Guest Diary• October 22, 2021

No Holds Barred: Fly me to the moon!

Blair Sabol takes a look at the “trip to the moon” in today’s rambling changes with Fashion, Madonna, the Stones, Tom Cruise and that newly anointed “space cadet” William Shatner...

Thomas Britt

House• September 21, 2007.

The exclamation point key on the keyboard was almost worn out at the end of writing up this interview because that’s how Thomas Britt talks – almost solely in exclamations and emphatic pronouncements (‘The étagères were bang! bang! bang! bang! on the four walls here. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!’). He also likes to tell long stories that [&h... READ MORE

Friday, September 14, 2007

Scott Bromley

House• September 14, 2007.

Scott Bromley is most famous for having designed Studio 54, but he has also designed a vast range of other buildings: high rises when he worked for Emery Roth & Sons, well-known restaurants and private residences, in particular on Fire Island, when he started his own practice in 1974, as well as the hottest nightclub in […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 7, 2007

1100 Architect

House• September 7, 2007.

You’ve definitely seen some of the work done by David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm of 1100 Architect: the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park, the MoMA store in mid-town, or the renovation of the Little Red School House in Greenwich Village. You may even have gazed at the exterior of One Sutton Place. Their constructions are beautifully-execut... READ MORE

Friday, August 31, 2007

Memories of Summer

Social Diary• August 31, 2007.

By the time you’re reading this, over in London, the memorial service at the Guards Chapel in St. James’s Park marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales may be over. Prince Charles will have returned to Highgrove to spend the weekend with his wife the Duchess of Cornwall. The Queen and Prince Philip will have ... READ MORE

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Mystery of The Greystone Mansion Murders

Social History• August 30, 2007.

Greystone, the Doheny mansion which sits on the hillside above Doheny Road on the eastern edge of Beverly Hills is now a park, so named officially in 1971.When it was built,in the late 1920s, it was the second largest house (56,000 square feet) in California after Hearst’s castle at San Simeon. In the 1920s, all of […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 24, 2007

Michele Oka Doner

House• August 24, 2007.

Michele Oka Doner is justly known for her exquisitely beautiful public commissions such as the ‘Radiant Site’ at the Herald Square subway station and ‘A Walk on the Beach’, at the Miami International Airport, as well numerous pieces that have found their way into private collections the world over. Her governing passions are the strange ... READ MORE

Friday, August 17, 2007

Fairfax & Sammons

House• August 17, 2007.

Anne Fairfax and Richard Sammons live in a little house in the Village that once belonged to Armand Hammer, the flamboyant (and highly controversial) industrialist and art collector. There can’t be a house anywhere that has had two such contrasting sets of owners. Where Hammer’s taste ran to leopard prints and gaudiness, theirs is an essay [&h... READ MORE

Friday, August 10, 2007

Tord Boontje

House• August 10, 2007.

Tord Boontje, the designer is unusually well known. Even if you do not know his name, chances are you will recognize his distinctive, delicate, and at times, edgy work. The New York Times described him as ‘the closest thing industrial design has to a celebrity’, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one. In person he is gentle […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 3, 2007

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 as a landscape designer, he is unusual among interior designers because where they often say their work is mainly instinctive, he believes in being able […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 27, 2007

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 come across as any kind of statement, it is evidence of Don’s essentially traditional approach to architecture and respect for the best of the past, […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 20, 2007

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 splendid red dining room is laden with flowers, china, crystal and candelabra. In front of a pair of gilded double doors stands an immaculately-attired butle... READ MORE

Friday, July 13, 2007

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 is a sense that what he says is slightly rehearsed, and it probably has been, but only miliseconds beforehand in his very quick mind. He works at [&he... READ MORE

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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 projects in the world, palaces in India, a building in Russia for the ceremonial signing of treaties, castles in the Caribbean. The drawings he showed […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 1, 2007

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 of going about their business as normal, despite the weather. And so did we. Part of Marshall Watson’s great kindliness showed immediately when he insisted […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 4, 2007

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 mother through Alzheimer’s disease, she decided to spend a good deal of her time with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, a no... READ MORE

Friday, April 27, 2007

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. Although he himself is clearly a disciplined person, his apartment is so gracious that there is no sense of stiff perfectionism or stage management... READ MORE

Friday, April 13, 2007

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 so unselfconsciously engaged in something that she clearly loves with all her heart. She displayed a kind of shining, joyous enthusiasm that barely... READ MORE

Friday, March 30, 2007

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 now … money making, self-promotion and acquisition. They are both British, studied together there and eventually married here in the States where they have lived […... READ MORE

Friday, March 23, 2007

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 precedent. His office space combined antiques and the highest of high tech. His employees were as so many modern monks, meticulously working at... READ MORE

Friday, March 2, 2007

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 the cover of Wallpaper magazine any time soon but then, given the pendulum swings of taste, you never know … and in the meantime she […]... READ MORE

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