Bandalasta and Fiesta

Charlesworths have teamed up with Brookes & Adams Ltd www.banda.co.uk to make use of the original moulds & materials to bring back a range of decorative moulded Bandalasta and fiesta first produce by Brookes & Adams in the 1920’s “the ideal picnic and dainty table ware”.

All the items are hand made & finished in England in Beetle urea, melmex and melamine along with bakelite phenolics. The marbling means that no two pieces are identical but are blended from the same base colours so sets can be built up. If an item is not listed in a colour you would like please contact us.

A range of articles for camping, caravaning, yachting along with tableware for the home. These mouldings were known for their light bright colours & marbled effects, a first for plastic, which until the invention by BIP of their Beetle urea formaldehyde in 1924 had been restricted the dark colours of Bakelite.

Fiesta melamine is one of the best materials for moulded tableware. It is break resistant, but not ‘unbreakable’, has a high surface finish, excellent colour range and is not affected by boiling water. This tableware is now manufactured in the UK by Charlesworth & Son Ltd a family firm with over a century of plastic moulding heritage, equipped with modern production facilities.