DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA'S
Guest Diary• September 6, 2024

Win, Place or Showing (off) at the Season-Ending Hampton Classic Horse Show

Lee Fryd rides in to the Longines Hampton Classic Grand Prix for the final competition of the horse show week before happily “haw”ing her way home...

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Friday, June 5, 2015

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Great Italian Gardens: Past Perspectives

Travel• June 5, 2015.
Although two of Lake Como’s best known gardens are located only a few miles apart, they are separated by several centuries of divergent landscape principles and aesthetic values. Villa d’Este’s polished and […]... READ MORE

Thursday, May 28, 2015

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Milan Today! Haute Culture: Milano Milieu! Haute Culture

Travel• May 28, 2015.
However alluring Italy’s hill towns, picturesque postcards of Medieval and Quattrocento treasures suspended in time, Milan’s multi-century dynamic is a stimulating cultural aesthetic where Medieval asceticism and Beaux-Arts opulence coexist […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 22, 2015

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Shanghai Social Diary: Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part 4

Travel• May 22, 2015.
Treasures of China's Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund — Fujian and Shanxi... READ MORE
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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) […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 15, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 1, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE
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Shanghai Social Diary: Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part 3

Travel• May 1, 2015.
Treasures of China’s Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund — Fujian and Shanxi... READ MORE

Friday, April 24, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Thursday, April 23, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 17, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 10, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE
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Shanghai Social Diary: Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part 2

Travel• April 10, 2015.
Treasures of China’s Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund — Nanjing and Pinghe Counties, Fujian... READ MORE

Sunday, March 29, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 20, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 13, 2015

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Shanghai Social Diary: Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part 1

Travel• March 13, 2015.
Treasures of China’s Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund (First of a Seven-part Series)... READ MORE

Friday, February 27, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE
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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 6, 2015

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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, […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 16, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 9, 2015

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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 […]... READ MORE

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