tas unique: My dream fine china

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I had a dream a week ago about a gift from a knight in shining armour (okay, it was black and white pinstripe Italian suit). It was a custom made Kate Spade coffee AND dinner service in daffodil yellow and white. It was simple... and so so luxe! Next scene in my very vivid dream was this gorgeous gift displayed in a simple while dresser behind glass in a sunlit all white apartment in New York.

Now. Of course I don't know the name or face of said knight... but what I do know that it was a pinstripe suit, the dinner set was yellow and white and from Kate Spade. And I do know that it was in a white dresser in a white apartment in New York. The way you know things in dreams :P

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To be honest, I have been looking for several months for a favourite yellow and white fine china dinner service... so maybe this is the source of my dream!

So I haven't been able to get that image from my mind (again, not so much the knight...)...

Late last night I went surfing. I found that Kate Spade did do a yellow and white dinner service, the Kate Spade's Rutherford Circle tableware in Yellow (discontinued), but the style of the cup was different in my dream.

The cup was more in the fashion of the June Lane series:

Actually the June Lane series pretty much is the set in my dream, bar the dragonfly and in a daffodil colour.

Simple, banded Limoges-finish fine china, as is my favoured, in that colour are slim pickings. China like my mother in law's or the kind favoured by Rachel Ashwell, while absolutely gorgeous and pretty... is not my style.

I did however, stumble across 2 designs.

The closest one to my dream (albeit too orangey but at this perfection, who's to complain??) is from Haviland, the Laque De Chine Mandarin Gold:

Also found Match, who produce these beautiful pewter tableware and in their Convivio line is a spectacularly exquisite gold/yellow set.

I also do like the bold, art deco style of the lovely Shelley fine china, in their Yellow Star pattern, but these are rare and often expensive...

I guess the only way left for me (since budget is un-limitless!) is to compile a set, much like I did my all white Johnson Bros octagon dinner service.

Clockwise from top left: Marc Jacobs Waterford "David" Canary Dinnerware Collection, Kate Spade's Pinney's Beach, Kate Spade's Rutherford Circle tableware in Yellow, Michael Aram for Waterford "Jaipur" Dinnerware Collection.

or in pink:

Clockwise from top left: Marc Jacobs Waterford "David" Scarlet Dinnerware Collection, Kate Spade's Pinney's Beach, Raynaud, Tropic Pink, Kate Rutherford Circle in Pink, Michael Aram for Waterford "Jaipur" Dinnerware Collection.

I also spotted some stationery I'd love to see in some fine dinner service... my favourite being Elum Design's desk set in charcoal grey, yellow and white: