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Dear Readers, Welcome to our Art Issue. I have always adored visiting New York’s incredible museums and galleries, but it wasn’t until quite recently, just before I had my son, that I could appreciate art on an emotional level. Harry was born in the middle of a July heat wave, so in the weeks leading up to that event, I found myself constantly searching for cool places to relax, and the met was perfect. All that marble was incredibly calming, and I found the stillness of the museum’s impressive collections very soothing. Although I wouldn’t have exactly called it soothing, the one exhibit that really stood out in my mind was Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a glimpse into the dark mind of a tortured genius.

recalling that experience, I am particularly delighted to have the curator of the costume Institute, Andrew Bolton, as our back-page questionnaire. I’ve been lucky enough to hear Andrew speak about this year’s exhibit (opening may 9th), Punk: Chaos to Couture, and his ability to combine philosophy, history and the vernacular of fashion is extremely impressive. our cover subject, Dominique lévy, is no less impressive. Her new madison Avenue gallery promises to be just the thing to draw the contemporary art world out of chelsea and up to the upper east side. read Jason Farago’s excellent and fun interview with her to get the full story. one of the most exciting cultural events to come recently to New York city is Frieze New York. this international contemporary art fair is the brainchild of Amanda sharp and her business partner, matthew slotover. Frieze is unusual in that it only showcases the work of living artists and highlights their work in a colossal tent on randall’s Island. I met Amanda for a cocktail and found her to be one of the cleverest, down-to-earth people I’ve had the opportunity to speak to in a long time. I would highly recommend that everyone take the 35th street ferry to randall’s Island from the 10th—13th of may and check out the body of work on display. check out the pages that follow, too: our art issue is, appropriately, a visual feast.

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, s r e d a e R r a De WELCOME TO THE AVENUE Art Issue! Each year, this issue in particular explores the leading lights of the New York art world.

Along with art, AVENUE readers this month are also invited to check out the New York Classics, featuring the city’s real estate power players who best know the ins and outs of the city; we set the photo shoot in the intriguing and beautiful spaces of the Philip Colleck Gallery and Hirschl & Adler Galleries. And we’re proud of the results.

Next month marks the launch of AVENUE on the Beach—our Hamptons issues that will publish for June, July and August and include an additional 25,000 copies to be distributed throughout the East End. The inaugural June issue is all about Hamptons style—both for fashion and the home. The July issue will focus on the bustling art scene in the Hamptons—exploring the major players, the many fantastic art centers and galleries and the benefits that support this wonderful world. The August issue of AVENUE on the Beach will focus on families in the Hamptons and spotlight the next generation of those who have long since called the Hamptons “home”. For all three issues, we will be “Hamptonizing” our regular columns and features, but will not neglect the news of New York City.

Cheers, Randi Schatz

For all three issues, we will be “Hamptonizing” our regular columns and features, but will not neglect the news of New York City.

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WOMAN ON TOP

Art world powerhouse Dominique Lévy is more than just a chic European art gallerist. She’s a tour de force taking over the Upper East Side. Forget Chelsea—she’s transforming a townhouse at 909 Madison into what will surely be the new mecca of contemporary art.

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ART WORLD A-LIST

From downtown art scions like Vito Schnabel to uptown power players like Larry Gagosian: a list of who’s who on the New York art scene.

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STATE OF THE ART

A look at how The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embasses is making cultural diplomacy a priority.

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THE REAL DEAL

It’s safe to say Steven Witkoff has had a hand or two in building New York’s skyline. With his latest endeavor, 150 Charles Street, there’s reason to believe the hype.

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REAL ESTATE ELITE

The most distinguished individuals at the heart of New York real estate photographed inside a historic antiques shop, Philip Colleck, Ltd., and at the home of some of the rarest decorative arts, Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

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Lévy wears a textured leather jacket by Yigal Azrouël, available at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue, 212.753.4000, and a black tank top by Theory, for purchase at Bloomingdale’s, 1000 Third Avenue, 212.705.2000. She wears her own necklace by Les Bijoux de Sophie.

Styled by Rory McDonough, hair and makeup by Chuck Jensen and photographed by Keith Major.

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From John Demsey’s living room to an evening honoring Hermés, our resident woman-about-town is on the scene for it all.

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Lévy wears an orange seam sealed trench coat by Reed Krakoff, 831 Madison Avenue, 212.988.0560. Styled by Rory McDonough, hair and makeup by Chuck Jensen and photographed by Keith Major.

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Frieze New York co-founder Amanda Sharp shares her thoughts on creating one of the world’s most exciting art fairs.

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Art guru and uptown gallerist Amalia Dayan returns to her Israeli roots in Tel Aviv.

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A Matter of Time Marking milestones with fanciful birthday parties and the debut of Hermès’ first Swiss-made timepiece

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pring Break has come and gone, teasing us with the warm waters in Nassau, lush courses and courts in Palm Beach and silky sand in St. Barth’s that will soon be ours, locally. The spring season is coiled and ready to pounce, but for now, the parties are mercifully spaced and enjoyed rather than endured.

Many birthdays in February and March gave us reason to celebrate.

John Demsey, Alina Cho and Marilyn Gauthier, for the fourth year, hosted their group birthday party at John’s divine Upper East Side townhouse. As always, their pal Cornelia Guest expertly and organically catered and procured a last-minute tent so that we guests could enjoy the garden during a raging snowstorm. Birthdays abounded: Eames Yates and Hartman Benson shared the day, though not the candles. Three separate cakes were presented to the hosts. “Everyone got their favorites?” I asked John. “No. My favorites—chocolate and red velvet,” he replied. (Hey, it’s his house.)

John’s daughter, Marie-Helene, meanwhile, had her own tea party upstairs with Rachel Roy’s daughter, Tallulah. “How fishy are you?”

I asked the crowd downstairs, referring of course to their scaly sign.

“I’m sensitive and social—a classic Pisces,” John told me. “Then I am, too!” I intoned (though I am actually a Libra). “We all are,” John generously offered back.

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Alina, perhaps more mermaid than fish, slithered down the stairs in her L’Wren Scott frock. “It was a game decision; I bought it, tailored it and wore it, all in one day,” she told me. And she looked so damned good. John described the large group as a happy mix of media, fashion and beauty. “We have a rule,” Alina told me: “‘Invite the people we love.’

We may have 400 people, but we love every one of them.”

It was 270, actually, and among the loved, were: Charles Masson, Caryn Zucker, SNL’s Jim Signorelli (I looked imploringly at him, and he looked away—Justin Timberlake was scheduled to host the following Saturday), Robert Zimmerman, Marilyn Minter, Jill Fairchild and Bobby Fomon, Faye Wattleton of Bobbi Brown (the makeup, not the rapper), Fern Mallis, Rosanna Scotto, Annelise Peterson, Brooke Neidich, George Farias, Deborah Roberts and more, just as lovable.

And lest any of us ever think we have ever been properly fêted for our birthdays (no one even remembers mine, despite the fact that I use the date in my email address), brace yourself for this one: Geoffrey Bradfield threw a birthday bash for his adored friend, Monique van Vooren, titled “All About Monique.” And, boy, was it! David Burke’s Townhouse was transformed into The Cub Room at The Stork Club.

The awning was re-covered in the red Stork logo, the walls lined with Warhol portraits of the “Belgian Bombshell.”

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(A Va Va Voom is a delicious and lethal concoction of champagne, vodka and raspberries.). The singer herself warbled “La Vie en Rose.”

Geoffrey toasted her as “a legend in my life,” and she herself told us, “I may have a few broken bones, but not a broken spirit,” while the golden light of the imported candelabras flattered those in attendance who had shared her life with her. Paul Morrissey, who had cast and directed her in Warhol’s Frankenstein, told me how she was great, but underappreciated. He also told me that the last great film was Cinema Paradiso (25 years ago). Liliane Montevecchi and Carmen de Lavallade swayed to the music, as they do so well. Grace Robbins (widow of Harold and author of the soon-to-be-released autobiography, Cinderella & the Carpetbagger, exchanged stories with Najwa Stone (Ollie’s ex), as well as with other swells and sweethearts. Some of them, like Chappy Morris, Douglas Hannant, William Cavendish, Amy Hoadley, Sue Chalom and Eric Javits, gazed admiringly at Monique, and hoped to live their lives as well as she has hers.

Birthdays, of course, mark time, and what nicer way to do that than on an Hermès watch—specifically, the brand’s newest, the Dressage. It is the first, I was told by Bob Chavez, CEO of Hermès US, to be made in Switzerland. “We always made beautiful fashion watches, but now they will be made by our own watchmakers in Switzerland,” he said. I want one of those watches now more than ever.

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Of course, being über chic and French, the company’s way of debuting this new beauty was through a dance piece: “Time in Motion.” Sadly, my timing was off, and I missed much of the performance, but rapt viewers told me all about it. “Strum und drang,” Town & Country’s Jay Fielding told me, demonstrating why he is an editor, and I’m not. “Timeless love” was Zani Gugelmann’s interpretation. “Very strenuous,” added the choreographer and performer, who of course was seated next to me. He actually had replaced the original dancer, who had succumbed to the rigors of arms mimicking the ticking of watch hands (damn, I need a watch!).

Dinner, by Olivier Cheng, was another kind of art performance.

Silky, smoky sunchoke broth cascaded into our shiitake-lined bowls, and tender lamb chops were offered along with an individual “rare salt” assortment, including pinot noir, bamboo and mesquite favors, followed by a chocolate cloche that gracefully collapsed under a stream of molten chocolate. One would think that at this point, I would have been sated, but no. I was off on a goody bag search, certain that an orange box would accompany me home. Alas, that was not to be. Nina Griscom remedied the situation, delicately picking up a dome from the also artful “cabinet de curiosités” centerpiece, and removed a tiny Venus flytrap plant. It would be her “goody” and travel home with us, my pinkie finger lodged in its little mouth, to be sure it worked. ✦

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Feasting the Eyes This month’s selection of art and performances around the city THROCKMORTON FINE ART GRACE by Elisabeth Sunday May 2–June 6 145 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor 212.223.1059

AUCTIONS BONHAMS NEW YORK May 7: Photographs May 8: European Paintings May 15: African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art 580 Madison Avenue 212.644.9001

DOYLE NEW YORK May 8: European, American, Modern & Contemporary Art May 22: Important English & Continental Furniture & Decorations/ PRINTEROld Master Paintings 175 E. 87th Street 212.427.2730

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AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE Opening Night Gala May 13 10 Lincoln Center Plaza 212.362.6000

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THE PACE GALLERY Tim Hawkinson May 3–June 22 508 W. 25th Street 212.989.4258

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE Dialogues de Carmelites May 4, 9, 11 10 Lincoln Center Plaza 212.362.6000

EXHIBITIONS NEUE GALERIE Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897–1907 May 23–September 2 1048 Fifth Avenue (at 86th Street) 212.628.6200

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Amanda Sharp A glass of wine with the co-founder of Frieze New York

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t is surprisingly easy to convince Amanda Sharp, co-founder of Frieze New York to have a drink at 4:30 pm on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon at the Tarallucci e Vino restaurant near Union Square.

