Rebecca Gardner, A SCREAMING BLAST: Exceptional Entertaining
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with Rebecca Gardner, founder and creative director of the online shop Houses & Parties, about her dazzling new book, A SCREAMING BLAST: Exceptional Entertaining, a vibrant journey through twenty of her most fabulous parties. Rebecca shares stories from her South Texas upbringing and her path into event and interior design. She also talks about working with inspiring figures like Sofia Coppola, the influence of her grandmother’s hospitality, and her philosophy that “celebrating is really, really important in life.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners. We have totally booked live coming up this fall, and I hope you'll be a part of it. |
| 0:06.0 | We have three events in New York City, September 19th, 25th, and 30th, in New York, where I'll be doing six interviews live each day. |
| 0:14.1 | We also have a petite retreat in Greenwich on October 4th. |
| 0:18.0 | Go to Zibbimedia.com and event or and or event bright and search the events |
| 0:23.7 | and please come. I can't wait to meet you in person. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibi. |
| 0:34.6 | Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview |
| 0:38.7 | today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work |
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| 1:01.4 | guests like I do every single day. For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on |
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| 1:17.7 | Rebecca Gardner is the author of A Screaming Blast, Exceptional, Entertaining. |
| 1:27.5 | Rebecca Gardner is the founder and creative director of Houses and Parties, a full-service, events, interior design, and retail collective, based in Savannah, Georgia, and New York City. |
| 1:31.6 | She has been named a top event designer by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. |
| 1:34.1 | Her design work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:39.2 | Architectural Digest, Team Magazine, El Decor, Town and Country, and the Financial Times. |
| 1:45.3 | Her online shop, houses, and parties, offers unnecessaries for devotees of the elegant and unusual and shoppable collections that feature the same style, wit, and treasure that defines |
| 1:50.0 | her client work. |
| 1:51.0 | Welcome, Rebecca. |
| 1:52.2 | Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked, to talk about a screaming blast, exceptional, |
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