New Name, Old Game!

Setting a table with all the appropriate accoutrements is not exactly a new thing. Trends come and go, whether its paleolithic stones, sticks and arrowheads; medieval daggers and communal (yum!)wooden troughs; or post 17th century forks and knives, etcetera. (I'm thinking here, it's good to be a modern man!) There's always something interesting going on in table setting.

The "new" new thing in table setting is "tablescaping"! Tablescaping is essentially table setting on steroids. Legitimized as a word in the 2006 edition of the Oxford New American Dictionary, tablescaping is the art of designing a table, utilizing any number of table items such as napkins, placemats, serving plates, runners, silverware, chargers, etc., in order to create just the right ambience for dining. What makes it different from just setting the table? I suppose, it's the implied "creative license" associated with it. To dream the impossible tabletop dream!

But I say, don't wait for a dictionary to give your creative concepts legitimacy. Define and design your table with confidence! And if our amazing array of polyvinyl placemats, acacia wood serving trays, and Mason Cash earthenware can be helpful to you in the process, then so be it.

Note from the Editor: We're out of stock on communal wooden troughs. Check back with us in a few months.