AVENUE November|December 2017 by AVENUE Magazine

the art| design issue

NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

MAN IN BLACK

David Rockwell is everywhere

PLUS:

Andy Warhol, Carolyne Roehm and Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Wonder Women

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NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

C O NT E N T S 38 GE PA ▼

FEATURES 62

DOES DAVID ROCKWELL EVER REST?

DAVID ROCKWELL talks shop and sheds

The curious career of a modern Renaissance man

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by Amanda M. Fairbanks photographed by Michael Mundy

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HANG HIM ON MY WALL

Inside Andy Warhol’s lair

interview by George Wayne photographed by David Gamble

WE'RE NOT "IT"

The women of American art are hardworking, intelligent and beautiful—in that order

by Ben Diamond photographed by Neil Francis Dawson

LIVING THE LIFESTYLE

Carolyne Roehm is charmed and charming in Charleston

by Linda Marx

COLUMNS 34

DRINKS WITH DEBBIE A new column of interviews with notable personalities

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GIFT GUIDE

Our travel-inspired picks for the season

by Wendy Sy

TRENDSCAPE

Celebrate good times, c’mon!

by Kelly Laffey

JEWELRY BOX

Van Cleef & Arpels collaborates with Robert Wilson for its L’Arche de Noé exhibition at Cedar Lake

by Wendy Sy

ANDY WARHOL'S apartment was full of secrets

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T I M DAVI S T H E H A M P TON S LU X U RY M A R K ET L E A DE R

SURREAL ESTATE

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POSTCARD FROM . . .

AVENUE editor-in-chief Michael Gross travels to Windsor, Florida, an enclave of wealth and taste

SOCIAL SAFARI

The Met, the Phil, the Ballet and more

by R. Couri Hay

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N.O.C.D.

The Fountain of Youth ain’t in Miami

by Suzanne O’Malley

DEPARTMENTS 23

ON THE AVENUE

Reflecting on Art Basel through the years, and New York's hottest fall parties

by Sarah Hysong

37 years selling the Hamptons

ARTS CALENDAR

This month’s selection of arts and culture

by Ben Diamond

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LET TER FROM T HE EDI T OR DEAR READERS, Every year, AVENUE travels to South Florida in winter and the East End of Long Island in summer, while continuing to serve our readers in New York City. Once upon a time, AVENUE was a magazine for the Upper East Side elite. But over its 41 years, it has broadened its horizons, as have our fans, friends, readers and the folks we cover. So today, you’ll find the magazine in

“AVENUE HAS BROADENED ITS HORIZONS”

Miami, Palm Beach and Wellington, everywhere from Westhampton to Montauk, and all over town from FiDi to Brooklyn. And in the last year, avenuemagazine.com has become the go-to digital destination for, and to read about, the interests and interactions of New York’s patricians, plutocrats and philanthropists (and those who love or merely cater to them). As delineated in our last issue, dedicated to the new Power Elite, they’re not Mrs. Astor’s A-list anymore. This is not your granny’s AVENUE, either. David Rockwell, who appears on the cover of this, our first South Florida issue of the winter, is a perfect example of this new elite. He wasn’t born into wealth—far from it. He’s not a WASP, not in the Social Register or the Hamptons Blue Book. But he is a man of wealth and taste who has an extraordinary record of aesthetic accomplishment in a multiplicity of fields, and his designs—of condominiums, restaurants, playgrounds, theaters, Broadway plays and more—have made the world better. Eleven months ago, when my wife and I were producer Jordan Roth’s guests at the New York Stage and Film Gala where he was honored, I determined he would one day grace our cover. Our art and design issue, pegged to Art Basel, seemed to me the perfect place for him, and I’m delighted that he agreed to talk to Amanda Millner-Fairbanks and to pose for Michael Mundy. Andy Warhol’s ghost haunts Art Basel, where parties and prices compete with art in many conversations. So when the Jamaica-born writer George Wayne, whose interviews are collected in Anyone Who's Anyone, out December 5th, told me about the British-born portrait photographer David Gamble’s posthumous photographs of the artist’s New York townhouse, I leapt at the chance to put them in this issue, too. Carolyne Roehm is, perhaps, a less surprising feature of this issue, but writer Linda Marx of Palm Beach and I were discussing some of the people who danced across AVENUE’s pages in past decades, wondering where they are now, and when I learned Roehm had lately settled in Charleston, South Carolina, I wanted to know more and thought our readers might, too. Finally, this issue welcomes Christopher Cameron, a veteran real estate writer for Luxury Listings and the New York Observer, and his all-new Surreal Estate column. It covers a nightclub where Frank Sinatra once sang and Snoop Dogg does now. As I said, it’s not your granny’s AVENUE anymore. Michael Gross Editor in Chief

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LET TER FROM T H E P R E S I DEN T DEAR READERS, It’s been a whirlwind few months at AVENUE, with a festive summer in the Hamptons and an October celebrating our Power Elite in New York. We marked our return to the city with our quarterly Salon Dinner, this time giving attendees a sneak preview of our November/December cover star, the talented designer and architect PANY AN COM MCMULL

David Rockwell. He's the eye behind some of New York’s most iconic establishments, including many a Nobu, Union Square Café and the W Hotel in Union Square, and his most anticipated new project is The

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Shed at Hudson Yards, a revolutionary performing arts space. As we anxiously await its opening this spring, we have a full lineup of parties and events to take us through winter. Just before this issue hits, we’ll have hosted our inaugural Life Below Water Gala in partnership with the United Nations. The event will honor Dr. Sylvia Earle with the AVENUE Altruism Award for her work conserving the ocean with Mission Blue. We look forward to choosing another of the UN’s sustainable goals for next year’s event. Our November/December issue will be the first of three distributed in South Florida and New York City, including at the art fairs later this year. Like our readers, we’ll be celebrating in Miami and Palm Beach throughout the season, with a full lineup of parties and events. We look forward to seeing you there. Randi Schatz

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MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF ART BASEL AVENUE CELEBRATES ART BASEL WITH A LOOK BACK AT TEN YEARS OF ARTY PARTIES photographed by BFA.com

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ON THE AV E N U E

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GO UPTOWN, GET FUNKY

ARMORY RAISES $2.2 MILLION FOR PROGRAMMING AND ARTS EDUCATION photographed by Da Ping Luo The Park Avenue Armory celebrated its 10th anniversary gala with a theme of the great multidiciplinary art movements of the ’60s. Guests enjoyed dancers in hazmat suits, heard from featured speakers Elihu Rose and Ann Hamilton and enjoyed a performance by musician Kimbra.

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ON YOUR MARK MARK GILBERTSON’S 2017 ANNUAL COCKTAL RECEPTION photographed by Cutty McGill

Mark Gilberston held his annual cocktail reception at a private club on Park Avenue. With a guest list running into the hundreds it was no surprise that the place was packed. In a room where perhaps 8 out of every 10 people know each other it begins to feel like a reunion. But for a man who’s spent his career in the business of people, it’s only fitting that his friends list goes on and on and on and on...

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Art lovers and supporters alike were able to Take Home a Nude to benefit the New York Academy of Art. A live auction of works from both students and heavy hitters like Peter Beard, Ross Bleckner, Christo and more raised more than $1.1 million for scholarships and programs at the academy.

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AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION WAS A MUST AT THIS YEAR’S CARNEGIE GALA photographed by Chris Lee and Julie Skarratt “First of all, wow” Robert Smith, Carnegie Hall board chariman, said of the concert at Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala for the 2017 season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the orchestra in three pieces including the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Guests later boarded party buses equiped with lighting effects, bound for the gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street.

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MIAMI’S INCLUSION INFUSION

IN THIS, HER REINCARNATED COLUMN, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR DEBBIE BANCROFT WILL INTRODUCE READERS TO FASCINATING DENIZENS OF AVENUE. HER FIRST SUBJECT: ANTHONY SHRIVER OF BEST BUDDIES. by Debbie Bancroft

What brought you to Miami originally? How long have you been there? What changes have you seen-for the better or worse? I originally came to Miami in 1992 because the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities gave us a grant to run Best Buddies [the global movement that advocates and acts on behalf of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities] on a statewide basis. I had just come out of college and I thought that was a big deal, so I figured I would come to Florida and do a really great job for two years and then move back to Washington, D.C. While in Miami, I met my wonderful wife Alina, and of course everything changed. I ended up staying in Miami and it’s been a great step in the right direction for Best Buddies in terms of creating its own identity and personality, and sort of being a big fish in a smaller pond. This city is completely different from when I first moved here. There was not much of an art or cultural scene, no Art Basel, there was no Adrienne Arsht Center, there was no Museum of Contemporary Art. I think the city has developed into a more mature, broader-thinking one that is more intellectual, more cultural and really a world-class city. What changes do you see in terms of who is moving there, real estate development? I’m not in the real estate business, so I will give you my views on this from an amateur perspective. Clearly the market has transformed dramatically since 1992. You

would not even recognize Downtown Miami, both as an urban environment to live in—it’s bustling with corporate offices, renowned restaurants, culture—it is a complete 180. The same can be said for the Omni/Midtown area. All of these advancements and developments have really made Downtown Miami a place where people can live and work and enjoy the cultural scene that South Florida has to offer. The development of Miami Beach has been nothing short of amazing and has transformed, since the late ‘80s, early ‘90s from a sleepy retirement village to an international, vibrant city, an incredible community to live in. A lot of areas throughout South Florida have completely changed their profile and a lot of that has been driven by the real estate boom. Does your family like visiting there? My [extended] family loves it here. What’s not to love about South Florida for vacation? It’s an incredible place to come and I’m an incredible person to visit! I’m a wonderful host and they love it.

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What are Best Buddies newest initiatives? Best Buddies focuses on inclusion for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome and our biggest focus is on jobs, jobs, jobs for people with special abilities! We have an incredible Jobs program that works to secure employment for this population, that will allow them to earn an income, pay taxes, and continuously and independently support themselves. Eighty-one percent of

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D RI N KS W I TH D E BBI E the developmentally disabled do not have a paid job. These are individuals who are talented, capable, hardworking and ready to contribute to society in a meaningful way. Hiring these individuals is also a smart business choice and it is my hope that CEOs and business leaders here in South Florida and all across the world will step up and hire people with special abilities. It’s a win-win situation for everyone.

Do you see your leadership being carried on by the next generation? I started Best Buddies when I was in my early 20s and I look forward to watching a whole new generation of young leaders step up to the plate and guide us toward a society that respects, values and celebrates everyone for their unique abilities. I have complete faith that the next generation of leaders will do just that.

Are your kids involved? I have five beautiful children and all of them have been involved with Best Buddies practically since birth. They volunteer and travel with me around the country to our national Best Buddies events. I am incredibly grateful that my children are involved with Best Buddies and have made the mission their own. It is such a blessing to be able to share my passion for service to others with my family.

How have you seen Miami Art Basel evolve? What are the most exciting new elements of it? Art Basel has been tremendous for the culture of our city. It’s incredibly exciting that our city hosts such a world-class event for artists, collectors and people interested in the arts, whether it be contemporary art or art in general. I think it’s phenomenal for our city. I am thrilled by Art Basel’s growth over the years and super excited that it’s right here in our own backyard. ✦

What’s not to love about South Florida for vacation? It’s an incredible place to come and I’m an incredible person to visit!

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The ASPCA® proudly honors recipients of the

2017 ASPCA HUMANE AWARDS and their heroic acts of rescue and compassion.

ASPCA Henry Bergh Award

Mission K9 Rescue ASPCA Dog of the Year

“Rescue” ASPCA Cat of the Year

“Flame” ASPCA Tommy P. Monahan Kid of the Year

Jessica Brocksom ASPCA Citizen Hero Award

Judy Obregon ASPCA Equine Welfare Award

Elaine Nash, Fleet of Angels

THANK YOU TO OUR ASPCA HUMANE AWARDS LUNCHEON CHAIRS: BRUCE W. ADDISON, ALEXANDRA GRIGGS BISHOP, ARRIANA BOARDMAN, BARBARA CATES, PATRICIA CRAWFORD, ANDREA H. FAHNESTOCK AND GEORGE A. HAMBRECHT, MINDY FORTIN, HEIDI HOLTERBOSCH, LINDA LLOYD LAMBERT, MICHELE EVENSON LINDSAY, LISA MCCARTHY, MARINA KILLERY ORENTREICH, JANE W. PARVER, JEFFREY A. PFEIFLE, GEORGINA T. AND THOMAS A. RUSSO, ELLEN AND CHARLES B. SCARBOROUGH III, HOPE SMITH, MARY SNOW, SALLY SPOONER, BARBARA AND DONALD TOBER, ANN AND TOM UNTERBERG, AND MAREI VON SAHER.

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GI F T G U I D E

AFRICAN ADVENTURE SAFARI-INSPIRED PRESENTS FOR THE OUTDOORSY TYPE

Crossroads Slides, $275, by CHARLOTTE MOSS FOR IBU, ibumovement.com.

by Wendy Sy Elephant Desk Accessories, $215/small, $250/medium, $300/large, by GRAF VON FABER-CASTELL, Fountain Pen Hospital, fountainpenhospital.com.

