Shea McGee is Bringing Back Bamboo – the ’60s Table Detail Making Summer 2026 Feel Expensive
The designer serves a Slim Aarons kind of summer with a new lineup of tropical tableware
It was a high-society staple. Your very chic grandmother had it at home. You’ll find it tucked into the glossy, pastel corridors of The Colony Hotel. Fashioned into bag handles, it remains a Gucci house code. Now, Shea McGee is bringing bamboo back to the table – indoors or out, actually.
While certain pieces from her new summer 2026 collection (like the cream ceramic napkin holder) feel destined for a dining room moment, Shea's also introduced bamboo-trimmed dinner plates, salad servers, and platters in melamine.
One 21st-century swap, and this Palm Beach Regency trend can finally survive a tumble onto a brick patio floor without a hitch – essential for any alfresco antics the pieces might inspire, and very much in keeping with the accent's original caftan-clad world, captured by Slim Aarons.
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Bamboo can go full Palm Beach fête, but it’s arguably even better for everyday – as Shea McGee shows here with gingham napkins and navy woven placemats that keep this setting feeling effortless.
The mid-century tiki obsession was never strictly seasonal (you best believe hosts used it to decorate in December), but its return feels especially auspicious, arriving just as summer entertaining starts to ask for a little more ease.
Tastemakers like Lilly Pulitzer and Dorothy Draper once used bamboo to bring an approachable gloss to the table, so follow suit. Shea's revival is polished enough to offset the punchy ikat linens you’ve been waiting to break out, yet relaxed enough to gab alongside your (surely growing) stack of all-wicker everything.
Thanks to Shea, this ‘old money’ look doesn’t cost what it used to. Go ahead and set the table like you summer in Palm Beach.
We’re after a Slim Aarons summer, and these bamboo accessories feel like a fabulous place to start. But between checkered floors, candy-colored kitchens, and a lucite revival, it’s not the only ’60s comeback worth noting.
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