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L E T T E R F RO M THE EDITOR

SUDDENLY IT’S BECOME fashionable to talk about the Upper East Side again. A new book and a new TV show have really honed in on the habits of those living uptown.

The first, Primates of Park Avenue, exploded onto the scene the moment the book was excerpted in the New York Times Book Review, sparking endless debates about whether or not wife bonuses exist and the importance of a getting a Birkin bag (call me old-fashioned, but buying a piece of leather does not make you a member of any group).

I read Martin’s book and found myself feeling pretty stirred up about it. What I found most disturbing about Primates was not the silly details that might or might not be true (in a city as diverse as New York, you can find all kinds of weirdness if you look hard enough), but that while Martin mainly focuses on extreme behavior, parts of it rang true in my life. Mainly the parts about parental anxiety: it seems to me that most mothers I know wake up at night besieged by the irrational fear about not having done enough for their offspring.

But that wasn’t the part I found the most difficult. What I found the most disheartening about Martin’s memoir is that she doesn’t

“But Mellon’s an incredible survivor, and she’s rebuilding her empire and will, I’m sure, have the last laugh.” acknowledge either in the book or in any subsequent interview I’ve read about her that she used people to get into their world. Martin claims she was honest about writing the book, but I don’t think the group of “alpha” women she got to know realized how they would come off in print. Does Martin have a point about the strangeness of lives lived on the Upper East Side? Maybe. But what no one has pointed out is that while Martin might or might not be a good social observer, the one thing she is not is a good friend.

Jill Kargman’s new show on Bravo, Odd Mom Out, is also a tellall of sorts, but it’s done with humor and wit and doesn’t seem particularly malicious. Plus (I’m biased here): I like Jill. I’ve had lunch with her and she’s funny and smart and swears constantly. Still, I’ve

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talked to other Upper East Siders, and some think that she betrayed their world too. I’m not sure about that, but Jill might find people edging away from her at school pickup. Or maybe not. People will be torn three ways: the desire not to be written about, the desire to be written about, and the desire to know the writer and leading actor in a successful TV show. The truth is that people are fascinated by the world of the superrich, and no one more so than the superrich themselves; as long as people are interested, books, TV shows and whatever else are going to be written about them. That’s not going to change anytime soon.

Another story that’s fascinated me for a long time is our cover subject, Tamara Mellon. I love stories of female entrepreneurs, and Mellon’s story as the cofounder of the Jimmy Choo empire and her subsequent difficulties with her private equity partners is the stuff of business school fables.

But Mellon’s an incredible survivor, and she’s rebuilding her empire and will, I’m sure, have the last laugh.

Enjoy the issue!

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“China: Through the Looking Glass” was the theme for this year’s Met Gala—A-list stars arrived dressed to the nines in dashing and over-the-top couture pieces paying tribute to Chinese art and culture. This was fashion’s biggest night, after all. Proceeds from the gala benefitted the the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

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Cat and dog lovers felt home sweet home at the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons’ Thrift and Treasure Shop in Sagaponack. The event included a cocktail party and a sale featuring items in six rooms of a showhouse, styled by top interior designers. All proceeds benefited the organization to help furry friends.

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More than 650 supporters made their way to a delectable luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street presented by Food Allergy Research & Education. The event (which raised more than $967,000 to benefit the organization) also presented the Legacy Award Honoree to Liana Silverstein Backal and deemed WABCTV news anchor Lori Stokes as mistress of ceremonies.

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Manhattanites, East Enders (and pups a plenty) gathered at Circo in Southampton to fête the official start of summer and the launch of AVENUE on the Beach. In addition to enjoying champagne and light bites, copies of the June issue with cover star Nicky Hilton, was in full supply.

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Patricia Duff: I’m looking forward to spending some stress-free time at my new house in Water Mill, summer sweet corn, and true, ripe tomatoes. I’m not looking forward to all the just-built, pop-up houses spoiling the farm views.

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Perri Peltz: I am so excited to having my three boys home and spending time with them. (I’m not sure they share my excitement.) I’m not William looking forward to summer Ivey ending and am already Long worried about that.

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Eric Fischl: I’m looking forward to a show at Guild Hall in East Hampton that will have Shirin von Wulffen one of my favorite paintings in it. It’s a show of portraits and selfies, curated by Christina Mossaides Strassfield, for mid-July. My painting is of a group of actors, playwrights and directors who live in a commune in Water Mill (not Bob Wilson’s).

Nicole Miller: I’m looking forward to sunsets at Sunset Beach, boat rides around Shelter Island, wake boarding in the bay, and dinner with friends.

I’m not looking forward to the days getting shorter and impending Fashion Week, right after Labor Day.

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Dr. Woodson Merrell Neil deGrasse Tyson

William Ivey Long: I look forward, every summer, to the time I spend in Manteo, North Carolina. Each season, I return to my theatrical roots at the Lost Colony, where I hope to positively provide future generations of theatrical craftsmen the same skills that helped lay the foundation for my career as a costume designer. I’m actually not, NOT looking forward to anything.

Michele Oka Doner: I can’t wait for summer evenings in the city, the return of the baby grand piano to Washington Square Park, and spontaneous music in the dusk. The arrival of the summer solstice reminds me the long, light days have peaked. I’m not looking forward to another winter!

Shirin von Wulffen: I love eating cherries in Aix-en-Provence, but will miss my weekly yoga sessions with Hannah Casey, and shampoos/head massages at Frédéric Fekkai at the Mark.

