ENTERTAINING · WHEN THE EVENING MATTERS
A table worth remembering.
For memorable moments; candlelight, considered pieces,
and a table your guests will talk about long after the meal.
ENTERTAINING
The evening deserves
more than effort.
It deserves intention.
There is a particular kind of table that people remember. Not because it was expensive, or perfectly styled, or photographed; but because it felt deliberate. Because the person who set it made choices rather than defaults, and those choices were felt the moment you sat down.
The ranges in this edit were not designed to be displayed. They were designed to be used, again and again, for the evenings that matter; the dinners where the conversation outlasts the food, and the table earns the memory.
This is not about matching. It is about composition; the difference between a table that looks set and one that looks considered.
“The best dinner parties are not remembered for the food. They are remembered for how the table felt.”
THE ENTERTAINING RANGES
Five ranges.
One unforgettable evening.
Terres de Rêves. Sarabi. Dé/Ra. Feast. Each chosen for what it brings to the table; literally and otherwise.
01
Belgium · Serax · Stoneware
Anita Le Grelle
Earth tones fired into form. The most tactile range we carry.
Designed by Anita Le Grelle for Serax, Terres de Rêves; ‘Dreams of Earth’; is built from the colours and textures of the natural world: stone, clay, dried bark, the underside of a leaf after rain. Each piece is hand-finished, which means no two are identical. The variation is not a flaw; it is the point. On a dinner table, a full Terres de Rêves setting reads not as a matched set but as a landscape. It is one of the most requested ranges we carry for entertaining precisely because it does so much without demanding attention.
02
Belgium · Serax · Glassware
Sarabi
Hand-blown. Imperfectly perfect. The glass your guests will notice.
Sarabi is hand-blown glassware with the kind of presence that makes a table feel finished the moment it arrives. Each piece carries a slight irregularity; a bubble held in the wall of the glass, a rim that is not quite level; that marks it unmistakably as something made by hand. The range covers everything from water glasses to wine to champagne flutes, all in a warm amber-tinted clear that catches candlelight in a way that machine-made glass simply cannot replicate.
03
Belgium · Serax · Dinnerware
Feast × Ottolenghi
Netherlands · Serax · Serving & Sharing
Yotam Ottolenghi’s approach to food is well known: generous, colourful, layered, communal. The Feast collection translates that philosophy into ceramics; large platters, wide bowls, sharing dishes; in a palette of warm ochre, terracotta and deep green that feels simultaneously joyful and considered. Feast is designed for the table where the food arrives in the middle and everyone reaches. It is one of the most social collections we have ever carried.
04
Netherlands · Serax · Full Table Service
Base × Piet Boon
Designed by Piet Boon. The most complete everyday service we carry.
Base is the result of a collaboration between Serax and architect and designer Piet Boon; a man who has spent thirty years thinking about how spaces feel when they are lived in. The collection covers everything from espresso cups to large serving platters, all in a considered palette of white, off-white and warm grey. Every piece is stackable. Every piece is functional. None of it looks like it is trying.
HOW TO SET THE TABLE
Six things worth
getting right.
01
Choose your anchor piece
Start with one range that leads the table; a plate, a bowl, a surface. Everything else responds to it.
02
Add glassware that works with the light
Sarabi catches candlelight. Machine glass does not. The difference is visible before a single pour.
03
Use linen, not cotton
Linen napkins look better crumpled. That matters at the end of an evening when the table still has to hold the room.
04
Keep the centre low
Candles, not centrepieces. Conversation moves across the table, not around an obstacle.
05
Mix intentionally
Terres de Rêves with Sarabi. Feast platters with Dé/Ra side plates. Contrast is not disorder; it is composition.
06
Leave something unset
The table should look like it is waiting for people, not waiting for a photograph.
“A table worth remembering is not about perfection. It is about the moment when your guests sit down and feel that someone thought about them before they arrived.”