A lunch table setting can mimic your basic or casual table setting. Because it’s lunch, you’d likely omit the wine glasses and stick to a water glass for your drinkware.

A well-appointed table —from linens and china to glassware and centerpieces —strengthens a chic setting. But the beautiful accessories are useless if you don’t know how to set a table properly.

Young Huh, an interior designer, relishes setting an outdoor table when she’s entertaining guests at her house in Hyde Park, N.Y. Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times ...