In 1930, Elsa Maxwell the most famous event planner in history wrote a personal essay for Vogue about how to throw the perfect party. Read her hilarious guide in full here.
Keep New Year's Eve entertaining easy and elegant with this party platter complete with Black Sesame Parmesan Twists, cookies, fruit, crostini and more snacks.
From quick dips like our Avocado Hummus to delightful cheese boards like our Winter Charcuterie Board, these stress-free, no-cook options guarantee a memorable and delicious celebration. A cheeseboard is an ideal stationary hors d'oeuvre for holiday entertaining. Select a variety of cheeses, making sure to include an aged variety, a creamy cheese, a blue cheese and perhaps a smoked cheese.
In the ’20s and ’30s, long before she published ‘The Pursuit of Love’, Nancy Mitford contributed to Vogue on a number of occasions hardly surprising, given her close friendship with Cecil Beaton but never more successfully than at Christmas, when she shared her thoughts on hosting a harmonious gathering at a country pile. Read her hilarious (and unashamedly out-of-touch) guide, here.