Antiques for the Table: A Complete Guide to Dining Room Accessories for Collecting and Entertaining

by Sheila Chefetz

Book Overview

In collaboration with photographer Joshua Greene (Lee Bailey's Country Weekends), journalist Shelia Chefetz presents a unique book that turns the dining experience into a feast for the senses. 250... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670840572
• ISBN13: 9780670840571
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

WOW

The reviews written about this book are right on the money. If you love antiques, if you love to set a beautiful table, if you love to have beautiful dinners for friends, family, or just for two, this book is perfect. Beautiful food and gorgeous tableware make great memories. This book can help you achieve that.

Stellar

The ultimate guide to quality tabletop antiques for those of us who cannot get enough of these kind of "pretties". Have owned this book for 10+ years, and still "pour" over it, can never get enough of it!! Besides being informative, the pictures are literally intoxicating. If you love all things old and elegant (nothing shabby here) for dining and entertaining, this is the book for you. If you look at decorating books and get disgusted with cookie cutter tablewear, or you would die before going into a Pottery Barn or Pier One, this is the book for you. Tasteful, classic, traditional and always in style. Like a very wealthy elderly MD once told me, "anyone can have new things". Ladies, if you think like me, you will totally understand this!

Beautiful!!!

This book is everything I hoped it would be. The photographs are stunning and the book is full of them. There is virtually no repetition. A beautiful, inspirational tome for anyone who loves to set the table.

GLORIOUS!!

I wish I could give this book more than 5 stars. It is an absolutely gorgeous book for anybody interested in table settings of the most elegant kind. As well as spectacular photography of the most sumptuous crystal and china, the text is fascinating as it explains the history of table settings and of individual antiques.As a person who is particularly interested in mixing and matching colored crystal and different china patterns on the table, I have found it to be of immense help and has given me even more courage to blend different styles together.I will treasure this book forever.