Necklace with chrysanthemum, rubies and silver, $3,500; and Necklace with yellow tiger eye, agate and diamond by CLARISSA BRONFMAN, $7,700 Bergdorf Goodman, bergdorfgoodman.com

Best of Tanzania Trip: The ten-night escape starts at a charming coffee plantation, followed by a stay at the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge located on the rim of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Next, head to the Mwiba lodge, which offers walking safaris, cultural interactions and night drives. End your stay with a flight to Serengeti and visit the Singita Sasakwa safari lodge, by INDAGARE TRAVEL, indagare.com. Animalia Coasters, $78/set of 4, by JONATHAN ADLER, jonathanadler.com.

La Grande Dame, $150, by VEUVE CLICQUOT X CHARLOTTE OLYMPIA, Sherry-Lehmann Wine and Spirits, sherrylehmann.com.

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Gemini Black Napkin Ring, $20, by JUNG LEE NY, jungleeny.com.

ONE-OF-A-KIND Handwoven by Rwandan artisans, each vase is made with fair trade practices and varies slightly in color and size.

Fana-Banana Bag, $295, by CORROON, corroon.com.

Poppy Sunset Sisal Vase, $36, by ALL ACROSS AFRICA, accompanyus.com.

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GI F T G U I D E

EUROPEAN VIBES CLASSIC GIFTS FOR THE OLD SOUL 18K yellow gold green enamel and diamond band, $8,000 by ELIZABETH GAGE, Yafa Signed Jewels, 585 Fifth Avenue, Suite 707.

Mabelle Floral Cup and Saucer, $24, by LIBERTY FOR ANTHROPOLOGIE, anthropologie.com.

All Over Glow 2-Piece Kit, $45, by LAURA GELLER, laurageller.com.

Make Me Blush Bag, $435, and gold chain strap, $95, by WREN & ROCH, wrenandroch.com.

Milan Getaway: Check into CHÂTEAU MONFORT, located just behind Piazza San Babila, the city square of Milan, Italy. Inspired by the concept of fairytales, the interior and exterior of the building is reminiscent of a castle. Highlights include spa treatments at Amore & Psiche and dining at Rubacuori by Venissa restaurant, hotelchateaumonfort.com.

ON A MISSION Wren & Roch is helping the United Nations to promote the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically Goal #5, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

F-80 Motion Watch, $1,395, by SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, ferragamo.com.

Fox-Fur Scarf, $1,195, by BARNEYS NEW YORK, barneys.com.

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Leather NewNero Gloves in Soft Nappa, $490, by BOTTEGA VENETA, 800.845.6790.

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Eau de Parfum, $130/100ml, by TIFFANY & CO, Bloomingdale’s, tiffany.com.

CARIBBEAN COASTLINE WHAT TO GET THE BEACH LOVERS

Way Back Zen Outfit, $388, by THE EIGHT SENSES, theeightsenses.com.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSHUA JORDAN.

SERENITY Following on its successful pop-up store in SoHo in late 2015, The Eight Senses flagship has recently opened year-round at 414 West Broadway, offering luxe clothes designed with functionality.

Coral & Calm Fan, $20, by FINE AND FOLDED, fineandfolded.com.

Men’s Rainey Rectangular Top-Bar Sunglasses, $510, by BARTON PERRIERA, bergdorfgoodman.com.

Bourbon, $25, by MAKER’S MARK, reservebar.com. For full recipe, visit makersmark.com.

Modern Muse Sea Urchin Compact, $150, Pleasures Seahorse Perfume, $250, and Sea Goddess Pressed Powder, $150, by MONICA RICH KOSANN FOR ESTÉE LAUDER, saks.com.

Caribbean Escape: Book a winter getaway to SUGAR BEACH, A VICEROY RESORT IN ST. LUCIA. Set within more than 100 acres of rainforest on the site of an 18th century sugar plantation, there’s plenty to see, do, or simply relax. New this holiday season, Sugar Beach is opening the first two homes of its Beachfront Collection luxury residences. Seize this opportunity to stay in a UNESCO World Heritage site! viceroyhotelsandresorts.com.

Studded Cage Flat Slide Sandal, $635, by BALENCIAGA, bergdorfgoodman.com. Hostess Gift, $125, by DEAN & DELUCA, deandeluca.com.

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ALL EYES ON ART THIS MONTH'S SELECTION OF ARTS AND CULTURE by Ben Diamond STORM KING ART CENTER Through December 2

MUSEUMS:

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART November 13 – April 8 Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989

1 Museum Road New Windsor, New York 845.534.3115 stormking.org

11 West 53rd Street New York 212.708.9400 moma.org

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

Opens November 17 Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney’s Collection, 1966–1986 99 Gansevoort Street New York 212.570.3600 whitney.org

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART November 13 – February 12 Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer

GALLERIES: DAVID ZWIRNER November 2 – December 16 Yayoi Kusama

November 27 – February 25 David Hockney

525 and 533 West 19th Street New York 212.727.2070 davidzwirner.com

1000 Fifth Avenue New York 212.535.7710 metmuseum.org

LUHRING AUGUSTINE BUSHWICK

STUDIES FOR THE LIBYAN SIBYL (RECTO); STUDIES FOR THE LIBYAN SIBYL AND A SMALL SKETCH FOR A SEATED FIGURE (VERSO), Ca. 1510–11.

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Mario Bellini. PROGRAMMA 101 ELECTRONIC DESKTOP COMPUTER, 1965. Die-cast aluminum casing. Manufactured by Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A., Ivrea, Italy.

November 4 – January 28 Mike Kelley: Singles’ Mixer 25 Knickerbocker Avenue Brooklyn 718.386.2746 luhringaugustine.com

MATTHEW MARKS

FINDLAY GALLERIES

November 4 – December 22 Katharina Fritsch

November 4 – December 4 Twentieth Century Masters

523 West 24th Street New York 212.243.0200 matthewmarks.com

724 Fifth Avenue New York 212.421.5390 wallyfindlay.com

FAIRFIELD PORTER

(1907–1975)

James Deely, 1967. Oil on canvas, 555⁄8 x 465⁄8 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed (on left center stretcher): Fairfield Porter 1967

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ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH Miami Beach, December 7–10, 2017

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December 4 The Art of Time

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BLACK, STARR & FROST. Enameled gold, cabochon tourmaline, and carved hardstone boudoir timepiece. Ca. 1930s. Estimate $15,000 - $25,000

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Through December 16 Next Wave Festival

30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn 718.636.4100 bam.org ✦

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BY ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS From $5.8 million. Currently under construction with completion anticipated 4th Qtr 2018. 1000museum.com | 786.245.4216 | info@1000museum.com | 1000 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL

Oral representations cannot be relied upon as correctly stating representations of the Developer. For correct representations, make reference to this brochure and to the documents required by section 718.503, Florida statutes, to be furnished by a developer to a buyer or lessee. We are pledged to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Policy for achievement of Equal Housing Opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. This is not intended to be an offer to sell, or solicitation to buy, condominium units to residents of any jurisdiction where prohibited by law, and your eligibility for purchase will depend upon your state of residency. FOR NY RESIDENTS : THE COMPLETE OFFERING TERMS ARE IN A CPS-12 APPLICATION AVAILABLE FROM THE OFFEROR. FILE NO. CP16-0131 The building is currently under construction but not yet completed. Any images of a competed building are artists renderings incorporating the proposed building into the existing skyline. As depicted in the developers brochures or on the developers website, sketches, renderings, graphics, plans, specifications, services, amenities, terms, conditions and statements contained in this brochure are proposed only, and the Developer reserves the right to modify, revise or withdraw any or all of same in its sole discretion and without prior notice. Use and operation of the Helipad are conditioned upon obtaining FAA and other governmental approvals. No assurance can be given about whether the approvals can be obtained, and/or if so, the timing of same. Artist rendering provided by Catapult13 | Creative Director Alfred Lamoureux

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CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, C’MON! FESTIVE TRENDS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON by Kelly Laffey

KICK IT AT THE KNICKERBOCKER Times Square may be the most polarizing of New York landmarks. But, love it or hate it, all eyes will be on the Crossroads of the World on New Year’s Eve. Luckily, you don’t have to brave the congestion to get a live view—and one that’s even better than what you’ll find on television. Count down to 2018 in the lap of luxury at the Knickerbocker Hotel. Located just 150 feel below the ball, the Knickerbocker provides the closest live view of the event in the world, with packages that includes a reserved outdoor seat and premium bottle service, as well as personal heaters and blankets. theknickerbocker.com

Each bottle takes two weeks to create, and is meant to last forever.

ONE TEQUILA... If more traditional holiday spirits have become Champagne-fully boring, count down to New Year’s Eve with Clase Azul Ultra tequila. Retailing for $1,600, the tequila is only produced in numbered batches of 100 bottles, and each decanter is hand-painted with platinum, featuring a silver agave medallion and label applied using 24-karat gold. “There is no hangover with Clase Azul Ultra,” claims Arturo Lomeli, Clase Azul president. “[An] important way to starting the new year is with a clear head in the morning...Ultra is about creating memories, and that is what New Year's Eve is all about.” claseazul.com

Everyone rings in the New Year at Times Square. But are they this close?

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A RUNNING START TO 2018 It’s high time to actually stick to your fitness resolution. New to the roster of wearable technology is the Apple Watch Nike+ Series 3. With all of the fixins’ of the Apple Watch, including a built-in GPS and cellular service, the Nike component acts as a motivator, providing guidance and inspiration directly from Nike coaches and athletes, each paired with a playlist. nike.com Fact: The majority of New Year's resolutions fail by February. Don't be a statistic.

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??? Is there anything more glam than a glittery bag?

STYLIN' Sugar and spice and everything—metallic! New for the holiday season, the MICHAEL Michael Kors Sloan small sequined quilted shoulder bag is a luxe, ladylike essential. It's big enough to carry a phone and makeup, yet small enough to still be stylish during the whirlwind of holiday cocktail parties. The quilted look gives the design a winter feel, and the metallic provides the essential seasonal sparkle. Available at select Michael Kors Lifestyle stores and michaelkors.com

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GLIMMER OF LIGHT VAN CLEEF & ARPELS COLLABORATES WITH ROBERT WILSON FOR ITS L’ARCHE DE NOÉ EXHIBITION AT CEDAR LAKE by Wendy Sy

Elder, depicts the biblical story lbert Einstein once said, of Noah’s Ark. “Light is the measure of Van Cleef & Arpels’ collection all things.” Taking this belief to heart, seasoned echoes the painting with added imagination. There are about 60 theatre director and visual artist animal motif pairs, such as birds, Robert Wilson starts off every project thinking about light: how butterflies and horses, featuring white gold, diamonds, sapphires it affects the illusion of space, and more. Creatures in playful, the shadows it creates and the poetic interpretations have long overall mood. Wilson’s distinct been a source of inspiration for use of light has become his the Maison, which started in signature. Recently, he designed 1906 in Paris. the scenography for Van Cleef & Arpels’ exhibition to present its High Jewelry collection, L’Arche de Noé. It will be open to the public from November 3–19 at Cedar Lake in New York’s Chelsea arts district. The concept (from left)) originated Coccinelles clip, Perroquets clip, from Van Cleef Zèbres clip and & Arpels chief Girafes clip executive officer, Nicolas Bos, during a spontaneous visit to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was there, in the institution’s East Pavilion, that a particular piece of art resonated with him. “I will never forget the shock I felt as I stood gazing at the painting The Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark, and the journey it embarked me on at once,” said Bos. The piece, made with oil on panel in 1613 by Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the

“My original idea was to have an enormous boat as a structure for the roof. I placed the jewel animals within, but somehow the idea seemed all wrong,” said Wilson, who chose a small boat, instead. He imagined the ark on a vast body of water and surrounded the room with televisions showing ocean waves in 360 degrees. “At intervals, I interrupt the calm with meditative music of Arvo Pärt or with a loud thunder, briefly.

“Inspiration is everywhere: in a light beam, a vision, a melody, a painting, an encounter, a sky, a word, a laughter, a tear.” —Robert Wilson

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At this time, the room is made dark, Libellules and only the clips jewels are lit, as if they were a navigational chart.” L’Arche de Noé marks Wilson’s first scenography design focused on jewelry. Although different, the step was organic, considering his similar creative approach in staging operas, plays and running the Watermill Center, a laboratory for the arts, where he is the founder and artistic director. Bos realized Wilson was the ideal person to lead the exhibition after witnessing his talent while staging Fairy Tales by Alexander Pushkin in Moscow. “Inspiration is everywhere: in a light beam, a vision, a melody, a painting, an encounter, a sky, a word, a laughter, a tear,” said Wilson. “This scenography showcases our collection in subdued and mysterious tones,” said Bos. “I hope visitors will feel they had a true artistic experience with a sense of wonder and enchantment.” ✦

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FO O D FOR THOUG HT

NEW YORK, NEW EATS AS 2017 DRAWS TO A CLOSE, IT’S OPEN SEASON FOR RESTAURANTS by Beth Landman

Mamo’s new chef Salvatore Marcello loves the space's European interior.

