![Christine Joy Willow boat basket](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/44cj-Boat-Becoming-a-River-centerpiece.jpg)
The holiday season is upon us. Beginning with Diwali, winding its way through Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and probably others, we’ll arrive at the promise of a New Year. We wish you many celebrations, satisfying meet-ups with family and friends, and moments of cozy comfort and joy over the next few weeks.
![Deborah Valoma wire vessels](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20dv-Clytemnestra-undone_tabletop.jpg)
![Mary Giles copper and linen centerpiece](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27mgb-Black-Profile.jpg)
Many of those festivities will include food and drink and maybe games and they’ll take place around a table. On many of those tables there will be a centerpiece of some kind — flowers, candles, and often a work of art. In that spirit, we present several artworks that can grace a a table as well as a pedestal or shelf.
![Yasuhisa Kohyama Ceramic](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/11yk-Ceramic-11-centerpiece.jpg)
![Rachel Max plaited Red sculpture](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/12rm-Balance-tabletop.jpg)
A browngrotta arts, we’ve been considering the transformative power of objects all Fall, their capacity to invoke memory and meaning. Our An Abundance of Objects exhibition can be seen in a Viewing Room on Artsy beginning November 22nd. Like those in The Domestic Plane: a New Perspective on Tabletop Art at the Aldrich Museum in 2019, the items in Abundance celebrate “the hand as means of creation, a formal frame of reference, and for the viewer, a source of both delight and tension …” And sometimes, they enhance our lives just by being beautiful. We wish you a season of as much beauty as you can muster.
![Dorothy Gill Barnes glass and wood sculpture](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/38dgb-Hackberry-with-Glass-tabletop.jpg)
![Norma Minkowitz boy riding bird](https://arttextstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/99mm-Unbound.jpg)