Guest Diary• September 29, 2023

Revenge, Redemption, and Refuge

Lee Fryd takes in the last couple events of the season out east, including a small dinner party for a new docu about a 20-something phenomenon; and a luncheon and lecture on Black female ornamental horticulturists. A fascinating history of style, color and beauty...

Sandra Nunnerley

House• October 3, 2008.

For those of us with disheveled lives, designer Sandra Nunnerley’s apartment is a kind of fantasy of order and calm where we can sit and delude ourselves that we too might be able recreate this kind of serenity one day. She grew up in New Zealand and studied architecture in Australia, but established herself here in the […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 26, 2008

Valerie Steele

House• September 26, 2008.

This is a terribly serious interview but it didn’t feel like it at the time. Dr. Valerie Steele, author, historian and Director and Chief Curator of the Fashion Institute of Technology, was smoking and drinking Sancerre when I arrived (it was 11 am but, as she put it ‘It must be five o’clock somewhere.’) I had some […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 12, 2008

Cristina Grajales

House• September 12, 2008.

Cristina Grajales is passionate about her work as a furniture dealer and builder of furniture collections. She frequently talks in verbal italics: things are beautiful, amaaazing and she’s mad about colonial Portuguese furniture. It is very endearing and her pieces are just as appealing. She has a truly wonderful eye, one of those rare people wh... READ MORE

Friday, September 5, 2008

Alexandra Lebenthal

House• September 5, 2008.

Alex Lebenthal, who appears frequently in New York Social Diary party pics, is the former Chief Executive of Lebenthal & Co, and more recently, the founder of Alexandra and James, Inc., a wealth management company that she runs together with her father, Jim Lebenthal, who made his name selling municipal bonds (‘The workhorse of investments�... READ MORE

Friday, August 22, 2008

Jonathan Sheffer

House• August 22, 2008.

Jonathan Sheffer, conductor and composer, founded the Eos Orchestra in 1995 as a ‘laboratory of new programming ideas’ and as part of his ongoing quest to address the question of what constitutes a concert of classical music in contemporary times. When Eos closed in 2004, he went on to work with Red {an orchestra}, which continues […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 8, 2008

Lisa Mahar

House• August 8, 2008.

Whatever you think of this interview with Lisa Mahar, mother of three and owner of Kid O, a store that sells what she prefers to call ‘materials’ rather than toys for pre-schoolers, you will find her opinions on children and learning, stimulating. If it sounds uncompromising, and to us, near-impossible at times, it might also be viewed [&hell... READ MORE

Friday, August 1, 2008

Ellie Cullman and Tracey Winn Pruzan

House• August 1, 2008.

It was hard to get down to business with Ellie Cullman and Tracey Winn Pruzan. Our interview started in the kitchen and we could have chatted all day like old girlfriends getting cozy. Both women are relaxed and comfortable about their lives and their careers and it shows. As colleagues and co-authors of their recently released book […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The tragic life of the Corsair IV

Social History• July 30, 2008.

J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. could never have imagined his yacht Corsair IV being converted into a deluxe cruise ship whose short career would end in tragedy but it happened. J.P. Morgan Jr. and his legendary business tycoon father, J. Pierpont Morgan, owned four yachts christened Corsair, and built three of them. Each yacht was bigger, […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 25, 2008

Alexis Bittar

House• July 25, 2008.

‘Jewelry wunderkind’ and ‘Jewelry tour de force’ are just two of the phrases that might pop up if you Google Alexis Bittar. Well, we want to describe him in English as someone who has built an extraordinary business, selling his handcrafted jewelry everywhere, from tiny boutiques to places like Takashimaya, Saks and the MoMa stores. Every... READ MORE

Friday, July 18, 2008

Jonah Bokaer

House• July 18, 2008.

Dancers are warriors in the most punishing artistic discipline there is and the choreographer and media artist, Jonah Bokaer, despite his slender physique and quiet voice, is one of them. The youngest dancer ever to be hired as a professional for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (he was only 18 years old) he has worked with a […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 11, 2008

Cynthia Lufkin

House• July 11, 2008.

Cynthia Lufkin, privileged though she may be, has not been exempt from some of the toughest trials of life: In 2005, a breast cancer diagnosis at 32 weeks pregnant that precluded chemo. As the cancer spread, it was decided that her baby was to be prematurely delivered by Caesarian section so that Cynthia could begin some […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 27, 2008

Harry Allen

House• June 27, 2008.

We had a lot of fun in the East Village interviewing Harry Allen who is the designer with the kind of ideas that you think you could easily have thought of – except you didn’t, he did. He is best known for his cast line of useful objects made from real objects, a piggy bank cast from […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 20, 2008

Pieter Estersohn

House• June 20, 2008.

Photographer Pieter Estersohn has shot for every A-list glossy magazine going, but has most often specialized in shooting interiors for the likes of Architectural Digest and Elle Décor. He has actually done all of our jobs because in addition to photography, he started out writing interviews for Interview magazine at the tender age of 19. ... READ MORE

Friday, June 6, 2008

Ira Neimark

House• June 6, 2008.

In what could almost be a Hollywood fantasy, Ira Neimark worked his way up from being assistant to the doorman at Bonwit Teller to being CEO at Bergdorf Goodman. He has just published his hybrid memoir/business book, Crossing Fifth Avenue to Bergdorf Goodman: An Insider’s Account on The Rise of Luxury Retailing (Specialist Press International),... READ MORE

Friday, May 30, 2008

Susan Gutfreund

House• May 30, 2008.

Susan Gutfreund hardly needs an introduction as the well-known interior designer, society hostess and wife of financier John Gutfreund, but even so, when you meet her, and see her Fifth Avenue duplex, it’s the stuff of novels. She’s someone who simply can’t do things by halves and New York would be so much the poorer, so […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 2, 2008

Michael Aram

House• May 2, 2008.

Although designer Michael Aram’s West Village home is quintessential New York glam, we found that we spent most of our time talking about his home and his life in India, where he spends most of the year, and where he has his workshop. There he designs and produces the tableware and beautiful metal objects for which he […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Tudor Place and Hillwood

House• April 29, 2008.

Washington Weekend. House Tours. Our nation’s capital has two house museums that are significant to our history, and relatively little known on the Washington tourist circuit and especially with the out of town tourists. But gems; real gems, and not to be missed if you can help it. The oldest is Tudor Place, located at 1644 31st […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 18, 2008

Judith Solodkin

House• April 18, 2008.

Judith Solodkin is one of those lucky people who found what they wanted to do in life, and then did it. She is a Master Lithographer and founded SOLO Impression in 1975, in the space where we visited her, the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea. She works closely with artists such Louise Bourgeois and Donald Sultan, creating […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 11, 2008

Carlos Aparicio

House• April 11, 2008.

Every now and then we interview someone whose personality is inexplicably completely different from the taste his or her apartment exhibits. Carlos Aparicio, architect and fine furniture dealer, took that perception to another level. His apartment is an exercise in restraint, both in its palette and the precision of the rigorous design sensibilit... READ MORE

Friday, April 4, 2008

The Palm Beach Social Diary

Palm Beach• April 4, 2008.

The Palm Beach Social Diary. Raced back down to Palm Beach from New York, but this time not such an easy trip as I had to hop on and off the plane, like a bunny. Just before take off, Delta called us back to the terminal and dragged all the passengers off to “inspect” the plane. […]... READ MORE

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