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The Winter Table Masterclass
The Art of Tablescaping
with OAK LANE & Co. and Natasha Morgan
There is a reason the still-life painters loved winter.
Bare branches and lichen, a fall of old linen, candlelight catching the dull gleam of silver, fruit and foliage built into abundance against the dark — the Dutch Masters made whole worlds on a tabletop, in the season with the least to work with. The Winter Table is an invitation to do the same.
For the first time in three years, Natasha Morgan returns to OAK LANE & Co. in Kyneton to gather a small group around the art of the winter table — the tablescaping, styling and seasonal storytelling she has spent a lifetime refining, first staged years ago as a Dutch master-esque still life at Oak & Monkey Puzzle, and brought now into Carla and Simon's extraordinary world on Piper Street.
For one morning, their entire shop is yours. This is the rare part. Carla and Simon are opening the whole of OAK LANE & Co. to you as your styling library — two heritage rooms of antique furniture, vintage linen, silver, ceramics, glass and objects imbued with the stories of time. You will handle and hold them, gather and arrange, build a tablescape, pull it apart and build it again, fully immersed in the collection as though the shop were your own home. To it Natasha brings winter's own materials: lichen-crusted branches, moss, hellebores and the quiet botanicals she forages from the secret country lanes and forested places of the Central Highlands.
Together, Natasha, Carla and Simon share what sits beneath a beautiful table — how to source with an eye, read a season, compose a still life, and turn an ordinary gathering into something people remember.
Monday 3 August 2026
10am - 1pm
OAK LANE & Co.
66 Piper St, Kyneton, Vic
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Creative Conversation Series
Hosted by Natasha Morgan and O A K L A N E & Co.
Delve into the worlds of diverse and inspiring creative minds. Join uniquely celebrated artisans, designers, creative thinkers and doers engaged in conversation with Natasha Morgan, to unravel what inspires, motivates and challenges their creative practices and crafts.
Through authentic ‘Creative Conversation’ we are provided a rare and insightful window into the key life choices, values, visions and milestones that have guided and shaped a marriage of passions, creative working lifestyles, and practices. Through facilitated open discourse we are offered generous insights into their dynamic projects, processes, practices and measures for success, across diverse creative vocations and lifestyles, each challenging the norms of what it is to be a ‘creative’ in today’s society.
The panel will include artisans, designers, creative thinkers and doers in diverse fields ranging from landscape and interior design, architecture and heritage restoration, event styling and botanical artistry, craftsmanship and design.
The Creative Conversations Series opens up rich discussions by way of curiosity and conversation, highlighting diverse creatives doing their best work in an authentic manner. Through this perspective, we are offered insights into their vision and practice, and what is possible if we remain curious and innovative.
The Creative Conversations Series seeks to ignite dynamic discussions, expand collaborative creativity, foster connections and a creative community in a generous and welcoming setting.
Limited tickets available - on sale now!
Our Creative Conversationalists:
Jeremy Valentine – Garden Creator, The Stones; Retailer/Collector, Shag Vintage
Jeremy and Grant Francis’ garden ‘The Stones’ is an ever-evolving tough-climate garden created around an 1850s stone farmhouse. With much trial and error across the seasons, ‘The Stones’ has gradually mellowed into its unpretentious surroundings and is well-suited to the unspoiled history of the property.
Additionally, with a long history as a collector, wearer and retailer of vintage attire at Shag, Jeremy has often found inspiration in a diverse range of places, from old family photos, to comic strips and fashion subcultures
@thestonescentralvictoria
Jess Cameron-Wootten – Cordwainer and Leather Craftsman, Wootten
The memory of sitting in the corner of his father’s tiny studio as a young boy and marvelling at the care his father took as he crafted shoes from scratch is one that pathed the way for Jess’ eventual continuation of the tradition. Wootten has become the very definition of making high-quality footwear. Today their made-to-order boots, bags and other accessories are handmade in Ballarat in the time-honoured tradition to create individual style.
Additionally, Jess and his wife Krystina have restored a miner’s cottage in Gordon with their own hands. As featured recently on ABC TV’s ‘Restoration Australia’, the renewal of the cottage highlighted their commitment to quality, ingenuity and resolve to breathe new life into the cottage.
@wootten_
Caitlin Perry – Interior Designer, Setsquare Studio
Originally from Ballarat, Caitlin Perry has been practising in the design field since graduating from RMIT in 2003. She initially practiced landscape architecture before transitioning into interior design and worked at several of Melbourne’s boutique architecture and interior design firms. In 2014 she established Setsquare Studio which has firmly grounded itself within the broader design industry, with projects in publications including Vogue, Artichoke magazine, Arch Daily, The Design Files and Yellowtrace. In 2019 Caitlin and Setsquare Studio relocated to the Wombat State Forest where she operates out of her off-grid sustainable homestead and studio.
@caitlin_setsquarestudio
Friday 17 November 2023
5.30-8.30pm
O A K L A N E & Co.
66 Piper St, Kyneton
Spring Collection Opening
Launch of Spring/Summer Events Program
Hosted by Natasha Morgan and O A K L A N E & Co. with introduction by stylist Tess Newman-Morris and special guest Lucy Mora signing copies of her book ‘The Kitchen Garden’.
With a passion for interior design, architecture, gardens and beautifully crafted objects, Carla and Simon from O A K L A N E & Co. have hand-picked a collection of superb provincial antique English, French and Australian furniture, and will feature these alongside a passionately curated selection of home goods, garden items, books, and decorative objects and wares imbued with the stories of time.
