Few color stories are older, or more traveled. Blue-and-white began in ninth-century China, when cobalt carried along the Silk Road met white porcelain and never looked back. It sailed to Persia; to the potters of Delft, who couldn't get the Chinese originals and so painted their own; to the willow-pattern plates on every grandmother's dresser; to the chinoiserie drawing rooms of Europe. A thousand years, a hundred hands, one enduring idea — that cobalt on a pale ground is simply, permanently right. These are our small additions to that long conversation: tulips and toile and midnight florals, drawn in the one palette that has never, not once, gone out of season.
The Dutch Blue Tulip bows exactly the way the old potters drew it — cobalt on a pale ground, nine pieces from scarf to sherpa blanket to the fully set table. Four centuries of blue-and-white, still fresh in the vase.
Blue Spanish Tile carries a courtyard's worth of azulejo pattern onto pillows, table linens and — naturally — flip flops: tiles for your feet. Cool as a shaded patio in August.
Bring home a little bliss.
