AVENUE January 2015

AVENUE

JANUARY 2015

Master Class

BRIDGET AND BILL KOCH on founding Oxbridge Academy

the palm beach issue

INSIDE THE COCONUTS: THE Palm Beach New Year’s Party

Premier DeveloPers We are pledged to the letter and spirit of the U.S. policy for the 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. Oral representation cannot be relied upon as correctly stating representations of the developer. For correct representations make reference to the documents required by section 718.503, Florida Statues, to be furnished by a developer to a buyer. Obtain the property report required by federal law and read it before signing anything. No federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any, of this property. All features, dimensions, drawings, graphic material, pictures, conceptual renderings, plans and specifications are not necessarily an accurate depiction and are subject to change without notice, and Developer expressly reserves the right to make modifications.

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Fisher Island with its backdrop of Downtown Miami, South Beach and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Introducing Palazzo Del Sol. 47 new waterfront condominium residences on celebrated Fisher Island. A haven of privacy and exclusivity, minutes from South Beach and the cultural attractions of Miami, with superbly curated building amenities and 6-star white-glove services.

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L E TTE R F RO M T H E EDITOR

DEAR READERS, WELCOME TO THE PALM BEACH ISSUE. One of the nicest aspects of my job is the opportunity to meet some truly interesting and dynamic people. Bridget and Bill Koch are undeniably both of the above. The day I spent with them in Palm Beach was informative and fun. This is a couple who live their lives to the fullest. Not only do they have an extraordinary collection of art (and arguably the best collection of American Western frontier art in the world), an oenophile’s dream cellar, an America’s Cup trophy (Bill won the race in 1992), and a passel of gorgeous and well-behaved children, but they are also charming and down-to-earth hosts. At the end of a long day, they invited the entire team to dinner, and I was lucky enough to get to sample some of Bill’s delicious wines. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them, and think that their latest endeavor, the creation of Oxbridge Academy, will be their most impressive contribution yet.

Palm Beach has always been known for its elegant parties, and none more so than the New Year’s Eve Coconuts Ball. Christopher Lawrence uncovers the secrets of this private ritual, which has been going on for decades.

This month’s Cocktail on the Avenue is someone I’ve known all my life, Lewis Lapham. His daughter, Delphina and I are the same age, and we grew up during summers together. It was an odd sensation to be interviewing a friend’s dad, especially since he has long been one of my heroes, not only for his renown and wonderful prose, but for taking a risk and inventing an interesting and didactic print magazine that doesn’t feel like homework. In the tradition of all great ideas, Lapham’s Quarterly is filling a void we didn’t know we had.

“I was lucky enough to get to sample some of Bill’s delicious wines.”

Enjoy the issue!

Daisy Prince

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RESIDENCES

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JANUARY 2015

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MADE IN PALM BEACH

Whom you should know now in Palm Beach.

Bridget and Bill Koch talk to us about their lives, their famous art and wine collections and the amazing new school they have in Palm Beach.

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HISTORY OF THE COCONUTS

AVENUE delves into the world of the uber-prestigious and exclusive Coconuts Ball in Palm Beach. Held annually on New Year’s Eve, the ball has been around since the era of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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YOGI READY

Holly Weston shares her life as a yogi in Palm Beach.

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this page (from top) Bill Koch wears his own clothing.

Bridget wears a white silk sleeveless jumper

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Fringe metal necklace

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Jewelry by Seaman Schepp.

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Styling by Claudia Talamas.

Hair by Melissa Peverini.

Makeup by Reigan Zapatier.

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VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD

A look back at Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

by gregory speck

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on the cover

Bridget wears a floor-length turquoise jersey evening gown and jewelry by Graff. Photography by Navid, styling by Claudia Talamas.

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PALM BEACH ROUNDTABLE Palm Beach real estate experts convene.

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FINANCIAL ROUNDTABLE

Our experts weigh in on the investment climate and more.

moderated by haley friedlich

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AVENUE JANUARY 2015

VOL. 39 NO. 1

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CHRONICLES

The most wonderful time of the year . . . for parties.

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OBJECTS OF DESIRE

Palm Beach muses of two distinct styles.

by haley friedlich

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TRENDSCAPE

New Year, New You!

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COCKTAIL ON THE AVENUE

Our editor-in-chief shares a drink with noted American writer and author Lewis Lapham.

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UNREAL ESTATE

Palm Beach properties worthy of an investment.

by michael gross

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POSTCARDS FROM . . .

Nick Papanicolaou shows us around the Greek island of Mykonos.

introduction by haley friedlich

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SOCIAL SAFARI

Happening and openings in Gotham.

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WORLD ACCORDING TO . . .

Hilary Geary Ross knows Palm Beach like the back of her hand, and the ubiquitous society columnist shows us around her turf.

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Winter storms don’t detract partygoers, which means more cause to celebrate; don’t forget Art Basel!

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ARTS CALENDAR

Feast the senses on auctions, exhibitions and performances in New York and Palm Beach.

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A TASTE OF DUTCH Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman hosted their annual Art Basel dinner at the Dutch in Miami. Who’s who in New York flocked down to celebrate various art acquisitions and warmer weather. A copious amount of libations were consumed, because when in Miami, one should party, should you not?

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IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM Almost 40 years since Pierre Paulin designed modular furniture pieces for Herman Miller, Louis Vuitton brings back the 1972 project to Design Miami. Guests at “Playing with Shapes” wined and dined with their cohosts, Michael Burke, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, and Craig Robins.

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A selected few perused through white wall spaces adorned with the foremost in contemporary art for the VIP preview of Art Basel 2014.

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The hippest of the art set congregated at Chrome Hearts to watch Lenny Kravitz’s offspring, Zoë, perform with her band, Lolawolf. The space will debut limited edition pieces and works of art, and the Fahey/Klein gallery will occupy the second floor.

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TREADING ON THIN ICE For the ninth consecutive year, Swarovski partners with Design Miami to commission a multidisciplinary installation with works by Jeanne Gang and James Balog. “Thinning Ice” is an environmentally focused work highlighting the need for water conservation and preservation and incorporates Swarovski crystals. Guests gathered at Cecconi’s for a celebratory dinner.

1. Nadja Swarovski 2. Patricia Urquiola and Alberto Zontone 3. Athena Calderone, Jennifer Fisher and Misha Nonoo 4. Julie Macklowe, Danielle Schriffen and Lara Schriffen 5. Marva Griffin and Rodman Primack 6. Angela Goding 7. Paul Donaher and Isabel May 8. James Balog and Dayssi Olarte Kanavos

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1. Dana Drori and Darrell Hartman 2. Jay Jopling and Hikari Yokoyama 3. Elodie and Richard Taittinger 4. Amy Fine Collins 5. Jérôme Sans and Peter Marino 6. Bill Powers 7. Peter Brant 8. Chrissie Erpf and Larry Gagosian 9. Jean-Michel Othoniel, Almine Ruiz Picasso and Johan Creten

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Inés de la Fressange and Roger Vivier creative director Bruno Frisoni hosted a luncheon to celebrate the Roger Vivier and Ambra Medda collaboration.

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IN HONOR OF BUNNY MELLON Cohosts Margaret Russell, Deeda Blair and Sotheby’s William Ruprecht held a dinner in honor of the sale of the collection of late Mrs. Paul Mellon. Bronson Van Wyck organized the occasion, planning out details to mimic a similar dinner that Mr. Paul Mellon organized in 1976. Delft china, delicate place settings and pastoral landscapes channeled the ethos of Mrs. Mellon.

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Philanthropists and media types gathered for an evening of comedy and music to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. This year’s gala raised more than $5.4 million for the organization.

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1. Darlene and Jorge Pérez 2. Matt Allen and Carlos Rosso 3. Dary Moran and Enrique Moya 4. Selene Arvesu and Michelle Minagorri 5. Neal Sroka and Jean Shafiroff

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” Gandhi once said, as quoted by emcee Chuck Scarborough at the Annual ASPCA Humane Awards. So true. Cipriani was bursting with animal lovers, whom we know are inherently nicer, warmer and better-looking people. Perhaps more factually, among the award winners were Annika Glover, an 11-year-old-girl with cancer, who gave her Make-A-Wish gift (usually, understandably, redeemed at Disneyworld) to an animal rescue organization; Congressman Jim Moran, who in his Linda Lambert twelve terms in Washington has been a champion of animal protection; and Bill Bratton, our own New York police commissioner, who in his department’s new partnership with the ASPCA has increased animal abuse arrests 160 percent in the first six months. And yes, ASPCAbranded tissues were at every seat, including those belonging to Nancy Silverman (who funded a major rescue), ASPCA president and CEO Matt Bershadker, Linda Lambert, Ellen Scarborough (whose rescue kitty, Emma, has just joined the family), Betsey Ruprecht, Caroline Dean, Emilia Fanjul, Michael Bruno, Jill Rappaport and Audrey Gruss.

I probably shouldn’t follow that with Foxcatcher, but there were no foxes harmed in the film—just wrestlers. The Cinema Society hosted the glamorous premiere for the film about John du Pont and his extraordinarily odd story. Director Bennett Miller Michael McCarty, Richard Johnson and Steve Millington introduced the stars: “Channing Tatum, who used to be a dancer; Vanessa Redgrave, a newcomer; and Steve Carrell”—who is rumored to be a front-runner for best actor for this performance.

We moved on to Top of the Standard, where relatives of Mr. du Pont told me, “He made us very nervous at Christmas.” Others, less close, included Sheryl Crow, Valentino, Zac Posen, Nicole Miller, Ang Lee, Tom Bernard and Aaron Sorkin.

Richard Mishaan celebrated the publication of his newest book, Artfully Modern, at his store, Homer, then at dinner at Margaux at the Marlton. “I’m still in disbelief that we were the number one release on Amazon for seven weeks! That’s enough reason for celebration, and I was surrounded by people who worked on the book, whose homes are in it, or who inspired me.” Among the muses: Margaret Russell, Lisa Jackson (whose new store, LJ Cross, is the answer to every husband’s Lisa Jackson holiday shopping bewilderment), Tiffany Dubin, Dennis Basso, Patricia Duff and Richard Cohen, Bettina Zilkha, Tracy and Jay Snyder, Claude Wasserstein, and of course . . . Marcia Mishaan!

I could fill another two pages with merriment and awe: A Delicate Balance’s opening night, with John Lithgow, Glenn Close and the rest of the cast’s chorus of “Happy Trails to You” in honor of Mike Nichols, his traditional close to filming; Michael’s jubilant twenty-fifth anniversary celebration; and all things Bunny. And that’s before the turkey trotted us into all things December. Give me strength. ✦

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Dec. 13 – Jan. 10, 2015: Michael Burges and Kathrina Mayer Lausberg Contemporary Jan. 17 – 30: Andy Mayer

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Dec. 13 – Jan. 24, 2015: The Thing and The Thing-In-Itself Dec. 13 – Jan. 24, 2015: Michael Wang 525 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 212.627.6000

The Norton Museum of Art Jan. – March 29: Klara Kristalova: Turning into Stone Jan. – April 5: Pastures Green: The British Passion for Landscape 1451 South Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 561.832.5196

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Queen of Joy (1892).

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Dec. 6 – January 11, 2015: Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880–1910 January 24 – March 29: American Treasures from the Farnsworth Art Museum 2 Four Arts Plaza Palm Beach, FL 33480 561.655.7227

“Drawn from public and private collections in Holland and France, this groundbreaking exhibition is comprised of approximately 200 works in a dizzying array of media: paintings, watercolors and drawings; rare zinc shadow puppet silhouettes which illustrated programs for the famous Chat Noir cabaret shadow theater; and key ephemera for Parisian theaters . . .”

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Jan Schoonhoven. Thin Ridge Cardboard — Second One, 1965.

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David Zwirner Gallery Jan. 8 – Feb. 21: Mamma Andersson Jan. 8 – Feb. 21: Diana Thater, Science, Fiction Jan. 9 – Feb. 14: Al Taylor, Pet Stains, Puddles, and Full Gospel Neckless Jan. 9 – Feb. 14: Jan Schoonhoven 519 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 212.727.2070

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Jan. 13 & 14: Interiors Jan. 23: American Furniture Jan. 27: Mandarin and Menagerie: The Sowell Collection and Chinese export art from various owners Jan. 27: The Abbott-Guggenheim Collection: A New York Kunstkammer

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January 27 - April 19 Flagler Museum

January 27 – April 19: Bouguereau’s “Fancies”: Allegorical and Mythological Works by the French Master 1 Whitehall Way Palm Beach, FL 33480 561.655.2833

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Dec. 18 – Feb. 12: Very Rich & Handsome: American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts 730 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10019 212.535.8810

Old Paris vase with a Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, c. 1820

“Over the past 25 years Hirschl & Adler has mounted a series of important furniture and decorative arts exhibitions that focus on the design and aesthetic of America during the Neo-Classical era, 1800–1840. I am happy to say they are considered very important academically (and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated 144 page book) but are also very beautiful ‘domestic-like’ installations of how objects were used in the Federal American home.” —Elizabeth Feld

The Metropolitan Opera Hansel and Gretel: Jan. 1, 3, 8, Aida: Jan. 2, 5, 10, The Merry Widow: Jan. 3, 6, 9, 13, 17, 20, 23, 28, 31 La Traviata: Jan. 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Jan. 12, 16, 22, 27, 31, La Bohème: Jan. 15, 19, 24, Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle: Jan. 26, 29

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n the age of the Internet, starting a print magazine is now universally considered a huge risk. But starting a literary magazine with no traditional advertising base, the majority of whose writers have been dead for years, run by the archetypal 20th-century editor, could be considered brave to the point of foolhardiness. But that was the gamble Lewis Lapham took when he decided to create his historical compendium, Lapham’s Quarterly, and, in spite of the odds, he has made success of a print magazine in the digital age.

The Quarterly, as Lapham calls it, is a digest of historical primary sources centered around a single theme. War, Love and Money are just a few of the topics that the Quarterly has addressed, with excerpts from William Shakespeare, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Thucydides, Mark Twain and Goethe, to name just a few contributors. Subscriptions to the magazine are 30,000 and another 10,000 a quarter are sold on newsstand and in bookstores. They are number 9 in the Barnes and Noble current events section, and given equal space with People, The Economist and Time.. Read by a diverse group of people, it also makes an excellent birthday present. (I should know: I’ve given it as a gift more than once.)

Lapham suggests we meet for a drink at a local and friendly Italian place, called Paul and Jimmy’s on 18th and Irving. Decorated with wooden tallboys and an obliging bar, Lapham arrives a few minutes late and is warmly welcomed by the barkeeper. “I do all my business here,” he says, and informs me that he’s going to have two drinks, a cocktail and a glass of wine. He orders a vodka on the rocks and sips it lightly, and we begin by talking about how he got his start as a reporter.

He was born into a family that, had the decks been shuffled differently, would have meant that Lapham would never have had to write more than his own checks. His great-grandfather was one of the founders of Texaco oil, but his grandfather, the eldest of four children, was careless with money and managed to lose most of his share of the family fortune.

There was still enough money around to send Lapham to Hotchkiss and Yale, and his upbringing was much more likely to have produced someone who would have gone into those the twin spheres of American influence: finance or law. Always a man of letters, neither career held much appeal, although Lapham was initially intrigued by the CIA, who recruited him while he was an undergrad. After he left Yale, he was invited to interview with the organization and had prodigiously read up on every geopolitical crisis of the era in preparation. (“I saw myself wearing a trench coat, getting on the last train for Berlin with a very beautiful blond German girl.”) But his dreams of life as a daring spy were swiftly dashed when he walked into the room and saw the place full of the smug preppies he’d run a mile to avoid while he was at New Haven. “They thought they were of a superior mold,” he says wryly.

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COCK TA IL O N T H E AVEN UE sailing the final approach to the Fishers Island Yacht Club. What tack are you on?; and (3) Does Muffy Fanes wear a slip?* After giving an approximate reply to the third question (please see the bottom of the page for answers) Lapham apologized for wasting the CIA’s time and promptly got a job at the San Francisco Examiner and was sent to Oakland, Calif. to cover the police beat. His job in Oakland taught him how to write for a newspaper, got rid of his undergraduate purple prose, and instructed him on how to find his way around City Hall. After three years, he came back to the East Coast and found work with the Herald Tribune in 1960.

Lapham pauses briefly to ask for a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon; he has barely touched his vodka, but perhaps the ritual of having two drinks is more important that the actual amount of alcohol consumed.

Lapham speaks wistfully of his time at the Tribune. “It was a wonderful paper, they wrote rings around the New York Times. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.” In those Mad Men– era days, being a reporter didn’t hold the same cachet as it came to have in subsequent decades, and Lapham recalls an incident at a cocktail party on the Upper East Side when a pretty girl asked him what he did. Puffed up with pride, he answered proudly, “I’m a newspaper man.” The girl cocked her head to one side and said, “So what are you going to do when you grow up.”

Luckily, he never veered from his chosen path. He is known as one of America’s preeminent essayists. Lapham’s precise and rapier-like prose is reminiscent of Mark Twain, as is his ability to prick the pomposity of the establishment. After a stint at the Saturday Evening Post magazine, Lapham joined Harper’s Magazine as a writer in 1970, he became editor in 1975, a position he retained, more or less, for the next 30 years.

However in 2006, he was ready for a new challenge. He thought, “I’m 72, in the fourth quarter of my life. If I don’t do this now, when?”

He set up Lapham’s Quarterly as a nonprofit called the American Agora Foundation.

“I thought it had a better chance of raising money as an educational foundation than as a literary magazine. Essentially, I was going to be selling the great books, and they are topical. All the great magazines have been digests at one time or another. The American audience doesn’t have a big attention span, it never did, even in the 19th century.

“This was a way of teaching history. People are interested in history.

Americans are self-educating, self-improving people.” He knew his readers would be in their fifties, with time to read on their hands and wishing they’d paid more attention when they were in school. His audience would be the kinds of people who tour historic houses in Newport, dress up in Civil War uniforms or go to Colonial Williamsburg.

He figured if he could get it to a circulation of 50,000 he’d have a shot that it would break even, and, so far it’s working. It is up 12% which is the fastest rate of growth for a consumer magazine.

There is sense of triumph in Lapham as he warms to his subject: “It’s fun to edit. And you will know this as a magazine editor, that most of

“This was a way of teaching history. People are interested in history.

Americans are self-educating, self-improving people.” the time you are hoping against hope that the people you commission will turn in something publishable. You spend a lot of time taking a C manuscript and asking for a rewrite or doing a rewrite yourself and bringing it up to a B+ if not an A. I got tired of it at Harper’s. This way you are always working with the A-list. I’m reading Dickens or Thucydides or Virginia Woolf. It’s an embarrassment of riches. It’s always a sense of getting to read things that I have always wanted to read or reread.”

He knows that these works will give his audience pleasure. He is not delivering a sermon, nor does he have a political agenda. When I ask him about the future of print, he thinks it will be niche but a big niche. “It will be good writing. There will always be a market for good writing.” He corrects himself: “It’s not a market, it’s an audience, I don’t write for a market, I write for an audience. I write for human beings.”

My last question is: If he could pass on one life lesson learned, what would that be?

“The best job is the one you invent for yourself, it’s that simple.” With that, Lewis Lapham welcomes his next meeting. ✦

*See if you too could have been accepted into the CIA in 1957: (1) Probably the 7 iron. (2) Port. (3) As the resident nymphomaniac on the Ivy League circuit, Muffy was the very beautiful, very wild heiress to a major commodity fortune who, according to local lore, was known to scamper around college campuses in a mink coat with nothing underneath. Lapham notes, “If one did not have carnal knowledge of Muffy in the 1950s, then one was no one in the Ivy League,” Lapham’s information is secondhand on the topic; his source was Romanian, but rumors were of Belgian lace and French silk.

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Priceless Provenance

An aerial view of 640 South South Ocean Boulevard.

Two venerable Mizner estates for sale on the Palm Beach oceanfront offer more than architectural distinction.

They’re also landmarks of American wealth and power.

T

he two grand homes are located twelve miles apart, at opposite ends of Palm Beach’s famous Ocean Boulevard, but they have much in common. Both are on the market.

Both were originally designed by the town’s signature architect, Addison Mizner, and later remodeled by architects almost as well-known. And both offer a glimpse into the lives of America’s wealthiest.

The owner of Villa Tranquilla, at 640 South Ocean Boulevard, a 15,500-square-foot, eight-bedroom house built in 1923 and renovated in 1947 under the supervision of architect Marion Sims Wyeth, is asking $42,900,000. A smidgen smaller, and ever so slightly less expensive, 1095 North Ocean Boulevard, which was built in 1925 and first renovated in 1933 by Maurice Fatio, has eleven bedrooms and two hundred feet of oceanfront, and is offered for sale at $38,500,000. But each of them is more than bricks and mortar, more than official local landmarks: their provenance is notable—and priceless.

The first was built for a descendant of an officer in the American Revolution, and later owned by a member of a great munitions-making family. The other, The pool at Villa Tranquilla commissioned by a merchant prince from Philadelphia, later served as the Winter White House.

Those are the sort of ghosts that are not only easy but fun to live with.

Built in the Mediterranean Revival style that characterizes so many of the great historic homes of Palm Beach, the two-story Villa Tranquilla stands on just over an acre of land, enclosed by a stucco wall decorated with a much-admired wrought iron fence, which surrounds a small courtyard, and a sedate front entrance leading into the tile-roofed house, which has arched windows and doors that overlook its 175 feet of Atlantic oceanfront. Originally L-shaped, the house now surrounds its tiled, heated pool on three sides, and includes a guest house. Among other improvements, its current owner updated it to a “smart” house, but had the sense to keep Mizner’s paneled “pub” room.

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Based on Mizner’s own home just to the south, it was built for Dr. DeGrimm Renfro of Pennsylvania, who had the architect furnish it and, in 1929, add additional rooms and loggias. As the great-grandson of Peter Forney, a captain in the North Carolina Dragoons, Renfro, an investment banker, qualified as a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Wyeth’s postwar additions to the estate, which included an elevator, were apparently commissioned by later owners. Among them were a real estate investor, a lawyer, and A. Felix and Ann du Pont. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Felix had joined his family’s manufacturing firm, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in 1900, and become a key figure in its munitions business, running its gunpowder division. He was also an aviation buff, specializing in gliders. Du Pont first married in 1902, but divorced his wife, a descendant of a wealthy Maryland family, in 1937 in Reno, Nevada, on the grounds of mental cruelty, and the same day married Anne de Armond, a member of the Marvel clan of Delaware, which also included a Superior Court judge, an ambassador to Denmark and the du Pont family’s longtime lawyer.

Anne’s former husband had also been associated with the du Ponts.

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The oceanfront at 1095 North Ocean Boulevard.

Outside La Guerida, where JFK wintered.

Later owners of Villa Tranquilla included John A. “Bud” McDougald, a Canadian businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner whose company was later somewhat infamously acquired by Conrad Black, and Cheng Ching Wang, who bought it in 1996. His children, Kenneth and Vera Wang, the latter the noted fashion designer, sold it in 2008 to a limited liability company, which, the Palm Beach Daily News reported, was linked in public records to Leslie Gelber, president of an energy company. Neither Linda Gary, who is selling it now, nor Corcoran’s Geoffrey Thomas, who sold it for the Wangs, would confirm the current owner’s identity. Whoever it is, he or she spent three and a half years renovating the home but never moved in.

Compared to Villa Tranquilla, La Guerida has had a tranquil ownership history, but it has still seen its fair share of drama.

According to the Palm Beach Historical Society, it was built around 1925 for Rodman Wanamaker Jr., who’d inherited Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker’s department stores, in an Italian variant of Mizner’s signature style. By the standards of the Palm Beach Landmark Preservation Commission, “it does not, except for its sheer size and site, exemplify the ornate detail or craftsmanship that graces similar estates in Palm Beach.” Indeed the commission describes it as “Mizner’s least ornate estate-sized commission,” but adds that it is nonetheless one of the town’s important homes due to its provenance.

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These two Palm Beach estates are haunted by the sort of ghosts that are not only easy but fun to live with. commissioning everything from monuments to symphonies. He’d cultivated his taste during a decade in Beaux Arts–era Paris before he took over the retail empire in 1922. But work wasn’t his only passion.

Like Felix du Pont, he was an aviation buff, though his dream of sponsoring the first plane to cross the Atlantic was dashed by Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis shortly after Wanamaker took possession of this Palm Beach home.

Wanamaker died in 1928, and five years later, in the depths of the Depression, Joseph and Rose Kennedy of Boston and Bronxville bought and renovated the estate for a bargain—about $120,000. Less than three decades later, it became world famous as the winter home of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline. It remained in Kennedy hands (and became infamous after a 29-year-old woman said she was raped there by a Kennedy cousin) until the current owners, former Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette CEO and private-equity investor John Castle and his wife, Marianne, bought it in 1995.

Like the Landmarks Commission, Castle waxes rhapsodic about its history. “They’d always say ‘Joseph Kennedy from Boston,’ but the operative word was ‘from,’” Castle says. “This was Joe and Rose’s legal residence. Jack wrote Profiles in Courage here, and worked on his inaugural address on the loggia overlooking the ocean.” It was by the pool that the president-elect argued against his father’s order that one of his younger sons, Bobby, be appointed to Jack’s cabinet. “The old man said, ‘Bobby will be attorney general,” Castle reports, citing as his source the Kennedy’s family manager, who later went to work for the Castles.

“We still have virtually all the original furniture,” Castle adds. “I have Jack and Jackie’s beds, Jack’s massage table, the dining room table where Joe sat at one end with Jack next to him, even when he was president.” Castle says he’s willing to sell the contents, too, “if somebody shows up and wants it,” then adds, “If JFK’s humidor was worth $500,000, I don’t know what that bed is worth.”

