Laguiole 12-Piece Flatware Set

Steak knives with wooden handles, bone or turquoise

For steak knives with wooden handles, start with olive. Its satin finish shows dense, wavy grain on a light background, often with knots, and the wood darkens to honey over time. Cattle bone goes the other way: off-white to soft yellow, polished, with a light grain that varies from handle to handle, and noticeably cool and light in your hand. Reconstituted turquoise adds color, a veined blue-green under a high polish, and no two handles show the same pattern.

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Watch the 12-piece set in cattle bone

Six steak knives and six forks with polished cattle bone handles.

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Steak knife and fork set: what's in the oak box

Inside the oak box, you'll find the whole steak knife and fork set: six knives, six forks, a numbered certificate of authenticity and a booklet on the genuine Laguiole. On the mixed versions, the handles change from guest to guest, and both pieces at each place share one. Every knife bears the Laguiole en Aubrac name. The box also gives the twelve pieces a home between dinners, away from the kitchen drawer.

12-piece flatware set or 24 pieces?

Go with the 12-piece flatware set if you already own spoons you love, or if steak dinners are what you're buying for. The Laguiole 24-Piece Flatware Set adds a soup spoon and a dessert spoon at each place and has a two-tray oak chest of its own. The trade-off is choice: the 12-piece range includes cattle bone and turquoise, which the 24-piece set doesn't. Both are handmade in France by Laguiole en Aubrac, so it's down to spoons and handles.

Knife and fork set questions

Your set arrives in its oak box with care instructions. Hand-wash, dry at once, and keep wood, horn and bone handles away from the dishwasher.