Over the past I went through all 148 Château Diaries looking for this vlog. 40 years ago I was a sales clerk in a department store’s china, crystal & silver department. I’ve always been crazy over blue & white. I worked there for 5 years. I couldn’t decide which pattern to buy so I began buying plates of different patterns from different companies in different sizes. In 1981 I talked my mom into a grand European trip (For 3 months). First stop London. We did a great loop of England & Scotland. For me it was to reach Stoke-on-Trent. I drug my mother from factory outlet to outlet. We went to Wedgewood, Johnson Brothers and Spode. I began collecting plates as souvenirs from every country. I really hadn’t studied blue & white china companies patterns. I probably could have done better collecting in Britain. I only knew the companies my department store sold. Thank you this vlog. I’m looking forward to your Limoges talk. I love your enthusiasm, passion and your voice. Thank you for sharing your life and friends at Lelande with the world. Heidi Halderman.
I was fortunate enough to find a large selection of Blue Willow China at a local Goodwill for .99 each! I’ve always had a love for blue and white China.
Ah, a lovely porcelain episode, and narrated in Spode appropriate shirt! Yes please to a talk on Wedgwood, and beloved Bernardaud in the future! I do sometimes think it is the raison d'etre of a grand house to keep the china dry! Thanks for a real Sunday afternoon treat.
So synchronistic my father searched antique stores and collected blue and white spode plates for our summer home. They each tell a story and work perfectly well together. I remember wonderful meals around the kitchen table with fabulous food and conversation.
@@loraferrante9486 isn't she just wonderful. I'm so glad you're able to experience so much through her. That has to be just wonderful for you. Best wishes Lora
love the lemons on the table binge watching all the episodes just now I had just been thinking after watching DIY that you should have a series of your own
Thank you Stephanie for a little bit of history about Spode china. It prompted me to look up my favourite pieces: Ansley Orchard Gold. Also I have a 12 piece place setting, with serving dishes, of Villeroy and Boch Floglia 1748 from Luxembourg, which I love, but I also love the few pieces I have of Ansley Orchard Gold. Your table setting of blue and white Spode china, with lemons, daffodils and napkins, look delightful. Eating lunch in a pretty surrounding makes life enjoyable! Thank you for sharing your vlog with us.
Stephanie, other than toile the blue and white is yet another of my favorite subject. Your introduction transports me to the past and the museum so I could savor the art myself. You're a great art teacher, renovator, model, hostess, speaker...the list goes on. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and gifts, and above all, your vision of a beautiful life, with us. I've done renovations and the rewards are life-changing. I hope I can be a volunteer at your chateau. I garden, cook delicious Chinese food and I love to clean/do dishes and decorate.
A month ago, I saw a few pieces of Spode in a local shop (Thrupps) in Illovo Johannesburg and my heart almost stopped, unfortunately the cost was too high for my small purse and I had to sadly walk away. Thank you very much for this extremely informative and excellent video. Good to know that the original factory still stands. Thank you Stephanie and have a wonderful week. 🦋
Oh, Stephanie, we share a passion for the blue and white porcelain. I know, that your favourite mug is a blue fluted Mega mug from Royal Copenhagen. I collect and mix different patterns in blue and white from Royal Copenhagen! Blue fluted (my favourite), Mega, princess and so on. If you have not already, you should REALLY check out their website, and see all the designs and variations! And maybe visit their store in Copenhagen, if you get a chance 😃
Thanks for the Spode tutorial! I never knew any of this although Ive always loved china or porcelain.What a blessing to have such a fun dad! You have a wonderful family
I have always loved blue and white dinner wear because I grew up in a house where that’s all we used now I have blue and white dinner where in my home. I just realized that I have a cup with the Willow pattern on it. Crazy!
Ahhh, the good life! Simple, sweet, and welcoming. I too collect Spode porcelain and now am happy to know even more of its history! Thank you Stephanie
My mother collected blue dishes and had many large decorative pieces as well, plant pots, casseroles, coffee urns, carafes, and I loved them. Though my sister doesn’t really like them she keeps them in memory of Mum. I have a few smaller pieces and I collect blue glass things. Having downsized several times over the last ten years I have had to give up many things I collected. You mentioned your Mum likes to collect antique linens and I had a nice collection of things I’d found over many years. My favourite things were the dainty handkerchiefs with beautiful lace work around the edges, I can’t imagine crocheting or tatting such delicate patterns but some were actually made by my great grandmother and her sister. I still have a few smaller doilies they made and I cherish them. Sadly the younger generation coming up have no love of them so they’ll no doubt be a nice find for someone in a charity shop when I’m gone. Thank you for telling us the history of Spode. I had some nice pieces of Wedgwood as well, CC on lavender was my favourite pattern. I only have one cup and saucer now and I enjoy having a nice cup of tea with a sweet as a treat. 🥰🙋🏼
Greetings from Boston Massachusetts !! I am so enjoying your wonderful videos, Your knowledge is outstanding! I learn with every episode !! God bless you and Chateau Diaries!
