The Lenox Company

Greetings from the PurplePatty.com Community! When I think of Lenox, I think of beautiful china services. Partly because some of our presidents chose Lenox to create the china for their White House dinners. The first presidential china service ordered was in 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson. Of course it wasn't any small dinner service, it was a huge 1,700 piece dinner service. The next presidents to order the custom presidential china service were Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Our First Lady Nancy Reagan, ordered a 4,732 piece dinner service of gold-embossed bone china in 1981. The Lenox craftsman who helped create the dinner service said that each hand embossed golden seal in the center of the plates took two to three hours to paint.

Operations for the Ceramic Art Company in Trenton, N.J. began in 1889 founded by Walter Scott Lenox and Jonathan Coxon, Sr with Walter Lenox acquiring sole ownership in 1894 followed by his formation of the Lenox Corporation in 1906. Today Lenox, Inc. is a multimillion-dollar company producing a complete line of tabletop and giftware displayed for sale in large department stores.