Royal Copenhagen’s Handpainted Blue and White Dinnerware

For those who like traditional style china but don’t want their dining room to look too stuffy or formal, Royal Copenhagen’s dinnerware patterns look as fresh today as they did when they were first introduced more than 200 years ago.

Founded in 1775 by pharmacist Frantz Heinrich Muller in partnership with the Dutch Royal Family, Royal Copenhagen’s stylish blue and white patterns are based on historic Dutch dinner services, but with a twist of youthful modernity.

The classic Blue Fluted pattern was originally a coffee service in the early Royal Copenhagen collection. Designer Arnold Krog, who was a restorer of ancient castles before becoming the Artistic Director at Royal Copenhagen, expanded the pattern to an entire dinner service in 1885.

More than 100 years later, Blue Fluted remains unchanged yet still looks fresh and modern.

At the turn of the Millenium a young design student, Karen Kjaeldgard-Larsen, presented Royal Copenhagen with a bold idea: to recreate the classic Blue Fluted pattern in a larger, more graphic form.  Instantly, the new collection felt fresher and a modern classic was born – Blue Fluted Mega.

Each piece of Blue Fluted Plain and Blue Fluted Mega, like the other Royal Copenhagen dinnerware, is handpainted and signed by the artist. When you hold a finished cup, plate, figurine or any Royal Copenhagen porcelain item in your hand, it has already passed through up to thirty pairs of hands which have taken the porcelain clay through molding, painting, firing, glazing and packing.

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