As hosts and hostesses enjoy the last few weekends’ worth of crisp, cool evening air to host their dinner parties al fresco before the temperatures drop, Jamey Allsop offers a beautiful collection of ways to add ambience to your outdoor gathering. His Soji series of solar lanterns and strings have an ethereal effect in their appearance, ranging from a traditional paper-esque lantern to an undulating and otherworldly sphere that appears to have been sent from places unknown. The celestial bodies are available from $30 for a printed 13” x 11” x 11” weatherproof nylon lantern, to $40 for a 10” hand-formed plastic sphere to $60 for a two-foot string of six handblown 3” glass globes. When fully charged by the rays of the sun, each lantern or string glows for four to six hours – the perfect length for a garden gathering under the stars.
