Welcome back to the show. You k,
there's still plenty of great weather
left for that outdoor dining experience,
and here to help us with it and setting
a beautiful table is Timothy deu
from the Timothy de Clu Collectn
now at Pacific Place in Seattle.
And I want to talk to you about
that in a second.
But first, I want to know how In
score an invite to dinner at yor
house because this setup is beautiful.
Thank you.
So let's go down the line and
talk about some of the things
that you feel are just essential
for an outdoor dining experienc,
starting with the dinnerware.
Sure. So we have a line of dinnerware
that is a mix and match type dinnerware.
So we have like a striped dinner plate,
OK, a sea fan dinner plate.
And then we have like octopus,
fish and crab and even a
Seattle plate mix and match it.
So I like to say you use
the real stuff outside.
It's not about using, you know,
the melamine or anything.
So you shouldn't worry about it.
That's that's interesting.
That's a different take on
things because I, you know,
I know that folks really invest in it,
like a whole melamine collectiod
then then they have their home stuff.
So I think it's interesting thau
say you can just use your dinnerware.
Yeah. Use your dinnerware and
don't be afraid to use it outsi.
I mean, what are you doing play,
you know, frisbee with your dinner plates?
It's not. And if you break one ,
but it's fine, you know, back
down to the store and grab another one.
There's also something you feel
like formal to casual. Yeah, ri.
Yeah. So you can do it a little formal.
So you use a napkin ring.
You use some better linens,
finer linens that are more deta.
That napkin ring, by the way,
is out of this world.
It's like a geode on a napkin r,
on a crystal napkin ring. So th.
That's the fancy. The fancy.
That's the fancy version.
OK, And so then what?
What is the more dressed down version?
If you, you know,
if it's just the folks.
Yeah. Using the same dinner,
You can see that we dressed
this one down a little bit,
but instead of using a napkin,
we're using a kitchen towel as a napkin.
It's a great way to have a difft
style and we layer it under the plate.
OK, keep that shot right now because I
just want to show you all look at this.
You see this little rowboat?
You're like, what is that?
Isn't that cute?
You know what this is?
It's salt and pepper.
It's like for seasoning.
Look at that.
The Little Oars,
they dig it out.
It's solid pewter, which is really fun.
And what a great one of those
per place setting would be.
Really fun to do or have it
to house around. Yeah. OK.
I like kind of maybe a couple fr
the table, a couple for the tabe
and what a great gift.
I know. That's my Aunt Eileen.
I hope she's not watching today
because that's what you're gett.
Next time I need to give you a .
I love that.
Let's talk about this glassware.
Because first of all,
I want to start with this.
It's the whole octopus theme. Y.
And it matches the dinnerware, .
And the dinnerware.
The octopus is called Blue Lucy,
so that's her name,
and this is her barware as well.
She's not blue,
but it's just Lucy barware.
And there are probably about
six different silhouettes.
So that's the red wine.
There's white wine,
there's doubled fashions and
they're really beautiful,
sold in pairs,
and they're fascinating to look,
which is what I really like is I
always like something like that.
That's really fascinating.
Speaking of which,
these glasses here there's
so reminiscent of the 1960s,
the classic thing,
but there's like a special twist on these,
right? Yes.
So each glass there's a school
of fish and there's one fish
swimming in the opposite direct.
And it represents a unique
spirit in all of us.
I'm trying to find my fish on this one.
So it's a great little.
You all saw it already.
Okay. There it is,
right there it is, Yes.
Living in the eyes.
I think that's so fun.
So we all have that friend or us that
is that unique spirit. So it's d
of fun to get away as a gift,
oftentimes. Nice. Yes.
And this is part of the
Timothy Declue collection. Yes.
It's called School of Fish.
School of Fish. OK.
I love that I was just mentionig
getting a gift for my aunt,
but I think Hostess gifts are something
that we all kind of struggle wi.
You know, isn't the bottle of w,
but you've kind of created
an updraft of that.
Like you have an upsell
to the bottle of wine.
So we have the bottle of wine
and you wrap a towel around it,
tie a nice ribbon around it so
it's just simple way to give a e
gift and a nice bottle of wine.o
this is great because I've been,
I literally recently at a stored
thinking what am I going to getr
someone and I didn't realize I d
have just grabbed a dish towel d
wrapped it all beautifully like that.
Although it takes a little bit of creativity,
a little bit. Sometimes
I'll actually open the towel and put the
bottle in it and it's a little easier.
I just don't want to cover the
label of the the wine of the vey
smart on the same line as towel.
You kind of added it with a
soap and a dish. So we have
a sushi dish which is part of the same line
as the dinnerware and that's the fish line.
And then we did a towel and a bar of soap.
It's just kind of really simple.
And then it's something that if you give
that as a gift to the Hostess or host,
they don't have to to find a
vase to put the flowers in.
They don't have to worry about
what are we gonna do with this.
So it's kind of useful.
And it's useful definitely.
And candles are always useful.
Candles are always useful. We he
a line that we call marine and
it has a little sea salt and
minerals of the sea and it's gr.
And also what I like to do is also have
like a basket of throws out on the patio.
And so. Which is great.
So if someone gets cold,
they can just grab a little thr.
Or we have alpaca scarves,
which are shawls.
And then we have wool throws.
Oh, these are really soft.
So soft. Oh, my gosh.
I might just, you know,
end up walking home with this.
I'm not going to lie.
But no, this is great.
Especially living in the Pacific Northwest.
We all know most of my friends when I go,
they'll have throws around beca,
you know, the temperature does ,
but all you need is like a light
throw and you're comfortable
is just a bug and a rug.
Exactly. So cozy.
Let's talk about where your stoy
now because I'm actually super
excited about this Pacific plac.
We know it's gone through a lot,
but you've opened your store
there now and I couldn't
be more thrilled for you.
Yeah, we opened on July 1st and
we're excited to be back downto,
cuz I was downtown for several years.
We've been doing pop ups since the pandemic.
Yeah and it's just kind of a rebuild of
downtown and with all the tourists there.
I think it's a wonderful way to you know
bring welcome them back into Seattle. Yeah
you are making like you said a
conscious effort for this and ad
really committing to Seattle.
Tell me more about why that
is so important from for
business owners to start doing.
I think that as a small business
we need to be the first in and
kind of make the the break there
and just show that the you know,
Seattle's back and we're back ad
we're ready for everyone to come back
and and do their shopping downt.
I was downtown recently taking
my grandma to meet a friend
who was in town and I couldn't
believe the foot traffic.
I mean there's really a lot
of people downtown again
and that's actually up to the
2018 times and so it's great.
It's safe down there.
You know that's the other thingI
will say I do I've been I go to Pacific
Place a lot because that's kind of the
closest for me from from the sto
to go shopping for makeup or whatever
we need and parking is convenie.
It's great. I mean, it's still gonna cost
you a Pacific Place, But you know what?
It's fun. It's safe. It's worth.
That's what I always say.
You know, right.
It's phenomenal. And
then you're right there across
from Nordstrom. So you can just
run across the scriber. You
can go to the movie theater, movie theater.
Just don't forget there's not an
advertisement for Pacific Place.
But we're having you some love
right here. There's some great.
There's some great food upstair,
too. So, so much stuff.
Small businesses throughout, ye.
Thank you so much Timothy,
for coming and sharing
these great ideas with us.
And these are ideas we could it
carry with me for years to come.
So we really appreciate it.
Thank you for having.