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The Sunday Six: what’s relevant and Chic this week

The Sunday Six is a weekly edit of what feels relevant, chic or quietly useful. Each week Ginny or I will share objects, habits and small upgrades that feel worth your attention before Monday arrives.

Easter weekend. The one Sunday of the year where setting the table properly feels completely justified. Six things I’m using, buying and thinking about this weekend, including the full Easter tablescape edit.

1. The tableware that keeps selling out, now available as a set

The Daphne Tableware has already sold out twice. Finally back in stock and for the first time available as a complete set of 12. This includes four dinner plates, four side plates and four bowls for £88 (worth £104 bought separately.) The scalloped edge and the variation in the glaze is what makes it. It’s the kind of tableware that looks considered and it photographs beautifully which, let’s be honest in our camera eats first world, matters.

If you’re hosting Easter lunch and you’ve been meaning to sort out your plates, this is your sign.

2. The classic rattan charger

Layering a charger under your dinner plate is one of those moves that elevates any tablescape with minimal effort. These rattan ones add texture and a natural Easter feel to the table without tipping into kitsch. Stack charger, dinner plate and side plate is the simple statement combo. Three layers, immediate impact – £16

3. The jug worth putting on the table

I have a thing about jugs. A beautiful jug of water on the table signals that someone actually set it rather than just arranged it. This Georg Jensen pitcher is the one I keep reaching for. The shape is iconic, it’s a good price point for this sort of quality and it will outlast every trend currently happening in tableware. One of those pieces you buy once and keep forever.

Georg Jensen mini pitcher

4. The portable lamp everyone asks about

Good lighting outside is the thing most people forget until 7pm when the sun drops and everyone’s squinting. This bamboo rechargeable lamp in bronze is the answer. No cables, genuinely beautiful and moves from the kitchen island to the garden table without a second thought. One of those buys you wonder how you ever hosted without.

5. The Easter lunch formula that hasn’t failed me yet

Leg of lamb is the one for Easter and whenever I’ve mixed it up I always miss it. Season it the night before and largely forget about it on the day. But the sides are where Easter lunch either holds together or quietly falls apart. Extra crispy roast potatoes, the secret is a proper par boil until they are almost falling apart at the edges, then into extra hot sizzling fat. Don’t touch them for 30 minutes before turning. Glazed carrots with honey and feta alongside green beans with red onion and toasted almonds. Both can be mostly done before your guests arrive, which matters when you’re also running an egg hunt at 9am with three children who have already eaten their body weight in chocolate.

Read The Easter Table: How we’re setting it in full here

6. The piece of tech I didn’t expect to love

This one is not interiors focussed but bear with me. The Brick is a small device that blocks apps on your phone, preselected by you in the app. You can select from social media, email, whatever you choose, for however long you set. You tap out of it and your phone becomes a phone again. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and the difference at the dinner table is significant. For a weekend where most of us are actually sitting around a table with people we like, it felt worth a mention. The biggest flex right now isn’t the table you set, it’s being actually present at it.

Happy Easter, if someone forwarded this to you and you want it in your inbox every Sunday, the subscribe link is below. And if the Daphne set sells out before you get there, please forgive me!

Charlotte x