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Social Diary• January 27, 2022

The Life in the House and the House in the Life of Mrs. Astor

How the mansions of the tycoons of Gilded Age that came after the Civil War established the Upper East Side of the 21st century...

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Big Old Houses: “The King of New York”

House• January 27, 2022.
We return for your comfort and curiosity to the late John Foreman’s visit to the interior and the history of the King of New York, Otto Kahn’s still perfectly preserved mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: Testing our last nerve

Guest Diary• January 26, 2022.
Blair Sabol sees it all as Covid crashing; peaking and leveling, now testing our last nerve. Plus a few other thoughts about Oprah, Adele, Elton, Meghan and Harry, Lena, Kathy, Francoise, ALT, and Anna... READ MORE
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Taking it back to the beach in St Barths

Guest Diary• January 25, 2022.
Barbara Hodes and husband and pup visit St. Barths, and like her shopping tours, she gives us a thorough, beautiful, gorgeous, sunny and sandy trip that just seems like paradise every where you look and every beach you take... READ MORE
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Be it ever so palatial, there’s no place like home — If you’re a billionairess like this lady

House• January 24, 2022.
The 54-room, three-story penthouse on Fifth Avenue, built for a legendary American heiress on land replacing the mansion she owned and now divided into nine separate and spacious residences... READ MORE
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Pierre Durand

House• January 21, 2022.
A look back at our 2011 interview of Pierre Durand in his exquisite 5th Avenue home. Much of his collection is up for auction next week at Christie's New York... READ MORE
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A Wardrobe for the Wonders of Winter

Guest Diary• January 20, 2022.
The What-to-Wear-Where girls, Hilary and Karen, are taking in the winter wear — what you’re gonna need to brave the storm and keep warm from head to toe — for all (winter occasions), with a wide selection of possibilities and prices... READ MORE
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American Friends of Versailles Study Marie Antoinette’s Hapsburg Legacy in Prague, Part II

Social History• January 19, 2022.
Part II of Sharon Hoge’s coverage of the American Friends of Versailles visiting Prague and its historical relationship to Marie Antoinette whose Hapsburg mother was Queen of the empire... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: You can run but you can’t hide!

Guest Diary• January 14, 2022.
Booster bored and in a “brownout” Blair Sabol tries to keep it together, for the year of the Tiger brings hope!... READ MORE
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The American Friends of Versailles in Vienna Visit Scenes of Marie Antoinette’s Childhood, Part I

Social History• January 14, 2022.
Sharon Hoge takes us on the annual American Friends of Versailles fundraising visit this year to Vienna and Prague. Part 1... READ MORE
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Besties Michelle Phillips and Marsia Holzer: Still Hippies in their Hearts

Guest Diary• January 13, 2022.
Lee Fryd gets together with friends Marsia Holzer and Michelle Phillips to talk about their lives and their projects; and get a good tour of Marsia’s latest work... READ MORE
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Hollywood Lives, Part II, Women in Charge

Social Diary• January 12, 2022.
Women in Charge; always a good story... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part II

Social Diary• January 6, 2022.
Part II with Steppin’ in Society in a faster world of publicity and glamour ripe for scandals and on to the new world of today... READ MORE

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