Last week, I showed you this magenta tablescape: http://swede.typepad.com/swede/2011/12/tablescape-holiday-dinner-in-magenta.html for a dinner with guests. Today I am showing how to take that same tablescape and change it for lunch the following day. I like to get a lot of mileage out of my tablescapes especially when guests stay a weekend and I don't have time to create totally new ones each day. Next week I will show the third tablescape for a dinner the second evening with a different switch up.
I have now added a cranberry color to the magenta table with these antique Spode Copeland floral lunch plates. They are hand painted and signed R. Wood.
I think all these pinky-purpley-red colors blend fairly well.
I guess the color of this charger is greige. I didn't realize it was gray until I got it home as I thought it was beige with gray flowers. This is a pretty unusual pattern for Jaune de Chrome as they don't do many florals.
Here is a wider view of the lunch table. I have also switched out the gray Niderviller Boston bread and butter plates and replaced them with these Haviland Malmaison ones. I am using many of the same elements from the dinner the night before. Jaune de Chrome chargers in English Rose on Song patern, Tiffany St. James sterling, Pottery Barn stemware and Le Jacquard Francais napkins.
The Spode Copeland plates are a perfect match to the red Roses in the antique baby cups.
I kept the centerpieces the same and used the same silver tablecloth and runner.
Mercury glass is one of my favorite things to decorate with because of its reflective value.
Just a close up view of the shiny silver and bubbles in the glass.
I have candles on the table but don't light them. The light comes from the flameless candles in the hurricanes and the chandelier.
Such a pretty old plate. These are the kind that I cannot pass up when I see them for sale. Finding a set of 12 or more of these at an estate sale can get me hyperventilating very quickly.
One of the things I enjoy most about tablescaping is bringing to life antique china by pairing it with new modern patterns like these French pieces.
This is your plate. Please be seated.
I am participating in Tablescape Thursday this week on the blog Between Naps on the Porch.
To see all the entries, after 9:00PM Eastern on Wednesday, go here:
http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/
Summer
Photos: Swede
