A single color to characterize an entire era. Here, no flowers, no gilding, no superfluous ornamentation. On the white earthenware, a wide emerald green circle outlines each plate with an almost radical simplicity. A luminous, graphic, immediately recognizable design that brings us back to the modernist aesthetic of the interwar period. The set bears on its reverse side the lovely name Émeraude, accompanied by the inscription Casino. The set comprises 2 dinner plates and 2 deep plates, making a true small service for two people. These four pieces have remained together and today allow one to recreate a vintage table without sacrificing any of its modernity. The design plays wonderfully with the light. The green, bold and almost brilliant, contrasts with the slightly ivory softness of the earthenware. A few irregularities in the application of the color recall the decorative processes of the era and give each piece that character which contemporary industrial tableware has long since lost. With their clean lines and minimalist design, these plates fit within the Art Deco and modernist taste of the 1930s-1940s, when table arts gradually abandoned elaborate compositions to adopt geometry, flat colors, and a much more sober elegance. Nearly a century later, they appear surprisingly contemporary. Diameter approximately 23 cm. The four plates show the marks and small traces related to their age and past life, visible in the photographs. They have been used, preserved, and have come down to us together.
Additional details:
- Brand: Casino
- Style: moderniste
- Material: Faïence
- Colour: vert émeraude
- Colour: blanche
- Colour: ivoire
- Period: