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WELCOME TO THE November Icons issue of AVENUE. This issue is editor in chief Daisy Prince’s last, as she is moving on to pursue other interests. I’d like to thank Daisy for four years of service and stewardship at AVENUE. She will be missed. I’m pleased to announce that Michael Gross will now helm the magazine’s editorial department. Like the magazine, Gross, a best-selling author, journalist and editor, has thrived at the intersection of affluence and influence through his distinguished career. AVENUE and Gross are a perfect fit, both expert in covering fashion, luxury, power, fame and wealth. We will work closely to shepherd our business to embrace both digital media and live events, in addition to our storied print publication. This issue marks the celebration of the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District’s 20th anniversary. In honor of the milestone, we’ve profiled 20 New York City philanthropic icons, many of whom will be working with Madison Avenue boutiques on a series of in-store events throughout the month. Joan Rivers, our cover subject, was an icon herself. Leslie Bennetts, whose book Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses and Liberation of Joan Rivers, will be released on November 15, pens a tribute to the style maven and original queen of comedy, showcasing her palatial New York City mansion. Cindy Adams, the iconic Page Six columnist, took a quick break between deadlines to also invite us inside her Park Avenue penthouse. The photo spread says it all—this home can exist “Only in New York.” As the holidays approach, we have a lot to be thankful for here. If you head down South as the weather cools, be on the lookout for our upcoming December issue, where we’ll take readers to Miami in celebration of the art markets. Of course, we will have our traditional distribution in Miami and Palm Beach with AVENUE on the Beach from December through March. See you on the AVENUE. Kind regards, Randi Schatz
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CHRONICLES Moments of magic: Celebrations among good company
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PARTY IN THE PARK Central Park Conservancy Hosted Their Annual Luncheon The board of directors of the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy hosted its Annual Fall Luncheon at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. This year, the event raised an impressive $215,000. The Women’s Committee is also celebrating its 35th anniversary.
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FASHION’S FINEST Vanity Fair celebrated their annual Best-Dressed List in partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue. Saks’ president, Marc Metrick, and chief merchant, Tracy Margolies, hosted the stylish and star-studded event. The guest list included everyone from Gayle King to Stacey Bendet. 1. Amy Fine Collins 2. Victor Garber and Rainer Andreesen 3. Tracy Margolies, Marc Metrick 4. Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch 5. Andrew Saffir, Daniel Benedict 6. Nadia Kazakova 7. Olivia Chantecaille 8. Graydon Carter 9. Stacey Bendet
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SING SOMETHING The Metropolitan Opera celebrated the opening of its new season with their annual opening night gala featuring a performance of Tristan und Isolde. The Met’s star of the moment, soprano Nina Stemme, played the title role of Isolde. This year, the Met celebrates its 50th anniversary. The Lombardy Hotel | 111-115 East 56th Street New York, NY 10022 | Tel. 212.750.WALD (9253) www.waldrealestate.com
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AVENUE hosted a panel at a private club downtown with our October cover stars Matthew Stinchcomb of The Good Work Institute, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix of Solidaire, in addition to Nina Pickett, administrator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Center’s Department of Pediatrics. The discussion focused around how to connect to philanthropic causes and engage in giving in a digital age. Afterwards, guests got to enjoy a cocktail reception where the conversation about philanthropy continued.
READ IT AND REVOLUTION Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida Celebrate Their New Book with a Party at Hearst Tower
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loved watching Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia’s eyes light up as we approached Hearst Castle and he viewed it for the first time. He knows castles. No matter how many times it’s viewed, it still inspires—the magnificence, majesty and sheer audacity of vision…especially set among the 83,000 unspoiled acres of land, still populated by descendants of William Randolph Hearst’s original zebras and boars. And so, it was with great reverence and appreciation that the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation held its 8th Annual Benefit, hosted by Anne Hearst McInerney and Jay McInerney (fresh off the California book tour for his acclaimed Bright, Precious Days). The Castle was donated by the Hearst family to the state of California in 1957, but private funds must be raised to cover the preservation and restoration of its contents. At the silver screen–themed dinner in the Castle’s Refectory, the ladies channeled Audrey, Rita and Lauren, and the men were all James and Cary, except for Jamie Figg, who sported a full-on Lawrence of Arabia robe, which he later peeled away to reveal a more traditional dinner jacket. Tony Peck wore a plum velvet Huntsman jacket, inspired by his father, Gregory, who was often a guest of Mr. Hearst’s. Tony and his lovely wife, Paula, were off to Rome, where Roman Holiday, and Gregory’s centennial, will be celebrated with a public screening of the film on the renovated Spanish Steps. At dinner, Jay advised, “It’s safe to drink the wine,” which was supplied by Greg Brewer of Brewer-Clifton and Hilliard Bruce Vineyards. Joe Tobin, the foundation’s president, toasted all, and told us Jay McInerney and being in the Castle “makes me want to build something.” Inspiration Maisie McInerney abounded, helped by Zang Toi’s beautiful clothes (whose sales were donated to the foundation) and the showstopping Zang necklace Anne sported, landing her somewhere between Audrey and Nefertiti. Guests swapped their opera pumps for boots for the Cowboy Cookout that night. Patrón tequila was served in dangerously generous jars, Brian Nova’s band got us on our feet, and the auction raged, with Pierre Lagrange’s donation, a Huntsman bespoke suit, sold twice. Among the glittering, line dancing guests: Justine and Robert Bloomingdale, with son, James, and daughter-in-law, Natalie; Kathy and Greg Hampton; Hearst sisters Patricia Hearst Shaw and Vicky Hearst; Alison Mazzola (who masterfully, as always, organized the whole shebang); as well as Ebs Pierre Lagrange and Ebs Burnough Burnough, Randy Harris, George Farias, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sharon Bush, Peter Thomas Roth and Brooke Mueller, Diana Lands and Trip Haenisch, Maisie McInerney, Lydia Hearst Shaw Hardwick, Josh Flagg, Kick Kennedy, Remar Sutton and Wendy Stark. There are things to celebrate in New York, too, notably Richard Cohen’s new book, She Made Me Laugh, My Friend Nora Ephron. Nora, famed for her Oscar-nominated screenplays, not to mention novels, plays, and legions of fans, both personal and public, was Richard’s best friend. Holly Peterson, Joan Ganz Cooney and Pete Peterson, also his closest friends, gave him a book party. Richard thanked his hosts: “Holly is a creative and wonderful hostess, as are Pete and Joan, who have hosted Patricia [Duff ] and I many times. And they have made the world a better place. As they say in Greek, Pete, L’chaim.” Guests concurring included Mort Zuckerman, Ken Auletta and Binky Urban, Susan Mercandetti and Richard Haas, Liz Smith, Eddie Hayes, Jacob Weisberg, and Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos. Richard told us, “I felt strongly if you write about Nora, you have to honor her with honesty, good humor and in my case, love. I missed her all the time I was writing, and I have missed her every day since. Many in this room knew Nora. She brought us together once, and she brings us together still.” ✦ Joe Tobin
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Anne Hearst McInerney and Patricia Hearst Shaw
Tony and Paula Peck with Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia
Randy Harris and Amanda Hearst
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FOR THE PARTY HOST
Care-Full Yellow Tulips and Purple Iris, $80/54 Mixed Stems, by THE BOUQS COMPANY, bouqs.com.
Get the celebration started with these charming finds
Curiosity Carrousel Candle, $40, by DIPTYQUE, Nordstrom.
Mulberry Gin, $30, by BOODLES, reservebar.com.
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Heart 24 Karat Champagne Truffles, $110, by COMPARTÉS CHOCOLATIER, compartes.com.
Heather Grey Melange Bone Large Tray with Cutout Handles, $580, by CARLA CARSTENS, carlacarstens.com.
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GI F T G U IDE Space Clutch with Brass and Leather in Gunmetal, $1,595, by LEE SAVAGE. leesavage.us.com.
Earrings with white gold, titanium, white diamonds, blue sapphires and emeralds, price upon request, by DE GRISOGONO, 824 Madison Avenue, 212.439.4220, degrisogono.com.
FOR THE LADY Treasures she’ll adore Couture Panther Bracelet with pear-shaped emeralds, brilliant cut diamonds, 18k gold and platinum, $475,000, by DAVID WEBB, 942 Madison Avenue, 844.811.WEBB, davidwebb.com.
Floral A-line Dress, $5,790, by OSCAR DE LA RENTA. modaoperandi.com.
Enchanted Lotus Sautoir Necklace with white diamonds set in white gold, $17,000, by DE BEERS. De Beers Diamond Jewellers, 777 Madison Avenue, 212.906.0001, debeers.com.
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Bunnylove Mink Heels in Blue and Nero, $498, by STUART WEITZMAN. stuartweitzman.com.
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FOR THE GENTLEMAN Thoughtful selections for him
Hoppy Holiday Beer Shampoo and Conditioner Caddy, $20, by BRÖÖ, broo.com.
Eyeglasses, price upon request, by LINDBERG, Cohen’s Fashion Optical, 132 West 57th Street, 212.581.4967.
