Friday, August 16, 2013

Ronald Bricke

House• August 16, 2013.

A natural storyteller, Ronald Bricke is a designer who has been in the business a long time throughout its shifts from swags and country French and on into our era […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 9, 2013

Victoria Benatar

House• August 9, 2013.

Architect and professor, Victoria Benatar lost us almost immediately when she started to explain her music system, a small, inscrutable red box with no buttons or knobs or anything lumpy and low […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 26, 2013

Steven Stolman

House• July 26, 2013.

Formerly known as the “Prince of Preppy” in his previous incarnation as a fashion designer, Steven Stolman is now the president of Scalamandre, the wonderful fabric house that has now extended its […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 19, 2013

John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon

House• July 19, 2013.

If you live in Manhattan, a field trip to the part of Brooklyn where designers John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon live, is a must not only for the odd feeling of being in […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 12, 2013

Helen Tsanos Sheinman

House• July 12, 2013.

Love, Laughter and Lunch: The Evocative Memories of a Cypriot Family’s Journey (Pointed Leaf Press) is Helen Tsanos Sheinman’s lovely debut “cooking-memoir” and it took me straight back to memories of island-hopping […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 28, 2013

Iris Dankner

House• June 28, 2013.

Interior designer Iris Dankner was first diagnosed with breast cancer sixteen years ago. After her surgery and as part of her healing process she took it upon herself to devote her time […]... READ MORE

Thursday, June 27, 2013

San Sebastian, Part II: the travel guide

Travel• June 27, 2013.

Does San Sebastian have anything else to offer besides gastronomic greatness? You bet. For one thing, Donostia, as it is called in the Basque language, is blessed with natural and […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

San Sebastian, Part I: A Culinary Journey

Travel• June 26, 2013.

In the Bay of Biscay on the northern coast of Spain lies the glittering Basque city of San Sebastian, Spain’s best-kept secret. It is not a large city by any means, but […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 31, 2013

Maria Brito

House• May 31, 2013.

Maria Brito made the transition from Harvard-trained corporate lawyer to becoming a “luxury lifestyle consultant” after realizing that she just couldn’t take one more billable hour at the white shoe law […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 17, 2013

Suzy Slesin

House• May 17, 2013.

We managed but it is a little odd interviewing another journalist who specializes in design and Suzy Slesin really knows this world having written numerous books as well as working […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 10, 2013

Harriette Rose Katz

House• May 10, 2013.

There’s a warmth and exuberance to Harriette Rose Katz that must surely infuse the many, many parties and weddings she’s planned for decades now. Variously named the “Balanchine of the buffet table” […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Palm Beach Social Diary Garden Club of Palm Beach preview party + Landmarks denies Episcopal church app + When Lillys bloomed

Palm Beach• May 8, 2013.

The Garden Club of Palm Beach hosted a cocktail party preview for its biennial exhibition “From the Ground Up,” a Garden Club of America flower show, welcoming more than 250 […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 3, 2013

S. Russell Groves

House• May 3, 2013.

S. Russell Groves trained as an architect and has worked for very big names including Richard Meier and Peter Marino. He says it was Peter Marino who helped him go forward […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 26, 2013

Janis Provisor

House• April 26, 2013.

Janis Provisor and her husband, Brad Davis, are both artists and started out living the New York artist life in a loft, showing and selling their work. Twenty years ago, they decided upon […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 12, 2013

Jade Albert

House• April 12, 2013.

A sense of talking at cross purposes infuses this interview—me concerned with the commodification of children and the narcissistic culture of self-promotion that pervades social media versus well-established child photographer, Jade […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 29, 2013

Lewis Miller

House• March 29, 2013.

Lewis Miller, owner of Lewis Miller Design, is an event designer for posh clients like Mayor Bloomberg, Jamie Dimon, Carolina Herrera and the Bulgari family. His fascination with horticulture and design […]... READ MORE

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Palm Beach – 1937

Social History• March 17, 2013.

“Happy bedlam” wrote social columnist Nancy Randolph in describing the 1937 Palm Beach season at the same time pointing out to her Palm Beach Daily News readers of the prevailing conservative undercurrent: “The trouble […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 15, 2013

Barry Goralnick

House• March 15, 2013.

On occasion, and this was one of them, we almost forget to talk about design at all in an interview. Barry Goralnick is both an architect and interior designer but he’s also […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 8, 2013

Adrienne Neff

House• March 8, 2013.

Designer Adrienne Neff lives in an airy pre-war apartment just across the street from Fort Tryon Park, a somewhat overlooked but wonderful part of the city. The apartment, with its modest rent, […]... READ MORE

Thursday, March 7, 2013

SPANA, Part II

Guest Diary• March 7, 2013.

In addition to providing veterinary care and education, SPANA also partners with local organizations to address a spate of issues ranging from the localized needs of a particular area to […]... READ MORE

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