Friday, December 19, 2008

Polly Onet

House• December 19, 2008.

Polly Onet is a party planner, brisk, fun, knows what she is doing even in these subdued times when we mustn’t be seen to be partying, even if we want to. […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 12, 2008

Bibi Gaston

House• December 12, 2008.

Although Bibi Gaston works as a landscape architect she decided to try her hand at writing after the death of her father, when she was given a mysterious cardboard box filled with […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 5, 2008

William Ivey Long

House• December 5, 2008.

Five-time Tony award-winner William Ivey Long is such a successful costume designer that to list the productions in which he has been involved would read like some kind of history of Broadway […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Palm Beach Social Diary real estate round up: Billionaires bubble; Farish house for sale

Palm Beach• December 3, 2008.

Palm Beach’s social orbit, the seasonal centrifuge of galas, gowns and guest lists, is in full spin just as the island’s real estate juggernaut may be showing signs of a slowdown, […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 21, 2008

Stephanie Stokes

House• November 21, 2008.

Stephanie Stokes in her present incarnation (and she believes in Buddhism) as an interior designer has also worked on Wall Street and traveled the world as a photo-journalist. She was once […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 14, 2008

Thomas Jayne (New Orleans)

House• November 14, 2008.

Interior designer Thomas Jayne is the only person on the planet who can wear a colored bow tie in the daytime and not have it look like it is an annoying affectation […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 24, 2008

Brigid Berlin

House• October 24, 2008.

Although neither of us are particularly enamoured with the whole Andy Warhol/Factory era, there is no denying that in interviewing artist, Brigid Berlin, we got to vicariously experience some of it because […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 3, 2008

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 […]... 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 […]... 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 […]... 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., […]... 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 […]... 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, […]... 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 […]... 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. […]... 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 […]... 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 […]... 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 […]... 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 – […]... 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 […]... READ MORE

The Life and Times of Josephine Hartford, Part I