24-Piece Laguiole Cutlery Set for 6

Wooden cutlery set or horn handles: how to choose

For a wooden cutlery set in a light colour, start with pistachio: satin-finished, golden yellow shading to pale green. Snakewood is polished and much darker, brown to deep red, marked like a snake's skin. If you'd rather have horn, choose buffalo horn: polished black, and striking against a white tablecloth. Each of these versions keeps one material on all 24 pieces, whereas in the mixed-horn set every guest has a different horn on their four pieces.

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Watch the pistachio wood cutlery set

Six place settings with satin pistachio wood handles, golden yellow to pale green.

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Oak cutlery storage box with two trays

Open the oak box and you'll find two trays: knives and table forks on one, soup and dessert spoons on the other. As a cutlery storage box, it keeps your cutlery out of the kitchen drawer and free of dust and scratches between dinners. After a meal, wash and dry each piece, lay it back on its tray and close the box. Next time you have six round, everything is in one place.

24-piece cutlery set or 28 pieces: which for your table?

A 24-piece cutlery set gives you six place settings, which suits a household that already owns a carving set. If you'd like carving and cheese sets to match, the 28-Piece Laguiole Canteen of Cutlery for 6 adds both, in a black fabric-lined case rather than an oak box. The place settings are the same in each, made by hand in France by Laguiole en Aubrac, so it's a question of the serving pieces and whether you'd rather have oak or a lined case.

Questions about these sets

Every set includes a care leaflet: hand-wash, towel-dry, and give the dishwasher a miss.