Laurie Gates California Designs Elena Amour 16-Piece Floral Melamine Dinnerware Set - Service for 4, Shatter-Resistant

Laurie Gates California Designs Elena Amour 16-Piece Floral Melamine Dinnerware Set

Ceramic that shatters has no business on a patio. The Laurie Gates Elena Amour set is melamine - lightweight, chip-resistant and shatter-resistant - printed with cottage-style florals in red, yellow, green and blue, with a different floral for each place setting. Sixteen pieces, service for four, and it goes on the top rack of the dishwasher. It is not microwave safe, and we say so up front, because melamine never is.

What's Included

• 4 x dinner plates
• 4 x dessert plates
• 4 x dinner bowls
• 4 x cereal bowls

Key Features

• Shatter-Resistant Melamine: Drop it on a patio, a deck or a boat and it bounces. This is the entire argument for melamine, and it is a good one.
• Four Different Florals: Each place setting gets its own cottage-style floral print in red, yellow, green or blue - a collected, mix-and-match look rather than four identical plates.
• Sixteen Pieces, Service for 4: Dinner plate, dessert plate, dinner bowl AND cereal bowl for four people. Note that this set gives you two bowl sizes rather than a mug - unusual, and useful.
• Top-Rack Dishwasher Safe: Published on every major retailer listing. Load it and forget it.
• Lightweight: Melamine weighs a fraction of what stoneware does, which matters for outdoor entertaining, RVs, boats and carrying a stack to a picnic table.
• Ceramic Look, Melamine Durability: It reads as painted ceramic at a glance. It behaves like plastic when the wind knocks it off the table.
• Honest About the Microwave: We put it in the title of this section because it matters: melamine is NOT microwave safe. Ever. Any listing that says otherwise is wrong.

Specifications

• Brand: Laurie Gates California Designs
• Set Size: 16 pieces - service for 4
• Contents: 4 dinner plates, 4 dessert plates, 4 dinner bowls, 4 cereal bowls
• Piece Dimensions: Not published by the manufacturer or any major retailer - we do not list unverified sizes
• Material: Melamine
• Design: Cottage-style florals in red, yellow, green and blue; each place setting is a different floral
• MICROWAVE SAFE: NO - melamine is never microwave safe. Do not microwave these.
• Oven Safe: No
• Dishwasher Safe: Yes - TOP RACK only
• Metallic Trim: None

Perfect For

Patios, decks, poolside dining, picnics, camping, RVs and boats, kids' everyday dishes, outdoor entertaining, and any household that is tired of sweeping up a broken plate. It is also a smart choice for a rental property or a vacation home, where guests will inevitably drop something.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is it microwave safe?
A: No. Melamine is never microwave safe - it can degrade and release chemicals when heated. Do not put these in the microwave. Transfer hot food to them, do not heat food in them.

Q: Is it dishwasher safe?
A: Yes, top rack. Keep it off the bottom rack, away from the heating element.

Q: Will it break if I drop it?
A: Melamine is chip-resistant and shatter-resistant. That is what you are buying it for. It will not shatter into pieces on a deck the way a ceramic plate will.

Q: What sizes are the pieces?
A: Not published. No manufacturer or major retailer lists the individual plate and bowl dimensions for this set, so we have left them out rather than print numbers we cannot stand behind.

Q: Are all four place settings the same pattern?
A: No - each place setting has a different cottage floral, in red, yellow, green and blue.

Q: Does the set include mugs?
A: No. It includes two bowl sizes instead - four dinner bowls and four cereal bowls. That is a slightly unusual configuration, and a genuinely useful one.

Care & Use

TOP-RACK DISHWASHER ONLY. Keep melamine away from the bottom rack and the heating element - sustained high heat damages melamine.

NOT MICROWAVE SAFE. This is the single most important care instruction for any melamine dinnerware. Serve hot food on it; never heat food in it.

Avoid cutting directly on the plates with a sharp knife - melamine scratches, and scratched melamine holds stains.

Why Choose Laurie Gates?

Laurie Gates California Designs is one of Gibson Overseas' design lines, and Elena Amour is a good example of melamine done with actual taste - real cottage florals, four different ones, rather than the flat printed pattern most melamine settles for. Gibson has been supplying American tables since 1980.

Shipping & Warranty

No specific warranty term is published for this item; Gibson Overseas warrants its products against original defects in workmanship and materials under normal household use. Ships fast from CurbGo with tracking.