The Fall Bowls I Style Every Single Year

I’m such a big bowl person, it’s probably the thing I buy most for the house. A good bowl does more work than almost anything else you can set on a table.

The one I would start with is the carved edge wood bowl from Hearth & Hand with Magnolia at Target. It’s mango wood with a scalloped edge, and it’s the piece I would fill with mini pumpkins in October and use for salad in December. That’s my whole test, if something only works six weeks a year I don’t want it in the house.

I love pairing a low bowl with something that has height, so I would put the Villers compote bowls from Lulu and Georgia right next to it. They come as a set of two in staggered sizes, and that difference in height is what keeps a table from going flat. Brass if your room runs warm, antique pewter if it runs cooler.

The Sestina bowl by Aimee Song is the splurge in this group and it earns it. The looped handles are sculptural enough that you can leave it completely empty and the table still looks finished. The Marika pedestal bowl is the one I would pick if you have kids or a busy house, it’s resin, so it reads like ceramic and it doesn’t break.

For the kitchen counter I would go with the Picardy stoneware bowl. It’s only two inches deep, which sounds like nothing, but it means the fruit actually shows instead of disappearing into the bottom.

If you have a long rectangular table, the Collins bowl from Z Gallerie runs 23.5 inches and fills the middle the way a runner does. The Lava nesting bowls are what I would use if your room leans dark, black with gold along the edges and a shape that isn’t a perfect circle.

And the Threshold wood tray at Target is only $30, and it’s the piece that goes under all of it. Everything looks styled once it’s sitting on a tray.