Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining

Jane Kormans Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining is a personal story that combines the world of cooking and dining with the world of art, craft, and design. It features what the author consider to be her most interesting and imaginative ideas for settings tables, using her personal collections of contemporary handmade dinnerware. It also feature menus and recipes that are particular to the four season and the way she and her husband, Leonard, love to entertain. Splendid Settings is presented in four sections that are based on seasonal entertaining at the Kormans homes. It illustrates how the author s uncomplicated and easy-to-prepare recipes drawn from her own kitchens and those from family and friends in combination with her collection of contemporary crafts enhance the total presentation and dining experience at the table. Over 200 color photographs. Includes the crafts of 79 artists and designers and 16 menus and 69 recipes.

Jane Korman is a prominent collector of twentieth-century art and crafts. She is a trustee and the chair of the Fine Arts Committee of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; a trustee of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; and a member of the board of directors of the annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art s Modern and Contemporary Art Committee. In 1977, she and a partner founded the Sign of the Swan Craft Gallery in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and shortly thereafter opened The Swan Gallery in Philadelphia. She directed both galleries until 1989. During that period, she served on the boards of many organizations: the Philadelphia Art Dealers Association; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; and the American Craft Council. Mrs. Korman has served as a juror for numerous craft shows, including American Craft Enterprises shows, Rhinebeck, New York, and the Delaware State Arts Exhibition. She has also served as a panelist and guest lecturer for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show; and the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art s Collecting Twentieth-Century Art. Mrs. Korman and her husband, Leonard, have three married daughters and seven grandchildren.