David Monn - The Art of Celebrating by David Monn

A state dinner at the White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, once-in-a-lifetime birthday celebrations - every lucky guest knows that there is no party like a David Monn party. Using scent, sound, sight, touch and taste, Monn designs events to be shared, lived and felt by everyone there. Monns three favourite words - authenticity, scale and detail - inform every chapter of his book, following him from classic New York nights to events around the world and back again to the most private rites of passage, including entertaining at home.