Social Diary 2/17/04 - The Young Fellows of The Frick Collection's “Men’s Club”, Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, Carolina Jr., Ray Liotta, Jason Lewis, Joel Schumacher, Candace Bushnell, Charles Askegard, Karolina Kurkova, Pamela Fiori, Ingrid Sischy, Glenda Bailey and Steven Cojocaro, Hal Rubensteim, Hamish Bowles, Andre Leon Talley, Plum Sykes, Jeff Klein, Jason Kalisman, Lauren Davis, Jennifer Creel, Tory Burch,Tara, Renee, and Mark Rockefeller,Susan Fales-Hill, Fabiola Beracasa, Mario and Anne Grauso, Felicia Taylor,Jean-Marc and Claire Bonnefous, Marla Sabo, Clifford Brokaw, Mark Gilbertson, Katrina Brooker, I. T. and Virginia K. Burden, Minturn and Helen Clay Chace, Amy Fine Collins, John D’Urso, Hunter Davis, Emily T. Frick, Philip Gorrivan, Tyler Greif, Nina Griscom, Karla and Peter Harwick, Kim Hicks, Rudolf Kniase Melikoff, Cynthia Fotheringham, Robert and Victoria Lindgren, James and Stephanie Loeffler, Sheila Parham, Victoria and H. J. Rotenstreich, Anna Rothschild, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Elizabeth Saint-Amand, Lisa Anastos, Jaime A. El Koury, Helen and Tim Schifter, Benjamin and Louise Schliemann, Victoria Schreiber, Gene Shalit, Jarvis and Carmen Slade, Randall Stempler, Amber Frumkes, Harrison LeFrak, Robert Rufino, Elise and Liza Trafton, Peter van Alstine, Vanessa von Bismark, Genevieve Wheeler Brown, Christine Scornavacca, Gina and James de Givenchy, Charles de Viel Castel

A very cold President’s Day in New York

Looking northwest from Houston and Allen. 3:30 PM. Photo: JH.

Last Thursday night over at The Frick, more than 700 attended The Young Fellows “Men’s Club” evening. This is one of the hottest tickets of the social season, and very accessible economically to the younger (under forty) crowd with tickets at $250 and Benefactor tickets for $400.

A portion of the invitation for The Young Fellows “Men’s Club” evening

This is the fifth in the annual series, usually costume driven theme. The first was the Edwardian Ball, then the Tartan Ball; the Fete des Quatre Saisons, and last year’s An Evening of Nouveau Glamour. Dress for this year was designated: Le Smoking (“dress that draws upon the glitz of the postwar nightclub era, a time when celebrities and socialites were found listening to live jazz, while sipping martinis and smoking cigars on zebra-skin banquettes”), according to the museum’s press office.

The Chairmen of the evening, Marina Rust Connor, Lauren DuPont Nathalie Kaplan, Catherine Sitrick Shepard and Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and several committee members were wearing Carolina Herrera (with the exception of Mrs. Zinterhofer who was not present). The boys were in black tie, even white tie and tails (Mark Gilbertson), black tie and white jacket, sports jackets, blazers.

Herrera’s fashion house also developed the developed the decorative scheme for the evening – the idea being the elements of a classic gentlemen’s club. Kevin Krier & Associates, in conjunction with Carolina Herrera created and executed the scheme for the Garden Court, the Music Room and other area both inside and outside the mansion, including a “Cigar Box” in the Fifth Avenue Garden.

Fete des Quatre Saisons. 2002.

An Evening of Nouveau Glamour. 2003.

It began with cocktails served in the Garden Court, followed by dancing in the red-hued Music Room featuring DJ Javier Peral. On the east and west terraces of the Garden Court were cocktail bars and at the north end was a large buffet provided by Sean Driscoll’s Glorious Food, featuring “Masculine comfort food” – cheeses, breads, hams, turkey, pigs-in-a-blanket, dollops of caviar on boiled sliced spring potatoes and lots of desserts.

The permanent collection galleries and the second floor Drawing Room were also available to the guests throughout the evening. The second floor of the museum is usually off-limits to visitors. The Frick’s winter exhibition A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino was also on view in the Special Exhibition Galleries.

Lauren DuPont, Marina Rust Connor, and Nathalie Gerschel Kaplan

Buffet, dancing and all that, this event has the feeling of a very formal yet very relaxed cocktail party. It’s a perfect opportunity for young Manhattanites, married or single, to meet new people or hitherto unintroduced familiar faces.

