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How to do laid-back hosting right, according to this Sydney designer

How to do laid-back hosting right, according to this Sydney designer

Jewellery designer Lucy Folk has a sense of community baked into her warm and relaxed hosting style. Here are her top tips for the perfect beachy dinner party.

Joffrey Cauchy and Lucy Folk at home in Bronte, Sydney. Kitty Callaghan 

Lucy Folk likes to break bread – literally and figuratively. “It always starts with bread for us,” says the jewellery and fashion designer, who lives in Sydney’s Bronte with her partner, Joffrey Cauchy, and their children, five-year-old Malon and two-year-old Lala. “Our weekend usually starts with a little swim and then a trip to the bakery to buy the bread for the day. And whenever we are hosting, it always starts with the idea of breaking bread, about connection and how you’re friends with the baker and all the other people in the community. We actually are friends with our bakers, at Iggy’s in Bronte, and they happen to be wonderful.”

The pre-dinner party at Iggy’s in Bronte. Kitty Callaghan

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Jessica Beresford
Associate editor, Life & LeisureJessica Beresford is the associate editor of Life & Leisure, based in Sydney. She writes about fashion, jewellery and beauty, and was previously fashion features editor at the Financial Times’ luxury glossy, HTSI, in London. Email Jessica at jessica.beresford@afr.com

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