DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA'S
Social Diary• September 17, 2024

It’s a Loeb Thing

John Loeb, Jr.'s 94th birthday celebration reminded me of his 75th birthday celebration at Blenheim...

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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

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

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Juan Montoya

House• November 1, 2006.
Juan Montoya is thoughtful and courteous and, despite having really ‘lived’ in what many may think of New York’s Studio 54 heyday, has retained a certain reserve that seems to come […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 9, 2006

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Susan Zises Green

House• June 9, 2006.
The first thing we noticed when we walked into this home in the East 70s right off Madison, is that it was just that: a home. There was a child’s […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 2, 2006

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Robert Couturier

House• June 2, 2006.
The apartment is in Soho but we could have been in Paris, perhaps the Marais with a little of the 16th arrondissement throw in for good measure. Robert Couturier is as sophisticated […]... READ MORE

Thursday, May 18, 2006

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Sam Botero

House• May 18, 2006.
An unassuming exterior and up a narrow staircase to an apartment in the East 70s … and we were met with packing crates, boxes, tins of paint and art works […]... READ MORE

Thursday, May 11, 2006

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David Kleinberg

House• May 11, 2006.
David Kleinberg’s building is completely unremarkable from the outside, another new highrise with a Starbucks on the ground floor. So it was a wonderful surprise to enter the apartment and […]... READ MORE

Thursday, May 4, 2006

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Charlotte Moss

House• May 4, 2006.
From the minute we entered Charlotte Moss’ pristine East 70s townhouse and were ushered in by her personal assistant, we knew we were dealing with the consummate pro. Every inch […]... READ MORE

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