Monday, January 23, 2012

Part XI: Transitions, Departures, & Getaways, 1948

Social History• January 23, 2012.

Part XI: Transitions, Departures, & Getaways, 1948 Palm Beach – Gulf Stream – Jamaica – Medway Plantation – Chestnut Hill – The Greenbrier From the almost 1,000 photographs Ellen Glendinning Frazer took […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 20, 2012

Kurt Gutenbrunner

House• January 20, 2012.

Kurt Gutenbrunner is the force behind the West Village restaurant Wallse, as well as Café Blaue Gans in Tribeca and Café Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. The trouble with interviewing a […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 13, 2012

Tania Vartan

House• January 13, 2012.

I think we here at the HOUSE column probably need a good talking to by one of the high priests of minimalism, someone like John Pawson perhaps, because in this […]... READ MORE

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Part X: “A window still waiting to fall …”

Social History• January 12, 2012.

Part X: “A window still waiting to fall …” March 1947-December 1947 France – Copenhagen – Radnor Hunt Club – Long Island – Jersey Shore – Chestnut Hill In this […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 6, 2012

Kazumi Yoshida

House• January 6, 2012.

Officially Kazumi Yoshida is Executive Vice-President of Design at the decorative fabric company, Clarence House but that seems a weighty title for someone who seemed to us very easy-going, instinctively creative and […]... READ MORE

The polish, paradox, and paradise of Palm Beach

Social History• January 6, 2012.

Happy New Year! With results of the presidential Iowa caucus soon to be known and the outcome of the Town of Palm Beach’s caucus on Tuesday night a near certainty, […]... READ MORE

Part IX: After the War, January 1946 – March 1947

Social History• January 6, 2012.

Part IX: After the War, January 1946 – March 1947 Palm Beach – Mackay Point Plantation – Bermuda – Aboard the SS America For this series of images documenting Ellen Glendinning […]... READ MORE

Monday, December 19, 2011

Part VIII: Social Rites during World War II, 1942-1945

Social History• December 19, 2011.

For this next installment of Ellen Glendinning Frazer’s photographic chronicle, I selected images from more than ten volumes containing several thousand photographs from 1942 to 1945 and arranged them within two separate […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 16, 2011

Cathy Triant Buxton

House• December 16, 2011.

Having sold her previous apartment rather more quickly than she thought, Cathy Triant Buxton had to find a place to live quickly—incredibly she turned her new apartment around in six weeks—although strictly […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 9, 2011

Ralph Rucci

House• December 9, 2011.

At one point in our interview with fashion designer Ralph Rucci, we exclaimed that his story “was like the fashion version of Rocky” – at which he ruefully shook his head and […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 2, 2011

Muriel Brandolini

House• December 2, 2011.

Interior designer Muriel Brandolini doesn’t suffer fools gladly. She leads her life as she pleases, taking on assignments that work for her daring creativity. As a result she has an air of […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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

Friday, November 18, 2011

Edwina Sandys

House• November 18, 2011.

Artist and sculptor Edwina Sandys has led a very full life. Growing up as the granddaughter of Winston Churchill she was surrounded by the wealthy, famous and the very smart. Edwina […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 11, 2011

Joe Biunno

House• November 11, 2011.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Joe Biunno has spent his life repairing, and restoring furniture. In his 9000-square foot showroom and workshop in Long Island City his staff […]... READ MORE

Monday, November 7, 2011

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

Friday, October 28, 2011

Penny Drue Baird

House• October 28, 2011.

Penny Drue Baird is a seasoned, pragmatic, and extremely hard-working designer who seems to know herself and her own thinking very well indeed. “What I think my job is, is to […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 21, 2011

Marcy Masterson

House• October 21, 2011.

Poor Marcy Masterson had a bad throat when we interviewed her and a lesser soul would have canceled on us—she bravely croaked her way through. She lives in an apartment full of […]... READ MORE

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Daheim, Part II

House• October 20, 2011.

Here are the Daheim barns, seen from the air in 1982. 25 years after I snapped this picture from a friend’s plane, a catastrophic fire destroyed 60% of the complex. A […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Daheim, Part I

House• October 19, 2011.

Here’s Daheim, my home in Millbrook for thirty years, in a photo taken 2 weeks ago. It’s a complicated looking house by any measure, and if it isn’t huge, considering others […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 14, 2011

Pintura Studio

House• October 14, 2011.

While wandering around the East Village after another HOUSE interview, I chanced upon what looked like an intriguing storefront but was, in fact, the fabric design workshop of Pintura Studio. I contacted […]... READ MORE

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