“Creating moments of surprise

is what I adore most,” says consummate hostess and Juliska cofounder Capucine De Wulf Gooding. “I think of beautifully set tables as tableaus, moments that make guests realize how much they are appreciated.” The tableware company she and her husband, David, dreamed up during a trip to France was launched on this very principle: “to create togetherness,” she says. Twenty-one years later occasions at their home are alight in tradition, but an ever-evolving dance of glassware, silver, linens, and—perhaps most colorfully—flowers keeps each table rooted firmly in the present. “I always express seasonality with flowers,” she notes. “They may not last long, but they bring such spontaneity to tables.”

Gooding’s new book, Together at the Table, is alive with flowers anchoring her tablescapes (arranged in collaboration with stylist Stephen Pappas), a lean-in to nature that is