Diary Features
House• June 25, 2010

Paula Caravelli

Interior designer Paula Caravelli, of Paula & Martha Design, is a master juggler. She works full time, plays piano, dances, paints, entertains and with her husband James, has raised four sons on the Upper East Side. Her meticulous apartment is also a balancing act. Its disparate and unexpected elements somehow all come together in a surprising and […]...

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David Scott

House• June 18, 2010.
David Scott lives rather fabulously in the UN Plaza building, which as he himself says, still has a kind of 1960s ‘James Bond’ glamour to it. He is best known for his high end residential design work—or posh, as we like to call it—but he isn’t any kind of snob and is, in fact, straightforward, kind […]... READ MORE
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Adam Lewis

House• June 11, 2010.
I received a copy of writer and designer, Adam Lewis’s new book ‘The Great Lady Decorators: The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955’, (Rizzoli, $65.00) less than 48 hours before the interview and I was not looking forward to slugging through almost 300 pages of any subject in such a short amount of time. To my relief, […]... READ MORE
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Ernest De La Torre

House• June 4, 2010.
Interior designer, Ernest De La Torre, is a very patient man. After my tape recorder went on the blink (not once but twice) he good-naturedly agreed to be asked the same questions over (and over) again. Growing up with Cuban parents in the Midwest, Ernest’s first career was in business with design as a sideline. After casual […]... READ MORE
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John Woodrow Kelley

House• May 28, 2010.
John Woodrow Kelley is a painter who works to create a contemporary interpretation of Greek mythology and the classical tradition. He grew up in Tennessee, where he still owns a house, but studied architecture at Pratt and then stayed put, having lived in Clinton Hill in Brooklyn for close to 25 years. He proudly considers himself […]... READ MORE
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Barbara Moore

House• May 14, 2010.
Interior designer Barbara Moore told us that she was kicked out of dance classes when she was little girl because she wanted to do her own thing—perhaps that dance teacher should have let her stick around because this is one organized, directed and disciplined individual. She’d probably have ended up running the class—not that she’s bossy... READ MORE
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Kayel De Angelis

House• May 7, 2010.
Kayel De Angelis, is the third generation to work in his family’s high-end custom curtain and furniture firm founded over sixty years ago by his grandfather, Guido De Angelis. He’s a grounded man family man who knows the importance of patience when serving the often exacting requirements of a design trade with clients who expect […]... READ MORE
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Duane Hampton

House• April 30, 2010.
From the very start of my interview with Duane Hampton, widow of renowned decorator Mark Hampton, I felt like I was chatting with an old girl friend. She’s a witty, charming woman with a keen sense of humor who sees life for what it is and makes it work. After the early death of her husband in […]... READ MORE
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Paige Peterson, revisited

House• April 23, 2010.
A year ago last January we interviewed our friend, artist/writer Paige Peterson in her Central Park West apartment for NYSD HOUSE. A few weeks ago she sent us pictures of her apartment but after a makeover. It is a perfect A Before and After story, and it looked so different that I couldn’t help asking her why she […]... READ MORE
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SS Andrea Doria

Social History• April 22, 2010.
I was initially drawn to the Andrea Doria at the age of 14 after reading the book, Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow. The book tells of the Andrea Doria’s birth, her brief but glorious life, and her tragic end, in the summer of 1956. To me the Andrea Doria embodied the hope and optimism that Italy was searching for after the War. I w... READ MORE
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Federico de Vera

House• April 16, 2010.
There is a hushed, serene feeling to Federico de Vera’s downtown apartment. The space, which Federico shares with his partner, Randy Saunders and his pet Chihuahua, Diego, is filled with intriguing and beautiful objects that have been almost obsessively selected and placed by Federico, owner of De Vera on Howard Street. Much like the environm... READ MORE
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Clinton Howell

House• April 9, 2010.
Clinton Howell of Clinton Howell Antiques clearly loves to read and talk, and he writes an entertaining blog at www.clintonhowell.com, all of which made him great for an interview—even better because what he says isn’t canned, and we’re always striving for the authentic in these interviews. The ‘authentic’ in antiques is, of course, up f... READ MORE
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Washington Social Diary’s countryside getaway – Blackberry Farm: Sleep Away Camp for Rich People

Across the Nation• April 6, 2010.
Oh, to be a lottery winner, Goldman-Sachs executive or newly rich! I would peel off a wad of fresh green and jet back to the even greener hills of Tennessee and the pastoral fields at the base of the Great Smoky Mountains. I would be pampered, but with a veneer of roughing it: good food, […]... READ MORE

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