Zeitmeister Annual Calendar 42MM Watch with brown alligator strap and folding buckle, $9,215, by WEMPE, all Wempe stores worldwide. Suede Bomber Jacket, $1,455, by A.P.C. LOUIS W, mrporter.com.
Coffee and Cream Leather Headphones, $499, by PRYMA, Saks Fifth Avenue.
Pens in 18k rose gold, ebony and mother of pearl, $2,500 and $3,750 (from top), by VHERNIER, 783 Madison Avenue, 646.343.9551.
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Medium Wrap Journal in Whiskey, $90, by LEATHEROLOGY, leatherology.com.
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GI F T G U IDE Bio-Peel Gauze Peeling Lemon Treatment, $27, by NEOGEN DERMATOLOGY, sephora.com. Demitasse Lip Scrub, $9, by JAVA SKIN CARE, javaskincare.com.
FOR THE BEAUTY LOVER Makeup and skincare goods galore
Curator Holiday Set, $150, by HOURGLASS, hourglasscosmetics.com. Instant Light Lip Comfort Oil in Honey, $25, by CLARINS, clarinsusa.com.
Kiss Mix Lip Treatment, $22, by EVE LOM, Bergdorf Goodman and evelom.com.
Double Time Double Ended Brush Set, $74, by SEPHORA COLLECTION, sephora.com.
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Stellar Gaze Length & Strength Mineral Mascara in Supernova Black, $14, by PACIFICA, pacificabeauty.com.
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GI F T G U IDE Diamond-Filled Elephant Necklace, $499, by MEIRA T, meiratdesigns.com.
Andy Warhol Soup Can Crayons, $10/can with 18 crayons, by MOMA DESIGN STORE, 44 West 53rd Street, 212.767.1050, momastore.org.
Grand Piano, $150, by HAPE, saks.com.
FOR THE LITTLE ONE Adorable picks
Holiday Countdown Calendar, $22, by QUIN, mouth.com.
for the kid in your life
Plush Bashful Bunny Chime Stuffed Animal in Blue, $25, by JELLYCAT, neimanmarcus.com.
Emoji Stickers, $10 each, by TWIG & ARROW. Lord & Taylor, 424 Fifth Avenue, 212.391.3344, lordandtaylor.com.
Limited Edition Barbie, $50, by HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY, Lord & Taylor, 424 Fifth Avenue, 212.391.3344, lordandtaylor.com. 40 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2016
Classic Dash Sled, $169, by L.L.BEAN, llbean.com.
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Snap Touch Instant Digital Camera, $180, by POLAROID, polaroid.com.
Wonderlust Set, $122, by MICHAEL KORS, michaelkors.com.
Eat Well, Travel Often Journal in Coral Blush, $70, by LEATHEROLOGY, leatherology.com.
FOR THE JET-SETTER What to give the one who’s always on the go
Homeward-Bound Adventure-Bound Airplane Ring with 14K Gold Vermeil, $148, by JET SET CANDY, myjetsetcandy.com.
Ascent Canvas Weekender Bag, $495, by ALICE + OLIVIA X BASQUIAT. Alice + Olivia, 755 Madison Avenue, aliceandolivia.com. Charcoal Cashmere Travel Sets with Blanket and Eye Mask, $450, by BARNEYS NEW YORK.
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GI F T G U IDE Engraved Holiday Nutcracker Gift Enclosures in Blue, $55/set of 10, by PICKETT’S PRESS, pickettspress.com. Star Ornament, $14, by ROBERTA ROLLER RABBIT, robertarollerrabbit.com.
WHITE ELEPHANT PARTIES
Ceramic Elephant, $168, by JONATHAN ADLER, jonathanadler.com.
Who can resist these fun, festive finds? Milk and Dark Sea Salt Caramel Truffles, $74, by CHARBONNEL ET WALKER. Saks Fifth Avenue.
Cire Trudon Spiritus Sancti Room Spray, $190, by JUNG LEE,, 25 West 29th Street, 212.257.5655, jungleeny.com.
Luster Pedestal Plate, $22, by FITZ & FLOYD FLOYD, gilt.com. Shopping Bag, $49, by VEUVE CLICQUOT, Sherry Lehmann, 505 Park Avenue, 212.838.7500.
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ALL EYES ON ART This month's selection of art and culture
Berenice Abbott. George Washington Bridge, Riverside Drive and West 179th Street, Manhattan. January 17, 1936. Gelatin silver print, 9 9/16 x 7 5/8″ (24.3 x 19.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift of Robert B. Menschel.
MOMA October 29 – May 7: The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel 11 West 53rd Street 212.708.9400 moma.org
Auctions:
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK THE CITY OF ART MUSEUM NEW YORK October 6 – February 26: Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America
November 9: Mastering the Metropolis: New York City and Zoning, 1916–2016
2 Lincoln Square 212.595.9533 folkartmuseum.com
1220 Fifth Avenue 212.534.1672 mcny.org
THE MET FIFTH AVENUE October 19 – February 20: Max Beckmann in New York November 18 – February 5: Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion 1000 Fifth Avenue 212.535.7710 metmuseum.org
Ball Gown, Viktor & Rolf (Dutch, founded 1993), spring/ summer 2010; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2011 (2011.8)
Frank Stella (B. 1936) Karpathenburg II, 1996. Courtesy of Bonhams PR.
BONHAMS November 2: 19th Century European Paintings November 15: Post-War & Contemporary Art November 16: Impressionist & Modern Art 580 Madison Avenue 212.644.9001 bonhams.com
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CHEIM & READ October 27 – December 23: Joan Mitchell: Drawing into Painting 547 West 25th Street 212.242.7727 cheimread.com Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) Untitled 1960, Oil on canvas, 48 x 79 1/2 inches, 121.9 x 201.9 centimeters CR# MI.10825 © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read, New York.
LUHRING AUGUSTINE November 5 – December 23: Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture| Architecture and Morality November 5 – December 23: Ragnar Kjartansson: World Light 531 West 24th Street 212.206.9100 luhringaugustine.com
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November 3 – December 17: Josef Albers: Grey Steps, Grey Scales, Grey Ladders November 5 – December 17: Carol Bove: Polka Dots
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A NEW EYE ON ICONS Fashion is keeping us on our toes with these fresh takes on classic status items.
CHANEL J12
Chanel’s J12 was first launched in 2000, and became a favorite among the entire luxury watch lover crowd because it was the brand’s first unisex watch design. It also established ceramic as a luxury material. “We chose to use high-tech ceramic back in 2000 for the creation of the J12, because it was the only material that would allow us to achieve the intense black color we were looking for,” said Nicolas Beau, Chanel’s international watch director. This year, the J12 has been updated to be in extra small, called the Chanel J12 XS, with a diameter of just 19 millimeters. The timepiece is available in four boutique versions: black or white, on a patent leather calfskin strap, which can be worn on its own or over a matching matte calfskin cuff with silver piping.
BURBERRY TRENCH
Burberry’s trench coat took its name from the trenches where military personal were stationed during World War I. The traditional Burberry trench coat is crafted by using gabardine, a tough and hardwearing fabric. This season, Burberry has presented an updated version of the coat for women in python skin. The coat comes in green, and was created under the design helm of Christopher Bailey, Burberry’s current creative director. This update to the classic style features a contrast collar and lapels. It is kept unlined for lightness, save for butter-soft la mbskin-lined pockets. The cut was designed to layer well over dresses and knitwear.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN CLUTCH
Alexander McQueen was a fashion icon whom the world lost too soon. However, Sarah Burton, the heiress to his design throne, has kept his legacy alive, and continues to turn out memorable designs for the house, such as their signature knucklebox clutch. One of their latest offerings is this antiqued gold-tone knuckle clasp, crowned with the iconic Alexander McQueen gothic motifs and sparkling Swarovski crystals. The studded clutch is wrapped in calfskin. It’s been a popular favorite for ladies seeking an evening clutch with an edge. 50 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2016
GUCCI SLIPPER
When Alessandro Michele took over as creative director of Gucci, he practically pulled a lever to give an electric shock to restart Gucci’s life. One of the house’s signature offerings, which debuted for the men’s fall/winter 2015 collection, is their Princetown slipper. While the name doesn’t always immediately ring a bell, most of us would recognize it as Gucci’s fur-trimmed slipper that comes in everything from jacquard to tartan. It has been a staple in every street style photo at every major fashion week since it debuted. The style is now offered for women too.
TIFFANY T BRACELET
The Tiffany T collection was introduced in 2014 as a symbol of New York City. It’s known for its unmistakably clean lines, which are a reflection of New York’s vertical architecture. The line was designed under design director Francesca Amfitheatrof, who wanted something to usher Tiffany into the future. Now, the Tiffany T square bracelet has been reimagined in 18k white gold with princess-cut or pavé diamonds, giving the iconic bracelet its place as a status symbol. It is so coveted that Tiffany’s service professionals are taking reservations in order to meet customer demands.
HERMÈS KELLY The iconic Hermès Kelly bag was created in the 1930s. In 1956, it became the first bodyguard of Princess Caroline of Monaco when her mother, actress Grace Kelly, hugged it to her body to conceal her pregnancy. When the photo made it onto magazine covers, the bag was given its name. The latest addition to the Kelly family is the Kelly Mini II. It’s a bit larger than the Kelly Micro, and the volume has been reworked to store daily essentials, like large smartphones. The bag launched the last week of September, and will be a welcome addition to any Hermès collector’s closet.
