Set with Style : Creating the Perfect Table for Every Occasion

The art of laying a table offers many of us an opportunity to be expressive and creative, enabling our guests to share in the pleasure of dining at a table, onto which we have projected our personal tastes and sensibilities.

With the incredible choice of restaurants and eateries today - many of them offering inspired dining settings - one would naturally assume the same to be true of the latest trends for the home dining table, given the equally burgeoning selection of chinaware, glassware and table accessories now on sale in specialist shops and department stores.

Yet where to start? Caroline Clifton-Mogg helps the reader to discover the essence and joy of home dining, whether it be setting a scrubbed wooden table centred in the family kitchen with simple white china, or creating a more elaborate affair with a formally dressed table achieved through attention to detail in every way.

With practical ideas given on specific aspects of table settings, Set with Style is the perfect guide to creating the perfect table setting.

Caroline Clifton-Mogg is a writer and journalist who specialises in interior design and gardens. She is a contributing editor of Harpers & Queen and Christie's Magazine and also writes regularly for House & Garden, The Financial Times and many other magazines and newspapers.

Her books include Textile Style, Decorating with Antiques and The New Curtain Book.