Like I said, priceless. ✦

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Emmanuel Di Donna and Christina Floyd

Beth Rudin DeWoody and Firooz Zahedi

Annie and Michael Falk Cathie and Andres Fanjul ● Emilia and J. Pepe Fanjul ● Nico Fanjul ● Nikki and Alex Fanjul ● Lourdes Fanjul and J. Pepe Fanjul Jr. ● Raysa and Alfy Fanjul ● Reddy Fanjul ● Tina Fanjul ● Somers and Jonathan Farkas ● Lillian and Luis Fernandez ● Nacho and Delfina Figueras ● Carole Rohrig and Bill Finneran ● Moira and Jon Fiore ● Anne and Jerome Fisher ● Frances and Jeffrey Fisher ● Marjorie Fisher ● Kirsten and Averell Fisk ● Raymond Floyd ● Lydie and Bobby Forbes ● Kathleen DuRoss Ford ● Sabrina Forsythe ● ●

● Diana Ecclestone and Llwyd Ecclestone III ● Susie and Robert Eigelberger ● William R. Eubanks

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Gay and Stanley Gaines Christie and Tim Gannon ● Jennifer Garrigues ● Linda Gary ● Mark Gilbertson ● Eles Gillet ● Jill and David Gilmour ● Arlette Gordon ● Cheryl Gowdy ● Jane and Robert Grace ● Patti and Clark Graebner ● Lorna and Larry Graev ● Ellen and Ian Graham ● Mary Kirk and Alex Hufty Griswold ● Audrey and Martin Gruss ● Kate and Jimmy Gubelmann ● Marjorie Gubelmann ● Shelly and Billy Gubelmann ● Susan Gubelmann ● Cornelia Guest ● Helen Guest and Winston Guest Jr. ● ●

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Christina and Benjamin Macfarland III ● Carol Mack and Ambassador Earl Mack ● Lily and Locke Maddock ● Lynn and Jay Maddock ● Nina and Mark Magowan ● Hillie Mahoney ● Susan and Tim Malloy ● Anna and William Mann ● Nicola and Jeff Marcus ● HRH Princess Maria Pia of Savoy ● Susan Markin ● Catie and Donald Marron ● Cheryl and Homer Marshman

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BILL AND BRIDGET KOCH:

Charting Their Own Course

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Doyle

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With a huge art and wine collection, a large company to run, not to mention six children between them, it might seem like Bridget and Bill Koch had enough on their plate. Then they started a school.

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Passion provides the compelling force: the rudder steering William “Bill” Koch’s life. The legendary art collection in the Palm Beach home he shares with his wife, Bridget, rivals treasures found in many of the world’s finest museums.

“I buy things I love, things that make me feel good,” he declares, a Midland accent still discernible. “I like to come home and look at a fabulous painting. It helps me forget about the day’s frustrations, the frustration of my teenagers.”

Bill and Bridget, a granddaughter of Pittsburgh Steelers’ founder Art Rooney, parent six children: Wyatt, 28, Charlotte, 18, Liam, 17, William, 16, Robin, 15, and 8-yearold Kaitlin, known as “K.K.” Love for these children prompted his latest endeavor— Oxbridge Academy.

“I want my kids to get the best education possible, and at my age I didn’t want to send them to prep schools as my father did. I’m selfish. I want to be around them,” divulges the 74-year-old multi billionaire. Bill reflects on the tainted reputation of Florida’s schools, citing an emphasis on test taking and ruing the presence of gangs and drugs.

These conditions in mind, Bill founded Oxbridge Academy, a private college preparatory high school, in 2011. The 56-acre West Palm Beach campus finds teachers replacing boring lectures and standardized tests with pedagogy that finds students rolling up their sleeves, diving in, and learning by doing. To inspire in each student a love of learning reflects Oxbridge’s mission.

Oxbridge opened on the site of a former Jewish community center replete with an Olympic-sized swimming pool, two cafeterias, a large gym, indoor squash courts, tennis courts, and two sets of classrooms. These amenities freed Bill to spend more on teachers and coaches.

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Bill wears his own clothing.

“It was a few teachers who took an interest in me who changed me. Thanks to them I am doing very well.

That’s why I cry—because I’m able to provide an opportunity for these kids. They will probably be my greatest legacy,” murmurs Bill, barely audible between sobs.

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Bill wears his own clothing.

Tuition, which includes a MacBook Pro, transportation, books, and meals, stands at $25,000. In the recently admitted class, 40 percent of students received need-based assistance. The average stipend awarded: $8,106. Persons of color comprise 29 percent of the diverse student body.

A college campus designed for high school students, Oxbridge and its air are permeated with enthusiasm. All students seem genuinely happy to be here. The national average of high school students who participate in after-school sports is 50 percent, reveals athletic director Craig Sponsky; at Oxbridge it’s 85 percent. Students are also encouraged to start new clubs.

Senior Tremane “Tre” Gabriel took this concept a step further. Although impressed by the academic opportunities at Oxbridge, he felt disappointed with the lack of a football team. Deciding to do something, he brought a petition signed by 25 students, committed to playing football, to Oxbridge president and CEO Robert Parsons, thus initiating a team. Oxbridge hired coach Doug Socha, bought jerseys and equipment, and added a 1,500-seat stadium complete with the same synthetic turf as that used by the Buffalo Bills.

“We don’t have bullying. We don’t have cliques. What we do have is a collaborative environment where kids interact with others who are different from them,” gushes English teacher Amy Jurskis, who also chairs the curriculum committee.

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His affinity for the American western frontier is evident in his Western collection, which consists of two million items, the most extensive in the world, according to art industry experts.

Above: Bridget wears her own clothing; jewelry by Seaman Schepps, price upon request at seamanschepps.com.

All Oxbridge students eat breakfast and lunch together. Chef Dan Gasperi of Il Bellagio, a popular West Palm Beach Italian restaurant, heads a staff of 11. Meals are prepared with learning in mind. Offerings are carefully selected to help students focus, stay on task, and remain energized throughout the day.

“I think Oxbridge Academy is quite an extraordinary place,” praises Robert Kaufmann, an educator with almost 50

years of experience, including 14 years as headmaster of the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and 14 years as director of admissions and associate dean of finance and administration at Harvard University.

“It has gone from zero to 60 in four years.

I am convinced Oxbridge represents a lifechanging experience for many of these kids.”

Bill adds, “We are less than four years old and considered one of the best schools in Florida. I’ve put $60 million into the school

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and eventually would like to get it on a self-sustaining financial basis, but I can’t think of a more worthwhile investment.”

Christina Wing O’Donnell, president of Renegade Investments and an Oxbridge board member, concurs: “Ultimately, we would like the community to own the school.

The bricks and mortar is not a shrine to Bill.

This was not a narcissistic creation. What the kids who attend Oxbridge accomplish in the world will be his legacy.”

eachers and Coaches Making a Difference Tears flow as Bill relates the story of Oxbridge sophomore Robert Holmes.

Growing up in a one-parent home in the inner city, Holmes’s future was bleak. That was until his middle school principal took him on a tour of Oxbridge and a generous financial aid package enabled him to enroll. On entry his extremely weak reading and writing skills transferred to Robert’s becoming a straight A student thanks to the intervention of a learning specialist. Joining the football team and weighing 390 pounds

caused him difficulty in running. Today, the 6´5½˝ teen is 50 pounds lighter and one of the best defensive linemen in the state.

“At Oxbridge, you are loved,” bellows Holmes as he clutches an Alabama Crimson Tide water bottle, the university he hopes to attend.

“The reason I get so emotional about Robert is that my story is similar. It was a few teachers who took an interest in me who changed me. Thanks to them I am doing very well. That’s why I cry—because I’m able to

provide an opportunity for these kids. They will probably be my greatest legacy,” murmurs Bill, barely audible between sobs.

Doing very well indeed. According to Forbes, his real-time net worth is $3.1 billion. Bill is the president and CEO of Oxbow, a company he started in 1984 that is focused on building alternative energy plants. Today, with a main focus on carbon, the company employs 1,200 workers and boasts $4 billion in sales.

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ridget Behind Oxbridge Although Bridget is now the school’s biggest proponent, this wasn’t always the case.

At the onset, the 52-year-old beauty questioned her husband’s plan to start a school. “I was against it because I know how thin he is spread. Bill has a tendency to have many projects going at the same time. You can see this in his art collection. He has Impressionists, Modern, Western, and Maritime. He has so many different tastes and so many various hobbies in his life,” she acknowledges. “But I am one to admit when I am wrong and I was wrong. He has made me so proud.

I am now behind him and Oxbridge 110 percent.”

With irreplaceable artwork gracing the walls and ceilings, and millions of dollars’ worth of wine aging in the cellar, Bill and Bridget open their oceanfront mansion for various fundraising parties for charities, Oxbridge included. Local grammar schools are invited to tour the art collection each year.

The couple will be celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary in February. When Bridget is asked if anything special is planned, she retorts, “Every day is special with Bill.”

Not only will Bill be remembered for creating Oxbridge, but for winning the 1992 America’s Cup, yachting’s oldest and most coveted trophy as well. Despite intense international competition as well as criticism, Bill, who has a PhD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focused on science in his quest for the cup. “That’s why me, an MIT nerd and a hick from Kansas, won the America’s Cup,” he discloses.

Clad in a western shirt with red snaps, Bill continues, “I set up a research program at MIT focused on what makes a boat go fast. I also talked to as many yacht designers as I could and learned that you have to understand the science of how water flows over a keel first and then learn how to reduce the boat’s resistance to the flow of water.”

As a result, Bill’s America team overcame 100 to 1 odds to defeat the Italian team by 44 seconds.

Opposite page: Bridget wears a floor-length turquoise jersey evening gown by Roberto Cavalli, $1,530. Available at Neiman Marcus Palm Beach and robertocavalli.com; jewelry

by Graff, price available upon request at graffdiamonds.com.

There were two decades of lawsuits filed to undermine Charles and David’s control of Koch Industries. The three reconciled in 2001, and today, Bill calls David one of his best friends. gly Duckling Bill’s path to MIT was a rocky one. Born in 1940, in Wichita, Kansas, twins Bill and David have two older brothers: Charles, who is five years older, and Frederick, who is seven years older. “When I was in middle school, I psychologically dropped out,” Bill confesses. He and David fought constantly, the battles often ending in fisticuffs. “It didn’t help that David was handsome and athletic, and I was gawky and skinny—an ugly duckling,” he recalls.

David landed at Deerfield Academy, in Massachusetts; Bill, Culver Military Academy in Northern Indiana.

“I hated it. There was nothing for me to do but study, but I credit it with helping me get in MIT,” he says. Since his grades were far from stellar, his acceptance was based on one caveat—that he attend the Culver Summer Naval School. With a fleet of nearly 100 sailboats, including the 65-foot, 25-ton R.H. Ledbetter, Bill’s love of sailing flourished.

Fittingly called “Things I Love—The Many Collections of William I. Koch,” the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, featured an exhibition of Bill’s many collections. One of the most attention-grabbing elements was Bill’s sailing yachts: America3, which he and his crew sailed to victory in the America’s Cup, and Il Moro, the boat they beat and which Bill then purchased, their masts rising 125 feet in the air. Both ships were displayed on the museum’s lawn. The Boston Globe’s headline screamed “Furor Ahoy,” as many didn’t feel these vessels belonged at a museum of fine arts.

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This page: Bill in front of a model ship (inset).

Bill holding one of the counterfeit bottles of wine sold as a part of Thomas Jefferson’s collection.

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His Palm Beach mansion contains a capacious, state-ofthe-art wine cellar with approximately 12,000 bottles.

This was far from his only collection that has caused furor. His Palm Beach mansion contains a capacious, state-of-the-art wine cellar with approximately 12,000 bottles. A rare wine collector, he paid more than $100,000 per bottle for four bottles he was led to believe came from the collection of Thomas Jefferson. With plans to include these bottles in the Boston exhibition, Bill asked Brad Goldstein, director of corporate affairs at Oxbow, to get the provenance for the bottles. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello should have that information, Goldstein surmised. However, not only did they not have the provenance, they didn’t believe the bottles had ever belonged to Jefferson.

Thus began Bill’s fight against counterfeiters. He has filed seven lawsuits against auction houses, retailers, collectors, and vendors of counterfeit wine.

“I spent about $30 million on this. I had 15 investigators working for me, guys from Interpol, Scotland Yard, the CIA,” laments Bill.

Sitting in the living room of a Pierre Hotel suite, Bill’s friend Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor, joined the interview while in the midst of writing a book about the crusade.

“Talk about a manhunt. The moment after it was realized the Thomas Jefferson bottle was a fake, Bill said, ‘I will not have this. I’m going to find them and put them in jail.’ The last guy just got ten years. They must have felt like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid being relentlessly pursued,” expounds Robinson.

The counterfeit wine suits aren’t Bill’s only brush with litigation. There were two decades of lawsuits filed to undermine Charles and David’s control of Koch Industries. The three reconciled in 2001, and today Bill calls David one of his best friends.

With an eye to the future, Bill works on creating a family limited partnership for his children. “I don’t want my kids to go through what David, Charles, Fred, and I went through.

Twenty years of fighting ain’t fun. All we did was make a lot of lawyers rich,” he asserts. “One card of the deck is setting up a trust where for the money my kids earn, they get to take five times of that out of the trust. It will instill in them what Dad instilled in me in a different way.”

Above: Bill stands in the room dedicated to the America’s Cup winners.

He has model sailboats of every winning boat since the race’s inception.

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“I want my kids to get the best education possible, and at my age I didn’t want to send them to prep schools as my father did. I’m selfish. I want to be around them.”

oiling on the Family Ranch Father Fred instilled in his four sons a formidable work ethic. Summers were spent toiling on the family ranch.

“Father had us work at the most menial manual jobs ten hours a day, seven days a week, earning 50 cents an hour,” Bill reveals. “I spent one summer fixing fences in a 100-square-mile pasture. I dug fence post holes, stretched the fence, got cut up with barbed wire, and stayed in a log cabin with two other men with no toilet, no running water.

I took one bath that summer, having to get the water from an ice-cold stream. I loved it.”

A self-made man, Fred’s hard work produced a more efficient way to refine heavy oil into gasoline. Fred had a deep love for the West and owned extensive ranchland.

