Social History• October 7, 2024

The Life and Times of Josephine Hartford, Part I

Charlie Burns re-examines the Life and Times of 20th century American and Renaissance woman Josephine Hartford, heiress to the A&P supermarkets...

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Shanghai Social Diary: San Francisco Asian Art Museum Trip: Part I

Travel• June 29, 2011.
SHANGHAI — I was in Shanghai when the San Francisco Museum of Asian Art delegation came to Shanghai (its sister city since 1980), and I was delighted to join them […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 24, 2011

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

Travel• June 24, 2011.
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 […]... READ MORE
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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

Friday, June 17, 2011

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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.
We really hope that this little interview will stand as a some kind of testament to the power of fashion cycles in the world of design because our discussion with […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 10, 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

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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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

Friday, June 3, 2011

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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

Friday, May 27, 2011

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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

Friday, May 20, 2011

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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

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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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

Friday, May 13, 2011

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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

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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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

Friday, May 6, 2011

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Amanda Nisbet

House• May 6, 2011.
In this interview you will see [laughs] in almost every reply – perhaps there was a bit of nervous laughter because designer, Amanda Nisbet was a bit worried about her […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 29, 2011

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Judie and Bennett Weinstock

House• April 29, 2011.
Judie and Bennett Weinstock, designers both have developed a loyal following of clients who seek out their comfortable and traditional interiors. Bennett who met Judie as a U. of Penn student […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 15, 2011

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Lulu deKwiatkowski

House• April 15, 2011.
Lulu deKwiatkowski, founder and designer of Lulu DK textiles, is the daughter of Polish-born Henryk deKwiatkowski, who, as teenager, was held in a Siberian prison camp during the war. He escaped […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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The April 1987 PEN dinner

Social History• April 5, 2011.
Twenty-four years ago this month, at the Metropolitan Club, there was a PEN dinner to beat all previous PEN dinners. It was chaired by Gayfryd Steinberg who was then one of the […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 1, 2011

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Ali Tayar

House• April 1, 2011.
Turkish architect Ali Tayar remains loyal to the modernist foundations of his German architecture school training but his work ranges widely from residential projects in Beirut to the hip burger chain, Pop […]... READ MORE

Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Peter Pennoyer Down East

House• March 31, 2011.
For almost every decade of the last century, one of the standard arguments in design has been new vs. old. On one hand, modernists insist that new is the only […]... READ MORE

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