Guest Diary• October 2, 2022

We’re Entertaining Again!

City slicker Lee Fryd is back in the saddle covering three at-home cocktail parties; a book launch, a kick-off for Casita Maria and another for The Salvation Army of Palm Beach County...

Frank Maresca

House• June 19, 2009.

Frank Maresca, part-owner of the Ricco/Maresca Gallery, is one of the leading experts on and collectors of outsider art in the country. He’s something of a natural educator, carefully defining for us the distinction between ‘outsider artist’ and ‘self-taught artist’. His apartment, so restrained and pristine that it is a little eerie, is... READ MORE

Friday, May 22, 2009

Laura Bohn

House• May 22, 2009.

We were swept away by Laura Bohn’s loft in a Beaux-Arts former bank building in the Village. Instead of decorating, she almost seems to sculpt interiors. She is in love with texture, strange contrasts and the play of light. She sees potential in all kinds of modern materials, including the most lowly or unyielding –concrete, plastic, finished... READ MORE

Friday, May 8, 2009

Todd Romano

House• May 8, 2009.

Interior designer Todd Romano is cheerful, impeccably turned and obviously loves entertaining—we practically expected him to sweep into the room with a silver tray full of martinis. His jewel box of an apartment is located in a former apartment hotel where Dorothy Parker once lived, and although he has lived in Manhattan for many years, we foun... READ MORE

Friday, April 24, 2009

Irwin Weiner

House• April 24, 2009.

Our interview with interior designer, Irwin Weiner, took an unexpectedly comic turn when we wound up talking about his absurd experiences as a gay man conscripted into the South African military. He has superb comic timing and is such a nice, intelligent man — the kind of person who you hope you’ll be seated next to at […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 3, 2009

Carey Maloney

House• April 3, 2009.

Designer Carey Maloney of M(Group) grew up in Texas : ‘It is a country. It’s a great place to be from.’ Every now and then he puts on an extra helping of Texan drawl—‘Ah’ m tellin’ ya’—that is a little self-mocking. He is very, very charming and his design work is sophisticated and confident. He laughed a […]... READ MORE

Monday, March 23, 2009

Garden Grandeur endures at Casa Phippsberger

Palm Beach• March 23, 2009.

In Palm Beach, where escapist landscapes borrowed from English rose gardens, French parterres, Spanish cloisters and Tuscan courtyards amplify the surreal allure of streets lined with imported architectural facades, Casa Phippsberger’s tropical splendor is a welcome relief, a six-acre sanctuary inspired by the barrier island’s own natural histo... READ MORE

Friday, March 13, 2009

Marsia Holzer

House• March 13, 2009.

Marsia Holzer, who is British, came to the United States in the 1960s because she found England confining and static and wanted to be in a place where ‘if you have the energy to do something, you’re doing it a week later.’ She brought with her trunks of vintage clothes and eventually began designing rock chic […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 6, 2009

Rosalyn Engelman

House• March 6, 2009.

The artist, Rosalyn Engelman, says that her paintings ‘mirror the passage of time’ and the word ‘mirror’, like all her words, is well chosen. Her paintings are full of luminosity energized by the brushstrokes that she says have the tempo of the music that she listens to as she paints. Although her work is often exuberantly colorful, [&hel... READ MORE

Friday, February 27, 2009

Robert Passal

House• February 27, 2009.

Robert Passal ditched the idea of becoming a news anchor because he didn’t want to spend fifteen years in the boondocks at some tiny local TV station. After burning out working in the restaurant business, he wrote himself a bogus resumé, something he cheerfully admits to, and worked his way into becoming the successful interior designer [&helli... READ MORE

Friday, February 20, 2009

David Kassel

House• February 20, 2009.

David Kassel started ILevel, an art-installation and placement service, in 1990 and he and his staff have, over the years, become the go-to people for picture hanging and placement. They work with galleries, corporate spaces, museums as well as placing art in private homes. (‘Sometimes I’m a bit like a marriage guidance counselor,’ says Davi... READ MORE

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Eve Ashcraft

House• February 17, 2009.

Eve Ashcraft provides architectural color consultation for interior and exterior environments – which basically means that when you’re staring at the wall wanting to paint it but have no clue as to what color it should be, she’s the person who could solve it for you. She says for her ‘color is like breathing,’ and unlike […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 6, 2009

Clemens Weiss

House• February 6, 2009.

‘I’m in the business of sorting things out, fine tuning and finding a visual language for it,’ says German artist, Clemens Weiss, about his work. He makes no bones about being a theoretician, at one point leaving us bewildered with a long mathematical explanation that involved spirals, chessboards, emptying an ocean with a teaspoon and how ... READ MORE

Friday, January 23, 2009

Paige Peterson

House• January 23, 2009.

She’s quite something, Paige Peterson. Now a painter, illustrator and writer, she came to New York as a soap opera actress, where she met David Peterson, son of billionaire Pete Peterson. (They are amicably divorced and they have two children together.) She’s a kooky, long-legged blonde, wildly energetic, laughs loudly and often, and is one o... READ MORE

Friday, January 9, 2009

Christopher Spitzmiller

House• January 9, 2009.

Ceramist Christopher Spitzmiller makes posh, expensive lamps – if you’ve been following the HOUSE column, you will have seen them in the very poshest living rooms we have covered. He knew early on that, although he was training in fine arts, he wanted to be ‘a product person’. In America, at least when he was studying, he […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christopher Hyland

House• December 31, 2008.

Christopher Hyland is a New England boy now New Yorker. But his roots come to the fore every holiday season when he breaks out the traditional Christmas decorations (this year to benefit The Capuchin Food Pantries). From the looks of the home he shares with Constantino Castellano here in Manhattan, you could almost think you could walk outside [... READ MORE

Friday, December 19, 2008

Polly Onet

House• December 19, 2008.

Polly Onet is a party planner, brisk, fun, knows what she is doing even in these subdued times when we mustn’t be seen to be partying, even if we want to. Are parties being kept secret these days? So this is one hell of a week to be interviewing a party planner – is business affected? […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 12, 2008

Bibi Gaston

House• December 12, 2008.

Although Bibi Gaston works as a landscape architect she decided to try her hand at writing after the death of her father, when she was given a mysterious cardboard box filled with the pages of a diary written by a grandmother she never knew. The result, ‘The Loveliest Woman in America’, weaves together the tragic story of […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 5, 2008

William Ivey Long

House• December 5, 2008.

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 over the past 30 years. Suffice to say that if you’ve seen any of the following: Hairspray, Dreamgirls, The Producers, Grey Gardens, Chicago … then [&he... READ MORE

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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, possibly triggering a greater threat to the Palm Beach whirlwind than if the whiteflies decimate the resort’s signature ficus hedges. Although the town’s commerc... READ MORE

Friday, November 21, 2008

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 the photographer for the Mexican government. Most of the questions we asked her were met with shaggy dog stories, which seem to come easily to […]... READ MORE

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