For just about every holiday that rolls around, we turn to event designer David Stark for table-setting inspiration (see, for evidence: a DIY Scandi-inspired spread to an architectural tablescape for autumn).
Photography by Aaron Delesie from At the Artisan’s Table.
In Forbidden Fruit David and Jane pair ceramics by Welsh artist Philip Eglin with an ochre palette pews as dining benches and the grand but time worn surroundings...
...of an old cathedral in Detroit ironic since many of Eglin s irreverent and socially charged ceramics as Hackett writes in the book deal with the church
A tablescape pairs jaunty gingham with Eglin’s ceramics, twisted beeswax candles, and an eighteenth-century Creil-Montereau faience soup tureen. Eglin’s figures nod stylistically to the work of German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Bundles of wheat and beeswax candles of varying sizes seem simple but add lots of drama.
Mugs and plates by Eglin pair with a tablecloth hand-embroidered by Jennet Walters (his wife), featuring Eglin’s “favorite subjects: popes, priests, and pinups.”
Another table, set for dinner and surrounded by Swiss dining chairs.