Daily delight

For the sisters behind the tableware line Misette, every meal is a special occasion

WHEN THE MISETTE LINE launched earlier this year, its founders promised to leverage their event planning expertise to address the monotony of everyday dining with a creative take on glassware, dishes and linens. The latest collection sets out to solve another decor conundrum: How do you create a festive table without investing in a curio cabinet’s worth of themed housewares that are used just a few times each year?

“We purposefully avoided anything too classically holiday when making this collection. We believe beautiful dinnerware should be used on the daily, not tucked away most of the year,” says co-founder Sarah Pecault, who also works as a special events producer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Along with her sister, Toronto-based event planner Amy Burstyn Fritz, she instead mixed traditional red and green elements with shades of amber and sage and natural textures, including jute and linen. The results are tablescapes that look cozy and welcoming all autumn and can be accessorized with holiday elements, such as winter florals and vintage knickknacks, come November.

Misette is produced by artisans and manufacturers in Portugal, India, Italy, France and the United States, including Brooklyn-based glassmaker Andrew O. Hughes. “We love working with Andrew and know the trend of coloured glass is going to keep going strong,” Pecault says. For the holiday collection, Hughes has produced a line of bubble glassware that incorporates the texture of tiny air pockets in rounded tumblers, pitchers, vases and decanters.

“We make sure that everything co-ordinates easily so that you don’t have to be a decor whiz to pull it off,” Burstyn Fritz says. “Sometimes, not burning the meal takes enough focus as it is.”