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ark Wood left the restaurant business in 2010, his final project a partnership with John McDonald and Matthew Kenny at Canteen on Mercer Street. “I decided to pursue concepts around health and fitness,” he explains of his next ventures as director of development for BluePrint Cleanse and CEO of Liquiteria. Now he’s back, bringing his health expertise to Nisi, a Mediterranean spot in the West Village. Fish, including hard-tocome-by wild branzino (most of what we get is farmed), is flown in daily from the Mediterranean, and chef Nikola Karvelas, an Avra veteran, has added a plantbased menu with such dishes as Vegan Ricotta Beets: fresh red and golden beet salad with arugula, cashews, ricotta cheese and balsamic dressing. The Mediterranean isn’t the only place fish is being flown in from. The owners of Wokuni, a new restaurant due this month at 325 Lexington Avenue, have their own fish farm in Nagasaki, along with 50 restaurants throughout Japan. They will be serving up their catch as well as sake and shochu accompaniments like marinated firefly squids or grilled ray fin. Signature entrees include tuna tail steak with onion sauce. We know seats will be hard to come by at the new spot being opened this month by Michelinstarred Toru Okuda, because there are only seven of them at the counter and six others in a private room. Okuda, at 458 West 17th Street, is the first

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American spot from the chef, who has places in Tokyo and Paris. He will offer two seatings of a kaiseki dinner price fixed at $195 including service. Foodies who want to cozy up at home when the cooler weather hits take note: Dale Talde, Bill Telepan, Katy Sparks, Silvia Baldini and other top toques have signed on to prepare meals

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for a new food delivery service called RealEats that will deliver between 3 and 12 meals a week. Dishes include such options as barbecued brisket meatloaf with Brussels sprouts and buttermilk crushed potatoes; whole-grain corkscrew pasta with grass-fed

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beef meatballs; shiitake chicken with fingerling potatoes and green beans; and salmon with tahini sauce, wild and brown rice, and sautéed spinach. The birth of Mandolino at 137 East 13th Street is a real New York story. Naples native Agostino Cangiano had only been in the city just over a year and scored cooking jobs at Bella Blu and then Eataly. He met his now-wife, Columbianborn holistic health coach Carolina Bolivar, in the subway, and when he cooked for her on their second date, she told him he had to open his own restaurant. The two contacted real estate broker Cesar Guevara to find a space, and when he tasted Cangiano’s food, he decided to become a partner. Though the sign outside has for months read “Mandolino Pizzeria,” Cangiano and fellow chef, Calabrian-born Resvan Costa, have been whipping up seriously authentic Italian fare like pasta paccheri ai profumi di mare, and mustard-marinated roast chicken with white wine and rosemary. “You won’t find penne a la vodka or chicken parmigiana here,” insists Cangiano, who has changed the sign to read Mandolino Ristorante. Of course they still serve thin-crust pizza, including a white pie with black truffles, and a red version with San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, sweet sausage, porcini mushrooms, peas and basil. 461 West 23rd Street has been the backdrop for Barchetta and La Promenade, and is now home to Calle Dao, an upscale Cuban-Chinese spot. The two cultures merge on this menu where adventurous palates can explore goat’s neck and pigs ears, and those who don’t regularly tune in to Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown might prefer the brunch offering that combines lamb picadillo with corn congee. JoJo, at 160 East 64th Street, the second restaurant JeanGeorges Vongerichten opened back in 1991, will no longer be a French bistro. The restaurant closed for renovations last October, and has now reemerged as a more casual farm to table spot. Mamo, the popular Italian/Provencal hybrid in SoHo has someone new at the helm- Salvatore Marcello, who was previously executive chef at Il Vero in Geneva’s Grand Hotel Kempinski. He is a wizard with herbs, using them to transform simple high-end ingredients, like fish that becomes incredibly moist when he roasts it with olive oil, water, basil, thyme, mint and garlic; or angel hair, which he enlivens with shrimp, pistachios, chilies and Parmesan. “I was drawn to this room; it’s very European,” he says of the brownstone space with exposed brick and oversized windows. ✦

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SOME LIKE IT HOT THE FONTAINEBLEAU HAS SIZZLED FOR HALF-A-CENTURY by Christopher Cameron

to superlative standards of size, décor and plushy plushiness.” Built on the old Harvey Firestone estate, the sprawling 565-room hotel (now triple that) quickly become synonymous with Hawaiian shirts, cigarette smoke, oily lounge loafers, tiki drinks and names like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Sean Connery’s (arguably) best Bond film, Goldfinger, was filmed

“What’s said about the populace of Miami goes doubly for the guests of the iconic hotel.” Frank Sinatra and restauranteur Mike Romanoff

along the Fontainebleau’s undulating pool. Then, in the ’70s and ’80s, the hotel went full Miami Vice. The notorious Black Tuna Gang operated a marijuana smuggling operation from a suite high in the hotel, able to move 500 tons

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of drugs in just 16 months. During that period, the hotel went bankrupt, sold its furniture, added pricey condos and changed owners repeatedly. But nearly a decade ago now, something big—$1 billion big—happened at this Morris Lapidus–designed plushy mammoth of Miami Beach. And the money hasn’t stopped flowing since. In 2008, the Fontainebleau reopened following an extravagant ten-figure renovation, celebrated with a Snoop Dogg performs at LIV

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ractically everything ever said about anybody in Miami is true. That’s because every single species of escapist—thermostatobsessed snowbirds, cocaine cowboys, bikini blondes, handsome Cubanos, shell collectors, grifters, billionaires, art snobs, yachtsman and playboys—really exists down here. They bathe in the same ocean, cruise the same boulevards, tan on the same beaches and sip Hemingway daiquiris in a sunstruck coequality enforced by a blazing, seasonless sun. And if what’s said about the populace of Miami is true, that goes doubly for the guests of the Fontainebleau hotel, where a good number of those aforementioned free birds are still at large. More than any of the other luxury high-rises that now line Collins Avenue, the Fontainebleau evokes a yesteryear glamour that borders on kitsch. (An aside: Locals are known to pronounce it “fountain blue.” Try not to cringe.) Yet its status as a luxury icon remains unchallenged. The Miami Beach jet set is still enthralled with what might have otherwise been an embarrassingly passé resort. Why? Simple: money, notoriety and lots of it. In December 1954, the year the hotel debuted, the New York Times raved that the Fontainebleau is the “ultimate extension of the traditional modern luxury hotel

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S URRE A L E STATE Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Earlier this year, the poolside cabanas received an update, and new executive suites were rolled out in the Versailles Tower. (The hotel is full of Frenchish motifs, and the marble fireplace in the presidential suite was pulled from the old French embassy in Washington.) And most recently, the hotel’s nightclub LIV, known as the La Ronde Room in the 1950s, received a $10 million cash injection. Once renowned for performances by Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett and the Rat Pack, the club reopened this summer as a digital disco, with 400 LED panels, projection mapping and something called “Hollywood squares.” It’s a flashier, more Kardashian-friendly atmosphere—the kind of place Snoop Dogg or Fergie plays.

Kate Hudson, Alex Rodriguez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga, Sean Combs and Jennifer Lopez have all been spied there. Money flows in from a Dubai investment firm and local billionaires. Hilton now runs operations. But all that scratch has a way of breeding scandal.

Shortly after the hotel reopened from its billion-dollar overhaul, Bernice Novack, the wife of the Fontainebleau’s late developer Ben Novack, was found dead in Fort Lauderdale. Three months later, the heir to the hotel fortune, Ben Novack Jr., was found bludgeoned to death in a penthouse suite of the Hilton Hotel in Rye Brook, New York. His eyes were gouged out. During the investigation, it was discovered that Novack Jr. had been having an affair with a porno actress named Rebecca Bliss. His estranged wife, Narcy, knew that if her husband divorced her, she would be left with only pennies. She was soon convicted for the crime and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. It’s literally a hotel worth killing for. Top that, Ritz Carlton!

That may be morbid, and its associations may not always pass for good taste, but for a hotel that’s getting on in years like the Fontainebleau, money, scandal, celebrity and, most of all, folklore are essential to staying relevant in a town where last season’s hot spot was just that. “In Miami when you refer to one of the ‘older hotels’ you’re likely to be talking about one that was built three or four seasons back,” Esquire wrote during the Fontainebleau’s fourth season. “This is a place that has more magnificent resort hotels along a couple miles of beach front than there are on the whole continent of Europe. . . . Among the cities of the world, Miami Beach is—let’s face it—a character.” ✦

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ART ROCKS! Rockwell, Warhol, Roehm

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DOES DAVID ROCKWELL EVER REST? THE CURIOUS CAREER OF A MODERN RENAISSANCE MAN

by Amanda M. Fairbanks photographed by Michael Mundy

IT WAS A HECTIC FRIDAY morning in July and David Rockwell, the architect and designer behind the Rockwell Group, moved seamlessly from project to project. He wore his trademark all-black uniform—a black T-shirt and black Levi’s—his salt-and-pepper, wavy hair parted over to one side. If ever he’s not wearing black, he’s in dark blue, but even then, only occasionally. Though his personal style is somewhat static, nothing else about or around him stays the same. Rockwell’s New York office, open and light-filled, is pleasantly raw and overflowing with interesting-looking objects—handcrafted models made in-house, hard and soft finishes, a library of fabric swatches that stretch as far as the eye can see. At 61, Rockwell is a Renaissance man for the ages, a winner of professional honors that rang e from an Emmy Award to a Tony Award to design awards too numerous to count. Over time, most architects come to specialize in one category—say, great, hulking skyscrapers or impossible structures that defy gravity. But Rockwell relishes in the creative process, evolving and expanding his eponymous company by taking on an array of projects that defy categorization. Whether he’s fine-tuning the interior of a new hotel, designing sustainable, modular playground equipment, or putting the finishing touches on the set of a Broadway show, Rockwell is a man in constant motion, his mind forever churning with new ideas. Though it was a steamy summer day, Rockwell seemed undiminished by the heat. For someone so busy and successful, he is open and friendly. Still, as one makes a mental list of just his current projects, a question immediately arises: How, exactly, does one man accomplish so much?

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For instance, over the past year, the Rockwell Group has designed Brickell Heights (a luxury 690-condominium residential development in Miami), the Brightline (a train fleet that’s part of All Aboard Florida, the nation’s first privately owned, operated and financed express intercity passenger railroad project, and will eventually connect Miami, Orlando, West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale), Hyde Midtown Miami (a six-story hybrid hotel and residential building in the Design District) and Nobu Hotel Miami Beach (a 7,500-square-foot restaurant and 200room hotel overlooking the Atlantic Ocean). And that’s just in Florida. “When you start a new project, one of the keys is not knowing the answer before you begin,” Rockwell explains, pausing briefly in his office at the Rockwell Group, a 250-person architecture and design firm that first opened its doors in 1984. It now occupies four floors overlooking Union Square West, with a second location in Madrid. The New York office last belonged to Spy, the now defunct magazine. Rockwell’s interest in confronting new challenges began early on, during a peripatetic childhood. “The early transitions in my life, moving, the death of my dad, living in multiple houses,” Rockwell says, starting and stopping. “Something about celebrating the moment seemed particularly important to me.” The youngest of five boys, Rockwell was born in downtown Chicago. In 1959, his father, who ran a chain of department stores, died in a plane crash while on a business trip. Rockwell was two. His mother remarried, and the family soon moved to New Jersey to be closer to his

stepfather’s job. They eventually settled in Deal, a bucolic, beachfront suburb on the Jersey Shore. Rockwell was drawn less to the town’s beautiful houses than to its public spaces, particularly the Deal Players, a local community theater his mother started with a friend. Every summer, Rockwell would watch, transfixed, as the community came together, whether acting in shows, building sets or buying tickets. “It turned what was otherwise a very private suburb into a very acting-out community. I loved that.” At 12, Rockwell’s stepfather sold his business and moved the family, rather abruptly, to Guadalajara, Mexico. The city, 8,000 feet above sea level, with its open-air marketplaces and vibrant street life, left an indelible mark on him. If his interest in theater began during his boyhood in New Jersey, Rockwell’s adolescence in Mexico inspired a lifelong interest in capturing bright, warm light, and he eventually learned the careful art of making it flow through his work. A visit to New York City around the same time, when his mother took him to see Fiddler on the Roof at the Majestic Theater on 44th Street, also proved transformative. Again, he observed the magic as “1,300 people who were strangers become a community around storytelling”—a feeling he filed away for future use. Another great tragedy came at fifteen, when his mother died from complications related to hepatitis. The two shared a close bond, both possessing a deep love of storytelling and music. Rockwell took solace in playing the piano, which his mother and stepfather also played, and initially wavered on whether to pursue music or design. Rockwell recently started playing again. He now takes weekly lessons from

Seymour Bernstein, the 90-year-old master. After high school, somewhat on a whim, Rockwell and a close friend packed up his yellow Datsun and headed north to Syracuse University, where Rockwell studied architecture. He spent subsequent summers in New York and studied abroad in London for a year, apprenticing with theater consultants and lighting designers. By 1984, he was back in New York and wo rking at another architecture firm when he was offered a freelance gig renovating Le Périgord, an iconic French restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Though he didn’t know it at the time, that renovation would launch his career. The only catch: Le Périgord had to be transformed in four weeks. But being only 28, Rockwell gave it little thought, and immediately said yes. With nothing to lose, he frantically worked to meet his fast-approaching deadline. He next struck out on his own, designing Sushi Zen after Le Périgord. For the following decade, the Rockwell Group developed a niche, growing rapidly in the hospitality field—specifically, the execution of high-end restaurants. Between 1993 and 1994, Rockwell and his then partner Jay Haverson designed the Monkey Bar, Vong and Nobu New York. A 1993 New York Times review of Vong, the now shuttered French-Asian restaurant started by star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, focused on the superiority of its designers, particularly “their creative use of materials, their devotion to clients, their theatrical lighting.” Of note, the clever use of repurposed wooden chairs that likely saved its owners $15,000.

