Maison Madison was founded by college friends Colette Mahoney and Susannah Endfield — looking for the dinnerware they wanted to inherit, not finding it, making it themselves. Designed in New York, hand-painted in a family-run factory in Nazaré, Portugal. Beatrix is the blue gingham collection: scalloped edge, painted check, a thin cobalt line at the cereal bowl rim.
Reads like something pulled from a grandmother’s hutch but built for the dishwasher and microwave both. The gingham does the heavy lifting of styling a Sunday breakfast or an actual dinner party, no further decoration required. Sits well alongside ironstone, etched crystal, linen napkins, wildflowers in a stoneware jar.
$360 for twelve pieces (dinner plate, salad plate, cereal bowl × four) is $30 a piece — for hand-painted Portuguese stoneware in a heritage pattern, the math works. Bridal-registry territory, but the kind of set we’d argue justifies daily use.

Set of 12: 4 dinner plates, 4 salad plates, 4 cereal bowls
Dinner plate: 10.5″ x 10.5″ x 0.75″
Composition: stoneware
Hand-painted in Nazaré, Portugal
Designed in New York by Colette Mahoney and Susannah Endfield
Dishwasher and microwave safe