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SAY IT WITH A RING David Webb’s statement jewels continue to make history
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ack in the day, during the time of America’s Prohibition, it was all about going out and having a grand time. Under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment, the production, transport and sale of alcohol were banned from 1920 to 1933, but that didn’t stop folks, especially women, from getting dressed up in their finest flapper outfits and celebrating like there was no tomorrow. It was an era of freedom, speakeasies and the rise of the now-classic cocktail ring—bold jewels that serve as glamorous accessories, worn with a drink in hand.
oking for just a lo ot n is n a om w a y a “Tod t proves a th el w je a t bu g, n ri bracelet, clip or avid Webb D — .” ty li a u id iv d in er h Cocktail rings stayed in fashion throughout the years but perhaps became most prevalent in the 1950s and ’60s, when women often wore them out to dinners and parties. This was also around the time when American jeweler David Webb was at the prime of his design. Over the course of his life, Webb designed pieces for a number of notable ladies, including Marisa Beren-
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Diane von Furstenberg ring with pear-shaped brown diamond, black enamel and gold.
son, Diane von Furstenberg, Doris Duke and the Duchess of Windsor. To this day, the brand is still adored by celebrities and A-listers alike. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Webb moved to New York at the age of 17 to start his career. His eye for bold, colorful gems combined with studies in metalwork (influenced by his grandfather, a metal engraver, and his uncle, a jeweler who taught him gold work and stone cutting), gained attention in the press, including on the pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. David Webb became a household name. In the same building as the brand’s flagship store on 942 Madison Avenue, is the workshop, where all the intricate pieces are made, and the archive department, housing more than 40,000 of Webb’s original sketches, as well as design cards and inspiration books, many on how to draw animals, which became his signature design motif. “For inspiration, David Webb references archival designs, while taking liberty to change color palette and design scale to make it current and modern,” said Dianne Batista, the company’s archive manager. “David Webb was a charming southern gentleman, who attracted many highprofile clients to the company. He was very hands on and created many special orders. If a client came in with their own gemstone or family heirloom, he would source inspiration and design around that.” On the walls in the archive department are framed art, also of Webb’s original sketches, including a cocktail ring he designed for Marisa Berenson in 1973. The piece is still prominent in the brand’s Twilight collection and is a statement piece nonetheless. Another gem in the extensive collection is a cocktail ring the jeweler designed for Diane von Furstenberg in 1972. Stylish then and stylish now, these rings perfectly encapsulate the timelessness of the brand, one that truly values its core roots. As Mr. Webb once said, “Today a woman is not looking for just a bracelet, clip or ring, but a jewel that proves her individuality.” ✦
Impero Caffè by Scott Conant opens at Innside New York in the bustling NoMad neighborhood, offering an all-day Italian menu in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Lunch and dinner feature a variety of antipasti and satisfying house made pastas, the hallmarks of Conant's soulful Italian cooking. In the morning, the space captures the spirit of a traditional Italian coffeehouse, offering guests pastries, cappuccinos and shots of espresso to start their day. Impero Caffè's sense of "sprezzatura", or an air of casual elegance, makes it a go-to spot for those who seek a relaxed and stylish destination to savor comforting fare and good company.
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hough the word “unique” is often thrown around with sloppy abandon by real estate impresarios hawking their wares, the vast majority of buildings in Manhattan do not truly stand alone in any stylistic sense. One gleaming new glass condo often looks like the next, and even the brownstones that are nowadays so revered tend to have not only architectural siblings right next door but also lookalike cousins all over town. Indeed, so common were brownstones by the late 19th century that Edith Wharton famously derided the city of that period as “cursed with its universal chocolatecoloured coating of the most hideous stone ever quarried.” What a welcome pleasure, then, are the homespun little brick houses of Astor Row, on the south side of West 130th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues in central Harlem. Built from 1880 to 1883 on land owned by William Astor, the row of 28 houses is a genuinely singular architectural grouping in Manhattan: fourteen pairs of threeand-a-half-story pink-brick houses with 20-foot-deep front gardens and charmingly turned Victorian-style porches painted olive green. Several of the pairs are semidetached houses, with side yards and side windows that admit an unexpectedly warm flood of light into the homes’ interiors. Individually landmarked by the city in 1981, the houses of Astor Row, Nos. 8–62 West 130th Street, rarely come to market. In 2014,
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No. 16, which had been vacant and boarded up for years, sold for $1.7 million. “There were tons of bids on this property, to the point where people were trying to climb in the window and a security guard had to be posted,” said Tamara Marotta, an associate broker at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, who handled the sale. The sellers, she added, “wanted someone who could do a renovation, so it wouldn’t sit and languish.” That renovation, a spare, modern interior within a faithfully restored 19th-century exterior, is now complete, and the fourbedroom, five-bath house was placed on the market during the summer, again with Marotta and Elliman; the asking price is $3.995 million. That number would be astonishing to anyone who knew the block during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, when many of the houses were derelict and Astor Row houses were being listed for $130,000. But in 2013, a four-story brownstone at nearby 2036 Fifth Avenue sold to the actor Neil Patrick Harris for $3.6 million, then a neighborhood record; that building required substantial renovation to combine its residential floors with a commercial duplex. Astor Row stands on land purchased in 1844 for $10,000 by real estate titan John Jacob Astor. The Astor patriarch was well known for buying properties in underdeveloped, far-flung areas of Manhattan
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and sitting on them until the city expanded to reach his holdings. His West 130th Street purchase fit this pattern. Harlem was still a bucolic village in the mid-19th century, but the extension of elevated railroads into the neighborhood in the late 1870s and early 1880s linked the area to commercial districts downtown and spurred residential development. Astor Row was the work of architect Charles Buek, who had designed grand East Side residences for the likes of John A. Stewart, president of U.S. Trust, and Charles A. Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune and assistant secretary of war during the Civil War. Home to middle- and upper-middle-class whites in their early decades, the Astor houses and the high-stooped brownstones across the street combined to earn their stretch of West 130th Street the reputation as the “Block Beautiful.” With their picturesque porches, decorative cast-iron fencing and stone lintels incised with Neo-Grec detailing, Buek’s row houses presented, the New York Times asserted, “a picture of domestic tranquility and comfort” possessed by “few other dwelling blocks in the city.” Speculative overbuilding in Harlem led to a collapse of the real estate market in 1905, and African-Americans began moving to Harlem in great numbers, many of them displaced from the tenement neighborhood in the West 30s that was razed to make way for the original Pennsylvania Station and its tunnel. In 1920, a real estate investor named James H. Cruikshank purchased a number of the Astor Row houses and began selling them to blacks, “radical changes in 130th Street” that prompted the Times to predict that the row would “soon be occupied entirely by colored residents.” 56 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2016
Though built as single-family homes, the Astor houses were routinely serving as boardinghouses by the 1920s. A 1928 rental advertisement in the New York Amsterdam News, a black newspaper, offered “neatly furnished rooms” with “hot and cold water” and “steam heat” for $5 at No. 30. Carrie J. Mumford, the landlady who took out the ad, was still living there in 1940, when the U.S. Census found her crowded into her home with 15 tenants and a caretaker. A 62-yearold black woman who had been born in Maryland, Mumford was sole owner of the house, which was valued at $12,000. Her tenants, who ranged in age from 3 to 70, were black as well, most of them transplants from the South. Several worked as servants, including 48-year-old Virginia native Margaret Washington. Her 62-year-old husband, William, who had never attended school, was captain of a coal barge. The Depression hit Harlem hard, and the continuing influx of immigrants from the South and the Caribbean after World War II led to overcrowding. At the same time, the rising cost of maintaining houses, coupled with laws that limited rental income, prompted many homeowners to abandon their properties or set insurance fires, according to architectural historian Brendan Gill. By the early 1990s, Astor Row was in a shambles. Its once picturesque porches were collapsing or missing, and some of the houses were vacant, their windows and doors sealed up with cinderblocks. That’s when Brooke Astor, the widow of Vincent Astor, a great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, happened upon the site. “Mrs. Astor was riding around with someone from the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and a sign said Astor Row,” recalled Karen Ansis, fund manager for the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a private group. “She said, ‘What is this?’”
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By the early 1990s, Astor Row was in a shambles. Its once picturesque porches were collapsing or missing, and some of the houses were vacant, their windows and doors sealed up with cinderblocks. That’s when Brooke Astor donated $1.7 million for the restoration of the row’s porches.