Sharp’s British and therefore unfailingly polite, so she agrees after only the gentlest nudge to change her order from a mint tea to a glass of white wine.

Any pre-existing notions of Sharp as an intimidatingly cool art person swiftly evaporate as she starts chatting. She modestly requests before we begin that we not dwell on personal matters (“I tend to think I’m less interesting than the work”). Then, as she starts to talk, she exudes an air of quiet competence, which must be part of the reason for the success of the two enormous contemporary arts fairs she co-founded, Frieze London and Frieze New York.

Since its inception in 2003, Frieze London has grown into one of the most celebrated art fairs in Europe. Five hundred galleries apply each year for the opportunity to showcase their artists at Frieze and the fair is now attended by 60,000 visitors. While the sales generated from the fair have not been publicly disclosed since 2006, suffice it to say that a substantial amount of money must change hands or galleries wouldn’t be clamoring to return. Hopes for Frieze New York run just as high.

Given the amount of credibility Sharp has in the contemporary art world, it’s all the more arp Sh surprising to learn that she doesn’t have so much as a bachelor’s degree in art history (“I studied Amanda politics, philosophy and economics—it trains you for nothing.”).

Frieze London was preceded by Frieze magazine, which Sharp and her business partner, Matthew Slotover, launched in 1991. After meeting at Oxford University, the two hung around with a bunch of artists, leading Slotover to search for a magazine where he could learn more about the Tarallucci e Vino contemporary art world. When he couldn’t find one that suited his needs, he asked Sharp to help 15 East 18th Street him create one; together, they founded Frieze magazine in 1991.

New York, NY 10003 The timing couldn’t have been more prescient. London was in the throes of the YBA (Young 212.228.5400 British Artists) movement, with new talent like Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili creating the extraorditaralluccievino.net nary works that have come to define the contemporary art period as we know it today. Sharp and Slotover set to work, and with a team of three, created one of the most respected contemporary art magazines in the market.

Of her accidental path into the art world, Sharp says, “I’m very lucky because it’s given me an incredibly rewarding professional career, where I’ve had access to extraordinary people. I could so easily just have been working in a bank and now I do something completely different. It’s a really happy accident that I ended up doing Frieze.”

After successfully editing Frieze magazine for a number of years, Slotover and Sharp came to the conclusion that what London really lacked was an international contemporary art fair. Being the kinds of people who don’t just think great thoughts but actually act on them, they created Frieze London, in Regent’s Park in 2003. The fair was an instant hit, and everyone from Kate Moss to the Russian oligarch du jour turned up to admire the art, then do a shot together in the V.I.P. room. Frieze Week, as it’s now known in London, became an excuse for some of the best parties of the autumn season.

When Sharp and Slotover decided to launch Frieze New York on Randall’s Island last year, it generated a buzz of extraordinary magnitude, a rare achievement in a city as jaded about the art world as New York is. Sharp admits that putting on the fair here definitely presented some challenges: “Last year was scary!” she says. “You’re building something the size of three football pitches. And I don’t think anyone got it until they saw it. When you say to someone you are putting up a tent, they think it’s like a wedding until they realize it’s as big as a convention center, and they suddenly get it. As Frieze New York will take place May soon as they see this kind of serpentine structure along the river, it changes their whole 10—13 in Randall’s Island Park. For way of looking at it. It was much more impressive as a reality than it was as a story. I haven’t more information and tickets: friezenewyork.com had to work on that scale here before. You are in a really big country—everything is bigger. So the trucks are bigger, the wheels are bigger and the costs escalated.”

cocktail on the avenue Despite the challenge of creating a fair on such a large scale and enticing the who’s who of the art world to venture off the island of Manhattan, Frieze New York gave the city a much-needed jolt. One clear indication that the fair was successful is that quite a few galleries that sat on the sidelines last year have now jumped into the ring. Frieze will have 11 additional New York galleries in the fair this year and has increased its international participation from 28 countries to 32.

Sharp understands, though, that it takes a few years for something new to be trusted. “No matter how much people might have liked the fair and respected what we did in England, it’s still brand new and untested,” she says. “It will take a few years to mature. I hope maybe we’ll add one or two really great galleries per year, and by year five you’ll have all the galleries you want in the world.”

Most of Sharp’s Chardonnay is still in her glass, but she does take a sip here and there. I ask whether there were any aspects of launching Frieze New York that surprised her. She considers her answer. “I had an epiphany afterwards as to why all the foodies were there,” she finally says. “Every food world kind of star hipster attended. When we launched in London, it was all the fashion people, and then I realized that that was because London’s really all fashion and, for the moment, the most fashionable thing here is food. So maybe we got it right if all the foodies turned up.”

Sharp is in an unusual position in the art world, because being neither a direct dealer nor artist she can sit above the fray and observe the crazy world below her. I ask for her thoughts on the commoditization of the art world. And Sharp is diplomatic when she responds that even though there are people who like to buy art

who see it as a commodity, there are younger artists and galleries that are quite immune to that. She agrees that the commoditization of art has changed the art world but says she’s still a believer that the best time for art is now. “You have to be optimistic,” she says. “I think it’s enormously optimistic for someone to get up in the morning as a writer and put pen to paper, or an artist who puts brush to canvas; and that won’t change because there are people who need to create.”

She will say, however, that the gallery structure which changed with the boom has now had a retrenchment and has had to find a sane level at which to do business. “There’s a sort of bifurcation between the haves and the have nots and that’s more tricky than simply this concept that art became a commodity and is deal-able. There will always be dealers and there will always be gallerists,” she says. “Gallerists are really the ones that can talk about the art from an emotional, insightful, intellectual perspective, and there are dealers who can build a solid argument for why things are commodities and are worth buying.”

I’m cognizant that our time is passing far too quickly and that Sharp has to dash home and help her American partner put their twin three-year-old girls to bed.

But before she flies away, I’m determined to ask what kind of art she herself collects. Sharp says she only buys for her children. Yes, I say, but does she buy it with a sense of investment?

“No, I just get them things I kind of liked in a way—happy, optimistic—which they can even enjoy as children, and grow up with, and know that that person was in some way involved in their life as well.”

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True West

Producer Tracy Aron’s Clarence True mansion on West End Avenue still has all its original lavish detail—and a dramatic back story

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ost houses on the west side are pretty cookiecutter,” says Francis Morrone, an architectural historian. “They’re standard-issue brownstones, many of them infelicitously altered over the years.

The exceptions tend to be Clarence True houses.”

True isn’t a trophy real estate brand like Rosario Candela, designer of many great Manhattan apartment houses. But at the start of his career, Candela worked for the Queens-born True and intended to follow in his footsteps. By the time the young Sicilian graduated from Columbia University’s School of Architecture in 1915 and joined True’s firm, however, “Nobody wanted row houses anymore,” says Morrone.

Though the new West Side bourgeoisie had had a brief love affair with the row house at the end of the 19th Century, a few years later, multi-family apartment building came into fashion; singlefamily houses had simply become too expensive to build and maintain.

Many were broken up into apartments and even True’s unique, artistic homes, drawn from diverse English and French Renaissance sources, were stripped of their lavish detail, their interiors turned as boring as the homes the architect had so recently rebelled against.

In 1998, Broadway producer Tracy Aron (best-known for coproducing Spring Awakening) bought 627 West End Avenue just north of 90th Street, designed by True as part of a row of seven red brick houses with limestone trim exactly a century earlier. Aron paid $2 million, and now, fifteen years later, is parting with it, and has put it on the market for $7,895,000, albeit reluctantly. “I love this house,” she says simply.

A California-born actress and dancer, Aron came to New York with Broadway dreams, but in the mid ‘80s, found herself married and a mother, living in an East 72nd Street townhouse she and her husband bought from Blondie singer Debby Harry and gut renovated, shortly after his family sold J. Aron & Co., its commodities trading firm company, to Goldman Sachs. Fifteen years later, the couple was divorcing, she says, “and I didn’t want to give up living in a house. I wanted another one.” She looked at “every house between 72nd and 96th Street, east and west,” she continues, before a realtor asked if she wanted to see something special that wasn’t yet on the market. “And I knew from the moment I walked in, this was my house,” Aron says.

Deceptively small when viewed from the street, the Renaissance revival house topped with a Flemish gable seemed to take a breath and expand the moment Aron walked through the oak and glass double doors beneath a carved keystone. More mansion than mere house, with its grand central staircase and rear servants’ stairs, 6,000 square feet of floor space on five high-ceilinged, 18–feet-wide floors, and original French doors and windows, the house was, on first glance, a real fixer-upper. It had been divided into three apartments by the previous owners, but once she began ripping out shelves and walls to restore its grandeur, Aron discovered that its original details were intact.

Plaster moldings adorned almost every ceiling and the floors were original throughout. Arches and Corinthian columns decorate that central stairwell. A bay window in the dining room features original stained glass. A second floor library is lined with mahogany bookcases and wainscotting. Eight working fireplaces (some burning gas, some wood) are all surrounded by decorative mantles and jewel-toned rectangular ceramic tiles. Because the buildings across West End

Left: The unique red brick and limestone exterior designed by Clarence True.

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Clockwise from top left: The roof deck, living room, library and grand central staircase. The floor plans, below.

Its first owner was Charles W. Morgan, a stock broker, who bought it in 1900, seven months before he was arrested for grand larceny and misappropriation of funds entrusted to him for investment.

Avenue are uniformly low-rise, the house is flooded with light through its big bow-front windows and open back garden views. All it lacks, due to its 81-foot depth, is a proper rear yard, but a huge roof terrace provides dramatic consolation.

Aron’s home passed through many hands before hers. A spec house, its first owner was Charles W. Morgan, a stock broker, who bought it in spring 1900, seven months before he was arrested for grand larceny and misappropriation of funds entrusted to him for investment. He was arrested a second time in 1901 and forced into involuntary bankruptcy. His house was auctioned off two years later and in rapid succession, passed 40 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • MAY 2013

through the hands of a Thomas F. Gilroy, possibly a former mayor of New York and Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; a member of the socially-prominent Scofield family of Connecticut; a president of U.S. Fire Insurance; the New York Herald’s Boer War correspondent; Ivan Sandrof, a newspaper writer, editor and the first president of the National Book Critics’ Circle; an English actor; and Jordan Konov, a native of Bulgaria whose wealthy familys’ property had been confiscated by the Communists after World War II. Despite that, he studied law and became a judge in Sofia, and after he was wounded escaping to Greece, made his way to New York where he became an

insurance executive and married a Mayflower descendent. Aron bought the house a few years later from Gerald Cotts, a cinematographer, and his wife Maureen Selwood, an animator, who’d broken it up and rented it out when they got divorced, Aron says.

