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In our next episode of How I Host… we're celebrating color at the home of designer Eva Sonaike who uses trinkets and treasures from her travels to set the table for a stunning Sunday lunch.

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00:00Hi, I'm Eva Schoenaik here. This is how I host. Come on in.

00:09So today I'm hosting a Sunday family lunch.

00:11People often think that a Sunday lunch will be very simple, but I love to go overboard and bring color and pattern into play.

00:17So the table is literally the centerpiece of our living space.

00:20I love it because it's large, it's bold, and when I style it, I also like people to see the actual wood

00:27because it has a feeling, it has stories to tell, so I love it.

00:30So when I started tablescape, color is the foundation for me, for any tablescape.

00:35Generally for my designs, I always think about color first.

00:38I'm going to add a lot of other colors, but my foundation or my key colors are pink and green.

00:43And I'm taking all the details, all the little items that I love, that are my favorites, that are in this cabinet,

00:48to style the table and give it real personality.

00:51So the first stage of my tablescape is laying the placemats.

00:55They're really plain in comparison to what else I'm going to put on, but it's quite a nice contrast.

01:01It also works really well with the sparkling table runner there.

01:05So it gives you a bit of texture and a bit of frills.

01:10You hardly find plates with African patterns.

01:14Every plate is different, everything is colorful, patterned, but nothing really matches.

01:19So I think they're perfect for this.

01:21So even when it comes to the dishes that I'm preparing, I love to bring color into play.

01:26I love greens, I love fresh vegetables, maybe light fish.

01:29To have conversations over a nice meal, but nothing too precious.

01:32Something that's just fun and easy to digest.

01:34So this is a really beautiful cutlery.

01:39My parents actually got, I think it must have been in the 1980s, on a trip to Florence.

01:45And they look all different and I like that.

01:47They have a nice shine to them.

01:49So it kind of frames it nicely, I like that.

01:51So I've only got four coasters of these really beautiful amber-colored glass ones.

01:56But then I also have some really nice African-inspired raffia.

01:59So I'm just going to do a mix and match.

02:06So I picked these glasses up in a charity shop the other week.

02:09And I have a lot of glasses, but they just spoke to me.

02:12Just really, really beautiful bubbles.

02:14And they're quite heavy.

02:15And I love the way the kind of purple-pink color kind of fades in at the bottom.

02:19Perfect for my tablescapes.

02:21So I think today I'm going to make this beautiful orchid my centerpiece.

02:28It's wide, really floaty, and it doesn't interfere with the colors.

02:31But this basket I picked up in Marrakesh.

02:34It's perfect if you want to put breads in or potatoes.

02:37It keeps them nice and warm.

02:39And I like it, I think, at the end of the table here.

02:42Next is to get the vases for all the greens and all the foliage and everything I'm going to put on the table.

02:50So I'm just going to put them down for now.

02:52And once I have decided which plants and flowers go into which, I'm going to style them properly.

02:58Really beautiful tangene, which we use for salt and pepper.

03:01I love Marrakesh for its beautiful table accessories.

03:04I'm very kind of clear with the curation when I put a tablescape together.

03:07Does it fit in?

03:08If it doesn't fit in, it doesn't come onto this table.

03:10I love these elephants.

03:11They're very, very heavy.

03:13And someone told me to always place elephants towards the door for kind of good luck and prosperity.

03:19So we're going to place them towards the door.

03:22But when our guests come and share with us, we have a conversation starter.

03:25I love napkins.

03:26I love cloth napkins.

03:27I think they elevate a table.

03:29I've got my own napkins design.

03:31I'm a textile and interior designer.

03:33They're inspired by Kano, which is a city in northern Nigeria, which is well known for its beautiful architecture.

03:39You can have them in a really minimalist setting and they're just the wow effect.

03:45For the next step, I'm going to arrange some flowers just to bring a bit of color, a bit of texture to the table.

03:50Also a bit of height that we can play a little bit with the layering.

03:53So when I was a kid, we always had family lunches and my parents had a kid's table where we sat separate from them.

04:00But what I love here, we all sit together.

04:02We are all so busy and, you know, everyone is doing their own things.

04:05My kids are at teenage age, so, you know, they have their own life.

04:08Coming together on a Sunday lunch is the time when we really get together with family.

04:13We laugh, we debate, we discuss what happened during the week.

04:16Something like this actually looks really nice. I think that may already be enough.

04:24They bring life to the table. I really feel like there's more going on right now.

04:28I just have to place them in the right spot.

04:30So I'm really happy with the tablescape. It just looks really nice and welcoming.

04:36They're little personal stories kind of intertwined in it.

04:39Travels we did together, things that I experienced by myself, it's all coming here together.

04:43So I think it's more than just like an aesthetic look.

04:46It's a real kind of story, conversation starter, but also something which is really personal to me and my family.

04:53I think my family will really enjoy the Sunday lunch here today.

04:56I have this really beautiful goat spell which was given to me when I was a child on a hiking trip in Switzerland by a farmer.

05:05I'm going to use that to call them in a second.

05:07Thank you so much for joining me and I hope you loved it.

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