Guest Diary• May 26, 2022

It was a big, fat, Greek celebration

It was a big, fat, Greek celebration. Greek Week, in fact. All centered around the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and its Gennadius Library. Lee Fryd reports...

Nick Olsen

House• October 8, 2010.

Nick Olsen, who was once wrote the Deal Hunter column for the sadly missed Domino magazine, has become known for being able to design truly stylish rooms on a budget. Although he did tell us that he would not object to working in an 17th century palace with little else but a few museum quality antiques, […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 1, 2010

Clare Potter

House• October 1, 2010.

Sculptor and ceramic artist Clare Potter makes pieces that are so deeply felt and painstakingly detailed that they almost seem to be a form of nature worship. When we asked her how long each piece takes, she sighed and said a little sadly “People always ask me that” and we realized that for her putting in the […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 24, 2010

David Mann

House• September 24, 2010.

Hah! We’ve found another architect with a sense of humor, so that’s two … (the other one is Alex Gorlin, whom we interviewed in October last year.) David Mann of MR Architects lives in a very simple space with a spectacular terrace, which he and his partner, Martha Stewart style editor, Fritz Karch, use as a party […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 17, 2010

Milly de Cabrol

House• September 17, 2010.

Italian interior designer, Milly de Cabrol was happily forthright in our conversation, although she wouldn’t go on the record with the name of the extremely famous comedian she met whom she thought “the most boring, saddest person I ever met.” Her style, at least in her own Upper East Side home, is bohemian and, not […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 10, 2010

Boaz Mazor

House• September 10, 2010.

Boaz Mazor has worked for Oscar de la Renta for forty years, having now earned that wonderful “At Large” title (although technically he is a vice-president) and this is one of those conversations that made us feel we had met someone who really relishes and celebrates life. He must have his demons because he has depth, […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 27, 2010

LuAnn de Lesseps

House• August 27, 2010.

The Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is a lot looser and more fun in real life than in “reality life” – at least the one depicted on her reality TV show “The Real Housewives of New York” but she’s nevertheless just born for this modern world of self-promotion, YouTube and celebrity. She’s a natural, effortlessly and expertly parrying [&hel... READ MORE

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Palm Beach Social Diary

Social History• August 25, 2010.

Graceful Living: The Phipps Family in Gulf Stream The polo world’s exclusive old money mystique has waned, for the most part now found amidst sepia photos, bookshelves, anecdotes and rows of silver cups in trophy rooms. But 85 years ago, when the Phipps family conceived and developed Gulf Stream as an exclusive resort sporting center, […]... READ MORE

Sunday, August 15, 2010

THE SUPER CHIEF – “THE TRAIN OF THE STARS”

Social History• August 15, 2010.

From the late 1930s to the 1950s, Hollywood adopted the Super Chief as the primary mode of travel as well as the subject of novels and motion pictures. In MGM’s The Hucksters, a brutal satire on the ad industry, Clark Gable says to another character: “Only talent agents and kept woman ride the Chief. But […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 13, 2010

Ellen Hamilton

House• August 13, 2010.

We—well Sian mainly—grilled Ellen Hamilton about being a member of the first generation of liberated working women, and we wanted to know why the “anti-feminist” choice of being a decorator? The interesting outcome of her answer was to realize that the fields once relegated to women (nutrition, early childhood development, fashion and des... READ MORE

Friday, August 6, 2010

Eric Cohler

House• August 6, 2010.

Interior designer Eric Cohler, was a bit frazzled when he opened the door of his apartment. Two beautiful Standard Poodle puppies had arrived the previous day and he had spent much of the night getting them used to their new home. Mind you, he bounced back so quickly that I realized this is a man […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 23, 2010

Laura Kirar

House• July 23, 2010.

Furniture and interior designer Laura Kirar, who is very poised and soignée, lives with her husband and sweet little blind cat in a rather romantic, eclectic apartment on the Upper East Side. The bold color combinations and a buried history of once being a slob (her own words – but impossible to imagine now) testify to her […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 25, 2010

Paula Caravelli

House• June 25, 2010.

Interior designer Paula Caravelli, of Paula & Martha Design, is a master juggler. She works full time, plays piano, dances, paints, entertains and with her husband James, has raised four sons on the Upper East Side. Her meticulous apartment is also a balancing act. Its disparate and unexpected elements somehow all come together in a surprisin... READ MORE

Friday, June 18, 2010

David Scott

House• June 18, 2010.

David Scott lives rather fabulously in the UN Plaza building, which as he himself says, still has a kind of 1960s ‘James Bond’ glamour to it. He is best known for his high end residential design work—or posh, as we like to call it—but he isn’t any kind of snob and is, in fact, straightforward, kind […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 11, 2010

Adam Lewis

House• June 11, 2010.

I received a copy of writer and designer, Adam Lewis’s new book ‘The Great Lady Decorators: The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955’, (Rizzoli, $65.00) less than 48 hours before the interview and I was not looking forward to slugging through almost 300 pages of any subject in such a short amount of time. To my relief, […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 4, 2010

Ernest De La Torre

House• June 4, 2010.

Interior designer, Ernest De La Torre, is a very patient man. After my tape recorder went on the blink (not once but twice) he good-naturedly agreed to be asked the same questions over (and over) again. Growing up with Cuban parents in the Midwest, Ernest’s first career was in business with design as a sideline. After casual […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 28, 2010

John Woodrow Kelley

House• May 28, 2010.

John Woodrow Kelley is a painter who works to create a contemporary interpretation of Greek mythology and the classical tradition. He grew up in Tennessee, where he still owns a house, but studied architecture at Pratt and then stayed put, having lived in Clinton Hill in Brooklyn for close to 25 years. He proudly considers himself […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 14, 2010

Barbara Moore

House• May 14, 2010.

Interior designer Barbara Moore told us that she was kicked out of dance classes when she was little girl because she wanted to do her own thing—perhaps that dance teacher should have let her stick around because this is one organized, directed and disciplined individual. She’d probably have ended up running the class—not that she’s bossy... READ MORE

Friday, May 7, 2010

Kayel De Angelis

House• May 7, 2010.

Kayel De Angelis, is the third generation to work in his family’s high-end custom curtain and furniture firm founded over sixty years ago by his grandfather, Guido De Angelis. He’s a grounded man family man who knows the importance of patience when serving the often exacting requirements of a design trade with clients who expect […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 30, 2010

Duane Hampton

House• April 30, 2010.

From the very start of my interview with Duane Hampton, widow of renowned decorator Mark Hampton, I felt like I was chatting with an old girl friend. She’s a witty, charming woman with a keen sense of humor who sees life for what it is and makes it work. After the early death of her husband in […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 23, 2010

Paige Peterson, revisited

House• April 23, 2010.

A year ago last January we interviewed our friend, artist/writer Paige Peterson in her Central Park West apartment for NYSD HOUSE. A few weeks ago she sent us pictures of her apartment but after a makeover. It is a perfect A Before and After story, and it looked so different that I couldn’t help asking her why she […]... READ MORE

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