I am so happy you made a video on English porcelain. I purchased last week in a charity shop a blue salad bowl from Johnson Brothers, which production was discontinued in 2015 (being first bought by Wedgwood then was bought by Fiskars)
I have my grandmother's Spode Willow pattern tea set and have enjoyed so many afternoons having tea parties with my daughter and afternoon teas with friends. I was really interested in the history you shared and I have resolved to add to my collection. Your tablescape, at the end of the video, was beautifully simple and striking - and the addition of the lemons with leaves was perfect. Blue, white, yellow and green - just gorgeous.
As a life-long admirer of both fine porcelain and french faience, I really enjoyed this. Would love to see/learn more about your other collections. Thank you so much for embracing all things beautiful and elegant - the food of my soul!
Thanks for reminding me of just how lovely and fresh and versatile blue Spode porcelaine is. And I see the factory has some good value seconds on sale!
I love the spode dresser but feel it would look better if there was some beading on the lower doors as currently they look too modern for the chateau kitchen. It would be really easy to do and once painted to match would help it look more in keeping with the chateau.
This was wonderful! I do not own a chateau (ha! Yet!) but when I bought my home I did splash out on Spode and Johnson Brothers blue and white dishes! I was able to get matching sets for a very good price here in America (I think much of the discontinued 'Made in England/Made in The Potteries" sets are/were being sold in America) and really makes me feel great to serve my friends- and myself!- on such lovely, durable plates! It was great finding out about the history, and seeing that if it's good enough for a simple townhouse in the USA, it's good enough for a chateau in France!
Fab vlog.We had know idea that Portmerion Pottery had taken over Spode.We are most envious of Chateau De La Landes homely kitchen which is the perfect showcase for your beautiful Spode collection. Those herb pots are adorable! Sometimes we are guilty of overlooking how much artistic effort has gone into creating everyday objects and your vlog served up a reminder alongside a rather nice looking luncheon that Mrs G felt Claude Monet would have felt right at home in!! Spode sure beats the modern idea of a roofing tile plate set....but guess there is something for everybody. Merci Bien.. we loved it.
You look so pretty and fresh in your blue and white blouse. Your knowledge is impressive. The shelves behind you show very nice plates. Porcellain in white with blue patterns is always fresh and appetizing. In Germany you also find this colour combination on the crockery of the famous porcellain producers like Meissen etc. Thanks a lot for your entertaining and charming lecture. Greetings from Germany
Dear Stephanie, You look like a beautiful porcelain yourself in your blue and white blouse amidst the Spode backdrop! And then a jonquil appears with daffodils! Wonderful vlog. I am a potter myself, and am fascinated by the history of clay bodies and decorative treatments. I'm a great admirer of Spode, Wedgewood, and then more exciting process firings such as sagger, pit and Raku firings. I used to live in Princeton New Jersey near the Lenox China factory in Trenton. Oh, the factory sales attended and bins of porcelains I'd come home with! My now ex husband did not understand my passion for porcelains, pottery, antiques, pets, or anything. Oh well! Thank you for this lovely and amazingly informative video! Lady Karin 🦄🌺🐑🍇🦔🏰🎨🗼🎶🍷🧀
You are a born teacher. How about taking on English silver next and those confusing marks. I have some inherited pieces and would love to know about them. They originally came from the American south but now live with me in Northern California.
On a more personal note: I had become so Americanized that I had forgotten the Art of matching fabrics to wallpapers for their intrinsic beauty and not for their matching aspect. Thank you so much for reminding me. My Tennessee Summer cottage is being enhanced with floral chintz and toiles because of Lalande.
I would love to hear about the Wedgwood dishes! I have been passed down my grandmothers & I just love them!!! Thank you Stephanie for all the information you have given us regarding these dishes, so interesting! It makes you appreciate what you have!!! I love using them it reminds me of all the lovely dinners I had with my Nana❤️🇨🇦 PS love that your shirt 👕 matched!!!
I have some Spode. But I can see the logic behind collecting blue n white..if one breaks a plate ,doesn’t matter too much. Actually be a good idea if you could do more antique videos...also on jewellery ;would be cool. Thanks Stephanie.
You have inspired me to display the blue and white plates i have. Most are from Johnson Brothers and certainly not as large as your collection due the small cottage i live in here in NW Florida. Love that you set a beautiful table for each meal at the chateau.
Thanks to your influence Stephanie - I have purchased a Blue & White dinner set 👌💙. ... and loving it. However - after watching this vlog, think I need to expand on it 😉. Those Yellow daffodils & lemons look beautiful as part of the setting on your lunch table 💛. Thank you for all the interesting history and sharing with us. Beautiful blessings Mandy 👑SA
This history lesson was very interesting! I feel acknowledge in my love of blue and white China and I will continue! Your table setting with the yellow and the dark wood of the table is just stunning! Keep up the good work! xxx :)
Dear Stephanie, I have my grandmother's blue dishes packed away. They were giving to me after her passing in 1958. I remember using them only once at Thanksgiving time and because they were so precious to me I was afraid they would get chipped or broken so I never used them again. If I choose not to use them I could display them in my beautiful handmade hutch and show off their exquisite design & beauty. I am not even sure they are China. I never looked on the back of them...hmmmm, but I don't care if they aren't, I will definitely unpack and display them proudly because I remember my grandmother buying a piece at a time. Thank you for the wealth of information and your love for everything beautiful is infectious. Today, I will go upstairs in the storage room and find and unbox my grandmother's blue dishes and see if they are China. I remember, as a little girl, she used them all the time when setting her table and always had cloth napkins and flowers on her table. Thank you for igniting a spark in me to use what was given to me so long ago. ~Joanna♡
As always so informative....I love all the blue and white in the kitchen and you are right Stephanie anything blue and white goes with the China, with just the yellow of the daffodils.....have a great week........Donna in Toronto
Stephanie, you are so captivating when you share history. Thank you so much. You are so beautiful and I am so glad I found your vlogs during quarentine in America.
