How to Set a Formal Table | At Home With P. Allen Smith
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Allen offers tips on how to set the table for a formal meal.
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Practical tips for style, comfort and sustainable living from designer and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith. Allen dissects style and function to reveal the tips that will take your home and garden to the next level.
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P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer and lifestyle expert and host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room and P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden. Allen is also very active on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Allen's Blog and CZcams as well as on the eHow Home channel. His design and lifestyle advice is featured in several national magazines. Learn more at www.pallensmith....
I always learn so much from P. Allen. He's an inspiration when it comes to home and gardening.
I love it all especially the plates and the monogrammed linen. You definitely have the designer eye.
Thank you for the compliments and Easter wishes, hope you had a happy one as well!
P. Allen Smith do you recall the menu for this luncheon?
Absolutely beautiful plates, and of course the flowers
That table is stunning
Mr Smith... The gold and white is always a classic beauty... Very wonderful light and beautiful gathering space.
Very pretty table. I set my table everyday and use it to eat at. It's what we were brought up on. And it makes us comfortable. Love eating at a pretty table
I first saw this video years ago and am still haunted by those beautiful Coalport salad plates. I'm always in search of them or something similar. Just gorgeous...all of it.
Love this video. I would have thought it was new one if the date wasn't on it.
i love the fact that you have lice flowers in your centerpieces. i loved your wine decanter as well. i just broke my cool terracotta one that i bought in Peru so I'm missing it. The next time I get a replacement, I'll look for a matching set with a water bottle. Cheers and thanks
Big thumbs up!!
Love the setting !Thank you !
I can't believe that u put that together in 2012 and it's 2015 almost 2016 a true design eye.thanks for
Tish Smiddy
Beautiful table
You set a gorgeous table, always.
Adored your table setting.
Absolutely gorgeous setting! The room, the table, the materials! Good advice on placing containers with liquid on a saucer or plate so that it does not damage the wood! Never thought about that! .... Question: What kind of setting would you say plate chargers are more appropriate in, if at all?
Love this setting, will try soon.
Love it! I think it is great to mix and match as it makes the table more interesting!
Lovely! I enjoyed seeing how your thought processed worked to set this up.
Love this...wish he told us the menu.
I want those plates love
Beautiful!
Beautiful, like it!
I love your sense of style and your channel, but I question why would you set a luncheon table with candles?
love it!!!\
Beautiful I like
nunca mais vou errar, obrigado.
gostei da parte que ensina a craftar a espada de diamante!
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As lovely as this is, this is a 'Modern American Table Setting' and not a formal setting. Formal refers to any meal of ceremony. This disinformation is confusing to people wanting to learn to navigate a formal table, and will result in some uncomfortable guests. For example, bread plates are never part of a formal table service as butter is never part of a formal menu. Ever. At a formal meal, bread is properly laid on the rim of the entree plate or on the tablecloth to the right of the guest. And one would never find empty plates stacked as you are demonstrating here. Never. A napkin, folded in a rectangle, is laid on the center of the place plate. As each guest places their napkin in their lap, a soup plate with contents or a salad plate with salad is laid on the place plate. Call this what it is, and do a little research. Arranging a stylish tablescape as you have done, is a skill to be proud of. But this is not a formal setting.