Finishing Touches: The Lune Tableau Collection.
Toronto-based creative director and designer Lisa Mok has always had a profound awareness of life’s ephemerality—and a desire to make everything around her just a bit more beautiful. It’s the ethos that went into Lune 1860, the Italianate mansion she renovated with her husband and opened as a multifaceted event space “for intimate gatherings and life celebrations” in 2018. Mok’s latest venture is the Lune Tableau Collection—eight statement-making table dressings that draw inspiration from iconic silhouettes in fashion, art, confectionery, and more (think: Simone Rocha soufflé, in lustrous silk taffeta with grosgrain ribbon ties; Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack, in diaphanous tulle with feather detailing). While dreaming up these tableaus—which range in mood from ethereal to tongue-in-cheek, and each of which is made-to-order or available to rent—Mok’s goal was to create “an immersive canvas for your table that weaves in narratives of drama, joy and fantasy.” Her design process begins with a creative reference from something she’s been moved by, heard, or touched. Then she takes to her sketchpad to illustrate the idea, and finally creates numerous design iterations with local dressmakers. Each piece is meticulously hand-sewn and constructed to ensure the perfect fit. “I see the table like a body form,” Mok says. “The design must be whimsical yet functional, and drape with ease. It must serve as a canvas for everything that goes on it.”
lune1860.ca / @lune1860
Photography by Marissa Joan Ho @marissajoanho
Words by Annabel Graham
Left to right: The Sixth Tableau, Sandy Liang as Odetten, Jack | The First Tableau, Giambattista Valli mille feuille.
The Second Tableau, Margiela with a touch of Karl
The Fifth Tableau, A classic YSL profiterole
“I see the table like a body form . . . the design must be whimsical yet functional, and drape with ease. It must serve as a canvas for everything that goes on it.”
Lisa Mok
Left to right: The Seventh Tableau, Simone Rocha soufflé | The Third Tableau, Gianfranco Ferré’s classic meringue
The Eighth Tableau, Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack
Left to right: The Fifth Tableau,A classic YSL profiterole | The Fourth Tableau, Valentino’s Aphrodite
lune1860.ca / @lune1860
Photography by Marissa Joan Ho @marissajoanho
Words by Annabel Graham