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“That sum would have been regarded as insignificant in the 1980s, when restaurants often cost more than $1 million to open and design was sometimes considered more important than the choice of a chef or menu. But those days are gone,” wrote Trish Hall, the Times reporter. Rockwell continued to adapt his approach— part visionary architect, part hard-charging businessman—to suit the changing needs of his demanding clientele. From there, business expanded at a rapid clip, with Rockwell and Nobu Matsuhisa, the famous Japanese chef, beginning a 26-year partnership. The two men have collaborated on 22 of Nobu’s 40 l ocations on five continents. Another longtime collaborator is Danny Meyer, the renowned restaurateur and C.E.O. of the Union Square Hospitality Group. Meyer and Rockwell have worked on five restaurants—including the famous Union Square Cafe, both at its original location on East 16th Street and its new, spacious perch at the corner of East 19th Street and Park Avenue South.

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When patrons sit down to eat there or in any of his other Rockwell-designed establishments, Meyer hopes they come away with a sense of “comfort, character and context.” Meyer describes Rockwell as a great listener, whose frequent “what ifs” have prompted him to “walk down a different and more enriched path.” Meyer also says that Rockwell is as capable of restraint as he is of making bold design statements, fusing practical elements alongside more fanciful touches. Successful restaurant design hinges on seemingly inconsequential minutiae—from the comfort of one’s seat to the waitstaff ’s traffic patterns. Yet perhaps most important is the lighting, and a room’s ability to transition from a bustling, bursting-at-the-seams Saturday night to a dreary, barely filled Wednesday afternoon. “I grew up interested in how places tell stories and how places bring people together,” Rockwell says. He finds inspiration in how certain spaces encourage or discourage a feeling of closeness; the way light can move through a room, making visitors feel uplifted—happier, even. From Rockwell’s work in restaurants, designing hotels and airports was a natural next step. Whether at the W Hotel in Union

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Square or at Jet Blue’s and United’s terminals at JFK and Newark airports, one key to Rockwell’s trajectory has been identifying areas ripe for overhaul. Another is surrounding himself with a talented and loyal cohort of designers, artists and makers. Rockwell and his two business partners encourage all their employees to “bring their full, amazing, eccentric selves to the table.” Over the past 15 years, the Rockwell Group has also undertaken a small handful of public works. Shortly after 9/11, Rockwell worked with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a New York–based architecture firm, and Kevin Kennon, another New York architect, to design and build a temporary viewing platform at the World Trade Center site. It allowed more than a million visitors to pay their respects until the National September 11 Memorial and Museum took its place. The Rockwell Group also designed Lower Manhattan’s creative, forward-thinking Imagination Playground at Burling Slip. More recently, the Rockwell Group has again partnered with Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design and build The Shed. Located on the far west side of Manhattan (where Hudson Yards intersects with the High Line), The Shed is a 200,000-square-foot, six-story boxlike structure. As New York’s first multiarts center, slated to open in the spring of 2019, it’s designed to commission, produce and highlight all types of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture. “The Shed is really a sort of memory machine,” Rockwell says, referring to its unique configurations will allow for the preservation of moments. The futuristic building has an open, movable infrastructure. It will transform on command into multiple stages and seatings—easily accommodating audiences from 500 to 3,000. The building, designed to be “permanently flexible for an unknowable future,” will be able to adapt to advances in media and technology, as well as the changing needs of artists. All this volume and variety creates unexpected connections. “I think our theater work makes our architecture work better, and vice versa,” Rockwell says.

“I GREW UP INTERESTED IN HOW PLACES TELL STORIES AND HOW PLACES BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.”

With so many projects happening at once, it’s fortunate that Rockwell doesn’t require much sleep, maybe six hours a night when he’s lucky. A typical day finds him sketching by hand (always in black pen) while working through a dozen or more design reviews and a near constant stream of phone calls. He personally scrutinizes every project and tends to be heavily involved at the beginning, when ideas are just taking shape, and at the end, when exacting details can make or break a project. This past summer, T. J. Greenway, 37, an associate scenic designer who was a fabric dyer at a costume shop before joining the Rockwell Group nearly a decade ago, was hard at work on brightly colored sets made of yarn, rope, painted burlap and knitted scarves for As You Like It. The musical version, starring Lily Rabe, was part of the Shakespeare in the Park series at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. During the rapid-fire design review, Rockwell wore reading glasses and chewed gum, picking up a black felt marker to make small adjustments. Earlier in the morning, during an update on the United Terminal at Newark Airport, Michael Fischer, 57, an associate principal, showed Rockwell digital mockups of a food terminal that transforms in 10 seconds from a waffle house at breakfast to a burger joint at lunch. Fischer has been with the firm since 1993, and is also working on the Helen Hayes Theatre project, The Rockwell Group’s complete renovation of the circa 1912 space, which is slated to open this spring. He says he can’t imagine having “any more fun anywhere else.” Rockwell is a forward-thinking rainmaker. “The best ideas come from the intersection of

other ideas,” he says. He considers curiosity “the most important quality.” But Rockwell also has a thing for design that lives and breathes in the real world. Eschewing the platonic ideal of architecture, Rockwell prefers his buildings with people in them. And asked to name his favorite project, he dismisses the notion, saying: “My favorite kids are my most recent kids.” When Rockwell isn’t working, the selfdescribed “dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker” can be found in Tribeca, where he lives with his wife, a landscape designer, and their two teenaged children. Despite his quotidian life, he occupies a rarefied category among architects and designers. Yet, even with all his accolades, Rockwell says he’s still in the process of arriving at his destination. “I’m always looking at what’s next or wondering what it would be like if we tried something else,” says Rockwell, thankful that the road ahead still unfolds in the strange and mysterious ways that led him from Chicago to Mexico to New York. Architects are known for being obsessed with their legacies. Building something that will outlast you for generations requires a fair amount of ego. But Rockwell is refreshingly unbothered by his legacy. “What’s important to me is doing work that I love and continuing to move forward and not get to the point where all I’m doing is repeating myself. If you start thinking about legacy, you start to freeze everything,” he says with a smile. “Everyone always says they want a timeless design. But in order to get to timeless, you have to pass through timely. You have to be willing to be of your time.” ✦

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Andy Warhol (in a silk screen Quantel Construct Portrait) sitting in his first-floor parlor

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WALL DAVID GAMBLE’S PHOTOS TAKE US INSIDE ANDY WARHOL’S LAIR Photographs by David Gamble Interview by George Wayne

The queens in The Factory claimed that Andy Warhol’s nickname, Drella, was shorthand for Dreadful Puella; the second word means “the girl” in Latin. Other say it is a contraction of Cinderella, or Cinderella crossed with Dracula. All I know is that unlike Count Dracula’s Bran Castle, few visited Andy Warhol’s own private Transylvania. I have spoken to many, many so-called Warhol acolytes and confidants, and all say the same. Warhol never entertained. They were never once invited to his home! So few had or have a clue what Andy Warhol’s private life looked like. Until now. Thanks to the unerring eye of the British-born photographer David Gamble, we can all peek into that home, on East 66th Street, and explore the realm, as well as some of the ephemera, that was Andy Warhol. In 1988, shortly after the artist’s death, Gamble was offered the assignment of a lifetime by Fred W. Hughes, Warhol’s business partner and executor, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, to photograph and document his private residence exactly the way he left it. Where did Andy Warhol hang his wigs when he stumbled home from Studio 54? Children, you are about to find out! And what was really stashed behind the mirrored cabinet in his bathroom? Suffice it to say, Andy Warhol loved his expensive wrinkle cremes and his pills. Now, on these pages, you can see it all for yourself! ✦ NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 • AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 71

GEORGE WAYNE: How did you come to photograph the Warhol lair for the estate sale?

Warhol’s teddy bear with cowboy boots, main bedroom

DAVID GAMBLE: June Stanier at the Observer Magazine [in London] called me. Apparently [Warhol’s business manager] Fred Hughes [had] contacted the Observer. I’d always wanted to photograph Andy Warhol. So now he was dead, and I thought, at least I get to a make a portrait from what I find in his house. GW: Can you talk about your background and your career? DG: Born in East London in the late ’50s. Grew up in the countryside near Cambridge. I could always draw, make things. [And] taking photos was also part of that. I remember my school taking us to Whitechapel Art Gallery in London [when I was] twelve. I saw my first Pop Art exhibit. 1965. It was a life-changing moment. Warhol became real to me. Got myself into Ealing Art School in 1976, ate mayonnaise on toast for three years, and bought a camera. Did a post grad[uate program] and [spent four] years as an assistant. Then given my first shoot for the Observer. Worked for nearly every major magazine in the world through the ’90s, including Tina Brown’s New Yorker. In the collections of the National Portrait Galleries in London and Washington, as well as the Warhol Museum, Guild Hall in East Hampton, etc. GW: Did you ever meet Warhol? DG: I almost met Andy one night whilst dining at the Algonquin Hotel. I had sat down to dinner when the maître’d came over and asked if I would mind wearing one of their jackets, as he thought mine was inappropriate. A waiter bought over a hideous brown plaid men’s sports jacket. Its sleeves came just below my elbows. I looked a complete bozo. At the table next to us, Andy Warhol was dining with two friends. If I hadn’t been wearing that dumb jacket I would gone over to say hello. That was the only time I saw him alive. GW: How did you manage to keep these images under lock and key for so long? Did the Warhol estate insist that these images not be ever shown to the rest of the world? DG: I have always insisted on full copyright on all my pictures. Even when commissioned by a publication. My fees are for first single usage only. So Fred Hughes and the foundation happily agreed. Fred was desperate to use me to get the work published in London and Europe before the big auction in 1988. It was the first celebrity auction, setting the mold for future auctions such as [those for] Princess Diana and Wallis Simpson, where [the] value of an item is based on who owned it. [After that,] I just put them away in a drawer. I knew they were good and that one day I would bring them out. 72 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

WHAT [DID YOU THINK ABOUT] WARHOL’S COLLECTION OF OTHER ARTISTS? Andy loved collecting his contemporaries’ work. He had, of course, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein, but also Kenny Scharf and Duchamp. Andy had a great sense for quality. It showed in his obsessive collecting. He loved watches, jewelry, cookie jars.

SO WHAT WAS IT LIKE THAT DAY WHEN YOU FIRST WALKED INTO ANDY WARHOL’S BROWNSTONE? It was a redbrick townhouse, narrow and tall. It had a simple, marble-floored entrance hall. The staircase was on the left, lined with old black-and-white photographs of Native Americans. There was a five-foot 19th-century wooden Punch standing at the foot. Upstairs was this nice curved entrance to the two main rooms. At the front was his living room. Big tall windows. Expensive Deco furniture and Pop Art. Lichtenstein’s Cat and Jasper Johns’ 7 painting. A Duchamp print was on a small artist’s easel. I liked the ’30s Bakelite and silver milk jug shaped as a penis sitting on the table. Tacky track lighting, which I thought odd. The other room was completely different, dressed as a parlor. It could have been the drawing room of Sherlock Holmes rather than a pop artist’s house. It had heavy, red velvet drape curtains and Victorian Egyptian artifacts, including gold lioncarved Egyptian-styled chairs, Primitive American art on the walls and a strange old small master painting on an easel. I had the feeling Jed Johnson, the famous interior designer, had an influence when he lived with Andy. He was Andy’s last live-in partner. The floor above was Andy’s bedroom, a small guest room and the main bathroom en suite. Andy’s room had very nice detailed print on the walls and a lovely white carved marble fireplace. He had videos and a teddy bear in the room. The bed was very high and bland. The small room had a beautiful Maxfield Parrish and a Mexican crucifix in it.

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AND OF COURSE THE SCOOP OF THE DECADE: THE PHOTOS OF ANDY WARHOL’S BATHROOM CABINET! ANDY LOVED HIS CLINIQUE AND HIS VITABATH! WHO KNEW?! When I looked at the medicine cabinet I really felt this was [the] closest [I’d come] to photographing a portrait of Andy Warhol. This was why I was in his house. I loved there was [so little] of intrinsic value. Banal ordinary objects that said a lot about the personal life of its owner. So this was the first medicine-cabinet-of-an-artist picture. Damien Hirst made his more than a year after it was published full page in the Observer in April 1988. I was flattered he thought it was such a great idea.

Warhol’s medicine cabinet en suite

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I LOVE THE BRITISH TRASH BIN WITH ALL THAT TUPPERWARE. ANDY WARHOL’S KITCHEN: SUCH A SIMPLE KITCHEN! Yes, I didn’t move anything. Exactly as it was. All the Fiestaware, really bad Polish art on the wall, and I liked the fact he had a Brit trash can. I always think [of] his mother sitting like Whistler’s mother on that chair, waiting while she warmed yet another can of Campbell’s soup for her son.