Eyeing the retrofitted steam pipes that were added when the house was finally heated, Aron admits she couldn’t bring herself to change any of the original details—even that one. “It’s mutated over the years, but I didn’t want to do another renovation,” she says. “Obviously, whoever buys it will renovate.” She sighs. “But I hope they’ll keep everything.” ✦

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ARRIVAL For two decades Dominique Lévy has been one of the most powerful, but also most discreet, of contemporary art players. Now the Swiss-born dealer is opening a major new gallery on Madison Avenue—and redrawing the map of the New York art world.

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ominique Lévy is holding an architect’s rendering of a red brick mansion, and she’s grinning from ear to ear. “I’m just in love with this building,” she says. The Swiss art dealer, dressed casually in a blouse and trousers, is poring over the designs for her new art gallery on Madison Avenue, and her excitement is infectious.

When the gallery opens next autumn, it will be yet another milestone in the renewal of the Upper East Side’s art gallery scene. But much more than that, it will be a personal coup.

She’s a quiet powerhouse, Dominique Lévy—a woman who has passed through almost every sector of the art world, from auction houses to consulting work to curating exhibitions, and she has come out on top. In the last decade she’s established herself as one of the three or four dealers most central to what art worlders call the “secondary market”—in which paintings and sculpture trade hands, sometimes at auction and sometimes privately, for staggering amounts of money. Yet she’s also mounted some very provocative shows by living artists, and not by the usual suspects.

When David Hammons, the notoriously secretive icon of American sculpture, decided to present new art for the first time in years, he didn’t go to any Chelsea gallery. He went to Lévy, for her pedigree and her unique ability to bridge the establishment and the avant-garde.

“She’s one of my favorite dealers,” says Peter Marino, the architect famous for his redesign of Barneys New York. “Besides the good eye and the good business sense, she is very, very smart. She never says stupid things like, ‘Buy this, it’s important.’ You sit and you actually look for a long time. I even lean on her in deals in which she’s not involved—I have just a few friends in life I trust like that.”

“My vision is really the haute couture of the art business,” Lévy herself tells me as we sit in her temporary gallery/office on 80th Street. The walls are hung with Picasso drawings, and in a corner there’s an exquisite little sculpture by Germaine Richier, a pioneer in Lévy’s native Switzerland who’s only now winning the attention she deserves in America.

“I want to do small exhibitions of very high quality,” Lévy explains.

“Historical exhibitions. Beautiful catalogues. And projects with living artists.” And, though she mentions it only in passing, there’s one other thing she wants: very discreet sales of museum-caliber contemporary art—sales that already have made her one of the most powerful dealers in New York.

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“She’s one of my favorite dealers.

Besides the good eye and the good business sense, she is very, very smart.” —Peter Marino

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ominique Lévy grew up in Lausanne, in French-speaking Switzerland, but neither of her parents was Swiss.

Her father, an Egyptian immigrant, established himself as one of the very first currency traders in Europe; during summer vacations young Dominique worked with him on the trading floor. Her mother, who Lévy says was “born in an ambulance somewhere between Belgium and one of the last boats to America,” returned to Europe after World War II and took her daughter to the very first edition of Art Basel.

Though her studies bounced around from sociology to comparative literature to theater—she even spent time working as a clown—it was soon clear that art would be her vocation. She mounted her first exhibition at age 19, inviting more than a dozen artists to take over rooms in an Enlightenment-era Swiss mansion. “We were asking the guy who was running the little restaurant in the village to feed the artists, and the guy with the car company to sponsor the transport of the paintings,” she says. “And when my father saw my first exhibition, I think he understood that this was my calling. He had been skeptical, but that’s when he started really supporting me.”

The Lévys came to New York often during Dominique’s childhood and adolescence. They owned a pied-à-terre on Park Avenue—“there was this idea that, as European Jews, we’d be safe in New York.” When she landed an internship at Christie’s, under the renowned auctioneer Martha Baer, Lévy says she felt at home immediately. “I had felt fine in Europe, but New York was a place of possibilities. This was a place where you didn’t have to be the daughter of somebody. This was a place where it was okay to be a woman—a more feminist place, where Europe was still very male-oriented. And I could go to galleries every Saturday!”

But it would be another decade before she moved to America permanently. Without a visa she could only stay for a few months at a time, so back in Switzerland she worked first at Sotheby’s in Geneva, then at her own art consultancy firm. Her life changed, though, when François Pinault, the luxury-goods magnate who owns a controlling stake in Christie’s, invited her to found a new division that would revolutionize the auction houses: a department of private sales.

Before Lévy arrived, unsuccessful bidders at auction had gone home with nothing. But using the auction house’s formidable cache of information, Lévy was able to connect buyers with unsold works or art not yet on the block. Within a year, Christie’s private sales had an annual turnover of over $100 million.

“It was extraordinary, but very draining,” Lévy says now. “We were swimming against the flow, and I discovered something that I always knew but never had the courage to admit, which is that I was profoundly an entrepreneur.” She left Christie’s to set up her own gallery, but she didn’t say solo for long. In 2005, she unexpectedly joined forces with Robert Mnuchin, a banker-turned-gallerist decades older than her, to open the august L&M Arts. While the pair did mount a few ravishing shows by living artists, such as that amazing Hammons exhibition, L&M was best known for its activity on the secondary market. (Among their clients: Steven Cohen, the hedge fund billionaire who recently settled a massive insider trading investigation.) On one celebrated occasion, in 2006, the pair bought five major works on behalf of collectors at a single Sotheby’s sale, dropping $34.9 million in less than an hour.

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regulation can lead some dealers to cut corners or worse. I ask Lévy whether she has anxieties about possible new regulations, but she brushes off the concern. “I understand it in terms of auction houses, where people feel there should be more transparency. But I’m so demanding on myself that I don’t see what increased regulation could do. When you take things on consignment, the collector knows exactly what’s happening, and when we sell it, the buyer knows what’s happening.

“There is a black and white part of it,” she continues. “It is your duty to be rigid—I’m Swiss!—in your ethics, and absolutely clear and absolutely honest.”

The ascent of L&M coincided with a personal shift: Lévy and her partner, the film producer Dorothy Berwin, moved uptown from a Tribeca loft to a stunning art-bedecked home on East End Avenue. Her friend Peter Marino, who designed the building, recommended they buy one particularly choice unit; instead, they bought two, knocking them together into a soaring duplex. For Marino, Lévy was the ideal client: “She’s an aesthete. The taste is not banal, not like some of these rich housewives who want everything beige. If you want beige, go to

the beach. With Dominique we did the walls purple. And she knew exactly where the art was supposed to go: the Gilbert and George here, the Paul McCarthy there…”

Lévy and Berwin are now raising their three sons, aged 18, 10 and 3, on the Upper East Side. Recently, the biological father of their younger children moved to New York, which delights the two moms. “He’s a wonderful dad. and it makes it easier to share responsibilities: the kids are never without a parent,” she says. “It’s a luxury, having three parents—if I travel with Dorothy to Hong Kong, then he’ll move into the house and be with the children. We have an unconventional family structure, but one that makes us very happy.”

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évy’s split from Mnuchin, after seven years in business together, has been an amicable one; in fact, the two remain partners in a gallery in Los Angeles.

But Lévy’s excitement at going solo is palpable, and her move into the new gallery next autumn will mark the end of a years-long project. The address, 909 Madison Avenue, on the corner of 73rd Street, once housed the Bank of New York. And the architects of D’Apostrophe Design, best known for high-end residential commissions in Manhattan and the Hamptons, have subtly played with the gallery’s financial heritage. The staircase, for example, is encased in a metal grille that derives from a bank teller’s window. Forget the antiseptic white cube: This is a building that’s proud of its heritage, and proud to be uptown.

Lévy only ended up at 909 Madison thanks to a series of accidents. “Life is all about coincidences. I was about to sign on a smaller space on 73rd Street; I had a lease in hand. I had the whole architectural project done, and I was already designing the first exhibition; and then I realized that I was missing one room. It was just a bit too small.

And so I go back to see if I can get a little more space upstairs or downstairs. . . and I’m frustrated. And what do women do when they’re frustrated? They go shopping.

“So I’m in Rag & Bone. I’m in the changing room, and I say to the salesperson, ‘This building is extraordinary.’ And he says to me, ‘It’s a pop-up.’ I paid for my jeans, I left, I called my broker, and I said, ‘I want to know everything about this building.’”

But while it was love at first sight for Lévy, she could only move into the landmark corner building if she found someone willing to share the 9,000-square foot space. She chose an unlikely fellow tenant: Emmanuel Perrotin, the bad-boy Parisian gallerist best known for his exhibitions of Takashi Murakami and other splashy figures. At first it seemed a perplexing juxtaposition, the decidedly blue-chip Lévy and the gleefully provocative Perrotin, living under one roof like some art world Odd Couple. But the more anyone thought about it, the more sense it made. The two, after all, had collaborated in the past: Lévy mounted a ravishing exhibition of Dan Flavin neon sculptures at Perrotin’s Paris location, and she preferred to share the space with someone who complemented her program instead of competed with it.

The two are now at work on a joint exhibition of the 93-yearold French painter Pierre Soulages, and they will also co-manage a small bookshop (“a bit of a pretentious word, I think,” Lévy says) offering their galleries’ publications.

Lévy considered relocating to Chelsea and even looked at a few large warehouse-style spaces in that neighborhood, but ultimately, she says, “I didn’t feel the same. I didn’t feel it was ‘me.’” And Perrotin’s decision to join her uptown has signaled something else: the revival of the Upper East Side as perhaps the most dynamic arts neighborhood in New York. After decades in which young dealers and artists migrated downtown, the last five years have seen a boom in art activity north of 59th Street, and collectors and critics are taking notice.

Young dealers like Alex Zachary and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld (the son of former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld) have set up shop around Madison Avenue, while more established figures such as Marianne Boesky are using uptown satellite spaces for adventuresome, unexpected programming. Acquavella Galleries, in its townhouse on 72nd Street, hosted a rebellious painting exhibition this past winter, which was curated by Vito Schnabel and was as aggressive and challenging as anything seen in Chelsea. Blum and Poe, the Los Angeles heavywright, is currently on the hunt for an uptown location, while Bill Powers’ Half Gallery has relocated from a tiny space on the Lower East Side to a gem of a space on 78th Street.

Even the troubled Larry Gagosian is expanding—expect a Go-Go restaurant sometime this year.

That vitality and diversity excites Lévy, she says, and helps to explain why she’s setting up shop in the leafy environs of 10021.

“Spaces are rare and hard to find, but the Upper East Side is certainly changing,” she says. There’s definitely a new dynamic. At 73rd and Madison, I really feel as if I’m at the heart of this city. And the younger people on my team are pounding the table to have a very contemporary intervention in the space. I’m open to that.”

Whatever the fortunes of her new gallery, one thing is certain: Dominique Lévy is staying put in New York. In a rapidly expanding art world, spawning ever more fairs and biennials, there’s a temptation to say that geography doesn’t matter. Yet while Lévy cultivates an international clientele, and while she seems to be on an airplane more than the ground these days, there’s only one city for her. “I’ve been here for 15, 16 years. I feel at home in New York. And I always felt that being a New Yorker doesn’t mean not being European. The new gallery is who I am: It’s a bit of Europe and a bit of America.” ✦

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T A R

POWER LIST Manhattan’s art world is on fire with record-breaking sales, a new international art fair and huge numbers of foreign investors snapping up American artists.

