Silvery Touches: Silver Birch Glassware for gifting and hosting this Christmas

A silver themed Christmas table is always a popular look, why not give silver its moment this year! Using silver tones gives your table setting wintery cool appeal and a little bit of sparkle. You can easily create a silvery tablescape with Emma’s Silver Birch Glassware Collection, and make it feel gorgeously natural, but still magical, with her top tips below. The look you’re creating here isn’t overtly festive but seasonal and stylish.

The beauty of Christmas, once all the cooking is done and preparations are in full swing is being able to sit down to good food and catch up with family and friends. So it is always worth putting a little effort into your table setting. It will encourage everyone to gather round and linger for longer, a gift everyone can enjoy.

Talking of Gifts

Silver Birch glassware is one of Emma’s bestselling designs for presents. It is also available in ready to go gift sets, a perfect idea if you need to a Christmas present for a hostess or host, or perhaps a couple who’ve just moved into their own home to help them get started with nice drinkware they can enjoy every day. Featured below, bestselling Silver Birch Carafe & 4 Tumbler Gift Set.

Silver Themed Christmas Table Tips

Silver Birch glassware will really give your silver themed Christmas table a delicate and dainty touch, the perfect starting point for your desired look.

Glassware adds height, balance and symmetry and provides a great framework for both formal and more relaxed table styles. The Silver Birch pattern on Emma’s glassware, decorated and hand finished at her studio, beautifully reflects the light on a crisp, sunny winter afternoon and brings a little sparkle on more gloomy days. Add flickering candles to your table to really maximise this effect.

A dark coloured table runner will really make the Silver Birch pattern in the glassware stand out, and gives your table instant decoration.  Using a cloth adds some warmth to tablescapes with silvery touches, and helps layer up the overall look of your table. 

Build the scene

Fill a Silver Birch Vase vase with loosely arranged seasonal stems, spray some for extra silvery touches, seedheads and anything else you can find that tonally works with the look you want to create.  You could add battery powered fairy lights to this arrangement too, for extra impact.

What glassware?

Keep classic glassware shapes at the table for a seamless serve before, during and after your meal. Emma’s flutes, wine glasses and tumblers come in handy sets of 6, you can never have enough.

• Flutes are ideal for aperitifs and toasting.
• Wine Glasses for the main event (visit our friends at San Martino), Water Tumblers and Carafes will pace proceedings.
• Keep Coupes in the wings for pre or post dinner cocktails.  

Silver Birch is pretty and practical glassware, a contemporary and cohesive look. With all the shapes available you really can create the perfect silver themed Christmas table setting.

Foraged Finds

Layer up your silver themed Christmas table with foraged finds to keep it stylish. This will also draw the eye to the more twinkly elements in your setting.

Ivy from the garden can be made into a long garland for the table centre. You can simply layer the ivy over each other, or secure together with florists wire to make a garland. Bringing in natural greenery and the smell of the season is a winner for all the senses and looks great.  Add some silvery baubles you already own if you want to  bring more luxe and silver to the look.

You might also like our guide to creating a more eco Christmas table setting here.

Help the Silver Details Pop

To help the Silver Birch pattern in your table glassware stand out and emphasise your theme, add slices of lemon and orange into drinks, or choose red wine for contrast.

Also, think about the room as a whole. A beautifully lit wreath will help set the scene and add try adding some lights to sideboards too.

Eat, drink and be merry, do send us any pictures of the silvery tablescape you create this winter.

Shop

Shop the Silver Birch Collection online in glassware, or at Craft Fair Contemporary, Nottingham, 1- 3 Dec. This collection is a great gift!

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