Tabletops : Easy, Practical, Beautiful Ways to Decorate the Table

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Summary: Good basics, easy to follow
Review: Great pictures and a great way to get started entertaining. Also, easy and inexpensive ideas wtih decoration (flowers, etc. you can get right from your own garden)

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Summary: Exquisite and original, beautifully photographed
Review: I love this book. The arrangements are not merely interesting, but beautiful, and encompass every type of table adornment. It made me become aware of how to put table decorations together. Now, as a hostess gift, instead of bringing only a cooked dish, I bring the centerpiece as well.

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Summary: best ideas i have ever seen - all in one book
Review: i love to set tables. my mother has done this for 40 years and i have never seen such wonderful ideas with flowers and china. i would give this a 6 star rating if they had one. i will my many of these for my friends for christmas

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Summary: No new ideas for a woman of culture
Review: I regret this purchase. As one reviewer said, this is just a coffetable book. It doesnt introduce any new idea to an educated woman. Who cant roll a napkin and tie a ribbon on it ??? It doesnt take a professional caterer to know that !!! Funny, but an out of print 1960's cookbook by Mary and Vincent Price ``A Treasury.....'' showed far more intricate, elegant, and exquisite napkin foldings. The utensils showed in Tabletops are not even for very dining ! Worse, an old item was made to pass off as an antique centerpiece and I am a professional antique collector. I lived in Europe and this book does not deserve space in any European home or library. What I saw here, I see frequently in crafts store windows in small towns. DONT BUY. I got instead ``Perfect Setting'' by Peri Wolfman (?) and finally, I got something intelligent with truly new ideas to captivate an intelligent woman. At best, give this book to a grade school kid.

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Summary: Check it out at the Library first
Review: I'm glad I didn't "buy" this book and went to the Library
first. I was looking for more "whimsical" ideas and the
ones offered in this book seem to be the basic, traditional
ones.

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Summary: Check it out at the Library first
Review: I'm glad I didn't "buy" this book and went to the Library
first. I was looking for more "whimsical" ideas and the
ones offered in this book seem to be the basic, traditional
ones.

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Summary: class all the way
Review: Like all her books Barbara Milo Ohrbach displays class.loved the book and I couldn't wait to the try out her ideas on our next unsuspecting dinner guests.She is an inspiration to all collectors and lovers of fine things and good taste.If you loved this book you must read the rest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Use as coffee table book only
Review: The author uses many of her antiques to decorate the table which is nice if you own any yourself. Many ideas were very "english", maybe a little too elegant, not the kind of book for someone looking for different ideas using everyday items or at least items you can find in everyday stores. Nice coffee table book but not easy to recreate her tabletops.

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Summary: Inspiring and Well-Written
Review: This book gives you lots of great ideas for every occasion of entertaining. I have some of the china patterns in the book and it is fun to see how they are used. The linens, flowers and table settings are all done to perfection. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves dishes and/or loves to entertain.

Rating:
Summary: Inspiring and Well-Written
Review: This book gives you lots of great ideas for every occasion of entertaining. I have some of the china patterns in the book and it is fun to see how they are used. The linens, flowers and table settings are all done to perfection. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves dishes and/or loves to entertain.