AVENUE’s gone behind the scenes to discover the Manhattan art world’s biggest players.

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Marina Abramovic — The most famous performance artist in the history of art Cecilia Alemani — Curator of the High Line

Klaus Biesenbach — Director of MoMA PS1

Peter Brant — Massive patron and collector

Gavin Brown — Hip dealer with probably the best taste in town.

Thomas Campbell — Director, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Clarissa Dalrymple — Worldfamous independent curator

Lauren Cornell — An extremely popular New Museum curator, Cornell was formerly the director of Rhizome, the Museum’s institute combining artists and technology to explore the cutting edge together. Now, Cornell has partnered with the über-hip artist Ryan Trecartin and will curate the Museum’s next Triennial of youthful talent in 2015. She’s now a fixture at Lower East Side gallery openings, spotting talent for the next Triennial, but also acting as a grand connector.

If you’re a young artist, you could do worse than befriending Cornell.

Amy Cappellazzo — As chairman of post-war and contemporary private sales at Christie’s, Cappellazzo oversees the auction house side of an ever-growing arms race in which Christie’s and Sotheby’s are trying to more closely emulate galleries by simply selling works of art outright, rather than at auction. It’s going to be a tough battle, but Capellazzo has been aided slightly by last year’s acquisition of all works remaining in the Andy Warhol Foundation, which more than ever establishes Christie’s as the place to go if you want to buy or sell a Warhol. She’s also added to her team, bringing in John Good, a former director at Gagosian.

Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann — Billionaire collector couple. They’re also dealers.

Lisa Dennison — Chairman, Sotheby’s North and South America, formerly the director of the Guggenheim.

Mark Fletcher — Art advisor and dealer

Larry Gagosian — The undisputed king of art dealers

Massimiliano Gioni — As one of the New Museum’s edgiest and most visible curators, Gioni has long been the darling of the New York art scene. This summer he’ll take his vision to the world stage as curator of the Venice Biennale. This longtime collaborator of Maurizio Cattelan is sure to have something magnificent in store for the watery city.

He’s also one-half of a major New York power couple: He’s dating the High Line’s curator, Cecilia Alemani. Perhaps you saw them in Vogue?

On top: Peter Brant, Anthony Grant and Larry Gagosian Above: Yvonne Force Villareal

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Marian Goodman — Gallerist

Matthew Marks – Monumental

extraordinaire who has made her mark introducing European artists to the American market

Chelsea gallerist

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn — Owner of Salon 94, a fine gallery

Agnes Gund — MoMA founding trustee and president emerita, also a world-class collector

Michael McGinnis — Early this year, Phillips de Pury & Co. changed its name to just Phillips, following the departure of scion Simon de Pury. Now, CEO Michael McGinnis is looking to make a name for the Park Avenue

Jeff Koons — Last year, Koons became the second most expensive living artist at auction, bringing in a price just shy of Gerhard Richter’s top sale. While such results can sometimes be meaningless, for Koons they happen to coincide with a moment where his power has never been more visible. Koons still receives a large portion of any resale of his works, which is uncommon for artists, to say the least. Moreover, he’s shown he doesn’t even need exclusivity with Gagosian: he has planned a show with David Zwirner this year.

AS ONE OF THE NEW MUSEUM’S EDGIEST AND MOST VISIBLE CURATORS, GIONI HAS LONG BEEN THE DARLING OF THE NEW YORK ART SCENE.

Top: Bill Horrigan, Danh Vo and Marian Goodman Middle: Aby Rosen and Alberto Mugrabi Below: Lisa Phillips

auction house, which, despite its perennial bronze-medal position behind Sotheby’s and Christie’s, racks up millions in sales every season. Last year, Phillips was the house that saw a brand new record for Jean-Michel Basquiat, an event that led to a slight selling frenzy for the artist in later auctions.

Barbara Gladstone — Powerful dealer with astounding taste and an eponymous gallery to boot.

Marc Glimcher — President of Pace Gallery, one of the few galleries vying to be #2 to Larry Gagosian’s #1

famous art historian and critic, Goldberg has always been powerful, but she’s never been more influential than she is now. Every two years, her performance art biennial, Performa, transforms the city into a wild place where anything can happen (think: Robert Wilson operas parading around Soho, indoor hot air balloons, five-minute ballet performances), and she’s gearing up for another edition this fall. Did you not think she was the reason for the rise in popularity of performance art?

Jacob Kassay — Young artist, the Next Big Thing

Dominique Lévy — Gallerist opening Dominique Lévy gallery on Madison Avenue

Anne Pasternak — Director of Creative Time

Glenn Lowry — MoMA’s director Lisa Phillips — Director of the Christian Marclay — Possibly the world’s most popular artist

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Tobias Meyer — Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art and auctioneer

New Museum

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RoseLee Goldberg — A

Doreen Remen and Yvonne Force Villareal — Founders of the Art Production Fund

Aby Rosen — the art world’s real estate agent, and a collector Annabelle Selldorf — the art

The Nahmads (Helly, David) – Major family of art collectors and dealers

The Schnabel Family (Lola, Vito, Julian, Stella) – Lola’s an artist like her father; Vito’s an art dealer and Stella’s a filmmaker.

world’s go-to architect

Ann Temkin – Chief curator Richard Serra — Brilliant and powerful artist

of painting and sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art

Andrea Rosen – A longtime fixture of the Chelsea scene, Rosen has proven her chops recently with a major expansion of her gallery on 24th Street and the acquisition of two of the hottest artists in town, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch (though he’s only in his 20s, you may have seen him at the Met’s landmark Andy Warhol show). The two are often given prominent placement in her booths at art fairs, and for good reason. They and their crew, most often associated with DIS magazine, are pioneering the weirdest edge of the avant-garde seen since Duchamp.

Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover – Frieze Art Fair

Adam Weinberg – Director, the Whitney Museum

New York co-founders

Cindy Sherman – Artist Lisa Spellman – Director of 303 Gallery, which is making some major moves in Chelsea

The Acquavella Galleries Top right: Lauren Cornell Above: Iwan Wirth and David Zwirner Bottom left: Roland Nivelais and Tobias Meyer Bottom right: RoseLee Goldberg

(William and his children Eleanor Dejoux, Nicholas and Alexander) – Uptown Chelsea dealers. Older stuff and paintings, for the most part

The Mugrabis (Alberto, Jose,

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and David) – Major family of art collectors and dealers

Iwan Wirth and Manuela and Ursula Hauser – Though the Swiss-based Hauser & Wirth gallery is already a powerhouse in Europe, this year New York met Iwan and Manuela in a big way. They’ve just opened a new gallery on 18th Street, in the home of the old Roxy Disco—a huge space, which means they’re the proud owners of the largest gallery in Chelsea, and the city. They also recently snapped up Rashid Johnson, a major New York artist, in addition to the impressive Greenpoint-based Matthew Day Jackson. They’ll dedicate their spaces, both uptown and downtown, to a major Paul McCarthy show this spring that will coincide with an exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory.

David Zwirner – Last year, Zwirner went international with an expansion to a tony townhouse in London’s Mayfair district.

This year he’s expanded his home base in New York, with a major gallery revamp on 19th Street and a massive, brand new space on 20th Street. The new space is dedicated to the lucrative secondary market, and that means he’ll be doing historical shows that put him squarely into Larry Gagosian territory. That’s not the only way he’s moving into Gagosian territory: He’s planned shows with Gagosian artists Jeff Koons and Richard Serra this year. ✦

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Art Of Diplomacy

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Lawrence

Jo Carole Lauder’s Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies is taking the best of American creativity abroad; a project that has never been more important.

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t’s a long way from Guangzhou, China, 75 miles northwest of Hong Kong, back to Long Island City. And sitting in his studio in late March, the sculptor Joel Shapiro has the physical wear and tear to prove he’s just made the trip.

Indeed he’s hoarse, but still in sly good humor as he describes the installation of Now, his 22-foot-high piece in the courtyard of Guangzhou’s nearly completed U.S. consulate.

Made of aluminum dressed in a brilliant blue paint, the work manages the neat trick of making its surrounding buildings seem to get up and boogie a bit. The trick is so effective, it’s easy to imagine it stoking the American dreams of visa applicants visiting the consulate. Alternately, Now may lend comfort to far-from-home diplomats seeking refuge from the city of 13 million that booms away beyond the compound’s walls. It is “part of an effort to integrate art into embassies, to make them more accessible, to humanize them,” says its creator.

Somehow, the sculpture doesn’t seem like just another government job. “It’s really unfettered,” Shapiro says of the commission process that brought the piece to life. “It’s not about making a memorial or a monument. There’s no direction on its subject; no one says ‘you have to do, um . . . an eagle.’” He laughs at the thought. “That hasn’t been the case with the State Department and it certainly hasn’t been the case with FAPE.” FAPE—the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, and the driving force behind the Shapiro sculpture—isn’t an arm of the government at all. It’s an organized confluence of fund-raising prowess, curatorial excellence, diplomatic sensitivity and, finally, a simple love of country.

The foundation’s origins can be traced back to the 1969–74 residency of Leonore and Walter Annenberg at Winfield House, the American ambassador’s home in London. Troubled by the state of the property, Leonore Annenberg spent her husband’s ambassadorship redecorating and improving the residence, using private funds. When Carol Swanson Price arrived with her husband Charles Price in 1983, she continued the improvements in the same fashion. Meanwhile, Wendy Luers was also undertaking similar work at Petschek Palace, the ambassadorial residence in Prague. Together, the three women recognized a broader need to make diplomatic buildings finer, more vibrant beacons of American character and sensibility.

In 1986, they joined with Lee Kimche McGrath, a former director of the State Department’s own Art in Embassies program, to launch FAPE. A completely independent, resolutely nonpartisan effort, the organization swung immediately into restoration projects and set about collecting the best of American visual arts for use in diplomatic settings.

A quarter-century and more than $60 million in art and monetary contributions later, the group is able to make stellar donations—works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha and Josef Albers, to name a few. More than that, it can commission site-specific works, such as Sol LeWitt’s murals in Berlin and at the United Nations, or Ellsworth Kelly’s panels at the embassy in Beijing, or Shapiro’s sculpture at Guangzhou, while sidestepping some of Washington’s (in)famous complexities. “If FAPE were publicly funded,” says Shapiro, “it would be subject to elected officials questioning content and blowing their stacks about ‘cost to the taxpayer.’”

Jo Carole Lauder, who accompanied her husband Ronald on his own ambassadorial stint in Vienna in 1986–87, is FAPE’s current board chair. “I don’t actually know that there’s any comparable private organization elsewhere in the world,” she says.

“Certainly, if somebody came to us for help, we’d be delighted to share some experience.”

