Royal Copenhagen Christmas Tables

The presentation of Royal Copenhagen’s Annual Christmas Tables is a recurring event that has attracted the attention from people of all ages since 1963. Through the years, the historic Royal Copenhagen Flagship Store in Copenhagen has welcomed a vast group of cultural figures, who have set their Christmas tables under varying themes.

The beloved Christmas tables highlight the traditions of the holidays, but always with a bit of edge and a sense of humor. The exhibition also inspires guests to create their own holiday decorations and table settings. This year, the exhibition officially opens November 18th on the 2nd floor of the Royal Copenhagen Flagship Store at Amagertorv 6 in Copenhagen and is open until 31st December 2023. The exhibition can also be experienced right here after the 18th of November.

Annual Christmas Table Heritage for Royal Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Christmas Tables 2025

On the occasion of Royal Copenhagen’s 250th anniversary, this year’s Christmas tables pay tribute to the craftsmanship that unites tradition and innovation. In collaboration with four artists, each working in their own material, the traditions of Christmas are interpreted through four sensuous and atmospheric universes.

Christmas Tables 2025

Annual Christmas Table Veronica Hodges for Royal Copenhagen

Christmas tables 2024

Eras – 60 Years of Royal Copenhagen Christmas Tables.

Every year since 1963, Royal Copenhagen and the invited table decorators have generously celebrated the diversity of Christmas – through decades, through past and present. In Royal Copenhagen’s Christmas Tables, the artistic movements of time, values and culture have been illustrated in aesthetic imagination for decades and this year, the 60 years of Royal Copenhagen’s Christmas Tables are celebrated with yet another chapter of stories.

Christmas Tables 2024

Christmas Tables 2023

Every year since 1963, Royal Copenhagen and the invited table decorators have generously celebrated the diversity of Christmas – through decades, through past and present. In Royal Copenhagen’s Christmas Tables, the artistic movements of time, values and culture have been illustrated in aesthetic imagination for decades and this year, the 60 years of Royal Copenhagen’s Christmas Tables are celebrated with yet another chapter of stories

Under the theme "Eras - 60 years with Royal Copenhagen Christmas Tables," five Christmas tables are presented by six creative figures, each of whom has left a significant impact on Danish culture - some over several decades, others well on their way in their innovative journey. Each interprets their personal Christmas as it has been experienced, perceived, and sensed in important and changing phases of their lives.

Table decorators: Alberte Winding, Saks Potts, Lin Utzon, Karen Kjældgaard Larsen and Jesper Binzer

Christmas Tables 2022

For the 59th year in a row, Royal Copenhagen opened its doors to the beloved Christmas table exhibition in the flagship store in the heart of Copenhagen. Since 1963 the Christmas tables have become a cherished tradition, which has gathered thousands of guests across generations. In recent years, the exhibition has also unfolded online for people all over the world to enjoy.

Within the theme “An Enchanted Christmas”, the 2022 exhibition explored the invited table decorators’ dreams and thoughts when their creativity was set free. With one foot planted in their own Christmas traditions and the other in their specific branch of the arts, the table decorators reached for a Christmas full of creativity and magic

Table decorators: Adam price, Bente Scavenius, Frederikke Legaard, Søren Le Schmidt and Vang Stensgaard

Christmas Tables 2021

To the theme of ’New Traditions’, the Annual Christmas Tables 2021 centered on the different phases and life-changing events of our lives that affect how we celebrate Christmas. A diversity of holiday traditions play out in each family; repeated year after year, passed on from one generation to the next. And new traditions also arise when young families create their own holiday moments, giving Christmas a new character and expression.

The rituals of the holiday are passed on, taking on a new life as new hosts take over, adding new chapters to our holiday stories.

Table Decoratores: Nanna oland, Cecilie Nissen Haugaard, Claus Meyer with Christina Meyer and Lotte Tegner Freddie.

CHRISTMAS TABLES 2020

Togetherness - Sharing the holiday season is the greatest gift of all. It is a season filled with traditions and shared values, and it is the time of year where we hold our loved ones closer, coming together around the joyous holiday table.

In the light of longing for togetherness and shared traditions, Royal Copenhagen hosted its 57th Annual Christmas Tables, inviting well-known characters to let their personal holiday traditions shine on their own personal Christmas Table. With 2020’s theme of ‘Togetherness’, they saluted family, tradition and the holiday spirit.

COMFORT IN TRADITIONS
Especially in 2020, where a global pandemic challenged us all and made it difficult for us to meet and hold our loved ones close, the holidays and all our beloved traditions took on an extra special meaning.

Royal Copenhagen invited five special people to set the Christmas Tables in 2020; each of them with a special take on the togetherness and magic of the holidays, on the value of presence and of making an effort to bring joy to others. Though table setters came with different professional backgrounds and holiday traditions, they all see the holidays as the most special time of the year; as a time of light and hope.

2020’s table setters were singer, songwriter and ambassador for Save the Children Denmark, Lis Sørensen; Actor, entertainer, speaker and ambassador for the Danish Heart Foundation, Peter Mygind; Chef, cookbook author and restaurateur, Adam Aamann; Journalist and TV-anchor, Ida Wohlert; and TV- and radio personality, entrepreneur and owner of sustainable

Annual Christmas Table Vanessa Iversen for Royal Copenhagen

Christmas Tables since 1963

Since the exhibition opened for the first time in 1963, Royal Copenhagen's Christmas Tables have become a classic Christmas tradition, which has brought together thousands of visitors across generations. Through intricately set and inspirational tables, visitors have been able to reflect on their own Christmas traditions through a lens of tables showcasing the diversity of the holiday’s most significant moments.

Under changing themes and six decades, hundreds of artists and cultural figures have been invited to stage a Christmas table based on Royal Copenhagen's universe of porcelain, figurines, and Christmas decorations. The table setters have also had the opportunity to choose vintage sets and unique pieces, which, in conjunction with the table decorators' own selected objects, have been transformed into magical tables. Thereby, through changing epochs, the traditions of Christmas have been interpreted with impressive imagination and infused with humor and edge - but always with respect for history and the table setters themselves.

Annual Christmas Table Helle Mardahl for Royal Copenhagen

The Interpretation of Christmas

Over the years, the themes have been as diverse as the table decorators themselves; the Christmas Tables have been interpreted by fashion designers, artists, craftsmen, actors, ballet dancers, chefs, designers, florists, musicians, singers, athletes, food writers, TV-, theatre and film directors, mayors, noblewomen, nobles, and on one special occasion a royal in the form of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. For the 40th anniversary of Royal Copenhagen’s Christmas Tables in 2003, Her Majesty The Queen was invited to stage the royal Christmas.

Annual Christmas Table Amanda Betzfor Royal Copenhagen

Between dream and reality

Many other professions and art forms have also been represented in the high-ceilinged premises at Amagertorv 6 in the heart of Copenhagen. They have all contributed to interpreting and telling stories about the Christmas season and Royal Copenhagen, about the porcelain and the way the meal is staged. Through the Christmas tables, Royal Copenhagen has created a continuous narrative about trends and moods in society, our way of being together, about new food habits, and values in transformation. The exhibition's visitors have also been able to reflect on themselves and their time in the tables, and they have been inspired, challenged, surprised, and confirmed, and have been allowed to enter a borderland between dream and reality.