Our News – Talking Tables UK Trade

What's Hot: May

From welcoming bright colours into your home to a House Beautiful favourite, check out this months top trends and products.

Outdoor rugs for the summer season

The sun is shining and the coats are firmly packed away. Summer is finally making an appearance and we have you covered for all those upcoming garden parties, picnics and lazy days of sunbathing. G...

Our Great Big Jubilee Round-up

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations are fast approaching. There's a whole host of exciting things happening and ways to get involved. Here’s everything you need to know to get in the spirit.

Independent Stores Shout Out: April

It's time for our monthly shout out for some of our amazing independent stores who have been busy creating beautiful displays of their Talking Tables products. This month we are absolutely loving s...

What's Hot: April

From a Stylist magazine favourite, to channelling festival fever - check out this month's top trending products.

Why we are planting trees

Talking Tables is working with Ecologi, the carbon offset initiative, on tree planting. We’re already offsetting the paper we use in our napkins and games and we’re keen to do more.

Talking Topic: Coming together this Eid

Taking Tables founder Clare talks to Zakera, founder of Peace & Blessings, about their joint love of being around a table with family, friends and neighbours: I was introduced to Zakera Haq, by...

Small Store Shout Out - March

Each month we like to show our appreciation for our small stores who create and post bright and beautiful displays of our ranges. We love to see how they display the products and hear which they an...

Eco-taining with Talking Tables

Eco-taining, or planning a sustainable table as it’s more commonly known, is especially creative and rewarding and a great talking point for guests.

Introducing Our New Range: Tilly & Tigg

Meet Tilly, the new girls’ party collection with a difference. It’s a collection for girls of today that’s also mindful of the future. Tilly and Tigg is for girls with an adventurous and free spiri...

How to organise a Jubilee street party

From Thursday 2ndJune to Sunday 5th June we’re set to enjoy a bumper four day bank holiday weekend to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Twelve million Brits are expected to host a street party - ...

Talking Topic: Becoming A Successful Sales Agent

I have a background in sales and I admire a great salesperson: it is a deceptively hard job, requiring many more skills than is first apparent. I was keen to talk to our long-standing and very succ...

Our journey to becoming more sustainable

Sometimes it can feel like sustainability has become a business buzzword, so it’s important to us as a company that we're transparent about what we’re doing to reduce our impact on the planet. Fo...

When is a paper cup recyclable?

Paper cups are paper and therefore recyclable right? Wrong. The vast majority of paper cups have a plastic lining and therefore can’t be recycled. Enter the Talking Tables totally plastic free, ...

Small Store Shout Out

We see so many of our amazing customers tagging our products in their stores, with the window and table displays always looking bright and inviting. We want to acknowledge some of our favourite tag...

Hello 2022! Our Eco Year

At Talking Tables we wanted to create something visual to illustrate the eco journey we’ve been on for the last few years. Not just to celebrate what we’ve already achieved but to also highlight ou...

Chelsea Flower Show 2021 - 5 Trends I expect to filter through to tables and gatherings by Dan Cooper

The Chelsea Flower Show is where horticultural trends have been set since 1913. It’s the gardening equivalent of London Fashion Week and the most prestigious flower show in the world. Big-budget sh...

Where To Get Your Table Setting Inspiration

You can find a lot of the tablescapes we have created over on our Instagram, as well as our Inspiration page. Here the team details what theme was chosen and why, the products used, brand collabora...

Talking Topic: Staying Successful As An Independent Retailer

Edinburgh is the city I went to school in so is close to my heart. A favourite shopping area is Stafford Street, and a great store for cards and gifts is Paper Tiger managed by Michael Apter. Pape...

TT Festival Of Freedom: Keeping It Eco

For the Talking Tables’ Festival Of Freedom we are excited to have partnered with some fun and delicious drinks brands, including Sibling Gin – a local family-run gin distillery. We shall be making...

Talking Topic - Being an independent store in 2021

This week Talking Tables' Founder Clare took a visit to sunny Scotland... 'When I visit my parents and family home in Fife, Scotland, I make a visit to the retailer Loch Leven’s Larder. The setti...