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Ask anyone who hosts often and they'll tell you the same thing: the food matters, but so does what it's sitting on. A plate of laddoos on a chipped everyday dish looks like Tuesday. The same laddoos on a good platter looks like a celebration.

This year, Raksha Bandhan is falling on August 28, and if your home is anything like most Indian households, the day will bring sweets, rituals, visiting relatives, and a table groaning under the weight of a proper family meal.

If years back, you would have asked someone, “Let’s meet over high tea,” the sparkle in their eyes would have glittered as tea and conversations used to be the only medium to bond over. However, with hustle culture taking over, it started to fade away.

We have seen it all, how the grandmother kept two sets of dining plates in her kitchen. One was the everyday set, chipped at the edges from years of Sunday lunches. The other lived in the top shelf of the cupboard, brought down only when guests came over.

There is a photograph that turns up in almost every family album around wedding season. A grandmother's hands, wrapping a set of tea cup sets or any dinnerware in cotton cloth before packing them off for a daughter's new home.

A lot of people own beautiful dining sets and still manage to make the table look like merely a makeshift or just an afterthought. You know, what disrupts the visual balance?

Try picking up any food magazine that has ever existed, scroll through a chef's Instagram, or walk into a high-end restaurant...one thing we are sure about is that you will definitely find ceramic bowls everywhere.

There have been days when Monday blues and Tuesday troubles caught the mind, and the only way it could feel light was food. Bad days might just be a phase, but food as a saviour feels like a big deal cracked.

We, this generation, are healing the work of art through questions and constant discoveries. No, that’s not a fluff. For years, artwork in dining accents has been just ignored at the cost of unintentional dining. But times have changed, art is rebooting, and its observers, too.

The table has always told a story. Long before the food arrives, even before the first pour, before the candles are lit like the objects on a well-dressed table reveal something about the person who set it.

How can someone forget about those moments, when Mumma tried mac and cheese for the first time, and those tiny hands could not wrap them in a spoon, so she-patting your head, gave you a beautiful fork with floral imprints and ceramic handles, and thus, you finally felt that cheese burst and softness in your taste buds.

One of the most beautiful things about wooden home decor products is that wood remembers things; right from the grain that runs through a well-made tray carries the memory of the tree it came from to the hands that shaped it.