QUOTATION # 125.

[ON HOLIDAY DINNER PARTIES].

It’s good to think outside the box. People think that you need a charger and a dinner plate and the silverware on one side and the vase in the middle.

I don’t think that things need to be placed so traditionally.

I personally like that my tables look unique and my own.

I think about setting a table like I would about dressing myself—for me, it’s another way to express personal style.

And I like to not always use things for the purpose that they’re intended for.

For example, a lot of times there are things that are already in your home that you can use to decorate the table.

And the tablecloth doesn’t necessarily have to be a tablecloth—any piece of fabric that’s big enough could do. You could just repurpose things.

I don’t think it’s so necessary to spend a ton of resources on stuff all the time.

It’s nice to look around and see if there’s some object in your home that could be reimagined as, say, a vase.

And a vase doesn’t necessarily need to have water because it doesn’t necessarily need to have flowers—it could potentially have, like, a piece of something you foraged, or something you found, like a piece of ivy.

LAILA GOHAR