Southern Lady: Gracious Tables: The Perfect Setting for Any Occasion

by Phyllis Hoffman

Book Overview

Entertaining doyenne Phyllis Hoffman shows how to prepare a stunning table for any occasion. So many of the events of our lives, from the formal to the informal, are celebrated by gathering around a table. Whatever the occasion--whether it's a holiday dinner, Sunday brunch, or a casual lunch with friends--the table is the place where we relax and enjoy each other's company while savoring a great meal. No one knows how to dress a table with elegance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061346675
• ISBN13: 9780061346675
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Gracious Spaces

This book is everything it claims to be..ideas for creating the gracious, comfortable spaces it describes. I have it placed on a table in my family room so others can enjoy it also. Thanks!

Beautiful Book!

I'm from the Midwest but fell in love with the South from the first time I visited. There is such a gracious, beautiful, laid back feeling that you can't find in other parts of the country. This book captures that southern feeling & grace. I have brought back so may decorating ideas from trips down south and have decorated my Wisconsin home alot like some of the photos in this beautiful book. I think in another life I must have lived in the South!! This book captures alot of the "soul" of what southern living means to me. I have already gone through it twice and I just received it in the mail. Beautiful job.

Lovely vignettes

This book was pretty, and had some lovely vignettes pictured, but I was hoping for more depictions of complete rooms and designer attributions. It seemed like an expanded version of Ms. Hoffman's Bliss Victoria magazine. I felt like I had eaten the salad and was still waiting for the main course.

Book to Dream By

This is really a lovely book with lots of photographs. That is why I call it a "dream" book. I wish my home looked liked those in the pictures. O well, I can always dream.

Book review

Very good book...I personally love Southern Lady magazine, Southern cooking and anything to do with Southern culture. This fits the bill.