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.

ROYAL COPENHAGEN CHRISTMAS TABLES 2023

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.

Explore the 2023 Christmas Tables

Royal Copenhagen Christmas Tables through the years

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.

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.

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.