White Dishes and Table Settings
Beauty on a Budget
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
Learn the basics of dishes, glassware, flatware, linens, and floral arranging. Find your style, products, and colors, at low to moderate prices. This is an exquisite, yet practical, how-to book that illustrates, in depth, what you can do for real in your life now. It shows sets of white dishes, flatware, glassware, as well as vases, bottles, candleholders, jars, and linens in a range of styles—including vintage, traditional, modern, square, artisan, and rustic.
These items are easily accessible at popular stores and sites, which are listed in the book along with prices. This book can save you a great deal of time and hassle in your designing, planning, and shopping.
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Create your registry, wedding, and future home with the photos in this book. Use it as a reference book for a lifetime. It’s a ground-breaking book which has 532 pages and over 1,400 exquisite photos.
There are step-by-step photo instructions on how to set a table and place glassware, and on how to make your own linens, floral arrangements, decorations, and napkin ties. Table settings are shown also by buildup of colors, such as red, gray, blue, or silver and white—with accent colors and accessories, including clear glass, mercury, and colored glass. It shows how to integrate seasonal and trending colors in your style.
Popular floral and event designer Cheki Eklund has over 20 years experience creating floral arrangements, and home and event decorations, for weddings and parties. She shows you how to create a plan for beauty in your everyday life, using affordable basics.
White dishes are classic, timeless and always in style. They are highly versatile and go with all colors and prints. They work for all seasons because they are specific to none. They are used by caterers, chefs, restaurant owners, and venue staffs because they make food look its best. This book shows you how to use white dishes for everyday life on into entertaining, through the year.
Customer Reviews
white dishes & table settings
white dishes & table settings is the most beautiful and comprehensive book of beauty at the table that i have ever seen. it is beautifully written, and the words chosen are so very special and meaningful. the photographs and lighting and placement are truly works of art. . . .yet they, along with the written words throughout this treasure hunt of a book with each page bringing more beauty and creativity to the whole presentation—is monumental.
i found the photographs to be exquisite—each and every one—the quality of which i don’t believe i’ve ever seen anywhere before.
the words and the photos and the dedication the author and photographer had in bringing this book forth is truly awe inspiring.
the word “unity” is used in this book, and to me, the book is the bringing together of beauty , simplicity and specialness in a unity that is truly exquisite, artful and very real. and . . . . i am as the expression goes. . .”blown away”!
this book is a true gift. . . and everything therein is affordable! including the book itself—what an affordable price for a multi-touch book! it’s like getting an expensive coffee table book—right at your fingertips and one click with your mouse brings you to repeated beauty in word and photograph and will serve the user as a reference book for a lifetime.
everything in the world is in this book—showing us the photos for inspiration, the words for finding our own creativity, leading us step by step to our own beautiful creations—where to buy, how to buy, how to make things yourself if you wish, etc.
whether you are a new bride and groom or creating a registry—or for that matter a wedding. . .or whether like many of us are just so appreciative of this forever reference book—to remind us all that beauty and the creation of it—can be done and done affordably-we the readers are filled with gratitude.
this book i find to be almost a beacon of simplicity and beauty for the lucky reader. it certainly will be for me!
thank you—cheki and kearney for your wonderful , wonderful white dishes and table settings! what a gift!
White Dishes & Table Settings
Oh my god. Did I need this book! Thank goodness my friend sent it to me when I got married recently. We are on such a tight budget and I love to entertain. With this book and a simple (aka inexpensive) set of white dishes, I am ready to party. Everyone comments on how beautiful Paul’s and my dinner table settings are. I feel so proud and know I could not do what I do without this fabulous book. Whoever these people are who wrote it, they are amazing. The pictures are over-the-top gorgeous. I feel so inspired to be creative now. This book gave me license to do so many things. The imagination is endless. The best wedding gift ever! I can’t wait to send it to my 2 girlfriends who are engaged. I recommend this to everyone. Wish I could have a hard copy.