12-Piece Laguiole Cutlery Set for 6

Choosing bone handled cutlery, juniper or malachite

Bone handled cutlery has a quiet, creamy look: here it's cattle bone, cream to pale beige, polished to show a faint grain that differs from handle to handle. If you'd rather have wood, satin-finished juniper goes from blond to honey, with small knots. Reconstituted malachite is the striking option: deep green banded with darker green, polished, and it won't patina. Bone and stone need very little beyond a hand wash and, for stone, a gentle wipe.

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Watch the juniper knife and fork set

Six knives and six forks, every handle in satin-finished juniper.

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Steak cutlery set for the main course

It's a steak cutlery set in the plainest sense: a knife and fork at each of six places, and nothing to store that you won't use. In the mixed versions, every guest is given a different wood or horn, and the knife and fork in front of them match. The Laguiole en Aubrac name is on each blade, and a guide to the genuine Laguiole comes in the box with the certificate. Between meals, all twelve pieces go back in the oak box.

A 12-piece cutlery set or the 24?

If you already have spoons, or most meals only call for a knife and fork, the 12-piece set is enough. The 24-Piece Laguiole Cutlery Set for 6 adds soup and dessert spoons for each guest, with the spoons on their own tray in its oak box. Choose the 12-piece set too if you want bone or stone, as neither is offered at 24 pieces, and you'll have seventeen versions to pick from instead of eleven.

Questions about these knife and fork sets

Every set has a care leaflet in the box. Hand-wash, dry at once, and never let the handles near a dishwasher.