Another episode I missed, lovely. Reminded me of the small teapot I have tucked away after my beloved grandmother, her very first she bought in England back in the 1930’s for her first home in London. It’s been out of use as it’s spout has broken but I’ve always meant to repair it with Kintsugo in gold or silver, as it represents so many memories of time spemt just the two of us, over strong tea and home made biscuits in her cosy kitchen. The pot is of course the Willow pattern, a pot just the size for tea for two with a little gilding on the spout. I have my tea from her beautiful set of fluid blue flowers on white porcelaine, Royal Danish service (Blå Blomst, Konglige Dansk) almost the size of those modern cups you showed but I’m going to order that kintsugi kit and fix that pot ASAP, thak you so much for the reminder and yet another lovely video! Oh and I much prefer the mix of patterns to matching sets. ❤️🙏
I loved this vlog, thank you so much. As usual my best Sunday viewing! I for one would really love more videos on English porcelain/china and look very forward to one on Wedgewood.......please.....Love and all blessings from South Africa.
Stephanie once again such an informative vlog. You truly are a font of knowledge & information. So articulate in all you do & it comes so naturally. Even the simple table setting with the cheese, baguettes & olives and the Spode & daffodils look stunning, fit for a page in Vogue. Thank you for another fabulous vlog.
I so love that you did this video! My mother has collected Spode & blue willow for many years. We found out many years ago, that on her side of the family we are related to several Copelands linking us to William Copeland. How exciting to find out! We have been researching ever since. I love history and how this beautiful dishware has affected our lives. My mother always felt a connection and now we know why! We are family!😊
Another pottery pattern I like is the green Wedgwood leaf. I think it was last made in the 1950s. I have a lot of early ones and use them for first courses
Fascinating vlog Stephanie...so absorbing when you give these informative and fascinating historical backgrounds to your collections, and the history of Chateaux de Lalande - thank you!
Hi Stephanie, My wife and I have just found your channel and have binged all the video's up to this point and thought we would share with you our love of all things blue and white. We are renovating a French Farm house about 2.5 hrs East of you in Dept 58. We have completed the old house and pride of place is a pine dresser with my wife's collection of blue and white crockery and we found your video fascinating about Spode. We love the vlogs and hope to do something similar in the future. If ever you find yourself in the area we would love to show you our project. Keep up the good work Paul and Ann x
Fascinating!! I have a blue willow platter that was my Granny's. We brought it home from Ireland when she passed away back in 1977 at the age of 90. I will have to examine it further to find out where it was made. Thank you for all this fabulous information.
So excited! I love Spode Dishes! I have a few piece and really enjoy. I hang some of mine on the wall. I think you look lively in your dress! Matches so well. Great video!
You are a treasure🍋I collect different types of blue and white dishes but I don't know if I have any Spode. Now I will go look. Thanks for all the information. I "discovered" you recently and watch all the time. Your family and friends are lovely. I wish you all the best of everything. From Havre de Grace, Maryland. (Named by Lafayette)
Oh I love these vlogs that go into specific histories of art or aspects of culture! ...as well as the everyday life of Chateau Diaries and the trave vlogs, of course!
I’ve heard the blue willow story but I always like to hear about it from someone else. Thank you so much Sarah. Loved it. And love the blue dishes. Thanks for sharing . Hope you all have a blessed weekend 💙💎💙💎🙏🏽
I loved this episode! I have loved blue and white Spode for years. I have several of the same plates as you, a teapot, a coffee pot, all kinds of pieces! When I traveled to England in 2001, I brought a few more back too. I always keep an eye out for pieces I don't have and can afford at home discount stores here in the US! Although my everyday china right now is Villeroy & Boch Fleurence (you can tell I love china), I use pieces of my Spode right along with it every single day! Thanks, Stephanie!
I'm a born and bread Stokie (though living and working in York now), my family up to my Grandparents all worked in the pottery industry and my parents still have the novelty two-spout teapots in classic brown earthenware and the like, made by my Grandad just for fun at work! My Grandma used to say she was a Sagger-Makers-Bottom-Knocker (a real job title) but I always assumed she was pulling my leg because it sounded so riddiculous. I'm immensely proud to have you tell the stories of The Potteries and a little star-stuck that you've also visited the legacy factory shops that Stokies still wholeheartedly love and support today. I really admire that you have such a passion for the heritage and share the local history I grew up learning about in school :D
That was very interesting. I don't have any further subject suggestions only a clammer for more like this. Just soaking up your beautiful taste and history behind it.
