Sourced from the most prestigious and stylish couteliers in the Auvergne region, enriched with our own collaborative wisdom, we have created collections that are uniquely ours. Each boasts a refined array of serving pieces. And under Mariposa's aegis, all the heads are crafted of 18/10 stainless steel for the highest level of durability, with forged carbon blades that literally never need sharpening.

Although we now take cutlery for granted in our daily lives, until the 19th century it was only within the means of the nobility and the very wealthy. To serve such clients, back in the early 1700s a longstanding tradition of superb flatware was begun by several families at a few villages in the Auvergne. In the mid-20th century these same French atèliers perfected the polyamid (solidified nylon) handle and brought a new flexibility to flatware design.

Suddenly handles could be sculpted with injection molding in far more numerous and imaginative designs, textures, and colors than silver or stainless steel ever were. The polyamid also allows the material to withstand a dishwasher, which holds for all Mariposa Flatware.

Nowhere else will you find handles of masterfully-replicated ivory, teak, bamboo, tortoise, mother-of-pearl, and sea-glass. Nowhere else will you find lustrous handles of spiraled olive wood, or art deco lucite, or even Norwegian white birch injected with a liquid nylon that impregnates every cell and highlights the wood grain (this echoes a technique from the 1920s, cerusé, that achieved the same subtle effect by painstakingly rubbing a white paste into each handle).

Best of all, you'll find that our flatware ingeniously complements the full breadth of the Mariposa tableware collections. The result is an unsurpassed level of fashion and quality against which all other other cutlery must be measured. Once again we’ve learned – in so many ways – how exhilarating a true collaboration can be.