“My father’s ranch in Kansas had these rolling hills with no trees on them, bluestem grass that grew five feet high— brown top, green stem, blue at the bottom. I’d sit up on a hill and imagine I was a pirate or Captain Lawrence [an ancestor of his mother]. I would watch puffs of wind come over the tall grass—it was just mesmerizing, just beautiful,” reminisces Bill.

His affinity for the American western frontier is evident in his Western collection, which consists of two million items, the most extensive in the world, according to art industry experts. It includes the world’s only photo of Billy the Kid, paintings by Frederic Remington, a rifle belonging to George A. Custer, Jesse James’ revolver and a collection of brothel ephemera.

An authentic reproduction of a full-scale 19th-century Old West town he has built on his 4,500-acre ranch in Colorado is a work in process. Some of the 77 structures are from Buckskin Joe, a former Western-style theme park that Bill bought and transported to the ranch, and others he had built. There are five saloons, two brothels, a jail, church, bank, theater, and library. “My idea is to keep a code of the West that I really like alive. It is stand your ground and help your neighbor,” he enthuses. Graduates of Oxbridge will witness that commitment. His passions—the innovative school, legendary art and wine collections, winning strategies for the America’s Cup, his Old West town—define William Koch’s generous contributions to posterity. ✦

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Above: Bridget wears a white silk sleeveless jumper by Brunello Cucinelli, $2,110.

Available at Saks Fifth Avenue Palm Beach and brunellocucinelli.com; fringe metal necklace

by Brunello Cucinelli, $1,745. Available at Neiman Marcus Palm Beach and brunellocucinelli. com; jewelry by Seaman Schepps, price upon request at seamanschepps.com.

Sydney Brams works to solve a complex math problem.

Swimmer, Noah Newfield competes in an Oxbridge home meet.

Oxbridge Jazz Ensemble performs during a school-wide Celebration of the Arts event.

Dance director, Carlos de Barros instructs student Brittany Weger.

An Oxbridge chemistry class pauses for a photo with founder Bill Koch.

In 2013, Oxbridge opened a 1,500-seat stadium with synthetic playing surface.

Chemistry student, Melanie Peralta learns by doing in a state-ofthe-art laboratory.

Oxbridge dancers Jenna Freiermuth and Rachel Fulton (background) practice for an upcoming recital.

Anatomy and physiology student Angela Apicerno displays a student-made model of a neural cell.

Students apply electrical engineering principles by building and wiring remote control boats in an Engineering Innovation course.

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Dance of the

COCONUTS More than ninety years on, Palm Beach’s Coconuts remains the Island’s island’s most coveted New Year’s invitation. Everybody wants to go, but absolutely nobody wants to be caught talking about it.

by Christopher

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Lawrence

ell, I’m just very sorry,” the man tells me gently. It’s our second of two telephone conversations. He’s my contact within The Organization, a member in excellent standing. He has been very polite and conscientious in returning to me with answers—of a kind—within twenty-four hours.

My inside man had been willing to explore the idea of speaking publicly for my tribute to The Organization’s annual festivities. But he cannot. While he has in the past worked helpfully and fruitfully with this magazine, he finds himself quite unable to do so now. “I certainly wish you well, and I wish I could help,” he says. They have gotten to him. Leadership has. “It’s really, it’s just . . .” he says. Then, gently, and a little wearily, “Well . . . it’s just a private party.”

Well, yes and no. Quite a private party, indeed. But not exactly “just” anything.

“The Organization” is not exactly the menacing conspiracy of my fevered daydreams. The Coconuts, a rolling fraternity of twenty-five distinguished Palm Beach gentlemen, has been financing and hosting Palm Beach’s most discussed, most mythologized, most simultaneously exclusive and inclusive New Year’s Eve party since the days of bathtub gin. The annual black-tie ball that bears their collective name (and please call the party itself just “The Coconuts” so as to sound like an insider) is a gathering steeped in tradition, and yet one that cannily draws in the city’s next social generation. As with the very best blue-chip trust funds, the origins have become a bit opaque as the past has receded. No one seems willing—or able—to say precisely how, or even when, the Coconuts began. (My own carbon dating places the origins at

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demonstrably north of 91 years ago; it is only reasonable to believe that some version of the gathering began to coalesce in the immediate aftermath of the World War I.) The only thing that is entirely for sure is that the world has been spinning pretty wildly in the last nine decades. And in ways that sometimes rattle even the American Riviera. But neither the march of time nor the shocks of human history matter much come New Year’s Eve in Palm Beach. The Coconuts are still at it, and their ritual gathering is still very much the place to be.

Another friend is a genteel lawyer who’s been on the scene in Palm Beach for four decades and a resident for two. He’s been respected, trusted, even loved—and all this as an ardent Democrat. But his real arrival in town came a mere ten years ago in the form of an invitation to the party.

“You could write some terrifically scandalous pieces about a number of institutions around here,” he chuckles. “And believe me, I’d love to help you write those stories. But this is really a pretty great tradition. It really is.” The ball has for many years been held at the Flagler Museum, and the

Above: The actress Mimi Vignos celebrates the new year with Long Island real estate heir, Walter T. Shirley, Jr. Middle: New York Yankees heir Dan Topping, Jr. with Kristen Oleson, ca. 1965 Below: ROARING COCONUTS: The Miami Daily News, already gushing over The Coconuts in 1926.

During its early years, the ball was held in March.

Opposite page: THE SMART SET: Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Davis mingle with flair outside of Ta-boo, late-1960s.

“You could write some terrifically scandalous pieces about a number of institutions around here, but this is really a pretty great tradition.

It really is.” location is key. In Palm Beach, where the “Big Five” private clubs (the Bath and Tennis, the Beach Club, the Everglades, the Palm Beach Country Club, and the Sailfish Club) have overlapping memberships but are also, ahem, somewhat Balkanized, the Coconuts’ guest list draws to varying degrees from across the spectrum. Perhaps not quite a gathering that “looks like America,” but striking and alluring in a town where the allegiances can of course be as confining and oppressive as they are comforting. The Flagler, glorious as a place and significant as the homestead of Palm Beach society’s founding father, provides a fitting neutral backdrop for a gathering of the tribes.

“There are the five major clubs,” says my friend the attorney.

“And if you’re in one or more of those and you don’t somehow disgrace yourself, then you’ll make your way pretty well in this town. But the Coconuts is a level above all that.” He sketches a lovely image: drinks and a civilized New Year’s dinner among friends at someone’s home,

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“It’s fascinating that [the party] retains a social centrality, where that is breaking down so quickly elsewhere.

But what’s most striking about this party is that it is men who set the terms. And that an event controlled by them continues to constitute some social center of gravity.”

STAGE PRESENCE: Mary Duncan Sanford, the former Broadway star and a Palm Beach mainstay for decades, plays to the house at a late-1960s edition of The Coconuts. Her husband, Stephen Sanford (seated with Mrs. Joseph Tankoos, Jr.) watches from his front row seat.

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Right: Durie Desloge, Palm Beach’s most talked-about debutante of 1960, out for The Coconuts with Sheridan Crumlish, ca.

1964.Below: BESSEMER BLUE BLOODS: Michael and Molly Phipps, out from Casa Bendita for New Year’s Eve. Oposite page: NINE DECADES AND COUNTING: The Coconuts of 2013, assembled at the Flagler and resplendent in their “new” black dinner jackets.

A party that it is much seen—and almost never heard. or perhaps, for example, in the magnificent upstairs dining room at the Bath and Tennis. And then, at ten o’clock those certain anointed couples (ten are invited per Coconuts member) depart quietly from around town and begin to converge on the Flagler. There, the big-band music and the party’s décor—typically some variation of “jungle festive”—help create a swirl that’s just simply different from anything else on offer, even in this social capital. The invisible common denominator among guests is just an ineffable rightness, a belonging to some extended, long-standing Palm Beach “family.” Generations of Boardmans and Lauders, Gubelmanns and Phippses, Fanjuls and LeFraks, along with their not-nearly-so-famous-nor-latelyso-flush friends, all circulate through the museum’s pavilion and eventually glide on out to a midnight fireworks display over Lake Worth. “You’re constantly moving among people, all of them actually enjoying themselves,” my friend marveled. With no formal dinner and no fixed structure at the Coconuts, “you’re never stuck between a dowager empress and her cousin. It’s the least stodgy Palm Beach party I can think of.”

But for all the beauty and bonhomie, it is the evening’s first moments that harken directly to the past. Whatever the uncertainty about an exact founding date for the club, the sole mission has remained clear: the Coconuts group was convened by a group of popular bachelors as a way to repay annually the invitations and kindnesses of Palm Beach’s society matrons. By 1926, the Miami Daily Herald’s coverage of what was then a costumed gathering held in March noted Caleb Bragg, the Yale-educated automobile and airplane daredevil, entrepreneur, and lifelong bachelor, as being among the ball’s leading founders—at some unspecified time before 1923, when the party was already being treated as the pinnacle of the social season. The current membership, which includes chief Coconut Alex Fanjul, David Koch (rumored to donate the fireworks display personally), Leonard Lauder, and financier Wilbur Ross, as well as Palm Beach society fixtures from across the age spectrum, is comprised of men both married and single. But it hews exactly to the grand tradition of greeting all guests as they arrive at the door—a broad and very courtly gesture of thanks—not just to hostesses, but to the community of attendees that makes Palm Beach what it is for these men.

For the veteran journalist Laurence Leamer, a resident and lover of the island and the author of Madness Under the

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“You’re never stuck between a dowager empress and her cousin. It’s the least stodgy Palm Beach party I can think of.”

Royal Palms, the Coconuts’ adherence to its original spirit presents an intriguing measure of the changes that have surrounded the tradition. “The social center of the town was always governed by women, by a matriarchy,” he told me. “And with women—even wealthy ones—so actively in the workplace, or so active philanthropically, a good deal of that governance has broken down.” Ladies are not lunching in the way they used to. Leamer himself isn’t exactly charmed by the Coconuts, but he does acknowledge its significance—one that is arguably deepening.

“Life in Palm Beach, as it is in most places, is less and less about class and more and more about money,” he said. “And so I think it’s fascinating that [the party] retains a social centrality, where that is breaking down so quickly elsewhere. But what’s most striking about this party is that it is men who set the terms. And that an event controlled by them continues to constitute some social center of gravity.”

And so the circle goes. While male guests wear black dinner jackets, the Coconuts themselves for many years wore a uniform of white jacket with red carnation boutonniere.

When the hosts went to black jackets last year (allegedly) at the direction of Alex Fanjul, the outcry (quite unattributed, of course) made it all the way north to Page Six. But that tempest in a teacup is one of those little things that can obscure the skill and sensitivity the Coconuts have always shown in keeping the gathering meaningful and alluring to the Younger Set. Tradition itself now holds that as midnight and the fireworks pass, the party opens to a “Second Coconuts.” While the older generations depart for home, their children and grandchildren, as well as other invited younger revelers, are granted access to the Flagler and continue the evening’s festivities through a hearty wee hours supper of bacon and eggs. And so it goes—onward all the way to the dawning of the new year over the Atlantic.

When I spoke to members of the middle and younger sets, I was impressed, almost touched even, that they had fully internalized both the fear of banishment and the time-honored ethic of discretion almost for its own sake. The Coconuts would continue as it had in the past—with the party seen, or perhaps merely glimpsed, in the city’s “Shiny Sheet,” maybe in the New York Post, maybe in these pages. The happy, tanned Coconuts in their dinner jackets—whatever the color. A secret society in which membership is not a secret. And their guests, sailing through the dream of the Flagler. But the party and its voices would continue to be heard almost nowhere—and certainly not publicly.

“The Organization” and its gathering were being granted the same respect, and indeed, the same protectiveness, that that they had been shown by the elders. But the messages were always the same: “It’s not like anything else . . . . It’s more like a family reunion . . . .”

And finally that ultimate measure, that ultimate accolade: “It’s really the only party that’s fun.” ✦

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Some Like it Haute Holly Miller Weston brings the hot yoga craze to Palm Beach

by Haley Friedlich photographed by Cynthia Conley

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’ve already taken a boot camp this morning and a yoga class!” It’s 11 a.m., and this mother of three small children—all under the age of five— has been on the move for six hours. In fact, by the time Holly Miller Weston’s kids wake up, she has almost always already been to Haute Yoga—either one of her two Palm Beach hot yoga studios—tended to her own peace of mind and need for physical activity, and is ready to get her kids up and off.

Holly Weston used to adhere to a different type of hustle and bustle. She grew up in Palm Beach and is intertwined with some of the island’s most visible and social locals, but at age 18 she left the sunny isle for New York University. At NYU, she attended the Tisch School of the Arts and studied theater. She also found yoga during her initial time in New York, and though it was just a hobby then; it was something that resonated with her.

After graduation, Weston gave L.A. a try, but eventually resolved herself to be more the East Coast type. Upon her return to Manhattan, she started her own public relations firm, Exposed PR, where she represented brands like Anthony Mack, Alessandro Dell’Acqua and Milly. That went on for eight years until one event changed her whole trajectory: “I went home to Palm Beach for Mother’s Day and I met my future husband, Paolo,” says Weston. “He came up to visit me in New York all of the time and said, ‘I’m going to marry you soon,’ and then proposed about three months after we met. So I closed my PR firm and moved to Palm Beach.”

That was six years ago, and Weston has since had three children and completed two yoga teacher certificates in between. After having her third child and completing her second certificate, she immediately began teaching. “Then [in

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“When you get into a new pose people will stop and clap . . .we like to keep it light and fun!”

