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| Tabletops: Easy, Practical, Beautiful Ways to Decorate the Table | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Milo Ohrbach
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
Buy Used: $3.48
You Save: $24.02 (87%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 125724
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0517703327
Dewey Decimal Number: 642.8
UPC: 045863703323
EAN: 9780517703328
ASIN: 0517703327
Publication Date: September 23, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Used - Good
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Setting a stunning table need not be confined to special occasions. As renowned author and designer Barbara Milo Ohrbach brilliantly demonstrates, any meal can be made special with the proper visual approach. The ingredients need not be fine china and matching silver; the real key is to develop a creative look for your table. Tabletops is filled with gorgeous color photos and thorough explanations on how to find inspiration, play with color, make and/or coordinate accessories, arrange flowers, and find and add the right decorative touches.
Product Description
Hospitality is the art of generously welcoming guests into your home, and Barbara Milo Ohrbach's Tabletops will make this a delightful experience for all to share.
Whether you are having a party, sitting down with friends and family, or celebrating a holiday, the pleasures of eating at a beautiful table help to make the meal truly memorable. In this book, Ms. Ohrbach, the best-selling author of fourteen books, including The Scented Room, Antiques at Home, and Simply Flowers, brings a fresh and creative eye to the art of decorating tables with flowers, fruits, leaves, and other wonderful objects. Filled with beautiful photographs and simple how-to's, Tabletops offers recipes, clever ideas, and practical solutions for everyday entertaining, parties, and special occasions, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.
With her usual clarity and style, Ms. Ohrbach explains how to coordinate linens, china, and silverware so that everything works together. She demonstrates how to accent the table with accessories like candles, napkin rings, and place cards, and includes easy how-to projects, many of which can be done with children. She reveals effortless techniques for taking the mystery out of flower arranging and discusses how to choose the right container for any event. She shares her enthusiasm for visiting places like historic homes, flower shows, restaurants, and farmers' markets that can inspire fresh ideas for creating wonderful tabletops. And finally, Ms. Ohrbach provides a handy international source guide that reveals her favorite places to shop and explore in Europe and the United States. Tabletops will inspire anyone who loves flowers and entertaining, and it is the perfect gift for anyone who enjoys setting a beautiful table.
In Tabletops, best-selling author Barbara Milo Ohrbach reveals simple yet spectacular ideas for decorating beautiful tables for both entertaining and everyday use. Illustrated with more than 275 full-color photographs, Tabletops offers practical tips and easy how-to projects for setting the table and for creating centerpieces and individual flower arrangements for your home, parties, holidays, special occasions, and more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Tabletops November 12, 2008
This book's tabletops were a little too practical for my taste. I should have believed the title! I was hoping for some great ideas, and this book didn't do it for me.
Good snippets of useful information August 19, 2008
I did NOT find this book "useless". While I would certainly not use every idea suggested, I found Mrs. Orbach's book to have several good ideas I could incorporate in my table settings. I found her color combinations to be quite intriguing and am finding ways to use those combinations in my events. If anything negative could be stated, it is that in some of the photographs the knife blades are in the wrong direction (perhaps a different cultural custom than what I was taught?). Overall, a good publication I would recommend.
 useless April 18, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book has no useful information in it. The pictures are pretty, but I don't spend good money on a book just to look at the pictures. Even the ideas aren't all that creative. If I had cupboards full of antiques and drawers full of beautiful linens, I wouldn't need a book to tell me how to use them. Other, better books show the same techniques and ideas, and show them with materials more easily available to us mere mortals.
The example that really did me in was the little girl's birthday party... with crocheted lace doilies on the drinks glasses, and all the little girls in Edwardian-style lace dresses. PLEASE! You want an example of a pretty child's birthday party, get the Shabby Chic entertaining book.
No new ideas for a woman of culture January 12, 2005
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
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.
Use as coffee table book only December 10, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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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