Party Pictures• October 10, 2024

Recipes for success

Dinner (at Sette, of course) and a movie ("Stardust") along with a fascinating talk on the recipe of life at the Haseltines' residence in conjunction with the Carnegie Institution for Science; festive cocktails hosted by Jean Shafiroff to kick off French Heritage Society's busy gala season; and Opera Italiana was in the Air at the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park...

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

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Italy restaurato! Villa Pliniana revived!

Travel• April 23, 2015.
Northern Italy’s wintry fog has lifted and its breathless summer is still months away as artisans brave the spring wind and sun to repair, reconstruct and restore what still must […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 17, 2015

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Karl Kipfmueller

House• April 17, 2015.
There are lots of naked men in Karl Kipfmueller’s Clinton Hill townhouse—really good ones, painted, sculpted and sketched. He studied art and design at Pratt Institute nearby but he is also […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 10, 2015

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Joyce Kozloff

House• April 10, 2015.
Joyce Kozloff’s new show at the DC Moore Gallery (March 26th to April 25th) is the culmination of over four years of work in which she has returned to ideas that […]... READ MORE
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Shanghai Social Diary: Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part 2

Travel• April 10, 2015.
Treasures of China’s Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund — Nanjing and Pinghe Counties, Fujian... READ MORE

Sunday, March 29, 2015

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Scott Sanders

House• March 29, 2015.
“No one ever hires us to do yellow,” says designer Scott Sanders. “I love yellow.” He sounded a little regretful—designers, like all of us, have unrealized dreams—but he has had […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 20, 2015

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Edward Mapplethorpe

House• March 20, 2015.
Perhaps Edward Mapplethorpe could have chosen an easier path than becoming an art photographer but because he is the real thing, he probably didn’t have a choice—he needed to be what he […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 13, 2015

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Shanghai Social Diary: Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part 1

Travel• March 13, 2015.
Treasures of China’s Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund (First of a Seven-part Series)... READ MORE

Friday, February 27, 2015

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Otto Kahn’s Palm Beach

Social History• February 27, 2015.
At Palm Beach, where most everyone was a somebody at some time somewhere for something, prominent Jewish personalities are not customarily included in the telling of the resort’s history. By […]... READ MORE
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Malene Barnett

House• February 27, 2015.
“Believe me, I’ve had many nights of tears,” says carpet designer Malene Barnett who started Malene B, her own business in handcrafted custom carpets some five years ago. She says she knew […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 6, 2015

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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

Friday, January 16, 2015

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Katie Ridder

House• January 16, 2015.
We don’t much like the suburbs, but the lovely old trees and the gracious 1920s villas along Katie Ridder’s street exuded an atmosphere of stability and affluence, which is somehow […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 9, 2015

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Riding high

Social Diary• January 9, 2015.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Very cold in New York yesterday. Sunny and cold. And much colder in the evening hours – in the 20s, along with some of the heavy […]... READ MORE
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Miriam Ellner

House• January 9, 2015.
Verre églomisé is a decorative art technique involving a process in which the back side of glass is gilded with a variety of luminous materials, most commonly gold leaf or […]... READ MORE
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Mary Hilliard’s Journey to China

Travel• January 9, 2015.
Mary Hilliard, known for her society and fashion photography to readers of the NYSD, Vogue, Town & Country as well as the major shelter magazines, took a special trip to […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

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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

Friday, December 19, 2014

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Harry Allen

House• December 19, 2014.
If you don’t necessarily know who Harry Allen is, you’ve seen at least one of his designs somewhere—most likely the realistic piglet piggy bank cast in a variety of materials or the […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 12, 2014

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Kitty Hawks

House• December 12, 2014.
We didn’t want to leave the Westchester house that Kitty Hawks and her husband Larry Lederman have spent 24 years perfecting—it is perfect. Although everyone we interview loves their homes, somehow Kitty seemed to […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 21, 2014

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Ben Schonzeit

House• November 21, 2014.
The bio on artist Ben Schonzeit’s website is brief: Born May 9, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York; BFA (1964) Cooper Union, New York, NY; lives and works in New York City. […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 31, 2014

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Shawn Henderson

House• October 31, 2014.
In eighth grade, Shawn Henderson subscribed to Metropolitan Home – he clearly knew what he wanted to be. Briefly he studied hotel management — “I thought if I studied interior design, everyone would think […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 24, 2014

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Robert Couturier

House• October 24, 2014.
Robert Couturier was our very first HOUSE interview in 2006 and he helped us set the tone for the kind of column we wanted: a real conversation where you could […]... READ MORE

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