The Seasonal Collections at O A K L A N E & Co. have become a calendar favourite as the doors are opened for you to explore and immerse yourself for a wonderful evening with friends who share a passion for the beautifully handmade.
We invite you to join us as we launch the Spring Collection and a very special Spring and Summer events program for 2023.
Tess Newman-Morris’s work as interior stylist and decorator needs little introduction. Spending time between the Macedon Ranges and her shack on Bruny Island, Tasmania, the long -time stylists’ ability to create warm spaces incorporating antiques and vintage has seen her work featured in many magazine publications. Tess has also worked alongside interior designers such as Adelaide Bragg and Charlotte Coote, and as the stylist of the perennially favourite Satellite Island in Tasmania. We are honoured to welcome Tess, who will be talking about her love and importance of incorporating antiques and vintage into your home.
Author and illustrator of ‘The Kitchen Garden’, Lucy Mora is also a gardener, artist and garden mapper and lives in a charming 1870s cottage in Newstead, Central Victoria with her husband and dog. It was there she discovered her love for growing produce and preserving. Her kitchen is lined with Fowlers jars of preserved fruits and vegetables reminiscent of her childhood. Lucy has transformed the 'mow and blow' garden she inherited into a garden full of vegetables, perennials and cornucopian charm.
‘The Kitchen Garden’ is a joyous guide to planting, growing and eating all year round, which makes it a special honour to welcome Lucy to O A K L A N E & Co. to sign copies of her delightful garden and kitchen companion.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Saturday 7 October 2023
5.30-8.30pm
O A K L A N E & Co.
66 Piper St, Kyneton
Conversation and Canapés
with Natasha Morgan
Celebrating the seasons, garden design and a creative lifestyle.
An inspiring evening in conversation with Natasha Morgan.
Book tickets now to be in the draw for our epic door prize that includes a 2 night mid-week stay for 2 guests at @acreofroses (valued at $750)
Come in from the cold for a special evening of warm conversation, cocktails, canapés and live music, immersed within the world of OAK LANE & Co.
Esteemed landscape architect, experience-maker and country life-creator @natasha_morgan_, invites you to join her at OAK LANE & Co. in warm relaxed conversation. Natasha will share through illustrated conversation her passion for garden design, her creation of Oak & Monkey Puzzle - the internationally renowned design, event and horticultural production-focussed property and its idyllic gardens - and the beauty of a life lived by the seasons.
The evening includes:
• Cocktails (incl. non-alcoholic) and @musklanewine by Leon Rolls of @barry_and_co showcasing Natasha’s artisan seasonal syrups,
• Canapés by @emmajamescatering,
• A superb 1 ½ hour live performance by esteemed musicians Charlotte Ryssenbeek (violin), Lizzy Welsh (violin) and Edwina Cordingley (cello), who have collectively played with Orchestra Victoria, the Queensland, Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Australian Art Orchestra plus others, and have toured nationally and abroad,
• An illustrated conversation with Natasha Morgan and an opportunity to ask questions, share stories and be inspired,
• Entry into a very special doorprize that includes a 2 night mid-week stay for 2 guests at Acre of Roses in Trentham (a magical flower-filled wellness escape) value $750.
Carla and Simon of OAK LANE & Co. generously invite you into their world, a place that falls between a beautiful and painstakingly collected and curated space selling wares gathered from across the globe, and a way of life where antiques, decorative arts, and objects are imbued with the stories of time.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Friday 21 July 2023
5.30-8.00pm
OAK LANE & Co.
66 Piper St, Kyneton
THE ART OF TABLESCAPING with Natasha Morgan at
OAK LANE & Co.
'The Winter Table' masterclass is the culmination of a shared lifelong love of seasonality, beautiful wares, creating unique experiences, and abundant Dutch Master-esque tablescapes.
This is a very special and unique offering where you are invited to be immersed in the world of OAK LANE & Co., alongside Natasha’s passion for creating remarkable spaces, seasonal botanical installations and beautiful experiences.
Together we will share our passion for styling, creating experiences, capturing the essence of the seasons and creating tablescapes from the canvases of old Dutch Master-esque paintings.
This is a collaboration and invitation like no other.
It is an opportunity to inhabit the world of OAK LANE & Co. as if it were your own, selecting pieces from the collection held within our premises, linens, branches and botanicals synonymous with winter’s evocative imagery and the simple moments that have become a way of life for @natasha_morgan_ – to tablescape your own winter table.
You will be provided a rare behind-the-scenes morning at OAK LANE & Co. – a homemakers, stylists and collectors dream. Natasha, creator of beautiful spaces, gardens, botanicals and experiences, will share her tips and tricks for creating abundant Dutch Master-esque tablescapes that reflect the seasons, complemented by the arrangement of winter flowers, lichen encrusted branches, mosses and other botanicals she sources from her favourite secret country lanes and forested places.
Monday 24th July 2023
66 Piper St, Kyneton
Tickets selling fast!
THE SEASONAL COLLECTIONS
OAK LANE & Co. is happy to announce our Seasonal Collections.
We gather a beautiful selection of antique provincial furniture from the UK, France and Australia and for a limited time, feature these alongside a curated selection of decorative vintage homewares and garden ornaments.
The Seasonal Collections also include quality linen, interior and garden books as well as garden tools.
66 Piper St, Kyneton
We look forward to seeing you 🍁🍂