Social Diary• January 27, 2022

The Life in the House and the House in the Life of Mrs. Astor

How the mansions of the tycoons of Gilded Age that came after the Civil War established the Upper East Side of the 21st century...

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 because in addition to photography, he started out writing interviews for Interview magazine at the tender age of 19. ... READ MORE

Friday, June 6, 2008

Ira Neimark

House• June 6, 2008.

In what could almost be a Hollywood fantasy, Ira Neimark worked his way up from being assistant to the doorman at Bonwit Teller to being CEO at Bergdorf Goodman. He has just published his hybrid memoir/business book, Crossing Fifth Avenue to Bergdorf Goodman: An Insider’s Account on The Rise of Luxury Retailing (Specialist Press International),... READ MORE

Friday, May 30, 2008

Susan Gutfreund

House• May 30, 2008.

Susan Gutfreund hardly needs an introduction as the well-known interior designer, society hostess and wife of financier John Gutfreund, but even so, when you meet her, and see her Fifth Avenue duplex, it’s the stuff of novels. She’s someone who simply can’t do things by halves and New York would be so much the poorer, so […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 2, 2008

Michael Aram

House• May 2, 2008.

Although designer Michael Aram’s West Village home is quintessential New York glam, we found that we spent most of our time talking about his home and his life in India, where he spends most of the year, and where he has his workshop. There he designs and produces the tableware and beautiful metal objects for which he […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Tudor Place and Hillwood

House• April 29, 2008.

Washington Weekend. House Tours. Our nation’s capital has two house museums that are significant to our history, and relatively little known on the Washington tourist circuit and especially with the out of town tourists. But gems; real gems, and not to be missed if you can help it. The oldest is Tudor Place, located at 1644 31st […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 18, 2008

Judith Solodkin

House• April 18, 2008.

Judith Solodkin is one of those lucky people who found what they wanted to do in life, and then did it. She is a Master Lithographer and founded SOLO Impression in 1975, in the space where we visited her, the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea. She works closely with artists such Louise Bourgeois and Donald Sultan, creating […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 11, 2008

Carlos Aparicio

House• April 11, 2008.

Every now and then we interview someone whose personality is inexplicably completely different from the taste his or her apartment exhibits. Carlos Aparicio, architect and fine furniture dealer, took that perception to another level. His apartment is an exercise in restraint, both in its palette and the precision of the rigorous design sensibilit... READ MORE

Friday, April 4, 2008

Angela Westwater

House• April 4, 2008.

Together with partner, Gian Enzo Sperone, Angela Westwater owns the Sperone Westwater Gallery in the West Village. It is a gallery that has been instrumental in the careers of extraordinary artists such as Bruce Nauman, Evan Penny, Richard Tuttle and William Wegman, to name but a few of the artists they show, but on the way to […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 28, 2008

Steven Steinberg

House• March 28, 2008.

Steven Steinberg is the owner of a New York Central Art Supplies, which, for artists, is a New York institution, if one can call a store such a thing. The business was started by his grandfather in 1905 and it has been in the family ever since. Even if you are not an artist, there is […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 14, 2008

Eva Zeisel

House• March 14, 2008.

Eva Zeisel was born in 1906 in Hungary and grew up to become a world-renowned designer, initially working with ceramics, but later on working with all kinds of other materials, including glass, textiles, metal and wood. She might say, though, that her favorite material is ‘air’, the medium in which she first ‘sees’ the form of […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 29, 2008

Gaetano Pesce

House• February 29, 2008.

Thoughtful, iconoclastic and humorous, Gaetano Pesce’s famous designs echo his personality. We interviewed him in his Soho workspace that was filled with objects that come directly from an unhindered imagination, and our conversation with him was similarly unguarded – boy, does he say what he thinks. He was brought up in Italy, the son of a p... READ MORE

Friday, February 15, 2008

Gisue Hariri

House• February 15, 2008.

Gisue Hariri and her sister Mojgan, came from Iran to the United States in the 1970s to study architecture and now run their own highly successful firm, Hariri & Hariri-Architecture. Totally unafraid of the highest of high technology, one of their best-known projects was their Digital House, a ‘conceptual project’ where dinner can be prepa... READ MORE

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Philip Gorrivan

House• February 9, 2008.

Over the course of all our interviews with interior designers we have been struck by the long hours they keep and how incredibly hard they work, and although he wasn’t complaining in the least, Philip Gorrivan has the extra responsibilities that come with having two school-age children, a daughter aged eight and a son of five. Add […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 18, 2008

Ellen Graham

House• January 18, 2008.

A photographer all her life, Ellen Graham has met and photographed the beautiful people of the latter half of the twentieth century. How gorgeous they were. And so many of them! Flipping through the proofs of her forthcoming book, with the somewhat bittersweet title ‘The Way We Were’, we were hard pressed to name the Warren Beattys, […... READ MORE

Friday, December 14, 2007

Scott Salvator

House• December 14, 2007.

Interior designer, Scott Salvator landed the tricky job of re-doing one of New York’s most beloved night spots, the Café Carlyle, and acquitted himself admirably in pulling off the feat of ‘bringing it into 2007 whilst maintaining 1955’, which was when it was added to the Carlyle Hotel was an intimate cabaret venue featuring legendary perf... READ MORE

Friday, December 7, 2007

Hunt Slonem

House• December 7, 2007.

Walking off the street at the blasted heath end of West 10th Street into Hunt Slonem’s studio space (if one can call 89 rooms a studio space) was a bit like that moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and the gang step into glorious Technicolor, and it’s slightly unsettling. Walking through each room is like […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 30, 2007

Rufus Albemarle

House• November 30, 2007.

Rufus Arnold Alexis Keppel, the 10th Earl of Albemarle, is known socially as Rufus Albemarle, very posh, very tall, sort of bows and air kisses your hand (if you’re female) when he meets you … oh … with one of us being British and one of us being a seen-it-all New Yorker, we couldn’t help but […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 16, 2007

Kenny Lane

House• November 16, 2007.

We got the impression that famed jewelry designer Kenny Lane didn’t particularly enjoy being interviewed by us—but then, when we said we were done, he seemed to want to go on, so we’re not sure. He was wittily defensive for the most part, with only occasional glimpses of the warmth and charm for which he is known. […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 9, 2007

Paula Scher

House• November 9, 2007.

Paula Scher is a graphic designer whose work you have probably seen on a regular basis all over New York, logos (Citi), posters for big shows (Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) as well as hundreds of other designs that make up the visual static of our city. She is also an artist, painting […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 2, 2007

Harry Benson

House• November 2, 2007.

A joy it was to interview Harry Benson, the photographer who has spent a lifetime documenting the huge stories, the big-name people as well all the crucial no-name people whose story in pictures can sometimes change a whole perspective. A true son of Glasgow, he came to the States in 1964 to follow the Beatles on their […]... READ MORE

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