Ligne Noire Dinner Plate

The Ligne Noire Dinner Plate is a 28cm fine bone porcelain plate in white with a single black line. The generous diameter gives food room to be plated properly. From the Ligne collection.

Twenty-eight centimetres is a full-sized dinner plate, and that extra width matters when you are serving. Food arranged with space around it looks considered; the same food crowded to the rim does not, and a smaller plate forces the second outcome.

White is the obvious choice for a dinner plate because it does not compete with what is on it, and the black line adds just enough that the table does not read as a hotel setting. Fine bone porcelain is stronger than its thinness suggests, which is why it is used for plates that see daily service. Used with the side plates and cups from the same collection, the repeated line gives a table coherence without everything having to match exactly.