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Dear Alice | Interior Design

Entertaining with Rebecca Gardner | Hosting Great Parties

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The founder and creative director of House and Creative Parties, a full service event and interior design collective in Savannah and New York City. She’s been named a top event designer by Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and her design work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Milieu, Town and Country, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. She established her design firm in 2010 and launched her online shop during 2020 called house and parties, which is a mix of private labels, artist commissions, and vintage pieces. “If your goal in hosting a party is to impress people, you have lost from the very beginning.” 24:36 Transitioning interiors to parties 4:18 How it begins with the clients 8:23 The headwear 12:46 The hostess 15:33 What to include in an intro 19:08 Inspiration 19:54 How is design a part of party planning? 22:21 The essentials of throwing a great party 24:45 A party trick 27:25 Dressing for a party 32:50 Rebecca’s dream party 34:04 The party favor 35:55 Music 38:11 “To me, the smaller parties that are like 60 tops are really where the magic happens because you have that time to stand back and pinch your chin, and move the little ditties around and step back, and play with the lighting. The bigger parties are fun because the scale is exciting and you have a major adrenaline rush, but you don’t get to split hairs and move around plastic snails under crystal goblets quite as much.” 9:37 https://housesandparties.com/ @housesandparties https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.

0:22.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Dear Alice.

0:25.0

Today we have a really special guest with us.

0:28.0

We have Rebecca Gardner.

0:30.0

She is the founder and creative director of House and Parties, a full service event

0:35.0

and interior design collective in Savannah and New York City.

0:39.0

She's been named a top event designer by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

0:43.0

And her design work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest,

0:48.0

Maloo, Town and Country, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.

0:53.0

She established her design firm in 2010 and launched her online shop

0:57.0

during 2020 called House and Parties.

1:00.0

It's a mix of private labels, artist commissions, and vintage pieces.

1:04.0

Welcome, Rebecca. We're so happy to have you here.

1:07.0

And you're joining us from Savannah today.

1:09.0

I'm in Savannah, yes, and I'm thrilled to be a part of what you're making.

1:13.0

Oh my gosh. Well, everybody's going to be so excited about this

1:15.0

because we're entering into that entertaining season.

1:18.0

And I think everybody's feeling more courageous about entertaining again

1:23.0

with vaccinations and COVID-waining.

1:27.0

And I feel like people are feeling more comfortable to gather.

1:30.0

And they're wanting to do it right because we've all missed our people so much.

1:34.0

So I think this timing is just really precious right now in the world, especially.

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