SIMPLE (FESTIVE-ISH) TABLE SETTING
SET THE TABLE, BUT KEEP IT SIMPLE
I guess the clue is in the title, I like simple. The food and the people are the focus, the table is the landscape. So festive table laying is usually a mix of natural tones and textures with the addition of greenery, lots of candles and a cracker or two (I'm not the grinch!). We have everything you could need from wooden plates, to simple ceramics, centre-piece serving bowls and jugs of all sizes for; water, wine, gravy, custard or seasonal sprays of flowers. Plus wonderful beeswax dinner candles.
All of which make thoughtful gifts too. Once you've filled the seats with guest, the plates with food and the glasses with wine you'll have all the festive drama you need.
A side note about greenery: I split the 'babies' from a prolific Money Plant, repotted them (yes, this is within the grasp of the least green fingered person) and now they're housed in our cork planters. They look great in the centre of the table. Seed heads, grasses and the very last of the hydrangea flowers will also make an appearance on our table this year too.
This is a bowl for cereal or snacks.
The terracotta and white glaze combination - it’s simple but SO good looking! We have a terracotta collection of things for your table from carafes, mugs, tumblers, to small bowls and tapas bowls. These are everyday basics and they make great gifts too.
Colour: Terracotta and white glaze.
Size: height 5 cm x diameter 13 cm.
Notes: wash by hand
A straightforward tumbler that tucks neatly into your hands. A double espresso and a little frothy milk and the day will start just right, (mine would anyway!)
The terracotta and white glaze combination - it’s simple but SO good looking! We have a terracotta collection of things for your table from carafes, mugs, tumblers, to small bowls and tapas bowls. These are everyday basics and they make great gifts too.
Colour: Terracotta and white glaze.
Size: height 7.5 cm x diameter 8 cm.
Notes: wash by hand
The terracotta and white glaze combination - so simple but so good looking! This lovely carafe is great for water or wine, you choose. We have a terracotta collection of things for your table from water jugs, carafes and milk jugs, to tapas bowls and pinch pots. These are everyday basics and they make great gifts too.
Colour: Terracotta and white glaze.
Size: height 17 cm x diameter 9 cm. Capacity 600 ml
Notes: wash carefully by hand
An absolutely perfectly sized bowl for fruit, or salad, or bread or whatever you want to take centre-stage on the table really. Hand-thrown in Sheffield in flecked stoneware and then glazed in a lively matte finish charcoal glaze. No two will be the same as they are all made by hand and the glaze on each bowl dribbles and gathers into one-off places. The foot-ring remains unglazed and stamped with the makers mark.
Also available in White and Olive
Colour: Charcoal
Size: height 6cm x diameter 27.5cm
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.
An absolutely perfectly sized bowl for fruit, or salad, or bread or whatever you want to take centre-stage on the table really. Hand-thrown in Sheffield in flecked stoneware and then glazed in a simple white glaze. The foot-ring remains unglazed and stamped with the makers mark. No two will be the same as they are all made by hand. [also available in ‘Nori’ colour]
Colour: White
Size: height 6cm x diameter 27.5cm
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.
This is a simple shape. It manages to look classic, new, like it’s been around forever and contemporary all at the same time. No easy feat. These are made by hand in Sheffield using flecked stoneware. As they are handmade each one will be slightly different to the next.
They are available in three colours, White, Charcoal and Olive.
Colours: White, Charcoal, Olive
Size: height 4.5cm x diameter: 10cm
Given that this bowl is perfect for cereal at the start of the day and tapas at the end of the day it’s a very handy thing to have in your kitchen cupboard. The fact that it is beautifully made by hand is a glorious added bonus. Made in the North of England from iron-rich speckled stoneware and glazed in a ‘Nori’ seaweed colour. No two will be the same, you wouldn’t want them to be, they’re made by hand after all! [also available in white.]
Colour: Nori
Size: height 7cm x diameter 14.8cm
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.
A simple side plate. Each one hand-thrown in Sheffield, in local iron-rich speckled stoneware and then glazed in tin-white, only the foot ring remains unglazed. Gosh your bread and butter never looked to good. [also available in ‘Nori’ seaweed colour]
Colour: white
Size: height 2.5cm x diameter 20cm
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.
A simple side plate. Each one hand-thrown in Sheffield, in local iron-rich speckled stoneware and then glazed in ‘Nori’ a lovely seaweed sort-of colour, only the foot ring remains unglazed. Gosh your bread and butter never looked to good. [also available in white]
Colour: Nori
Size: height 2.5cm x diameter 20cm
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.
A simply great jug. Good for milk. Good for flowers. Treat yourself. Each one is carefully handmade in the North of England in local speckled stoneware and glazed (almost but not entirely) in a simple tin-white glaze. A little ring of stoneware is left visibly unglazed on each jug and the makers mark is stamped into the base. Each jug will be ever-so-slightly different, but that’s what we want, it’s the beauty of the hand made! [also available in ‘Nori’ colour]
Colour: White
Size: height 17cm x diameter 13cm. Capacity 1060ml
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.
Keep you your little house plants happy with this simple no-fuss contemporary cork planter, plant perfection for you green fingered homemakers.
Notes: water WILL mark the planter giving it a lovely patina (it will not damage the cork). However, if you don’t want the water marks, lift your little plants out and water them in the sink, allowing excess water to drain away before returning it.
Size Exterior: height 9 cm x diameter 11 cm / Interior : height 8 cm x diameter 9 cm
It is very difficult to make handblown glass. Fact. It’s a fight against heat and time, which is why these tumblers are so so special. Each one hand blown and ‘scribbled’ on with white glass is inevitably (wonderfully) slightly different to the next.
Size: approx h: 9cm x w: 8.5 (but they are all fractionally different)
Notes: Hand wash - whatever you do, do not put these beauties in the dishwasher!
The shiny mirror-like surface of this softly curved pewter bowl reflects its entire surroundings; from ceiling lights to candle light, wood-grain to linen-folds, they catch the limelight and show off their contents. Fill it with anything, it's bound to look amazing.
Each bowl is spun and polished using traditional techniques by skilled craftsmen in a small factory in the heart of Sheffield.
Material: pewter
Size: height 5.8cm x diameter 23.5cm
Notes: pewter is a soft metal that needs to be treated kindly. Wash and dry with care.
This mug is a GOOD one. It is a great size, excellent proportions and it looks so good too. Simple: so hard to get right, so satisfying when it is.
The terracotta and white glaze combination - so simple but SO good looking! We have a terracotta collection of things for your table from carafes, mugs, tumblers, to small bowls and tapas bowls. These are everyday basics and they make great gifts too.
Colour: Terracotta and white glaze.
Size: height 7.5 cm x diameter 8 cm.
Notes: wash carefully by hand
An absolutely perfectly sized serving dish for whatever you want to take centre-stage on the table. Hand-thrown in Sheffield in flecked stoneware and then glazed in a cheerful olive glaze. No two will be the same as they are all made by hand and the glaze on each bowl dribbles and gathers into one-off places. The foot-ring remains unglazed and stamped with the makers mark.
Also available in White and Charcoal
Colour: Olive
Size: height 6cm x diameter 27.5cm
Notes: Hand washing will extend the life of your handmade ceramics.