Mrs. Astor, reinforcing her reputation as the Lady Bountiful of New York society, arranged for a $1.7 million donation from the Vincent Astor Foundation for the restoration of Astor Row’s porches. The New York Landmarks Conservancy managed the work, which expanded into a broader $3.2 million rehabilitation project funded with both public and private money. (Ella Fitzgerald lent her voice to the cause by performing at a benefit at Radio City Music Hall.) All told, between 1992 and 2005, 25 of the 28 porches were repaired or replaced, twelve crumbling chimneys were rebuilt, 15 façades were stripped of chipping paint and repointed, and eleven cast-iron fences were restored. Two vacant, city-owned buildings, Nos. 38 and 58, were renovated inside and out to create eight cooperative apartments for lower- and middle-income residents. Today, seven Astor Row houses are owned by Claris Cunningham, a Jamaican-born immigrant who came to New York by way of England. In 1992, she became acquainted with the row houses when her brother was building new porches for them. She, her daughter, and her sister pooled their resources and bought No. 12. “It was hell on earth with the crack and the devastation of the abandoned buildings,” Cunningham recalled. “They climbed up the banister of the porch, through the second-floor window, and my daughristorante ter, Diane, beat them with a baseball bat.” Another time, she added, intruders cut a hole in the front door “to come in and steal anything they could get their hands on, anything to make a quick crack deal.” To protect herself, Cunningham’s daughter began sleeping with a machete. Today life is far more tranquil, and only one house on the row is still a shell. Over the past decade, more affluent residents have poured
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into Harlem, often plunking down millions for houses. Cunningham estimated that about half the buildings on Astor Row are now owned by blacks and half by whites, a mix she’s comfortable with. “I come from a multiculture: Indian, Jews and Negro,” she said. “I’ve always lived in a diverse community.” No. 16 was still in need of major work in 2014 when Henry Abraham, a white human rights lawyer who lives in Harlem, bought it with a development partner. The brickwork needed repointing, the porch was rotting, and the roof was leaking. “You walked in and there was exposed insulation and electrical wiring,” Abraham said. “Some work had been done, but it was 20 years old, as if work had been started but they maybe ran out of money.” The new owners performed a gut renovation, installing a period fireplace surround salvaged from a limestone house on 162nd Street and adding oak wainscoting and oak herringbone floors. Now they will sit back and see if their refurbished landmark will fetch nearly $4 million, a figure that would shatter the record sale price for an Astor Row house: the $2.4 million paid for No. 20 in 2013. What’s old is new again, in more ways than one. Way back in 1889, one longtime observer of the Uptown scene was so astonished by the area’s soaring market that he grumbled, “When I see the prices real estate is now bringing in Harlem, it makes me feel that I was a fool for not making…investments years ago when property was so cheap.” ✦ ristorante
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hen Joan Rivers bought the derelict Upper East Side apartment she would transform into the home of her most extravagant dreams, there were pigeons nesting in it. Housed in a Gilded Age limestone mansion originally owned by John Drexel of the Philadelphia banking family, the residence was designed in neo–French Classic style by Horace Trumbauer. Built in 1903 at 1 East 62nd Street, the apartment included two vast ballrooms separated by a sliding door. But despite its grand pedigree, the property had deteriorated into a certifiable wreck by the time Rivers first saw it in the late 1980s. As she admitted, “It was now a broken-down warren of cloakrooms, maids’ rooms, and musicians’ changing rooms, and then vast spaces of no use whatsoever. It had been on the market for two and a half years without one bid, and by now plaster was falling from the walls, the floor was coming up. There was major water damage.” Rivers knew that her husband, who had long served as her business manager, would never have bought such a dilapidated place—but for the first time in more than two decades, she was making such decisions alone. In 1987, she was fired from her own TV show, the first late-night talk program ever to be hosted by a woman. The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers had helped to launch the brand-new Fox television network, and her husband had served as the show’s producer—but when it failed, he was so depressed that he committed suicide.
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fter more than a decade of living with her family in Los Angeles, Rivers was suddenly on her own. Her only child had gone off to college, and Rivers needed to reinvent both herself and her career. Although she earned much of her income in garish Las Vegas, she wanted to build a glamorous new life in Manhattan. For her role models, Rivers chose the WASPy socialites whose elegance she admired and hoped to emulate. “She wanted to be perceived as being part of that world—a world she didn’t feel she belonged in: ‘Look at me! I wish my mother were here to see me today!’” said David Dangle, who first met Rivers when he was hired to reinvent her personal style for a new daytime TV talk show in New York. “David went to places like Le Cirque and drew people, and then he created that look for her,” explained Marlaine Selip, who became the supervising producer on The Joan Rivers Show. “She looked like a million bucks. She had Chanel jewels and tailored outfits and wonderful bags, because she was always carrying stuff. She looked rich. People tuned in just to see what she’d be wearing.” Rivers had an even more grandiose vision for her new home, which would become a legendary gathering place. Her inspiration was the Palace of Versailles, but since her natural milieu was show business, her taste was a unique amalgam she described as “Louis XIV meets Fred and Ginger.” From the leopard-print carpets to the ballroom with its 23-foot ceilings, Greek columns, gilded antique paneling and crystal chandeliers, Rivers’ vision was so ornate that even the very rich were astonished. “When people would go to Joan’s apartment, they couldn’t believe it,” said Blaine Trump, who became a close friend when Rivers moved back to New York. For Rivers, creating a life of ostentatious opulence was paramount. Born in Brooklyn, she grew up in suburban Westchester as the daughter of a doctor, but her childhood was scarred by financial insecurity and parental conflict. Her father never earned enough money to support the extravagant lifestyle coveted by his spendthrift wife, and his penny-pinching anxiety erupted into rage when Joan’s mother secretly bought expensive luxuries—including a mink coat they couldn’t afford. Their endless battles traumatized Joan and her sister, Barbara. For the rest of her life, Joan loved making her own money and relished the sense of power it gave her. She also loved spending what she earned, and she thoroughly enjoyed all the costly possessions she was able to buy. Nothing ever assuaged her childhood feelings of deprivation, but she always seemed comforted by her ability to afford such luxuries, and she developed a connoisseur’s eye. “Joan called Sotheby’s out of the blue and got me, and she bought a very important piece of 18th-century French furniture, a Louis XV ormolu mounted writing table from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman,” said Pete Hathaway, a former director of European furniture at Sotheby’s. “I was stunned that she was calling about a very important table. I thought, ‘She lives really well, and she’s got lovely things!’ ” When Rivers finished creating her home, its style owed the most obvious debt to France. “If Louis XIV hasn’t sat on it, I don’t want it,” said Rivers, who delighted in telling people that her apartment was what Marie Antoinette would have done “if she’d had the money.”
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hen Rivers first got involved in the late 1980s, her commitment was viewed as an act of courage. “Joan never shied away from controversy, and she was the first celebrity to do an AIDS fundraiser,” said Karen Pearl, the current president and CEO of God’s Love. “I think it was hugely brave, and I don’t use that word lightly. AIDS was something nobody wanted to name or touch or do anything about. Joan took on the subject, and there was never a time when she said anything that was not heartfelt or loving. She was a hero.” Every year, Rivers delivered Thanksgiving dinners from God’s Love before returning home to host her own celebration. When her grandson, Cooper, got old enough to accompany her, she took him with her on the annual holiday visits to AIDS patients. Throughout her life, Rivers remained a passionate theatergoer, with a voracious appetite for New York’s profusion of cultural offerings. But her daughter lived in Los Angeles, and Rivers was tired of her weekly cross-country commute to see Melissa and Cooper. Although she was proud of the gilded showcase she had created in Manhattan, perhaps it had served its purpose.
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If the showcase she built for her life was extreme, at least Rivers was in on the joke. “That apartment was a giggle for Joan,” said the writer Jesse Kornbluth. “It amused her to live in Versailles. Why did she want to live in Versailles? Because she could.” Other comedians found a rich vein of material in Rivers’ lifestyle. “If you want to know how big her palace was, Buckingham Palace has one more closet,” said Brad Zimmerman, a comic who often opened for Rivers. “My place would work very well in hers—as a hamper.” But New York loves an over-the-top character, and Rivers had found the right locale for the exaggerated formality of her social style. Her crystal finger bowls and elaborate place settings seemed weirdly out of place in Southern California, but they were well-suited to the residential Fabergé egg she called home in Manhattan. Rivers was particularly renowned for her holiday celebrations, and she invited a rotating array of friends, family and colleagues to her annual Thanksgiving, Christmas and Passover seder dinners—all of which were equally elaborate. “One year I had nowhere to go on Thanksgiving, and she invited me,” said Lonny Price, who coauthored and directed the Broadway play Rivers wrote about Lenny Bruce’s mother, Sally Marr…and Her Escorts. “It was so elegant, it was like you were in a magazine. I was not used to Thanksgiving being that kind of production. Every time you stepped into that house it was like you were in a photo shoot for House & Garden.” Rivers was equally extravagant in her philanthropy, and when Blaine Trump introduced her to God’s Love We Deliver, she developed a passion for the cause that endured until her death at 81. A nonprofit charity originally founded to deliver meals to homebound people with AIDS and HIV, God’s Love later expanded its mandate to serve patients with cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, heart failure, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses.
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“She thought it was stupid to be rattling around in a $20-million-plus apartment that was bought for entertaining when she wasn’t entertaining anymore,” said Hathaway, who is now the proprietor of Ragamont House, a catering and event venue in Salisbury, Connecticut. “She just wanted a more scaled-down, normal life.”
