内容简介
Fusing understated elegance and relaxed chic, fashion designer
Marie France van Damme reveals the secrets of successful,
sophisticated and stress-free entertainment on a budget. Five
chapters Flowers, Candles, The Table, Food and Art explore how to
create a sense of occasion, a relaxed mood, simple pleasures and
food without worry. Each chapter finishes with actual events: a
winter birthday at home, with plain black plates, flowers in a
single colour, and sushi from a local Japanese restaurant; a
Belgian celebration in a greenhouse with a wood-burning stove,
transformed in two hours at minimal cost into what looks like a
page from an event at Versailles; and a stylish working lunch with
takeaway curry. Perfectly attuned to the desires and realities of
todays living, this book will be welcome anywhere on the
planet.