At the Head of the Table. Etiquette. Table Setting. Set Design
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At the Head of the Table. Etiquette. Table Setting. Set Design
49.99 €
The history of mankind can literally be laid out on plates.
Great things have been done at set tables for centuries: state visits, signing of contracts and the end of negotiations are celebrated. Important events in a person's life have been gathering people around the table for centuries. We break bread as a sign of trust and refuse to sit at the table with those we do not respect. For various reasons, we limit ourselves in food or exclude certain products. In protest, we refuse to eat at all.
But a meal, a feast is not just food, but food in compliance with the canons.
Table setting is not just knives and forks lying on the right side, it is a symbol of respect for yourself and for others. It is a long and endlessly interesting history of people, a kaleidoscope of events that have left a mark on human memory and found their place and embodiment on the table. Table setting is an art, proof and demonstration of good taste and understanding of the laws of hospitality. Table setting is a language that needs to be understood, spoken, and clearly expressed.
The principles of any table setting are the same. A table set for one or a hundred people, in a palace or in a kitchen, will obey the same rules.
The book you are holding in your hands is unique in that it was made jointly by a specialist in European secular etiquette Ksenia Markova and set designer Maria Minkova. When creating this book, the authors tried to combine rules and moods, etiquette and music, canon and creativity.
Perhaps for the first time, representatives of two different directions have combined their knowledge and experience and shared them on these pages.
This approach allows you to consider a feast and table setting from different points of view, understand the rules that have developed over the centuries, feel their modern interpretation, give freedom to creativity and, perhaps, spy on amazing and unconventional ideas.
Great things have been done at set tables for centuries: state visits, signing of contracts and the end of negotiations are celebrated. Important events in a person's life have been gathering people around the table for centuries. We break bread as a sign of trust and refuse to sit at the table with those we do not respect. For various reasons, we limit ourselves in food or exclude certain products. In protest, we refuse to eat at all.
But a meal, a feast is not just food, but food in compliance with the canons.
Table setting is not just knives and forks lying on the right side, it is a symbol of respect for yourself and for others. It is a long and endlessly interesting history of people, a kaleidoscope of events that have left a mark on human memory and found their place and embodiment on the table. Table setting is an art, proof and demonstration of good taste and understanding of the laws of hospitality. Table setting is a language that needs to be understood, spoken, and clearly expressed.
The principles of any table setting are the same. A table set for one or a hundred people, in a palace or in a kitchen, will obey the same rules.
The book you are holding in your hands is unique in that it was made jointly by a specialist in European secular etiquette Ksenia Markova and set designer Maria Minkova. When creating this book, the authors tried to combine rules and moods, etiquette and music, canon and creativity.
Perhaps for the first time, representatives of two different directions have combined their knowledge and experience and shared them on these pages.
This approach allows you to consider a feast and table setting from different points of view, understand the rules that have developed over the centuries, feel their modern interpretation, give freedom to creativity and, perhaps, spy on amazing and unconventional ideas.
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