How to Throw a Garden Party

Four Seasons hotel designer James Hurley used light-pink ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ peonies at each place setting as well as in the centerpiece for this Atlanta garden party. 

Designer James Hurley used metallic cake stands, wooden boxes with moss topiaries and vintage glass bottles of varying heights to create visual interest with this centerpiece. 

Many of the ingredients on this garden party menu come from the vegetables and herbs growing in the Four Season’s fifth-floor terrace garden, also the setting for this al fresco dinner. 

“My look is very Parisian,” says designer James Hurley, who incorporated a zinc-top table, vintage bottles, boxes crafted of reclaimed wood, and aluminum canisters in the tablescape. “I wanted it to look effortless but also look like it took a while,” he jokes.