December 2013] a space opened up on the island in Palm Beach, so I jumped on it and signed the lease. That was my first studio,” says Holly. Another space in West Palm Beach’s downtown opened up in April 2014 and Weston took that one on as well, adding a second studio to the mix.

Both Haute Yoga locations offer hot yoga classes, but not “Bikram hot.” The studios are a balmy 85 to 92 degrees—”so they’re

basically like being outdoors in Florida on a hot day,” says Weston. She says they attract all sorts of Palm Beachers and visitors—anyone, anywhere, from a teenager to an 80-year-old man. “Yoga does not have to be serious,” says Weston. “Everybody was once a beginner, so you need to come and start somewhere.

Every person who walks into my studio is always like, ‘Oh, everyone is so nice and encouraging.’ When you get into a new pose people will stop and clap. It’s not intimidating; we like to keep it light and fun!”

Publicist and friend Nicole Munder immediately recognized this: “Haute Yoga has quickly become my deepest and most enjoyable addiction in Palm Beach,” says Munder.

“From Holly to her talented team of yogis, stepping into her studio to practice is both a spiritual and physical endeavor. Mind, body, soul and laughter are all touched during the practice. Once through her doors you’re part of a unique community.”

Friend Kelly Rooney says that Holly has created a studio unlike any other she had previously tried. “I decided a long ago that yoga was not the thing for me, until I tried Holly’s class, and now I can’t get enough of it,” says Rooney. “Holly’s yoga is inviting, soulful,

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and moving, yet manages to kick your butt at the same time!”

As for the great balancing act of being a working mom, Weston says having this outlet and having found her passion actually makes her a better mother. “I get to do what I love every day, but I don’t teach at night; so when I pick my kids up from school, I’m completely present and at home with my kids. It’s the perfect balance,” she says.

And the fact that she is a regular yoga practitioner certainly doesn’t hurt her ability to balance: “For me, yoga is my time to myself where I can breathe, be calm, and my mind is still. It’s a moving meditation for me.” And the former PR exec admits that it has changed her overall disposition: “It’s helped in all aspects of my life. It’s not only kept me in shape, but I have learned too. My usual intention for almost all of my practices has been just patience: have patience in life, patience in everything. I don’t react to negative situations anymore.”

When she is not sweating it out on the yoga mat, Weston and husband Paolo enjoy the increasingly young and social scene in Palm Beach. “ I was dying to move back to Palm Beach,” says Weston. “All of my best friends

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Shopping : LULULEMON ATHLETICA The Gardens Mall 3101 PGA Boulevard P229, Palm Beach Gardens 561.691.3782

growing up here are my best friends now, and most of them now live in Manhattan. I’m the only one who got to move back and they’re all so jealous. I mean, it’s amazing here!” She says there are always parties and a steady stream of charity events; it’s a lot like New York, especially during the social season when much of the city’s notable crowd migrates to Palm Beach. The couple loves going out to eat and has found Palm Beach to be a surprisingly young and fresh place to bring up a family. Their family also loves boating on the Intracoastal, spending time at the beach, and with three kids that young—“We go to lots of birthday parties,” Weston laughs.

And other than her busy family, work and social schedules, Weston is a self-proclaimed “yoga dork.” She makes a hobby out of bettering her business and her own teaching; she travels anywhere from Jupiter to Ft. Lauderdale, trying out other yoga classes and scoping out independently contracted teachers to recruit for her studio. And the

hard work is paying off both for Weston and the Palm Beach community. Weston’s lifelong friend Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler says the buzz and following that Haute Yoga has generated is noteworthy. “Holly has always been passionate with everything she has done in her life,” says Pfeifler. “I am not surprised with the following she has at her yoga studios. Her energy and enthusiasm are infectious.”

Weston’s friend Sara Groff is also a Haute Yoga regular, and she affirms: “Haute Yoga is the physical manifestation of the love, energy, positivity and soul that Holly radiates out into the world. She has created so much more than a place to practice yoga—she offers a sanctuary; a home that nurtures your physical body and your spirit, filling you up from the inside out,” says Groff. “You are drawn to the euphoria that settles over you after a sweaty, physical class and the stillness of being calm and centered. If you haven’t yet experienced this bliss, get out your mat and run to the next class.” ✦

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Hollywood’s Little Prince: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.

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s the only child of Douglas Fairbanks, an actor regarded as cinema’s first leading man in adventure films like The Mark of Zorro and Robin Hood, and the stepson of Mary Pickford, it would appear that Douglas Fairbanks Jr., an actor in his own right and decorated naval officer of WWII, was destined to lead a remarkable life. In these excerpts from an interview I did with him before his death in 2000, Fairbanks reveals intimate details about his marriage to Joan Crawford, the tortured relationship he had with his unsupportive father, and then broaches the subject on whether legendary playboy actor Errol Flynn was or wasn’t a Nazi spy.

✰ On his relationship with his father, “The King of Hollywood,” Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

“He [my father] was opposed to my going into the film business . . . My parents had been divorced for quite some time, and my mother’s family, who at one time had had a great deal of money, had seen it all go down the drain over several generations.

Their fortune was in cotton and cotton manufacturing, as well as Wall Street. It had taken them 80 or 90 years to build up this fortune, which my grandfather had started, and by 1900 he had cornered the cotton market of the world . . . That’s what they called my grandfather: ‘The Cotton King.’ He came crashing down with a great big bang, then had a slight come-back, but he lost it all again. So from then on my mother sort of lived on the sale of family heirlooms . . . Aunts and uncles and cousins all had to go out and do something to make ends meet. No one was accustomed to working . . .

“I have to admit that he [my father] never did take to me as his child. It was only when I grew up and began to stand on my own two feet later on that we got close. At that point we got to be very close, in fact. It was almost as if we were brothers, rather than father and son. Towards the end it was almost as if I were the father, and he my son . . . ” 90 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • JANUARY 2015

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✰ On Acting “[My first screen role was] yes, in a picture called Stephen Steps Out, in 1923, and I was fired right after it was finished, at the age of about 14 . . . They fired me] because I was no good, and neither was the movie, although it was better than I was. I was awfully young and untrained . . .”

“I wrote a letter to Jack Warner recommending this young fellow I’d seen named Errol Flynn. Errol went out to Hollywood as a result of that . . . working his way up until he got to do Captain Blood in a style very similar to my father’s.” ✰ On his first marriage to Joan Crawford and Mommie Dearest

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“I remember only very nice things about Joan [Crawford]. She was very hardworking, and terribly conscientious, even to the point of people making fun of her, since she was always trying so hard, studying voice and singing even though she did not have a fine singing voice . . . She devoted herself entirely to whatever she was doing, going into all kinds of preparation for whatever part she was trying to learn. I have never seen anyone who worked so hard to do her best. She had no sense of humor about it either. If you told her something was funny she would laugh in a forced way, even though it might have been a terribly amusing joke. I was appearing in a play, and she went to the opening night, after which she wrote me a fan letter, asking me to give her a ring sometime.

We had friends in common, so I did, and so we met . . . . So I read [that it was a wonderful romance and a case of love at first sight], but it was so long ago I’m no longer sure. I was only 19, and at that age it’s easy to get carried away.

“It [our marriage] ended in around 1933, simply because I, as a young fellow, had one idea about how to live with a wife, and she had a completely different idea. I had an appetite for all kinds of things in life, many of them away from work, such as traveling and living around the world. Movies were simply not the whole world to me.

“All she [Joan Crawford] cared about was her own job at MGM. When we went abroad, which was her first time out of the country, she absolutely hated every minute, and couldn’t wait to get back and return to work in front of the cameras in Culver City. It was like going back to the womb, the only place where she felt secure and confident in herself. It was where all of her hopes and ambitions were centered. I was simply not so Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Prisoner of Zenda dedicated to making movies and being a star, and that’s what the difference in us was, and why our marriage didn’t last . . . . As for the character that was depicted in Mommie Dearest, I’m not sure that what the daughter had to say was so accurate. But then I didn’t know her well at that point in her life, since we had been divorced for years, and although I would see her in restaurants and say hello we were no longer close.”

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✰ On Greta Garbo, Errol Flynn and the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

“Greta Garbo was simply a dream to work with. She was and still is very easy to get along with. She was terribly nice then and still is today.

I saw her the other day. But she will never give an interview, and she shuns all that kind of attention. I think she’s happy with her life as it is. She doesn’t give a damn about what people think of her, whether they love her or think she’s crazy. I think she was wise to stop when she did, right at the top of her career. “. . . I wrote a letter to Jack Warner recommending this young fellow I’d seen named Errol Flynn.

rumor about Flynn being a Nazi spy is nonsense, for he didn’t know enough about what the Nazis were about to have an opinion.

“I was never a close friend [of the royal family], and was noticed only because I was an American actor, and for anyone like that to know them is unusual. I never knew the Duke and Duchess of Windsor so well. My father used to play golf with him, way back in the old days before he became King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales.

I mean I saw them later on when they were the Windsors, and we had dinner together here and there. I read in authoritative books that they were not all that happy, but who’s to know? He was sort of stepped on by her, for she was a very dominating sort of woman. He was utterly besotted with her, and she seemed to take advantage of it. She was the boss in that marriage. I think it was probably very lucky after all, for he might have made a very ineffectual king . . .”

✰ On his unusual family background “Oddly enough, my grandparents were cousins. Back then people did not pay much attention to cousins intermarrying, and no one made a fuss about it, as they might today.”

✰ On Money

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Errol went out to Hollywood as a result of that . . . working his way up until he got to do Captain Blood in a style very similar to my father’s. He had been cast in a small part in it, but the leading man fell ill, so they gave him the break he needed, and his career was made. I never ran around with Errol . . . We played tennis now and then . . . He liked to call himself an amiable scoundrel, and it amused him to build his reputation up like that. He enjoyed having a bad reputation . . . I would not like to have been his producer, for he was awfully difficult and irresponsible, laughing at people who were conscientious about their jobs . . . That

“I have unfortunately not been at all shrewd, except in one thing: choosing people to advise me. I don’t have much good sense for making money, other than in picking good people. I think I do have good sense in my professional life, or at least as much as the average guy. There has to be a certain amount of luck in it, too, for I was out of the entertainment business for five years during the war, and if you’re in public life you’re not supposed to be out of it for more than three years. Otherwise, they’ve forgotten you, and the public changes its mind about you, whether it’s politics or movies.

“I had a row with Warner Brothers finally, yes. We came to a parting of the ways, which led to my founding my own independent company.

It was difficult at first, and in California I was frozen out of the business, since they didn’t approve of actors becoming producers. It was what happened when United Artists was founded, and everyone said that the inmates had taken over the asylum. From then on actors were frowned upon if they did anything other than act, and writers were scorned also if they tried to become directors or producers.

“Only the producers at the very top of the hierarchy were supposed to have any say about anything, and sometimes even those who could spell were suspect. Publicity made actors look like they had power, but it was very difficult for them to have any at all. They had nothing to say about anything at all, and for twelve weeks of the year they didn’t even get paid. During that time they couldn’t even work for someone else, either. You were under contract for 52 weeks, but paid for 40.” ✦ JANUARY 2015 • AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 93

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A Place in the

Our experts dish on the state of the hot real estate market moderated by Paola

AVENUE: How would you describe the Palm Beach residential market?

LINDA GARY: It is extremely hot. Look at the prices we’re dealing with today compared with 2006—2007 pricing is much higher.

DANA KOCH: It’s almost mind-boggling what’s going on.

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foundation upon which it’s being built.

WALLY TURNER: I attribute this to the high income tax rates in other states, record stock market performance and our fantastic winter weather. I am seeing clients primarily coming from New York, Greenwich, Washington, Boston, and even now from California.

AVENUE: Is it still a seller’s market?

LAWRENCE MOENS: It is fair to describe the market as actively robust.

LIZA PULITZER: And we’re also seeing spec houses that are off the chart. We are seeing prices in the $50 million to $60 million range, something we’ve never seen before.

JOHN O. PICKETT: The market is, in my mind, even stronger than it was, not so much from a price standpoint but from the basic

LINDA: Absolutely.

DANA: The sellers definitely have the upper hand right now.

LIZA: It’s an end-user market. We’re certainly not in a developer’s market any longer.

All those properties that developers bought during the recession are now coming on the market as spec homes.

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Price

AVENUE: Are home sales up compared with last year’s numbers?

DANA: Ironically, the volume of sales in the single-family home market is a little down compared to 2013, but prices are up because of a lack of inventory.

JOHN: It’s not only a question of inventory.

It’s a question of new product, which is what customers want right now. So, builders aren’t even getting a roof on the spec homes before they’re getting offers.

LINDA: There are 16 waterfront homes presently listed for sale starting from $7.57 million up to $59 million.

WALLY: Over the summer, I listed and sold a residence that had been built six years ago.

The house on Clarke Avenue sold for more

Participants DANA KOCH, Sales Associate with

LINDA GARY, Owner/ broker of Linda A. Gary Real Estate

the Corcoran Group Palm Beach

JOHN O. PICKETT III, President/Broker of Barrett Welles Property Group

LIZA PULITZER, Realtor Associate with Brown Harris Stevens

LAWRENCE MOENS, President/CEO of

WALLY TURNER, Senior Global Advisor

Lawrence A. Moens Associates (Not shown)

with Sotheby’s International Realty

than $2,000 per foot, which brought the sale

I would consider to be the hottest area, but

to well over $14 million. This was a record sale for in-town and not on the water. This sale has set the bar much higher and has prompted a few owners to list their houses. We are glad to have the added inventory, as it has been quite depleted recently. In November, I listed and sold a townhouse in three days. That deal was also record sale for the townhouse association. These sales are a testament to the demand in this market.

there’s a lack of product on the entire island.

