Beautiful and so very unique!  The knives are perfectly balanced in your hand and easy to use.  The spoons take a little bit of getting used to, but they're so visually pleasing, it's impossible to think of that as a negative.  (One Warning:  if you have teenagers, buy more than one set.  This flatware mysteriously began disappearing within hours of replacing the odds 'n ends we'd been using since ours were little.  Weekly bedroom checks have been an absolutely requirement around here!)