Warhol’s kitchen sink with cookie jars and Fiestaware. In basement Warhol’s wig, glasses and Longines 1930 aviator watch

TELL GW THE BEST ANECDOTE, STORY OR RECOLLECTION OF ANDY WARHOL THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD. Truman Capote said that Andy Warhol was a sphinx without a secret. I love [that] Andy wore a wonderful disguise: the wig and glasses. I don’t think there is a photo without him wearing them. [But] perhaps he walked around New York without them. Nobody would have known. Not even his friends. So I photographed the wig and glasses in his house next to his Egyptian figures of the afterlife, Ramses and Isis. Maxfield Parrish and Mexican crucifix in second bedroom NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 • AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 75

ANDY WAS SO, SO PRIVATE! HE NEVER INVITED ANYONE TO HIS HOME. HE NEVER ENTERTAINED AT HOME. HE WENT OUT EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK! That’s true. Not many people were invited to even stand in the entrance hall. That’s why the house was a complete surprise to many who knew him. I think Jed Johnson was the last person to stay there, [though] his mother stayed with him there for a while before she died.

WHEN ANDY WARHOL SHOWED UP IN THE ROOM ANYWHERE IN NEW YORK CITY, IT WAS BEYOND A BOLT OF ELECTRICITY. THE ROOM SUDDENLY CHARGED! ANDY IS HERE! AND WE ALL KNEW THAT WE WERE IN THE PLACE TO BE. THAT ALL DIED WITH ANDY. NEW YORK IS STILL NOT THE SAME. That’s true—there is nobody to replace him. ✦

Andy Warhol sitting in living room, with Roy Lichtenstein Cat and Jasper Johns’ 7 painting. Marcel Duchamp print reflected in mirror.

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LAURA PHIPPS and JENNIE GOLDSTEIN Assistant Curators, The Whitney Museum of American Art

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Baibakova is busy. “I only budgeted a half hour for this call,” she says, speaking over the phone from London. As the founder of Baibakov Art Projects, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing Western art to Russia, the Moscow-born 32-year-old has played an important role in establishing her native country as one of the new centers of the art world. Baibakova is also the founder and chair of the Artemis Council, a group at the New Museum that supports exhibitions, commissions and residencies by woman artists. In the two years since its founding, the Council has helped stage a number of acclaimed exhibitions, among them retrospectives of the artists Pipilotti Rist and Carol Rama, as well as a new survey, “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.” Add to that roles as an art consultant, a sometimes curator, a prominent collector, and a trustee at Barnard College, where she’s endowed a scholarship for art history, and you can see why Baibakova might not have a lot of time. Tiffany Zabludowicz, 25, has an equally packed schedule. The daughter of two prominent British art collectors—in 2007, they opened a gallery in London dedicated to their holdings—Zabludowicz has fast become a renowned collector in her own right. She’s also member of a number of groups, among them the Guggenheim’s Young Collector Council and the Artemis Council, and an accomplished curator, most recently of a show of women’s sculpture that opened earlier this month in Times Square. In today’s art world, women like Baibakova and Zabludowicz—independent self-starters, the kind of women who chair their own foundations and curate exhibitions in their own galleries—aren’t hard to come by. But what’s particularly notable is how often their determination is paired with an equally strong desire to support other women and their projects. Speak to nearly any woman in the art world today, and what emerges is her deep reverence for her peers. Once upon a time, these women would have been called “it” girls. Their youth, their beauty, their social connections—these are the attributes that would have defined them, their careers reduced to status-granting sinecures. But fortunately, those days are gone. The women of today’s art world are talented, hardworking innovators motivated by a lot more than party invitations.

That’s not to say that they don’t have social lives. Just look at Bettina Prentice, 37, the founder and creative director of Prentice Cultural, a consulting agency that represents nonprofits like the Art Production Fund, Pioneer Works and the Museum of Arts and Design. Parties are a big part of Prentice’s life—galas are one of the best ways for nonprofits to support themselves. Prentice is particularly proud of one she organized recently where she re-created the Stork Club, even replicating the long-gone nightclub’s tabletops and ashtrays.

THE WOMEN OF TODAY’S ART WORLD ARE MOTIVATED BY A LOT MORE THAN PARTY INVITATIONS Supporting artists is an equally important part of Prentice’s job. She helps connect struggling artists with art-supporting brands like Tiffany and, through her work with the Arts Production Fund, helps publicize works like Ugo Rondinone’s sculpture Seven Magic Mountains in the Nevada desert. Through it all, Prentice remains enthralled by the sublime, transformative power of art. The sentiment is as strong now as when she first decided to make it her career. “I went to Georgetown with the intention of majoring in theology, until I took an art history class on Edvard Munch,” she says. “I had a very spiritual experience communing with the work, and I shifted gears almost immediately.” The parties that Prentice helps organize are an important place for new art to be seen. “The social aspects of the art world are productive,” says Tiffany Zabludowicz. “I love going to an opening where I can support art or celebrate a young artist.” One of the most promising of those young artists is Sarah Meyohas, 26. Meyohas makes

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heady, maximalist conceptual art that betrays her academic background. She has three degrees—a B.S. in economics from Wharton, a B.A. in international relations from Penn and an M.F.A. from Yale. Some of her previous works include Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency pegged to the value of her art, and Stock Performance, a performance piece where she drew share price fluctuations in real time. Her latest piece, Cloud of Petals, now on view at Red Bull Arts in Chelsea, documents a yearlong project in which 16 men at the abandoned Bell Works in Holmdel, New Jersey, digitally cataloged 100,000 plucked rose petals. The installation at Red Bull features 3,289 of the rose petals arranged on the exhibition’s walls; an enigmatic, beautifully photographed film of the data entry process; and a VR headset of falling CGI rose petals generated from the data set created in Holmdel. “I’d never done something like this,” Meyohas says. “I didn’t tell that many people about it, I wasn’t doing it for an audience—I was doing it for myself. It was a weird, almost selfish thing.” But for all her modesty, Meyohas is fully dedicated to supporting her peers. In addition to her art, she runs a gallery, Meyohas, which was first located in her apartment and is now in her studio. The space is dedicated to showcasing the work of friends and classmates. “It’s fun because there’s no motivation to sell anything. It was being done out of where I lived so I wasn’t paying an outside space for it. It allowed the work to be a lot more creative and free. Not like at a museum, where you have to plan things a million years in advance,” she says. Of course, museum exhibitions don’t have to be stuffy. Laura Phipps, 36, and Jennie Goldstein, 36, two curators at the Whitney, are coming to art from a new perspective. Phipps is from Tulsa; Goldstein, North Carolina. Growing up so far outside the art world’s red-hot center was challenging. “It makes you feel like an oddity, I guess,” says Goldstein, while Phipps jokes that she knew more about the art world before she moved to New York from the sheer effort required to keep up. Both became interested in art during college. Phipps had intended to be a visual artist like her mother, but came to love museum work from an internship at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Goldstein got into art from dance, and from exploring the intermedia movements of the

BETTINA PRENTICE Founder and Creative Director, Prentice Cultural

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WINSTON WÄCHTER FINE ART, NEW YORK

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’60s, when artists, dancers and musicians all collaborated. “It’s fascinating to do something scholarly and in-depth that also connects with really broad audiences,” Goldstein says. Today, the two are rising stars at the museum—Phipps helped organize “Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World,” a coproduction with the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles that went on view on November 3, and Goldstein was one of the curators on “An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017,” which opened to raves in August. Both shows deal with artists and subjects that aren’t normally given space in museums— Durham’s work is heavily informed by his Native American heritage, while the “Protest” exhibition deals with political movements agitating against the status quo. “Art is a way to making visible and expressing marginalized voices. As an institution, we feel that we have a responsibility to allow those voices to be heard,” says Phipps. The artist Zoë Buckman, 32, is one of those voices. Buckman was introduced to art and culture by her mother, a teacher at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, but the decision to become an artist was one she made on her own. “I’ve made things with my hands since I was young,” she said. “That was how I’d express my creativity. Like most kids, I’d make things for my parents and leave them on their bed. But my artistic practice wasn’t my body. I didn’t sing, I didn’t dance and I didn’t act. I didn’t demonstrate any talent in those things or much interest.” Yet textiles and photography classes convinced Buckman that she had a future in making art. Today, Buckman is acclaimed for her uncompromisingly feminist art. Her most famous, piece, Champ, part of a series called “Mostly, It’s Just Uncomfortable,” features a neon-light uterus with boxing gloves in place of the ovaries. Growing up with two brothers, Buckman had a childhood defined by more traditionally masculine activities, and the contradiction inherent in that is an important motivator for her work. “I find myself drawn to testosterone-heavy arenas, like the boxing gym or the basketball court. In my work, I try to use materials that embody that divide.” It’s a strong, timely vision of female empowerment, one that will seem even timelier when it appears next year in a 43foot high incarnation on L.A.’s Sunset Strip. Women enter the art world from more traditionally feminine places, too. Anne

Huntington, 33, developed a lifelong passion for collecting by hoarding Precious Moments figurines and American Girl dolls as a child. Today, her tastes have shifted toward more mature, complicated stuff, like work by the politically outspoken artist Josephine Meckseper. Huntington is concerned with more than mere aesthetics. “That’s the neat part about collecting,” she says. “An acquisition isn’t just another artwork, it’s a symbol of my belief in the artist’s practice.” Through her involvement with young collectors’ councils, she’s been able to push New York museums to embrace her

“IT TAKES A FEMALE BRAIN TO BE NUTURING, SOCIAL, FOCUSED AND CREATIVE.” vision of art. “I am inspired by impact and these institutions directly impact their communities. It’s incredible to be able to effect change, continue to learn and discover by getting involved.” Involvement can take many different forms. As the third generation in a storied art-dealing family, Isabelle Bscher, 30, the head of America and special projects at Zurich’s Galerie Gmurzynska, had a less radical path to a career in art. Bscher’s grandmother founded Galerie Gmurzynska in Cologne in 1965, and it soon became known for selling works by Russian avant-gardists like Kazimir Malevich and Alexander Rodchenko. When Bscher’s grandmother died, her mother took over, overseeing the gallery’s relocation to Zurich. Bscher is inspired by the power of strong women. The image of her grandmother fleeing communist Poland for Germany and starting a gallery in a strange new country is one that’s stuck with her. “You need to be able to do many things well to be a gallerist,” she

says. “You need to be nurturing with artists, social with collectors, focused in your research and creative in your shows. It takes a female brain to do all that.” Today, Bscher hopes to be able to help to take her family’s gallery to new heights with a long-overdue entrance into the American market. “I’ve found a space that I like very much on the Upper East Side,” she says, although superstition doesn’t allow her to elaborate. There’s a reason that all these women believe so strongly in supporting other women. “There is still a serious level of gender disparity in the art world,” Baibakova says. “During 2016, female artists only got about 20 percent of all solo shows. Women born after 1965 hover around 25 percent of the makeup of art collections, and women born before 1965 are at about 15 percent. Only 30 percent of the artists represented by galleries in the U.K. and the U.S. are women. And on the dealer side, although there may be some very prominent female dealers, the art world still feels like a boys club.” It’s an inequality that’s been hard to correct. “There are lots of women curators,” says Jennie Goldstein, “but men continue to primarily have the positions of greatest power in the art world. When it comes to leadership roles, they still tend to dominate. There are examples of women in those roles, but that difference is still there.” As long as men continue to be in those positions, advancing women beyond token status will be a challenge. “White men continue to be the richest demographic in our society,” Buckman said. “They are going to continue to buy work made by artists who are telling their stories and with whom they have an affinity.” But the miniature ecosystem that these women are modeling—female collectors buying from female gallerists, female curators showcasing works by female artists—is a heartening development. While power may still be primarily held by men, there are more powerful women than ever. “The planes are equaling,” Zabludowicz says. “Women still get paid less for their art, they still get less exhibitions, but it’s beginning to even out. You can’t define all art by gender, but I think there are strong female voices at the moment that are finally being given more of a platform. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but it’s a wonderful development to see.” “And, of course,” she adds, “girls gotta support girls.” ✦

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Sarah Crowner, Backdrop (after Rodhe, 1961), 2017. Acrylic on canvas, sewn, 149.9 x 675.6 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and additional funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill © Sarah Crowner. 86 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

THE WRIGHT RESTAURANT AT THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

ANNE HUNTINGTON Collector

ISABELLE BSCHER Head of America and Special Projects, Galerie Gmurzynska

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Living the Lifestyle CAROLYNE ROEHM IS CHARMED AND CHARMING IN CHARLESTON by Linda Marx

FIVE YEARS AGO, WHEN CAROLYNE ROEHM turned 60, she asked herself, “Where am I going to grow old?” An iconic 1980s hostess and fashion designer who started her career working for the late Oscar de la Renta, she has since become a lifestyle expert, authoring a dozen coffee-table books mostly on the decorative arts. Roehm loved Europe and kept a small apartment in Paris. “I looked at three places in France but Mom was skeptical,” she says, during a break from gardening at Weatherstone, her stately 1765 stone estate in Sharon, Connecticut. She rebuilt after it was destroyed by a 1999 fire. “I like a ruin, but it would have been too complicated to restore, and I love Italy, but didn’t even look there. After thinking about dealing with airplanes and issues in foreign countries, buying in Europe became too much.” Over the years—both before and after her Nouvelle Society–era marriage (her second) to private equity billionaire Henry Kravis—she’d visited Charleston, South Carolina, often with friends like literary agent Lynn Nesbit and the late fashion designer Bill Blass. She especially liked Charleston’s architecture, history, preservation and Southern plantations. “I asked myself, ‘Where else can I go and be surrounded by visual beauty?’ ” she says. Raised in Missouri, the former Carolyne Jane Smith, the statuesque brunette daughter of teachers, has always felt at home in the South. She has chowed down on grits and collard greens and still loves fried food. She read with passion the late novelist Pat Conroy’s riveting South Carolina plots. And during her frequent travels, she learned that Southern women actually care about the contents of her books. “I write about entertaining and gracious tables,” says Roehm. “Southern women are not ashamed of being pretty.” In 2012, after speaking about her design book A Passion for Blue and White before a sold-out audience of 350 at Charleston’s Gibbes Museum of Art, Roehm took her mother and her partner, retired businessman Simon Pinniger, house hunting. “They both told me I was crazy to think about buying in Charleston because it was too much money,” says Roehm. 88 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

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But the talented designer has always had a mind of her own, seeing the future with a respect for the past. So she bought a Greek Revival house in the city, then restored, furnished and decorated it, including a complete redesign of the kitchen. She collapsed the mud room and changed the entrance to add large windows, which offer the sense of being outdoors with her towering palms, delightful birds and the natural light of Charleston.

