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"fllhere is no price tag on beauty and imagination!!!" That's what Carole
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Miss Stupel is a crusader for beauty, color, and comfort in every day table settings. She feels that American women show too little imagination with their settings. Not when company comes, of course, but for every day usage.
When I asked if interesting table settings were an expensive proposition, her reply was "Definitely not." The most important basic idea in lovely settings is correlation — correlating color, texture, and form.
Carole suggested using place mats in such unusual materials as raffia, plastic, and gilt-shot cloths. "And wicker, wood, pewter, and colorful ceramics all make for striking settings. An old pewter tea pot filled with garden flowers for a centerpiece is very effective."
I was interested in Carole's hints to the couple buying their first table wardrobe— on a budget. She said that if theirs is a limited amount of money set aside, then by all means select a lovely pottery service and at the same time select the glassware, flatware, linens and table decoration — all as a unit. Pottery, she added, is infinitely less than a china service, and in pottery one can achieve so much more drama.
One point Carole emphasized was: "Don't buy table settings separately if you can help it. You can pay as much as $1000 for a set of service plates and then buy the most expensive linens and silver, but if selected independently, you usually end up with a hodge-podge. Price is no factor or criterion in achieving table glamor."
Carole's idea of good correlation, or "carolation" as she calls it, is to select a color in your mats and napkins, that is picked up in the dinnerware pattern. Then follow through with your centerpiece, in the same color or a good contrasting shade.
In parting Carole said, "Mealtime — especially dinner, is one time of day when the family comes together as a unit. So make it a real occasion by having the right setting."
An inexpensive tabJe setting can he just as pretty — and as effective — a> one costing infinitely more, advised table decor authoritj ' arole Stupel.
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By TERRY BURTON . radio mirror for BETTER LIVING
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