Per Set began with a plate someone could not throw away.

It was chipped, a little faded, painted by a hand that had clearly been in a good mood that day. It had outlasted the table it was bought for. That is the whole idea behind what we make: tableware with enough character to be kept, and enough sturdiness to be used while you keep it.

Painted, not printed

Nothing here is transferred or machine-printed. Every motif is drawn at full size first, then painted onto the bisque in layers, then fired twice. The stitched borders are the slowest part. They are laid on stitch by stitch around the rim, which is why the leopards on your plates will not quite match the leopards on anyone else's.

We think that is the point. A set that is identical to ten thousand others is a product. A set with small differences in it is yours.

Three collections

Stitches of the Wild brings the feeling of embroidery onto porcelain. Leopards resting across bamboo, pink parasols, and borders drawn to look softly stitched.

A Tale in Beads is a story drawn one tiny detail at a time. Patterns built from what look like hundreds of hand-placed beads, coming together into palms and shapes across the glaze.

Pretty Past is for the plates that were simply too beautiful to let go of. Soft vintage detail, peacock feathers, unexpected colour, collected as if over years.

How a set arrives

Each collection is a service for six: six dinner plates at 27 cm, six dessert plates at 21 cm, six salad plates at 21 cm and slightly deep, and six soup bowls at 12 cm and deep. Twenty-four pieces in all. You can take the whole service or build it a piece at a time.

Everything is wrapped by hand and boxed in sixes in our studio in Egypt.