Thursday, October 02, 2008

Gourmet Tablesettings




Well, time got away from me yesterday so I don't have a proper post for you today. But no matter how busy we are, we can always take the time to pore over a few beautiful images. Let's see how some of our favorite designers and style-setters set their tables circa 1992. (All images from The Tiffany Gourmet Cookbook)


Countess Alba Giannelli-Viscardi


Anoushka Hempel


Comtesse Sheila de Rochambeau


Valentino


Bill Blass


Maxime de la Falaise

27 comments:

  1. With each image I thought, "Oh, that's my favorite." As it turns out, Bill Blass hands down.

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  2. What do you mean you don't have a proper post today?? These images are LOVELY!!! :)

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  3. Patricia- I like Blass' too- simple, elegant, and the lemon meringue pie looks good too :)

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  4. Thanks Ivy Lane! Unfortunately, my tablesettings don't turn out like these ;)

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  5. The Blass is great and so is the Maxime :)

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  6. Courtney- They're on different ends of the spectrum, but they are both so appealing!

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  7. Love that floor compote!

    All of these certainly put those poor li'l table settings on Top Design last night to shame! ;)

    Tristan

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  8. So pretty- you have a great eye.

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  9. They're lovely, each in its own way.
    I assume that Valentino's room was done by Mongiardino?

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  10. Tristan- Don't you love that compote?! I missed Top Design last night! I'll try to catch it in reruns.

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  11. Michael- Some ideas for our next gathering at Gramercy??

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  12. I love the Valentino and Blass settings (could that be lemon meringue pie?). Sheila de Rochambeau's is a bit Easter-egg hunt though.

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  13. Toby- I don't know, but I'll check and let you know.

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  14. Would that any of my tablescapes looked like this!

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  15. I think you are correct, Mr Worthington. It looks very like Mongiardino, who decorated Valentino's Rome residence with Adrian Magistretti. Did he decorate more places for Valentino?

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  16. Aesthete- Looks like lemon meringue to me. I'm leaning toward Anoushka Hempel's. The Rochambeau table is over the top, but that dessert looks pretty.

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  17. Meg- I feel the same way!

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  18. The Rochambeau dessert looks like something one would want to destroy with sweet-tooth glee. I wonder what it is ...

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  19. Anonymous5:12 PM

    Love Maxime de la Falaise- if only for the portrait!
    The strawberries and cream would also be hard to pass up ;). Hope your petrol situation is better- it's so hard to stay home when we have to... yet when one doesn't have to it's a delight..... Christy

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  20. Aesthete- It's a Frozen Red Fruits Souffle. Looks like it melted a bit under the hot lights.

    Oh, and Toby is correct. Mongiardino did decorate this room.

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  21. Christy, Thank you. I think we're slowly pulling out of this mess! And that portrait just makes that photo.

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  22. This is so funny! I was visiting Eddie Ross's blog and he had a post about cake stands, which made me think of a Christmas centerpiece I love to do every year. It looks very much like the top photo! Lots of citrus stacked in layers. What a wonderful post, and I agree....I like the Bill Blass!

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  23. LOVE this posting! Each setting is so unique -- and well balanced in color and texture. So inviting -- which is always the sign of a master (or mistress?) of style of design! LOL! Love Blass' setting -- and the last one -- both have scrumptious food too!

    Jan at Rosemary Cottage

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  24. I would love to see your library! You always have wonderful and unique images to illustrate your posts.

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  25. great photos. love those brown porcelain, tea cups, love that portrait of the woman (in dressage?)

    it's fun to see 'vintage' photos. the early 90s were so different. Given this challenge now, I wonder how different each designer would do things.

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  26. The marvelous portrait in the Maxine de La Falaise picture is her mother, Rhoda Birley, who was so glam.

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  27. YUMMY,YUMMY,YUMMY!!!!!

    Wonderfully delicious post!

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