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12 Pieces Perfect for Elevating a Holiday Table

November 19, 2025

Festive dining table set with colorful plates, glasses, candles, and decorative foliage in an elegant, warmly lit room. — Holiday tableware from Villa Bologna. Photo: Courtesy of Villa Bologna

It’s not just the food that makes the feast this season—it’s the family and friends, the candlelight, the soundtrack, and of course, the tablescape. Designers have a multitude of tips and tricks for staging a beautiful dinner party, so buy the flowers, pop the champagne, and look to this gorgeous tableware to turn festive entertaining into a visual delight.

Festive dining table with red and white plates, decorative figurines, a candle, and a bowl of fruit on a patterned tablecloth. — Holiday tableware from Villa Bologna. Photo: Courtesy of Villa Bologna

1. Villa Bologna

A family business since the 1920s, this Malta-based brand creates artisanal pottery with vibrant colors, playful shapes, and expressive patterns sure to animate any tablescape. This time of year, Villa Bologna plates with bright red and rich green designs embrace the Christmas spirit while an assortment of tea light candle holders in the shape of angels or magi make a whimsical and festive addition.

Elegant silver cutlery with raspberries and red currants on a white background, artfully arranged. — Torsadé flatware by Buccellati. Photo: Courtesy of Buccellati

2. Buccellati

Since 1919, Buccellati has been crafting exquisite silver pieces, ranging from flatware and serving pieces to jewelry and collectible design gifts. The graceful twist, seen on the Torsadé flatware, is an iconic motif for the maison, with the gentle waves animating everything from porcelain plates to silver frames.

White cotton embroidered with gold-tone Dioresque Butterfly motif. Photo: Courtesy of Dior

3. Dior

Many favor a white-and-gold palette this time of year. Dior’s holiday collection translates an exquisite pattern drawn from the baroque theater seen in the Cruise 2026 Fashion Show into glittering scrollwork that embellishes plates, mugs, placemats, and other home accents and objets.

Four colorful, gradient champagne flutes with vertical stripes, arranged in a row on a white background. — Prism champagne flutes by L’Objet. Photo: Courtesy of L’Objet

4. L’Objet

As the founder and creative director of L’Objet, Elad Yifrach overseas a treasure trove of playful tabletop items and home accessories, including expressive collections with the Haas Brothers, Kelly Behun, artist Ruan Hoffmann, and more. The brand’s bold Prism collection recently expanded to include these colorful champagne flutes, which look dynamic in a singular hue or add some festive flare with an intoxicating mix of the bordeaux, amber, green, and purple glassware.

Elegant dinnerware set with intricate patterns, featuring cups, saucers, and a plate on a wooden table with decorative ribbons. — Punta A Maglia tableware from Loro Piana. Photo: Courtesy of Loro Piana

5. Loro Piana

Loro Piana is a popular destination for holiday gifting thanks to their luxurious cashmere scarves and throws perfect for the season. However, their tableware designs are equally in high demand, with such collections as Punta A Maglia platters, plates, bowls, mugs—even a vase or tea service—making a decadent addition to any festive table.

Three ornate bronze spoons with leaf designs on textured handles arranged in a vertical line on a white surface. — Foglie coffee spoons in bronze by Osanna Visconti. Photo: Courtesy of Osanna Visconti

Gold-colored decorative pomegranate with detailed interior texture against a white background. — Melograno in bronze by Osanna Visconti. Photo: Courtesy of Osanna Visconti

6. Osanna Visconti

Milanese designer Osanna Visconti creates stunning, sculptural furniture and objets d’art from bronze using the lost-wax casting technique. Her branch candleholders make glorious centerpieces while her dreamy tableware and sculptural objects will be a treasured accent at any place setting.

Circular wooden texture resembling a sunburst pattern with radiating lines on a white background — Soleil table mat by HestiaLiving Everyday. Photo: Courtesy of HestiaLiving Everyday

Four square beige tiles with radial line pattern arranged on a white background. — Soleil coasters by HestiaLiving Everyday. Photo: Courtesy of HestiaLiving Everyday

7. HestiaLiving Everyday

Founded by Lisa Domenico Brooke, HestiaLiving Everyday offers placemats, coasters, and trays that display the exquisite marquetry skills of Lison de Caunes (both women are granddaughters of the famed French designer André Groult). Select from a wide range of expressive patterns—from exuberant starbursts to playful animal prints to beachy basketweaves—rendered in a variety of colors, including soft neutrals and more punctuating shades.

Green and clear glass candle holders with white twisted candles and white floral arrangements against a white background — Gold-trim vases and candleholders by Kim Seybert. Photo: Courtesy of Kim Seybert

8. Kim Seybert

Well-known for her stunning table linens, including playfully embroidered napkins, jewel-color tablecloths, and unique placemats, Kim Seybert also stocks an eyecatching assortment of glassware. Look for shapely candleholders, available in 11 different colors, vases, and gift sets of wine glasses made by artisans in the Czech Republic.

Two elegant wine glasses with gold stems on a plain white background. — Bamboo balloon glasses by La Double J. Photo: Courtesy La Double J

Two empty crystal glasses side by side against a white background. — Bamboo high ball set by La Double J. Photo: Courtesy La Double J

9. La Double J

La Double J‘s recent introduction, Fantastic Creatures, is an expressive assortment of trays, plates, and other tableware made in collaboration with Ecuadorian artist Beto Val, who envisioned exotic patterns of flora and fauna. Amongst the pieces is glassware that translates traditional bamboo, a popular tableware motif, into shapely stems for coupes, martini glasses, and balloon glasses as well as all-over texture for tumblers and high-ball glasses, each with hints of either touches of pink or amber hue.

Stacked geometric plates with blue, black, green, and purple circular designs on mosaic tiled surface. — Photo: Courtesy of Tania Bulhoes

10. Tania Bulhões

The designer behind a bold porcelain collection made specifically for the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris will next debut its Bossa Bleu Collection on December 3. Taking cues from 1950s Brazilian style, the pieces crafted in Limoges, France, feature a geometric pattern in rich shades, accented with hand-painted platinum details. “The Bossa Bleu Collection is a celebration of rhythm, gesture, and the beauty of the essential,” says Tania Bulhões.

Silver cutlery set including two spoons, a fork, and a knife on a wooden board cutout, displayed against a white background. — Photo: Courtesy of Christofle

11. Christofle

Parisian jewelry designer Charlotte Chesnais translates her graceful, swooping designs into a Carrousel, a sleek assortment of flatware for Christofle that comes in its own specially crafted storage box. The walnut pegs delicately cradle the forks, spoons, and knives then the entire display rotates into a gold and silver shell.

Six decorative plates with intricate, colorful designs displayed in two rows of three on a white background. — Tiffany & Co. x Fondation César Dessert Plates Set of Six, in Bone China Photo: Courtesy of Tiffany & Co.

12. Tiffany & Co.

Paying homage to the creative output of César, Tiffany & Co. designed a selection of bone china dessert plates that nod to the salon hang of broken dishes the French sculptor installed in his home. The shards reproduce three archival designs while background hues nod to various gemstones.