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Leslie Bennetts is the author of Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses and Liberation of Joan Rivers, published by Little, Brown on November 15. A longtime Vanity Fair writer and former New York Times reporter, Bennetts also wrote The Feminine Mistake, a national bestseller about the cost of economic dependency for women who leave the work force to become stay-at-home mothers. NOVEMBER 2016 • AVENUE MAGAZINE | 65
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indy Adams points to one of about 500 New York Post covers enshrined on the walls and ceiling of her dazzling home office in her Park Avenue apartment. The yellowing paper sports a picture of Hillary Clinton and Adams herself back in December 1997. The two had just been thrown out of the then 132-year-old University Club and are having a good laugh about it. “Some old coot kicked the First Lady out,” Adams says, her eyes dancing as she recounts the story. “I called it ‘Geezergate.’” Their crime? Chitchatting and opening Christmas presents a little too loudly for the stodgy club. For the record, Clinton stayed calm and collected throughout the absurd ordeal, while Adams struggled to hold her ever polite but often stinging, zinging tongue. It is impossible for the iconic gossip columnist, who is celebrating her 35th year with the Post, to pinpoint her favorite scoop. Adams has covered her former neighbor Jackie O, Iran’s former empress Farah Pahlavi, and the opening of Studio 54. On the same wall with Clinton are NOVEMBER 2016 • AVENUE MAGAZINE | 67
Imelda Marcos, a dear friend whom Adams accompanied every day during her New York trial, deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and disgraced New York pol Donald Manes. Sprinkled around the room are no fewer than a dozen Trump scoops over the years—“Ivana: I Want the Plaza!” reads just one from the trove. Adams first met Trump with his then mentor Roy Cohn, another larger-than-life New York figure. It would take a week to read these walls, at the end of which you’d have a crash course in New York social history. The rest of her nine-room penthouse apartment, the former home of Doris Duke, is no less fabulous. Every room is deep red, a kind of rich China red, with dark wood antiques, a Ming horse sculpture, a wraparound balcony and tufted ceilings. It’s a feast of textures, the complete opposite of the sparse, beiged-out aesthetic so in vogue these days. So in love with this shade of red is Adams that there is
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Why so much red? “I look good against it.” —Cindy Adams
even a paint color named Cindy Red. A can of it sits on her desk with her unmistakable silhouette. Portraits of Cindy by famous artists adorn some walls, and in the bathroom above the toilet, Cindy dolls are perched, sporting her signature bun. Doris Duke’s bathtub sits in Adams’ office, providing a home for more memorabilia. It would have gone on the balcony to hold planters, but was judged too heavy and in danger of crashing through the terraces. Why so much red? “I look good against it,” Adams says. Simple as that.
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nd she does. At 86, Adams is still going strong and still on deadline for the Post. Petite and looking fabulous in a brightly colored three-tiered sweater this day, she still churns out her column, but another passion consumes her as well. On December 11, she will throw her eighth annual Blessing of the Animals event at Christ Church on Park Avenue. This Christmas season tradition hosts 800 New York “pet parents” and a veritable menagerie of species. “Cats, dogs, parrots, gerbils, turtles, fish— some idiot brought an iguana once,” Adams lists. “Farm animals, goats, chickens, pigs,” all chorusing in a cacophony of barking, growling, meowing, snorting and screech-
ing. “It’s a madhouse,” Adams says, clearly delighting in the free event, to which all are invited (though space is limited.) Though her beloved Yorkie, Jazzy, recently died, she still dotes on three-and-a-half pound Juicy, who looks glamorous in her red bow and bejeweled collar on this day. Adams’ love of animals is simple and universal. “There’s nobody to take care of animals but us,” she says. “They can’t cry out for help, after all.” Jazzy and Juicy entered Adams’ life when her husband, comedian and humorist Joey Adams, died in 1999, after a long illness that prompted the move to the Duke apartment. Both born and bred New Yorkers, Cindy met Joey while working as a photographer’s model. Possessed of a quicksilver wit, she could always write and began writing jokes for him. Joey was a member of the American Guild for Variety Artists, and their social life involved dining out with the likes of Sinatra and “all the most famous people of the day,” she says, natural fodder for her budding career. With access and a way with words, her first newspaper gig was a column for the East Side weekly Our Town, where she was paid $5 a week until the New York Post took notice and scooped her up for daily work. The rest is history, 35 years chockablock full of it.
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when I started,” she says. “There’s no more politesse or refinement, even in the clothes people wear. People are walking around in their bras on 57th Street.” Still, this living legend remains just as hip and in the know as the “kids” she writes her column for, with recent items on Girls star Adam Driver heading to B roadway; 13th, filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s new, heartbreaking documentary on mass incarceration in the United States; and Sarah Jessica Parker being “Ready for Divorce” (i.e., the name of her new HBO show.) You might say that like her column’s famous tagline, Cindy Adams herself is truly “Only in New York, kids. Only in New York.” ✦
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Secretary of Treasury The daughter of Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman has an MBA from Harvard and is CEO of Nene’s Treats, a family-owned and -operated crumb cake business. In her spare time, she’s raising four children and pursuing freelance writing, and serves on the board of trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System, the Mount Sinai Parenting Center and the Library Council of the New York Public Library. Attorney General Bee’s mom, the indelible Anna Wintour, said it best: “Fashion goes in only one direction— forward—and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.” Her daughter seems to have embodied that. The Columbia grad has delved into television, and she now contributes to America’s laugh track as a segment producer on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Secretary of the Interior The daughter of Jo Carole Lauder and Ronald Lauder, Aerin is senior vice president and creative director of the family company, Estée Lauder. Lauder has also branched out with AERIN, a global luxury lifestyle brand curated by her own passion for art, travel, fashion and design.
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his month, AVENUE is celebrating 20 years of the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District (BID), which honors and preserves Manhattan’s most iconic shopping locale. In commemoration, we’re looking at 20 iconic New Yorkers:
AMY FINE COLLINS Collins’ name will forever be imprinted on the minds of others, as she is on the masthead of Vanity Fair, where she is a tenured editor and a correspondent on fashion, culture and style. She has graced the pages of Vanity Fair’s Best-Dressed List Hall of Fame (1996), and was the March 2016 cover star for AVENUE. Collins’ diverse and cultured taste has propelled her into academia as an art historian, an author and a professor at Columbia University. The daughter of a psychoanalyst and an art historian and professor, it is no surprise that Collins’ accomplishments are both multifaceted and varied. “To me, New York is the center of the universe,” says Collins. “It’s a working town also, so my iconic New York day would involve work, friendship, family and any number of cultural expeditions.” 74 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2016
LADY LILIANA CAVENDISH
MARK GILBERTSON
Cavendish, who is a member of the noble British Cavendish family, has acquired fame for her taste in food. In 2010, she served as a judge on Iron Chef, though her interests and impact have reached far beyond that of fine cuisine. She is a familiar face at New York City philanthropy events, supporting organizations such as the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation at their annual dinner dance, and the Alzheimer’s Association Annual Rita Hayworth Gala.
Gilbertson has more than 30 years’ experience in orchestrating benefits and galas for the Museum of the City of New York. “I’m very interested in history,” says Gilbertson. “It’s a natural fit for me to be involved with the Museum of the City of New York.” As the head of the Director’s Council for the museum, he is perhaps best known for his unmatched ability to bring people together, and organizing the Director’s Council Winter Ball. The Director’s Council has played an integral role in raising funds for the museum and its efforts to educate the city on the history and future of New York. Gilbertson was honored in 2015.
CONSUELO VANDERBILT COSTIN
LUCIA HWONG GORDON
In a family famous for its involvement in crafting American railroads, Costin has constructed a name for herself as a singer and fashion figure. As an entertainer, she has made her way as an international pop singer. Most recently, she has made headlines gracing the New York Fashion Week runway as a model. Her reverence for fashion shined through in her launch of an accessories line on HSN in 2015. With pearl earrings and “Coronation Choker,” the jewelry line, Homage, is a nod to her historic family, though her admiration for them does not stop there. Costin is also a board member of Long Island’s Vanderbilt Museum.
Gordon’s musical works has graced the television, theater and stage, inspiring both dancers and musicians alike. The Hawaii-born composer is known for her classical musical scores. In the years since establishing herself as an artist, Gordon has found the time to weave herself into the New York philanthropy sphere. She has chaired events for organizations ranging from the Women’s Project Theater, a supporter of women in theater, to the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton.
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NINA GRISCOM For many years, Griscom was a model signed to Eileen Ford. She famously shares that she was not scouted but rather walked into the agency and, in a sense, discovered herself. Successful, Griscom appeared on numerous magazine covers and in countless ad campaigns. Keeping up with her entrepreneurial, go-getter spirit, Griscom has transitioned into roles such as author, television personality, interior decorator and now handbag designer. Her line, Nina Griscom for GiGi New York, prioritizes both material and style, and features a variety of sizes.
CORNELIA GUEST
YAZ HERNANDEZ
Guest is the daughter of the late socialite and equestrian C. Z. Guest and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, a polo champion and a cousin of Winston Churchill, though she has defined herself as being far more than the heir of a well-revered family. The former 1982 Deb of the Year has followed her own path as an author, vegan caterer, cruelty-free designer and animal rights activist. Her first book, a memoir, The Debutante’s Guide to Life, was published in 1986, and more recently she has written a vegan cookbook, Cornelia Guest’s Simple Pleasures: Healthy Seasonal Cooking and Easy Entertaining (2012). Her cruelty-free handbags can be found at retailers such as Bloomingdale’s, and word on the street is that she often brings her homemade vegan cookies along for customers.