I’ve actually looked at your wall and thought some of your teapots were Royal Copenhagen. Love 💗 affair with blue and white china/porcelain. Love Spode and herend. I have a lot of herend blue plates but I mix the different plates. All place settings are a combo of four patterns for interest. Going to be over there in the fall so I can visit Saint Louis crystal factory. Also going to fly to Denmark so I can go to the Royal Copenhagen factory as well. Beautiful Presentation on Spode. Thank you.
Love every week of your vlog, and bing watched all 60 odd videos in one sitting a few months ago. Your choice of blue top and then yellow coat was so appropriate and a delight. I do hope you keep your broken china, I have a metal bucket nearly overflowing with broken antique china,, mostly broken by my daughter when she was young, including an antique Spode cup and saucer. I intend to use the pieces in mosaics for the garden, perhaps as a path, or in the bottom of the bird bath.
This very pretty. Order. Stephanie, the setting so clean . We can see all the details. And you Stephanie look so gracious. We don't like it when things look messy and dirty.
Blue and white china is my favorite and I think I'll go enjoy some of my Spode Blue Room collection now! I love the Wedgewood china too though and would like to hear you tell the story of the other Josiah (there's a good Time Team espisode available on youtube where they are looking for the first Wedgewood factory-- it discusses the history of pottery in the Stoke on Trent area-- it's very old as I recall). The Wedgewood Countryside pattern goes very well with a lot of the Spode blue and white patterns.
Laura from the UA-cam channel - Garden Answers has a beautiful saying from her mother - Romancing the Ordinary. Taking ordinary items and adding the little extras to make a setting or event lovely. When you displayed your napkins and table setting I immediately thought if it. Thoroughly enjoyed the art history lesson.
Hello from Malaysia ...Love your channel and all the things you do in chateau....And love the way you display the plates ...now I'm obsessed with spode and also you ....I just love the way u make things happen there ... So much to learn from you .... and I love the way you explained abt spode ..I just purchased my first spode online ...now I am thrilled to start my collections... Thank you ...u really inspire alot.. I felt that honestly...thanks again
Inspired by you, I bought myself, for Christmas, a Spode Italian pattern tea-for-one service. Sadly it lacks a saucer but I'm so excited for it's arrival!
I am very happy too subscribe too your channel which I found today. I enjoyed very much watching you on afternoon television. How beautiful you designed mum's bedroom. I see you have a perfect eye for design. You do have a beautiful a beautiful French Mansion!
So interesting hearing about the wonderful legacy of Spode and all your passions Stephanie! I am an avid follower of The Chateau Diaries and love seeing and hearing all your news. As a fellow Scot I especially enjoy your funloving friend he's hilarious.....you are a beautiful intelligent independant woman and a total inspiration....bonne chance pour votre chateau trop trop bel!
Over the past I went through all 148 Château Diaries looking for this vlog. 40 years ago I was a sales clerk in a department store’s china, crystal & silver department. I’ve always been crazy over blue & white. I worked there for 5 years. I couldn’t decide which pattern to buy so I began buying plates of different patterns from different companies in different sizes. In 1981 I talked my mom into a grand European trip (For 3 months). First stop London. We did a great loop of England & Scotland. For me it was to reach Stoke-on-Trent. I drug my mother from factory outlet to outlet. We went to Wedgewood, Johnson Brothers and Spode. I began collecting plates as souvenirs from every country. I really hadn’t studied blue & white china companies patterns. I probably could have done better collecting in Britain. I only knew the companies my department store sold. Thank you this vlog. I’m looking forward to your Limoges talk.
I love your enthusiasm, passion and your voice. Thank you for sharing your life and friends at Lelande with the world.
Heidi Halderman.
Does everyone want to immediately to go out on a Spode adventure ? Well done Stephanie, informative, articulate, and inspiring.
Yes!!!!
eBay here I come
I so agree. Learning more about the blue and white pottery helps me know why I've always liked them.
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Immediately went on eBay and Etsy and spent. I would never have known 30 minutes ago that blue and white is exactly what I need in my life
I was fortunate enough to find a large selection of Blue Willow China at a local Goodwill for .99 each! I’ve always had a love for blue and white China.
Youre a great teacher and entertainer. Laland is lucky to have you looking after her.
Ah, a lovely porcelain episode, and narrated in Spode appropriate shirt! Yes please to a talk on Wedgwood, and beloved Bernardaud in the future! I do sometimes think it is the raison d'etre of a grand house to keep the china dry! Thanks for a real Sunday afternoon treat.
Thanks for the Bernardaud mention. My botanique service is such a delight.
So synchronistic my father searched antique stores and collected blue and white spode plates for our summer home. They each tell a story and work perfectly well together. I remember wonderful meals around the kitchen table with fabulous food and conversation.
You knowledge about everything in the chateau is fascinating! A natural born storyteller! Very enjoyable! Thank you!!!❤️👍😘
Thank you! I’m happy you enjoyed it, I’m obsessed with porcelain!
The Chateau Diaries A fairytale for grownups. 🧚♂️
@@olgaraffa1 it really is. Great explanation. Bravo!
