Tablescapes are perhaps the easiest and most enjoyable way to express your personality in a room.

Think of the careful arrangement of objects on a table as painting a picture, with each piece a dab of color and texture.

While furnishings in a room may remain unchanged, tablescapes allow you the pleasure of enjoying varied objects or collections along with the ease of swapping them out as desired.

Tablescapes also allow the collector in us to rotate objects without falling into the category of clutter.

The term "tablescape" was coined in the 1960s by legendary British designer David Hicks (1929-1998). This refers to the arrangement of objects in tableaux on a flat surface such as a table, chest, console or atop a fireplace mantel.

Influenced as a child by museum displays, Hicks develop

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