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My friend the talented Gus Schmiege took this photograph in my garden during one of the last shoots we did together for the much-missed Southern Accents before its untimely departure. It was an outdoor lunch spread featuring a crawfish-and-goat cheese tart and grilled lamb—and, clearly, lots of rose wine. The “wine bucket” is actually a French pot I bought years ago in an antique store in Connecticut. Depending on the season, it gets filled with paperwhite narcissus (Christmas), Easter lilies (spring), hydrangeas (summer). In between it plays host to lots of wine—most recently to Wine for All’s fabulous Introsé (see “Splendor in the Grass” in the current Fetch). I love the way it looks on a bar or buffet, and I love that it wasn’t born to be a cooler.

In the same vein, Revival’s great looking Zinc Champagne Cooler would look as fabulous filled with maidenhair ferns, narcissus—you name it—as it does filled with wine. And their “L” and “1/2 Hectolitre” Industrial Bins would be beyond cool filled with ice and bottled beer at an outdoor party. I have always used galvanized metal washtubs, but how much chicer are these Argentine bins with their gorgeous orangey patina, just perfect for fall shindigs?

I also really adore the thought of South of Market’s antique White Garden Urns at a more formal party or wedding doing double duty as champagne buckets. Believe me when I say that I was extremely grateful when my mother passed along a pair of her silver champagne coolers. But in the end, I almost always use those for roses.

Julia Reed

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