Red and green fruit placemat

A beautiful fruit motif is a promise of generosity. This placemat red and green keeps it fully: fruit drawn in abundance, where ripe red and leafy green make up a lively picture, like a market basket tipped out at each place.

Each piece is hand block-printed on good-quality cotton, in the artisan workshops of our partners in India, where block printing is a craft handed down through generations. Every impression carries the small variations of the gesture that tell a handmade textile apart from an industrial print. The design is created in France, in the warm, colourful spirit of the house.

A placemat dresses without covering. Laid on bare wood, it brings appetite and colour to the timber while giving each guest a place of their own. Over a white or natural tablecloth, it gives the setting a clear structure.

On a long table, the repeated motif frames each plate in turn. Stacked in a drawer, it comes out in seconds for an improvised meal.

This placemat red and green is made for real use. The cotton is hard-wearing and machine washable, it grows softer with time while keeping its colour, and it takes shared dishes, spills and family meals in its stride. Washed at thirty degrees and ironed while still slightly damp, it keeps its shape and its brightness.

It works with plain white china as happily as with more colourful tableware, and feels at home in a house that likes to entertain. You can pair it with the matching Fruit napkins and tablecloth.

Left alone on a wooden table, it sets the tone before a single dish arrives.

An artisanal, generous and hard-wearing piece of table linen, for anyone who likes tables as abundant as the meals served on them.