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You are here: Home / Decor / Holiday / Holiday Table Thoughts

Holiday Table Thoughts

December 17, 2012 by Jane F 3 Comments

holiday table setting with celadon dishes an white flowers - Jane Churchill via AtticmagSix holiday table ideas offer a range of attitudes toward festive style.

The holidays are not always low key at our house. It’s been a somber twelve months filled with family loss and illness that hasn’t left me feeling super celebratory. But the calendar has its own reality which should never be ignored, plus I’ve learned that making the effort to create a delicious, convivial meal – served on a beautifully set holiday table – is always a welcome mood changer. So along with planning at least two special dinners (I may just go all out with lobster for New Years!) I’ve been gathering holiday table ideas that would definitely give me a lift.

Modestly Floral [top] – As someone with a mostly white garden with dashes of lavender and blue, it’s no surprise that white orchids intermixed with sprigs of blue berries feel soothing and appealing yet modestly luxurious. English designer Jane Churchill used these centerpieces on a holiday table set with celadon china and gold-rim goblets – a combination that manages to be festive but informal.

holiday table with antique imari in blue and orange pattern - lonnymag via atticmagAntique and Modern –  Setting the table with droolworthy antique china is always a gorgeous idea. It has a certain look and while I might enjoy classic indigo and orange handpainted plates equally well on the dining room wall, it’s inspiring to see them mixed with contemporary gilded pumpkin place cards and classic cobalt blue crystal. If you love this look, you’d enjoy a browse through a shop on Madison Avenue  called Bardith (though it never looks open) which has sold high-end antique china as long as I can remember.

holiday table with tailored, masculine look dishes and flatware - house & garden via atticmagTailored Table –  Place plates with leopard-print rims are something of a statement, particularly when they are layered with white wedding band china and topped with a black-and-gold Art Deco geometric. It’s a surprisingly masculine style, helped along by striped napkins and Deco-style flatware.

holiday table - gold and roses them with modern plates - town & country via atticmagGold & Roses – As balancing act tables go, this one is decidedly un-Christmas-y while also managing to remind of us the holiday with a green and red theme. It takes a little explanation. Rather than fresh-cut roses used for centerpieces, the flowers unexpectedly appear to be part of the tablecloth! Actually they are paper placemats from a dollar store which anchor gold-camouflage pattern dishes by fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Alongside is vermeil (gold-plated silver) bamboo pattern flatware dating to the 1960s along with gold-embroidered Thai napkins and French gold-tone lattice tumblers. Bronze sculptures of ballerinas stand in for floral centerpieces — a nod to art and a host with a sense of humor.

holiday table - traditional setting with amethyst crystal by William Yeoward - Town & Country via AtticmagGem Tones –  The great William Yeoward creates a plummy mood for a Christmas lunch table with china and glassware of his own design, including amethyst Isabella amethyst hock glasses and Amy goblets mixed with clear trumpet vases filled with white amaryllis, paper white narcissus, tulips, tuberose and purple tulips (way in back).


informal holiday table set with organic-feel wooden plates, pottery bowls and birch-wrapped candles - via atticmagSimply  Organic
– Wooden plates, hand-thrown pottery bowls and simple black place mats play off a hedge of tulips in simple vases that extends the length of a table for ten. Birch-wrapped votive candles add to a holiday table with organic appeal and modest simplicity.

(Source: Jane Churchill, Lonny Mag, House & Garden, Town & Country)

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Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: Atticmag, contemporary dishware, fresh flower centerpieces, holiday table ideas, holiday tablescapes, Jane Churchill, William Yeoward amethyst glassware

Comments

  1. Laura Trevey says

    December 17, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Beautiful and festive ~

    Happy Holidays to you!!

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  2. RHome410 says

    December 19, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    I admire beautiful table settings, but am bah-humbug about it for myself… I just can’t put so much stuff on the table it’d take me 20 minutes to move it in order to fit food…especially since any pre-dinner tidbits need to be served there, too. Maybe this is justification for getting some really cool salt and pepper mills or something, so functional items can provide more decor for me!

    I love those roses on paper placemats that really give that table some dramatic pizazz and gorgeous color!

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  3. cat_mom says

    November 29, 2013 at 11:27 am

    They’re all lovely, but that purple table setting really caught my eye! Not your traditional holiday color scheme, yet it still looks holiday “appropriate” and festive and elegant!

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