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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935, cont.

Social History• July 12, 2011.

Chicago, June 1933 In Chicago for a Garden Club meet and a party at Marion McKinlock’s, Ellen Frazer visited the International Exposition. Chest... READ MORE

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Part II: Grand Hotels in the Italian Lake District: Lake Como’s Uncommon Allure

Travel• June 24, 2011.

Before setting off for a week in Menaggio, we had planned only two days at the Hotel Metropole-Suisse in Como. We might have stayed a week had we real... READ MORE

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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935

Social History• June 10, 2011.

Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935 In March New York Social Diary featured the first part of a series Philadelphia in Palm Beach: 1920-19... READ MORE

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Grand Hotels in the Italian Lake District

Travel• June 7, 2011.

However much the Italian Lakes District is culturally set apart from the more well-traveled museum-saturated Venice-Florence-Rome-Naples route, the re... READ MORE

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Villa Carlotta abloom! Lake Como bellissimo

Travel• May 17, 2011.

Years ago, I lived in a wonderful villa in Florence, a former Strozzi hunting lodge transformed into a classic 19th-century villa set amidst a tree-fi... READ MORE

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Milano Moderno

Travel• May 10, 2011.

My planned spring retreat to the scenic Italian Lake District had a bit of a detour when my travel companion scored a last-minute ticket for Cenacolo ... READ MORE

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Palm Beach Social Diary

Social History• August 25, 2010.

Graceful Living: The Phipps Family in Gulf Stream The polo world’s exclusive old money mystique has waned, for the most part now found amidst sepia ... READ MORE

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Palm Beach Social Diary: Another Look at Lost Palm Beach

Palm Beach• January 3, 2010.

“We were so young and gay then and we thought we had all the money in the world. It will be sad if the great houses vanish and the Mizner period bec... READ MORE

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Yesterday’s La Coquille Club

Social History• October 23, 2009.

Because today’s La Coquille Club has been so magnificently recast for nearly the past twenty years as part of The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach in Man... READ MORE

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Envisioning Palm Beach: The Addison Mizner Collection at The Society of the Four Arts

Palm Beach• August 26, 2009.

Architect Addison Mizner’s extensive library, volumes that span three centuries, and his design diaries — scrapbooks filled with sketches, water... READ MORE

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High over Palm Beach

Social History• August 11, 2009.

Late last fall a friend and I were motoring to Ithaca for the festivities at Cornell surrounding the dedication and DNA ribbon cutting of Weill Hall d... READ MORE

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Garden Grandeur endures at Casa Phippsberger

Palm Beach• March 23, 2009.

In Palm Beach, where escapist landscapes borrowed from English rose gardens, French parterres, Spanish cloisters and Tuscan courtyards amplify the sur... READ MORE

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