And The Young Fellows Steering Committee — Nathalie Kaplan, Martha Loring, Amy Mazzola Flynn, Lisa and Phil Gorrivan, Julian Iragorri, Robert and Victoria Lindgren, Jennifer Nilles, Victoria Rotenstreich, Marianna Sabater, Louise Schliemann, Christine Scornavacca, Catherine Shepard, Andrew Thomas, and Genevieve Wheeler — worked very hard to make it so.

Among the expected (although I didn’t see quite a few): Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, Carolina Jr., Ray Liotta; Jason Lewis; Joel Schumacher, Candace Bushnell; Charles Askegard; Karolina Kurkova, Pamela Fiori, Ingrid Sischy, Glenda Bailey and Steven Cojocaro; Hal Rubensteim, Hamish Bowles, Andre Leon Talley, Plum Sykes, Jeff Klein, Jason Kalisman, Lauren Davis, Jennifer Creel, Tory Burch; Tara, Renee, and Mark Rockefeller; Susan Fales-Hill, Fabiola Beracasa, Mario and Anne Grauso, Felicia Taylor; Jean-Marc and Claire Bonnefous, Marla Sabo, Clifford Brokaw, Mark Gilbertson, Katrina Brooker, I. T. and Virginia K. Burden, Minturn and Helen Clay Chace, Amy Fine Collins, John D’Urso, Hunter Davis, Emily T. Frick, Philip Gorrivan, Tyler Greif, Nina Griscom, Karla and Peter Harwick, Kim Hicks, Rudolf Kniase Melikoff, Cynthia Fotheringham, Robert and Victoria Lindgren, James and Stephanie Loeffler, Sheila Parham, Victoria and H. J. Rotenstreich, Anna Rothschild, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Elizabeth Saint-Amand, Lisa Anastos, Jaime A. El Koury, Helen and Tim Schifter, Benjamin and Louise Schliemann, Victoria Schreiber, Gene Shalit, Jarvis and Carmen Slade, Randall Stempler, Amber Frumkes, Harrison LeFrak, Robert Rufino, Elise and Liza Trafton, Peter van Alstine, Vanessa von Bismark, Genevieve Wheeler Brown, Christine Scornavacca, Gina and James de Givenchy, and Charles de Viel Castel.

The Young Fellows’ “Men’s Club” has been generously sponsored by Carolina Herrera, Ltd., First Republic Bank, Town & Country, Moët & Chandon Champagne, Glorious Food, Wren Press, Knoll, EvensonBest LLC, and Zino Platinum.

In the Garden Court at The Frick

About the Frick:

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the coke and steel industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector, left his New York residence and his remarkable collection of Western paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts to the public “for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a gallery of art, [and] of encouraging and developing the study of fine arts and of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects.”

A portrait of Henry Clay Frick by Whistler

Designed and built for Mr. Frick in 1913 and 1914 by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, the mansion provides a grand domestic setting reminiscent of the noble houses of Europe for the masterworks from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century that it contains. Of special note are paintings by Bellini, Constable, Corot, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Goya, El Greco, Holbein, Ingres, Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Titian, Turner, Velázquez, Vermeer, Whistler, and other masters. Mr. Frick’s superb examples of French eighteenth-century furniture, Italian Renaissance bronzes, and Limoges enamels bring a special ambiance to the galleries, while the interior and exterior gardens and the amenities created since the founder’s time in the 1930s and 1970s contribute to the serenity of the visitor’s experience.

Renowned for its small, focused exhibitions and for its highly regarded concert series and lectures, The Frick Collection also operates The Frick Art Reference Library, founded by Henry Clay Frick’s daughter, Miss Helen Clay Frick, located in an adjoining building at 10 East 71st Street. Both a research library and a photo archive, The Frick Art Reference Library is one of the world’s great repositories of documents for the study of Western art. It has served the international art world for more than seventy-five years.

Where: 1 East 70th Street, near Fifth Avenue.
Hours: open six days a week, with recently expanded hours: 10 AM to 6 PM on Tuesdays through Thursdays and on Saturdays; 10 AM to 9 PM on Fridays; and 1 PM to 6 PM on Sundays. Closed Mondays, New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and December 25. Limited hours (1 to 6 PM on Lincoln’s Birthday, Election Day, and Veterans Day).