A friend stops by at noon, and soup and sandwiches for two turn into an hour of catching up. Autumn Acorn Tansy lies beside each plate with acorn-gold tansy sprigs and green leaves on a cream ground, and a guest leaning in may spot the tiny green beetles resting on a few blooms. It gives the conversation something to point at between bites.

Each item sold separately. Each order includes one in your selected design.

Gilded Village Cream is the second design. Boston International makes these paper napkins and prints them in Germany on soft, 3-ply paper, ready for the plates of a midweek lunch. Lay one under each sandwich, and the table looks set before the soup arrives.

• Design: Autumn Acorn Tansy
• Design: Gilded Village Cream
• Paper lunch napkins
• Printed in Germany on soft, 3-ply paper