Six lifestyle mavens lend their personal style to tablesetting If a dining table could speak, it would probably say “Come and eat, let’s sit and talk a while.” The dining room is central to every home, the most eloquent corner of the house, not quite as private as the bedroom or the bathroom, not quite as behind the scene as the kitchen, but open, even to the most casual guest. The dinner table, as much as what’s on it, is meant to be shared.
When Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, and West Elm, all exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists Inc., in collaboration with Susan Joven and Mia Borromeo, invited Manila’s most distinctly stylish to set up tables for a dinner (or lunch or brunch or snacks) to remember, what was foremost on the creative brief, other than showcasing the best and the latest each brand had to offer, was to incite a mood for sharing, intimacy, camaraderie, and enjoyment. The afternoon activity held early in August at the Pottery Barn store at Central Square in BGC, Taguig, which also turned out to be a shopping party, with no less than Manila’s style set in attendance, checkbooks at the ready, gathered sought after personality Kaye Tinga, Tina Cuevas, Chito Vijandre and Ricky Toledo, Anton Barretto, Mia Borromeo, Tessa Alindogan, and Mia Borromeo, challenging each of them to come up with dream table settings for the most personal of mealtime occasions.
Cultural Center of the Philippine president Kaye Tinga, through her tablescape “Relaxed B.