Social Diary• March 31, 2023

The Cherry Blossom Festival — A gift of beauty and a story of friendship

A gift of beauty for our nation’s capital to remind us of the pleasure and possibility of friendship for all...

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

Friday, August 10, 2007

Tord Boontje

House• August 10, 2007.

Tord Boontje, the designer is unusually well known. Even if you do not know his name, chances are you will recognize his distinctive, delicate, and at times, edgy work. The New York Times described him as ‘the closest thing industrial design has to a celebrity’, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one. In person he is gentle […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 3, 2007

Thad Hayes

House• August 3, 2007.

Thad Hayes did seem somewhat nonplussed by our style of interviewing but he gamely went along with it, offering us very good insights into his way of doing things. Originally trained as a landscape designer, he is unusual among interior designers because where they often say their work is mainly instinctive, he believes in being able […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 27, 2007

Don Rattner

House• July 27, 2007.

Don and Gaby Rattner live in an elegant house in Brooklyn Heights, which they have furnished almost exclusively with antiques, old paintings and a few custom pieces. Although it does not come across as any kind of statement, it is evidence of Don’s essentially traditional approach to architecture and respect for the best of the past, […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 20, 2007

Alexis Gregory

House• July 20, 2007.

Private Splendor: Great Families At Home By Alexis Gregory and Marc Walter The Vendome Press The cover photograph of this rather elegiac and lovely book seems to say it all. The table in a splendid red dining room is laden with flowers, china, crystal and candelabra. In front of a pair of gilded double doors stands an immaculately-attired butle... READ MORE

Friday, July 13, 2007

Jeffrey Bilhuber

House• July 13, 2007.

There is a brittle wit and energy to Jeffrey Bilhuber that belies a more serious person. His range of reference is impressive, as is his ability to rarely say anything boring. Occasionally there is a sense that what he says is slightly rehearsed, and it probably has been, but only miliseconds beforehand in his very quick mind. He works at [&he... READ MORE

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Juan Pablo Molyneux

House• June 21, 2007.

What a grand, incredible world Mr Molyneux lives in, but what a thoughtful, courteous and cultured man he is. His design company works on some of the most astounding design projects in the world, palaces in India, a building in Russia for the ceremonial signing of treaties, castles in the Caribbean. The drawings he showed […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 1, 2007

Marshall Watson

House• June 1, 2007.

We interviewed Marshall Watson on Valentine’s Day, which, if you remember was also the day of a fierce and gusting snow storm, one of those days when New Yorkers make a point of going about their business as normal, despite the weather. And so did we. Part of Marshall Watson’s great kindliness showed immediately when he insisted […]... READ MORE

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