Diary Features
House• December 5, 2008

William Ivey Long

Five-time Tony award-winner William Ivey Long is such a successful costume designer that to list the productions in which he has been involved would read like some kind of history of Broadway […]...

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Palm Beach Social Diary real estate round up: Billionaires bubble; Farish house for sale

Palm Beach• December 3, 2008.
Palm Beach’s social orbit, the seasonal centrifuge of galas, gowns and guest lists, is in full spin just as the island’s real estate juggernaut may be showing signs of a slowdown, […]... READ MORE
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Stephanie Stokes

House• November 21, 2008.
Stephanie Stokes in her present incarnation (and she believes in Buddhism) as an interior designer has also worked on Wall Street and traveled the world as a photo-journalist. She was once […]... READ MORE
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Thomas Jayne (New Orleans)

House• November 14, 2008.
Interior designer Thomas Jayne is the only person on the planet who can wear a colored bow tie in the daytime and not have it look like it is an annoying affectation […]... READ MORE
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Brigid Berlin

House• October 24, 2008.
Although neither of us are particularly enamoured with the whole Andy Warhol/Factory era, there is no denying that in interviewing artist, Brigid Berlin, we got to vicariously experience some of it because […]... READ MORE
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Sandra Nunnerley

House• October 3, 2008.
For those of us with disheveled lives, designer Sandra Nunnerley’s apartment is a kind of fantasy of order and calm where we can sit and delude ourselves that we too might be […]... READ MORE
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Valerie Steele

House• September 26, 2008.
This is a terribly serious interview but it didn’t feel like it at the time. Dr. Valerie Steele, author, historian and Director and Chief Curator of the Fashion Institute of Technology, was […]... READ MORE
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Cristina Grajales

House• September 12, 2008.
Cristina Grajales is passionate about her work as a furniture dealer and builder of furniture collections. She frequently talks in verbal italics: things are beautiful, amaaazing and she’s mad about colonial […]... READ MORE
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Alexandra Lebenthal

House• September 5, 2008.
Alex Lebenthal, who appears frequently in New York Social Diary party pics, is the former Chief Executive of Lebenthal & Co, and more recently, the founder of Alexandra and James, Inc., […]... READ MORE
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Jonathan Sheffer

House• August 22, 2008.
Jonathan Sheffer, conductor and composer, founded the Eos Orchestra in 1995 as a ‘laboratory of new programming ideas’ and as part of his ongoing quest to address the question of what […]... READ MORE
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Lisa Mahar

House• August 8, 2008.
Whatever you think of this interview with Lisa Mahar, mother of three and owner of Kid O, a store that sells what she prefers to call ‘materials’ rather than toys for pre-schoolers, […]... READ MORE
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Ellie Cullman and Tracey Winn Pruzan

House• August 1, 2008.
It was hard to get down to business with Ellie Cullman and Tracey Winn Pruzan. Our interview started in the kitchen and we could have chatted all day like old girlfriends getting […]... READ MORE
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The tragic life of the Corsair IV

Social History• July 30, 2008.
J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. could never have imagined his yacht Corsair IV being converted into a deluxe cruise ship whose short career would end in tragedy but it happened. J.P. […]... READ MORE

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