Rachel's Thanksgiving Picks

Work in layers. Start with a tablecloth or runner, set a dinner plate at each seat, stack a smaller dessert or salad plate on top, then add the napkin either tucked under the stack or laid across it. Run candles down the center at two or three different heights and add one low centerpiece so guests can still see each other. Keep to a single warm palette and no more than two patterns, and the table will read styled rather than crowded.

Dinner plates, dessert plates, dinner napkins, cups or glassware, and something down the center, usually candles or a centerpiece. A tablecloth or runner grounds it all. Beyond that, place cards and a cracker or small favor at each seat are the two details guests notice most, and they cost very little to add.

Founder Rachel Huntington hand-selects them, drawing on more than a decade of setting party trends rather than following them. Several pieces here are designed and made by Bonjour Fête, including our collaboration with The House That Lars Built, so they exist because we wanted them on our own table first. The edit refreshes as new arrivals land through the season.