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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
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 69191
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
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 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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