The Washington Times
  • Subscribe
  • Times News Services
  • RSS
  • Mobile Headlines
  • e-edition
  • E-MAIL ALERTS
  • REGISTER
  • LOG IN
  • E-MAIL ALERTS
  • WELCOME
  • Your Profile
  • Log Out
  • Front Page Image
  • Classifieds
  • Autos
  • Real Estate
  • Jobs
  • Special Sections
  • Customer Service
  • Home
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Sports
    • NFL
    • NBA/WNBA
    • MLB
    • NHL
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Motorsports
    • Soccer
    • NCAA
    • Olympics
    • Outdoors
    • Other
  • Culture
    • Home & Living
    • Family & Kids
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Travel
    • Health
    • Washington Visitors
    • Books
    • Military History
    • Life
    • Auto
    • TV Listings
    • Movie Listings
    • Death Notices
    • Entertainment
  • Themes
  • Communities
  • Marketplace
    • Autos
    • Jobs
    • Real Estate
    • Classifieds
    • Shopping
    • Dining Out
    • Education
    • TWT Store
  • Videos
    • Two Guys
    • Birnbaum on Washington
    • Liz Glover
    • Amanda Carpenter
    • Morning Briefing
    • Documentaries
    • Joe Giganti
    • Video Game Minute
  • Podcasts
    • About Headlines
    • Audio and Radio
    • America's Morning News
  • Politics

    Bill Clinton urges Dems to pass health bill

  • Security

    Obama: No religious faith justifies Fort Hood shootings

  • Local

    Gov. Kaine clears way for D.C. sniper's execution

  • Politics

    EXCLUSIVE: Warner: Obama misplayed health care debate

  • National

    Justices weigh juveniles' life without parole

  • National

    Leadership changes at The Times

  • National

    Hood suspect earlier came under FBI scrutiny

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Feast tabletops READY, SET

Rate this story

Average 0.00
after 0 votes
Login or register to rate this story

  • Font Size -+
  • Print
  • Email
  • Comment
  • Tweet this!
  • Share
  • Article
  • Comments ()
  • Click-2-Listen
  • Videos

More Stories

  • Obama: No religious faith justifies Fort Hood shootings
  • Bill Clinton urges Dems to pass health bill
  • Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan
  • Hood suspect earlier came under FBI scrutiny

By

Dressing a table for a festive holiday meal can be as easy as tying a colored ribbon around a glass stem or as ambitious as buying special place settings and hiring a florist to design a centerpiece.

Plenty of imaginative ideas flowed from Washington-area interior designers and antiques dealers who were asked to invent table designs for the Georgetown Jingle benefit held Dec. 3 in the Four Seasons Hotel.

A silent auction allowed patrons to bid on some of the items shown throughout with proceeds going to the pediatric bone-marrow transplant program at Georgetown University Hospital. Sponsors plan this to be an annual event.

Interior designer David Herchik, owner of the District's JDS Designs, combined high and low styles for his contribution, titled "Santa's Christmas Day Breakfast." The table for six was covered with what he described as "ice," which was really white paint covered with microglitter.

Matching organza napkins were embroidered all over with the words "Ho Ho" in red, green and white. A CD player sat on the floor covered with fake snow. The other elements were supplied by his local Starbucks: coffee cups, gingerbread trees and other holiday ware that were then offered up for auction.

Interior designer David Mitchell, owner of the District firm David H. Mitchell Interior Design, went the other direction entirely, to provide what he calls a mock-up of a "Christmas in Aspen" because, he says, "that is where so many of my clients have houses."

The theme was carried through with many organic and textural notes. The tablecloth was a custom-made silk burlap decorated with birch reindeer, felt snowflakes, rock crystal and greenery.

The napkins were linen -- "washed but not ironed" -- and napkin rings were the thumbs of white hand-knitted mittens he bought at the Gap. Evergreen wreaths functioned as charger plates. The centerpiece was a birch-covered vase filled with holly.

"Unless you own red plates with Christmas trees on them, you use your everyday china," says Deborah Gore Dean, owner of Georgetown's Gore Dean, dealers in fine collectibles and antiques. Her choice in this case was a bright red-and-white "Balcons" pattern from Hermes. (The word applies the iron-wrought balconies of Portugal translated into geometric designs.)

With that she chose black beaded place mats over a smoky acrylic table. "All very stark," she says of the scene she titled "Exotic Christmas, set for four."

12Next »

Post a comment

There are comments on this article, submit your opinion!

Commenting is disabled for this entry.
If you feel there is still something worth mentioning about this entry please contact the author or the site admin.

Ask a Question

You Report

Do you have another point of view, photos, audio, video or more information about a story?

Top Stories

Most Read

  1. KELLNER: New Apple mouse really is 'Magic'
  2. EXCLUSIVE: Rare virus poses new threat to troops
  3. EXCLUSIVE: Warner: Obama misplayed health care debate
  4. Parents buying homes for kids at college
  5. EDITORIAL: Too scared to recognize terrorism
More Top Stories »
  1. PRUDEN: Fatal reluctance to see evil
  2. Deer dies after leap into D.C. zoo lion exhibit
  3. Federal Reserve opposed as big bank savior by odd allies
  4. Court refuses to halt sniper's execution
  5. Gov. Kaine clears way for D.C. sniper's execution

Most Shared

  1. PRUDEN: Fatal reluctance to see evil
  2. KELLNER: New Apple mouse really is 'Magic'
  3. Defense nominee won't reveal potential conflicts
  4. 'Fuzzy math' could drive health bill cost higher
  5. EDITORIAL: Too scared to recognize terrorism
More Top Stories »
  1. Deer dies after leap into D.C. zoo lion exhibit
  2. EXCLUSIVE: Rare virus poses new threat to troops
  3. Parents buying homes for kids at college
  4. Sinking dollar fuels new gold rush
  5. End of America's moment

Most Commented

  1. PRUDEN: Fatal reluctance to see evil
  2. 'Fuzzy math' could drive health bill cost higher
  3. EDITORIAL: Too scared to recognize terrorism
  4. Defense nominee won't reveal potential conflicts
  5. Lieberman vows probe of Hood rampage
More Top Stories »
  1. EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama, stay away from this wall
  2. Health bill faces roadblocks in Senate
  3. Jihadists in the military
  4. 'Anti-vaccine' attitude hampers H1N1 effort
  5. Hood suspect earlier came under FBI scrutiny

Listen to Washington Times Radio

  • America's Morning News

    with John McCaslin and Melanie Morgan

Blogs & Columns

  • POTUS Notes

    New Dem talking point on Obama approval doesn't wash

  • The Back Story

    12 arrested at Pelosi's office

  • Belief Blog

    New Vatican constitution released

  • Out of Context

    Foods that might kill libido

  • Technology

    Facebook wins round against phishing spammer

  • On the Fly

    United lifts some 'award' blocking

  • Redskins 360

    Hall, Portis on radio

  • Tara's Two Cents

    On their way to summer vacation..

  • SNOBlog

    Beyond 'Woody'

Videos

Advertising Links
TWT Store
  • e-edition
  • Print Edition
  • Weekly Washington Times
TWT Affiliates
  • Middle East Times
  • Golf
  • UPI
  • Arbor Ballroom
  • Washington Times Global
  • About TWT
  • Press Room
  • F.A.Q.
  • Work for TWT
  • Advertise
  • Sponsors
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map

All site contents © Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC.