Friday, May 22, 2015
Palm Beach Social Diary: Closing the Palm Beach season, season finale: Civic Association celebration + Neiman Marcus Luncheon
Palm Beach• May 22, 2015.Is there any better way to close a Palm Beach season than with a champagne brunch and a fashion show lunch? This past week the Palm Beach Civic Association (PBCA) and Neiman Marcus-Worth Avenue hosted their seasonal farewells. Following the Civic Association’s annual meeting presided by Chairman Bob Wright, the 300 residents and guests gath...
Friday, May 15, 2015
Donald Rattner
House• May 15, 2015.In our last interview with architect Donald Rattner we found ourselves in lovely, antiques-filled, traditional Brooklyn Heights brownstone apartment—the kind of apartment that now causes a Brooklyn-bound stampede whenever one is put on the market. Well, the apartment was indeed sold and the Rattner family moved to Greenwich and house so differe...
Friday, May 1, 2015
Michael Tavano
House• May 1, 2015.One thing we haven’t asked many interior designers is how well they did in home economics—it seems an obvious question now that we’ve interviewed Michael Tavano,whose home ec teacher believed early on that Michael’s sewing skills would lead to success. And so it has come to pass. He started off as a florist, running four flower […]...
Friday, April 24, 2015
No Holds Barred: A Whole Lotta Sunshine
Guest Diary• April 24, 2015.Confession: I have never been a “dog person.” I am not even a “child person.” I am part of the “selfish, shallow, self absorbed” contingent of people who Meghan Daum talks about in her latest book on people who chose not to procreate. But mine started with animals. I never grew up with a meaningful […]...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
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 be done before the blitz of travelers arrive — a centuries-old seasonal cycle as much a part of the Lombardian panorama as its daily afternoon […]...
Friday, April 17, 2015
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 one of the go-to furniture restorers for many of the top decorators in New York. The one discipline informs the other as he re-finishes furniture […...
Friday, April 10, 2015
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 had once dominated the paintings of her earlier career. One of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement in the 1970s, she says that […]...
Sunday, March 29, 2015
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 something of a charmed career. His very first independent design job, a mere week out of Parsons, was a 175-room hotel in Miami, owned by […]...
Friday, March 20, 2015
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 is. Emerging from the long shadow of his brother Robert has been the challenge of his artistic life. The youngest of six children, and twelve years younge...
Friday, March 13, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
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 recounting their lives, it enriches our appreciation for the complex social order that once existed when notables like Otto Kahn made Palm Beach their re...
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 instinctively when deciding to go it alone, that “nobody is going to give it you” but that she wanted what she wanted: to get up […]...
Friday, February 6, 2015
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, lawsuits and politics. Beginning with Henry Flagler‘s “Pay-no-matter-the-price!” acquisition of a...
Friday, January 16, 2015
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 different from wealth. It was kind of comforting. Katie, who is married to the architect, Peter Pennoyer, began her working life at House & Garden, […]...
Friday, January 9, 2015
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 winds that we experienced on Monday night. The weather man said there were gusts up to 55 and 60 mph. I don’t know the speed […]...
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 silver leaf. The gilding may also be combined with reverse painting on the glass. As Miriam Ellner, one of the most sought-after artists in this decorative technique [&hellip...
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 China. This was a voyage motivated by the desire to look at another side to living on the planet. It was a trip not so […]...
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