Guest Diary• September 29, 2022

Primum non nocere (first do no harm)

Paige Peterson takes us on a rare and special interview with Dr. Rock Positano, a very highly rated and much sought-after worldwide foot doctor. She was his patient; you could be too if you were very very lucky...

Eva Zeisel

House• March 14, 2008.

Eva Zeisel was born in 1906 in Hungary and grew up to become a world-renowned designer, initially working with ceramics, but later on working with all kinds of other materials, including glass, textiles, metal and wood. She might say, though, that her favorite material is ‘air’, the medium in which she first ‘sees’ the form of […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 15, 2008

Gisue Hariri

House• February 15, 2008.

Gisue Hariri and her sister Mojgan, came from Iran to the United States in the 1970s to study architecture and now run their own highly successful firm, Hariri & Hariri-Architecture. Totally unafraid of the highest of high technology, one of their best-known projects was their Digital House, a ‘conceptual project’ where dinner can be prepa... READ MORE

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Philip Gorrivan

House• February 9, 2008.

Over the course of all our interviews with interior designers we have been struck by the long hours they keep and how incredibly hard they work, and although he wasn’t complaining in the least, Philip Gorrivan has the extra responsibilities that come with having two school-age children, a daughter aged eight and a son of five. Add […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 18, 2008

Ellen Graham

House• January 18, 2008.

A photographer all her life, Ellen Graham has met and photographed the beautiful people of the latter half of the twentieth century. How gorgeous they were. And so many of them! Flipping through the proofs of her forthcoming book, with the somewhat bittersweet title ‘The Way We Were’, we were hard pressed to name the Warren Beattys, […... READ MORE

Friday, December 14, 2007

Scott Salvator

House• December 14, 2007.

Interior designer, Scott Salvator landed the tricky job of re-doing one of New York’s most beloved night spots, the Café Carlyle, and acquitted himself admirably in pulling off the feat of ‘bringing it into 2007 whilst maintaining 1955’, which was when it was added to the Carlyle Hotel was an intimate cabaret venue featuring legendary perf... READ MORE

Friday, December 7, 2007

Hunt Slonem

House• December 7, 2007.

Walking off the street at the blasted heath end of West 10th Street into Hunt Slonem’s studio space (if one can call 89 rooms a studio space) was a bit like that moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and the gang step into glorious Technicolor, and it’s slightly unsettling. Walking through each room is like […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 30, 2007

Rufus Albemarle

House• November 30, 2007.

Rufus Arnold Alexis Keppel, the 10th Earl of Albemarle, is known socially as Rufus Albemarle, very posh, very tall, sort of bows and air kisses your hand (if you’re female) when he meets you … oh … with one of us being British and one of us being a seen-it-all New Yorker, we couldn’t help but […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 16, 2007

Kenny Lane

House• November 16, 2007.

We got the impression that famed jewelry designer Kenny Lane didn’t particularly enjoy being interviewed by us—but then, when we said we were done, he seemed to want to go on, so we’re not sure. He was wittily defensive for the most part, with only occasional glimpses of the warmth and charm for which he is known. […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 9, 2007

Paula Scher

House• November 9, 2007.

Paula Scher is a graphic designer whose work you have probably seen on a regular basis all over New York, logos (Citi), posters for big shows (Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) as well as hundreds of other designs that make up the visual static of our city. She is also an artist, painting […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 2, 2007

Harry Benson

House• November 2, 2007.

A joy it was to interview Harry Benson, the photographer who has spent a lifetime documenting the huge stories, the big-name people as well all the crucial no-name people whose story in pictures can sometimes change a whole perspective. A true son of Glasgow, he came to the States in 1964 to follow the Beatles on their […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 19, 2007

Dakota Jackson

House• October 19, 2007.

One of the interesting things about this job is that we never really know what we are going to end up talking about with our interviewees. Dakota Jackson was a case in point because we thought we were going to be mainly talking about furniture design and ended up talking about magic—and a love of plumbing. A […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 12, 2007

Deborah Buck

House• October 12, 2007.

Deborah Buck, owner of the eclectic Madison Avenue store Buck House, as well the adjacent gallery, is gregarious and sunny, a happy person who knows how lucky she is. She started out as a painter and still has a little studio in her apartment, but she also said that she finally gave herself permission to do […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 5, 2007

Kenneth Rendell

House• October 5, 2007.

Kenneth Rendell is easily one of the world’s foremost dealers in historical letters and documents as well as the go-to expert when it comes to judging whether or not a document is forged or authentic. He was the one called upon to assess the notorious Hitler Diaries (took him no time at all to see that […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 21, 2007

Thomas Britt

House• September 21, 2007.

The exclamation point key on the keyboard was almost worn out at the end of writing up this interview because that’s how Thomas Britt talks – almost solely in exclamations and emphatic pronouncements (‘The étagères were bang! bang! bang! bang! on the four walls here. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!’). He also likes to tell long stories that [&h... READ MORE

Friday, September 14, 2007

Scott Bromley

House• September 14, 2007.

Scott Bromley is most famous for having designed Studio 54, but he has also designed a vast range of other buildings: high rises when he worked for Emery Roth & Sons, well-known restaurants and private residences, in particular on Fire Island, when he started his own practice in 1974, as well as the hottest nightclub in […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 7, 2007

1100 Architect

House• September 7, 2007.

You’ve definitely seen some of the work done by David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm of 1100 Architect: the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park, the MoMA store in mid-town, or the renovation of the Little Red School House in Greenwich Village. You may even have gazed at the exterior of One Sutton Place. Their constructions are beautifully-execut... READ MORE

Friday, August 31, 2007

Memories of Summer

Social Diary• August 31, 2007.

By the time you’re reading this, over in London, the memorial service at the Guards Chapel in St. James’s Park marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales may be over. Prince Charles will have returned to Highgrove to spend the weekend with his wife the Duchess of Cornwall. The Queen and Prince Philip will have ... READ MORE

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Mystery of The Greystone Mansion Murders

Social History• August 30, 2007.

Greystone, the Doheny mansion which sits on the hillside above Doheny Road on the eastern edge of Beverly Hills is now a park, so named officially in 1971.When it was built,in the late 1920s, it was the second largest house (56,000 square feet) in California after Hearst’s castle at San Simeon. In the 1920s, all of […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 24, 2007

Michele Oka Doner

House• August 24, 2007.

Michele Oka Doner is justly known for her exquisitely beautiful public commissions such as the ‘Radiant Site’ at the Herald Square subway station and ‘A Walk on the Beach’, at the Miami International Airport, as well numerous pieces that have found their way into private collections the world over. Her governing passions are the strange ... READ MORE

Friday, August 17, 2007

Fairfax & Sammons

House• August 17, 2007.

Anne Fairfax and Richard Sammons live in a little house in the Village that once belonged to Armand Hammer, the flamboyant (and highly controversial) industrialist and art collector. There can’t be a house anywhere that has had two such contrasting sets of owners. Where Hammer’s taste ran to leopard prints and gaudiness, theirs is an essay [&h... READ MORE

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