12 elegant table settings ideas for beautiful dinner parties (2024)

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Updated Monday 5th September 2022

1. A CRISP WHITE TABLE SETTING

A crisp white table setting for your next dinner party is a safe but elegant card. Choose an elegant white porcelain and simple white linen napkins with a crisp white linen tablecloth for a timeless and stylish look. Add flowers or optional details to bring in your own personal touch for a dinner table to remember.

2. LAID BACK PASTELS

This pastel dream of a table setting is more on trend than ever right now and gives your party a touch of colour with a relaxed atmosphere. Decorate with a linen tablecloth and tone-on-tone linen napkins in combination with details in soft pastels to create an inviting overall effect. This table setting is perfect for those who enjoy a little extra colour in their everyday life, because, after all, who couldn't help but feel happy with that?

Find inspiration among this year's colour trends here, where pastel shades such as sky blue, mint green and shades of purple are at the top of the list.

3. A RUSTIC AESTHETIC

Create an elegant table setting that gets back to nature with the help of rustic elements and darker tones for both the tablecloth and napkins. Add details with a coarser structure and textures to give your table a tactile element. Feel free to bring a little nature to the table with the help of branches collected on your afternoon walk in the woods. This table setting works well all year round and adds that little extra luxury to your every day.

4. GREY TONE-ON-TONE

Create an elegant table setting in a tone-one-tone the grey colour scheme together with delicate green branches for a stylish touch. Choose twigs or flowers based on what you like, which can easily be replaced depending on the season. Match, for example, the grey tableware to a spruce twig at Christmas, An Easter tree at Easter or eucalyptus in warmer seasons – you will have an elegant grey table setting that works all year round.

5. AN ELEGTANT TABLE SETTING WITH RÖRSTRAND

Rörstrand specialises in the set table, they have offered fine and timeless porcelain for generations, together with beautiful interior details. Here we have a beautiful table setting with Rörstrand's series Swedish Grace in focus - a Swedish classic that is both timeless and elegant, a winner at any dinner party.

Get to know Rörstrand and their ancient roots and iconic patterns here.

6. A BLUE TABLE SETTING FOR A POP OF COLOUR

Create an elegant party table in blue and white tones that brings to mind the harmonious mood of the Mediterranean by setting the table with traditional Havspil collection from Scandi Living. A beautiful porcelain that invites you to enjoy memorable and elegant table settings all year round. This table setting is perfect for a Swedish midsummer party or could even work for a special Easter dinner party.

7. A SIMPLE BEIGE TABLE SETTING

This simple beige table setting is easy to recreate and is beautiful in its simplicity. To recreate this elegant beige table setting, start with a beige base and then combine with a porcelain in a lighter shade together with beige details such as vases and candles to spread a wonderful atmosphere across the table. Beige is the ideal neutral base tone and works for all types of dinner party settings, a perfectly timeless table setting for all your dinner parties to come.

8. A DEEP, RICH COLOUR SCHEME

If you would rather set your table in a richer colour scheme, this beautiful table setting from @snickargladjen is perfect for you. Here she has matched linen napkins in reddish-brown tones with a lovely lighter sun-bleached tablecloth and decorated with a complimenting colourful flower arrangement across the table for a welcoming feeling. This is the perfect elegant table setting for all of the year's high seasons and the dinner parties in between, the deep colours add a touch of luxury and you can update the setting with different flowers for each season.

9. AN EXTRAVAGANT TEA PARTY

You don't always need to be setting the table for a dinner party to go all out. Impress your guests with this extravagant table setting for a colourful tea party. With colourful pops of colour and playful details this extravagant table setting with colourful porcelain and details for the set table that bring joy to your guests. Offer your friends and family delicious cakes and pastries and go wild with different decorations to take your tea party to new levels!

10. A BRIGHT AND PLAYFUL TABLE SETTING

11. A TABLE SETTING WITH NATURAL ELEMENTS

Allow the elegance of nature to spread a wonderful atmosphere at the dinner table by decorating with rowan berries as the influencer @villasjovik from Instagram has done here. The berries contribute a warm and welcoming feeling around the table together with some lit candles - it is the small details that create a homely atmosphere for memorable dinners.

12. A GREEN TABLE SETTING WITH A BISTRO VIBE

Add some lovely green and nice framing to your festive table setting with porcelain in this lovely shade. Here's a table setting in a muted shade of green with high-gloss crockery that's just as good for everyday use as it is for parties. Break it up with patterned placemats, coloured cutlery and simple glasses for a casual and relaxed party setting. Allow different pieces of crockery to take centre stage on the table for a slightly more imperfect feel and bistro look.

5 TIPS FOR CREATING AN ELEGANT TABLE SETTING:

• Create height on the table by stacking plates and bowls and decorate with tall vases or candlesticks.
• Ensure your tablecloth, porcelain and interior details match each other for a uniform look.
• Decorate the table with cloth napkins for a luxurious feeling.
• Use lots of candles on the table for a warm and inviting feeling.
• Bring elements of nature to the table setting with flowers or plants.<br>

Photography: Angeliqa Daldorph, @snickargladjen, @villasjovik

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