Of course, FAPE’s “experience” would be difficult even to approximate. Its bicoastal board includes social and art world leaders like Agnes Gund, Carol Mack, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Wendy Stark Morrissey. They’re joined by Washington fixtures like Buffy Cafritz and Ann Jordan, as well as a host of business and diplomatic sages. The board’s “honorary patrons” include former secretaries of state James Baker, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. Hillary Clinton, says Lauder, has been “a great supporter” both as First Lady, and during her service to the State Department over the last four years. “The Board is comprised of people who are hugely visual and very talented, says Lauder. “We all love the idea of first-rate American art on display around the world.”

Left: U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Sol LeWitt, “Wall Drawing #832: A red spiral line on blue”, 2010. An anonymous gift.

Above: Joel Shapiro, “Toss-up”, 2012. 2 color screenprint. 40 x 30” (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Edition of 100 + 1 AP. Gift of the artist and Gemini G.E.L. LLC to FAPE, with additional funding provided by Bank of America.

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U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Josef Albers, “Ten Variants Portfolio”, 1967. Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Earle l. Mack.

Vanity Fair special correspondent Bob Colacello, an alumnus equally of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and Andy Warhol’s Factory, is a recent addition to the FAPE board. Says Colacello, “Jo Carole has done a wonderful job of involving some of the most important collectors in the United States with some of its most interesting artists—artists from across the nation, not just New York and California.”

FAPE’s commission process is the result. “What drives it is the relationships between board members and the artists,” says Lauder. Yale School of Art Dean Robert Storr chairs FAPE’s Fine Arts Committee and is, she says, “really the key” to the board’s collaborative work on its commissions. “Rob Storr [board president], Eden Rafshoon and Jo Carole Lauder were all involved,” in the initial stages of the Guangzhou project, notes Joel Shapiro with pride. “I was interested in the input. FAPE’s board is a strong one and they definitely voice their opinions. I don’t think a project like this gets off the ground without some strong consensus among members.”

Along with all the mutual respect in the process, Storr, with curatorial luminaries like directors Glenn Lowry of MoMA and Earl “Rusty” Powell of the National U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Carrie Mae Weems, “Untitled”, 2009/10. Gift of Gallery, keeps projects gauged to the imperative the artist. of a broad celebration of a dynamic culture. “Rob Storr runs a very serious committee that looks very hard at FAPE’s choices,” says Colacello. Storr, whose stature and authority are leavened by his kindness and soft-spoken enthusiasm, is a particularly effective spokesman for FAPE’s basic vision of inclusiveness. “There is work of every possible variety, in terms of its medium,” he said recently of FAPE’s contributions, “and in every possible style.

There is no view that the organization has that favors one [style] or another. We only favor the

Joel Shapiro, “Now,” 2013, U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China.

Elie Nadelman, “Seated Woman with Raised Arm”, U.S. Ambassador’s Residence, Winfield House, in London.

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1256: Five Pointed Stars, 2008. U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany.

Maya Lin, “Analemmatic Sundial”, 2003. Turkish granite and stainless steel. U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder and Jo Carole Lauder, FAPE Chairman. FAPE exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, L.A.

good,” he continued. The only purpose of the works is for them “to be looked at, be appreciated and to be democratically accessible.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, FAPE President Eden Rafshoon, I. M. Accessibility of a somewhat different kind is an Pei and FAPE Chairman Jo Carole Lauder. 2012 Annual Events. issue that has circulated around much of the organization’s work in the last decade. By the late 1990s, FAPE had moved from simply donating art to embassies to the commissioning of what Lauder calls “thoughtful and beautiful, site-specific works that we felt could have a longer-lasting impact.” A “growing period” that was marked by a 1999 Joel Shapiro installation at Ottawa took on a greater urgency as the State Department began to gird its overseas buildings for terrorist attacks after the rise of Al Qaeda. “After 9/11, embassies and consulates were really being built as fortresses,” says Shapiro of the new era. “Obviously, you need to protect the people who work there, but the key is to also make the space more inviting and vibrant. There’s a recognition on the part of the State Department and of FAPE that we need diplomatic spaces that express a deeper sense of who we, as Americans, are.” Lauder herself simply says, “Working with the State Department makes us think a lot about what we’re doing.”

FAPE Founder and Chairman Emerita Leonore Annenberg, President Ronald As FAPE’s scholarship and fund-raising and projects Reagan, FAPE Founder and President roll on, Joel Shapiro’s piece awaits the Guangzhou Emerita Wendy Luers, and FAPE Founding consulate’s opening this fall. Now doesn’t just stand on its Director Lee Kimche McGrath. 1987 Annual Events. courtyard center stage; it positively swings and lurches and barely touches the ground. It’s an intriguing nod security measures demanded by a car-bomb world, the lyricism and from one dynamic culture to another now in the midst of explosive change. “Embassies and residences are the perfect place inspiration that great art provides is more precious than ever. “I’ve to display American art,” says Colacello. “America is often known loved this work for over 20 years now,” says Jo Carole Lauder. “The around the world for its low culture. It’s great to showcase its high artists are so creative and so intelligent and so patriotic. They’re all the culture, to give a glimpse of what’s best about America.” And with the best that America has.” ✦ MAY 2013 • AVENUE MAGAZINE | 65

Best of Luck Steven Witkoff counts his real estate business blessings

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teven Witkoff, founder and CEO of The Witkoff Group, is a lawyer-turned-developer with contagious energy. Since buying his first building in 1986, Witkoff has built up his company’s portfolio to 20 standout buildings—including the Woolworth Building, the recent West Village hot property 150 Charles Street and, coming soon to the market, 10 Madison Square West. The Bronx-born Witkoff has an undeniable zest for his work—evidenced by the attention and care he puts into each project. He surrounds himself with talented employees so he can contribute to the skyline and still have plenty of time to read (he’s learning about Buddhism right now), practice his cooking skills and most importantly, hang out with his two sons.

How did you get your start in the real estate business? I was practicing law at a large real estate firm—Dreyer & Traub. Larry Gluck, my partner at the law firm at the time, and I bought a building up in Washington Heights—164 Sherman Avenue. That was 1986; I remember it like it was yesterday, that was a very big deal—of course, we knew nothing.

What kind of building? It was a five-story walk-up, 35 units. I saved for three years from my salary while I was working. And then I had to go to my dad and borrow some money from him. He probably was supposed to say no, but he said yes. He had this Depression Era mentality, so when I came to my dad and said, “Well I’m practicing law at this prestigious firm but I want to go out and buy a building,” his personality was such that, he was supposed to say to me, “Are you crazy?

Are you nuts? You can’t do that.” I don’t know how he got himself to a place where he said yes to me.

You must have been pretty convincing. I can’t imagine that whatever I told him was compelling, I just can’t. No, I don’t think it was. I think he just wanted to show some faith in me. That’s really what it was. And then we bought the building in Washington Heights and we made money from that building, and bought another property and we were off and running.

What has been your favorite project? It’s not necessarily a particular project for me, as much as that I feel blessed that I got to have some measure of success in this business.

I think the right answer for me is that I was blessed that I’ve gotten to do almost everything that I wanted to do in the real estate business.

Do you feel like you’ve learned and built upon each project? So much. I feel there’s always something to learn in this business. I was so privileged to have done what I have and to have experienced good luck. There are just so many mistakes that people make along the way and you have to be lucky to get past those mistakes. So I’ve been lucky, I’ve been blessed, that’s how I think about it.

But I think it’s more than luck. Don’t you?

You have to believe you can do it and you have to want to be successful but then there’s luck involved. I think you have to be well prepared, and we are at my firm. I’d like to think that

we’re smart and we’re well practiced. And I have a really great partner, Scott Alper. But then it’s a lot of luck—a lot. There are so many different examples of people who missed the market by a couple of months and then there are examples of situations where you hit the market perfectly and people think you’re smarter than you really are; I understand that.

On that note, tell me about 150 Charles Street. Well, we’ve owned [the property] for about nine years. I love the West Village; my mom taught school down there at the Little Red [nursery] School House. I actually lived on Bedford Street way back when. Whenever you build something in New York City you get different people who have different perspectives of the property, but I recently saw this fabulous review that talked about how Rick Cook’s exterior architecture is contextual in the West Village—“It fits in, with wonderful landscaping and so forth and so forth.”

Why have you owned the property for nine years? At what point did you start developing it? Well, when we first bought the property, it was a warehouse and so we had to plan it. And the plan on a project of this magnitude is for at least a couple of years. So we bought it in 2004, we planned it relatively quickly and we were getting all ready to go into the ground and build it when the financial crisis hit. So like all the other real estate projects out there it lost its construction financing. And we hunkered down and continued to support the project and waited for there to be a better day, and thankfully that better day came.

So you were really lucky that you hadn’t gone into the ground yet? Yes, and that’s a perfect example of the luck factor that I talk about.

But it’s also smart to have waited. Yes. But I really do think luck is a huge part of it. One of the benefits that came out of the financial crisis and hunkering down was that we got to be really, really thoughtful about everything we wanted to do in that project. We were able to add Alan Wanzenberg to the design team and he’s incredible, I mean his sense of interior layouts is timeless. I think our layouts are incredible, by the way.

How come? They’re large, spacious and loftlike. The view corridors are incredible in this building; you get city views, you get southern

views, you get northern views and incredible vistas of the water and the sunset. Even the apartments that sit on the courtyard look into the 5,300 square-foot garden. So that’s really unique, and the architect, Rick Cook, was very much about that—capturing all those view corridors. We anticipated that people might want even larger apartments than we’re delivering, so we planned for combinations— for duplexes or for side-to-side combinations.

We’re also proud of what we did with the amenity space—15,000 sq. feet on one floor, with a large pool and a very, very large gym.

And how is it selling? Oh, incredibly well.

What percent? At this interview, five weeks in, and we’re 75 percent sold.

Being downtown, did you have to go make any changes following the hurricane? I was here during Sandy. We were actually pumping our site, and we were concerned. So we shut down our offering plan process for three weeks and went back to planning. Now our property has two gas-fired generators at the top of the building; they’re quiet and almost invisible. We’re doing poured-in-place concrete in the basement to protect all of the life safety systems with submarine doors.

And finally we’re putting up a barricade system that can be staged within an hour and will protect against water surge. And then of course our property is slanted going east, so that’s a natural barrier. Everything that we did is going to prevent [damage and outages] from a storm the level of a Sandy. Let’s hope we never see another one.

What is the biggest challenge of developing in New York? There’s such great architecture here, so the greatest challenge is to do a good project. It’s important to me to do a good project—something that I can be proud of later on and that people will say, “Wow that was additive; that complimented the neighborhood.”