One example is Texas-born Charlotte Beers, former undersecretary of State for public diplomacy and public affairs reporting to General Colin Powell, as well as an advertising woman extraordinaire. Beers calls their Charleston girls group “the G6.” “I was so serious in the 1980s,” admits Roehm. “I am more relaxed now, but I do help raise awareness for causes I believe in.”

Roehm used a classic Charleston theme for the decor, served traditional Southern fare divided between two elegantly appointed tables, and was happy to host in the city she believes is the most historically preserved in the United States. “Charleston has such an interesting and varied history,” says Roehm. “The home of Porgy and Bess, the birthplace of the Charleston, and one of the first American

She also spent a great deal of time creating her new home’s surrounding gardens, ripping out 3,000 boxwood plants and adding Astroturf. “I worked hard on the garden after Hurricane Matthew caused such massive flooding last year,” she says. Of the storm, she observes, “I was impressed with how people in Charleston respond to adversity: they help each other and seem to have a sense of humor about everything. Even though things had shut down, a store owner displayed one of my books in the window and invited me in for a vodka!” While Pinniger owns a home in Aspen, where they ski and enjoy the snow, much of Roehm’s time is divided among Weatherstone in spring and summer for gardening, a dramatic pied-à-terre on East 57th Street in Manhattan in February and March, and Charleston in autumn and December. “I try to go to Charleston six times a year and often take a couple of dogs along,” she says.

“I was impressed with how people in Charleston respond to adversity: they help each other and seem to have a sense of humor about everything.” The talented tastemaker allows that her life is vastly different now than it was in the mid- to late 1980s, the era of multimillion-dollar bashes, extravagant charity events and marital tiffs of the rich and famous finding their way onto Page Six. While equally busy, Roehm doesn’t go to many charity events these days. “Charleston is not driven by power and money,” says Roehm. “It’s more of a mixed city with baby boomers who want sun and warmth. It’s not as insular as it used to be. In the 1980s, I didn’t have a zillion girlfriends either.” A group of new girlfriends in Charleston has greatly enriched her life. Some were born and bred in the South, others come from New York, California and Chicago. “I have met wonderful professional women in Charleston, and we get together,” she says. “They are bright and fun-loving.”

For example, when Downton Abbey and Gosford Park creator Julian Fellowes came to Charleston last January to promote a new literary festival, the head of the Library Society (founded in 1748), the oldest cultural organization in town, turned to Roehm. Aware of her love for history, art, architecture and decor, Anne Cleveland, the group’s executive director, wanted her involved. “Not only did Carolyne host a spectacular dinner party in her beautiful home for Lord and Lady Fellowes, within a mere six hours she had charmed and captivated them so profoundly that they left her home discussing whether or not to buy a pied-à-terre in Charleston,” says Cleveland. “She is one of the most talented and genuinely kind people I have ever encountered.”

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cities to have synagogues—an enviable example of religious tolerance in its colonial days.” It’s no surprise that Roehm plans to write a book about Charleston after she completes her current one, a project due next year focusing on her life in style and design, which will reveal why she left her 1980s fashion career in New York. That could have had something to do with her divorce and concomitant loss of financing. The Charleston book will delve into the restoration of her house complete with other personal, historic and cultural elements of her new Southern lifestyle.

It will likely also demonstrate that the bright lights of Nouvelle Society haven’t dimmed; they’ve just found different ways to shine. “I love to paint, have dinner parties and see my friends,” Roehm says. “I enjoy strolling through the streets of Charleston at night to gaze at the sunset, the gaslights and the lights in people’s windows. There are quirky people in Charleston, and I love that. New Yorkers are different from Southerners. I like to be around different kinds of people.” ✦

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Selling

South Florida WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GOING ON IN THE REAL ESTATE SCENE

Participants

moderated by Len Dugow

LOUIS BIRDMAN, Co-developer of One Thousand Museum

EDGARDO DEFORTUNA, President and CEO of Fortune International Group

DANIEL LEBENSOHN, Principal, BH3

AVENUE: Gentlemen, what are your opinions on the current state of the South Florida real estate marketplace? EDGARDO DEFORTUNA: If you compare it with the peak of the market in 2014 through 2016, we are seeing between half to a third of the sales volume. I don’t see a significant change from what is happening now in the near future. There are not going to be any significant movements on pricing, because most developers that are under construction already have what they need to complete their building. DANIEL LEBENSOHN: I think that the market we’re experiencing is actually a healthy one, from the perspective that things are kind of outpacing, and everyone’s looking to get into it from both the development side and the buying side. But the barometer needs to be taken over a period of time. Everyone is brilliant when the market is going up, and then people tend not to look that smart when the markets are weak. Right now, things are selling. They’re not selling at the velocity that developers would prefer, but things are moving. In markets where there’s a thinner inventory or you have a product that is distinguished, that product is still getting attention. As far as the two-to-three-year window, it’s anyone’s guess. But money is still cheap, and this country is still in high demand. The safety and security of the real property rights here still stand true, even in the Latin markets, so people still have the same strong desires to be here. JON PAUL PEREZ: I agree with everything that’s been said. I wouldn’t consider it a down market. I would consider it more of a stabilized market. Like Edgardo said, selling 30, 40, 50 units a month doesn’t happen in any other market. The sales that we’re seeing now, anywhere from 5 to 10 units a month, is a stabilized, healthy market. I think that people still look at Florida as a relatively reliable and affordable investment compared to other major markets, and I think

JON PAUL PEREZ, Vice President of Related Group

we’ll continue to drive demand, especially from foreign demographics. South Florida, specifically Miami, is a place where people like to have a second home or even a third home. RYAN SHEAR: I’ll be the pessimist. The current market’s is not doing well. What I mean is, in terms of new development, things have more or less stopped. If you are looking at the high-end luxury product on the market right now, let’s say focusing on residences starting at $4 million and up, the market has slowed down a bit. But that’s my personal opinion on where the market is. Not to mention that buyers these days have become more knowledgeable and are taking their time when investing in a product. There are a lot of smart people around this table, but the market’s just not good enough to start a new project right now. That doesn’t mean that jobs aren’t well capitalized, or that’s it’s a down market necessarily, but things have certainly slowed down. So now we wait and hold on to the projects and land we have now and see what happens down the road. LOUIS BIRDMAN: That’s a good point. South Florida real estate has largely been driven by Latin America in the last handful of years. When the exchange rates are good, or there’s some instability in a Latin American country, that money moves here. When things settle down, some of it moves back there. What we’re starting to see is an increase in domestic sales. When I say “domestic,” I don’t necessarily mean someone who was born in America, but someone who may have moved here from another country and now is now a U.S. citizen– this is their primary place of residence, even though they may have residences in three or four other places. Where the domestic sales used to make up a much smaller percentage, you’re now seeing more sales and interest from the domestic buyer than you’ve seen in the past. At 1000 Museum our office is as busy now as it was before; it just takes a little more time to get a sale done.

RYAN SHEAR, Principal of PMG

AVENUE: Speaking of Latin American buyers, briefly: The current administration has made promises to crack down on illegal immigration, and as the Treasury Department intensifies its scrutiny of large-cash purchases, specifically of South Florida luxury condos. Do you sense that there’s a new hurdle in terms of South Americans coming back into the market? LEBENSOHN: It doesn’t help, but then again, I can’t believe that every unit that’s being sold here in South Florida is being sold to a buyer with illegal funds. It’s a little frustrating that the government keeps pushing this issue, when you look at what the investigation results are: a handful of bad apples. There’s hundreds of thousands of transactions taking place in the South Florida market.

AVENUE: Do you think potential foreign buyers will be more hesitant to look at South Florida because of the increased scrutiny? DEFORTUNA: I’ve traveled a lot and speak to a lot of those buyers personally. These kinds of buyers are very sophisticated, especially the ones who are buying our product, and they aren’t really concerned about it at all. And who comes with cash in a suitcase today? It’s really very unusual—at least we haven’t seen it. LEBENSOHN: Even the threshold [to trigger heightened scrutiny] is a million dollars. A milliondollar transaction in the Miami luxury market is a normal transaction. DEFORTUNA: There is now this addition, another layer of bureaucracy, to what can already be a complicated transaction...it certainly can make things difficult for legitimate buyers. BIRDMAN: I agree. It’s not helping the situation. I think that the government’s focus is in the wrong place. Its focus shouldn’t be on people who are trying to buy real estate, it should be more on the massive

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PALM B EAC H ROU N D TA BL E movement of money that’s taking place, and how it arrived in the country in the first place. LEBENSOHN: I’d say in the last year, calls that I get from our buyers are, “I need a little more time to send my money because I’ve got to do something with my bank.” There are now several more hoops they have to jump through on both sides of the equation.

Edgardo DeFortuna

time, that brings in a domestic buyer who is used to putting up 20 percent and getting a mortgage. That brings them in, and it actually works rather well.

“Miami…has become the “showoff city” as far as the type of buildings that we’re producing.” —Edgardo DeFortuna

AVENUE: Louis, you were saying that it is taking a lot longer for buyers to pull the trigger…are you now providing concessions to help move things along? BIRDMAN: I think at the higher level, buyers are even more sensitive to price, and yet everyone still wants a deal. From a concession standpoint, the thing that we have the most requests for is spreading out the payments. Ini-

Ryan Shear

singular assets that had some greater insularity to the rest of the market, perceived or real. AVENUE: J.P., a couple of months ago, I was reading that Related had provided rather significant increase broker commissions to sell X number of units within X number of days to push through the unsold units at one of your Downtown buildings. Has that strategy proven to be effective? AVENUE: With potential buyers now seeing more hurdles in making a purchase, how dramatic is this shift in terms of providing concessions to buyers now to both cater to their needs as well as clear out the oversupply? What considerations have you had to make, if any? SHEAR: While we are giving incentives on price, we want to be conscious of current buyers. We’re willing to reduce inventory but not to the point where it’s a detriment to every other buyer in the building.

PEREZ: Yes. Every week we analyze how each project is performing and what’s working. If we’re 80 percent or 90 percent sold, we test different options. Maybe, instead of taking a 50 percent deposit, we just take 30 percent, because we’ve already collected the amount of money we need to finish. A lot of the Daniel Lebensohn

AVENUE: Daniel, with a unique project like Privé, a private island, how aggressive do you have to be to close a buyer in this market cycle? LEBENSOHN: In one respect, it starts and ends with the math, and on the other hand, it’s an emotional buy. At the end of the day, a project like Privé is a personal product. They’re not buying an incomeproducing property, but a first, second or third home. It’s developer’s math, and by that, I mean BH3 is a boutique developer—we don’t have 10 projects. For a large company like Related or PMG, the math is different. But we’ve had a very specific focus. Even in the recession, we focused on what we felt were 96 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

tially, we were at 60 percent down, but we did deals at 50 percent or even 40 percent. It was a function of how that was coming in, a balancing act.

AVENUE: Edgardo, you really understand both sides of the equation as both a broker and a developer. What is your take? DEFORTUNA: I don’t think there is a magic formula for this. When you have 20 units left on a 400-unit building and you’ve raised the price three times, I think giving 2 percent more to the broker is a smart move. But nobody is saying, “Hey, I’m asking $1,400 [per square foot], I’m going to reduce it to $1,000.” That’s certainly not happening.

AVENUE: Ryan, you mentioned that the market has paused, and you’re concerned that we’re not seeing as much new development. Does this talk to a more mature market for the future?

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PALM B E AC H ROU N D TA BL E “I think that people still AVENUE: I think that each one of you represents look at Florida as a a testament to what Edgardo is talking about, in terms of developer’s selection of architects, interior relatively reliable and affordable designers, landscape architects, along with marketing partners. It’s all become quite extraordinary within investment compared to other the last 10 years. major markets.” PEREZ: People want to be here. The bar has definitely —Jon Paul Perez been raised. We’re competing on par with cities like Jon Paul Perez

SHEAR: Not having as many new starts to me is a positive. It flushes out the “fly-by-night” developers. Down cycles clean out expensive costs and developers who can’t sustain certain financing. New project announcements will be back shortly.