So, when new properties come on the market, you have multiple buyers competing for the same property.

LAWRENCE: Depending on where on the island, home sales have gone up six percent to 14 percent.

AVENUE: Where on the island you are seeing a lot of activity?

WALLY: Much of the recent sales activity is being seen in the North End of the Island and in the Village. People coming in for the season like the idea of being close to town, as they can just get on their bikes and get to a shop or restaurant.

DANA: The North End is still probably what

AVENUE: Why are so many of the spec

LIZA: On Friday, a house on my street at the North End came on the market. Within an hour, I had brought an offer in. That night, there were two other offers going in over the asking price.

homes going up on the North End? LIZA: A lot of homes there sold during the recession, and builders bought them at the right price. Those are the properties where the spec houses are being built.

DANA: And they’re all going to come to market over the next 12, 24 or 36 months.

LIZA: They haven’t put a number on them yet, but the prices are going to be in the high $50 million if not in the low $60 million by the time they sell.

WALLY: Builders are buying teardowns primarily in the North End and all over the Island and putting up new houses. They are paying nearly $200 a square foot for land off the water in the North End. It is a bit higher

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PA L M B E ACH ROUNDTABL E John O. Pickett III

“If you get into a situation where you’re not getting exactly what you’re looking for, but you’re getting pretty darn close: don’t dawdle.”—John Pickett DANA: Many sellers don’t want to sell because they have nowhere else to go on the island.

AVENUE: What do buyers want when they come to you?

LIZA: Unless they feel that they are going to be offered something above their wildest dreams basically, then they’re just simply not prepared to move now.

DANA: Many of them want new construction. They don’t want to have to go through the process, which from beginning to end can take two years. Buyers want something now.

As a result, they’re willing to pay a premium to a developer or even to someone who’s recently renovated or built a new house for themselves.

LINDA: I am having to be very creative to motivate people to sell. I recently called a client and asked if they would sell their

in the area south of Worth Avenue known as the Estate Section. Most of these houses are much larger than the ones that are being torn down. There is a lot of momentum in the $6 million to $7 million price range for new spec houses.

Linda Gary

LIZA: But I also think that those buyers you’re referring to, if they can’t find what they’re looking for, they’re prepared to go into a lower price point and just do renovations because the inventory is so tight here.

AVENUE: What’s the status of Jimmy Buffett’s old house?

AVENUE: What advice would you give buyers looking to buy a home on the island?

JOHN: I represented the buyer and Dana represented the seller. My client took down the Jimmy Buffett house on 540 South Ocean Boulevard, and we are in the process of drawing up plans to build a home for one of the gentlemen who was part of the purchase on 530 South Ocean, which is the vacant lot immediately to the north. On the lot, we plan to build a spec house. In the meantime we

JOHN: Don’t sit there watching the Today show and contemplating whether or not you are going to make an offer. If you get into a situation where you’re not getting exactly what you’re looking for, but you’re getting pretty darn close; don’t dawdle. I guarantee you the five people that are coming in right behind you are not going to dawdle. In today’s market,

Paola IuspaAbbott

“It is always about supply and demand. The in-balance now is, there is more demand than supply.” —Lawrence Moens you may have to pay 5, 6, 7 or 10 percent above where you would normally be comfortable paying just to secure the property.

AVENUE: Why is the inventory so tight?

lakefront house. They said, “Where would I go?“ So I said, ”I have the perfect condo for you.“ Because I know they’re elderly I thought they’d be perfect for that place. So, they’re going to take a look at it. They didn’t say they

LAWRENCE: It is always about supply and

would sell, but they said, ”Linda, I’ll take a look, and if we think it fits, perhaps we’ll talk

demand. The in-balance now is, there is more demand than supply.

about it.”

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AVENUE: How is the condo market on the island doing?

LAWRENCE: It is very strong, especially in the better buildings, and water views are always in demand.

JOHN: I’m not even sure there is a condo market anymore. There’s nothing available.

DANA: There’s a lack of luxury product from a condo perspective, so people come and they pay a premium for it. Case in point: last month I sold a penthouse at Sun and Surf for just under $9 million. The unit has direct ocean views and more than 5,000 square feet. The sale set a

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could come and just move in. I’m expecting to sell them fast. One unit is a four-bedroom condo at the Kirkland House, 101 Worth Avenue, and has direct ocean views and an entry gallery to display art. The other unit is 2 North Breakers Row. The two-bedroom condo was completely renovated with Macassar ebony wood doors from Sri Lanka, and the pool cabana was upgraded to include high-tech equipment.

WALLY: The condo market in the Village remains extremely strong, either waterfront or city view. The range of prices in this market start at $100,000 and climbs to nearly $20 million. The Palm Beach condo market had something for everyone.

AVENUE: How is the rental market doing?

DANA: We have the same problem in the rental market that we have in the sales market. It’s the same lack of inventory. People

Liza Pultizer

and take a look at a property. If you’re serious about it, you got to get on an airplane now.

“The sellers definitely have the upper hand right now.” —Dana Koch made their plans early this year and took a longer season just to be able to secure an apartment or a home.

record for that building by well over $5 million.

LIZA: You’re only allowed to renovate during the summer from May to November 1st, so buyers are mainly looking for condos that have been renovated . . . that’s what the condo market is driven by. People don’t want to buy in those buildings if they have to wait six months to do the renovation. We listed one on Friday, a little teensy one at 455 Australia.

The first person who walked in to see it put the offer in and is pending. I mean, that’s because it had been done.

LINDA: I have two condos where someone

WALLY: Realtors ask me almost daily if I know of a house or apartment to rent that I have not put on the Multiple Listing Service. They wonder if I have a “pocket listing” so they can offer it to their prospects. Many clients come to Palm Beach and will rent for a season before they buy. Renting is a way for new people to come to town and see if they actually want to make a purchase.

AVENUE: What are some of the challenges you see ahead?

JOHN: One challenge is changing the buyer’s attitude on how to participate personally in this sort of search for the property. For example, if you send somebody information on a listing on November 1, by November 15the information is completely outdated.

Most likely, the property sold by then. So the idea that I’m trying to get across is that buyers can’t take two weeks to come down

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LIZA: I noticed buyers are trusting their brokers and their agents more and more to make that decision for them. So, the moment we find the property, I pick up the phone and tell my client “put the offer in.“ And we put it in, we lock it up and, then, they fly in to purchase the property.

JOHN: That’s a very good point. You have to have the confidence of your customer, and you have to be willing to be proactive and be able to make that kind of call.

DANA: Yes, properties aren’t waiting for buyers anymore. If you have that mentality, then chances are that you are going to lose a few properties before you understand the urgency in this market.

LAWRENCE: The lack of inventory will continue to be one of the most pressing challenges for the near future. ✦ Paola Iuspa-Abbott is the president of Top Of Mind PR and a veteran real estate journalist

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Robert Kleinschmidt

Jennifer Lee

Chris Sheldon

Jason Pride

Fiscal Forecast Our panel of experts look at the global investment climate moderated by Haley

Friedlich

AVENUE: Let’s begin by talking about international markets.

JONATHAN HOCHBERG: On a valuation basis, the United States looks more expensive relative to its own history, and if you look just purely at valuation it’ll lead you to Europe and Japan and to emerging markets. To us, emerging markets seem like a compelling, long-term bet because of the strong growth and the fundamentals, alongside the cheap valuations. So we’ve been overweight emerging markets, and also like frontier markets given the recent history. Over time, we think there will be more countries like the UAE and Qatar that can move from so-called “frontier markets” to the emerging market indices that could

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JASON PRIDE: Two things resonate here: number one, I think there’s a positive global backdrop that’s supporting pretty much all markets. On the whole, that’s a nice, positive backdrop. At the same time I’m having a harder and harder time right now saying, “Oh, I want to be heavily allocated to the emerging markets, Europe, or even the United States.” It’s getting to the point where it’s company by company & stock by stock. Take emerging markets for example—it’s no longer about emerging markets broadly. The growth in emerging markets is shifting from infrastructure spend to being more about the consumer.

CHRIS SHELDON: One thing I find interesting are the tailwinds and headwinds which differentiate each country and region, including emerging markets. This is something we haven’t seen in quite some time. For example, there are some countries that are positively affected by the decline in oil prices and others that are negatively impacted. In addition, you can see differences in global business cycles.

It’s the first time in quite some time that the United States is at one

JENNIFER LEE: I’m wondering when we’re actually going to stop calling them emerging markets? Today, two billion people are in the middle class; there will be five billion people in the middle class by 2030; these are no longer emerging markets. Each country has different dynamics, some are commodity dependent, for example, and will be directly impacted by falling commodity prices. So I think, as stated, you’ve got to look at it country by country and company by company—just think about how different that is from when most of us started investing. You invested in the United States and you had your satellite interest either through ETFS or a basket of these regions.

The amount of research and due diligence you have to do now is just

stage versus Europe China and even Japan. I think this creates some opportunities for investors as well.

completely different. And I think you’re right, it does strongly argue for active management.

give them an added lift. Emerging markets represent half the world’s GDP—but it’s underweighted in the broader indices. So we think there’s probably more tailwinds than headwinds in emerging markets.

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ROBERT KLEINSCHMIDT: And the amount of due diligence that you can do has changed over the recent past. There was a time when it was pretty difficult to investigate emerging-market companies. But it does depend upon what kind of money you’re managing. If you’re managing money for high-net-worth individuals and families, they don’t need to be in emerging markets. You don’t necessarily go into emerging markets to preserve capital. You go into emerging markets to hit home runs, or at least to make very substantial amounts of money. So the question is, What does your client want? If your client wants exposure to emerging markets, there is a relatively safe way to do that. You can invest in U.S. companies that have businesses in emerging markets all over the world, and you can probably get pretty good exposure there.

You might not catch the ultimate beta of the markets, but nonetheless you can get some exposure in those areas.

AVENUE: Are investors diversifying away from multinationals?

JASON: In some cases, these homegrown companies—companies that are local in nature—go up against international giants and they win. They’re closer for distribution; costs are low because they’re right in that region. It’s not always the case, but sometimes I think you have to play both sides of it.

JENNIFER: Right. There’s a level of interconnectedness that exists now. I think there was a time where you could simply use multinationals, and I think that we are evolving to a point where even conservative investors want global exposure because some of the largest companies in the world are not U.S. multinationals: They’re European multinationals, they’re Indian multinationals, they’re Chinese multinationals.

ROBERT: They’re moving out. There are some fantastic companies that have popped up in some of these emerging markets: well run, nice, conservative. Then there are some shoddy companies as well.

think about investing—has to evolve. Again, it isn’t that the United States has gotten smaller, it’s that the whole world has grown bigger and faster.

ROBERT: The point is that 20 years ago, when it was very difficult to get your clients to think about emerging markets, was probably an excellent time to be investing in those markets, when nobody else wanted to be in them.

CHRIS: It’s because they thought of them as were “submerging markets,” given the pain they felt in the late 1990s.

JENNIFER: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.

ROBERT: But I think the other point is that the dollar is very strong these days, and the United States is reemerging as a global growth engine, as had been the case prior to the emergence of China. The United States is sort of driving the bus again, so I’m not so sure about some other markets. For example, take the case of India, where low energy prices have really hit them because energy is priced in dollars.

So there’s been an offset there. But one thing you can say for sure is that the United States’ current-account deficit is on the rise again, and that’s good news for the rest of the world. That means that we’re buying more stuff than we’re producing and we’re acting as this worldwide growth engine again. If that continues, then your emergingmarket play might turn out to be pretty interesting.

AVENUE: Is the strong dollar a good thing for American investors?

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS

JENNIFER: We’re global consumers.

JONATHAN: Yes, and you can invest in companies traded on the local exchanges, in the local currencies, and clearly you have to have boots on the ground to do that. Our clients generally give us full discretion over their portfolios, so we’re not taking direction from them on where to invest. When we look at the emerging and frontier markets, relative to the developed markets, it’s very much bottom-up and we’re using active management. But when you look company by company, [our clients are] benefiting from the high nominal growth that’s taking place in the emerging markets and relatively cheap valuations.

CHRIS: The shift in perspective over time is interesting. Twenty years ago it was very difficult for many high-net-worth investors to think about investing outside the United States. Today, thinking globally about portfolio allocation is much more prevalent, recognizing how much growth we’ve seen in those markets and how important they are in the global economy. As a result, many investors have a much higher allocation to these areas.

JENNIFER: Right, and in this conversation we focused on, intentionally or unintentionally, equities. Our entire industry—and the way we

JONATHAN HOCHBERG, President, Hillview Capital, LLC

JENNIFER LEE, Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director, Wells Fargo Private Bank

JASON PRIDE, Director of Investment Strategy, Glenmede

ROBERT KLEINSCHMIDT, President, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Tocqueville Asset Management L.P.

CHRISTOPHER SHELDON, Chief Investment Officer, Fidelity Private Wealth Management

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JONATHAN: Generally, a strong dollar as we know means lower commodity prices and lower oil prices—which helps the consumer.

But I think the strong dollar cuts both ways.

