Kairaus Blogs

In India, festivals and their celebration have a way of making ordinary meals feel different.

A family dinner becomes a gathering. A sweet shared after dinner becomes part of the celebration. Even a simple meal can feel more special when everyone is gathered around the same table.

We guess the concept for ‘leaving best for the last’ is deeply inspired by the desserts. A course of meal that is often the last thing guests remember at a meal.

A cheesecake brought to the table, a carefully layered tiramisu, warm baklava served alongside coffee, or even a plate of cookies can become part of the occasion when it is presented thoughtfully.

Some dinnerware is bought for a meal. Some pieces stay with you long enough to become part of the meals you remember. Real gold detailing gives a dinner set that sense of permanence, turning everyday dining into something a little more considered. But beautiful detailing also deserves thoughtful care.

We spend a lot of our time thinking about plates. Probably more than is normal. So when people ask us why we work almost exclusively in ceramic, we get it, it's a fair question, and the honest answer is longer than "because it looks nice."

There is a photograph that turns up in almost every family album around wedding season. A grandmother's hands, wrapping a set of tea cup sets or any dinnerware in cotton cloth before packing them off for a daughter's new home.

Ever locked your glance at the front of a shelf of gleaming dinnerware and thought why one dinner set is three times more expensive than an almost identical one? If yes, then you are also now an entity of one of the most popular debates in ceramics: ash-free bone china versus traditional bone china.