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How Many Plates Do You Need for a Dinner Party?

How Many Plates Do You Need for a Dinner Party?

How many plates you need for a sit-down dinner, a family-style meal, a buffet or a cocktail party — with simple formulas, worked examples for 8, 12 and 30 guests,...

How Many Plates Do You Need for a Dinner Party?

How many plates you need for a sit-down dinner, a family-style meal, a buffet or a cocktail party — with simple formulas, worked examples for 8, 12 and 30 guests,...

Amphora 13-inch large terracotta vase with four loop handles and a mottled brown and white finish

How to Style Terracotta Amphora Vases

The amphora carried wine and olive oil around the Mediterranean for two thousand years. Here's how to style our four terracotta Amphora vases: where to put them, what to fill...

How to Style Terracotta Amphora Vases

The amphora carried wine and olive oil around the Mediterranean for two thousand years. Here's how to style our four terracotta Amphora vases: where to put them, what to fill...

Porcelain dinnerware set laid out with dinner plates, salad plates, bowls and mugs

How to Choose a Dinnerware Set: Sizes, Care and...

What comes in a 16-piece dinnerware set, whether to buy a service for 4, 8 or 12, how to look after porcelain, and a look at all eleven of our...

How to Choose a Dinnerware Set: Sizes, Care and...

What comes in a 16-piece dinnerware set, whether to buy a service for 4, 8 or 12, how to look after porcelain, and a look at all eleven of our...

Gold Loop cream and gold serving platter styled on an outdoor table with fruit and drinks

Gold Serving Trays: For the Table and Everywher...

How to use gold-rimmed porcelain trays twice: for grazing platters, canapés and dessert tables, then for the coffee table, vanity and entryway between parties.

Gold Serving Trays: For the Table and Everywher...

How to use gold-rimmed porcelain trays twice: for grazing platters, canapés and dessert tables, then for the coffee table, vanity and entryway between parties.

Floral Collar glossy white ceramic vase with a sculpted gold and silver leaf-and-petal collar

How to Style White and Gold Vases

Single stems for the Butterfly vases, full arrangements for the Floral Collar. How to choose flowers, get the height right, and group white-and-gold vases around the home.

How to Style White and Gold Vases

Single stems for the Butterfly vases, full arrangements for the Floral Collar. How to choose flowers, get the height right, and group white-and-gold vases around the home.

How to Mix Gold Flatware With Dinnerware

How to Mix Gold Flatware With Dinnerware

How to pair gold flatware with white, floral, coloured and black dinnerware; when to mix gold with silver; which finish and handle suit your table; and how to care for...

How to Mix Gold Flatware With Dinnerware

How to pair gold flatware with white, floral, coloured and black dinnerware; when to mix gold with silver; which finish and handle suit your table; and how to care for...