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 A busy week ahead
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| A dreamy Sunday afternoon in Riverside Park. 4:30 PM. Photo: JH. |
| Monday, October 24, 2011. Fair weather weekend with cool autumn air turning chill at night. The weatherman has been off with his projections of very cold weather but Saturday I brought in most of plants from the terrace (except for the impatiens which don’t make it through the winter in an apartment with not a lot of light). It’s a bit obsessive but I’m one of those people who wants to save all living things, if possible. I know I know. It comes from my California days when everything grew year round and you could practically root a broomstick by putting it into the ground. |
| Fall flowering in Riverside Park. |
The social/gala season was really pumped up last week with more parties than we could cover in a day or even a week. So today we’re making up for lost time because we’ve got a very busy week ahead of us.
Last Thursday night the The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) hosted the 23rd Annual Preview Party for The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at the Park Avenue Armory. The show features many of the world’s most influential art and antique dealers from the United States and Europe.
This is the 23rd year that the Society has had the good fortune to be the beneficiary of the Preview Party, which was launched in 1989. The party itself has become one of New York’s important fall events. It’s also a bit like a homecoming where so many friends and neighbors and supporters gather. And, it attracts more than a thousand high profile guests from the worlds of fashion, art, philanthropy, and interior design. A real New York night. |
| Noreen Buckfire, Michel Witmer, Elizabeth Miller, Melinda Blinken, Brian Haughton, Anna Haughton, Daisy Soros, and Dr. Annette Rickel. |
100% of the proceeds from the event benefit The Society’s patient care, research and education programs at MSKCC, thanks to their generous sponsors, Paola Quadretti, One Kings Lane and St. John.
This year’s co-chairs who are always crucial to the Preview Night’s success were: Noreen Buckfire, Elizabeth Miller, Daisy Soros, and Michel Cox Witmer. It’s a great evening; great people watching, exceptional art and antiques to peruse (and buy), wonder stalls in the aisles for excepting gnoshing, full bars, champagne flowing, meeting up with friends. And the show goes on through this coming Thursday, open from 11 to 7, so don’t miss. |
| Nancy Coffey, Tim Nagler, and Bambi Putnam. |
| Tim Nagler and Nancy Coffey. |
Stacy Engman. |
| Diane Lokey Farb. |
Carol Prisant. |
Karen Karlsrud. |
| Tory Burch and Monica Noel. |
| Matthew Imberman, Raffaello Tomasso, and Sam Loxton. |
| Ellie Cullman, Wendy Moonan, Simon Phillips, and Alyssa Miller. |
| Kasper. |
Barbara Regna and Kathleen Giordano. |
| Tom Savage, Pat Altschul, Memrie Lewis, and Mario Buatta. |
| Eiko Assael. |
Tory Burch and Michelle Durham. |
| Mark Wolcott, Brent Kanbayashi, and Koichi Hara. |
| Carol Mack and Kathy Rayner. |
| Polly Onet and Courtney Moss. |
Alessandra Codinha. |
| Eliana Gil Rodriguez and Andrea Ciaroni. |
| The New York Jazz Quartet. |
| Mario Buatta and Pat Altschul. |
Amy Fine Collins and Devon Aoki. |
| Elizabeth Pyne and Laura Harris. |
Deborah Royce and Susan Sterling. |
| RoAnn Costin, Devon Aoki, and Paola Quadretti. |
| Dr. Robert Rothberg and Dr. Joan Rothberg. |
Allane Nissim and Seth Bright. |
| Bambi Putnam with Sylvester and Gillian Miniter. |
| Jerry Lauren, Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, and Sy Rappaport. |
| Richard and Kamie Lightburn. |
Tom and Heather Leeds. |
| Jeffrey Rosen, Herve Aaron, Marjorie Rosen, and Alan Salz. |
| John Rosselli and Bunny Williams. |
| Cator Sparks. |
Peter Jones. |
Lucy Lamphere and Steven Merrill. |
| Friederike Biggs and Leelee Brown. |
| Janna Bullock. |
Robin Katz. |
Jackie Weld Drake. |
| James and Betty Lebenthal. |
| Allie Hanley, Nicole Mellon, and Susan Warner |
Jonathan and Somers Farkas. |
| Sima Ghadamian, Elizabeth Pyne, and Betty Sherrill. |
| Andrea Robinson and Sheila Kotur. |
Michael and Eleanora Kennedy. |
| Glady Chener. |
Valerie Evans-Freke and Bruce Lazarus. |
Mary Jane Weiskopf. |
| Wilbur and Hilary Ross. |
Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henckels. |
| Stephanie Krieger and Brian Stewart. |
Geoffrey Bradfield. |
| Jean Shafiroff and Patrick McMullan. |
Mona Mendelson and Cherie Stahl. |
| Rahmi M. Koch and Torkom Demirjian. |
| Helena and Roman Martinez. |
Judi Regal and Vessela Vento-Brickley. |
| Arie Kopelman, Ellie Shushan, Coco Kopelman, Sheley Rettenmaier, Catherine Sweeney Singer, and Carswell Rush Berlin. |
| Aime and Louis Kreisberg. |
Kathy Comelli and Kayla Shannon. |
| Nicole and Derek Limbocker with Wendy Carduner. |
| Pepe and Emilia Fanjul. |
Suzette Smith and Jill Spalding. |
| Dr. John de Guzman and Dr. Dino Rivera. |
| Mary Snow, Libby Fitzgerald, and Lisa McCarthy. |
Maurice Accorsi and Leesa Rowland. |
| David Kleinberg, Sandra Nunnerley, and Mario Buatta. |
Henry Johnson, Elizabeth Miller, and Richard Miller. |
| Daisy Soros, Melinda Blinken, and Dr. Annette Rickel. |
| Ana Gutierrez-Folch and Sarah Sperling. |
Chappy and Melissa Morris. |
| Polly Onet, John Glass, and Martha Glass. |
| Laura Stanley and Elaine Wrightman. |
| Geraldine Nager, Peter Gregory, and Jamee Gregory. |
| Barbara Schumacher, John Schumacher, and Jerryann Woodfin. |
| Mary Davidson and Liz Gardiner. |
| Libby Fitzgerald, Grace Meigher, and Lisa McCarthy. |
| Sonya Porvaznikova, Alexis Kugel, and Laura Kugel. |
| Sandra Long and Lisa Rosen. |
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