Designer Dinner Party: 13 Items to Wow Your VIP Guests
Gone are the days of luxury fashion houses competing exclusively on fashion. Nowadays, the likes of Louis Vuitton and Prada find themselves bringing a touch of luxury to homeware, gardenware and beyond. And what better way to impress some important dinner party guests than adding some designer options to your party.
From luxury cushions to luxury candles, here are 13 items that will leave your dinner party guests impressed with more than just the food!
Gucci
Gucci Wool Blanket
If you’re hosting in the summertime, you might want to take your guests outside to round off the evening in your garden. If that’s the case, don’t leave your guests feeling chilly.
Keep them both warm and impressed by having your Gucci wool blanket on hand to offer if needed.
Gucci Teapot
If you’re attempting to keep your dinner party delightfully british, you might want to offer a luxury afternoon tea to your guests.
If so, call in some Italian help and serve up some hot tea in your herbarium Gucci teapot.
Gucci Cutlery
If you want to keep your expression of luxury a little more subtle, why not set your table with Gucci cutlery.
The Italian fashion house offers a set of knives engraved with the iconic bee logo as well as forks and spoons with the Gucci tiger head attached to the handle.
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Furniture
Your guests are going to need somewhere to sit right? When it comes to furniture, Louis Vuitton offers some of the most luxurious options you’ll find. But be warned, they come with an extremely hefty price tag.
A Louis Vuitton Bomboca sofa will cost you over £70,000, an Anemona table sells for £77,500, and being able to offer your guests a seat on your LV cocoon will cost you £87,500!
Louis Vuitton Chopsticks
If you’ve got certain Asian foods on the menu or even important Asian guests in attendance, it’d only be right to offer your guests the option of using chopsticks.
Fortunately, you’ve even got the option of offering designer chopsticks with Louis Vuitton’s £590 set.
Louis Vuitton Coasters
You could pick up a pack of coasters for next to nothing at your local grocery store, or alternatively you could spend over £600 on Louis Vuitton’s designer coaster set.
The colourful set comes with a leather case, decked in LV’s classic monogram canvas and could be the perfect touch of class that your dinner table needs.
Prada
Prada Scented Candles
Your dinner party doesn’t need to just look the part, it also needs to smell the part. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have luxury options when it comes to aroma.
If you want a designer scent to surround your guests, check out Prada’s porcelain-scented candles, which come with two choices of patterns: banana or checkerboard.
Prada dinner plates
Your guests are probably going to be more concerned with what’s on the plate, but don’t discount what you serve your food on.
Prada offers four different sets of dinner plates: Vienna red, Vienna green, checkerboard and celadon, with the plates coming in sets of two for £240.
Prada Games
So you want your dinner party to be classy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun too!
If you want to introduce some classic games between courses or after a few drinks, you can impress your guests with Prada-branded playing cards, dominoes or even a poker set.
Hermes
Hermes Picnic Basket
If you’re looking for more of a garden party as opposed to a dinner party, you’re not short on choice when it comes to luxury garden accessories either.
One of the top picks for bringing some French flair to the garden comes from Hermès and their elegant picnic basket—not bad if you can afford to spend £13,000 on a picnic basket!
Hermes Ornaments
When it comes to decorating your home, it makes sense to look to the same designer brands that we turn to for high-end garments.
Hermès offers some of the more interesting decorative objects including a £5,000 horse sculpture, a £1,500 magnifying glass and, wait for it, a palio backgammon game for almost £7,000!
Christian Dior
Christian Dior Pillows
If you’re looking for designer pillows for your dinner party, Dior has got you covered with both indoor and outdoor pillows. The indoor ones are draped in the brand’s iconic toile de jouy pattern and come in square and rectangular options.
For the ultimate luxury touch, you can even add embroidery to your pillows at the checkout to make them truly unique.
Christian Dior Mugs
If it’s a sober party you’re hosting, you might want some designer options to serve up your tea and coffee.
Fortunately, Dior has a plethora of mugs available to hold your hot drinks and, at £230, they start at what’s a relatively modest price tag for this list.