Table settings included Colonial-style silverware and, for a contrasting sense of playfulness, loose bouquets of American flowers, reminiscent of the prairie white garden roses, blue hydrangea, star-shaped tweedia, thistle.

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To add the layer of grayish blue that distinguishes some of the more furtive lines in "The Sisters, " I tucked in some icy blue tweedia and chose a chalky gray vase.

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