Favorite Things: Paper Placemats
Paper placemats are my heroes. They are the poster child of reinvention, the sleeper of kool kitchen stuff. They’re the synthesis of so much that I can’t get enough of—first, they are paper, and I am a sucker for paper in all of its forms (paper art, paper bakeware, paper lace, parchment paper, and of course, paper paper).
Secondly, these particular paper placemats are the colors of happy. You know I have a thing for white, but not in a paper placemat. That would be too much Bill Knapp’s (fond memories, but no), and not enough just-look-at-me-now! on the table.
I’m all for reinvention. You don’t even have to chuck your job and head to culinary school to get a taste of it. Just try a big pad of these paper placemats that I found downtown Harbor Springs at the lovely L’Esprit (by Two’s Company; buy them here), tear them off like the huge post-it notes you left behind in an office somewhere, and set up your table inside or out. Fun is here.
And if I memory serves, those post-it notes never, ever commanded me to “PLAY” on the cover.
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Lovely pattern and great idea.
Check out https://www.elderluxe.com/plat-du-jour-paper-placemats-by-the-pad/
Featured on the Today show and elsewhere, this company is run in part by an old ND Classmate, Alicia “Muffin” Tullos, out of Atlanta
She has many more patterns and colors, we’ve yet to put up on our site.
Cheers, PC
How interesting that these come from an ND alum, Patrick! And Elderluxe looks fantastic.
Not usually one for any kind of placemats, but these are too pretty. And fun with the post-it note feel. Do they stick to the table?
How great that would be if they had a sticky side!!!
Next odd project then! When one of us gets into design and manufacturing…