Hernandez is nothing if not ambitious. She is an alumna and now trustee of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). “FIT set me up for great success in my career and in life. I feel passionate about supporting the college so they can continue to educate and shape the leaders of so many of our creative industries,” says Hernandez. She is also an involved philanthropist in Manhattan and a passionate supporter of Latin American arts. She successfully fused her interests through her past role for El Museo del Barrio. Her galas became some of the most coveted events to attain an invite. As a patron of Latin American art, Hernandez is a collector and frequent host of an array of artists in her Upper East Side home. She is also involved on the board of her family’s real estate holding company.
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DAYSSI OLARTE DE KANAVOS
De Kanavos has made a name for herself on the philanthropy circuit. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, de Kanavos was raised in Queens. She has served as a cochair for a number of charity events, including the Byzantine Ball hosted by the Young Friends of Save Venice charity. Her styled appearances have catapulted her onto the pages of fashion magazines. De Kanavos was selected for Vogue’s best-dressed list. Other organizations in which she has taken prominent roles include New Yorkers for Children, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
KAMIE LIGHTBURN
ELIZA REED
As a member of the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy, Lightburn has hosted events such as the Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon. “I have enormous passion, enthusiasm, and unwavering respect for the incredible work and commitment that the Women’s Committee has achieved for the betterment of our treasured ‘backyard,’” says Lightburn. Lightburn is also p resident of the Couture Council of the Museum at FIT. Most recently, she cochaired the Greenwich-based Bruce Museum’s 29th Annual Renaissance Ball.
Reed is the daughter of Annette de la Renta and Samuel P. Reed, and the stepdaughter of Oscar de la Renta. Following her stepfather’s death in 2014, Reed has served as the support behind the iconic fashion house. Reed is the executive vice president of Oscar de la Renta alongside her husband, Alex Bolen, who operates as the label’s CEO. She is currently guiding the brand in moving toward a more global direction.
KIMBERLY KRAVIS An economist and a businessperson with an MBA from Harvard, Kravis runs the Robert Kravis and Kimberly Kravis Foundation with her brother. The foundation focuses on giving grants, most notably to cancer research and education. Kravis’s husband, Jonathan Schulhof, is a managing partner at REQX Ventures and the founder of Motivate, which owns and operates bike sharing systems across North America.
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LUCY SYKES RELLIE AND EUAN RELLIE The modern-day power couple holds down a number of roles. Lucy, the former fashion director of Marie Claire and Rent the Runway, is the creator of an international children’s line and an author. Her novel, The Knockoff, released in 2015, is a fictional account of an editor in chief at a fashion magazine. Euan, equally accomplished, is the cofounder and senior managing director of investment firm BDA Partners. Most recently, the M&A Advisor named him Dealmaker of the Year in 2016.
SHEILA ROSENBLUM
A former ballerina at the School of American Ballet and a Ford and Wilhelmina model, Rosenblum is a horse lover at heart. She is the founder of Lady Sheila Stable, where she owns and manages racehorses. She has the drive to increase the number of women involved in the sport. Rosenblum is perhaps best known for her horse La Verdad, who went on to gain fame after winning a number of races in 2014. In addition to all of her pursuits, Rosenblum remains a philanthropist and serves on the board of the March of Dimes.
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PAOLA BACCHINI ROSENSHEIN
Rosenshein is a philanthropist at heart, quite literally. She has played a prominent role in supporting efforts preventing heart disease, after her husband, Arnie, battled with the disease. Rosenshein most recently attended the 20th anniversary of the Hamptons Heart Ball. Active in a variety of New York City social events, Rosenshein has also served as a chair for the Open Your Heart organization.
KELLY RUTHERFORD
Some know Rutherford from her acting roles in the 1990s drama Homefront and the current ABC thriller Quantico. Younger generations might even recognize her for her fictional role as an Upper East Side socialite on the show Gossip Girl. But to those in Manhattan, Rutherford is known for her entrepreneurship and philanthropy, in addition to her acting career. Originally from Kentucky, Rutherford moved to New York to start her career on the sets of soap operas. In 2011, Rutherford launched a handbag line for QVC. She is also a supporter of a number of charities that champion the causes of women and children, recently making an appearance at the New Yorkers for Children 20th Anniversary Gala.
JEAN SHAFIROFF
CASSANDRA SEIDENFELD
A philanthropist and influencer, Shafiroff recently published Successful Philanthropy: How to Make a Life by What You Give. If anyone is fit to write on the topic, it is Shafiroff. She was honored at the Hamptons Heart Ball, hosted annualy by the American Heart Association, this past summer. Shafiroff is also a board member for several charitable organizations, including the New York Women’s Foundation and Southampton Animal Shelter.
If one were to ask Seidenfeld what she does, she would likely respond saying that she is currently an actress by trade, although she holds other titles as well. The former international model is a Columbia University graduate, equestrian and active philanthropist and humanitarian. She is a board member for several organizations, including the Women’s Project and the Alliance 4 Empowerment. When not serving as an ambassador or chair, Seidenfeld can be found supporting numerous causes at galas and events around the city.
TRACY STERN
Stern does tea. She is the founder of an organic tea company, Tracy Stern Tea & Co. Originally from Miami, Stern has established herself in New York in interior design in addition to the tea business. Also a well-known philanthropist, she was the mind behind Cuffs for a Cause. Stern is very involved with the American Heart Association, as the organization has helped her father cope with his heart failure. “The American Heart Association is such a great resource,” she reflects. This past summer, she cochaired the American Heart Association’s Hamptons Heart Ball.
PRINCE DIMITRI OF YUGOSLAVIA
Prince Dimitri holds many titles, including founder, president and creative director of his eponymous jewelry company, Prince Dimitri Company. The son of Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, and his father, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Prince Dimitri was raised in Paris and moved to New York after law school. He has a long career in fine jewelry, working for almost two decades with auction jewelry at Sotheby’s. His own jewelry design firm began after an idea he had for innovative cufflinks. He has also made a name for himself in philanthropy as a member of numerous boards. ✦
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Properties of the Month Luxury Listings Curated For You
Halstead Property MASTERPIECE ON THE RIVER West Village. A Richard Meier masterpiece, this gorgeous duplex apartment offers breathtaking, unobstructed Hudson River views. The three-bedroom home includes a grand master bedroom, three private balconies, a media room, home office, laundry room with double washer/dryer, multizoned central air and heat and stunning chef’s kitchen. Other features include 10-foot-high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, modern bathrooms and white oak plank flooring. $13,995,000. Web # 15229338. Contact Friedman Rosenthal Team @212.381.2379 or frteam@halstead.com.
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The Corcoran Group A RARE FIRST Southampton. Exquisite new traditional home set on .92 acre with spectacular southwestern sun exposure. The 10K SF home features eight spacious en suite bedrooms, 10.5 baths, a gourmet kitchen, a fully finished lower level with theater, outdoor seating, heated gunite pool with covered cabana and outdoor kitchen. With immediate proximity to Southampton Village shopping and dining and just a short distance to world-class beaches, this is truly a rare first offering. $16,250,000. Web # 39977. Contact Shaunaugh Byrne @516.729.1713.
Douglas Elliman A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY ON THE LANE This completely refurbished estate on fabled Further Lane is available for sale for the first time since it was constructed in 1999. Comprised of nine en suite bedrooms, two additional full baths and two half baths. Some of the spaces include eight fireplaces, library, finished lower level and screened porch and grand entry foyer. The beautiful 1.83 acre grounds are planted with formal gardens and graced with a heated gunite pool. This property is conveyed with highly coveted deeded ocean access. $14,595,000.00. Contact Christopher Stewart @ 917.744.2450.
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BREATHTAKING VIEWS + BALCONIES! West Village, NYC Excl. | 3 BR, 3.5 BATH Price upon Request | Web#15229338 Friedman Rosenthal Team 212.381.2379
DUPLEX SPLENDOR AT 812 PARK Park Avenue/70’s, NYC Excl. | 3 BR, 3.5 BATH $7.2M | Web#15008000 Susan Burris 212.381.3205 | Amy Sklar 917.733.8334
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APPROX 3,300SF BEAUTY W/BALCONY Midtown East, NYC Excl. | 3-4 BR, 3.5 BATH $2,950,000 | Web#15385437 Elayne Reimer 212.381.3372
PARK VIEW - PRISTINE 2BR PIED-A-TERRE Upper West Side, NYC Excl. | 2 BR, 2 BATH $1,995,000 | Web#15358470 Brian Lewis 212.381.2252
BROWNSTONE APT W/ROOFTOP GARDEN Upper West Side, NYC Excl. | 2 BR, 2 BATH $1,829,000 | Web#15407139 Lilyan Bell 212.381.2307
SPACIOUS MOVE IN HOME Upper East Side, NYC Excl. | 2 BR, 2 BATH $1,695,000 | Web#15373686 Elaine B. Tross 212.381.3322
HILLTOP COLONIAL Harrison, NY Excl. | 6 BR, 4.5 BATH $1,599,000 | Web#15489557 Deborah Camacho 718.878.1727
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A moment with one of the city’s top real estate experts . . . 3RD QUARTER 2016
Luxury new development closings once again dominated the Manhattan apartment market, keeping the average price above $2 million for the third consecutive quarter. Led by 432 Park, which featured an $88 million closing, new development prices averaged a record $4,394,721. We must remember that new development closings provide an outdated view of the market, as their average contract signed date was 9/2/15. The average resale price was basically unchanged from the previous quarter, but 5 percent higher than a year ago. Smaller apartments continue to be the strength of the resale market, as their low supply helped drive the median price to a record $960,000. Limited supply at the lower end of the market, combined with overpricing at the high end, led to 14 percent fewer closings than in 2015’s third quarter. While there has been an increase in negotiability over the past year, properties overall still need further price adjustments. The upcoming election is impacting demand, due to uncertainty, as buyers wait for the outcome in November. ✦
Hall F. Willkie, President, Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales, 212.906.9203 or hwillkie@bhsusa.com
FRANCIS HILLS
“The average resale price was basically unchanged from the previous quarter, but 5 percent higher than a year ago.”