JASON: We do have to be a little bit specific when we talk about the dollar because it’s always what’s the currency on the other side, right? I mean the strong dollar, the one that everybody’s quoting lately, it’s the U.S. dollar versus our major trading partners, which is primarily euro, pound and yen. When you go broader and look at all of our trading partners—and I actually did the trade-weighted basket— the dollar actually isn’t quite as strong now, so emerging market currencies are doing much better than the euro and yen. The US dollar’s strength relative

JENNIFER: Look at the last six years of monetary policy—we’ve had global governments, pretty much in concert, putting liquidity into the system, and then we’ve had uneven recoveries across the globe.

Now, you start to see central governments now starting to do slightly different things, so what does that mean for investors? For the last few years, you could afford to be pretty neutral with your global asset allocation because central governments were all moving in the same direction, but that’s not necessarily how things are going to happen the next few years.

“We do have to be a little bit specific when we talk about the dollar because it’s always what’s the currency on the other side, right?”

CHRIS: This goes back to my earlier point, which is we’re in a mode of asynchronous monetary policy and economic recovery. When not all asset classes move in tandem, such in 2014, it can present opportunities. Certain asset

to the euro and yen was the intended consequence of central bank policy. The U.S. has a tightening monetary policy; we’re taking away the bond buying, and inching toward raising rates, and the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan are pushing ahead with even more easing and more bond buying. Japan is putting in place the largest quantitative easing that I’ve seen in quite some time.

If central banks have their way, they will bring about a great rebalanc-

classes did well, while others lagged considerably. This may present some of the opportunities that you had mentioned.

JASON: One of the things that often happens is that people take this broadbrush approach to looking at markets and saying, “Okay, Europe’s fat, so I’m just not going to [invest there].” In reality, there are many global businesses, great companies in Europe, that have more U.S. exposure than U.S. companies.

ing. The United States is strong, Europe is weak and Japan is weak.

Central banks are trying to mitigate these differences.

ROBERT: You can say that there are some great companies that

—Jason Pride

If the United States is regionally strong, we can afford to give up half a percentage point in growth in order to give Europe and Japan half a percentage point in growth and create a more global economy that continues moving ahead in a positive direction.

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happen to be in Europe.

JASON: Exactly. That just happens to be where they’re domiciled. It happens in emerging markets, it happens in Europe. There are some

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great opportunities produced by exactly what you’re talking about, and if you have a good approach to picking—just taking the reasonable value opportunities as they come—could be a good solution.

CHRIS: But you can see why this is happening. Investors have deep muscle memory of what’s happened during the financial crisis, and in some cases, still seem to retain more of a glass-half-empty view: as soon as something happens, up comes the volatility, up comes the pessimism. For longer-term investors, these periodic sell-offs can sometimes create opportunities. Especially if we have lower interest rates and low inflation for a longer period of time. If that’s the environment we’re in, then it could investors a longer cycle than what some people would think about in a classic business cycle, and that would be very positive for financial assets.

JONATHAN: Agreed, but the thing you have to remember is just because rates rise it doesn’t mean the interest on the Federal government’s debt suddenly rises. There’s a roll-off procedure that happens. About 7.5 years is the term of the U.S. government’s debt right now, so it’s going to take quite a long time for this to roll off and end up with higher rates. That provides a nice window, right? So we have to be careful not to make an overly dramatic statement regarding an immediate jump in the cost of our debt burden; it’s something that would gradually come in, but I don’t disagree with you. The conclusion that we have to get our fiscal house in order before those rates go up is absolutely correct.

“If you turned every recession upside down it would say, ‘Made by the Federal Reserve.

—Robert Kleinschmidt

ROBERT: Well, lower rates are everything right now. They’re everything because in this country, for example, we have $18 trillion worth of debt. And the rate of interest that we are paying on that debt—or, put differently, the entire interest bill in the Federal budget—is about $250 billion.

That is not markedly different from what the Federal budget paid in 1990, when it was about $225 billion. So we’ve had 25 years’ worth of deficits, and we’re not paying much more in terms of interest rates now than we were then. But if our interest rates go from 1.5 percent or less to 3 or 4 percent, you get fat fiscal calamity.

CHRIS: While rates might move moderately higher, a big spike seems less likely.

Compared to where rates have been in the last two to three years, savers may find this is reasonably encouraging. It’s definitely been a unique point in time.

ROBERT: Well, they used to say that if you turned every recession upside down it would say, “Made by the Federal

Reserve.” ✦ Statements contained herein are based solely on the opinions of the commentators as of the date of this article, and are subject to change without notice. Avenue Magazine cannot assure that any forward looking statements will, in fact, occur. The information presented should not be construed as investment advice or recommendations.

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Running the New York Real Estate Market Stribling and Kivlan believe that the firm’s agents are its greatest asset. Their philosophy has always been that the right agent makes all the difference. This is why the firm has earned a reputation for being a place where agents are nurtured and thrive. It is important to them

Stribling & Associates deeply understands the New York market, yet is intimate enough to provide an extraordinary level of professional and personal advice to each of their clients. And many agents have been with the firm for decades, offering an unparalleled

“Making sure the client has the best experience is always our top priority.

There’s a reason 80% of our business comes from referrals . . .” that each agent understands not only the intricacies of the home selection process, but the intimacy as well.

“Making sure the client has the best experience is always our top priority. There’s a reason 80 percent of our business comes from referrals,” Kivlan says.

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level of experience with exceptional properties in New York City’s most sought-after neighborhoods. As an affiliate of Savills, the world’s leading international property services company, Stribling & Associates can reach buyers in more than 48 countries. ✦

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lizabeth Stribling, known throughout her career for her impeccable style and uncanny insight into the luxury real estate sector, founded Stribling & Associates in 1980. Starting with just 8 agents and a boutique office on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the firm has grown to over 300 agents with offices in Brooklyn, Chelsea, and Tribeca, in addition to the Uptown flagship office on Madison Avenue. Today Stribling’s daughter, Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan, is the youngest president of a residential brokerage in New York City, working alongside her mother, who remains active as chairman.

Stribling and Kivlan are a dynamic duo who, together, have broadened the firm’s areas of expertise, creating a flourishing new development division, Stribling Marketing Associates. The division currently represents a wide variety of projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

They’ve also focused on integrating technology and new media, creating a dynamic online presence for the firm and its agents. As a result, Stribling & Associates won the 2013 Luxury Real Estate Award for Best Website (www.stribling.com), among other accolades.

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Nip & Tuck, the newest makeover for your neckline

Avenue asks Dr. Marc Zimbler, Facial Plastic Surgery expert, his top secret tips for a more youthful neck Scalpel or needle? Dermatologist or surgeon? How do I know which is right for me?

I think with all the new technology we have these days the lines have been blurred.

Dermatologists are great at treating the face with Botox and fillers but sagging neck skin has proven to be more of a challenge. Recently radiofrequency lasers such as Ulthera and Thermage have been used, but results are less than we had hoped for.

When it comes to loose skin under the chin, this is where the scalpel reigns supreme, says Dr. Zimbler. Most of my patients have been treated for years by their dermatologists, but when they start complaining about the neck and jawline that’s when they say, “See Dr. Zimbler. Surgery does an amazing job at contouring the jawline and sculpting the neck.

“With an A-list of referring dermatologists, Dr. Marc Zimbler is focusing his attention on the neck.”

Your natural necklines are the talk of the Upper East Side, is your technique different from that of other surgeons?

More and more of my patients are asking for neck-tightening surgery and are happy with their faces the way they are. They come in and say, “I just want my neck done, I don’t want to look like one of those Housewives on TV”. Patients want to look like themselves, just refreshed with a more youthful jawline.

Traditional lifts pull the skin too tight and leave unsightly scars. We have all seen these people walking down Park Avenue with wind-blown faces that can be spotted a mile away. My technique is not based on pulling skin, instead it tightens the fascia and muscle. This targeted jawline rejuvenation surgery redrapes deeper structures and gives a more natural look. And with the newer short-scar techniques incisions are almost invisible, hidden inside and behind ears. With each patient I take an individualized and customized approach to achieve beautiful and balanced results. My office is totally committed to our patients’ well being while providing an environment of trust, professionalism and the highest level of medical expertise.

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What is the best age to start thinking about surgery?

For me I start to think about surgery when the jowls start to fall and neck skin starts to sag. Typically this starts to occur in the late forties and early fifties. That being said, I am a strong believer in smaller surgical procedures at a younger age rather than more dramatic operations later on. Early rejuvenation typically lasts longer, has a quicker recovery, is less stressful for the patient and looks more natural. People today don’t want to look like they had surgery, they just want to look like themselves but refreshed and rested. My job is to make them look fantastic for their age. ✦ Dr. Zimbler is a native of Manhattan and trained at the Mount Sinai Hospital and NYU Medical Center. He is board-certified in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Facial Plastic Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery. He has been named in New York magazine’s Best Doctors, The New York Times Superdoctors, and Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors in New York.

MARC S. ZIMBLER, M.D. F.A.C.S. 990 5th Avenue ◆ New York, NY 10075 T: 212.570.9900 ◆ W: www.marczimblermd.com

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The Art of Giving Supporting Charitable Initiatives

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laine Sargent’s involvement in the medical community began in her 20’s in Montreal when she helped fund her uncle’s research on artery transplants, which revolutionized heart transplant procedures around the world.

Inspired by his work, Sargent created the Arthur M. Vineberg Scholarship at McGill University in Canada. Dr. Jeffrey Borer, Chairman of Medicine at SUNY Downstate said, “Elaine Sargent has been a generous supporter of medical research for many years, carrying on the tradition of medical discovery initiated by her uncle, the late Arthur Vineberg, a pioneering cardiac surgeon.” Sargent and her husband Daniel Sargent, who built the corporate end of Solomon Brothers, helped fund Dr. Borer’s cardiology research when he was at New York Hospital as well as Dr. Pat Walsh’s Prostate Cancer research at John Hopkins University.

“Its important to help train young doctors who will become tomorrow’s leaders in research,” says Sargent.

Though Sargent is still very active in healthcare issues, she has recently devoted much of her time and money to support her new love: the theater. The dedication she shows towards medical research has now extended to support workshops where new writers, directors and plays are being developed. “Daniel and I would go to NY Theater Workshop and see the rehearsals. They did such an exceptional job, we wanted to support their work and off-Broadway shows.”

While many people are interested in the glamour of Broadway, Sargent is passionate about what theater can do for young talent and children who stutter. She has supported the Our Time Theatre Company, the Roundabout Theater Company, the Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizon, Primary Stages, the Lincoln Center Theater and NY Theater Workshop, among many others.

“When I like a play or see a lot of potential in a script, I like to go back 3 or 4 times. It is crucial to support new talent and it is very exciting to watch it develop,” adds Sargent. Elaine and her great friend, the late Kitty Carlisle Hart, used to go to the theater two or three times a week.

In addition to her work for medical research and the theater, Sargent stays busy running her own money and being supportive of the social and political causes important to her. “I feel very strongly about the right for same-sex couples to marry and adopt, ” says Sargent. In politics, Sargent remains open-minded, “I support whoever I think can be trusted - on either side of the spectrum,” she adds. It comes as no surprise that the legacy of Sargent’s commitment to her

“In addition to her work for medical research and the theater, Sargent stays busy running her own money and being supportive of the social and political causes important to her.” community has transferred over to another generation of her family. “I am very proud of my grandchildren- they are grateful to live in a country like the United States, and they do not take it for granted. They are extremely active in supporting the candidates of their choice. I admire anyone who steps up to support their ideals no matter what they are,” Sargent says, “The point is to be involved, committed and active.” —Robin Phillips ✦

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PAME!

Living the Greek life with Nick Papanicolaou

Greek melting pot

NICK PAPANICOLAOU understands Greek spirit in every capacity; it is both his business and a way of life for him. The Harvard and Columbia Business School alum is literally in the Greek spirit business—he is the founder and president of Ya Spirit; his New York— based liquor company that makes a native liqueur called Mastiha. And in the abstract sense, Papanicolaou is all about sharing his Greek culture with as many international friends as he can bring there.

Here, Papanicolaou takes us away from his busy New York—Hamptons—Palm Beach social triangle, and to one of his favorite Greek islands: Mykonos.

My favorite destination is Mykonos.

In addition to having gone there almost every summer since childhood, I find that it offers something for everyone. You’ll find many nationalities, but in particular a lot of Greeks, Italians, Germans, English, Scandinavians, Lebanese and, of course, Americans. You’ll find newlyweds there to enjoy the romantic restaurants and the cute painted streets in town. You’ll find families that go to enjoy the beaches and healthy Greek summer lifestyle. There are vacationers from all over the globe to enjoy the local nightlife and to party till dawn.

You’ll find artists. A gay community.

Visitors who come for the antiquities on nearby Delos. How can you not love this diversity?!

Days spent . . .

This past summer, I checked out some of the newer scenes, like La Med and Kalua. I tried Calita, a new restaurant in town. I stopped by my regular romantic spot, Hippie Fish, for a moonlit dinner. And I hit my regular party spots like Nammos. But I also made time to just relax with some friends and their kids at the Santa Marina hotel. Like I said, something for everyone.

Hot, but not too hot

Away from the crowds

I normally stay in St. John (Aghios Ioannis) or near Ornos Bay. It has pretty views, nice beaches, some charming restaurants, and yet it can be a lot less crowded than other parts of the island, despite being only a few minutes’ drive into town.