What is your favorite part of developing real estate? I think seeing a building go up, and it’s working with and being involved in the process of it. Engaging with the community, talking with community groups; working with New York City, with city planning; working with architects; incredible sales teams. You really meet incredible people. I’ve had the great privilege of doing that—when I was younger I wanted to make money because I didn’t come from that kind of background, and now I don’t know, there’s just more to it. ✦ MAY 2013 • AVENUE MAGAZINE | 67

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No one knows New York City’s history better than those at the top of the real estate game. The movers and shakers here are the guardians to the city’s most coveted addresses. Where better to showcase them than at two treasured New York properties? Philip Colleck, Ltd., an antiques dealer, is located in one of the last pre-Civil War freestanding houses, and Hirschl & Adler Galleries is situated in the renowned Crown Building.

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“In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.”

—Edna Ferber

HALSTEAD PROPERTY Diane M. Ramirez, President Eloise Johnson, Broker and Executive Vice President, Park Avenue office Christopher Halstead, Agent and Executive Vice President, Park Avenue office Laurie Silverman, Broker and Executive Vice President, SoHo office Louise Phillips Forbes, Broker and Executive Vice President, Park Avenue office Jim Gricar, General Sales Manager

At Hirschl & Adler Galleries, this group is seated on a Neo-Classical Sofa with Eagle Feet and Eagle Crest Rail attributed to Isaac Vose & Son and made in Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1819—20, as well as on a Pair of Curule Benches made in New York c. 1830—35. Behind the group is Ralph Earl’s Portrait of a Young Boy, c. 1785—90, and an American Pair Girandole Mirrors with Eagles and Candlearms, c. 1810.

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“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village.

It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” —John Lennon BROWN HARRIS STEVENS Karesse Grenier, Senior Vice President and Director Maria Torresy, Senior Vice President and Managing Director Paula Del Nunzio, Senior Vice President and Managing Director Kyle Blackmon, Senior Vice President and Managing Director David Kornmeier, Senior Vice President and Managing Director

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This group stands in front of Hiram Powers’ Faith, Hope and Charity, c. 1866—67, at Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Ellie Johnson, Senior Vice President and Brokerage Manager Kathryn Korte, President and Chief Executive Officer Diane Levine, Senior Vice President and Brokerage Manager

Inside Philip Colleck, Ltd., Johnson and Levine sit on a Pair of Blue And White Porcelain Garden Seats from the 19th Century and in front of a 17th Century Four Panel Chinoiserie Painted Leather Screen, c. 1690.

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Pictured at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, in front of Samuel Burtis Baker’s The Black Mantilla, c. 1920, and a French Pair of Argand Wall Lamps, c. 1820–25. The Dolphin Sofa was made in New York, c. 1820.

“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”

—Edward Rutherfurd

STRIBLING & ASSOCIATES Charles Russell, Executive Vice President and Director of Marketing and New Business Development Catherine Witherwax, Executive Vice President and Director of Sales, Brooklyn office Kirk Henckels, Vice Chairman and Director of Stribling Private Brokerage

At Hirschl & Adler Galleries, this group is pictured in front of Flowers in an “Old Paris” Vase by Laura Coombs Hills as well as One of a Pair of Neo-Classical Pier Tables attributed to Emmons and Archbald, made in Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1818—22. On the table sits a French Pair of Blue Tole Sinumbra Lamps, c. 1820, and One of a Pair of Clear Glass Medici-Form Vases attributed to Baccarat Glass Works, made in Baccarat, France, c. 1820—30.

Also shown is One of The Stephen Van Rensselaer IV Set of Sixteen Dining Chairs en Gondole by Duncan Phyfe in New York, 1835.

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TOWN RESIDENTIAL Wendy Maitland, Managing Director of Sales Andrew Heiberger, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nicole Oge, Senior Vice President of Marketing Matthew Van Damm, Director of Operations Reid Price, Managing Director of New Development Inside Hirschl & Adler Galleries, this group stands in front of an Ebonized Cabinet with Gilded and Painted Cove by Herter Brothers in New York, c. 1878—80, alongside a Three Piece Clock Set in the Aesthetic Taste made in France with Porcelain plaques by P. Thevenot and works made in Paris

by Samuel Marti et Cie, c. 1870—80. To the left is George Cochran Lambdin’s Vase of Flowers, c. 1870—80. A French Three-Light Argand Chandelier, c. 1820, is pictured above. Members of the group are seated in Two of The Stephen Van Rensselaer IV Set of Sixteen Dining Chairs en Gondole made by Duncan Phyfe in New York, c. 1835.

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SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Nikki Field, Senior Vice President and Associate Broker

Field stands before A Rare Queen Anne Burl Walnut Secretaire Bookcase made For Walton Hall in Derbyshire in 1705 and holds an Ormolu and Blue John Cassolette made by Matthew Boulton, c. 1780, at Philip Colleck, Ltd.

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CITI HABITATS Peter j. Sobeck, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Gary L. Malin, President Beatriz Vidal, Senior Managing Director Concetta Raz, Senior Managing Director Luciane Serifovic, Senior Managing Director

At Philip Colleck, Ltd., this group enjoys a glass of wine in front of a spectacular Irish Regency Wine Board by the Dublin firm of Mack, Williams and Gibton, c. 1815, and a Sheraton Painted Window Bench.

“New York is the only real city-city.”

—Truman Capote

THE CORCORAN GROUP Deborah Grubman, Senior Vice President Deborah Rieders, Senior Vice President Pamela Liebman, President and Chief Executive Officer Leighton Candler, Senior Vice President Wendy Sarasohn, Senior Vice President Carrie Chiang, Senior Vice President

This group sits at a Hepplewhite Oval Breakfast Table below a Mid-18th Century Cut Crystal Chandelier and in front of a George III Mahogany Breakfront, c. 1780. Photographed at Philip Colleck, Ltd.

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“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”

—Fran Lebowitz

Shown at Philip Colleck, Ltd., to the left is a Chippendale Period Japanned Chinoiserie Cabinet on Stand, c. 1755. Beneath an English Regency Crystal Chandelier, c. 1810, is an Oil on Canvas Still Life by Edward Barnard Lintott, c. 1930. To the right hangs a George II Parcel Gilt Mahogany Mirror, c. 1750.

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CORCORAN SUNSHINE James Lansill, Senior Managing Director Tricia Hayes Cole, Executive Managing Director Elaine Diratz, Managing Director Beth Fisher, Senior Managing Director Kelly Kennedy Mack, President Justin D’Adamo, Managing Director

THE VILLANI GROUP Terry Villani, Owner

Villani sits on an Armchair with Scrolled Arms attributed to Duncan Phyfe, New York, c. 1825, in front of George Wesley Bellows’ Portrait of Elizabeth Alexander, 1924, at Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

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WARBURG REALTY Richard Steinberg, Executive Managing Director and Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker Frederick Peters, President Leslie Modell, Managing Director and Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker Deborah Lupard, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Photographed at Philip Colleck, Ltd., this group is in front of a Mid-18th Century Five Panel Leather Screen Painted In Oils With Chinoiserie Figures At Various Pursuits signed by the artist “Gilps.”

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

—Pearl S. Buck

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STEPHEN P. WALD REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATES, INC. Stephen Wald, Chief Executive Officer

Also pictured at Philip Colleck, Ltd., Wald sits on a George I Walnut Shepherd’s Crook Armchair, c. 1725, with a 19th century Oval Irish Mirror with Crystal Jewels to the Rear.

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Behind every beautiful space—be it home, office, retail store or restaurant—are interior designers and architects who have meticulously perfected every detail.

Here we meet some of the talented professionals who, with great skill and style, create exquisite designs.

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DISTINGUISHED Designers

Kristen McGinnis Kristen McGinnis Design

WHAT IS YOUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY? By fusing 20th Century art and design with thoughtfully chosen antiques, the interiors I design are curated to cultivate livability.

I love sharing my knowledge with my clients to craft highly individualized interiors that are timeless and elegant.

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? WHAT UNIQUE EXPERIENCE/PERSPECTIVE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? My work is about creating dialogue between everything in a space.

The eclecticism of my design makes everything stand out, each element complementing everything else. Others may focus on a period or specific medium or style: I focus on the experience a space creates.

KRISTEN MCGINNIS DESIGN 41 Union Square West Suite 809 New York, NY 10003 O: 212.488.6820 F: 212.488.6822 info@kristenmcginnis.com www.kristenmcginnis.com

WHAT KEY ELEMENTS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE A PROJECT A REAL STANDOUT? The rooms, the people that inhabit them, the things they collect.

Each project I’ve crafted stands on its own. I love the challenge and the shared creativity. The reward comes in finding a way to integrate each element so that when everything comes together, the collage breathes a life of its own, manifesting itself differently with the passing of each day.

IF YOU WEREN’T AN INTERIOR DESIGNER, IN WHAT OTHER PROFESSION COULD YOU SEE YOURSELF . . . AND WHY? I adore jewelry and find that it is such an opportunity to make a statement! Pieces designed by artists speak to my fine arts background, with my personal collection inspiring me on a daily basis.

It’s like art for the body, allowing for such expression and challenge.

I could happily wake up one morning as a jewelry designer.

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LINDA BELL HALL

WHAT IS YOUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY? All of my projects follow four guiding design principles: scale, light, color and contrast.

With scale, it’s important to have both a human scale and a monumental scale in every project. As an example, a chair rail that is placed at waist height, to relate to the human scale, balances a large formal monumental transom window high above the floor.

With light, maximizing natural light in a project is a high priority. As natural light is inconsistent throughout the day, I follow

nature and introduce various levels and sources of lighting.

For color, every room should contain the full spectrum of color in order for the room to feel right. A room can be predominantly white, but I balance that by adding a little red and blue, either by means of a vase of flowers or a piece of artwork.

With contrast, black-and-white photographs are successful only if you have black in them and white in them. If the photograph is entirely gray, then it’s ineffective. Contrast creates interest . . . a mix of smooth and textured surfaces, a transition from a daylight-flooded living room to a dusky library, the play of a double-height entry gallery against a small inglenook by the fireplace or a burst of color in the chair fabric of a stately dining room are all examples of contrast.

WHAT IS THE MOST SATISFYING PART OF YOUR JOB? I love it when at the end of a project we look

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back at the “before” photos and have one of those “Wow, what a difference!” realizations.

WHERE DO YOU FIND INSPIRATION FOR YOUR DESIGNS? I gain inspiration by immersing myself in art, music and literature; in enjoying a fine meal; and from my travels—in essence, anything that engages all five senses.

A motivated and enthusiastic client particularly inspires me. Having a strong collaboration with my clients is what really makes a project hum.

DURSTON SAYLOR

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? I take great pride in listening to my clients, soliciting from them what they want, interpreting their aspirations, honing in and improving upon those desires and creating something uniquely personal and special. My expertise in eco-friendly design creates safer and healthier environments for projects.

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DISTINGUISHED Designers

Lien Luu Lien Luu, Ltd.

WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WANTED TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER? I have been a designer my whole life. I have always been fascinated with beautiful objects. When I was a small child, my mother used to make all my dresses and I insisted on picking the fabric—drawn by the feel of the fabric as well as the color and pattern.

