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Flora & Fauna by de Gournay
Esteemed design house de Gournay is most famous for its exquisite chinoiserie wallpaper, yet it also produces fine fabrics and porcelain pieces including vases, lamps, decorative objects and dinner services. The brand’s Flora & Fauna porcelain dinner service (above) features hand-painted exotic birds flying and swooping inside rims delicately decorated with garlands of peonies, leaves and gold gilt.
The design on each plate in the service is unique, the beautiful bird images, such as the colourful Carolina parrot (above), borrowed from the renowned nineteenth-century artists and ornithologists John Gould and John James Audubon.
Every piece is hand-thrown, fired and painted using centuries-old techniques, “a rare expression of an ancient craft that has survived almost unchanged into the 21st century,” says the brand. degournay.com
