A bold new outdoor look, with heft unusual in melamine, is Williams-Sonoma’s Ikat dinnerware. Four dinner plates are $59.95, salads, in a selection of colors, are 4 for $51.95. The plates are online only at williams-sonoma.com. Platters and bowls can be found in area Williams-Sonoma stores.
From Target, these cheerful Mudhut Marika dinner plates. The dinner plates are 4 for $14.99, salads 4 for $12.99. The plates come in two colorways, pink/red and blue/gold. At area Target stores and target.com.
Rustic rubbed-edge-looking melamine dinnerware and serveware come in half a dozen colors, online only at williams-sonoma.com. Dinner plates are 4 for $51.95, salads 4 for $43.95.
Feeling mid-century modern? So’s Crate & Barrel, with these new Fish melamine plates (slightly oversize dinner and salad, $5.95 and $4.95 each), complemented by Fish acrylic glasses ($4.95 each). At area Crate & Barrel stores and crateandbarrel.com.
From Pottery Barn come, left, blue-and-white Shibori dishes; salad plates are $32.50 for 4. On the right are the vivid stripes of Chesapeake, also $32.50 for 4 in salad size. At area Pottery Barn stores and potterybarn.com.
From Sur La Table, the Hydrangea pattern, left, is available as dinner plates ($10 each) and salad plates ($8). You can buy a 12-piece all-Hydrangea set (4 dinner plates, 4 salads, 4 cereal bowls) for $100, or you can coordinate a Hydrangea salad plate with a blue dinner plate made to look like weathered painted wood ($10 each). At area Sur La Table stores and at surlatable.com.
West Elm, Pottery Barn’s kid sister, has colorful duck plates, several patterns, $8 each in salad size. The abstract, vaguely nautical Maritime Melamine charger or oversize buffet plate, right, is $7. At area West Elm stores or westelm.com
Target’s Mudhut Ikat tumblers are on sale. Regularly 8 (4 tall and 4 short) for $25.99, they’re now $15.60. At area Target stores and target.com.
One of our favorite looks in real glass is now in acrylic. Beaded outdoor short 15-ounce tumblers, left, are $59.95 for a set of 6 (tall 21-ounce tumblers are $65.95 for 6). Online only at williams-sonoma.com. Our other favorite look is bubbly French Biot glass, here rendered in acrylic. The short tumblers, in assorted colors, are 4 for $9.99 at area Target stores and target.com.
DuraClear Osteria Red Wine glasses are six for $89.95 in assorted colors. They hold 14 ounces, and there’s no penalty so far as we know for drinking diet Coke from them. At area Williams-Sonoma stores and williams-sonoma.com. Also, there are similar margarita glasses, tall tumblers and stemmed wineglasses.
Crate & Barrel is clearing out these great acrylic beer glasses for $2.97 each. At crateandbarrel.com.
Mrs. Bishop: that blue-mustardy combo you want sounds delightfully Matisse-ish! maybe one of these suggestions will work for you!
i found these on Amazon:
for the blue:
http://www.amazon.com/GHP-Inspired-Bamboo-Melamine-12-Piece/dp/B00EO0DQ44/ref=pd_sim_sbs_79_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=41w%2BXL%2BQoIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0YRWRG0RCGPAJ5SS6E10
there’s also what they call Lemon Zest Yellow:
http://www.amazon.com/GHP-Inspired-Bamboo-Melamine-12-Piece/dp/B00EO0DQ44/ref=pd_sim_sbs_79_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=41w%2BXL%2BQoIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0YRWRG0RCGPAJ5SS6E10
and there’s this mustard (but it apparently doesn’t come in a strong blue):
http://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Products-Melamine-12-Piece-Dinnerware/dp/B01AA51X1O/ref=sr_1_130?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1465232506&sr=1-130&refinements=p_n_material_browse%3A376935011
on hsn.com, i found Le Cadeaux Provence (but only salad plates) in a mustardy yellow and cobalt blue:
http://www.hsn.com/products/le-cadeaux-provence-set-of-4-melamine-9-salad-plates/7691531?sz=5&sf=QC0217&ac=&mr:trackingCode=86897102-80CA-E411-8819-90E2BA0278A8&mr:referralID=NA&cm_mmc=Paid+Search+Brand-_-google-_-G_BRA_Generic_DSA-_-dsa-150239145201_mkwid_s1WFq4LvM_pcrid_95191343241_pkw_dsa-150239145201_pmt__pdv_c_slid_&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=dsa-150239145201&utm_campaign=G_BRA_Generic_DSA&gclid=COil-_Tyk80CFcgjgQodHzwHSQ
I am very interested in the plain coloured melamine dinner plate range in colours
blue and strong yellow/mustard?
joanie, just catching up with comments now. that Heritage melamine is fabulous-looking and, as you point out, heftier than most. great find–thank you!
I bought pink melamine set in 1958. It was pink with white embossed winter trees. I loved the set. But the set got throw in the trash by mistake by my ex husband. I did not realize then how careless he could be. I never found that same set.
My current favorite melamine is a new style called “Heritage” from Q Squared. It’s heavier than most melamine out there, has a gorgeous design, looks and feels like blue and white hand-thrown pottery. Full disclosure: I sell it in my shop in Little Washington and online, and I am obsessed with it!
Now THAT I wouldn’t have guessed! Thanks!
Love this stuff!! Another source, believe it or not, is the Christmas Tree Shops. But Target is the “go to” melamine Mecca.