Add a Hint of Luxury to Your Table With Gold Plates

If you're throwing a dinner party, hosting a holiday meal for your extended family, or making a romantic dinner to celebrate a momentous occasion, you'll want to elevate the look of your dining table with formal dinnerware to honor the event. Adding a hint of sparkle or shine is an easy way to set a festive mood. Gold plates, in particular, clearly indicate a celebration and are sure to make any meal feel extra special. Williams Sonoma's collection of gold dinner plates includes styles with subtle, barely there gold detailing as well as styles with unmistakably luxe gold patterns that make for truly glamorous place settings.

Gold Dinner Plates for Year-Round Celebrations

Whether you're planning ahead for holiday entertaining or just looking to update your special occasion dinnerware, you'll love Williams Sonoma's selection of gold plates, bowls and serving pieces. The available styles include bright white porcelain plates with delicate gold trim, ornate patterns that combine gold detailing with vibrant colors, and more contemporary styles with bold, abstract gold brushstroke designs. Whether you decide to buy a set or two of gold plates to mix in with your other dishes or opt for a complete set of gold dinnerware that includes several multi-piece place settings, you'll find plenty of incredible choices at Williams Sonoma. Read on for more about just a few of the available options.

• Wedgwood Gio Gold 5-Piece Dinnerware Set - Made of fine bone china and hand-lined with a 22k-gold band, each piece in this dinner set is subtly textured with an intaglio pattern that brings timeless luxury to your table. Despite their elegant, refined style, the pieces in this set are all dishwasher-safe for easy clean-up.
• Pickard Signature Dinnerware Collection - Pickard has been making fine porcelain in America since 1893, and the company's elegant dinnerware has graced elegant tables at the United Nations and in American embassies across the globe. These creamy white plates feature a hand-painted fillet that's available in burnished gold or sparkling platinum.
• Brushed Gold Dinner Plates - These striking plates are made in Portugal of durable stoneware. They are then glazed by hand before the rims are painted with real gold. The warm metallic luster of the gold brushstrokes highlights the unique organic shape of these artisan-made plates.

Holiday Themed Gold Dinnerware

If there's ever a time to add a hint of gold to your table, it's the holidays. With its abundance of twinkling lights and softly glowing candles, the holiday season is the perfect time to add a bit of metallic sparkle to your table with gold plates, gold serveware and even gold flatware. Williams Sonoma's collection of gold dinner plates includes a wide variety of festive designs that are perfect for all of those celebratory holiday meals. Here are just two of the available options:

• Classic Tartan Dinner Plates - These sturdy stoneware plates feature a classic Scottish tartan that surrounds a creamy white center. The addition of a shimmering golden border fillet and a rich, glossy finish ensures that your Christmas table setting will be both merry and bright. Available in a set of four.
• Noel Dinner Plates - Gleaming 24k-gold detailing embellishes the festive pattern of winterberries and evergreen foliage that adorns the rim of these holiday plates. A charming Christmas tree decorated with red ornaments sits in the center of the plate, completing the yuletide design. Available in sets of four, these dinner plates coordinate with the other pieces in the Noel Dinnerware collection.