The charge is twofold: Make your holiday table feel special, but also make it your own. (This is, after all, not your mother's dining room, all but cordoned off behind a velvet rope.)
The White Combination
Even if you don't have matching place settings for everyone, you can still set a beautiful, cohesive table with various white dishes you've accumulated over the years or borrowed from neighbors.
1. Bianco dinner plate, $35; Incanto Stripe footed bowl, $32; Perle Glass martini glass, $80; and Perle Glass small tumbler in amber, $57, Viertri for stores. Salad plate, $32, Mud Australia, Vivi.
2. Flirt Ruffle dinner plate, $70 for four, Potluck Studios for stores. Bianco salad plate, $29, Vietri for stores. Basic salad bowl in Quartz, $24, Jars, Michael C. Fina for stores. Baroko highball in amber, $195, Artel Glass for stores. Optic wine goblet, $12, Pierre Deux.
3. Dinner Party salad plate, $50 for a four-piece setting, Rosanna. Rhodes bowl, $5, and Rock juice tumbler in amber, $4, Zak Designs, LaPrimaCATALOG.com.
4. Dinner plate, $42, Mud Australia, Vivi. Petit Singe round side plate, $17, Juliska for stores. Basic salad bowl in Quartz, $24, Jars, Michael C. Fina for stores. Perle Glass martini glass in amber, $80, Vietri for stores.
5. Tin plate with black trim, $15 for four, Tin Parade. Primary Dinnerware child's mug, $5, Golden Rabbit.
6. Dinner plate, $42, Mud Australia, Vivi. Berry and Thread scalloped dessert plate, $33, Juliska for stores. Basic salad bowl in Quartz, $24, Jars, Michael C. Fina for stores. Bubble double old-fashioned glass in champagne, $55, Kim Seybert, Neiman Marcus. Optic wine goblet, $12, Pierre Deux.
FLATWARE
Due Oro Ice, $106 for a five-piece setting, Mepra, Lekker.
LINENS
Crochet-edge napkins in white and gold, $25, Kim Seybert, Neiman Marcus. Fjord runner in Oyster, $57, Libeco Home.
EXTRAS
Creamer (holding flowers), $35, Frances Palmer Pottery, Michael C.Fina for stores.
FURNITURE
Urban dining chairs, $40 each, IKEA. Tripp Trapp high chair, $250, Stokke.
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