An African Safari Summer Tablescape

I had been seeing tablescapes with this theme from time to time over the years and I was never interested in creating one myself. But as I was gathering things for a different African animal themed tablescape I saw these plates and I really liked the design so I searched around to see if I could find enough things that I liked to create an African Animals tablescape and here it is. I found the beige tablecloth at HomeGoods a few years ago. It has a slight brown tweed design.

These African animal dinner plates came from Ebay a few months ago. I bought them in a set of six with an elephant, giraffe, cheetah, zebra, lion, and Thomson’s gazelle. The back of the plate is marked Chase, African Portraits. It says, “The wild continent of Africa is the last great refuge of the remnants of a golden age of mammals The unequaled array of wild creatures that survive today continue to lure the photographer to capture a magnificent image.” This series is called Mammals and the designs were copyrighted by Lynn Chase Designs in 1995. A portion of the sale of these Chase Products when they were first sold went to the Chase Wildlife Foundation. They would not be used for food and they would be removed before food is served.

I bought these Mason stoneware beige larger dinner plates at Pottery Barn a few years ago. The color was called wheat. You can read about what you need to think about when you are buying dinner plates here.

These bronze hammered charger plates came from Williams Sonoma several years ago. I really like the hammered design and they are a nice weight. I knew they would be a great color for this tablescape. To read about what you should be considering when you are buying chargers click here.

This marblelized light brown and cream flatware set is marked EM3 Inox 18/10, Made in Italy. I can’t remember where I bought the set online, I have had it for a few years. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.

These Utopia Home brown polyester napkins came from Amazon a few years ago. I usually like to buy napkins that are 20” by 20” and these are 17” by 17” but I decided to get them anyway. I found these African animal pottery napkin rings on Ebay. They are Ros Byrne Designs by Delicate Dugga Pottery and it looks like they were originally sold in Harare, Zimbabwe.

I found four of these napkin rings on Ebay a few months ago and I didn’t buy them because I figured that I would never be able to find the other two but I kept searching on Ebay and five more popped up together so I quickly bought them all. I would like to buy a few other different animals but it looks like they are not for sale anymore from the original source. I have a weakness for napkin rings and I have a large collection but I love finding unique sets like this one. To read about the What, Where and How of napkin rings please click here.

I was going to use small plastic African animals like the ones I used on the centerpiece for place card holders on this tablescape but then I found these small African animal candles. I bought them at Beau Coup online a few months ago and they were called Born to be Wild Animal Candles.

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The brown glass goblet on the left was made by Lenox between 1966 and 1985. It was called Antique Brown. I bought them on Ebay many years ago. It is really difficult to find a brown glass goblet and I am so glad that I found them. The beige glass goblet on the right came from Z Gallerie online a few years ago. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying goblets for your tablescaping collection including the colors that I use most often here.

I struggled with the centerpiece for this tablescape. I really wanted some kind of figure or sculpture that had a few different African animals but everything that I found was either too expensive or really ugly. So I found these Bolzra Safari Zoo Animal toys on Amazon and I bought them. (They can go in the grandkids’ toy box after.) They are painted really well and the animal shapes are realistic. I set them on a long wooden box that Hubby made for me and painted for another tablescape that I did a few years ago.

I added two sets of salt and peppers to the table, this one came from Amazon a few weeks ago.

This Pacific Giftware giraffe salt and pepper set came from Amazon as well. They have magnets to hold them together if wanted.

The center table runner came from Amazon as well and it is called Alaza Double-Sided African Decor Table Runner. I really like how it adds an African vibe to the tablescape.

This was a fun and unique tablescape to create.

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