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Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Place Setting
This Laguiole flatware place setting is handmade in France by Laguiole en Aubrac, with a piece for every course from soup to dessert. Inside the oak box are five pieces: a steak knife, a dinner fork, a soup spoon, a dessert fork and a dessert spoon. Every piece has a handle in the same material, so each place at your table looks like one matched set.
Call it a silverware place setting or an individual 5-piece place setting: it gives one guest a full set of flatware, though none of it is silver. Many sets sold as a 5-piece flatware set or 5-piece silverware set come with a salad fork and a teaspoon. Here you get a dessert fork and a dessert spoon instead, the pair you want for cake, tart or fruit. There are five versions, olive wood and zebu horn tip among them, and each box also holds a numbered certificate and a booklet about the real Laguiole.
•One guest, five pieces•One handle material throughout•Oak box included•
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Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Place Setting
545€
⏳ Made to order: 10 to 28 days
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Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Place Setting
589€
⏳ Made to order: 10 to 28 days
Click for free engraving on your flatware knives
Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Place Setting
589€
⏳ Made to order: 10 to 28 days
Click for free engraving on your flatware knives
Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Place Setting
589€
⏳ Made to order: 10 to 28 days
Click for free engraving on your flatware knives
Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Place Setting
589€
⏳ Made to order: 10 to 28 days
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Flatware place setting in olive wood, ebony or horn tip
In every version, all five pieces have the same handle material, so this is the one choice to make. Olive gets a satin finish and has a honey tone veined with brown, and its fine, dense grain darkens toward a deeper honey with time. Ebony is polished to an inky black that looks crisp against white china. Zebu horn tip, polished as well, is streaked in flame-like shades from pale blond to amber and brown, and some handles have translucent highlights. Choose ebony if you want contrast, olive or horn tip if you prefer honey and amber tones.
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Watch the place setting in zebu horn tip
Five pieces with polished zebu horn tip handles, from pale blond to amber.
Salad fork vs dessert fork, dessert spoon vs teaspoon
The salad fork vs dessert fork question comes down to the course: the two are close in size, both smaller than a dinner fork. A salad fork is set for the salad course, while a dessert fork comes out for cake, tart or pastry once the plates are cleared. With dessert spoon vs teaspoon, size matters too: the dessert spoon is bigger and is meant for mousse, ice cream or berries, while a teaspoon is for stirring coffee or tea. Add the soup spoon, longer than the dessert spoon, for the first course, and this setting covers all three courses: soup, main course, dessert.
A single place setting or the 24-piece flatware set?
Choose the 5-piece place setting for a single guest, or when a dessert fork matters at your table. The Laguiole 24-Piece Flatware Set covers six guests, each with a knife, fork, soup spoon and dessert spoon. There are eleven versions, each packed in oak on two trays, but no dessert fork. Both are handmade in France by Laguiole en Aubrac, whose name you'll find on every knife blade. If you regularly set the table for six, the 24-piece set is the simpler buy. To have a dessert fork at every place, build your table one place setting at a time.
Questions about this place setting
What is in a 5-piece place setting?
It depends on the maker. Many include a dinner fork, salad fork, dinner knife, soup spoon and teaspoon. This one gives you a dinner fork and steak knife for the main course, a soup spoon for the first course, and the dessert fork and spoon to end the meal. All five are handmade in France by Laguiole en Aubrac, share one handle material and come together in the same oak box, with a numbered certificate.
Flatware vs silverware: what's the difference?
In everyday use, none: both words mean the knives, forks and spoons you set on the table. Strictly speaking, silverware once meant pieces made of or plated with silver. This place setting has no silver in it, and its handles are olive wood, ebony or horn tip. Flatware is the more accurate word, though plenty of people still say silverware.
Can you put wooden utensils in the dishwasher?
Not these. Olive, ebony and zebu horn tip need hand washing and a quick dry, because the heat and long soaking of a dishwasher cycle would dull the handles. Washed and dried this way, ebony and horn tip keep their polish, and olive wood slowly darkens toward honey.
Care instructions are in the box: hand-wash all five pieces, dry them right away, and never load them into a dishwasher.
