Fiesta Dinnerware

Over the years, Fiesta dinnerware has become a staple in many American homes. Introduced in 1936 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's annual Pottery and Glass Exhibit. Fiesta dishes were the first widely mass-promoted and marketed solid-color dinnerware in the USA. Fiesta gave people the opportunity to step away from previously popular dinnerware with Victorian era inspirations, all matching with the same designs, and instead encouraged its customers to mix and match its solid colored pieces to create an Art Deco set unique to the customer. Fiesta featured 37 different pieces at its introduction, with everything from the basic table services of Fiesta dinner plates, salad plates, soup bowls, cups, and saucers, to occasional pieces such as candle holders and bud vases. At its largest, the Fiesta line grew to carry 64 different pieces. Some pieces came and went quickly - for example, the 12" compartment plate was not even made in all of the colors. At its height of production, Fiesta was manufacturing more than 10 million individual pieces a year. The line was restyled in 1959, as more colors and changes were made to the products.

Fiesta Dishes

Originally, there were six colors: red, blue, green, yellow, old ivory, and turquoise. Over the proceeding decades, the color sets changed to include more and also discontinue some of the older colors. Fortunately for Fiesta dish lovers everywhere, this was not the end of the Fiesta story. As appreciation for the Art Deco style of the early decades began to bloom in the 1970's, Fiesta dinnerware became a collectors item, as items that went for pennies in the 1920's began to command hundreds of dollars. Fiesta dinner ware founder, the Homer Laughlin China Company, noticed the rising popularity of its products on the secondary market and decided to reintroduce the Fiesta line on its 50th anniversary in 1986. The new Fiesta line began with 26 glaze colors but now features 39, including ones similar to the original Fiesta glazes and newer ones such as Juniper, Plum, Shamrock, Chocolate, Paprika, and a limited edition 75th anniversary color, Marigold. Make sure to visit our Retired Fiesta ware collection

Since its reintroduction, both new and old pieces alike have been popular purchases for those passionate about their place settings. Antique pieces are still fetching high prices in the secondary market, and new pieces are gracing tables even today.