DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA'S
Guest Diary• November 30, 2023

Schulenberg’s Page, New York: Barbra’s Beginning, Part I

A completion of Bob Schulenberg’s memories of first meeting Barbra Streisand back in 1960. Part I...

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Friday, August 3, 2007

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 27, 2007

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 20, 2007

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 13, 2007

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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 […]... READ MORE

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 1, 2007

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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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 4, 2007

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Nancy Corzine

House• May 4, 2007.
Furniture and textile designer, Nancy Corzine is tiny, elegant and very, very determined. Over the years she has single-handedly built a substantial business as well as raising three children. After nursing her […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 27, 2007

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Brian McCarthy

House• April 27, 2007.
If someone wanted an example of the differences between true professional and amateur or mediocre interior design, they could do no better than use Brian McCarthy’s lovely apartment as a case study. […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 13, 2007

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Patsy Tarr

House• April 13, 2007.
Patsy Tarr is really dedicated to her passion: The world of dance. She produces the extraordinary dance-related magazine 2wice that appears twice a year. It was a delight to interview someone who was […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 30, 2007

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Keith and Chippy Irvine

House• March 30, 2007.
Keith and Chippy Irvine do seem to come from a different time when making and doing and cultivating inner resources were the focus of life, rather than whatever is the focus […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 23, 2007

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Peter Pennoyer

House• March 23, 2007.
Peter Pennoyer’s work as an architect is firmly rooted in respect for classicism and tradition, designing as he does graceful, homes that acknowledge and incorporate our cultural connections to historical […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 2, 2007

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Clare Fraser

House• March 2, 2007.
Traditional and sticking to it, Clare Fraser seeks to create the comfort and warmth she so prizes by favoring French furniture, antiques, rich fabrics and wall coverings. It might not be making […]... READ MORE

Thursday, March 1, 2007

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Robert Rufino

House• March 1, 2007.
Robert Rufino is this small-but-perfectly-formed elegant man who lives in a small-but-perfectly-formed elegant box. He had a splashy title at the time of this interview, Vice President of Creative Services and […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

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Joy Ingham

House• February 28, 2007.
Diana Joy Hirshon Parkinson Briggs Ingham is very wealthy, scatters curse-words freely into her conversation, smokes ‘too many’ cigarettes and is on her third husband. It all sounds very racy, a […]... READ MORE
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Bruce Bierman

House• February 28, 2007.
Bruce Bierman is undeniably a sweetheart, a lovely Jewish boy who showed us his hilarious and touching Bar Mitzvah video from way back when – all stiff sixties hairdos, long white […]... READ MORE
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Larry Laslo

House• February 28, 2007.
It was fun interviewing Larry Laslo. He had a fascinating lack of hesitation in forming swift, witty replies, honed, no doubt by years of television presenting and public speaking. If there was […]... READ MORE
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Mark Zeff

House• February 28, 2007.
Born in South Africa, but established here on the Upper West Side, Mark Zeff was, in American parlance, a jock. In fact he might be the only jock to ever grace this […]... READ MORE
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Ann Pyne

House• February 28, 2007.
(Ed. note: this interview originally appeared on NYSD in February 2007) So rare is someone like Ann Pyne that there was an almost shocking quality to interviewing her: this is a person who […]... READ MORE
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Betty Sherrill

House• February 28, 2007.
Well, this is our period piece. Betty Sherrill should be some kind of national treasure, so representative is she of a particular era and a particular charm. She’s an expert at a […]... READ MORE

Monday, December 4, 2006

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Matthew White and Frank Webb

House• December 4, 2006.
Matthew White and Frank Webb are just so nice – we could have dug around all day and we don’t think we would have found anything hiding away in their personalities other than […]... READ MORE

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