Look! Stacked Wood Centerpiece at West Elm

While browsing West Elm this weekend we spotted this interesting centerpiece using stacked discs of real wood. We love how it creates a variety of tiers on which to place small votives and such. Also the pairing of rough, natural bark and platinum trimmed stemware had a lovely effect in person...

If it was our table, we'd probably have fewer wood discs and inject a shock of color somewhere — green to play off of the natural elements or maybe warm plum to be slightly unexpected. We'd also switch out the runner beneath the wood to white — the Chilewich pressed vinyl dots would be lovely.

You can find West Elm's double banded platinum collection here.

Anyone planning an unconventional centerpiece this season?

Comments (26)

No room for anything else on the table. Great in a display, disaster in real life.

On a smaller scale it would be nice.

That's just too much on that table.

I guess it beats the stacked cardboard "endtables" from a couple months back...

...but that still doesn't make retail display worthy of our homes. (Just where would you put the gravy and mashed potatoes???)

Oh dear god lighten up people. I'm amazed that the AT crowd does not have the imagination that would take this idea and make it functional (and beautiful) in a home setting.

And PS, not everyone serves "family style" so sometimes the mashed potatoes stay in the kitchen...

Maybe if the stacks were lower... That way you could see the people across the table from you. Or even use the wood as a coaster/trivet.

OMG, how awful. How do you see the person across from you? where does the food go?

This would be a really beautiful set up for a buffet at a party

It's a nice idea that got carried away. Less is more.

Well, it might look beautiful on a dining room table of a rustic cottage, cabin or something, but I just can't imagine it over the table in my flat, hehe.

I think this would be great on a console table or on a smaller scale on the dining table. Maybe as trivets? I think it's cute.

So initially I was struck by how you couldn't see across the table and that this was a bad idea, and then I started thinking about some of my families more "exciting" holidays and I thought that this might be a good idea for some years.

Then again, chunks of wood can be thrown...

Well, I like it. I think everyone else is just jealous. ;)

All I can think about are all the little bugs coming out of the bark - because there ARE little bugs living in the bark. Maybe you have to wait to use them until after a frost?

I think it's an interesting idea, and I really like how it keeps the candles out of the way. If I did something like this, I think I would use something smaller, and I wouldn't want wood. In reality, that would make a disgusting, dusty splintery mess.

that'll look just fine in
Fred Flinstone's house

Geez, lighten up, it is a display in a store. Smaller oiled or polished disks of wood could look quite cool. Would also look neat on a mantle.

Good trivets. :D

Wow. I never knew so many people took store displays literally.

people here take *everything* literally.

I'm surprised no one ragged on the silver pinecones!

But, regarding height, the highest stack is barely taller than the wine glasses. This display is nowhere near too tall to see over.

Maybe for my next "Twin Peaks" or "Blue Velvet" dinner-and-a-movie party...

I really like the silver pinecones.

In some families not seeing the person across from you may be a plus. I think it's nice even if it's not entirely practical.

I like it too. Could be nice for a buffet or dessert table.

But when store displays are presented by the AT hamsters as being wonderful to recreate at home, what are we supposed to do? AT loves store displays, and almost never critiques the actual application. No wonder commentors get cranky.