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	This museum design competition required the design of a table setting to enhance, complement or relate to a painting in the Wadsworth Atheneun collection.&nbsp; The painting, "On the Yacht Namouna" by Julius L. Stewart, depicts the leisure class aboard the most famous luxury yacht of the 19th century.&nbsp; The designers, Edward Therault and Tucker Sweitzer, observed that the gallery floor where the painting is hung is very close in color to the decking onboard the yacht.&nbsp; This coincidence suggests that the viewer might be stepping on board the "Namouna" as he enters the gallery.&nbsp; The painted figures seem to be engaged in a convivial social gathering that the viewer is approaching as he moves across the gallery to view the painting.&nbsp; The designers&#39; floral design solution was to heighten the social setting by creating a high tea table that the passengers might well be partaking of as they plied the Mediterranean waters of the Italian coastline. A floral cake, bomb&eacute; and a trifle are displayed along with a simple arrangement of French tulips, period table accoutrements and a 1904 Baedekker&#39;s Travel Guide.</p>