Your Daddy must have been so proud of you Stephanie, you clearly loved each other very dearly 💐 yes please to Wedgewood
I want to know everything you know!!! Make videos on everything!!! ❤❤❤ You are amazing Stephanie. You give this stay at home mom life!!! Thank you.
Rose Marie Bowersox Stephanie has brightened my life too; I’m limited physically so I’m home bound a lot of the time. Best wishes to you!
@@loraferrante9486 isn't she just wonderful. I'm so glad you're able to experience so much through her. That has to be just wonderful for you. Best wishes Lora
This was worth repeat viewing. Bravo Stephanie!
love the lemons on the table binge watching all the episodes just now I had just been thinking after watching DIY that you should have a series of your own
Thank you! Luckily, with the vlog, I feel as though I do! It’s great to live in an age where we can create our own content like this 😊
@@TheChateauDiaries Stephanie, how did you learn how to create and edit videos? I am trying to learn myself.
Thank you Stephanie for a little bit of history about Spode china. It prompted me to look up my favourite pieces: Ansley Orchard Gold. Also I have a 12 piece place setting, with serving dishes, of Villeroy and Boch Floglia 1748 from Luxembourg, which I love, but I also love the few pieces I have of Ansley Orchard Gold. Your table setting of blue and white Spode china, with lemons, daffodils and napkins, look delightful. Eating lunch in a pretty surrounding makes life enjoyable! Thank you for sharing your vlog with us.
Stephanie, other than toile the blue and white is yet another of my favorite subject. Your introduction transports me to the past and the museum so I could savor the art myself. You're a great art teacher, renovator, model, hostess, speaker...the list goes on. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and gifts, and above all, your vision of a beautiful life, with us. I've done renovations and the rewards are life-changing. I hope I can be a volunteer at your chateau. I garden, cook delicious Chinese food and I love to clean/do dishes and decorate.
Chateaux Diaries is my new church. 🙏❤️
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A month ago, I saw a few pieces of Spode in a local shop (Thrupps) in Illovo Johannesburg and my heart almost stopped, unfortunately the cost was too high for my small purse and I had to sadly walk away.
Thank you very much for this extremely informative and excellent video.
Good to know that the original factory still stands.
Thank you Stephanie and have a wonderful week. 🦋
Stephanie, all your history lessons are perfection! Thank you! I Absolutely adore my Spode chinaware & love yours on display! 🏰💙💙
Oh, Stephanie, we share a passion for the blue and white porcelain. I know, that your favourite mug is a blue fluted Mega mug from Royal Copenhagen. I collect and mix different patterns in blue and white from Royal Copenhagen! Blue fluted (my favourite), Mega, princess and so on. If you have not already, you should REALLY check out their website, and see all the designs and variations! And maybe visit their store in Copenhagen, if you get a chance 😃
I just adore the Blue Room collection. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the Spode tutorial! I never knew any of this although Ive always loved china or porcelain.What a blessing to have such a fun dad! You have a wonderful family
I have always loved blue and white dinner wear because I grew up in a house where that’s all we used now I have blue and white dinner where in my home. I just realized that I have a cup with the Willow pattern on it. Crazy!
Ahhh, the good life! Simple, sweet, and welcoming. I too collect Spode porcelain and now am happy to know even more of its history! Thank you Stephanie
My mother collected blue dishes and had many large decorative pieces as well, plant pots, casseroles, coffee urns, carafes, and I loved them. Though my sister doesn’t really like them she keeps them in memory of Mum. I have a few smaller pieces and I collect blue glass things. Having downsized several times over the last ten years I have had to give up many things I collected. You mentioned your Mum likes to collect antique linens and I had a nice collection of things I’d found over many years. My favourite things were the dainty handkerchiefs with beautiful lace work around the edges, I can’t imagine crocheting or tatting such delicate patterns but some were actually made by my great grandmother and her sister. I still have a few smaller doilies they made and I cherish them. Sadly the younger generation coming up have no love of them so they’ll no doubt be a nice find for someone in a charity shop when I’m gone. Thank you for telling us the history of Spode. I had some nice pieces of Wedgwood as well, CC on lavender was my favourite pattern. I only have one cup and saucer now and I enjoy having a nice cup of tea with a sweet as a treat. 🥰🙋🏼
Greetings from Boston Massachusetts !! I am so enjoying your wonderful videos, Your knowledge is outstanding! I learn with every episode !! God bless you and Chateau Diaries!
I just love this video. So much detailed information. You are a wonderful teacher, your enthusiasm is a joy.
Very interesting vlog, I love the way you chose you outfit to complement your talk today xx
The Empress Josephine used to match her outfits to her rooms!
Yes, the outfit matching is so cool.
I am so happy you made a video on English porcelain.
I purchased last week in a charity shop a blue salad bowl from Johnson Brothers, which production was discontinued in 2015 (being first bought by Wedgwood then was bought by Fiskars)
Stephanie you are all class. I love your channel and your stories
I love everything about European chateau,they are STUNNING.
Quickly becoming a favorite channel of mine! Even my 112 year old victorian transitional home, can find hints that help my wife and I, can use!CHEERS
I have my grandmother's Spode Willow pattern tea set and have enjoyed so many afternoons having tea parties with my daughter and afternoon teas with friends. I was really interested in the history you shared and I have resolved to add to my collection. Your tablescape, at the end of the video, was beautifully simple and striking - and the addition of the lemons with leaves was perfect. Blue, white, yellow and green - just gorgeous.
