Diary Features
Travel• June 24, 2011

Part II: Grand Hotels in the Italian Lake District: Lake Como’s Uncommon Allure

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 realized the […]...

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P. E. Guerin

House• June 24, 2011.
If you want a little piece of New York time travel, make an appointment—if only on a pretext—to enter the Dickensian world of P. E. Guerin, the oldest decorative hardware firm in […]... READ MORE
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Venetian Heritage as seen by Mary Hilliard

Travel• June 17, 2011.
Venetian Heritage, one of the intrepid groups which raises money for preservation and restoration in Venice, Italy, held a gala event there for a few beautifully sunny days in early […]... READ MORE
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Jonathan Burden

House• June 17, 2011.
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Philadelphia in Palm Beach: Part II, 1931-1935

Social History• 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: 1920-1931 adapted from Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway’s voluminous biographical scrapbook […]... READ MORE
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Sue Hostetler

House• June 10, 2011.
Sue Hostetler is the editor-in-chief of Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine and has written a number of books but she did have the guts to admit that the verbiage in ‘Art […]... READ MORE
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Grand Hotels in the Italian Lake District

Travel• 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 region’s breathtaking scenery, invigorating alpine air, virtuoso villas, and splendid gardens are […]... READ MORE
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Brett Beldock

House• June 3, 2011.
Having interviewed so many designers by now, we could probably write a scholarly paper on designers with dyslexia because so many people we interview suffered through school with their intensely […]... READ MORE
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Vicente Wolf

House• May 27, 2011.
We were shown in to Vicente Wolf’s loft apartment in the Garment District by his housekeeper and then encouraged to wander … we just turned to each other and said […]... READ MORE
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Thomas Cary

House• May 20, 2011.
We confess that we got a bit giggly in this apartment … a sense of the absurd quickly took over as we sidled in and then realized that the tiny, […]... READ MORE
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Villa Carlotta abloom! Lake Como bellissimo

Travel• 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-filled park. Back then, I never […]... READ MORE
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Bernd Goeckler

House• May 13, 2011.
Bernd Goeckler’s antique shop on 10th Street is crammed with elegant, twentieth century pieces, mostly from the thirties and forties but then there are surprises too, like contemporary Italian blown glass […]... READ MORE
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Milano Moderno

Travel• 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 Vinciano, as the Milanese […]... READ MORE

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