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ROYAL COPENHAGEN – A FASHIONABLE CHRISTMAS

Yesterday I was invited to Copenhagen and the official opening of the Royal Copenhagen’s Annual Christmas Tables 2016. This year, Royal Copenhagen has invited six fashion designers to give their interpretation of a Christmas Table.

This is the 53rd time that Royal Copenhagen has invited famous artists, royals and a wide range of creative personalities to set a table and create a scenography that reflects the times and its trends. Thousands of guests will visit Royal Copenhagen’s flagship store to shop and experience the Christmas Tables, from now until December 31.

Here are a few photos and some info about this year´s table settings. Maybe you will get a few ideas for your Christmas table setting, even though they are not the most traditional ones : )

photo © Nina Holst

Ole Yde, Yde – Christmas Eve at Le Petit Trianon

Ole Yde is fascinated by the larger than life personas that have lived throughout world history, and was therefore elated when a Christmas invitation from the French queen Marie Antoinette arrived at his doorstep. With a cornucopia of authentic Louis Seize style, Ole Yde brings out the joy in all of us with his unorthodox design. It exudes the playfulness and satisfaction of a great party with its overturned chairs, a fallen chandelier, stains on the tablecloth and empty glasses from Christmas guests. The atmosphere is from a historic time, that Ole Yde not just pays tribute to, but brings to life, in a table setting with the most majestic and royal dinner service of them all – Flora Danica.

photo © Nina Holst

Baum und Pferdgarten (Rikke Baumgarten and Helle Hestehave) – A Deconstructed Christmas

Through a multitude of styles and expressions, Baum & Pferdgarten set the tone for their deconstructed Christmas table where three composite tables radiate a radical new way to celebrate, decorate and party. Through an eclectic whirlwind of ideas and expressions, the design duo captivates their guests with textures, materials and impressions in their favourite colour, blue. Rikke Baumgarten and Helle Hestehave have decorated their tables with a potpourri of Blue Fluted Plain, Blue Fluted Half Lace and Elements. The Danish designer Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt’s large pendant in plexiglass and brass, lights the deconstructed table like a bright winter star.

photo © Nina Holst

Cecilie Bahnsen – Driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas was the song that Cecilie Bahnsen’s father played on the car radio every year when he picked her up at the airport. This was a tradition when she travelled home to celebrate Christmas with her family. Now the designer has returned to Copenhagen after seven years in London. Together with her English partner, illustrator Daniel Frost, they have to form new Christmas traditions made up of fragments from two traditions and two countries. Cecilie Bahnsen has chosen to cover her table with White Fluted Half Lace juxtaposed with White and Multicoloured Elements, combining past and present.
Cecilie Bahnsen has created a Christmas table where work life and home life collide, and in a mix of Scandinavian tranquillity and English class. Walls of pale mauve, an eye-catching mood board and a long table divided by a bookcase provide the backdrop for her Christmas table. The bookcase expertly separates and fuses job satisfaction and private life with drawing tools on one side and Christmas dinner on the other.

photo © Nina Holst

Charlotte Eskildsen, Designers Remix and Little Remix – A Modern Minimal Christmas

With her sharp sense for modernity and conceptual simplicity, Charlotte Eskildsen invites her guests into a universe where pale pink is the dominant colour – inspired by the prevailing colour trend on the fashion scene. Eskildsen has created a modern framework where she captures the present, the moment and even the now in a visual performance where she manages to integrate the walls, marble, chairs and pale pink textiles seamlessly. Charlotte Eskildsen has chosen the most minimal of Royal Copenhagen’s designs, White Fluted, for its clean Scandinavian and modernist expression.
 

photo © Nina Holst

Leyla Piedayesh, lala Berlin – Three Kings’ Day Celebration

Leyla Piedayesh, Founder of lala Berlin, invites guests into a world where their senses are heightened. The eyes are delighted and curiosity is aroused, with colours that shimmer like jewels, fresh fruit sourced from exotic trees and luscious fabrics; she is creating a scenography inspired by the three wise men. True to her Iranian roots, Leyla Piedayesh lets her guests step into an atmosphere that is resonating in the festive spirit! As Christmas is all about sharing, the food is presented on large platters, along with a combination of both antique and modern wine glasses and are all presented on a wonderfully glossy emerald green table to create a contemporary version of Middle Eastern flair, uniting the Middle Eastern and European visions of style.
Leyla Piedayesh beautifully combines Blue Fluted and Princess with Full- and Half Lace Purpur.

photo © Nina Holst

Mark Kenly Domino Tan – Mark Tan’s Labyrinthian snail shell

In the most abstract and fairy tale way, Mark Kenly Domino Tan has set his table with Royal Copenhagen White Fluted and Arje Griegst’s iconic Conch series, creating a narrative about diversity through the organic shapes. To Mark Tan, Christmas represents both complexity and togetherness, but with no unyielding traditions. You should find your personal path. It is the fellowship and joy of gathering around a table that occupies Mark Tan. Creating a Christmas that invites family, friends and neighbours inside.

Which table is your favorite?

photo © Claudi Thyrrestrup for Royal Copenhagen