As a life-long admirer of both fine porcelain and french faience, I really enjoyed this. Would love to see/learn more about your other collections. Thank you so much for embracing all things beautiful and elegant - the food of my soul!
Thank you 💖💖💖
Thanks for reminding me of just how lovely and fresh and versatile blue Spode porcelaine is. And I see the factory has some good value seconds on sale!
A beautiful display!
This is fascinating and beautiful. I would love to hear more about Wedgewood-if you haven’t already.
I love the spode dresser but feel it would look better if there was some beading on the lower doors as currently they look too modern for the chateau kitchen. It would be really easy to do and once painted to match would help it look more in keeping with the chateau.
I really loved your lesson of the blue china . I am a Swedish retired old teacher of 81 year and I am always so happy when I can learn something new
This was wonderful! I do not own a chateau (ha! Yet!) but when I bought my home I did splash out on Spode and Johnson Brothers blue and white dishes! I was able to get matching sets for a very good price here in America (I think much of the discontinued 'Made in England/Made in The Potteries" sets are/were being sold in America) and really makes me feel great to serve my friends- and myself!- on such lovely, durable plates! It was great finding out about the history, and seeing that if it's good enough for a simple townhouse in the USA, it's good enough for a chateau in France!
Fab vlog.We had know idea that Portmerion Pottery had taken over Spode.We are most envious of Chateau De La Landes homely kitchen which is the perfect showcase for your beautiful Spode collection. Those herb pots are adorable! Sometimes we are guilty of overlooking how much artistic effort has gone into creating everyday objects and your vlog served up a reminder alongside a rather nice looking luncheon that Mrs G felt Claude Monet would have felt right at home in!!
Spode sure beats the modern idea of a roofing tile plate set....but guess there is something for everybody. Merci Bien.. we loved it.
I can't tell U how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE your collection!!!!
You look so pretty and fresh in your blue and white blouse.
Your knowledge is impressive.
The shelves behind you show very nice plates.
Porcellain in white with blue patterns is always fresh and appetizing.
In Germany you also find this colour combination on the crockery of the famous porcellain producers like Meissen etc.
Thanks a lot for your entertaining and charming lecture.
Greetings from Germany
Dear Stephanie, You look like a beautiful porcelain yourself in your blue and white blouse amidst the Spode backdrop! And then a jonquil appears with daffodils! Wonderful vlog. I am a potter myself, and am fascinated by the history of clay bodies and decorative treatments. I'm a great admirer of Spode, Wedgewood, and then more exciting process firings such as sagger, pit and Raku firings. I used to live in Princeton New Jersey near the Lenox China factory in Trenton. Oh, the factory sales attended and bins of porcelains I'd come home with! My now ex husband did not understand my passion for porcelains, pottery, antiques, pets, or anything. Oh well! Thank you for this lovely and amazingly informative video! Lady Karin
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You are a born teacher. How about taking on English silver next and those confusing marks. I have some inherited pieces and would love to know about them. They originally came from the American south but now live with me in Northern California.
I’m a descendant of Joseph Barratt who had Burslem pottery and you can still find Barratt Pottery 😍
I think I have a piece of Burslem. Love it!
So interesting! I am particularly happy to learn that Spode is being made in England again. Thank you so much!
On a more personal note: I had become so Americanized that I had forgotten the Art of matching fabrics to wallpapers for their intrinsic beauty and not for their matching aspect. Thank you so much for reminding me. My Tennessee Summer cottage is being enhanced with floral chintz and toiles because of Lalande.
I would love to hear about the Wedgwood dishes! I have been passed down my grandmothers & I just love them!!! Thank you Stephanie for all the information you have given us regarding these dishes, so interesting! It makes you appreciate what you have!!! I love using them it reminds me of all the lovely dinners I had with my Nana❤️🇨🇦 PS love that your shirt 👕 matched!!!
I have some Spode.
But I can see the logic behind collecting blue n white..if one breaks a plate ,doesn’t matter too much.
Actually be a good idea if you could do more antique videos...also on jewellery ;would be cool.
Thanks Stephanie.
You have inspired me to display the blue and white plates i have. Most are from Johnson Brothers and certainly not as large as your collection due the small cottage i live in here in NW Florida. Love that you set a beautiful table for each meal at the chateau.
Thanks to your influence Stephanie - I have purchased a Blue & White dinner set 👌💙. ... and loving it. However - after watching this vlog, think I need to expand on it 😉. Those Yellow daffodils & lemons look beautiful as part of the setting on your lunch table 💛. Thank you for all the interesting history and sharing with us. Beautiful blessings Mandy 👑SA
Another brilliant vlog. I breakfast on Blue Geranium . I had not realised that it wasn’t being produced any more .
I really like how much history you know...
