The Festive Table Workshop

THE ART OF TABLESCAPING with Natasha Morgan and OAK LANE & Co.

In August, Carla and Simon opened the whole of OAK LANE & Co. to a small group for The Winter Table, and every antique vessel and length of old linen in the shop became ours to style with for the morning. On Monday 16 November they’re opening the doors again, this time for the festive season.

Natasha will arrive with armfuls from the garden. Some of it is the red-stemmed dogwood she cut back from the northern verge at Little Cottage on a Hill in the big spring chop and kept for exactly this, because nothing in her garden goes to waste if she can help it when it’s as beautiful as this. The rest will be whatever the garden and the country lanes around Daylesford are offering in late spring.

For one morning, OAK LANE & Co. on Piper Street, Kyneton is your styling library: antique Australian, English and French furniture, old linen, silver, ceramics and glass, all there to handle, choose and arrange. Together, Natasha, Carla and Simon will show you how to build a festive table that feels generous and abundant, and how to make it again at home with what you already have.

Across the morning, you will:

• Learn how Natasha composes a table, drawing on a lifetime in gardens and her time working in floristry and events

• Choose your own pieces from the OAK LANE & Co. collection to style and curate with

• Work with branches, foliage and flowers from Natasha’s garden, and learn how she conditions them so they last

• Build a complete festive table inside the shop, and leave knowing how to make one at home

• Create your own festive wreath to take home