Dansk Rondure 5-Piece Place Setting, Service for 1

Sculpture for the table setting.

We bought some sets of these a couple of years ago, and we love them. We are both designers and appreciate quality and function as highly as form. These excel in all regards. Each piece is a tiny exquisite sculpture, and the quality is unwaveringly perfect. I can’t say why the other reviewer here got such lousy quality, but ours are flawless. Perhaps there are some crappy Chinese knock-offs being sold out there? Everyone who stops to appreciate them comments on how unique and beautiful they are. Our teenage son (who is in design school now too) says the forks are too narrow and the soup spoons to wide. I agree, but can live with these facts easily. If you are wanting to cram a load of chow in your mouth, then don’t use the forks, use a soup spoon! HA! Really, the slender forks are so graceful and usable that I love using them, and they slow us down a tad which can only be healthy! Just look at how every single surface is carefully designed and finished. I love how the…

This must be it!

This set was a winner at the 1997 edition of Good Design Int’l Competition. Gerald Gulotta managed, with this project, to bring minimalism to everyone’s dinner table. Leveraging reinforcing synergies between form and function, this set will serve your most aesthetically endowed guests as well as your every day’s needs.

Each piece of this set is a play of round shapes – hence Rondure. The spoons are perfect circles. The perfectly balanced knives are made of a single piece whose ends seem to be turned round in orthogonal planes – imagine the 1/4 turn of a screw. Finally, the forks’ interiors seem to be slightly rounded. Unfortunately, there is no stylistic continuity across the whole Rondure line of products.

As additional suggestion, for an ultimate visual impact, pair this set with contemporary-styled porcelain (Sasaki, Rosenthal, Mikasa, etc.).

works for me

I got this set because it is seemingly impossible to get good quality 18/10 soup spoons in america. What I really wanted was a classic dining 7 piece set which includes Dinner Fork, Salad/Desert Fork, Dinner Knife, Salad/Desert knife, Dinner Spoon, Soup spoon & Tea Spoon. This is standard in European flatware sets, but in America standard is 5 pieces and you don’t get a soup spoon. My other option was to buy soup spoons seperately- but they were all less than 18/10 quality. Found great sets on Amazon UK only to find that they don’t ship to the US. So as a compromise I got the Dansk Rondure, whose dinner spoon resembles more that of a soup spoon. I’m pleased with the set I received. The round tea spoon is a bit awkward, but I like it. The thing I dislike most about this set is that the name of the company is too clearly branded on the backs of all the pieces. I Think this takes away from the appeal of it’s look. The branding is not on the stem even, it’s on the back of the…

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