This history lesson was very interesting! I feel acknowledge in my love of blue and white China and I will continue! Your table setting with the yellow and the dark wood of the table is just stunning! Keep up the good work! xxx :)
Dear Stephanie,
I have my grandmother's blue dishes packed away. They were giving to me after her passing in 1958. I remember using them only once at Thanksgiving time and because they were so precious to me I was afraid they would get chipped or broken so I never used them again. If I choose not to use them I could display them in my beautiful handmade hutch and show off their exquisite design & beauty. I am not even sure they are China. I never looked on the back of them...hmmmm, but I don't care if they aren't, I will definitely unpack and display them proudly because I remember my grandmother buying a piece at a time. Thank you for the wealth of information and your love for everything beautiful is infectious. Today, I will go upstairs in the storage room and find and unbox my grandmother's blue dishes and see if they are China. I remember, as a little girl, she used them all the time when setting her table and always had cloth napkins and flowers on her table. Thank you for igniting a spark in me to use what was given to me so long ago. ~Joanna♡
I certainly enjoy all of your videos -- what a lovely life you and your family, friends are living.
😊 I feel very lucky to be able to live here with such lovely people
As always so informative....I love all the blue and white in the kitchen and you are right Stephanie anything blue and white goes with the China, with just the yellow of the daffodils.....have a great week........Donna in Toronto
love this and the setting of the table so simple and so elegant
A visit to the Blue Room Museum at the old Spode factory has been added to my bucket list. It looks like a paradise.
Thank you for the history lesson of the lovely China. As always, you are delightful. Blessings 🐶🐾🐾
Love Spode! 💙💙 Love the history lesson. Keep up the good work!
Stephanie, you are so captivating when you share history. Thank you so much. You are so beautiful and I am so glad I found your vlogs during quarentine in America.
Rewatching this episode episode. I’m getting up to 3 adverts watching from Berkshire
Another episode I missed, lovely. Reminded me of the small teapot I have tucked away after my beloved grandmother, her very first she bought in England back in the 1930’s for her first home in London. It’s been out of use as it’s spout has broken but I’ve always meant to repair it with Kintsugo in gold or silver, as it represents so many memories of time spemt just the two of us, over strong tea and home made biscuits in her cosy kitchen.
The pot is of course the Willow pattern, a pot just the size for tea for two with a little gilding on the spout.
I have my tea from her beautiful set of fluid blue flowers on white porcelaine, Royal Danish service (Blå Blomst, Konglige Dansk) almost the size of those modern cups you showed but I’m going to order that kintsugi kit and fix that pot ASAP, thak you so much for the reminder and yet another lovely video!
Oh and I much prefer the mix of patterns to matching sets. ❤️🙏
I loved this vlog, thank you so much. As usual my best Sunday viewing! I for one would really love more videos on English porcelain/china and look very forward to one on Wedgewood.......please.....Love and all blessings from South Africa.
Stephanie once again such an informative vlog. You truly are a font of knowledge & information. So articulate in all you do & it comes so naturally. Even the simple table setting with the cheese, baguettes & olives and the Spode & daffodils look stunning, fit for a page in Vogue. Thank you for another fabulous vlog.
Stephanie, you excel in talking and presenting like this. Very natural and I learn so much. Think you will have your own TV shows in the future.
I so love that you did this video! My mother has collected Spode & blue willow for many years. We found out many years ago, that on her side of the family we are related to several Copelands linking us to William Copeland. How exciting to find out! We have been researching ever since. I love history and how this beautiful dishware has affected our lives. My mother always felt a connection and now we know why! We are family!😊
Another pottery pattern I like is the green Wedgwood leaf. I think it was last made in the 1950s. I have a lot of early ones and use them for first courses
Fascinating vlog Stephanie...so absorbing when you give these informative and fascinating historical backgrounds to your collections, and the history of Chateaux de Lalande - thank you!
Makes me want to go shopping for Spode right now. Love that your outfit fits the topic
Hi Stephanie, My wife and I have just found your channel and have binged all the video's up to this point and thought we would share with you our love of all things blue and white. We are renovating a French Farm house about 2.5 hrs East of you in Dept 58. We have completed the old house and pride of place is a pine dresser with my wife's collection of blue and white crockery and we found your video fascinating about Spode. We love the vlogs and hope to do something similar in the future. If ever you find yourself in the area we would love to show you our project. Keep up the good work Paul and Ann x
Absolutely lovely and very informative! Thank you!
Fascinating!! I have a blue willow platter that was my Granny's. We brought it home from Ireland when she passed away back in 1977 at the age of 90. I will have to examine it further to find out where it was made. Thank you for all this fabulous information.
because of you, i just bought a few spode dinnerware and faberge limoges canape plate for my mum! yay
This is the FIRST video that I saw of your videos. This just popped up now and I had to watch it again. Thank you Stephanie!!
So excited! I love Spode Dishes! I have a few piece and really enjoy. I hang some of mine on the wall. I think you look lively in your dress! Matches so well. Great video!
They look great on the wall! I might start doing that too. But at the moment I don’t have enough as all of mine are used regularly!
You are a treasure🍋I collect different types of blue and white dishes but I don't know if I have any Spode. Now I will go look.
Thanks for all the information. I "discovered" you recently and watch all the time. Your family and friends are lovely. I wish you all the best of everything. From Havre de Grace, Maryland. (Named by Lafayette)
Enjoying watching the older vlogs, your Patron list has certainly grown! :)
Oh I love these vlogs that go into specific histories of art or aspects of culture! ...as well as the everyday life of Chateau Diaries and the trave vlogs, of course!
