While plates and cups are used often and should be placed in easy-to-reach spots in your cabinets and drawers, items you ...

How to set an elegant holiday table: Tips for getting every plate in its proper place. Updated: Dec. 10, ... cup and saucer: The bread plate is placed to the upper left of the plates, ...

The way a dish looks has been important to the dining experience since forever, but perhaps never more than now. Relaxed and homey. Or vibrant and celebratory.

We asked four design pros to create a holiday table setting using the same plain white dinner plate. Here's what they came up with.

An empty plate at the table is a physical reminder to remain conscious of the injustices around the world. It is also more than just a reminder; it can be an agent for change.

I like the colors on the table, too. There's the green of the parsley, and the red of the Manischewitz horseradish (don't judge me-I don't like the stuff anyway, and I only use enough to make the ...

Soon, stacking up the components of a dish on square or rectangular plates and decorating them with colorful dots, squiggles and swooshes became the signature look of the 1990s.