On our Paris neighborhood set, you can stroll at your fingertips Montmarte, Champs de Elysee, Ile de le Cite, and the Eiffel Tower. Serve up some delectables for you and your love one. We also have a Paris Platter that features all the neighborhoods mentioned above.

This would make a wonderful gift for a future Paris trip or better yet, remind your love one of a trip you’ve already taken together!
What are you waiting for — make yourself and your sweetie swoon.

Paris is only available online through our website in the US, and at Kapok in Hong Kong.
If you are ordering within the US, the plates and platter are gift wrapped in a solid white box, topped off with a pretty ribbon.

Check out August Table at The Gardener in the Historic San Francisco Ferry Building.

Screen shot from Materialicious webpage. Product Photo by Eugene Chan Photography.

Another online site, Materialicious, graced us with a mini-write up!

Thank you, Materialicious! We appreciate you noticing and posting

such a flattering pic of our wares.

Also check out the RELATED  items section.

This section is organized into an artsy photo collage.

So nice to be amongst great wares and designs!

Makes you just want to use

everything they posted!

Everybody has a city or two, or three, that they love, that they miss, that may have shaped them in varying ways.  In the case of Once Upon a Table, their goal in hosting a secret supper club was to gather perfect strangers with different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences from different cities to share the appreciation of food.   Yes, it’s that simple. This is what really makes Hong Kong one of those special cosmopolitan places — you can do this here.   If you happen to be in Hong Kong and want more information on the next secret supper club gathering, check out Once Upon a Table.

Thank you for having us make our Hong Kong debut amongst great company, and deliciously beautiful food!  We got such an enthusiastic response that it has spurred us into thinking that we need to start production on the other cities soon! Cheers!

If you’ve been to the SFMOMA  store lately, you will have seen our plates and platters on display there.  They did a fantastic job of merchandising and matched us up with these fantastic tea towels from Studiopatro.  We love how the tea towels are as bold as the plates are subtle, and really showcase the mix/match potential for varied patterns.   Love that orange pop of color!  Check out the studio website for other patterns and color schemes, as well as info on where else you can find these tea towels for purchase. As Christina Weber of Studiopatro said and we couldn’t agree more, “it’s so nice to be in such good company.”  Thank you, Christina!

While Studiopatro is a virtual neighbor in San Francisco, another site, far away in Ohio, also found us online.  VisuaLingual has a ton of great stuff on their blog and an Etsy store where you can buy an assortment of housewares and decor items, all with a graphic flair.  They love Cincinnati as much as we love San Francisco and their unique selection of products definitely reflects that!

Photo by Christina Weber of Studiopatro

Screenshot from Apartment Therapy

They write:

Do you like your caprese salad (yum!) served with a side of nostalgia? After a move to Hong Kong forced city planner and cooking enthusiast Cherry Chaicharn to leave her beloved San Francisco, inspiration struck. She decided to combine all of her loves into a functional memento of her former home.

And, yes, you can now buy our plates and the city platter right here on our secure site or at the following local retailers.

Thank you Apartment Therapy and Better Living Through Design.

It was definitely one of our goals to be carried in SFMOMA and I cannot tell you just how happy I am — how happy we all are —- that have reached our goal within 3 months of our launch date!!!! WOOHOO!!!

It’s so great to be in such a store where one can find many useful “form follows function” items.  It was really fun to play on this classic ideaology and base our designs with city maps on porcelain, instead the traditional paper maps.  The maps on our plates are still a recognized graphic shape — of the San Francisco neighborhoods and peninsula, and that is what makes our plates and platter fun and unique.

I’m ever so grateful for the generous help of my friends and family who helped make this happen!   The SFMOMA team of folks decided to give us a go and for that, we are all very thankful!!!!

From former City Planner to indie designer of tableware! Who knew??

So, I hope you’ll take the time to go see our display in the store and help me spread the word that we are in SFMOMA Store! And…maybe buy a set or two, or three. Yah, baby!

Thank YOU all!!

Glen Park is one of the San Francisco neighborhoods that reveals its charm around every curving street.

One of our favorite stores in the neighborhood is Perch, a fabulous gift and home accent retailer. Perch became the first store to carry the August Table San Francisco series. Glen Park is one of the neighborhoods featured in the small plate series.

You can find Perch at 645 Chenery Street in San Francisco.

We hear the plates and platters selling well and we couldn’t be happier.

The full San Francisco series

The San Francisco launch party was a success! We had more folks show up than we had anticipated and it definitely felt like the more, the merrier! Over all, things went very smoothly. I am forever grateful for the wonderful support, encouragement, and sound advice from the August Table “Go To” team – Bee, Carl, Chat, David, Eugene, Jeff, Nong, Moo, Pablo, Patryk, Paul, Susie, Terri, and Vonnie. They were wonderful and absolutely knew how to gear up and run a party.

Many thanks to Pablo for hosting the party at his office

And as always, thanks to Jeff for his support

Ready for business

The bar and sales area

So, the hunch was spot on…Bay Area folks love their San Francisco neighborhoods. The San Francisco neighborhood series sold out, and the platters were a big hit. Our only regret was that we weren’t able to bring more dishes with us from Hong Kong when we arrived earlier in the week. (Since we are still working out the details for shipping large amounts of product from overseas, the inventory was limited to what we could bring.) Check back to the website soon for more ordering and shipping information… we will have that up and running once we get home to HK in a few weeks.

SF platters

SF plates, set/4 neighboorhoods

Also interesting to note was how popular our canvas tote bags and makeup bags were. The makeup bags were the first to sell out — the cute colors were eye-catching and we sold two before the party even got started! If you bought a set of plates or a platter, you also received the matching tote bag to help you to carry your tableware home. It made folks happy and proud to be part of the Bay Area, and help keep things eco-green. We hope to see these bags popping up all around the City soon.

Totes and makeup bags

First customer

The party itself was a bit of a focus group to gather input on some new designs.  On display were prototype designs for Paris, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Tokyo.  The new cities were very well received, which was a good sign to start moving forward with those products.   It definitely seemed like Paris was the most requested set, so it looks like this will be the next production run, with Hong Kong to follow.  The Paris plates have a really interesting shape- sort of a rounded triangle- and the Hong Kong design is set on square plates.  I feel eager and happy that these cities garnered support to make another round of “What’s Next!”   Look for more updates and additions to the August Table website soon, and thank you for your support and encouragement to grow this project from a creative hobby into a full-fledged business.

Prototypes on display- Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Paris

Send me a note!  I’d love to hear what you are doing with your plates!
~Cherry

PS- Special thanks to Mike , Linda, and Juniper for music and being supportive of my love for Lionel Richie and the Commodores!  Also Lynna for her delicious desserts and Marco for supplying the wine- thank you so much!