My fave is probably the Clifton style. I have a few pieces and I hope to one day have a big collection of it.
I’ve heard the blue willow story but I always like to hear about it from someone else. Thank you so much Sarah. Loved it. And love the blue dishes. Thanks for sharing . Hope you all have a blessed weekend 💙💎💙💎🙏🏽
Absolutely adored this video!
I loved this episode! I have loved blue and white Spode for years. I have several of the same plates as you, a teapot, a coffee pot, all kinds of pieces! When I traveled to England in 2001, I brought a few more back too. I always keep an eye out for pieces I don't have and can afford at home discount stores here in the US! Although my everyday china right now is Villeroy & Boch Fleurence (you can tell I love china), I use pieces of my Spode right along with it every single day! Thanks, Stephanie!
I'm a born and bread Stokie (though living and working in York now), my family up to my Grandparents all worked in the pottery industry and my parents still have the novelty two-spout teapots in classic brown earthenware and the like, made by my Grandad just for fun at work! My Grandma used to say she was a Sagger-Makers-Bottom-Knocker (a real job title) but I always assumed she was pulling my leg because it sounded so riddiculous. I'm immensely proud to have you tell the stories of The Potteries and a little star-stuck that you've also visited the legacy factory shops that Stokies still wholeheartedly love and support today. I really admire that you have such a passion for the heritage and share the local history I grew up learning about in school :D
That was very interesting. I don't have any further subject suggestions only a clammer for more like this. Just soaking up your beautiful taste and history behind it.
I found this so interesting. Thank you
I’ve actually looked at your wall and thought some of your teapots were Royal Copenhagen. Love 💗 affair with blue and white china/porcelain. Love Spode and herend. I have a lot of herend blue plates but I mix the different plates. All place settings are a combo of four patterns for interest. Going to be over there in the fall so I can visit Saint Louis crystal factory. Also going to fly to Denmark so I can go to the Royal Copenhagen factory as well. Beautiful
Presentation on Spode. Thank you.
kim clarke bottom left teapot looks like Royal Copenhagen. That’s the blue and white china I collect 😊
Love every week of your vlog, and bing watched all 60 odd videos in one sitting a few months ago. Your choice of blue top and then yellow coat was so appropriate and a delight. I do hope you keep your broken china, I have a metal bucket nearly overflowing with broken antique china,, mostly broken by my daughter when she was young, including an antique Spode cup and saucer. I intend to use the pieces in mosaics for the garden, perhaps as a path, or in the bottom of the bird bath.
This very pretty. Order. Stephanie, the setting so clean . We can see all the details. And you Stephanie look so gracious. We don't like it when things look messy and dirty.
Blue and white china is my favorite and I think I'll go enjoy some of my Spode Blue Room collection now! I love the Wedgewood china too though and would like to hear you tell the story of the other Josiah (there's a good Time Team espisode available on youtube where they are looking for the first Wedgewood factory-- it discusses the history of pottery in the Stoke on Trent area-- it's very old as I recall). The Wedgewood Countryside pattern goes very well with a lot of the Spode blue and white patterns.
Laura from the UA-cam channel - Garden Answers has a beautiful saying from her mother - Romancing the Ordinary. Taking ordinary items and adding the little extras to make a setting or event lovely. When you displayed your napkins and table setting I immediately thought if it.
Thoroughly enjoyed the art history lesson.
I'm so excited I've got a teapot like yours (second shelf on the right!)
Hello from Malaysia ...Love your channel and all the things you do in chateau....And love the way you display the plates ...now I'm obsessed with spode and also you ....I just love the way u make things happen there ... So much to learn from you ....
and I love the way you explained abt spode ..I just purchased my first spode online ...now I am thrilled to start my collections... Thank you ...u really inspire alot.. I felt that honestly...thanks again
This was so enjoyable, I am grateful for such a lovely vlog!Well done Stephanie!!!As you say"thank you,thank you,thank you!"!!!!!♡♡♡♡
Inspired by you, I bought myself, for Christmas, a Spode Italian pattern tea-for-one service. Sadly it lacks a saucer but I'm so excited for it's arrival!
Loving the episode Stephanie 🧡💛
Thanks, Sarah! 💙
I am very happy too subscribe too your channel which I found today.
I enjoyed very much watching you on afternoon television.
How beautiful you designed mum's bedroom.
I see you have a perfect eye for design.
You do have a beautiful a beautiful French Mansion!
I love this video!!! My great-grandmother had Blue Willow porcelain.I loved it it !!! I look forward to your video on Wedgewood! Love from Vermont
Thank you. I am a a big fan of English bone china, particularly transfer ware . This was a very informative and enjoyable video.
So interesting hearing about the wonderful legacy of Spode and all your passions Stephanie! I am an avid follower of The Chateau Diaries and love seeing and hearing all your news. As a fellow Scot I especially enjoy your funloving friend he's hilarious.....you are a beautiful intelligent independant woman and a total inspiration....bonne chance pour votre chateau trop trop bel!