Setting a Great Table
Q: How Do I Set a Great Table?
In this Fast Food and Restaurant Era, we often neglect the importance of sitting down to a meal at home or doing a little entertaining around a prepared or take-out meal. Bottom line: you need nights at home where you go all out for yourself, for your significant other, for your family, or for your friends. Our dynamic design duo's advice and tips in this episode cover how to set a great table, bringing scale and drama into your arrangements, adding surprise and humor and fantasy to your meals, ways to mix and match the same elements to switch from formal to informal table settings, how Marie Antoinette's breasts inspired glassware, and Irwin's chocolate ice cream dessert project (yum!).
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Tops for Your Tabletop: The Design2Share editors have been looking at some of the many great looks for dining and entertaining, and we'd like to share some recommendations with you. We'll start with decoupage artist John Derian, whose hot tabletop line, from trays to cake display domes, will add a fab punch to your festivities (see photos below).
Design icon Eva Zeisel, arguably the most influential person working in pottery today, has her Classic Century dining line reintroduced by Crate & Barrel (below). This is the way to set an incredible table, with pottery that is pure and sensual at the same time.
VivaTerra celebrates the beautiful eco-art of recycling with their cobalt blue Bottle Glass Tumblers, Sol Recycled Glass Dinnerware, and cool Oceana Seaglass Dinnerware (below).
Pretty plates, teapots, and more are to be had at Bulgar USA. Their Sofia pattern and Chocolate Collection (below) are typical of their traditional European designs.
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Really cool site you have going on here... I will surely be checking in often!
Tara (:
The pot on the table with the salad in it is a fabulous idea!
Thanks, Terramia and James, for the compliments! We've enjoyed putting together the podcasts with viewer questions, comments, and suggestions. Let us know some of your favorite entertaining tips, too. All the best, Nicola and Irwin