The Art of the Party by Renny Reynolds, Elaine Louie, and Edward Addeo
This book filled with elegant imagery and romantic photography, reveals key secrets of event planning, along with instructions on how to develop creative party concepts and themes. Art of the Party beautifully illustrates how to achieve party perfection, and every aspect of event planning presented with a touch of glamour and easy-to-understand directions.
Reynold’s tells us of strategies for lighting to make any room warm and welcoming and ways to ornament dance floors and dinner tables for maximum appeal. Your organizational techniques for colorful and textural flower arrangements and how to make a large party feel intimate for everyone are some of the finer points of party planning. Whether for birthday, anniversary, wedding, or holiday, Art of the Party offers dozens of creative ideas to ensure that your parties are truly extraordinary.
Renny Reynolds is a landscape architect and has launched Design for Entertaining, his highly successful party-design firm that has been featured in popular publications. Elaine Louie is known for her "Currents" column in the New York Times and Edward Addeo is a New York photographer whose work appears in well known magazines.
Together, they have created a luxurious feast for the eyes. Not only are there ideas one could only imagine in your most exotic culinary setting dreams, there are a few ideas for intimate parties you could actually reproduce in your own home or outdoors in your favorite setting. Whether you are seeking ideas for an extraordinarily expensive fundraiser or a meeting that speaks of a casual elegance, you will find ideas that will inspire you and encourage you to create a very memorable setting.
