Guest Diary• July 24, 2021

Hamptons Social Diary: Point of View: Vintage to New

Lee Fryd attends the East Hampton Antiques & Design Show and learns that color is back! So, even, is chintz. More is more for Grand Millennial Style. And Eco Chic, especially upcycling is white hot!...

Sondra Gilman

House• January 29, 2010.

Sondra Gilman (photographed with her husband, Celso Gonzalez-Falla) owns, arguably, one of the world’s finest photography collections and it is one of the big treats of this job, that we were able to see part of it in her lovely Upper East Side townhouse. The house is also filled with paintings and sculpture—in passing she pointed out [&helli... READ MORE

Friday, January 15, 2010

Sixx Design

House• January 15, 2010.

Robert and Cortney Novogratz are self-taught designers (Robert was originally a stockbroker and Cortney trained as an actress) who have been enviably successful at finding bargain properties, reading the taste-zeitgeist very well while renovating them and then selling them on for fat profits. But there is another dimension to their lives that grab... READ MORE

Friday, January 8, 2010

Gerald Bland

House• January 8, 2010.

Gerald Bland has, for most of his life, specialized in selling fine English furniture, having trained at and worked for Sotheby’s. Lately he has shifted gears somewhat and in keeping with our eclectic times, has started to put fine furniture together paintings, ceramics and custom pieces into his showroom. He has a wonderful eye and the [&hellip... READ MORE

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Palm Beach Social Diary: Another Look at Lost Palm Beach

Palm Beach• January 3, 2010.

“We were so young and gay then and we thought we had all the money in the world. It will be sad if the great houses vanish and the Mizner period becomes only a memory and part of Palm Beach’s past rather than its present.” — Billie Burke Despite the heart-felt sentiment, many of the Mizner […]... READ MORE

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Washington Social Diary – GEORGETOWN’S HOLIDAY SPIRIT

Across the Nation• December 24, 2009.

Georgetown is Washington’s most talked about neighborhood for many reasons. Its historic past, the beautiful 18th and 19th century homes, a buzz factor as the city’s social hub, and the fact it is the capital’s most walkable neighborhood. The residents embrace the spirit of all the holidays, but especially the Christmas season when, regardles... READ MORE

Friday, December 11, 2009

Benjamin Bradley

House• December 11, 2009.

Designer Benjamin Bradley unequivocally adores Christmas. He makes no secret of the fact that he is re-living happy childhood memories when he creates Christmas in his apartment using his collection of over two thousand ornaments, many of which are antique ornaments he has been collecting since high school and college days. Unfortunately he had t... READ MORE

Monday, December 7, 2009

This Was Then

Social History• December 7, 2009.

One of the most popular society of fashion photographers in New York of the past quarter century has been Mary Hilliard. Mary started her career after her marriage and her children got to a certain age. Coming from the same part of town in life as many of her subjects, she may have been the […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 4, 2009

Osmundo Echevarria

House• December 4, 2009.

Osmundo Echevarria brings a wonderful artistic sensibility to decorative furniture finishes and practices what might be termed a craft with a genuinely imaginative eye and hand. He was trained as an artist and some of his most recent work includes the stunning Art-Deco inspired silver panels that grace the Van Cleef & Arpels space in Bergdorf�... READ MORE

Friday, November 20, 2009

Alex Papachristidis

House• November 20, 2009.

Alex Papachristidis has a saying about life that is very apposite for an interior designer: You’re always walking into a dark room looking for the light switch. Once you’ve turned on the light switch in one of his rooms, there’s plenty to delight the eye. ‘I’m a more is more kind of guy. I love food, […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 13, 2009

Lisa Jackson

House• November 13, 2009.

Lisa Jackson, who took up design as a second (or perhaps third?) career after working in business and journalism, has designed homes for the likes of Renee Zellweger and Tory Burch as well as her best friend Vera Wang—all very commendable etc. but we really wanted to talk to her about was shopping—because if anyone has […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 6, 2009

Brad Ford

House• November 6, 2009.

Interior designer Brad Ford didn’t seem to mind it when we, somewhat patronizingly, called him ‘a little ole country boy’ – just because he grew up in Arkansas – a place that still seems to be his first love. He is easygoing and thankfully free of New York neurosis but has, nevertheless created his life and successful […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 30, 2009

James Bleecker

House• October 30, 2009.

Photographer James Bleecker is that Bleecker, or at least a member of the old Dutch family whose name is on the street sign. He credits the fact that he grew up surrounded by their narratives and their possessions for his fascination with the past and an almost willful turning away from the flat, unlovely pragmatism of the […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 23, 2009

Yesterday’s La Coquille Club

Social History• October 23, 2009.

Because today’s La Coquille Club has been so magnificently recast for nearly the past twenty years as part of The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach in Manalapan, memories have nearly vanished of the original club’s ambience and attraction. By recalling its legacy with the few available images, the vision of its founder, Rockefeller scion, Spelma... READ MORE

Alex Gorlin

House• October 23, 2009.

In our lonely quest to find architects with a sense of humor, Alex Gorlin is our best catch so far. We kept drifting off message, but that’s what we like doing best and he was really game. He is, we must add, a very serious architect – the one selected by Daniel Libeskind to design his apartment […]... READ MORE

Monday, October 19, 2009

Washington Social Diary: Dinner With Mrs. Post In Absentia

Across the Nation• October 19, 2009.

The news was surprising, but at a formal dinner at Hillwood Museum the other night the guests were told it was the first such event there since Marjorie Merriweather Post died in 1973 and bequeathed the estate to the public as a museum. That’s the reason the organizers of the dinner, her grand-daughter, Ellen MacNeille Charles, and John Pete... READ MORE

Friday, October 16, 2009

Joan and Jayne Michaels

House• October 16, 2009.

One of the things we both love about these interviews is the element of the unexpected. And because Joan and Jayne Michaels of 2Michaels Design are twins and who are tall and lovely enough to have once been models, we knew that this was going to be an interesting interview. But then it took another and very […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 9, 2009

Preston Bailey

House• October 9, 2009.

Parties designed by Preston Bailey are fabulously expensive fleeting moments of fantasia involving torrents of blossom, crystals, temporary architecture and an extravagant daring that belies the serene, easy-going man we interviewed. He’s so warm and not at all flamboyant but we did see glimpses of a subversive sense of humor— he has a wicked... READ MORE

Friday, October 2, 2009

George Ranalli

House• October 2, 2009.

George Ranalli, an architect and Dean of The School of Architecture for City College, isn’t one for chit-chat. During the interview he straight away got down to discussing the business of creating buildings. For the past several years, he has been working under the radar of the of the overblown, overbuilt condo phase, diligently plugging away [&... READ MORE

Friday, September 25, 2009

Kathryn Scott

House• September 25, 2009.

Designer Kathryn Scott’s stunning brownstone in Brooklyn Heights rather silenced us with its perfection, combining Asian influences with antiques from Kathryn’s family and art by both her and her artist husband, Wenda Gu. They are both organized and thorough to a point that fascinated us. Kathryn physically learned how to do various skills such... READ MORE

Friday, September 11, 2009

Garrow Kedigian

House• September 11, 2009.

We immediately christened designer Garrow Kedigian’s Upper East Side apartment ‘Garrow’s Garret’, and, apparently like everyone else who visits, said how Parisian it looks. Garrow himself says he was going for ‘the abandoned mansion’ look and says that the French influence on his work is an unconscious channeling of his summer visits ... READ MORE

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