CHRISTMAS PIERROT TABLE

 

Happy Monday my little berlingots!

I hope you had a good weekend, and we're off to a flying start this week with the masterpiece: the Christmas table. The Christmas table is the one time of year when you can afford to fill your table with truly useless and adorable things. It's the time to go all out, no matter if your guests can't put their elbows on the table. Anyway, that's not what decorum allows. So, yes, like you, I think we should tell Nadine de Rothschild that good manners evolve and that we have to move with the times... But if you've got it all over the place, your guests should be having fun with your decor. Your Uncle Gérard should finish the meal by playing an air guitar solo on one of your dominoes. And your nieces will be dressing up their Barbies (received as gifts during the aperitif) in Pierrot costumes for a very modern interpretation of Les Fourberies de Scapin.

 

 

So yes, this table may remind you of the first table Christmas table, but no, if you look closely, no! But what do you expect? I set about making this decoration without really thinking about it, and then Charlotte pointed out to me that it looked a lot like that famous black and white Christmas. But a Pierrot Christmas has to be black and white... So I decided to decorate this table around dominoes to create a coherent suite with the Christmas stationery. There are giant domino placemats, A3s of black Canson embellished with white XL stickers, Pierrot collars for wine glasses and a paper Christmas tree made exclusively with Pierrot stickers, all placed on a cake stand...

  

 

 For the domino table runner, you'll need :

• - white featherboard,
• - black canson paper,
• - a hole punch,
• - glue,
• - a ruler,
• - scalpel.

 Start by tracing two 4x8cm rectangles on the featherboard. Cut them out with the scalpel as perpendicularly as possible (so that the edge of the domino is clear). Glue the two rectangles together (we used 0.5cm-thick featherboard, but you can skip this step if you buy thicker cardboard). Cut a small strip 3cm high from the black canson and glue it to the center of the domino. Now get your hole punch and make holes, holes, holes... Place your dots and stick them on your domino, and TA-DA !

 

 

Ah the table runners... I remember the starry table runners and me dancing while throwing little sequins in a delicate shower around the plates, even arranging little iridescent transparent pebbles on the table for a touch of enchantment. And then after the table, there was the "I'm getting pretty for Christmas" phase. I grew up in the 90s, so I was lucky enough to be able to try out the worst beauty product of all time: HAIR MASCARA. My turn for apricot and purple highlights. And the must-have, I think, must have been the hair stencil.... After coating my chignon with vivelle d'fixation chappe de béton, I placed a tribal sign stencil on my shiny helmet, and came up with the bronze-colored pattern. I was on top form, and secretly dreaming that Santa would bring me a pair of flaming buffalos. As you can read, I was possessed as a child. And then came adolescence...

 

 

On this table you'll find everything from gift items to home decor, all shopped at the boutique noire du Printemps. La boutique noire is a dedicated space in the department store with a huge selection of gift ideas, each one hotter than the next, and as a bonus, there's even everything you need to decorate your Christmas tree. I've really fallen in love with this place, where everything is chic and unconventional, and what's more, there really are ideas to suit every budget, and on their website you can even make your own. your own wish list. And I think that the idea of offering a Christmas bauble to your guests is a quirky and adorable gift. Why not even make these baubles into place-people to be placed on each plate... Something to think about! 

 

 

For this DIY you'll need :

• - a 5cmx3m strip of white or black non-woven fabric (or another color to suit your inspiration),
• - glue,
• - pencil,
• - paper clip.

 To begin, accordion-fold the entire strip (every 2cm or so). Then lift one side of the folds, draw a reference line 0.5cm from the edge and apply glue. Glue with the top fold and continue like this over the whole strip. Now turn your strip over to the side where the folds are not glued and do the same thing all along (you don't have to draw a line every time, but the more precise and rigorous you are about gluing, the more even the result will be). You can now admire the cells that formed when you opened your accordion, and your collar is ready! Now roll it up and secure it with a paper clip, and Ta-Da!

 

 

Now that you're experts in glass bezels, all that's left to do is make the tree! On the day of the shoot, I wasn't quite sure what to do with them, so I decided to place them one on top of the other, threaded onto a wooden stick, to make a Christmas tree to place on the table. Once I'd made my accumulation, it was a bit flat, so I placed "this tree" on a cake stand to create different visual levels on the table... For all the other honeycomb elements placed on the table, go to My little day !

 

 

And for the tableware, the geometric plates are by Deshoulières, the smoked gothic-baroque glasses are by Cristal D'Arque and the polka-dot cutlery is by Amefa, all found at the special festive private sale by showroomprivé.com. I hope you enjoyed it! And see you tomorrow for a Pierrot 2.0 playlist!