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Title: Set with Style: Perfect Tables from the Dining Room to the Kitchen
ISBN: 0307395553
Author:
Caroline Clifton-Mogg
Publicate Date: 2008-04-01
Publish: 2008-04-01
List Price: $40.00
Average Customer Rating: 1.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: How not to set a table
This book should be a collector's item - a book about table settings in which the photos consistently display incorrect settings! This author cranks out books by the score, but apparently no one ever properly edits them. In many of the photos, the desert silver is placed incorrectly (although the text does get it right). Also, as another reviewer pointed out, in several photos the napkin was oddly placed to the right of the plate under the knives. The photo stylist can't set a table and didn't read the text. Where was the author? The editor? Skip this book, unless you'd like to present it to someone as a joke.
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2: Uninspiring at Best
I am baffled by why this book was ever published. The settings are actually dull and uninspired. In my opinion, the photos were not styled well: unironed tableclothes, a string hanging, a crooked plate (Herend's Rothschild Bird pattern), so many napkins on the right side of the dinner plate, knife blades facing away from the plate.
Perhaps the author is trying to break with the above traditions and etiquette. I don't know. There are many better books out there--most of them.
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