For most people, setting an elegant table is a rare occurrence, reserved for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, or momentous birthdays anniversaries.

Many of our modern-day place-setting traditions can be traced to 17th- and 18th-century European protocol influenced by French and English aristocracy, and Lockard, who lives in Portland, Ore ...

The theater further expands Washington’s classical borders with “The Gaming Table,” a sendup of 18th-century social probity by playwright Susanna Centlivre.

Dining etiquette stretches back centuries. To many people, formal table settings are an art form, and table manners are not to be taken lightly.

Inside the baroque interior of Palazzo Labia, against a backdrop of frescoes by the 18th-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, De Castellane staged a series of 11 extravagant dining ...

Like a wrinkle in time, Susan Hight Rountree’s elegant table settings and imaginative flower arrangements seem to come straight out of the 18th Century. But they couldn’t have. “A typical ...

A nearly century-long legal battle over royal property has ended, as Germany's federal government and the states of Berlin and Brandenburg reached a settlement with the descendants of a German ...

Like a wrinkle in time, Susan Hight Rountree’s elegant table settings and imaginative flower arrangements seem to come straight out of the 18th century. But they couldn’t have. “A… ...

New Assassin's Creed 3 info is pouring in from all sides, and the previously rumored 18th-century setting has been officially confirmed. The screenshots and concept art above come from a variety ...

Like a wrinkle in time, Susan Hight Rountree’s elegant table settings and imaginative flower arrangements seem to come straight out of the 18th century. But they couldn’t have. “A… ...