This museum design competition required the design of a table setting to enhance, complement or relate to a painting in the Wadsworth Atheneun collection.  The painting, "On the Yacht Namouna" by Julius L. Stewart, depicts the leisure class aboard the most famous luxury yacht of the 19th century.  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.  This coincidence suggests that the viewer might be stepping on board the "Namouna" as he enters the gallery.  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.  The designers' 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, bombé and a trifle are displayed along with a simple arrangement of French tulips, period table accoutrements and a 1904 Baedekker's Travel Guide.