AVENUE: Without question, lending institutions have pulled back and are taking a much more restrained profile. Is this a healthy event for the South Florida marketplace? PEREZ: Developers are always optimists. If you give a developer the money, he’s going to build. I think having the banks be more conservative slows things down to a healthier pace. The last few deals we’ve done were all over 70 percent sold, prior to contract, and those lenders were not typical banks, but private equity shops. They saw a void in the market where banks were stepping out, and they came in with higherpriced funding. DEFORTUNA: When HSBC gets paid off and your Regents gets paid off, etc., those banks now have funds that needs to get back out once again. The question then becomes who can build a condo demanding 60 percent and 40 percent to 50 percent deposits? The people around this table, developers with good reputations, can get those loans. The question is, how does the market get there? SHEAR: There’s a mass adjustment taking place. Investors who used to insist they wouldn’t invest without a strong return ratio now have to adjust that downward because the funds are more expensive. It’s a bit more challenging today. And to Dan’s point, it is much easier to get financing for multifamily than for condominium. Classing multifamily is at the top of the list for a lot of funds.

New York. We’re not New York. We’re Miami. Quite different. But with the exception of New York, there’s very few other places in the country where design has become so important. It’s a driving force. Further, we’ve got so much talent here in this city that has come from all over the world, and they all ultimately work with our local architects and engineers. It’s a great thing for South Florida.

AVENUE: What would you say is currently attributing to Miami being a hot market? DEFORTUNA: In the general statement, we are all building very, very special projects, and hiring the top architects in the world, the top interior designers in the world. Miami in that sense has become the “showoff city” as far as the type of buildings that we’re producing. It’s very difficult to find any other place that has so much talent all together in the same city. We’re trying to figure out ways of encouraging each other, both in branding and design and advertising.

“South Florida real estate has largely been driven by Latin America in the last handful of years.”

AVENUE: I think it’s the best form of competition that goes on here in Miami. The developers really are very interested in distinguishing themselves from one another’s projects. And it raises the bar for all the developers to do something that is first and foremost singular as well extraordinary. ✦

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BIRDMAN: The shift to domestic interest is heating things up as well. A domestic buyer isn’t looking to invest in a preconstruction building that will deliver in three or four years. These buyers are interested in currently available inventory, and are thinking much more immediately, which changes how we present our projects, and actually aligns well with this stage in our economy after several years of building.

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AS K HA L L F. W I L L K I E

A moment with one of the city’s top real estate experts . . . 3RD QUARTER 2017 The average price for all apartments fell to $1,961,480, which was 4 percent lower than a year ago and below $2 million for the first time in almost two years. For resales alone, prices averaged $1,619,737: a 6 percent increase from the third quarter of 2016. While the total number of closings was 10 percent higher than a year ago, we must remember that the market was especially weak in 2016’s third quarter due to concerns about Brexit and the impending presidential election. After a surge earlier this year, the current luxury market has returned to the slower pace of 2016, with buyers once again concerned about inventory levels and events occurring worldwide. However, contracts are being signed where asking prices are justifiable—based on comparable sales and market conditions. ✦

Hall F. Willkie, President, Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales, 212.906.9203 or hwillkie@bhsusa.com

FRANCIS HILLS

“The average price for all apartments fell to $1,961,480—4 percent lower than a year ago and below $2 million for the first time in almost two years.”

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LIVING ON THE EDGE

Thanks to our Partner Buildings for keeping it clean by supporting Central Park Conservancy’s Perimeter Association Join our effort to keep your front yard beautiful. Over 100 buildings surrounding the Park support the Perimeter Association annually, enabling us to remove snow, leaves and graffiti; pick up trash and debris; power wash and sweep sidewalks to make our Park’s entrance as beautiful as what’s inside. Is your building on the list? Please joins us! For more information, please call 212.310.6655 or email wcommittee@centralparknyc.org.

Partner Buildings Benefactors 800 Fifth Avenue* 825 Fifth Avenue* 985 Fifth Avenue* 55 Central Park West

Champions 1 Central Park West* 15 Central Park West*

Devotees 920 Fifth Avenue* 960 Fifth Avenue* 995 Fifth Avenue The Mount Sinai Hospital* 320 Central Park West 322 Central Park West The Hampshire House* The New York Athletic Club*

Loyalists 810 Fifth Avenue* 820 Fifth Avenue 870 Fifth Avenue 2 East 70th Street* 910 Fifth Avenue* 936 Fifth Avenue 956 Fifth Avenue 965 Fifth Avenue* 993 Fifth Avenue* 998 Fifth Avenue 1001 Fifth Avenue 1016 Fifth Avenue 1020 Fifth Avenue* 1025 Fifth Avenue

2 East 88th Street* 1125 Fifth Avenue 1133 Fifth Avenue* 1136 Fifth Avenue* 111 West 67th Street 101 Central Park West San Remo The Beresford 300 Central Park West* 382 Central Park West 106 Central Park South 200 Central Park South 210 Central Park South 240 Central Park South*

Fans 785 Fifth Avenue Metropolitan Club of New York 817 Fifth Avenue* 4 East 66th Street 2 East 67th Street* 215 East 68th Street* 254 East 68th Street* 211 East 70th Street* 838 Fifth Avenue 875 Fifth Avenue The Frick Collection 912 Fifth Avenue 927 Fifth Avenue* 944 Fifth Avenue* 945 Fifth Avenue* 950 Fifth Avenue 988 Fifth Avenue

1010 Fifth Avenue 1050 Fifth Avenue 1056 Fifth Avenue 21 East 90th Street 1085 Park Avenue* 1080 Fifth Avenue 1115 Fifth Avenue 1120 Fifth Avenue* 1140 Fifth Avenue* 1148 Fifth Avenue* 1158 Fifth Avenue 1165 Fifth Avenue 1170 Fifth Avenue 1215 Fifth Avenue 1255 Fifth Avenue 1274 Fifth Avenue 17 East 89th Street 50 Central Park West 20 West 64th Street 50 West 67th Street 25 West 81st Street* The Langham 239 Central Park West 241 Central Park West* 20 West 86th Street* 27 West 86th Street* 40 West 86th Street* 115 West 86th Street 144 West 86th Street* 279 Central Park West* 295 Central Park West* 327 Central Park West 128 Central Park South 222 Central Park South*

Friends 930 Fifth Avenue 17 East 84th Street 30 East 85th Street 1107 Fifth Avenue* 1130 Fifth Avenue New York Academy of Medicine 1270 Fifth Avenue The Jewish Museum* Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 60 West 68th Street 80 Central Park West* The Brentmore 11 West 69th Street 22-24 West 69th Street Marymount School of New York 27 West 72nd Street 151 Central Park West Congregation Rodeph Sholom 285 Central Park West The Dwight School 350 Central Park West 418 Central Park West* 444 Central Park West 455 Central Park West 477 Central Park West 137 West 110th Street 21 West 110th Street 30 Central Park South 120 Central Park South

A special thank you to the RUDIN MANAGEMENT COMPANY and its residents for their continued generosity. Reflects gifts between July 1, 2016 to October 15, 2017 *Denotes buildings that have given to the Perimeter Association for the past five consecutive years.

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The Right Broker Makes All the Difference. Over the past 37 years, Stribling brokers have successfully represented the world’s most discerning clients, offering an exceptional level of service, integrity and sophistication coupled with an in-depth understanding of the ever-changing real estate market. Stribling professionals embrace a wide range of tastes and styles, ensuring that each client is matched with the broker who can best assist them in buying or selling their home.

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Brooklyn Heights Charming Brick TH 3BR 3Bath Owner/Broker. $3.599M. Web 17468835. Karen Foley 917.364.9264

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THE STAR OF MIAMI’S MOST SOUGHT-AFTER HOMES Artefacto’s Paulo Bacchi Invites You Inside the Dream

hen Brazilian furnishings star Paulo Bacchi welcomes you to his weekend residence on Fisher Island, you can’t help but feel drawn to the sophistication that practically emulates the home’s flawless interiors. Cool monochromatic tones and textures shimmer across the highgloss floors, surpassed only by endless bay views spanning all the way to Downtown Miami. Bacchi, his wife Lais, and adult twin sons Pietro and Bruno all dress in neutrals, so as not to interrupt the understated drama of their 5,000-square-foot Miami Beach getaway, with designs by his legendary family business, Artefacto. “Miami is where the most dynamic cultures in the world want to live,” says Bacchi, who celebrates 15 years in Miami with three local showrooms and 25 in Brazil. “Homes should feel like home, but with distinction and connectivity to the beauty and energy that surrounds the city.” It is this profound design philosophy that Bacchi brings to every environment Artefacto touches. He’s made a name for himself among Northeasterners for creating multimillion-dollar turnkey condominiums and spec home interiors. Demand for Artefacto staging and design services hit an all-time high this year. 106 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

In 2017, Artefacto furnished hundreds of newly completed luxury condos for seasonal residents of the Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club, Faena, Porsche Design Tower, Palazzo Del Sol on Fisher Island, and 1 Hotel & Homes, and worked on custom-designed single-family estates by the city’s most prestigious homebuilders, like Barry Brodsky, Todd Glaser and Jarett Posner. Bacchi completes projects typically within one week, due to an expansive warehouse inventory, which has proven to be a lucrative strategy. Artefacto was born in the vibrant city of São Paulo and integrates the spirit of contemporary Brazilian culture into its exclusive collections of indoor/outdoor furnishings, home accessories and artwork. The newest collection pays homage to 15 glorious years in Miami, featuring 20 original pieces that merge classic Brazilian aesthetics with Miami modern. What’s next? During summer 2018, Bacchi breaks ground on his newest and largest showroom ever: a 40,000-square-foot flagship in Coral Gables by world-renowned DOMO Architecture + Design. ✦ For inquiries, email bruna@artefacto.com

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LAS OLAS BOULEVARD, REINVENTED The Famed Thoroughfare Is Evolving to Serve the New Fort Lauderdale

s a city, Fort Lauderdale has topped its share of lists during the past year, although not necessarily ones you might expect. Shedding its reputation as a spring break mecca, the city is racking up praise, from being named the best for brunch in America by Travel & Leisure, to becoming known as one of the country’s top staycation spots. Today, the “Venice of America” is all about living up to its name. Enter the area’s most prestigious property owners—The Las Olas Company, Barron Real Estate and Hudson Capital Group—who’ve banded together to modernize and transform Fort Lauderdale’s most famous tree-lined shopping and dining district. Cosmetics retailer Bluemercury, along with eco-conscious jeweler Alex and Ani, Louie Bossi’s Ristorante and Pizzeria and Mexican “soul food” joint El Camino, are just a few of the new names on Las Olas. The influx of professionals, families and seasonal condo dwellers, largely from the Northeast, are fueling downtown’s growth, along with up-and-coming affluent residential neighborhoods, like Flagler Village and Wilton Manors. “Walking down Las Olas, you can’t help but feel the energy and potential to do something great,” said Michael Comras, CEO of the

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Comras Company, which has been tapped to lease upwards of 100,000 square feet of commercial space on the strip. “With more than 10,000 new residences built downtown, we’re reestablishing retail and dining experiences that fulfill the lifestyle needs of new consumers in the area. This is where New Yorkers spend their winters and young families own their first home.” With housing costs still considerably less than Miami to the south and Palm Beach to the north, Fort Lauderdale remains a great value proposition. More than 1,200 hotel rooms and 15,000 apartments and condominiums have been approved and built in recent years, helping to turn the city into a true “live-work-play” destination. New residential offerings in the area include the Related Group’s recently opened Icon Las Olas, W Residences Fort Lauderdale and Auberge Beach Residences and Spa Fort Lauderdale, which counts NFL legend Dan Marino, style icon Annie Falk and NHL’s Jacob Trouba among future residents. Comras added, “It’s extremely rare to find such an organic streetscape tucked just steps away from some of the world’s most beautiful beaches, Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale International Airport and a central business district spanning more than six million square feet.” ✦

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A DUPLEX TO REMEMBER Your search for space is over. Meticulously designed and renovated, 15-room duplex residence spanning 4,863 square feet offering 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, a library/den, media room, home office, home gym and plentiful storage. Trust, LLC, corporation, and foreign purchasers welcomed in this conveniently located, full-service building with 24-hour doorman and concierge, private garage, landscaped roof terrace, bike room and recently renovated façade, lobby, hallways and elevators. $8.495 million. Web # 2750553. Contact Lauren Muss @ 212.350.8000.

UPPER EAST SIDE LUXURY This Upper East Side treasure is 25 feet wide with a classic limestone façade in the Beaux Arts style. It was gut renovated by the M(Group), with 19 rooms, 7 bedrooms, 7 full baths, 3 half baths and 11 working fireplaces. The space is exceptionally elegant. The main staircase ascends upward for 5 levels capped with a skylight, and a secondary staircase encased in glass brings extra light into the house—plus a stunning double-height library, which opens to a terrace with a fireplace. $36.5 million. Web # 16612140. Contact Paula Del Nunzio at 212.906.9207.

