Thanksgiving Table Setting - Sideboard
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Christina Haire
Christina Haire Interior Design & Antiques
http://www.christinahaire.com/
301-986-9075
christina@christinahaire.com
For more than 20 years, Christina Haire’s creativity and passion for design has only been matched by her singular dedication to making clients happy. A member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), her expertise in residential and commercial design has won her a stellar reputation and an international clientele. Christina has participated in many designer showhouses, including those of the National Symphony and Washington Design Center. She won an ASID award for excellence in a single room in 2005, and her work has been featured in numerous local and national publications. Her home was also the subject of two HGTV programs on interior design.
With a design philosophy best summed up as luxurious and inviting, her work is marked by warm colors, sumptuous fabrics and classic furnishings. She deftly melds the old with the new, the good with the not-so-good, and seamlessly combines the precious antique with the equally treasured memento or flea market find. Christina makes it her mission to reflect the very best of each client by creating personal rooms that are exquisitely tasteful and elegant, yet entirely functional. An unabashed lover of chairs, Christina is quick to admit that she has never met a chair she didn’t like—which is not to say that pillows, settees, ottomans, mirrors and sconces don’t also get their due.
In addition to her famed collection of European antiques and accessories, Christina has developed a love for Asian art and artifacts. Now dividing her time between the U.S. and Singapore, she has uncommon access to an array of Southeast Asian treasures. Among her favorite finds are rare Tibetan chests, vibrant Thai silks, handmade lacquerware from Burma and Vietnam and ornate silver from Cambodia.
A native of New York, Christina is a graduate of Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. She is an avid traveler, gardener, reader and community activist.
She maintains a design studio in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and Singapore.
Thanksgiving Table Setting - Sideboard
Christina Haire, an interior designer and principal of Christina Haire Interior Design and Antiques demonstrates how to set a Thanksgiving table including how to decorate the sideboard.
Transcripts
Christina Haire: HiI! I am Christina Haire. I am an interior designer and today, I am showing you how to set a Thanksgiving table and it's important to set the sideboard too. The sideboard will hold the serving pieces for our Thanksgiving dinner, but it's also one another opportunity for a visual display and on our sideboard we use some traditional elements always for Thanksgiving that we have collected over the years. There is always a ceramic turkey that holds the mashed potatoes for some strange reason, but that's our tradition.
In addition to our turkey, that's traditional every year, we have a ceramic rabbit which is also called a hare in honor of our family and we use that as a serving piece. In the center of all this is a silver plate dome which is a traditional piece that covers the joint as they used to say in England or in this case, our turkey. It will sit on a large iron stone platter and once the turkey is carved and served, it will keep it warm. There also will be a silver plate cake basket which is also English and will hold the breads and the muffins and we will have an antique Victorian water pitcher for serving and as our display element, we have a couple of candle sticks, candelabra that will light, as well as an arrangement of fall leaves. I collected these leaves yesterday and as you can see they still look very fresh. I just cut low branches from the trees that are especially colorful around my house and it's a very good thing to do because you can, as they dry, you can keep them for the whole season and as they dry, they shrink a bit. So I keep adding more and more leaves until -- as a shrunken bouquet it has the same effect as it did when it was very fresh.
If you have an already, it is a good time for you to start your own Thanksgiving traditions. It's something that children really look forward to even when they are all grown up like mine. That's how we set the sideboard for our traditional family Thanksgiving dinner and next, I will show you how we lay the table.
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