Create a Summer Setting

Setting a beautiful tablespace in the warmer months can be as casual as some candles and wild flowers at a picnic table or as formal as a crisp tablecloth, soft lighting, meticulously arranged flowers and your very best cutlery. But no matter which option you choose, you can bring a taste of summer into your dรฉcor with some luxurious dinner plates in one of these striking patterns.


1. Lโ€™objet Perlรฉe blue in limoges porcelain, $80, l-objet.com

2. Blue Pheasant Kennedy acacia wood, $42, Hoaglandโ€™s of Greenwich, Greenwich, CT

3. Tiffany & Co. Wheat leaf in bone china, $150, tiffany.com

 4. Vietri Melamine fruit lemon, $22, bloomingdales.com

5. Hermรจs Passifolia in limoges porcelain, $240, hermรจs.com

6. Neiman Marcus Sahara 12-piece dinnerware set (dinner plate shown), in porcelain with decal accents, $218 per setting, The Westchester, White Plains, NY

7. Herend Royal garden in hand-painted porcelain, $330, herendusa.com

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