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955 Fifth Avenue. 2BR. 2.5 BATH. $6.5M. WEB# 14574717. Wendy L. Richardson 212-906-9257
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Tribeca. 3BR. 2 BATH. $3.475M. WEB# 15525626. Abigail S. Lash 212-906-9281
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the child’s personality and learning style. Joshua’s brother Matthew Brown is the tutoring director at Brownstone and a Princeton graduate who received his MA in U.S. history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The duo work together to develop their evaluation techniques and to match each student with the best tutor. When it comes to standardized test prep, while the priority is to achieve the best score possible, Brown also believes the experience can yield lasting lessons. “We really try to make it a chance to work on your problem-solving skills and strengthen you as a student in ways that reach past the bubble sheet” he says. “Ultimately, of course, the goal is always the same—to do what’s best for the student, both in the short term and the long.” For Brownstone Tutors, part of that long-term plan is to create a database of problems that tutors can use to help their students. “Tutoring is all about practice and getting people to understand something they don’t,” says Brown. “But you can only do that through material and content, so it’s about finding the right content to match the students’ particular needs.” The database should launch in early 2017. ✦
Brownstone Tutors Celebrates a Decade of Coaching Success
rownstone Tutors takes learning personally. Now celebrating its 10-year anniversary, Brownstone boasts more than 60 active tutors. They travel to students’ homes throughout the city to prep students for the SAT, ACT, ISEE, SSAT, SHSAT and AP exams (among others) as well as to help them with their schoolwork across the curriculum. They also work with students on their college applications, especially the ever-challenging essays. “We take a lot of effort to match students with a tutor, particularly with test prep, but also with all subjects,” says Brownstone founder Joshua Brown, who began his tutoring career as a freshman at Harvard, prepping kids for the SAT. “The real job of a tutor is to be a mind reader—not in a way where you anticipate what students are going to say—but understanding what is going through your students’ heads as they try to solve a problem.” The tutor matching process involves meeting with a student and the parents, and, through conversation and assessment questions, determine the best tutor to work with
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Brownstone Tutors is located at 354 Court Street, Brooklyn. For more information, call 212-878-6698 or 718-554-0309 or visit brownstonetutors.com.
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730 PARK AVENUE, APT 15C | $19,995,000 10 RM/3 BR/4.5 BA | WEB: 00111015 Eva J. Mohr, 212.606.7736
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Confessions of a New York
Plastic Surgeon Demystifying the Trade
Part 5: Hair! Restoration and Neograft As told to AVENUE by David P. Rapaport, M.D. FACS
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good way to start on this topic is to look back at the history and evolution of hair enhancement. In the 1960s and ’70s we had “plugs,” where we took five to six millimeter punches of hair follicles and transplanted them from one area of the head to another. Frankly, it looked unnatural and rather sad. There was then a shift to implanting “follicular units,” each one consisting of one to four strands of hair. This means that instead of plugs, hairs are implanted just as they grow in nature: from one to four individual strands as a functional unit, implanted into a tiny puncture. Hair is no more or less than a skin appendage with its own cells. The cells of a hair don’t know or care where they are, which is why normally 95 to 98 percent of transplanted hairs take root in their new location. From a surgeon’s perspective with the client, the plan is to map how many hair grafts are available and necessary, and where they should go. Priorities are set: some want to focus on the crown, while most focus on the front of the head. We will typically do somewhere between 800 and up to 3,000 grafts or more if a patient has enough density. Now we come to that magic word “Neograft.” Neograft refers to the suction system that harvests the follicular units one at a time, also called follicular unit extraction. Until Neograft came on the scene, donor hair was taken from the back of the head with the removal of an ellipse of scalp, and then cut up into follicular units for implantation. This resulted in a long scar in the back of the head, and included pain and the risks of wound complication. Therefore, Neograft restoration involves no suturing and no linear scar—the telltale sign of a hair transplant. This greatly reduces pain and keeps all options open for the future, including a short haircut or a shaved head. I will work with my technician for 20–30 minutes around the strategy before relaxing the client, typically with Valium (occasionally an IV). We will shave the donor area to a point where the hair sticks out one to two millimeters. A punch goes in, with suction, the follicular unit is extracted and inspected and then put into sterile saline solution. This “harvesting” takes 2–3 hours. Then with the patient sitting upright, the grafts are then implanted over roughly the same amount of time, a little more perhaps. It is a full-day procedure. As I mentioned, typically around 95 percent of the grafts “take.” I cannot stress enough that the skill of the technician to remove and insert at the right angles, with correctness and with a commitment to both artistry and safety, is critical. For the first 48 hours after the procedure the client will wear a headband from the forehead to the back of the head to restrict swelling. Scabs disappear from the front and the back in approximately 4–7 days, so you’ll want to stay inside and perhaps wear a hat when you’re out. But now the follicles “go to sleep,” as I like to describe it, for three to four months. They hibernate before growing again and so you look as you did prior to the procedure. The new hair grows in naturally beginning around 4-6 months after the procedure. You don’t get the instant results of some other plastic surgeries, but the investment of time is absolutely worth it for natural fullness. About 20 percent of my clients for hair restoration are women with hair loss, but it is a very different approach with long hair. The cost for the procedure? Depending on the number of grafts, it ranges from $12,000 to $35,000. Typically, you could have two to three procedures in your lifetime, if appropriate. And the frontier of hair restoration? We are witnessing work in trying to clone hair, taken from you and then grown in a culture. But it’s still early days. But call my office, and I’ll tell you more. ✦
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A Bag, a Datebook, and an Evolving Business
Graphic Image has gone from being a datebook and stationery company, to producing fine handbags and other luxury goods.
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FAR AWAY IN THE FRENCH ALPS Allison Aston takes on a ski adventure in Courchevel
ALLISON ASTON is the senior vice president of branding and communications at the chic and classic American sportswear brand Veronica Beard. Recently, she has been named chairman of the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Associates Committee, a group that she has lent a helping hand to for years. On November 9, the organization will host its annual Fall Party with Valentino. The celebration will aim to raise funds to improve the treatment and prognosis of pediatric patients at MSK. Here, Aston shares memories (and love for skiing) from her trip to Courchevel in the French Alps.
Place to stay
We stayed at our cousin’s chalet and spent time with family we are only able to see once a year.
Off to the slopes
My family is Belgian and they have been going to Courchevel in the French Alps for ski vacations for years.
To do
Small world
We actually ran into my son’s friend from school with his whole family and had the most fun lunch and ski time together. As a bonus, it was great fun to arrange a sleepover for them so far away from home. 90 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2016
We skied the three valleys, which are all connected: Méribel, Val Thorens and Courchevel, then ate the most incredible meals both on the mountain and après ski. There are tons of fancy shops but we couldn’t be bothered with those…The skiing was that incredible— more terrain than I have ever seen!
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Packing tips aplenty
I take a lot of layering options. The best for me was having my Veronica Beard Dickey Jackets, and outerwear pieces to layer on top. The good thing about a ski vacation is it’s all about the ski gear and a few casual dinner outfits. I hate to overpack, so I try and be very thoughtful about several combinations that can be mixed and matched, especially for the kids.
So much love
There is nothing more important to my husband, Jay, and myself than our friends and family. Spending time together is a true gift, and sharing new experiences is what makes for incredible memories. Personally, time in a place like Courchevel gives me perspective. I feel so passionate about my work at the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering and Veronica Beard, and a magical trip such as this one helps me come back to “reality” more engaged, with new ideas and a sense of peace. I feel so lucky to be able to take these trips and cherish time with my family.
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Meal with a view
The best restaurant on the Courchevel mountain for us was Le Pilatus. It’s right next to the Altiport, so you see all the single-engine planes and helicopters coming in, along with the best view of a quiet side of the mountain. We went three times! We also loved dining at La Galette in Méribel.
