I bought the Monaco at the recent Macys event I attended and also purchased this pattern for my everyday wear. It looks even better in person than on the site because there is a rim of platinum that circles each black dot and really makes the pattern "pop". They had it on a bright red placemat in the store which looked great but I found these silver/platinum placemats that really dressed it up for a cocktail party last week and everyone was raving about how nice my dinnerware was. Thanks to CRU apparently you can have dinnerware that looks amazing for a very affordable price!