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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935, cont.
Social History
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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...
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Part II: Grand Hotels in the Italian Lake District: Lake Como’s Uncommon Allure
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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...
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935
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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...
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Grand Hotels in the Italian Lake District
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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...
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Villa Carlotta abloom! Lake Como bellissimo
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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...
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Milano Moderno
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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 ...
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Palm Beach Social Diary
Social History
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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 ...
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Another Look at Lost Palm Beach
Palm Beach
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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...
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Yesterday’s La Coquille Club
Social History
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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...
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Envisioning Palm Beach: The Addison Mizner Collection at The Society of the Four Arts
Palm Beach
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August 26, 2009.
Architect Addison Mizner’s extensive library, volumes that span three centuries, and his design diaries — scrapbooks filled with sketches, water...
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High over Palm Beach
Social History
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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...
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Garden Grandeur endures at Casa Phippsberger
Palm Beach
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March 23, 2009.
In Palm Beach, where escapist landscapes borrowed from English rose gardens, French parterres, Spanish cloisters and Tuscan courtyards amplify the sur...
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