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Palm Beach• March 30, 2017

Palm Beach Social Diary: Uncommon Lives

Uncommon Lives: David & Gertrude! Emily! Charles! Gertie! George & LaLa! Palm Beach’s seasonal social cha-cha-cha may be drawing to a close but apparently islanders will still need to adjust their calendar and logistics for the comings-and-goings of POTUS45, especially those living within the perimeter termed “the zone.” Late last fall when an oceanfront spec […]...

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Palm Beach Social Diary – Sotheby’s previews + Wellington’s Jumpers + Manalapan’s Memories

Palm Beach• January 31, 2017.
On what might have been one of the season’s most beautiful winter nights Sotheby’s Palm Beach welcomed more than 100 clients and guests to a prelude of the auction house’s forthcoming March fine art sales at its London-New Bond Street location.  Ashley Schiff Ramos,  the company’s new director of its Royal Palm Way bureau, and Tad Smi... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Matters of Taste

Palm Beach• January 19, 2017.
When I noticed the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair’s VIP Preview was supporting the Palm Beach Zoo and that the Art Miami-based fair was also presenting an exhibition with the nearby Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, I was reminded of decades ago when the Palm Beach season began to crowd with a jillion charitable […]... READ MORE
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America First: Howard Major at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• January 12, 2017.
America First: Howard Major at Palm Beach Architect Howard Major was Palm Beach’s leading advocate for an American-based classical building style during the post-WW I boom when Spanish and Italian reproductions became commonplace. Foreshadowing today’s “America First” populist sentiment, Major believed a mix of Old World styles should never... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Books, Birds & Art Studios

Palm Beach• November 22, 2016.
The annual convergence at Palm Beach is underway. With The Four Arts Library closing in April for its much anticipated makeover, I stopped by Friday night’s final King Fling, at least until 2018. I had  somehow overlooked the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens on West Palm Beach’s Flagler Drive.  This past week a friend asked me […]... READ MORE
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Aristocratic Artist: Albert Herter at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• August 23, 2016.
Aristocratic Artist: Albert Herter at Palm Beach “Well, Albert Herter simply has no right to exist. To begin with, he was born to wealth and social position; he is handsome and attractive in manner, and he has exceptional talent. You see, his career knocks the props from under those accepted saws about the impetus of […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Mizner makeovers + Snowbirds at Wakohadatchee

Palm Beach• March 23, 2016.
With few Addison Mizner-designed houses remaining in Palm Beach in some semblance of their original condition, this week I took advantage of the opportunity to visit Villa dei Fiori  (Addison Mizner, 1921) where its possible restoration/renovation was the subject of an imaginative presentation by interior designer Campion Platt and landscape de... READ MORE
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Washington Social Diary: From Georgetown To Old Town

Across the Nation• December 21, 2015.
It’s a New York Social Diary tradition each year for this column to feature the festive holiday decorations of the homes in Georgetown, the capital’s well-preserved historic neighborhood that was founded in 1751 and once served as a port. The residential area is one of the prettiest places to stroll during the holidays. This year we add [... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Closing the Palm Beach season, season finale: Civic Association celebration + Neiman Marcus Luncheon

Palm Beach• May 22, 2015.
Is there any better way to close a Palm Beach season than with a champagne brunch and a fashion show lunch? This past week the Palm Beach Civic Association (PBCA) and Neiman Marcus-Worth Avenue hosted their seasonal farewells. Following the Civic Association’s annual meeting presided by Chairman Bob Wright, the 300 residents and guests gath... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary The Asphalt Jungle: Building History at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• February 6, 2015.
Palm Beach’s patchwork network of roadways and eclectic ensembles of architectural styles were determined as much by episodic residential developments dividing estates into subdivisions as formulated by periodic trends, storms, lawsuits and politics. Beginning with Henry Flagler‘s “Pay-no-matter-the-price!” acquisition of a... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary, Kenneth Noland at Palm Beach + Buccan kicks off PB Food & Wine fest + Holidays at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• December 24, 2014.
Since opening a gallery in Midtown Palm Beach as a showcase for the works of her late husband, the renowned Color  Field artist Kenneth Noland, and his circle of 20th century painters and sculptors, Paige Rense Noland, editor emeritus of Architectural Digest, may have discovered the same resolve and pleasure that Mary Sanford, Alice DeLamar ... READ MORE
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Resort Life, Chapter XXXVIII: January 1970 – December 1970 Palm Beach + Boca Grande + Down East + Brittany + Ireland

Palm Beach• March 24, 2014.
On New Year’s Day 1970, maestro Leopold Stokowski was visiting Palm Beach. Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin was due for a vacation at The Breakers. Dina Merrill and Cliff Robertson were put up at Mar-a-Lago. Alvin and Lilly Fuller were ensconced in their new Chinese-style house with a ten-tier pagoda by the pool.  During the holidays... READ MORE
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Resort Life, Chapter XXXIII: August – December 1967 Down East + Palm Beach + Naples + Virgin Islands

Palm Beach• January 14, 2014.
By 1967, Brooke Astor had already made a name for herself.  Following her short-lived five-and-one-half year marriage to Vincent Astor, and his ensuing death in 1959, she spent the next more than four decades dispensing as much as $200 million.  As head of the Astor Foundation, she became New York’s most generous godmother. Having transforme... READ MORE

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