Maison Maëstra

Bespoke table accessories, or the art of the quiet signature.

A menu cover opened before choosing, a glass set down on its coaster, a bill presented with the same care: our bespoke table accessories accompany every moment of the meal, in the restaurants, bars and lounges of luxury hotels. They carry your venue’s identity with understated elegance, service after service.

Green menu cover and matching coaster on a marble table with a cognac leather banquette and chair, bespoke table accessories by Maison Maëstra

Hospitality · Table accessories & F&B Maison Maëstra

Menu holders, wine list covers, bill presenters, coasters, placemats and service trays: these pieces punctuate the meal, from the menu first opened to the bill finally closed. We compose them to measure for luxury hotels and restaurants, in leather, cloth or a combination of materials, with colours and hardware matched to your venue. Each piece is designed for the rhythm of service: sturdy, easy to care for, handsome every time it reaches the table.

Each of our creations embodies care for detail and complete mastery of our craft. It is this constant rigour that turns a simple creation into an exceptional promise, kept.

Discover bespoke
  • Any quantity, any object

    Capacity tailored to each project, whatever the format, the object or the variety of pieces.

  • Ideas of our own

    Creativity serving every project, to imagine beyond the brief.

  • The same standards

    The same care, the same rigour, whatever the project.

Choose

Before the meal begins, the menu passes from hand to hand: it is usually the first thing a guest touches at the table. A leather menu cover can take on the softness of suede, the warmth of hair-on hide or the restraint of cloth, with a concealed fastening system and replaceable menu sheets that follow the seasons. We like to carry the same language through to the bill presenter, and the meal closes as it opened.

Burgundy suede menu holder with strap and gilt press studs, camel hair-on leather version, bespoke menu cover

Browse

A motif drawn for a place has no reason to stay on its façade. It can travel from a welcome book to the wine list, or onto a terrace menu holder, hot-stamped, stitched or simply printed. We think of these pieces as one family: a binding that lets pages be changed, cloths chosen for the light of the room, and everywhere a quiet brand expression that gives the table its sense of place.

Grey-green and sand cloth-bound books with screw posts, red leather coaster embossed with a sun, table accessories

Dine

A laid table welcomes guests long before the food arrives. A placemat can become the signature piece of a dining room: a monogram drawn from the place, a diameter matched to the tableware, edges finished by hand to last through every service. Around it, other pieces for the table take shape, down to the service tray that crosses the room with equal poise.

Round yellow and chocolate leather placemats embossed with a monogram, bespoke table accessories for hotels

At the table, every object matters, because every object is handled. A menu holder that is too fragile shows wear within a few services; a poorly finished edge stands out under the lights of a bar. We design table accessories for that reality: the presence of a signature piece, the strength of a service object. We start from your venue, its cuisine, its atmosphere and the pace of its dining room, to compose pieces that express a true sense of place. They extend the care shown in the welcome and the room, and our hospitality projects show them in context.

The rigour behind table accessories

Bespoke table accessories live at the pace of the dining room, opened, closed, set down and wiped, night after night. Their construction must anticipate this. We reinforce structures, finish edges by hand, choose materials that can be cleaned without damage and removable inserts that let pages be changed without taking the object apart. Every prototype is tested in real service conditions before production, and these points are agreed with your front-of-house teams. The elegance of a bespoke menu cover is judged at the end of the season, not on the day it is first laid out.

Craftsmanship and rigour

Table accessories bring together precise disciplines: working leather and cloth, binding for menu covers, embossing and hot-stamping, fitting metal hardware. We orchestrate them into a coherent set, so that the bill presenter, the wine list cover and the coaster speak the same language as the menu, with the same colours and the same finishes. Colours and hardware are chosen with you, fastenings can stay concealed, proportions are matched to your table. Samples are approved in the light of your dining room. For a group or several restaurants, each venue can have its own variation without losing the unity of the signature.

A sustainable vision of the art of dining

A menu cover whose sheets are replaced rather than the whole object, a placemat that lasts season after season: durability is designed in from the first sketch. We favour fine, durable materials chosen with care, reinforced construction and adaptable systems that extend the life of every piece. Each run is sized to what your dining rooms actually use, which keeps our impact in check. A well-designed piece keeps its poise for years, not just for the life of one menu.

A hand holding a brass stamping die engraved with a raised pattern, in the half-light of the workshop.

Every project deserves undivided attention. Let’s talk it through, and orchestrate the unforgettable together.

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