Now that Christmas is fast approaching it is also time for Christmas plates from Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl. As is tradition they are available together with other collectibles that also carry the theme of the Christmas plate.   The theme of the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate this year is a girl going iceskating in front of the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.   See all the Christmas plates from Royal Copenhagen here   The Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate shows two children looking at a snowman in front of Hans Christian Andersen's house. This Christmas plate brings memories of the  Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate from 1954 , where two children are building a snowman in front of Hans Christian Andersen's house.   See all the Christmas plates from Bing & Grondahl here   Royal Copenhagen also continues its tradition of issuing an annual Santa Claus and Christmas tree.   Below you will see this y...

As it has become modern to decorate with plates we often have people calling us to ask, how best to hang or set up plate and if we have some good solutions to this. I will share our options for hanging or setting up plates making it possible for you to better decorate with your plates, too. Here you will find our plate hangers! Plate Stands     The plate stand is for placing the plate on your table or bookcase. It can be set to the tilt that best suits you. We have plate stands for you in three different sizes of plates:  Up to 20 cm ,  from 21 to 27 cm ,  from 28 to 32 cm . Find your plate stand from only about EUR 1.90 here! Hangers     Hangers are well-suited for hanging plates on the wall and the hanger can be set on the plate to make it hang as you wish. The hanger hold the plate with 4 hooks that you can see on the picture on the left above. We have the hanger in four sizes:  Between 12 and 16 cm ,...

The old dinner services from Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl are increasingly popular in Denmark. Especially the dinnerware that can be put in the dish washer and the microwave as these are wellsuited for the busy everyday life.   Below I will show you some of the old dinnerware that have become popular again. Furthermore I am going to show you a very special historic coffee service at the end. Bing & Grondahl Christmas Rose Service Bing & Grondahl Christmas Rose is one of the less wellknown blue painted services. Christmas rose is wellsuited for everyday use as it can be put in the dishwasher and the microwave oven. The Christmas rose service is no longer in production, so it is only the original Danish produced parts that are still available.   The Christmas rose service was designed by  Cecilie Louise Hallin  in colaboration with her husband  Frederik August Hallin , who also designed  the first Christmas plate ...

Why have plates plates been such a popular decorative item both in the past and today? Why have so many plates been produced through the years? The reason is that plates have many advantages and great flexibility as a decoration. You can use the plates in countless ways, where only the imagination sets the limits. Below I will show you how to use plates in home decor. It is easy to find plates in matching colour. Blue especially is easy to find and this also makes it easy to group plates. You do not need to have the same theme in the motif of the plates that you group, they just need to have a match in the colours for you to get an interesting collage. If you have a theme that you like, it will also be possible the make af grouping of these. There are for instance many plates with  ship motifs .  By grouping plates you also give them more weight in the room and they can fill out large spaces, when grouped well. When using plates the patterns that you can ...

May has arrived and everything is new again! In this lovely season everything blooms anew and this also means that it might be time that you visit new trends. Since May is also the month of Mother's Day, I want to show you some of the home decor ideas connected to Mother's Day. Beautiful wall decoration from Desirée Plates are a fun and uncommon way to decorate your living room and you can use the wonderful Mother's Day plates from  Desirée Old Danish Blue  as a different wall decoration for the living room. They are cheaply available and can be set in patterns on the wall that paintings cannot match. All the plates have cute and fun motifs that liven up the room. But that is not all! The plates are excellent for having a nice lunch with cute images under the food. And the best thing is that they can be put in the dishwasher. The  whole set  shown in the picture above can be had for only EUR 22.40! Find your Desirée Old Danish Blue plates from o...

  Did you know that a number of plates with churches have been produced? Both Royal Copenhagen, Bing & Grondahl and other porcelain factories manufactured plates showing churches and cathedrals. As it is Spring with all the important holidays such plates would do well on the wall or in small memorial arrangements. So what would be more fitting than to show you some of these beautiful plates? Here You Can See the Many Church Plates and Church Bells! You can choose to have the beautiful church plates with many of the most wellknown buildings in Denmark. If you know anyone with a special relationship to a church, then this could be a fun and different idea for them. It could be about baptism or marriage at the church. The plate could become a nice addition to the memorial wall. Or if you are interested in the architecture of these marvels, then it would be a nice way of decorating your home. In the time of affirmation of baptism the church plates ...