A tablecloth is one of those objects that can quietly change the feeling of a room. It covers a surface, but it also creates a setting: for lunch, for dinner, for guests, for everyday routines, for slow mornings and long conversations that stay on the table long after the plates are gone.
Redy.’s Illustrated Tablecloths collection takes this familiar domestic object and turns it into a large-scale canvas for colour, pattern and contemporary illustration.
The collection includes four designs: Harvest, Flora, Oasis and Eden. Each one explores a different version of abundance, bringing together botanical forms, abstract shapes, fruit-like details, flowers, leaves and bold colour combinations. Designed as both functional homeware and illustrated editions, the tablecloths sit somewhere between a design object, a textile piece and a visual statement for the home. They are made for people who want their interiors to feel expressive without becoming too serious, and for tables that are not afraid of personality.
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The creative concept behind the series begins with the table as a gathering point. In many homes, the table is not just a piece of furniture. It is where food appears, plans are made, work is spread out, friends sit down, and small daily rituals take place. Redy. approached the tablecloth as a way to frame these moments with illustration. Instead of treating the fabric as a neutral background, the collection uses pattern as atmosphere. The table becomes a garden, a field, a small oasis, a visual feast. The names of the four designs reinforce this idea, each one suggesting a different mood: Harvest feels rich and earthy, Flora is open and blooming, Oasis brings a more graphic sense of escape, while Eden carries the feeling of a lush, imagined garden.
The table becomes a garden, a field, a small oasis, a visual feast.
Created in collaboration with illustrator Amalia Zachou, the collection uses a visual language that is colourful, organic and full of movement. The patterns are not delicate in the traditional sense. They are bold, confident and graphic, with large forms that travel across the fabric and create rhythm when the tablecloth is folded, draped or laid flat. Flowers, leaves, fruits and abstract marks appear in oversized compositions, allowing the designs to work both up close and from a distance. This is especially important for a tablecloth, because the object is rarely seen in only one way. Sometimes it is neatly folded in its packaging, sometimes it falls over the edge of a table, sometimes it catches the light outdoors, and sometimes it becomes part of a room’s overall mood.
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The design approach embraces this movement between object and environment. In the photographs, the tablecloths appear folded with clean white packaging bands, hung outside in natural light, spread across outdoor tables, and draped in interiors with strong shadows and rich colour. These different settings reveal how much the designs change depending on light, surface and context. A dark background makes the bright botanical shapes feel almost theatrical. A sunlit outdoor wall brings out the Mediterranean warmth of the colours. A table setting turns the illustration into something lived-in, not just displayed. This flexibility is part of the project’s strength: the tablecloths are graphic enough to stand alone, but practical enough to become part of everyday life.
They are colourful, but not childish. Decorative, but not predictable. Functional, but not invisible.
At 240 × 140 cm, each tablecloth offers a generous surface for the artwork to unfold. The format allows the illustrations to behave almost like large textile posters, covering the table with a complete visual world rather than a repeated decorative motif. Made from 100% polyester, 250 gr/m², the fabric supports vivid colour, a smooth printed surface and a practical use for dining, styling and hosting. The material choice gives the collection the clarity needed for illustration while keeping the tablecloths suitable for real homes, not only for special occasions. They are made in Greece, connecting the project to Redy.’s ongoing focus on locally developed products and contemporary Greek design.
As a collection, Illustrated Tablecloths expands Redy.’s interest in bringing illustration into everyday objects. Redy. often works with posters, paper goods, accessories and home items, but the tablecloths introduce a different kind of scale. Here, illustration is not something you frame and look at from across the room. It becomes part of the room. It touches the table, changes the atmosphere, and participates in the scene. It can make a weekday meal feel brighter, a dinner party feel more intentional, or a balcony table feel like a small summer installation.
A tablecloth can protect a table, of course. But it can also set the mood, start a conversation and turn an ordinary surface into a colourful landscape.
The four designs also show how homeware can be playful without feeling temporary. Harvest, Flora, Oasis and Eden are colourful, but not childish. Decorative, but not predictable. Functional, but not invisible. They bring a strong visual identity to the table while leaving enough room for the life that happens around them: plates, glasses, flowers, notebooks, fruit bowls, elbows, crumbs, conversations and all the beautiful disorder of being together.
With Illustrated Tablecloths, Redy. treats the table as a place where design can live naturally. The collection invites illustration into the home in a generous, tactile and useful way. It is not about saving beautiful things for special moments. It is about letting them become part of the everyday. A tablecloth can protect a table, of course. But it can also set the mood, start a conversation and turn an ordinary surface into a colourful landscape.
