In Living Color
It seems like half the job of hosting a dinner is deciding what goes well together. (Can I serve cheese with fish? Play Beyoncé and U2? Seat Rob next to Naomi?) After finally working out the perfect party pairings, the last thing we want to think about is combining the right elements for the tabletop. So we tapped design guru
Christiane Lemieux, founder and creative director of the hip home-furnishings company DwellStudio (
dwellstudio.com), to take the second-guessing out of decorating. Christiane's idea: Let color be your guide. Gather objects around the house (books, vases, candlesticks) that roughly match in tone and cluster them on the table. Update the look any time just by changing your color palette.