Create a Festive Tabletop Using Our Holiday Place Setting and Centerpiece Ideas

Christmas is the ultimate season for hosting: gift exchanges, tree-trimming parties, cozy dinners, and morning brunches. Throughout the cheery season, your dining table is the spot where your family makes some of their fondest memories.

To set the scene, decorate by borrowing our most inspiring table setting ideas. The possibilities are endless when it comes to decking your dining room for the holidays. To help you get inspired, we’re sharing our favorite Christmas table setting ideas that evoke the spirit of the season. Once you’ve curated a table setting worthy of St. Nick, invite friends and family to find their seats at the table, toast each other with glasses of eggnog, and savor the feast.

Let it Sparkle!

This holiday tablescape is all about embracing of elevated elegance. And for that, the key is shimmer and shine! Enter our Dazzle Placemats in gold and silver. These luxury holiday placemats strike just the right balance of glitter and subtlety.

Want your very own Winter Wonderland? Use a crisp, white tablecloth to keep the look clean but sparkly! Scatter gold and silver metallic snowflakes and pinecones across the table. Style with our Star Napkin Rings or Brilliant Napkin Rings.

Wishing for winter whimsy? Channel the mystery of a midnight sleighride with our Constellation Napkin Rings; then add gold and silver stars around each place setting. However you choose to style them, these handbeaded placemats create a magical, memorable moment around a holiday table. Talk about making the season bright!

All About the Ornaments!

Why should the tree have all the fun? Your tablescape should be decorated too! This festive tablescape leans into the decorative accents that make your season sparkle. Go for blush poinsettias, dark pink cranberries, and holly. Nuts for the Nutcracker? Try miniature dolls in white and gold. Stage a mini-crêche in tiny topiary figures. If it speaks to you, it will make your holiday table sing!

A great way to bring it all together and make sure that your table decorations form a centerpiece is to use decorative mats as a base. Line up our Celebration Decorative Mats or Speckle Decorative Mats across the table to form a table runner. The metallic  shimmer of these decorative mats allows them to seamlessly blend with your other table decor pieces, while providing gorgeous glow to your festive tablescape. 

You can also use these 12″ mats as chargers for a table teeming with guests. These are truly the gifts that keep on giving!

With Candy Canes and Silver Lanes Aglow!

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas! What do you see when Bing belts out that old song we oddly know all the words to? Why not embrace a piece of that vintage vibe, but give it a right-now remake?

Our third holiday tablescape is an invitation to Candy Land! Dress you table with our lacquer red and white Circus Placemats. Their peppermint perfection turns your table into a winter playground. Pair with our Horn Napkin Rings in red to double down on the fun.

Prefer your sugar a bit more refined? Look no further than our Lacquer Stripe Placemats in red and white. Style with our coordinating Lacquer Stripe Napkin Rings and Coasters. Want one more tasty touch? Sprinkle miniature candy canes and peppermints around your centerpiece. Or use them as place card holders. Such a sweet way to celebrate!

Home (Away from Home?) For The Holidays

With everyone so spread out nowadays, we often have to meet somewhere in the middle. This may make it hard for the festivities to feel like home. This holiday look is about choosing pieces that evoke tradition, even in new places.

Enter the Return to Red. Embrace the traditional hue that rules the Yule with our Sparkle Placemats in red and coordinating Napkin Rings. With sumptuous glass beads and contrasting golden bands, these festive placemats bring you back to the celebrations you used to love. Whether you’re on the slopes or on the beach, you’ll have a classic base.

Now add your own unique touches! Lean into laidback with decorated gingerbread people. Pair local greenery with white tea lights for a more classic take. And remember, wherever you are, home is where the love is.

We’ve loved gracing your homes this year. So Happy Holidays from our Von Gern Home to yours!

Fabulous and Festive Table Setting Ideas this Winter

The holidays are a time to create a magical ambiance in your home. Hosting a holiday feast is a great opportunity to create a decadent and glamorous table setting to delight your guests. We share table designs to really elevate your table setting this year, no matter which winter holiday you celebrate.

Winter Wonderland

A classy and versatile tablescape that is ideal for any winter holiday is one with a white and silver color palette. Add luxury and glamor to the look by playing with festive sparkles and modern metallics.

For some dazzling glimmer and glitz, pair the Sparkle Placemats with matching Sparkle Napkin Rings in white. With just enough glittery brilliance, this sparkly set is beautifully complimented with festive little additions like a sprig of holly.

For some radiant elegant shine, pair the Knot Placemats with the Star Napkin Rings to evoke a starry night sky. The unique design of the intricately hand-beaded Knot Placemats is sure to make your tablescape stand out. The shine and shimmer added by the Star Napkin Rings is the perfect finishing touch to create a truly exquisite table decor.

Extraordinary Embellishments

The holidays are all about that little bit of extra flair. When it comes to winter holiday tablescapes, there is often no such thing as too much pizzaz. Now is the time to get super creative with adding ornaments, such as snippets of pine tree branches, holly, pine cones, tea candles, or fun shaped metallic dishes.

A great way to bring it all together and make sure that your table decorations form a centerpiece is to use decorative mats as a base. Line up our Celebration Decorative Mats or Speckle Decorative Mats across the table to form a table runner. You can also use these mats as chargers. Try one style of mat or mix and match for added flair.

The silvery and white hues of these decorative mats allows them to seamlessly blend with your other table decor pieces, while providing gorgeous shimmer to your festive tablescape. These unique mats wonderfully coordinate with other metallic table accessories, such as Constellation Napkin Rings or Star Napkin Rings.

Classic Candy Canes

A red and white motif is the perfect way to add a bold pop of color to an elegant holiday
table setting. Candy canes are the classic wintertime treat and serve as wonderful inspiration for a fun, modern, and fabulous table setting.

Instead of using extra table decorations to include bursts of color, you can try using colorful table accessories such as intensely hued placemats and coasters. The Circus Placemats, with charming stripes of deep red and neutral white, paired with the Horn Napkin Rings in red, create the perfect look that is both jovial and sophisticated.

For a more uniformed look, try styling your table with the Lacquer Stripe Placemats in red & white and adding the coordinating Lacquer Stripe Napkin Rings and Lacquer Stripe Coasters. This matching set has a graphic allure for a modern holiday table.