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This was our first trip to the French Alps—we are sure to be back at some point very soon! ✦
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Art Miami, FIT, the Phil, South of France, Saratoga, Budapest, Hyde Park & Blue Heaven THE PHIL HITS 175
Josh Groban, Bernadette Peters, Lola Kirke, & Michael Urie @ opening of the New York Philharmonic
Violinist Itzhak Perlman said, “My goal is to not be bored by what I do by playing something that’s all new to me.” He will perform and conduct Beethoven romances at the New York Philharmonic on November 15. Pearlman joined composer Karen LeFrak, Michael Urie, Bernadette Peters, Josh Groban, Judith and Leonard Lauder, Coralie and Dennis Paul, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis, and Virginia and Peter Duchin at the opening of the Phil’s 175th anniversary season chaired by Daisy Soros. Alan Gilbert conducted, as jazz pianist Aaron Diehl made his brilliant debut performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F which the composer once described as being “an orgy of rhythms.” The night raised $2.5 million, with the support of its sponsors BMW, Citibank and Emirates Airlines. nyphil.org
BILLION-DOLLAR BRIDE
Tony Ingrao presents Blue Heaven
Bob Hardwick in Saratoga
Audrey Gruss & Linda Fargo @ FIT lunch
Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Princess Beatrice, Poppy Delevingne, Larry Gagosian, Lauren Santo Domingo, Owen Wilson and Sienna Miller were among those whooping it up at the $20 million wedding of Colby Jordan to art dealer Alberto “Tico” Mugrabi, who owns the world’s largest collection of Andy Warhol paintings. The 1,000-piece set is worth more than $1 billion. The site of the nuptials at the Hôtel du Cap-EdenRoc was turned into Fort Knox. Nearly 1,000 armed guards were on hand to protect the 600 guests, who included Dasha Zhukova, Coco Brandolini D’Adda, Klum, Vito Schnabel, Karlie Kloss, Susan and John Hess, Jamie Tisch, Heidi Klum eodoracopulos, Georgia May Jagger, Tony Shafrazi, Mary-Kate and John Theodoracopulos Ashley Olsen, Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman, and Jeffrey Deitch, as well as celebrity nurse injector Jane Scher, who is the mother of Mia Rowe, and Libbie Mugrabi, Tico’s sister-in-law. Jordan’s father, Jay Colby, said, “It will be the safest place on the planet.” He even hired falconers with specially trained hawks to strike down the drones of the the paparazzi, which became a hot topic with the private plane set preparing to fly to Art Miami. The bride wore a Valentino gown with a Cathedral length train. The Gipsy Kings and Nile Rodgers performed and Mark Ronson spun during the three-day affair. minniemuse.com
QUEEN OF SARATOGA TURNS 90 Marcy Warren, Marla Maples, Tiffany Trump, Gaia Matisse & Andrew Warren @ JustDrew NYFW show
Racehorse owner Marylou Whitney “re-celebrated her 19th birthday” and turning 90 at the National Museum of Horse Racing Ball. Bob Hardwick and his orchestra serenaded the “Queen of Saratoga” with an original song titled “Marylou.” She confided she’s had several near-death experiences. “When I come back home from the hospital, I say, ‘I fooled them again,’” she said. bobhardwick.com
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Victoria Wyman & Syivia Hemingway @ The Budapest Festival Orchestra
Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, solved the problem of what to give the man who may end up back in the White House as Hillary’s “First Mate” on his birthday. Bill Clinton has been showing friends a pair of World War II Liberation flags, one American and one British. The pair of handmade flags from Jeff Bridgman Antiques was made in France to celebrate the arrival of U.S. and British troops after their victories over the Nazis in 1944. The flags have special meaning to the former president, who
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Jean Shafiroff @ opening of the Metropolitan Opera
Andrew Muscato & Jewel Morris @ Pet Philanthropy Circle
Colby Jordan celebrates her marriage
Nick Korniloff, Pamela Cohen & Adrien Brody @ Art New York
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BLUE HEAVEN
Founders Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman named AD100 designer Tony Ingrao the guest curator of the avant-garde gallery R & Company. The exhibition is titled “Blue Heaven. “Ingrao told the cognoscenti, including Rafael Viñoly: “Bold forms and remarkable craftsmanship is the focus in this study, set in a cool blue field, inspired by Yves Klein. Each of the collected pieces exhibit their own distinctive, and arguably divine, silhouettes.” r-and-company.com Ingrao and his partner, Randy Kemper, the interior designers to the rich and richer, have created homes for everyone from Jack Welch to Howard Stern. This important collection of contemporary furniture and objets d’art ranged from a Gaetano Pesce sofa alongside a Kelly Behun Studio side table to Frank Gehry’s iconic armchair made of corrugated cardboard. ingraoinc.com
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
The Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) kicked off their New York season with a party at Sylvia Hemingway’s and a concert at the Hungarian Consulate as a prelude to its Lincoln Center gala on February 5, 2017. Supporters include Kati Marton, Victoria Wyman, Cole Rumbough, David and Julie Tobey, Stephen and Radka Benko, Noreen and Ken Buckfire, George Kellner, Tim Warner, Christine Schott and George Leeds. The orchestra is one of the international music scene’s major success stories, being listed as one the top ten orchestras in the world. The company’s music director and conductor Iván Fischer recently won the Gramophone Artist of the Year Award. btz.hu 98 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2016
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Adrien Brody, who will be showing some new paintings at Ben Rimon Projects at Art Miami from November 29 through December 4, told me, “I have stopped acting. I’m not suggesting that I have no ambitions to act. What I’ve determined is I have found an outlet that is very clear and preferential to many of the film endeavors that were accessible to me. I’m taking the time to nurture something else that is so important to me.” Two hundred international galleries, showcasing nearly 2,000 artists from 60 countries, will be present at this fair and its sister show, Context Art Miami. artmiamifair.com……Bergdorf Goodman’s Linda Fargo presented Akris creative director Albert Kriemler with the Couture Council of the Museum at FIT’s Award for Artistry of Fashion. Audrey Gruss cochaired the annual luncheon with Lisa Klein. Fargo laughed from the podium, “Good choice, Audrey,” as they were both wearing the same leopard print dress. Notable attendees included Martha Stewart, Judith Ripka, Hamish Bowles, Judith Giuliani, Joe Zee, Yaz Hernández, Liz Peek, Alexandra Lebenthal and Valerie Steele, the director of FIT. fitnyc.edu……Laurie Tisch, Anne Delaney and Jean Shafiroff spoke about how to get everyone from children to empty nesters involved with philanthropy at the New York Women’s Foundation Lunch at Le Cirque, which Jean hosted. The organization is a voice for women and a force for change. nywf.org……On another night, Jewel Morris’s Pet Circle Philanthropy honored Shafiroff for her animal advocacy. petphilanthropycircle. org…Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas spoke at the Roger Vergé tribute dinner organized by Daniel Boulud and event marketer Herb Karlitz. The event doubled as a benefit for the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. The night featured dishes by 20 top chefs, including Emeril Lagasse, Francis Mallmann and Georgette Farkas. Stone confided Vergé told her, “Love is the magic ingredient in cooking.” ciachef.edu……Leesa Rowland and Dara Sowell hosted a benefit for Last Chance for Animals, an organization that advocates for animal rights. Speakers included Edie Falco and the group’s president, Chris DeRose. lcanimal.org ✦
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WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT STATE OF MIND? Happy. WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED? Find something you love to do and get paid for it.
IF YOU COULD HAVE DINNER WITH THREE PEOPLE, PAST OR PRESENT, WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE? Diana Vreeland, one of her Harper’s Bazaar editors, and my grandmother, who was chic and as formidable as DV. They were real visionaries, and had lots of interesting ideas that I’m sure would transcend time and be relevant today.
WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST NEW YORK CITY MEMORY? Beekman Place and Park Avenue with my grandmothers. Theater, the museums, Central Park. Rumplemeyer’s. Bloomingdale’s. 21 Club.
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE SHOPPING COMPANION? My twin sister. DESCRIBE A PERFECT DAY IN NEW YORK. Breakfast at Sant Ambroeus, morning at the Met, lunch at Bilboquet and exploring NYC. WHERE IN NEW YORK HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE MOST? The 21 Club. My family were the meat suppliers to the 21 Club, and I’ve been eating there my whole life. I still have my silver baby cup from the club. When I moved to NYC after university, my dad would direct me to 21 for a burger, especially when I was out for a black-tie event: he thought that was so chic! I was just there last month, when I took my nephew, who is in NYC for his first year at NYU, for a burger after the Cartier opening.
WHERE IS PARADISE FOR YOU? Anywhere with my husband. GROWING UP, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE? I wanted to do things more than be something. I wanted to travel the world and create a business with my twin sister.
WHAT’S YOUR GO-TO OUTFIT FOR A DAY IN NEW YORK CITY? Cashmere sweater, jeans and flats. WHAT ARE THREE THINGS YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT? My husband, my family and my new family. WHAT’S THE COOLEST THING IN YOUR APARTMENT RIGHT NOW? The Marriage Cross by Adria de Haume, a wedding gift from my stepmother.
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WHO IS THE MOST ICONIC NEW YORKER YOU KNOW? James Nederlander, whose name and family are synonymous with the heartbeat of the city: the theater! WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT? Problems I can’t solve. ✦
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