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Palm Beach• March 23, 2016

Palm Beach Social Diary: Mizner makeovers + Snowbirds at Wakohadatchee

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, […]...

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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) […]... 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, […]... 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 […]... 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 […]... 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 […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Remaking History: Paris Singer & the Everglades Club, 1918-1932

Palm Beach• November 1, 2013.
No matter how thorough Palm Beach’s past was documented, filtering fact from fiction can prove a daunting task to anyone interested in exploring the resort’s hybrid genre of reality. Time […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Garden Club of Palm Beach preview party + Landmarks denies Episcopal church app + When Lillys bloomed

Palm Beach• May 8, 2013.
The Garden Club of Palm Beach hosted a cocktail party preview for its biennial exhibition “From the Ground Up,” a Garden Club of America flower show, welcoming more than 250 […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social History

Palm Beach• January 3, 2013.
Our Palm Beach members want quick action and thrills, roulette and hazard. Card games are not thrilling.” –The Beach Club, Palm Beach, 1913. “ … Go to Palm Beach, which […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Fashion + Real Estate = Palm Beach + South Beach

Palm Beach• September 11, 2012.
With more Palm Beach streets than ever detoured by construction vehicles and cement trucks, Worth Avenue was blocked off to showcase an array of velvet-roped Lamborghinis for Thursday night’s exuberant […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Wildlife: Art admirers + Ferrari fanatics + Jet nuts + Social Lions

Palm Beach• January 26, 2012.
At first glance you wouldn’t imagine a convention center, an airplane hangar, and a hotel ballroom could make for profound occasions. Nonetheless, during this past week  several of the area’s […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Civic Virtue

Palm Beach• November 29, 2011.
Every year when Palm Beach becomes the ultimate destination for the ominum gatherum socialitum to revel within the seasonal spin of black-tie balls and gilded pleasures, it is easy to overlook the […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Autumn on Palm Beach

Palm Beach• November 7, 2011.
Palm Beach’s uneventful storm season has passed as the resort’s social-and-sport playlists get underway. The King Library’s annual benefit at the Four Arts attracted several hundred patrons. The Palm Beach […]... READ MORE

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