If Santa needs to have a lunch break while flying around on his sleigh, “Dinner In The Sky” could be a likely pit stop.

The essence of a table is a place for an activity that is raised from the ground. The Dinners in the Sky takes this basic concept about 50 meters further, with their 7 tonnes worth of dinning tables that are winched into the sky by a crane. While up there  a meal is eaten by 22 seat-belted dinners and served by 5 harnessed staff. These staff have included some pretty big named chefs yet I don’t think that it’s three star cooking that the real  show stopper.

This whole table contraption is for rent or sale and seems to be popular as a high end corporate event. I do wonder if etiquette  allows them to remind the dinner guests to visit the bathroom first, as I’m sure any wind chill factor would make any call of nature more pressing. One thing that I am sure off, dropping your cutlery would be a major faux pas.

Today starts the 23rd Interior Biennale in Kortrijk Belgium. Nine days ago to kick off all the Biannale events, a great table parade took place to transport à 30 meter long picnic table from à ship at Buda Beach to Kortrijk Xpo two an a half kilometers away. It was carried through the town by 110 pink jacketed student who showed the world that the best way to have have a good time is to gather around a table with your peers.

Designed by Bruno Fattorini & Partners, Marina is made by Extremis from pultrusion glass fiber profiles so that extra long tables can be extruded, now you never need worry about there not being enough room at the table.

Heals on the Tottenham court road in London, is the furniture store where students of architecture go to salavate over various designer goodies. Yet the only furniture that you’re actually likely to use while in Heals is in the Oliver Peyton Restaurant Meals. A few years ago he hired the hip architecural firm FAT,(fashion architecture taste), to design it. Fat’s designs are concerned with real emotions, memory, images, politics , language and place , rather than prevailing diktats of modernist abstraction.

These Trompe l’oeil tables are a careful balance of a language of domestic simplicity and the feel of high quality event. The table-cloth table-top is mdf with a white colour core formica laminate, so there are no black edges at the corners of the formica and it would still looks good even if it were chipped. This sits on a supporting frame that is held off the ground by solid oak legs.

They are quite at home in the restaurant’s oak cut-out set of a garden tea-time, in the centre of London.

Camping should be a civilised pursuit, and this bamboo, aluminium and steel tables certainly make it so. Made by the Japanese company snow peak these table have the hallmarks of contemporary Japanese design, a respect for the nature of materials, an apparent simplicity and attention to detail. There is a definite feel of luxury to the way they fit in their bag, open easily and click into place. There should be one in the trunk of ever four wheel drive.

The PicNYC table by the architect Haiko Cornelissen is currently an Internet sensation so how could architectstables not post about it. It reminds me of the time that I had a glass of retsina wine for the first (and last) time and was desperately searching for a plant to spill it into, but there was none. If I had been sitting at this table there would never have been an issue.

If this Déjeuner sur l’Herbe were mine I would grow a camomile lawn on it and tend to it daily with nail scissors. In summer I would open the windows and stretch out on it for a little nap.