Two of Lodge's most redeeming elements are handmade: the delicious maple-syrup gelato, from Ciao Bella, and a pair of gorgeous tables that Cipriani hewed from slabs of oak.
Gorgeous antipasto table at the entrance.
"The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty" (Harper Design, $35) sounds like yet another gorgeous coffee table book.
– Patrick Farrell Design Sponge: A host of designers, artists and other tastemakers created quirky, clever, gorgeous Thanksgiving table settings for Grace Bonney's blog, presented in a series of posts.
Designer Charlotte Moss, who is also a trustee of the estate, created a gorgeous dinner table in the greenhouse, with a lush centerpiece and incredible dinnerware bringing sophistication to the space.
There were also gorgeous coffee-table books full of sweeping landscapes and handsome, well-scrubbed gauchos, the iconic cowboys of Argentina.
So does Laie, the Catalan bookseller, in a food-focused bookshop well stocked with both kitsch (Spanish cooking advertisements cast as magnets for 3.50 euros) and gorgeous coffee-table books.
In lieu of an actual bar there are two enormous (and absolutely gorgeous) walnut tables, perpendicular, with liquor, glassware and even bowls of cocktail-relevant lemons, oranges and grapefruits on them, rather than behind them.
ALI SMITH "Momma Love: How the Mother Half Lives" This gorgeous coffee-table-style book, with images and personal stories that reflect a broad cross-section of maternal reality, is like the best of this blog in a book, with pictures that aren't of Playmobil figures, but of the lives of the writers and their children.
Our holiday books gift guide is packed: There are books for teens and toddlers, prizewinning novels and thrillers, science and sports, gorgeous coffee-table books and more.
