Dinner at the Stirrup Club
Larger-than-life settings offer all kinds of merchandise a place at the table
By Melissa Haberstroh -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 10/1/2007
Tabletop product offers one of the best opportunities for creating great displays. (Anyone who has seen some of the tables at Elle Decor's Dining by Design will agree.) Personally, I love to create these displays — and tabletop sells better when it's on a table. But that doesn't mean that the setting has to be realistic.
Large scale anchors will draw attention to products on the table, and the use of decorative accessories or gifts can make the table a cross-merchandising Mecca; this display showcased 14 vendors in eight different product categories. My husband named this display “Dining at the Stirrup Club” for the hunt-club-meets-Texas styling, but I could easily exchange the wood frames for pearl, use bracelets as napkin rings and replace the lamps with something more feminine.
Either way, it's one of my favorite displays!