WHERE DO YOU FIND INSPIRATION FOR YOUR DESIGNS AND THE MATERIALS YOU USE? My inspiration for the visual direction of a project typically starts with developing the color scheme. Working on color schemes is my favorite part of the design process and everything else stems from there. Inspiration can come from anything—a leaf that turned yellow-red or a twiggy branch that has a beautiful sculptural form.

WHAT’S THE MOST EXCITING PART OF YOUR JOB? WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING EVERY DAY? The endless possibilities—there is always a new challenge which requires creative solutions. I wake up in the morning excited by what is to come. Each new challenge allows me to learn and grow. I am privileged to be working with the highest-level tradesmen and craftspeople that provide me with the right information and tools to successfully develop a solution to the most perplexing problems.

DO YOU HAVE A SIGNATURE STYLE OR A COMMON THREAD THAT’S PRESENT IN ALL YOUR PROJECTS? All of my projects are different; there is no set style.

It’s the clients’ wish that sets the stylistic direction for a project. I will work with them and combine my sense of style with their unique vision. I tend to favor a modern classic approach—with the emphasis on subtlety, grace and calmness, which always comes through in my work. I often blend periods to produce an end result that represents my vision with a uniqueness brought about by the collaboration between myself and the client.

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LIVE ON THE PARK / CENTRAL PARK NORTH Excl. Mint condo w.direct Central Park views. Stunning 1,914SF, 3BR/3BA w/80SF glass balcony, dramatic LR, gourmet kitchen, sunny SWE exposures and breathtaking views. $2.995M. Web#3880991 Jill Sloane, EVP 212.381.2206

SUPERB PW 6 / 70S CPW Excl. Gut renov 2BR+md’s, wndw chef’s kit. Museum & park views. $3.295M. Web#3205028 Eloise Johnson, EVP 212.381.3224

ICONIC VIEWS / UES/5TH AVE Excl. Stunning 4BR, 4.5BA, FDR, chef’s kitchen. Condo rules. $12.5M. Web#3712415 Laurie Silverman, EVP 212.381.4262

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FOREVER VIEWS – SEXY PENTHOUSE / 90S WEST Excl. Coveted Ariel 4 bedroom. Triple mint 4,000SF duplex, 360 degree views, oversized chef’s kitchen, 3.5 baths, fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows, terrace. $12.5M. Web#3637718 Amelia Gewirtz, EVP 212.381.2219 / Andrew Phillips, EVP 212.381.2227

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BHS Townhouse Broker of the Year in 2012 and 2008, Paula Del Nunzio has specialized in townhouses, penthouses and “townhouse equivalent” spaces for the past 20 years. Since just 2006, Paula has closed over $871 million in only 55 townhouse sales, and achieved an average of 94% of the last asking price.

No other New York broker has this track record.

• Paula holds the top three record sales of 25 foot wide townhouses: 973 Fifth Avenue at $42M, 18 East 80th Street at $37.5M, and 8 East 62nd Street at $35M • No one else has sold 55 townhouses since 2006, for a total value of over $871 million.

• Paula has achieved 94% of the listing price in her last 55 townhouse sales.

• Paula holds the record for the highest price paid for a townhouse at $53 million, The Harkness Mansion at 4 East 75th Street.

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4 East 75th Street Sold: $53,000,000 50 feet wide, 20,000sf

14-16 East 67th Street Sold: $49,000,000 48 feet wide, 22,000sf

1009 Fifth Avenue Sold: $44,000,000 27 feet wide, 19,350sf

• Paula has represented the seller in seven of the eight highest residential townhouse sales in the history of New York.

• Paula has closed 22 townhouses measuring 25 feet or wider.

• In her 20 years as a townhouse specialist, Paula has sold 95 townhouses.

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TriBeCa. Huge duplex condo loft, mint condition, one-of-a-kind, custom crafted, 4-5BR, terraces, private rooftop pool, warm, elegant, special. $24M. WEB# 3566972.

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East 70s/Madison Avenue. Dramatic renovation of a 7,350SF townhouse on prime Upper East Side block. 6 floors, staff suite, elevator, 20foot ceilings in livng room. 5+BR and major outdoor spaces. $21M. WEB# 3824199.

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West 92nd Street. 5-story single family Georgian Revival mansion. 7,800SF, 30’x52’ entertaining floor, 5BR, elevator, penthouse gym, wine cellar, roof terrace with views. $12.5M. WEB# 3708119 Wolf Jakubowski 212-588-5630

UES. Sun-flooded PW high flr 10 into 9 room Co-op, 13 huge wndws facing South onto 72nd St, 3BR, 4.5 baths, LR w/wbfp, FDR, lib/BR, EIK, study & md’s rm. $8.85M. WEB# 3898875.

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Off Fifth. Approx 2,930SF, 3.5 marble baths, SE expos, good orig cond. White-glove bldg w/ huge gym, sauna, conf rm, free storage bin, roof terrace. W/D & pets ok. $4.2M. WEB# 3769806.

Corinne Vitale 212-906-9249 Linda De Luca 212-906-9208

FiDi. Mint condition 1BR penthouse with 1,100SF terrace. 11-foot ceilings, fireplace, washer/dryer, psacious and bright, stunning city views. $2.395M. WEB# 3342365.

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House of Treasures Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, Philip Colleck, Ltd. is a storied business with an equally special inventory

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n East 58th street, off Second Avenue, lies one of the last Beyond their shared love for all kinds of paintings and art, freestanding brick houses remaining within New York’s conparticularly that of the Italian Renaissance, the couple shares a crete jungle. Inside, Mark and Diana Jacoby run a vibrant passion for the building that houses their family business. Designated antique business with a rich history that dates back to a New York City Landmark in 1967, it is one of the earliest landmarked 1938. Both art historians with experience working at auction houses, structures in Manhattan. The previous owner, Charles Jones, a they met in 1980 while working for Philip Colleck, Ltd. They’ve run the professor of composition at Julliard, had the building landmarked company, an antique dealer specializing in fine 18th and 19th Century and after convincing his next-door neighbors to do the same thing, English furniture and decorative arts, as a family business since 1987.

Mark says, “ultimately saved these two structures from demolition.”

Mark and Diana take pride in their inventory and are always searching for pieces of exceptional quality. “We’ve always considered ourselves purists . . . we look for special items that aren’t just antique but have great inherent character and design,” says Diana. The Jacobys pay close attention to fine color and patina, the kind acquired after centuries of use. And while the company does provide professional-quality restoration services, they often champion works that do not require it. “We tend not to have to restore our furniture very much because it’s always been well-cared for, and those are the types of pieces we look for,” Diana explains.

In addition, Philip Colleck, Ltd. offers a broad range of services, from professional appraisals of antique pieces to the creation of fine upholstered custom furniture. Their master craftsmen can repair the finest antique furniture and custom make pieces as well.

Inside their pre-Civil War townhouse, the Jacobys often mix and match high-quality Mark and Diana Jacoby pieces from different eras. Diana, an interior designer, recently upholstered a rare PHILIP COLLECK, LTD. William & Mary tall back bannister carved The Jacobys purchased the house in 2000 and after some 311 East 58th Street and ebonized open armchair (c. 1690) with scrupulous restorations and renovations to the interior New York, NY 10022 modern Canovas fabric. She placed an Art and the garden, moved their shop into its three floors.

212.486.7600 Deco silver-plated floor lamp nearby and Philip Colleck, Ltd. was founded in New York by an www.philipcolleck.com explains that because it’s from 1920, it’s a Englishman, the late Philip Colleck. Originally located century out of their specialty: “But it’s very on 57th Street for over 30 years, the company moved to chic, and I think it will appeal to our clients’ sensibility.”

12th Street and Broadway in 1983, but has now returned to the The Jacobys further never forget a piece they’ve handled and neighborhood in which it was born. Open Monday — Friday from 10 am oftentimes have reacquired a work that they previously sold. “We had — 5 pm or by appointment, the shop is open to the public and interior a beautiful, gold-lacquered, eight panel Chinese screen, which we first decorators alike. Mark and Diana enjoy using the house and garden purchased in 1980, and we got it back twice more,” Mark says. They for various events such as receptions for American Friends of the are very particular about the pieces they choose to buy and employ Georgian Group, the Decorators Club, the City Gardens Club and for a careful editing process reflected in the beauty of the shop. Pointing their annual Chinoiserie exhibit. This year Philip Colleck, Ltd. will at one of the three Pembroke tables in their posession, Mark explains, publish a catalogue commemorating its 75th anniversary and will “We’ve seen many hundreds of them, but we’ve probably only bought have a booth at the AVENUE Antiques, Art & Design Show at the Park 50 in the last 30 years.”

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Thus, the emphasis is not on price, but on finding and placing an incredible work of art with a wonderful steward. “We will always share everything we know about a work. If they love the work of art and they want an honest opinion, they’ll get it from us,” Elizabeth says, describing a philosophy that has given the gallery “a squeaky clean record” over its 62 years.

An added bonus is the gallery’s ability to assess and disperse collections for private and institutional clients at an advantageous rate. “Auction houses just raised their fees; we don’t raise ours,” Stuart says. “Also, through the years we have done some very important selling for museums, universities, private clubs, libraries and so on.”

A public gallery space, Hirschl & Adler curates eight to ten exhibitions a year. The works are almost always for sale, and the gallery borrows related works from private collections and museums to tell their full story if needed. In addition, Hirschl & Adler shows at high-level art shows, including the Winter Antiques Show and Art Basel Miami. Says Stuart proudly: “We know the good, the better and the best, and discuss the virtues of collecting at the highest level.” ✦

Hirschl & Adler specializes in American and European paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculptures from the 18th Century through the present; American prints of all periods; and American decorative arts from 1810–1910.

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he inner workings of a large gallery are often pretty mysterious to people and they don’t need to be,” says Elizabeth Feld, managing director of Hirschl & Adler Galleries. The gallery’s setting, the historic Crown Building in the heart of Manhattan, is itself unusual; there are not many such all-encompassing galleries left in the city.

Nor do most galleries have such an impressive history. Though established in 1952 (by Norman S. Hirschl and Abraham M. Adler), the company’s operating procedures are attributed to Elizabeth’s father, Stuart P. Feld, a former curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stuart joined the company 45 years ago and has presided as president and director since 1982.

Stuart’s background has helped raise the professionalism the gallery extends to clients. Whether they be private collectors, museums or art dealers, they receive what the Felds call “the royal treatment.” “When somebody buys something from us—whether it is $500 or $5 million—the amount of [gallery-based] research and information that comes with it is unique,” says Stuart, who also advises on art purchases outside the gallery. “They come to us because they respect the depth of our opinion and what a gallery with this kind of history can bring to the table,” he says.

He and Elizabeth single out their staff, whose members have advanced training and PhDs in the fine and decorative arts. For any artwork handled, extensive information is gathered, covering condition reports and provenance. “We’re very serious but we also have a lot of excitement about what we do,” Elizabeth says. “We are, for a short period of time, the custodians for this work of art, whatever it is, so we treat it with great respect.”

