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Homes & Gardens
Julia Demer

24 Summer Hosting Essentials You Didn't Know You Needed – But Are About to Become Absolutely Obsessed With

Summer hosting essentials you didn't know you needed, including an outdoor bar cart, swan-shaped lemon squeezer trio, retro drink cooler, and inflatable cabana, pictured against a white background.

It’s the season when we throw caution to the wind: cracking open crustaceans with our bare hands, sipping skinny margaritas barefoot in the grass, probably singing along to ‘Summer of ’69’ a solid 20 decibels too loud.

You could call summer a little uncivilized, or you could call it heaven. The difference is really in the accoutrements. Manhandling a lemon for your crab legs feels infinitely chicer with a swan-shaped Gohar World squeezer in hand, while a canned cocktail tastes crisper pulled from the ‘champagne cold’ interior of a FIELDBAR Drinks Box. Big breeze threatening the tablescape? There are Art Nouveau-style tablecloth weights for that now, too.

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