Fifty-One Ways to Never Show Up Empty-Handed

Architectural Digest has published a guide to the host and hostess gift, fifty-one selections meant for the season's run of dinners, weekends, and quiet thank-yous. The premise is simple: a gift chosen with the host in mind, rather than grabbed en route, is what gets a guest asked back. The list spans the categories that make up a considered home, the kind of specifics a good guest is expected to know. It favors attention over extravagance, the detail a host notices even when nothing is said.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.