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A WATERFRONT COMPOUND Originally owned and operated as a country farm, this handsome 17room residence with two guest houses has not been for sale in more than 50 years. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity exists here within the quiet hamlet of Quiogue, conveniently located between Westhampton Beach and Quogue, just moments to all conveniences and pristine ocean beaches. Its 16 acres comprise three parcels with more than 500 feet of newly bulkheaded water frontage, as well as the main house, 2 guest houses, 3-stall horse barn with paddocks, tennis court and basketball court: it’s an ideal outdoor enthusiast’s paradise. $23.45 million. Web # 37463. Contact Tim Davis @ 631.702.9211. 110 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017

A HUDSON YARDS PENTHOUSE Dramatic duplex penthouse atop Fifteen Hudson Yards, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group. More than 5,100 square feet, this penthouse features a stunning double-height great room with 26-foot ceilings with walls of glass and 270-degree views overlooking the Hudson River! With 4- to 5-bedroom suites, library, dining room, family room, Bulthaup kitchen and fireplace, this beautiful home is remarkable in every way. $32 million. Contact Sherry Tobak @ 212.385.1515.

Breakers Row Direct Oceanfront | $12,500,000 | BreakersRowDirectOceanfront.com

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Elegant Palm Beach Regency Regency | $7,850,000 Sothebyshomes.com/0077471

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TRAUM SAFE IS TRUE LUXURY Providing a home for every piece in your beloved jewelry collection

stablished in 1991, Traum Safe is the world leader in high-security, bespoke, luxury safes for affluent families. While Traum has had a steadfast presence on Madison Avenue for more than two decades, their safes are to be found in the finest homes around the world, from New York to London, Hong Kong to Geneva, and Panama City to Palm Beach. Traum Safe will bring an unparalleled level of personalized security, luxury and convenience into your home.

SECURITY Built in Switzerland to rigorous fire and burglary protection standards, Traum safes offer Swiss bank vault protection in the privacy of your home. Each safe has a strategically planned defense structure that uses unconventional materials and systems that cannot easily be compromised.

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safe that matches your personal style and home décor. From initial consultation to white-glove, in-home installation, Traum keeps the process simple and discreet. Their professional team will deliver and install your safe anywhere in the world.

CONVENIENCE The hallmark of Traum Safe is simplicity of use. Their advanced locks will shut the world out but let you in with ease. Hidden behind the beautiful lacquer and powerful armor is a practical interior individually designed for your collection. Whether you need special trays for peculiar jewelry pieces, hooks for hanging jewelry or built-in automatic watch winders, Traum will design a thoughtful interior for your convenience. ✦

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561.296.8720 | jim.mccann@corcoran.com Real estate agents affiliated with The Corcoran Group are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of The Corcoran Group. Equal Housing Opportunity. The Corcoran Group is a licensed real estate broker located at 660 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10065. All information furnished regarding property for sale or rent or regarding financing is from sources deemed reliable, but Corcoran makes no warranty or representation as to the accuracy thereof. All property information is presented subject to errors, omissions, price changes, changed property conditions, and withdrawal of the property from the market, without notice.

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THE WIG BIGWIG H

ow do you attain perfection? How do you rise to the top of your field? For Dov, becoming New York’s finest wigmaker began at 21, when some of New York’s finest taught him the ins and outs of the trade. Dov’s inherent talents, notably his fabulous design skills, combined with his hard work, brought him success. Soon, Dov was working with iconic fashion designers and legendary celebrities, all of whom continue to rule the runways. But you don’t need to be a big-time star to rock a Dov creation. All you need is an appointment. What makes Dov’s wigs, hairpieces, extensions and falls so special is the way that he customizes them for each customer. Through a personalized consultation in his salon, Dov designs the wig or desired hairpiece that’s right for each client. He follows it up with a fitting, styling, cutting and shaping. It’s only through that rigorous process that he can be sure that his creation is right for his customer. Thus, each wig and hairpiece is custom designed and custom

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warburgrealty.com Warburg Realty Partnership LTD, as the Exclusive Agent, represents the seller of this property. All information in this document is from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, or changes without prior notice. No representation is made as to the accuracy of any information, including, without limitation, any description, amenities, floor plans, measurements or square footage. All information should be independently confirmed and any reliance is solely at buyer’s own risk. Real estate brokers and salespeople affiliated with Warburg Realty are independent contractors and are not employees of Warburg Realty. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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I have grown up surrounded by great architecture and beauty. Manhattan and the Hamptons have always been my home and my inspiration. That is what I know and where I do my best work. I have built my client and business relationships around a style that is edgy yet timeless. I’ve worked with amazingly gifted partners to build exciting works that I am incredibly proud of. My team and clients mean everything to me. Our lifeblood is our lifestyle. The pleasure of light, good flow and beautiful materials is the key to every successful project. I don’t speculate and have learned to listen, suggest and ask of my clients what their target is, and equally so, what their concerns are. I do not enjoy stress in any form and neither do my clients. I am passionate about the arts, traveling, friends, and design challenges. Sketching an idea on a cocktail napkin to a walk-through on a finished project is what appeals to me most. We are always excited about each project and enjoy the satisfaction and pleasure of getting things done. The Client Is The True Architect. ✦ HHCM Consulting McLoughlin Building 280 Elm Street Suite A Southampton, NY 11968 hhoge@hhcmconsulting.com hamiltonhoge.com 631.283.0052

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CHEFANIE’S TIPS FOR HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING Stephanie Nass—or Chefanie, as she is known to friends and fans—has been cooking and entertaining for as long as she can remember. It was not long after college that she turned her passion for dinner parties into Victory Club, a roving dining club that creates art-inspired meals for its members. Chefanie shares some entertaining tips for your holiday party. Find more at chefanie.com. ✦

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A PRIVATE PARADISE IN WINDSOR, ON FLORIDA’S TREASURE COAST, AVENUE EDITOR MICHAEL GROSS FINDS AN ENCLAVE OF WEALTH AND TASTE

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HILARY AND GALEN WESTON know a lot about luxury. The British-Canadian couple have a food and bakery fortune measured in the billions, own department stores from Holt Renfrew to Selfridge’s and, through their family foundation, have given away hundreds of millions of dollars. They also created Windsor on a barrier island between Orlando and Palm Beach. In 1989, they hired Andrés Duany and Elizabeth PlaterZyberk to turn a plot of Florida land into an innovative community-by-the sea for others like themselves. It isn’t for (or open to) everyone, but it’s a secondhome heaven for a select few.

Elite Airways flies direct from Newark to Vero Beach, the town nearest to Windsor. A short drive brings residents to its gates, and a world of civility and calm. Sited alongside Florida Highway A1A, the private village has a beach club, and its most luxe private homes (including the Westons’) are strung along its ocean side like pearls. On its inland side, Windsor is a community of quaint car-free streets inspired by the New Urbanism movement and lined with Anglo-Caribbean-style residences, an art gallery, elaborate sports facilities, a breathtaking town hall (which doubles as a nondenominational church), a village store, a breakfast and snack bar, and a formal restaurant.

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Windsor is paradise for equestrians, with its eighteen stables; fourteen paddocks; jumping, dressage and lunging rings; and a 400-yard polo field. The 425-acre property includes 10.5 miles of trails for riding, bicycling, jogging and walking. There are even ponies for children. Don’t ride? There’s an extensive fitness center, a professional croquet greensward, eight jasmine-trimmed tennis courts designed by Stan Smith, an 18-hole par-72 Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course (with no tee times), a putting green, a driving range and an offsite gun club.

WINDSOR DENIZENS ARE BOTH FOUR-LEGGED AND FAMOUS It’s a dog’s life at Windsor, too, where a dedicated dog run has a daily Yappy Hour. Whose dogs are they? You never know who you might run into, from residents like the Swarovski, Peterson, and de Vos families, and tennis legend Ivan Lendl, to visitors ranging from senators and Supreme Court justices to basic run-of-the-mill billionaires. ✦

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B.Y.O.B. I was forced to become a genius at skin care. I am a noncertified dermatologist. I do facials, waxing of every bodily area, Botox injections (BYOB—Bring Your Own Botox), and the occasional cosmetic surgery without anesthesia. My prices are fantastic. I have an exclusive clientele of one person: me. I scorn lesser experts like Lawrence H. Block, a professor of pharmaceutics at Duquesne University. He has been researching skin cream for forty years. “The ingredients do not penetrate the skin,” he writes. “As soon as you cease using the products, any effect you are seeing will dissipate rapidly.” Seriously, Professor Block, isn’t whatever part of myself I’m staring at in the mirror “dissipating rapidly”? For the slow learners out there, consider Rogaine (which both men and women can now use at the new 5 percent strength). Say you have a bald spot. You put Rogaine on it. You have hair. If you know the hair will disappear without Rogaine, why stop using it? Even exercise is like Rogaine: If you stop doing it, you know you’ll be fat. And flabby. Oh, and old. Once you give up on these things and let entropy take over you’re going to be indistinguishable from any hunched-over, elephant-skinned bag lady walking down the street.

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I made some calculations. I didn’t have the $60,000 for the only face-lift I ever coveted—done by the very surgeon whose name I still had under lock and key. But I was a “cradle Estée Lauder” girl. The one skin care product that I knew helped me keep up appearances was “Re-Nutriv Ultimate Age Lifting Crème.” It cost $1,100 for 8.4 ounces. Pricey. Don’t ask me what else I’ve tried—I’ve sampled everything from Fango mud to an acupuncture “facelift” using gold needles at Clinique La Prairie in Montreux. I’ve outgrown clean, affordable Neutrogena. (I don’t care what Nicole Kidman tells you: Rapid Wrinkle Repair does not “visibly reduce wrinkles in one week” unless you’re 23.) When Estée Lauder bought a skin care line invented by dermatologists Katie Rodan, MD, and Kathy Fields, MD, I took note. I had admired them as the women who cured teenage acne; I’d hoped they’d soon have a reasonably priced adult regimen that made as much scientific sense. It was business news when they bought their company back from the Lauder empire. I would never kick Estée out of bed, but I did invest in R+F “Redefine” and “Reverse” regimens with an “Amp MD” roller tool. I used “ Acute Care” on my deeply etched elevens (two wrinkles between the eyes, detectable only in populations without access to Botox). I charted my progress with selfies. After a month, I went out in public wearing nothing but lipstick—and clothes. You may think I’m kidding myself: Go right ahead. By Christmas, I’m going to have lush, “Lash Boost”-ed lashes (brows, too), and “renewed” lips that don’t peal like an onion. Even Ponce’s pursuits were ultimately rewarding—in their way. King Ferdinand appointed him the first governor of nearby Puerto Rico. Ferdinand himself discovered one sure-bet “Fountain of Youth” himself—during hard times, Ferdinand blindfolded himself in his secret study so that frivolous concerns (like that double chin?) wouldn’t cloud his judgment. Works for all skin types. ✦

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Because of Nancy Reagan I once had to wait in my dermatologist’s examining room (the room after the “waiting room”) for two hours. That's right. Four hours total. I didn't walk out (I do have priorities), but for the first time in our doctor/patient relationship I was going to give him a piece of my mind. When the door finally opened, he hung his head exhaustedly and said, “That Nancy Reagan!” My doctor was no longer visiting the White House to treat the former first lady; she now traveled—Secret Service in tow—from California to New York City for her appointments. My guy was the go-to doc for models who lit themselves on fire accidentally when they tried to cook on a restaurant stove. It took six months to get an appointment with him, unless you were special—like me and Nancy. Anyway, my doc told me he personally would take care of my beautiful skin. He had me using Retin-A and hyaluronic acid a decade before anyone. No, you couldn’t even get it at Barneys for $1,200. I made him pinky swear he would tell me when I needed a face-lift. I wanted insurance—the name of the very best plastic surgeon in the universe. He gave it to me. Then he had a stroke.

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t’s not in Miami. It’s not in West Palm either, which makes sense given the number of face-lifts per capita in the Miami metropolitan area. Nope, the fountain is in St. Augustine at a place so ancient (1513) it’s called “Ponce de León’s ‘Fountain of Youth’ Archaeology Park.” Its ad campaign emphasizes that the fountain is Florida’s “oldest attraction”—as if the words “Florida” and “old” need more pairing opportunities. But hey, “the season” is here. There's still time for some noninvasive youth-enizing that doesn’t put anyone at risk of being “Mar-a-Lagoed” like Mika Brzezinski last season. One can only imagine why Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sent Ponce looking for the mythological fountain in the first place. But I confess, I don’t blame them. Ferdinand had one of those unfortunate early-onset double chins. Isabella was dead by the time Ponce returned to Spain with the bad news that the fountain didn’t work—just like all those now-abandoned miracle products you threw down your Black Card to buy. Still, I wouldn’t hesitate to squander a bag of doubloons on a jar of face cream—just not on one that doesn’t work. Everybody dies. Why not look good doing it? This nonsense about using olive oil as your only moisturizer is like believing in creationism. We’re like snakes, people! We shed our skin every month. Without proper humidity and nutrition, even snakes retain blotches of old dead skin. It’s hideous—like I would be— without face cream and dermatology. It’s no accident I occasionally get carded at age…well, never mind.

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