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BritArt @ The Colony + Fashion @ Neiman-Marcus + Rolex Stable Visit @ Wellington By Augustus Mayhew It was a last minute invitation. Of course, I first thought perhaps they were short on RSVPs from their A-List and were scouring for more invitees. At this late stage of my life, I was reluctant to accept. I had already planned on several Miami events. Then, an image flashed of Miami's traffic standstills. A minute later, I RSVP'd a yes to an invitation from Rolex for a breakfast stable visit in Wellington with their newest sport partners, equestrian Kent Farrington, currently the #1 US rider and #2 in the world. Rolex's stable of icons includes legendary sports figures as well as artists and entertainers. Earlier in the week I was at The Colony for the American Friends of British Art luncheon where the group's director Michael Ridgdill was looking at a sold out luncheon and already planning for next year. I stopped in at Neiman Marcus for designer Lela Rose's latest ready-to-wear looks. Because of the snowstorm, the Texas native, who counts Jessica Chastain, Jessica Alba, and Kate Middleton among her fans, sent videotaped regrets, played for the 60 guests on a flat-screen television. Rose appears to have found a considerable following. Her clothes are attractive sculpted plays on various geometric forms both in cut and graphics. Her pink, yellow and lilac palette should attract a flock of multi-generational Palm Beachers. Though I missed Thursday night's reception at Neiman Marcus for the Palm Beach Police Foundation, I took a look at some of the Buccellati oggeti magnifici that were going to be shown during the event. |
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American Friends of British Art Luncheon @ The Colony Hotel 24 January 2015 - 11:30 a.m. The American Friends of British Art's 4th annual lecture & luncheon welcomed author and art historian Lady Sheila Hale. Lady Sheila discoursed on "King Charles I and His Collection of Italian Paintings," the beginnings of the Royal Collection. The author of Titian: His Life, Hale highlighted the king's passion for acquiring masterpieces by Caravaggio, Rubens, da Vinci, Canaletto, Bernini, and Titian. The American Friends organization provides funding for the restoration and preservation of Great Britain's historic art and architecture. This was my second visit to the UK gathering where last year Nicky Haslem was the guest speaker. A former Veneziano, Lady Sheila and I reminisced about Venice in winter, walking the crisscross of passarelles across the flooded squares when the city's labyrinth of walkways are unburdened by crowds, afloat in an unearthly cold damp drizzly fog or dusted with morning snow. |
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Also, a pleasure seated next to Bobby Spencer. Somehow we ended up talking about Sue Whitmore's family, the Hopkins', who owned a place north of Playa Riente, that Spencer first met after World War II. Although as part of my Downton Abbey Recovery Group we can only watch The Great British Baking Show, next season's guest might well be Lady Fiona Carnarvon with a word or two about the real Downton Abbey, something Palm Beachers are familiar. |
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The organization's director and founder Dr. Michael Ridgdill and the Hon. David Prodger, British Consul General — Miami, welcomed guests including Hope Alswang, Terry and Linda Collier, Stephania Conrad, Michael Denell, HRH Princess Maria-Pia di Savoy, William Eubanks, Annie Falk, Leta Foster, Jennifer Garrigues, Tim Johnson, Therese Mersentes, Mandell and Ambassador Mary Ourisman, Tom Quick, William Secord, Bobby Spencer, Ben Stein, Bob and Barbara Swanson, Angela Vecellio, Leo and Kathryn Vecellio, Orator and Maureen Woodward, and Fernando Wong. Event sponsors included: Smith and Moore Architects, Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design, William R. Eubanks Interior Design, Jennifer Garrigues Interiors, Livingston Builders, Paris Ceramics, Ben Stein of Brown Harris Stevens, The Palm Beach Jewelry Art & Antique Show, and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. |
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Neiman Marcus hosts designer Lela Rose Spring 2015 Collection 27 January 2015 - 11:30 a.m. |
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Lela Rose Spring 2015 |
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Rolex hosts A Stable Visit with Kent Farrington @ Wellington 29 January 2015 – 9 a.m. Thursday morning Rolex hosted breakfast at equestrian Kent Farrington's stable to introduce the press to their latest top-flight partner. Among Rolex's other equestrian affiliates are: Rodrigo Pessoa, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, the first woman to be ranked World No. 1 in jumping and three-time winner of the Rolex World Cup Final; Eric Lamaze, Kevin Staut, and Steve Guerdat. Rolex sponsors three of the world's greatest equestrian shows: the World Equestrian Festival - Aachen; the CSIO Spruce Meadows Masters - Calgary; and CHI Geneva. Together, they make up the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping. |
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Photographs by Augustus Mayhew. Augustus Mayhew is the author of Lost in Wonderland – Reflections on Palm Beach. |