Hunt Littlefield's table - a wide ribbon with a single twist wrapped around plain linen napkins.
The national tour of Dining by Design just wrapped up in San Francisco and The Chronicle recently shared their trip to the event. The annual showcase displays table arrangements (or entire rooms) by top designers and comes just in time for a little holiday tabletop inspiration...
These are a few of our favorites from The Chronicle's highlights. You might even find you want to try out some of these ideas at home:
Tim Murphy Design Associates table for Herman Miller
Academy of Art students: A chandelier made of about 1,000 plastic water bottle bottoms threaded onto strings and dangling from circular bases around red lightbulbs. (The challenging part, they said, was cutting the bottoms to about an inch or so.) If you try this at home, start collecting the bottles with the sexy, curvy bottoms, rather than the staid, flat ones.
Gensler's display
Beringer/Blackwell table: fruit in the glass cylinders with lilies and branches.
Hosted by DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids), this was the 11th annual Dining by Design. Photos: Eric Luse, The Chronicle
Wow...that chandelier is gorgeous! I wouldn't have guessed it was water bottles from that picture.
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I love that chandelier too!!
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too bad that chandelier isn't their own idea... just a copy of the work by a British designer...
went to the event, an frankly, it was a bit underwhelming, aside from tranny Snow White in her glass coffin on the table... the tables were tasteful but nothing innovative, thought provoking or cutting edge... a reflection of the economy we're in, some of the designers I talked with said that they purposely went for "safe". another "trend" was lots more corporate-sponsored tables...
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I'm in love with the panels of fabric in the first photo!!
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I love chandeliers that drag on the table
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