If you're walking down Madison Avenue this fall, look up! The front of the Carlyle Hotel (76th Street and Madison Avenue) is lined with huge cornucopia-style arrangements sitting in brassy cones about ten feet up from the sidewalk.
We walked away inspired, even if on closer inspection the Carlyle uses mostly fake fruit. A centerpiece cornucopia, or horn of plenty, is a way to bring the bounty of the harvest and the beauty of the farmer's market inside and share it with some dinner guests.
We searched Flickr for more ideas and found, well, a cornucopia of cornucopia ideas:
