Hand-painted Italian ceramic plates (right), in stock since the 70's, are $40 a setting, reduced from $120; settings include dinner and salad plates, soup bowl, cup and saucer.
A 16-day trip with Great Rail Journeys (01904 521940; www.greatrail.com) includes eight days aboard the train with excursions and meals in unique settings - dinner in the pink city of Jaipur, an elephant ride to the Palace of Amber, lunch in Jodhpur in the Royal Palace of the Maharajas of Jodhpur, and a visit to the Taj Mahal.
The balconies of the restaurants, meanwhile, provide more breathtaking settings for dinner, with the stilled firework blast of Positano rising up the hills in the distance.
The six place settings of dinner plates, side plates, soup bowls, a teapot and sugar bowl were found during an attic clearance in Norwich and gifted to the Cavell Nurses Trust.
Between March and September 2014, Chris says he met with former and current NEB employees, sometimes in informal settings over dinner and drinks, and told them what was happening at TransCanada.
That left five settings at the dinner table, not counting Clemens, the 49th pick in 2006.
AT an event in New York last week benefiting Diffa (the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS), 75 designers took on the challenge of creating settings for 10 dinner guests.
The capper is Katharine Hepburn, preparing place settings for a dinner party while fuming over an absent Spencer Tracy: "Isn't that typical!
Tableware and decorative items that reflect simple but highly refined organic shapes include plastic dinner settings from the 50's by Russel Wright and Maurice Heaton's "Amoeboid Plate" (circa 1950), a frosted glass dish enameled with a radiating pattern of thin gold lines, imbued with biological and nuclear references.
Anglophiles will gleefully wallow in the baronial splendor of the setting and in the movie's canny eye for period detail, including everything from dinner place settings to vintage cars to the rituals of the shoot.
