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Saks
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The Windows at Saks Fifth Avenue |
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Last Tuesday night, just two blocks up from Rockefeller
Center where hundreds of thousands had gathered
for the annual lighting of the tree, there was a line around
the block waiting to get
into the Cartier mansion where they were holding a booksigning
party for Jamee Gregory and her New York
Apartments: Private Views (Rizzoli Publishers), with photographs
by Nick
Hales and the book designed and produced
by Charles
Davey.
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New
York Apartments: Private Views. Click to order.
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Waiting in that
line were a lot of people who aren’t used
to waiting in any lines (well, maybe for a hit movie), and certainly
not on a chilly December night on Fifth Avenue. In fact, the
closest a number of the crowd get to Fifth Avenue on a night
like that would be from inside their apartments overlooking the
Park.
Inside the house of Cartier, the place was packed, everyone clamoring
for an autographed copy of the book. Why? Because Jamee Gregory’s
book is a treasure trove (with Mr. Hales’ photographs),
the biggest box of chocolates, New York interior design-wise,
of the season. Because Mrs. Gregory, because of her place in
the community in New York known as Society, had access to some
of the most sumptuous, luxurious, fantastic apartments in town.
A veritable tome of how the Other Half (or maybe, to be more
precise, the Other One-tenth of One Percent) live, after they’ve
unleashed some of the top decorators in the world to fashion
their aeries for them. The works of Bunny Williams, the
late Henri Samuel, Mario Buatta, Tony Ingrao, Scott Snyder, the late
Jed Johnson, David Easton, Charles Gwathmey (his own apartment),
the late Mark Hampton, David Netto (his own apartment), Ellie
Cullman (her own), Albert Hadley and Brian
Murphy, and several
others are represented.
We’ve included a tiny sampling of the luxe
life exemplified
in Mrs. Gregory’s sensational book. A perfect holiday gift
for the person who has everything, or thought they had everything
(before they look inside this book), or the person who would
like everything, for here it is, the best of the most of New
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Dining
room and library on Fifth.
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Friederike
Biggs' library.
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Marty
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View
from
a Terrace.
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Joan
Rivers' living room.
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The
Gutfreunds' grand staircase.
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Left: Beth
DeWoody's Bathroom.
Right: The
Gawthmey Kitchen.
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