Creating a Harvest Table

Creating a" harvest" table or any table that you want to warm up in a cool season like early fall is easy when you add accessories that help you to create the character you desire. Wooden Bowls in assorted styles, shapes and woods as well as the wooden accent plates, salt and pepper shakers add tactile warmth and feel to this table. Visually, the basket creates a stage from which to serve from and the wooden sticks in the glass "Woodbury" vase add a natural reference.

 

 

No, everything doesn’t have to match the wood of your table or furniture. Serving spoons with a hand carved detail as well as the "coffee root" spoons (yes, carved from a coffee tree plant) and the small "live edge" dishes that they are resting in (made of olive wood) give this table its unique interest. The roughly textured place mats and the hand forged stainless flatware (Woodbury flatware) stress the hand crafted and organic aesthetic of the table.

Belmont dinnerware would be wonderful to use because of the off white softness of the crackle glaze. Let's say you start with a tomato soup, and then a wonderful Arugula salad served from the wooden bowl. The other wooden bowls and dishes could hold grain salad to serve on top, grilled chicken, nuts, dried cranberries or shredded cheese to layer into the salad and allow guests to choose what they like.

Here's another table that shows a straw bee skep used as a cornucopia with bread and wheat for a display effect. Inexpensive breads can be left out as a decorative prop for a few weeks or dinner parties in close proximities. Wooden Chargers and an actual wooden bread board bring in the wooden accents and contrast nicely to the Belmont Celadon dinner plates being used here.

All products shown are from the Simon Pearce Collection and available online at simonpearce.com and retail stores.