Top 10 luxury tableware designers for superyacht dining

With each new yachting season comes a series of new tableware trends. Despite the shifts in taste and style, however, one thing remains consistent: established designers and their stunning designs. It's important to have a few tableware set options on board a superyacht so that chief stews can choose between various styles to suit a range of guests' tastes and occasions.

With a wide range of brands and styles on the market, Yachting Pages outlines, from A-Z, various elegant tableware brands to inspire your next yacht interior renovation.

The best luxury tableware sets and designers

1. Baccarat for its glassware

Baccarat carafe and glasses

Founded by a bishop in 1765, luxurious crystal glassware is Baccarat's speciality. Its early designs of crystal paperweights and glass figurines have helped them flourish today into one of the most admirable and desired makers of crystal glass. From elegant vases to striking animal figurines, there is a Baccarat piece for every corner of your home or yacht.

Handcrafted Baccarat glasses include a range of wine glasses, American water glasses, decanters, as well as serpentine and rectangular vases. Furthermore, other pieces in its dazzling collection include vega tumblers, champagne flutes, frames, and more.

2. Bernardaud for its gold designs

Bernardaud cups and saucers

Referencing design trends typical of the 1970s, Bernardaud’s Athena collection is the perfect example of timeless vintage style. The combination of shine and matte highlight the understated, neoclassical frieze, whilst emphasising the elegant modernity of the collection.

Bernardaud is a popular choice of tableware for yacht owners and crew due to its durability, class and versatility. A wide range of accessories may easily compliment the design to create a masculine, feminine, classical or contemporary table setting.

3. Christofle for its silverware

Christofle silverware table setting

Christofle is one of the leading French silver manufacturers. It prides itself on creating timeless pieces that boast style and durability that lasts decades. Trading since the 19th century, Christofle silverware continues to be a classic example of how handcraftsmanship with traditional techniques can dominate the national and international market for luxury designer homeware‎.

Christofle works closely with designers such as Marcel Wanders, the Nendo studio, Eric Schmitt, and artist Richard Orlinski. Choose one of its many silverware collections, such as Jardin d’Eden or Vertigo, to brighten up your yacht’s table setting.

4. Glancy Fawcett for its porcelain collection

Glancy Fawcett porcelain plates

With over 30 years’ expertise, Glancy Fawcett is a project-based, global outfitter that supplies luxury lifestyle tableware, homeware and architectural products to the world's superyachts, residences and private aircraft. It designs, sources and supplies an extensive range of exquisite porcelain, crystal and silver.

With its own in-house design team, Glancy Fawcett can create totally bespoke products, unique to clients’ styles and tastes. Whether it be for formal dining, family times, relaxed settings or for entertaining, this world-leading brand provides stunning porcelain and fine bone china for every superyacht table setting.

5. Hering Berlin for its minimal, intricate designs

Hering Berlin table setting

Having met at college, Stefanie Hering and Wiebke Lehmann shared a passion for turning clay into objects of beauty. Soon after, they started Hering Berlin with the desire to challenge, improve and develop what you would normally find on a dining room table. These ideas underpin the very essence of Hering’s aesthetic and joy of design. For this reason, Michelin-starred chefs, and those who truly appreciate exquisite craftsmanship from around the world, love its pieces.

On a superyacht, Hering Berlin tableware is particularly coveted for its uniquely crafted, handmade porcelain. Furthermore, all shapes are the same, so it's easy to mix and match shapes with other pieces in the collection.

6. Hermès for its colourful designs

Hermès full dinnerware set

You’re guaranteed to wow your guests with Hermes’ stunning collections of tableware. Each design and pattern is totally unique to the brand. Its worldwide reputation for high-end clothing, accessories and tableware has made it one of the most stylish and prestigious brands in the luxury market.

Hand-painted on Limoges porcelain, the Hermes Passifolia range is inspired by the Garden of Eden. So, if you’re looking to add more greens to your meal, the set promises to turn your table into a landscape of beautiful leaves and flowers.

7. Lenox for its minimal designs

Lenox breakfast table setting

Founded in 1889, Lenox has a singular vision to set the highest standards for quality, artistry and beauty. It brings a vast history of craftsmanship to modern day-to-day life, where families and friends gather to celebrate using pieces that are simple and timeless.

For a minimal, sophisticated superyacht table setting, try the brand’s range of versatile white pieces. These include the Chelsea Muse, Blossom Lane and French Perle Scallop collections. Alternatively, for more detailed, intricate designs, try the Global Tapestry, Sprig & Vine and Blue Bay collections.

8. Raynaud for its playful colours

Rynaud colourful plates

Raynaud has been producing tableware for over 150 years. Having created dinner services for influential individuals such as President Harrison, Lady Diana and Dustin Hoffmann, it is a world-renowned brand in the homeware industry.

The brand’s daring use of colours has ensured it constantly stands out from the competition whilst maintaining a stylish, timeless look. As it constantly experiments with interesting shapes and patterns, it meets the needs of interior designers and yacht crew alike.

9. Royal Copenhagen for its traditional blue and white pottery

Royal Copenhagen first collection pieces

Royal Copenhagen places a modern Scandinavian twist on the conventional blue and white china tableware. Tradition meets modernity in the brand’s intricate designs. Blue Fluted Plain was the brand’s very first collection is 1775. The creation of collections since then has made the brand a desirable symbol of a contemporary, quality-conscious lifestyle.

Over the centuries, Royal Copenhagen has produced between 1,500 and 2,000 different kinds of cups, jugs, bowls and plates – all hand-painted to the last detail. Superyacht chief stews and owners can impress their guests with this stunning, luxurious brand, which is widely respected by artists and designers.

10. Saint Louis for its crystal

Saint Louis crystal carafes and pitchers

From tableware and flatware to barware and luxury centrepieces, Saint Louis is most well-known for its stunning crystal. A blend of tradition and innovation, it is truly a manufactory of its time. However, it never ceases to draw inspiration from contemporary artistic trends in order to refresh its identity.

Nowadays, Saint Louis demonstrates how crystal can still be a stylish and decorative tableware object in the modern world. As one of the oldest, most prestigious crystal glassmakers in the world, Saint Louis is a first choice for superyacht dining table settings.

In summary, these stylish tableware products are perfectly suited to the yachting environment, oozing the class, opulence and beauty the industry demands. Combined with the personal touch of a specialist chief stew, each product would be the perfect addition to the interior of any superyacht.


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