Travel• January 31, 2023

Let’s Get Lost (Yucatan Style)

Barbara Hodes re-discovers Progreso, Mexico and gets lost in its beauty. A great escape...

Pamela Talese

House• April 7, 2017.

Though born and thoroughly brought up on the Upper East Side, artist Pamela Talese found her first significant subject matter on the other side of the river in Brooklyn and Queens. She spent, and still spends, her days cycling around the boroughs, working on site to document through her paintings places like the Brooklyn Navy Yard and […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Palm Beach Flashback Social Diary: Artful Exposures

Palm Beach• April 5, 2017.

After the Palm Beach Towers opened its doors during the Mad Men era, it became a forerunner for the condominium movement that turned South Florida’s sublime seashore into the coveted high-rise Gold Coast. Sixty years ago David Nemerov left New York for Palm Beach to retire and reinvent himself as an artist. Settling at The Towers with his wif... READ MORE

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Palm Beach Social Diary: Uncommon Lives

Palm Beach• March 30, 2017.

Uncommon Lives: David & Gertrude! Emily! Charles! Gertie! George & LaLa! Palm Beach’s seasonal social cha-cha-cha may be drawing to a close but apparently islanders will still need to adjust their calendar and logistics for the comings-and-goings of POTUS45, especially those living within the perimeter termed “the zone.” L... READ MORE

Friday, March 24, 2017

Wesley Moon

House• March 24, 2017.

Designer Wesley Moon has come a long way since his early days living in an unheated Mott Street tenement and tending bar to make ends meet while he slaved away at an entry level job at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill—not that he wasn’t grateful for the ticket it gave him to come to New York from Atlanta. […]... READ MORE

No Holds Barred: Palm Springs Pilgrimage

Guest Diary• March 24, 2017.

I always knew “Everything old is new again …” even in death. But I never experienced it until my most recent trip to Palm Springs during their “Modernism Week.” It is kind of like the Super Bowl for architects and design fans for everything mid-century modern; from houses to antique shows to vintage cars to […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Architectural Illusion: Villa Giardino at Palm Beach

Social History• March 22, 2017.

Architectural Illusion: Villa Giardino at Palm Beach During the early 1930s Ohan Berberyan moved his Spanish Art Galleries shop from Worth Avenue to Peruvian Avenue where he recreated a Venetian Gothic showroom with formal Italian gardens to house his palatial Aubusson tapestries, Savonnerie carpets and ancient artifacts. At the time, Peruvian Aven... READ MORE

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Clodagh

House• March 19, 2017.

Clodagh was included in first batch of interviews and she was as fascinating then as she is this second time around. With that background straight out of an Edna O’Brien novel, “downwardly mobile aristocrats” as she describes her family, growing up in Oscar Wilde’s summer home and having a near-death experience after breaking her back when... READ MORE

Friday, March 17, 2017

Timothy Brown

House• March 17, 2017.

Designer Timothy Brown lives in a Kips Bay building that many may have dismissed as forbidding because it is one of the relatively few examples in New York of real Brutalist architecture. Not many will know that the two towers, which comprise the full building, were in fact, designed by I.M. Pei. Some four thousand residents perhaps […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 10, 2017

Amir Khamneipur

House• March 10, 2017.

Much attention is paid these days to living in small spaces and how we can all make rooms “multi-functional”—somehow the dreariest possible way of describing a room ever. Perhaps we should have talked about this more with designer Amir Khamneipur but we didn’t fully realize, until the end of our interview that his elegant and luxurious Fl... READ MORE

Friday, March 3, 2017

John Rosselli

House• March 3, 2017.

There’s one thing that seems to generally hold true for antiques dealers and that is that they’re great at telling stories, or at least being interesting. John Rosselli, some fifty years in the business and counting, is no exception. Known best for his much-loved Upper East Side decorative emporiums, he probably needs little introduction as [&h... READ MORE

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Facial Massage: Banish wrinkles and tighten skin

Beauty• March 2, 2017.

I have a confession to make: I rarely get a facial. As a beauty editor, I’m often asked to recommend a good facialist and I don’t have a ready answer because I haven’t found most facials to be all that effective. Any benefits for me have been short lived. And, as I have sensitive skin, I’m […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 24, 2017

Central Park Conservancy to Cartagena

Travel• February 24, 2017.

A small group of Women’s Committee members and spouses joined together for a trip to the walled city of Cartagena … the Colonial jewel of the Caribbean. Our four-hour flight on JetBlue arrived at Rafael Nuñez Airport to blue skies and 80 degree temperatures. At one time Cartagena was the most important Spanish port in […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

This was Then: Malcolm Forbes’ 70th, Part II

Social History• February 22, 2017.

Photographs by Mary Hilliard Malcolm Forbes was the most celebrated magazine publisher of his day although there were others far richer and with larger media empires. Forbes was famous for his lifestyle, which was viewed as a kind of flashy irreverence. He appeared to be the ultimate WASP who could “get down” with the best […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

This was Then: Malcolm Forbes’ 70th Birthday, Part I

Social History• February 21, 2017.

Malcolm Forbes is a name that only vaguely, if that, resonates with anyone under fifty today. Yet when he died 27 years ago at the age of 70, he was one of the most famous personalities in America as a result of his flashy talent for his great publishing success as well as other business […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 17, 2017

Laurie Blumenfeld-Russo

House• February 17, 2017.

Laurie Blumenfeld-Russo is a relative newcomer to interior design. She broke only three years ago from a career in marketing, studied at Parsons, then set up her own design business. We were curious to find out about her experience as a forty-something student but as it turns out she was not the only grown-up in a […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Palm Beach Social Diary – Sotheby’s previews + Wellington’s Jumpers + Manalapan’s Memories

Palm Beach• January 31, 2017.

On what might have been one of the season’s most beautiful winter nights Sotheby’s Palm Beach welcomed more than 100 clients and guests to a prelude of the auction house’s forthcoming March fine art sales at its London-New Bond Street location. Ashley Schiff Ramos, the company’s new director of its Royal Palm Way bureau, and Tad Smi... READ MORE

Friday, January 20, 2017

Landon Metz

House• January 20, 2017.

Landon Metz, brought us most thoughtfully into the experience of what it is to be a painter in today’s world of the Internet, Instagram, selfies and Snapchat. Not that it he isn’t up to the challenge of it—he doesn’t even see it that way. “It’s just happening” is how he expresses it. There were times when […]... READ MORE

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Palm Beach Social Diary Matters of Taste

Palm Beach• January 19, 2017.

When I noticed the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair’s VIP Preview was supporting the Palm Beach Zoo and that the Art Miami-based fair was also presenting an exhibition with the nearby Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, I was reminded of decades ago when the Palm Beach season began to crowd with a jillion charitable […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 13, 2017

Brett Leemkuil

House• January 13, 2017.

We already knew that decorator, Brett Leemkuil, was known for his Tony-Duquette influenced Hollywood flair but we weren’t quite prepared, when we stepped in off a street in Sunnyside, Queens, for the wonderful theatricality of his studio apartment. Full of sumptuous color, low lighting and glamorous swags of tasseled silk, in our era of glass, ... READ MORE

Thursday, January 12, 2017

America First: Howard Major at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• January 12, 2017.

America First: Howard Major at Palm Beach Architect Howard Major was Palm Beach’s leading advocate for an American-based classical building style during the post-WW I boom when Spanish and Italian reproductions became commonplace. Foreshadowing today’s “America First” populist sentiment, Major believed a mix of Old World styles should never... READ MORE

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