
Mulet / Left: Hand Demi Cup & Saucer — JPY 2,500 excluding tax at the time of publication
Right: Cotton Box — JPY 3,500 excluding tax at the time of publication
A coffee lover may already have plenty of mugs. For a small change, consider a demitasse cup.
Demitasse means half a cup in French. Although often associated with espresso, its small size is also useful when you want just a little coffee after a meal.
For someone who prefers a calm, understated interior, Mulet's demitasse cup offers individual character within a simple form.
The handle is easy to pinch, and the saucer's subtle irregularity gives fingers a place to rest. These details let the design serve a practical purpose that becomes clear when you pick it up.
If they often serve coffee to guests, add a Cotton Box that can also hold sugar.
The little bird on the lid gives the box a detail to notice and talk about over coffee.
Mulet / Left: Set of 5 Relief Plates — JPY 3,000 excluding tax at the time of publication
Right: Relief Plate LL — JPY 5,000 excluding tax at the time of publication
Someone who loves cooking may also enjoy serving food to others.
A large serving plate with matching small plates can give their cooking a welcoming setting.
Mulet Relief Plate LL has room for appetizers, a whole cake or a larger serving of meat. Its slight depth also suits dishes with sauce and foods served with a spoon.
The small relief-plate set contains five pieces, each with a different pattern. Guests can easily recognize which plate is theirs.
The small plates' Scandinavian-inspired relief patterns suit a welcoming, lived-in room. Like a picture frame, the patterned edge adds a decorative setting around the food.
If you are invited to a Christmas gathering, giving a serving plate and small-plate set a little early may let the host enjoy using it for the occasion.
Mulet / Right: Bird Box — JPY 6,000 excluding tax at the time of publication
Center: Hand 23 cm Phenakistoscope Plate — JPY 3,000 excluding tax at the time of publication
Left: Hand Mug, Gold — JPY 4,500 excluding tax at the time of publication
Untying a ribbon and opening the box is part of the excitement of receiving a gift.
At Christmas, when the streets are full of color, it is lovely to choose a gift with a small sense of occasion.
Mulet includes pieces with a festive glint or an unexpected idea behind their design.
There is plenty of playfulness in the collection: a mug with a gold-decorated handle, a Bird Box revived from a vintage mold, and a plate patterned after the phenakistoscope, an early animation device.
Imagining their surprise, or the piece finding a place in their room, is part of the fun of choosing.
For a Christmas tableware gift, imagine what the person enjoys and how they might use it. Add a little sense of occasion to make the choice feel special.
POTPURRI's Mulet collection brings together both of those qualities.
Enjoy choosing while imagining the recipient's smile, or a moment when you might use the gift together.
* To have several items wrapped as a gift, select gift wrapping along with the pieces and provide the required wrapping instructions.