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I always know some Athenians who go regularly. More recently, almost every summer I run into a group from NYC or London that’s there for the first or maybe second time. Mykonos is a little less on the celebrity train than other places, like Ibiza or St. Tropez, and frankly I’m perfectly happy with it that way. We definitely get our fair share of celebrities—I saw Karolina Kurkova on Panormos Beach there a few years back, for example. Lebron James was there in August 2014 just after I went. And a ton of people from the fashion world go quite regularly.

But in general, people who have been going there for a long time don’t want to have paparazzi around every Greek Orthodox church or beachside taverna.

YA-spiration

I recently pilot-launched a premium Greek spirit called YA. I have always loved Greek food and drink. About eight years ago, I started to see the emergence of Greek digestive spirits, not only as after-dinner drinks but as something that could be enjoyed on the beach or in cocktails. I played with the idea for a bit, and shortly after graduating business school I had my aha moment in the summer of 2009, when I witnessed the essence of Mykonos in action.

To do list

I’ve been curating a list for years that I update annually. I recently saw an email chain that came back to me through my sister from recommendations I made to someone else two years earlier! There is always a new crop of places, and yet the institutions are as popular as ever.

To keep it short for my friends, I will say that I never have a trip without going to Kiki’s (a restaurant at Aghios Sostis where the food is cooked on an openflame grill and an olive tree serves as the roof), Nammos (the typical daytime party scene for Mykonos), Sea Satin (the Greek dancing starts after 1 a.m.), Hippie Fish (romantic and undiscovered by most tourists), and now Spilia (a recently renovated restaurant built into a cave where you can get delicious sea-to-table sea urchins). I also try to stop by the Mykonos Star Hotel, where Sia the owner always has a bottle of YA (the mastiha spirit I produce) waiting for me. Lastly, whenever I’m in need, I call my friend Silvio, aka “Mr. Mykonos,” or one of a handful of others who are connected to the scene there, like Yanni Kiskini who’s based in New York.

I brought friends from various distinct backgrounds to enjoy the holiday with me. When I saw one of my WASPy-est New York friends Greek-dancing with his arm around a Colombian guy, an Israeli girl and a Greek from Sparta, I felt inspired. It was as if all my years of bringing American friends to Greece to share my culture with them had finally culminated in this one moment. It had to do with the Greek spirit, or philotimo as they call it. It was this force bringing us all together, tearing down cultural barriers, freeing our inhibitions to be vulnerable and open to a new experience, and bonding us together in a lasting and memorable way.

More on YA

YA is made from mastika sap. And it is no coincidence that this product sticks, or binds, people together from all walks of life, to tear down our walls and embrace one another and the moment, however silly or “sappy” that moment may be.

Finally, I’ve always felt that there are big shoes to fill in representing a unique cultural product. I feel an obligation—to the Greeks who did it well before me and those who will inevitably come after—to give it my all with my product and to really create something that has appeal to the larger American audience. With all that I’ve “taken” from Greece in my travels, I want to give back. I want to make Greece proud, so to speak.

Shoe in Packing hacks I stuff my sunglasses (in a hard case) in my shoes to save space. I wear size 14s, so I can fit a few if need be.

I told you I have big shoes to fill.

My favorite purchase is a pair of navy blue Greek espadrilles I bought this past summer in Mykonos. They’re efficient (no laces to be tied or shoe horn to be used), they’re casual enough for the beach (not expensive and they slip right on and off like flip-flops), and they’re formal enough to be worn on most summer nights (they look like only slightly cheaper Ferragamo loafers, but they’re made of fabric). ✦

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IDEAL School founders Audra Zuckerman, Michelle Smith & Julia Harquail

Jennifer Lawrence & David O. Russell @ AFI Fest

Kimberly & Steven Rockefeller Jr. celebrating the opening of A Park Bench View @ Mattatuck Museum

Sharon Loeb & Princess Tatiana of Greece @ HDRF

Cassandra Seidenfeld @ Womens Project Theater Gala

Morgan O’Connor & Jasmine Lobe @ Pashion Week Pop-Up Exhibit

NYC’s first lady Chirlane McCray & Audrey Gruss @ HDRF

WHAT’S DOING IN GOTHAM Art, Architecture, Leading Ladies, Hermès, LJ Cross and The IDEAL School Video artist Steven Rockefeller Jr., the nephew of David Rockefeller, who is the board president of the Museum of Modern Art, opened a fixed-frame video installation titled A Park Bench View at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. Rockefeller moves forward from the movies Andy Warhol made in the 1970s, where the camera might be focused on, say, the Empire State Building for 24 hours, and Robert Wilson’s video portraits, where Brad Pitt or Isabella Rossellini might blink. Steven trains his camera on villagers dancing in New Guinea, a beach scene in Virgin Gorda with boats sailing serenely in the sea, a ski slope, a stream, or a statue of Michelangelo’s David, which comes alive when a bird lands on its head.

Rockefeller calls his videos “Dynamic Postcards”: as they seduce the viewer into observing time tick by, frame by frame. With a collection of more than 2,500 videos made over ten years, his work also serves as a virtual diary of his thoughts on life. Steven credits both his father and his grandfather, Nelson Rockefeller, who was governor of New York State, vice president of the United States and an arts patron who built Lincoln Center, with inspiring his work as an artist. “My grandfather passed on a belief in the importance of risk and reward when embracing new ideas. We all loved him for that,” he says, adding, “I owe my father the respect he taught me for the spiritual power of nature, its 130 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • JANUARY 2015

value to us and the privilege we enjoy being in its midst. Places like Maine and Norway are sacred to him. For this reason, we as a family continue to be stewards of nature.” Steven’s ever glamorous wife, Kimberly Rockefeller, greeted Steven’s father and other members of the Rockefeller family, as well as Patricia Hearst Shaw and the museum’s director, Robert Burns. mattatuckmuseum.org

AUDREY GRUSS’ HOPE FOR DEPRESSION

Audrey Gruss, the founder and chairman of the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, honored Mayor de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara, and David O. Russell, who directed Jennifer Lawrence to an Oscar in Silver Linings Playbook and spoke movingly of his own family’s struggles, for their advocacy work on behalf of fighting depression.

Audrey said, “This mind-brain illness is the cancer of the 21st century; over 20 million people suffer from it in the U.S. every year.” NYC’s first lady Chirlane McCray also spoke at the eighth Annual Luncheon Seminar, saying, “Bill and I have always been proud of Chiara, but watching her manage her recovery has taken our admiration of her to a whole new level.” Chiara said, “When I finally decided that I wanted to stop dying inside from depression and addiction, I had help every step of the way from my amazing family.” The seminar, emceed by Chuck Scarborough, featured HDRF’s Depression Task Force of seven rock-

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John Demsey, Dana Hammond Stubgen & Dr. Patrick Stubgen @ LJ Cross

Tony Ingrao & Randy Kemper @ Holiday House Benefit for Evelyn Lauder’s Breast Cancer Research Foundation

star doctors and focused on “Depression in Children and Adolescents.”

Leading the applause were Princess Tatiana of Greece, Martin Gruss, Kathleen Hearst, Jay McInerney, Sharon Lehman, Ralph Destino Sr., Edward and Liliana Cavendish, Somers Farkas, Muffie Fitzgerald, Sharon Bush and 300 others of that ilk and stripe. hopefordepression.org

MORGAN O’CONNOR’S ART WORLD

Ralph Lauren model, Mercedes Benz fragrance ambassador and art entrepreneur Morgan O’Connor hosted a “Pashion Week Pop-Up Exhibit” at his Greenwich Village carriage house and gallery, showcasing paintings by Beau and SeanPenncils. Among those checking out the edgy art were Timothy Goodwin, Elizabeth Gaynes, Liam McMullan, Amanda Manning, Stephen Orso, Bunny Laughlin and Gabriella Pawelek. seanpenncils.com

LISA JACKSON’S HAPPENING

The opening of designer Lisa Jackson’s LJ Cross boutique on Madison Avenue benefited the Parrish Art Museum. The fun evening became a “happening” when more than 100 people, including Vera Wang, Nicole Miller, Carol Mack, Marcia and Richard Mishaan, CeCe Cord, Laura and Harry Slatkin, and Dana Hammond Stubgen, spilled out onto the street, with many carrying mini champagne bottles with straws stuck in them.

The sleek shop features luxe fashion items, including irresistible two-tone mink stoles, home accessories, drop-dead-chic minimalist jewelry and a must-have $48,000 gray alligator clutch adorned with one of Lisa’s signature white gold and diamond cobblestone crosses. Donald Jackson, Helen Schifter, Dennis Basso, Jill and Whitney Fairchild, Mark Gilbertson, Debbie Loeffler, John Demsey, Elaine Sargent and Olympic gold medalist figure skater Evan Lysacek were among those admiring Lisa’s curation of unique gems and gifts. ljcrossny.com

HERMÈS HONORED BY THE FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY

French Heritage Society co-chairs Jean Shafiroff, CeCe Black, Odile de Schiétère-Longchampt, Ann Van Ness, Deborah Royce & Elizabeth Stribling

Christine Fisher & honoree Ken Mehlman @ IDEAL School

Billy Morrissey & Brittany Brown @ IDEAL School

Interior designer Timothy Corrigan and Hermès International were honored by the French Heritage Society for their commitment to preserving French culture at the Pierre. Ambassador of France Gérard Araud and Bertrand Lortholary, the Consul General of France in New York, welcomed the Francophiles along with FHS chairman Elizabeth Stribling, who said, “We have contributed to over 500 restoration grants both in the U.S. and France since 1982.” Odile de Schiétère-Longchampt accepted on behalf of Hermès International. Guests included Blaise Guerrand-Hermès, Margaret Russell, William Ivey Long, Baroness Laurie Bodor, Comtesse Caroline Brownstone and Nicole DiCocco. Crooner Cole Rumbough performed with society bandleader Alex Donner and his orchestra, and everyone left with an Hermès gift bag. It’s the only way, really. frenchheritagesociety.org

THE IDEAL SCHOOL

Angela Bernhard-Thomas, honoree, Emilia Kabakov & Dianne B. Bernhard @ National Arts Club’s Gold Medal Awards

Henry Kravis led the applause at the IDEAL School & Academy’s 10th Anniversary Gala, which honored Kenneth Mehlman, the Global Head of Public Affairs for KKR. Mehlman said, “Richard Branson has argued that his unique business intuition results in part from his dyslexia. Because he processes information differently, he thinks differently.” The evening celebrated the school’s mission of inclusion and excellence in education, which includes both typical and special-needs children in the same classroom. Accepting kudos on the IDEAL School’s positive profile in the Wall Street Journal were board president Mitch Rubin; cofounders Michelle Smith, Audra Zuckerman and Julia Harquail; and head of school Angela Bergeson. theidealschool.org ✦ JANUARY 2015 • AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 131

WO RL D A C C O RD I NG T O . . .

HILARY GEARY ROSS

AVENUE’s back-page column asks Palm Beach notables our version of the questionnaire made famous

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WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT STATE OF MIND? Excellent.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO AT THE MOMENT? Promoting my new book, Palm Beach People, with photographer Harry Benson.

WHAT’S YOUR FIRST PALM BEACH MEMORY? Eating fresh orange on a stick at the B and T [the Bath & Tennis Club].

ilary Geary Ross is the quintessential Palm Beacher, with bouncy blond hair and a penchant for social events and mingling. When she’s not in Manhattan or Southampton she heads down south to play hostess to some of the most festive celebrations in the neighborhood. Apart from being a society columnist, Ross enjoys spending time at Windsong, her 1939 Georgian Revival manor, with her husband, Wilbur Ross. And what better way to pay homage to the resort community than to release a new book? Palm Beach People shows readers a glimpse inside the exclusive world there, and here she shares with us just some of her favorite things.

WAS THERE A CAREER MILESTONE OR MOMENT THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR YOU? Publishing my book New York, New York with Harry Benson in 2011.

IF YOUR APARTMENT WERE ON FIRE, WHICH THREE THINGS WOULD YOU RESCUE? I would just run, run, run!

WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST EXTRAVAGANCE? Our art collection, which Wilbur and I do together as a team.

We never buy a painting or art object unless we both like it.

DO YOU HAVE A RECURRING DREAM? Flying through the air, it is fun!

WHERE IS PARADISE FOR YOU? Home in Palm Beach!

WHERE DO YOU GO TO BE INSPIRED IN PALM BEACH? Our dock is the perfect place to take in a view of the water and of the Intracoastal waterway. The water is endlessly fascinating as it is always changing with the light and the weather.

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT IN PALM BEACH? Breaking 90 on the golf course many a moon ago.

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO? The “golden rule”: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

BEST MEAL YOU’VE HAD IN PALM BEACH? Dinner by our cook Jacky. On her day off we visit excellent Palm Beach restaurants like Buccan, Chez Jean Pierre, The Kitchen and more.

WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST WHEN YOU’RE OUT OF PALM BEACH? The glorious climate that allows you to spend so much time outside.

HOW DOES PALM BEACH INSPIRE YOUR ART? It is such a happy and relaxing place to be; it inspires creativity.

WHO WOULD BE YOUR FAVORITE DINNER PARTNER? A fantasy: Oscar Wilde with Thomas Jefferson.

PLEASE SHARE SOME OF YOUR SECRET DISCOVERIES IN PALM BEACH. Palm Beach off-season is a delight; lots of wonderful people are here and the tennis courts, golf courses and restaurants are less crowded.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PALM BEACH CLICHÉ?

Men without socks!

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? An architect. ✦

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