We are what we eat. Setting the breakfast table also sets the tone for the day.
While the Monday to Friday routine may still be consumed standing up, start meteorological spring with a new approach to breakfast, the most important meal of the day.
Fresh breakfast menu
Put a spring in your step by serving porcelain in pastel shades from Rosenthal’s Kumi collection.
It comes in mint green, rose pink and baby blue colours as well as a crisp white.
Mugs and cereal bowls cost €19.50 each, while the plates come in different sizes.
The 17 cm costs €16; the 21 cm costs €22.50, and the 28 cm dinner plate costs €24.50 each.
Deep plates or pasta bowls cost €22.50 each.
Coffee or tea?
Tea fans will love this formal hand-painted ceramic pot with bamboo detailing on the spout, handle and lid.
It ensures a second cup, no matter how many of you are at the table.
The Este Ceramiche pot costs €280, ex delivery, from Abask and will set a genteel mood, even on the most harried of days.
Continental repast
A French press filled with freshly made coffee, served in a ceramic mug with either a gingham-printed interior or classic French breakfast bite as a motif on the exterior, €16.50, a warm croissant, and unsalted butter, soft and spreadable thanks to having the foresight to leave it out, in a Beurre covered butter dish, €29.50, Oliver Bonas delivers breakfast French polish.
Butter me up
London architectural practice Flawk’s new homewares collection includes a butter knife with an on-trend bobbin-shaped handle.
The limited edition model, one of 40, is made of stainless steel and is to order.
It features a teardrop-shaped blade, designed for smooth spreading. Slather on toast.
It costs about €127, excluding delivery, for the 22 cm long design.
Cosy-up
A tea cosy is functional as well as kitsch in a good way.
While the Michael D Higgins knitted version may now be retired, there are other options.
Ulster Weavers Muff Best in Show version, €22.50 from Stock Design on Dublin’s South King Street, is one.
Life is sweet
This creamer and sugar set in terracotta is pretty and functional, featuring a lid on the sugar.
The design by Paul Maloney can be bought online from Tipperary Crystal. It costs €40.
