To many people, formal table settings are an art form, and table manners are not to be taken lightly. ... By the 18th century, curved forks with tines were increasingly used.

Table settings from 18th, 19th century on view. Joanna McQuillan Weeks. For most people, setting an elegant table is a rare occurrence, reserved for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...