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Nov 7, 2024, 03:02 PM UTC

Wallpaper* December 2024: The Entertaining Issue

On sale today, it's replete with haute hosting, sartorial swagger, and a date with Italy's premier design families ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Wallpaper* The Entertaining Issue is on newsstands

The Entertaining Issue is on newsstands today

Your invitation to seductive hosting, decadent dressing and a rendez-vous with Italy’s powerhouse design families – the December issue is on sale now

Dear readers,

What we put on our table, and who we place around it, defines us as individuals. Family-focused or friends-first, formatted to serve a wider social or professional purpose, whatever the prompt, beyond its unerring ability to arrest time (particularly on a ‘school night’), entertaining – our urge to gather and share – attests to a basic need to commune with others. Which is another way of saying, we will brook no argument about the importance of throwing an impromptu bash now and again, and to hell with the neighbours.

That said, the theme of this year’s Entertaining Issue eschews the ersatz gaiety that pervades the usual seasonal shindig to offer a hearty dose of old-school glamour. Our entertaining director Melina Keays and head of interiors Olly Mason worked together with photographer Matthew Donaldson to execute their latest series of table-settings, exploring a stripped-back sophistication dripping in atmosphere and candlewax. Leave your coat and your preoccupations at the door and tuck in.

Upbraiding your hosts’ decorating skills might not elicit a repeat invitation. Still, be mindful of their – and your – surroundings, and you’ll recognise another, primal form of self-expression, as Hugo Macdonald explores in his essay accompanying our annual Space story (also the work of Olly, together with photographer Mathilde Hiley). ‘To decorate is to embellish and enrich, not just our interiors, but our lives,’ writes Hugo. ‘It’s a form of communication, a way to send messages to others about who we think we are.’

Hugo’s is an essential truth demonstrated in the success of the businesses we feature in our portfolio entitled Design Dynasties – eight Italian families who have, over generations, delivered surroundings that enrich our own lives, clearly informed by their own. We are indebted to all those who took the time and trouble to take part, and the generosity of spirit shown towards writer Laura May Todd and photographer Bea De Giacomo surely represents the true meaning of hospitality and thus the epitome of entertaining.

Bill Prince
Editor-in-Chief

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