The company handles the best works possible—and is always in pursuit of a masterpiece. “One of the things my father said when I started here was that we always want to focus on the best works of art possible. It’s not about who did it, but: ‘Is it a fabulous work of art that we would be happy to keep?’”

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Dear AVENUE, Amalia Dayan guides us through Tel Aviv

Amalia Dayan is a partner in the gallery Luxembourg & Dayan—an Upper East Side townhouse gallery known for presenting high-profile, thought-provoking shows. Born and raised in Israel, Dayan has deep roots there. Lucky for us, she has mapped out her favorite places and activities in her home city—so we can all experience Tel Aviv like a pro.

There’s no place like home My favorite destination in the world is Tel Aviv—where I was born and raised and where I lived until I moved to New York in 1997.

Houses of style There are two small boutique hotels where I love staying: Hotel Montefiore and Alma Hotel, both of which are off the lively and handsome Rothschild Boulevard. Hotel Montefiore has a great restaurant and bar, very personal service and sweet, small rooms.

It feels like home. Alma just opened a few months ago. It has a fun bar; glamorous, funky rooms and a cozy outdoor area where you can read your newspaper and have your morning coffee in the sun.

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True retreat When I am in Tel Aviv I see only close friends and family.

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First I would recommend avoiding the heat of the summer; Tel Aviv is not a place to travel to during June, July or August.

A fun-filled day in Tel Aviv should include an early stroll on the beach and a swim before it gets too warm; a real Israeli delicious breakfast at the Montefiore; a visit to the Tel Aviv Museum, with its new building designed by Preston Scott Cohen; a visit to the flea market in Jaffa and then a hummus lunch close by at Abu Hasan. Take an afternoon tour of the small stores in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood, and then dinner at Eyal Shani’s restaurant, Abraxas Tzafon, the best food in town!

Locally crafted My favorite item from Israel is a gold-beaded necklace given to me by my grandmother. It was made by the Bedouin women, who live in the Israeli desert.

Enlightening conversations The most inspiring thing about traveling is human interaction; conversations with people always inspire me and give me new ideas, whether they take place in New York or Tel Aviv.

Must pack . . .

My iPad, on which I can have a long face-to-face chat with my daughters before they go to bed, no matter where I am. ✦ 108 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • MAY 2013

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The Spring Social Swim Toasting Billion Dollar Babies, Designers, Muses, Music and Orchids MARC JACOBS DOES DIET COKE Asked about his provocative new campaign for Diet Coke, Marc Jacobs recently confessed, “I think sex and glamour sells just about everything.” The hard-bodied designer then peeled off his clothes for a series of photographs alongside his current muse, Latvian supermodel Ginta Lapina, whose recent appearance on the covers of both Vogue Mexico and Harper’s Bazaar Spain caused a sensation.

The magnetic duo grace the collectible cans and a series of limited edition prints. “We wanted the images to be colorful and fun,” revealed Jacobs. Ginta and Marc unveiled the “Sparkling Together” promotion with a festive fête in London. Jacobs admitted, “I think it’s hysterical; people want me to take my shirt off. I turned 50 in April, so I guess I should be happy.” releasd.com/DC30 TONY INGRAO’S BILLION DOLLAR BABY Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, interior designers to the rich and richer, have done the homes of everyone from Jack Welch to Kim Cattrall, and Howard Stern to Donny Deutsch.

Most recently, they’ve outdone themselves, creating the interiors for the Baccarat Hotel & Residences, their first full-scale development project.

The billion dollar tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is located across the street from the Museum of Modern Art. Ingrao previewed a luxurious and innovative model apartment at 680 Fifth Avenue for the cognoscenti.

“Not all our clients are billionaires; the other half are just normal millionaires,” Ingrao said with a laugh. The design duo’s magical interiors include finishes that combine natural elements with contemporary concepts, including a custom bronze work crackled with crystal that will astonish you. This glamorous extravagance comes with a price tag of up to $60 million plus the furnishings and art. N’est-ce pas? ingraoinc.com

Simonds. Among those getting their tea leaves read were Amanda Hearst, Billy Norwich, Susanna Mitchell, Laura Kornhauser, Diana Petroff, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Scott Buccheit and Tamie Peters.

ALEC BALDWIN LOVES GUILD HALL Nathan Lane quipped, “I live behind the theater in Southampton, where I hear the deafening thud of people not going to my movies,” as he accepted Guild Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Also honored were John Alexander, Walter Isaacson and Mickey Straus, who received an Award for Philanthropic Endeavors from Alec Baldwin. Ruth Appelhof, the popular director of this Hamptons arts institution, also announced that an endowment of over $1 million had been created in Straus’ name. Leading the applause at the Plaza were Caroline Kennedy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Ross Bleckner, Blythe Danner, Dan Aykroyd, Ken Auletta, Cassandra Seidenfeld, Lorne Michaels, Eric Fischl, April Gornik and others of that ilk and stripe. guildhall.org

“NOT ALL OUR CLIENTS ARE BILLIONAIRES; THE OTHER HALF ARE JUST NORMAL MILLIONAIRES,” INTERIOR DESIGNER TONY INGRAO SAID WITH A LAUGH.

GILLIAN HEARST SIMONDS’ STORK SOIREE Lydia Hearst organized a fun baby shower for her sister Gillian Hearst Simonds at Alice’s Tea Cup. Their mother, Patricia Hearst Shaw, and Kimberly Rockefeller joined the lively group, who were given baby outfits to decorate. Kimberly wrote “Citizen Kute” on a onesie, a reference to Gillian’s great-grandfather William Randolph Hearst, who was the inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane.

Lydia, who just wrapped the horror movie Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, created a demon baby bib with a spider and web; another wrote “Fly Private.” It’s the only way, really. Gillian’s husband, attorney Christian Simonds, confided that they are having a girl, and the mother-to-be said they would call her Harper Randolph 110 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • MAY 2013

BARON ALEXIS DE REDÉS’ LE BAL ORIENTAL Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Martins and Julia and David Koch led the city’s balletomanes to the School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball. SAB is the academy of the New York City Ballet and was established in 1934 by George Balanchine. The whimsical décor, sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, was inspired by the late Baron Alexis de Redé’s Le Bal Oriental, held in Paris in 1969. Among the best dressed was Angelina Leis in a midnight blue va-va-voom gown by Zang Toi that looked like it might require dance classes to walk in. Cheering for 18-year-old chorographer Silas Farley’s pièce d’occasion were Carolina Herrera, Fe Fendi, Jenny and John Paulson, Kelly Rutherford and Laura and Will Zeckendorf. sab.org NYC’S GARDEN OF EDEN The New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Dinner is one of New York’s top ten most beautiful galas. The night’s theme was “Exotic Inspirations” and featured breathtaking tabletops by 26 designers who took the idea and ran with it, weaving in influences from Machu Picchu to Timbuktu. Standouts included Roric Tobin for Geoffrey Bradfield, Robert Couturier and Vincent Wolf.

During cocktails, guests purchased rare orchids while listening to advice from leading horticulturalists. Sigourney Weaver, who sits on NYBG’s board proclaimed, “It’s a national treasure.” BNY Mellon and Tiffany’s were among the underwriters. nybg.org ✦

Sharon Ray, vice president of Gilbert Albert, and Muna Rihani Al-Nasser, chair, UN Women for Peace @ a reception to celebrate their collaboration @ the Gilbert Albert Boutique

Jean Shafiroff and Alex Donner @ Jean’s St. Patrick’s Day Party Nicole Hanley Mellon and Matthew Mellon @ Tom Ford Cocktail Party

Michelle Marie and Hudson Heinemann at Hyacinth Heinemann’s second birthday @ Doubles

Patricia Hearst Shaw and Kimberly Rockefeller @ Gillian Hearst Simonds’ Baby Shower

Michele Gerber Klein and Chiu-Ti Jansen @ Jean Shafiroff’s St. Patrick’s Day Party

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin @ Guild Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Awards

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Angelina Leis @ the SAB Gala

Janna Bullock, Dana Stubgen and Dr. Patrick Stubgen @ the SAB Gala

Alexandra Lebenthal, Richard Mishaan and Gillian Miniter @ the New York Botanical Garden Orchid Dinner

Interior designer Tony Ingrao, Mimi Sternlicht and Randy Kemper @ Baccarat Hotel & Residences Preview

Jennie Norberg, Daria Strokous and supermodel Ginta Lapina @ the Dream Hotel Christian Simonds and Gillian Hearst Simonds @ their baby shower

the world according to . . .

ANDREW BOLTON AVENUE’s back-page column asks New York notables our version of the questionnaire made famous by Marcel Proust

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chiaparelli and Prada (2012), Savage Beauty (2011), Chanel (2005) and AngloMania (2004) are just a few of the historic fashion exhibitions Andrew Bolton has helped produce at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Appointed curator of the museum’s Costume Institute in 2006, the British academic and fashion aficionado has been taking Manhattan’s art scene by storm. He was the sole curator for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, which drew over 650,000 visitors, making it the most visited Costume Institute special exhibition ever, and one of the Met’s top ten most visited shows. Up next is PUNK: Chaos to Couture, on view May 9—August 14. Here, Bolton opens up about whom he admires most and why he wouldn’t change a thing about New York.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF NEW YORK CITY? Central Park.

WHO IS THE FUNNIEST NEW YORKER YOU KNOW? Peter McGough [contemporary artist].

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE/LEAST FAVORITE NEW YORK CLICHÉ?

I think it’s the same for both . . . “rude New Yorkers.”

WHEN DID YOU FIRST FEEL LIKE A NEW YORKER? I still feel like an Englishman in New York.

WHAT PART OF THE NEW YORK LIFESTYLE CAN’T YOU LIVE WITHOUT? Cocktails at The Carlyle.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WATERING HOLE FOR LUNCH? My desk.

FOR DINNER? Waverly Inn. WHAT NEWSPAPER COLUMN DO YOU READ FIRST THING IN THE MORNING? I’m afraid I don’t, but I should.

WHAT WAS/IS YOUR FAVORITE NEW YORK ART EXHIBITION, PAST OR PRESENT? Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle at the Guggenheim.

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WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE NEW YORKER, PAST OR PRESENT? Andy Warhol.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE DINNER PARTNER? My partner [fashion designer Thom Browne].

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WHAT’S YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING NEW YORK MOMENT? Being mistaken for a waiter

by Jennifer Connelly at the first Costume Institute Gala I attended.

WHAT’S THE ONE THING YOU WOULD CHANGE ABOUT NEW YORK? Nothing.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NEW YORK LOGO? New York Yankees.

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO GET AROUND NEW YORK, AND WHY? Bicycle, because you feel so connected to the city.

WHAT’S THE HARDEST PART ABOUT LIVING IN NEW YORK? The size of the apartments.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE NEW YORK SOUND? The Ramones.

WHOM DO YOU MOST ADMIRE? Harold Koda [curator in charge of The Costume Institute].

WHO IS THE SMARTEST NEW YORKER YOU KNOW? Andrew Solomon [NYT writer and author of Far From the Tree].

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? An old man with happy memories. ✦

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