Description: From interior designer and style maven Lorna Gross, Entertaining by Design is a collection of accessible gatherings, organized by season, from a small dinner to post-Christmas breakfast celebration. Each gathering is designed to be instructional, inspirational, and doable for anyone by using tableware and decorations you may already have along with carefully chosen decorative items like place cards or serving platters that can cost as little or as much as your budget allows.
Brief description: Lorna Gross is an award-winning interior designer, speaker, and lifestyle authority. Her work has been featured by Architectural Digest, Veranda, Southern Home, House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, and Home and Design, among other publications. Lorna's design savvy has graced homes throughout North America and London and she has received the coveted Designer of Distinction Award from the American Society of Interior Designers. Her path has taken her from bone china dinners in New York to raucous crawfish boils in Louisiana to political soirees in Washington, DC, and she wholeheartedly embraces every single moment.
Review Quotes: "In this breezy debut, interior designer Gross shares ideas on how to host sophisticated events for a variety of occasions. . . This will spark hosts' imaginations."-- "Publishers Weekly"