If you’re at all familiar with stationery-turned-everything home brand Rifle Paper Co., you’re well acquainted with its illustrated, homespun look. But its latest Country Home collection, by artist, designer, and co-founder Anna Bond, might be its most charming yet, packed with classic colors and cross-stitch-inspired details that carry a farmhouse feel from the market to the kitchen to the dining table.
The new Rifle Paper Co. lineup starts where the brand began: lifestyle – with nostalgic notebooks and market pads for jotting down recipes, party plans, and, right now, probably manifestations of warmer weather and summer travels ahead. A vintage butter-motif market tote carries the ingredients.
Inside, the charm of this 'grandma' design trend revival continues. A floral-accented butter tray quippily reads ‘butter,’ while tea towels in antique florals and ginghams handle everything from freshly cut flowers to post-baking cleanup. Even the porcelain measuring spoons make their debut – one of many small domestic details that ultimately decide the fate of your cookies.
They're ready – so you pull your confections out of the oven with a scalloped-edge oven mitt and take them straight to the table on a serving platter adorned with charming pastoral scenes. Guests gather in a sun-drenched dining room, eating off rosette-patterned dessert plates that feel like the grand finale to a very good dinner.
On their way out, they sign the coordinating ‘Home Sweet Home’ embroidered guest book – jotting down memories, inside jokes, and compliments about the cookies. You read it back and smile, adding a note of your own: the recipe you just tried, and will definitely repeat for the next group gathering – because there will be a next time.
In a world where everything else moves fast, Rifle Paper Co.’s Country Home collection is slower, softer, and intent on romanticizing the small stuff. As I write in envy from New York, ahead are nine picks that might just convince me to leave it.
Can you guess what’s inside? This cheekily emblazoned butter dish wears its heart on its sleeve – which is to say it's too good to stay in the fridge. Keep it out on the table as spring decor for every meal, alongside the fresh bread you’ve just picked up from the farmer's in your new tote.
Recipe tins are an old-school kitchen idea your grandmother stuck with out of necessity. We might have laptops and smartphones now, but nothing quite hits like actually writing recipes down (rather than bookmarking 427 because you can). With room for up to 200, there’s space for family secrets, neatly organized with 12 dividers.
The antique-inspired florals along these napkins would’ve landed this set in my cart, but the contrast yellow rickrack trims are what make it a necessity. It adds a cheerful, cottage-core touch to otherwise ordinary dining settings and plays well with other floral table linens.
Why settle for an ordinary seam when you can have a scalloped one? This whimsical oven mitt, when not protecting your hands, doubles as kitchen decor, thanks to its handy corner loop for hanging.
No one likes to clean up, but from sky-blue gingham and embroidered farm illustrations to rickrack trim, these chores might not be so bad. Fold and drape over a counter for a hit of color, though they’re even more versatile: some reviewers are so smitten they’ve hung them over glass pantry windows – even as makeshift café curtains.
Do not skimp on the dessert plates. If you only have one ‘fun’ set in your repertoire, let it be this. This petite porcelain set has that eclectic, collected look from the start, arriving in four colorways, all tied together by a shared pattern and subtle gold accents.
They say baking is a science – too much baking powder and your sweet treat quite literally collapses. Make sure that fraction of a teaspoon isn’t just eyeballed with this darling porcelain spoon set, which is so cute you might actually use it.
Some of my favorite hotels have guest books – I love reading who’s been where, and get a small thrill when the manager hands me a pen on the way out. Which is to say: when someone has one at home, it’s incredibly chic. Start the tradition at your next dinner party with this half-lined, half-blank book – guests can write a note, add a sketch, or paste a photo.
At just about four inches tall and wide, this perfectly proportioned porcelain canister is a dream for anything dry. Be it sugar, tea, tea bags, jewelry, or even cotton swabs – anything you reach for suddenly feels like a more romantic endeavor.
Anyone who has ever dreamed of a country home – or at least trawled an antique market imagining one – won’t want to miss this Rifle Paper Co. collection. But if you’re looking to extend that idyllic air into the living room, the brand’s collaboration with Loloi has the soft goods covered too, with rugs and pillows that anchor the room in Rifle’s signature steeze.
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