History of leaves
The leaf adventure began at Sur la Table in 1986 when SLT was a single, iconic store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Sisson Imports approached SLT about promoting Sisson’s cooking school trip to Paris, which SLT agreed to do in exchange for Sisson locating the source of parchment paper leaves SLT was buying at retail in Paris and couldn’t keep in stock in Seattle.
Once the source was located and SLT was fully supplied, Sisson’s next step was to send a few leaves to William-Sonoma’s corporate headquarters; within a month Williams-Sonoma issued purchase orders for the leaves.
Williams-Sonoma’s first move was to put them in their catalog, thus beginning the education of the American public in the French tradition of decorating cheese plates, tables and all sorts of things with leaves. Formerly known as Sisson Leaves, Paper Leaves, Parchment Leaves, Cheese Leaves, French Leaves, French Cheese Leaves and Deco Leaves, the product is now known exclusively as Sisson Décoration.