Dr. Woodson Merrell: Looking forward to sweet corn from Bartlett’s Farm market in Nantucket, and not looking forward to putting on all that suntan lotion.

Cornelia Guest: I’m looking forward to spending time in my garden and eating lots of yummy things, but I’m not looking forward to packing and moving this fall.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I look forward to the continued expansion of the Universe, while lamenting the fact that here on earth, we still have have traffic congestion. ✦

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Jamie Niven: I’m looking forward to spending time with my family and taking the summer off . . . the first summer since 1966. I’m not looking forward to the people who come to Southampton and are rude to the shopkeepers.

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FEASTS FOR THE SENSES This month's selection of art and culture

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May 7 – July 10: Brancusi: Pioneer of American Minimalism 515 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 212.563.4474

Ladder by Eric Brown at Ille Arts

Scramble: Ascending Yellow Values/ Descending Spectrum by Frank Stella at Paul Kasmin Gallery

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Ille Arts July 3 – July 22: Eric Brown July 25 – August 12: Jack Ceglic 216a Main Street Amagansett, NY 11930 631.905.9894

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July 24 – August 9: Peter Beston: Paintings 130 South Country Road Remsenburg, NY 11960 631.325.0750

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Grenning Gallery July 16 – August 2: Marc Dalessio

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Here Comes the Sun

A perfect sunless tanner that doesn’t leave a its user orange, streaky, or smelling like a burnt lima bean can seem like an urban myth. Leave it to locally based skincare pioneers Hampton Sun to formulate a product that not only leaves you with perfectly even coloring, but the shades themselves so perfectly mimic the effects of the East End sun that even the most dedicated sunbather would be deceived. Though the 10-year-old company features a whole array of toptier SPF products, it’s the all-new Sunless Tanning Mist that truly sets Hampton Sun in a world apart. www.hamptonsun.com

Diamonds Are Forever

Southampton and its residents are about to shine a little brighter thanks to the first-ever Graff Diamonds exhibition at the London Jewelers of Southampton event. Running July 10 to 12, the exhibit arrives on the heels of another Graff event, the sponsorship of Art Southampton’s VVIP preview on July 9. The preview will feature a first look at the meticulously curated collection of pieces from the famed jeweler's new line, with each item carefully handcrafted by the finest artisans and made with the very best materials, diamonds, and gemstones available. www.graffdiamonds.com

Southern Hospitality

It’s a consummate fact that no one does summertime like southerners. This month, the clothier Southern Tide is bringing its extensive line of shirts, shorts, swimsuits and beach accessories to Southampton as part of online retailer Country Club Prep’s first pop-up shop. In addition to the brand’s signature apparel, Southern Tide is launching a star-spangled “Freedom Rocks” collection just in time for Independence Day. The brand, now ubiquitous in the South, is sure to be a tent pole for the East End’s most sartorially conscious residents. www.southerntide.com 54 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • JULY 2015

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Carving out a base of loyal followers amazed by results, Xtend Barre exercise studio is revitalizing the way we think about exercise—with some amazing results. The brainchild of fitness guru Andrea Roberts, the Xtend Barre method blends Pilates and dance together for a core-strengthening aerobic workout loved by celebrities and civilians alike. With locations around New York, it’s virtually impossible to enter beach season unprepared. www.xtendbarreworkout.com

Taste of Italy

Still handcrafted in Calabria, Italy by the family who founded it, Il Gruppo Migliarese’s line of Italian olive oils and variety of other sauces, spreads, and oils are the easiest way to add flavor and authenticity to any dish. With each item certified USDA organic and held to the highest standard of quality by the Italian agriculture commission, the products allow users to support local farmers while still getting an authentic culinary experience—even from across the Atlantic. www.migliareseconserve.com

Walk It Off

Aiming to raise both funds and awareness for lung cancer and its cure, the Lung Cancer Research Foundation hosts the 10th annual Strides for Life 3-mile run/walk around Lake Agawam in Southampton. Gather a team or join one that’s already formed, fill out a waiver, and show up on Sunday, August 9 ready to run.

In addition to the main event, there will be fun, games, and even a 50-yard dash for the little ones. www.runsignup.com

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Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Whether they’re serving as a décor tie-in on the coffee table of an immaculate Sag Harbor home or playing the perfect hostess gift—or all—of the season’s many parties, these books’ covers are as beautiful as their contents are intriguing.

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STEWART, TABORI & CHANG Packed with pages of colorful photographs, family recipes, decorating ideals and personal sentiments about summer on the East End from some of the island’s most notable residents, Annie Falk’s 200-plus page book about entertaining in the Hamptons during the biggest party season of all—summer. Falk’s extensive background in event planning and culinary arts lends itself to instructions on how to throw the perfect party for every occasion, from Father’s Day to birthdays to afternoons by the pool, while her co-writer, famed chef Eric Ripert, devised an array of menus featuring dishes so delicious, guests will be talking about them long after fall has arrived.

VINTAGE COCKTAILS ASSOULINE

A necessary addition to every bar cart and bookshelf, this brightly illustrated tome is more than just a pretty face. In addition to dozens of full-color photos of some of yesteryear’s most imaginative libations, detailed instructions on how to craft each cocktail guarantee that your party will be the most uniquely fueled. It’s the charming, subtle details that have made this book a best seller; the recipes appear to be hand-written, with cute doodles of ingredients decorating the colorful margins.

Some highlights include the Collins, made with syrup and orange slices and the Old Cuban, crafted with infusions of lime and a splash of Moët. Each recipe is ideal for a summertime fête.

MONTAUK DREAMING DAMIANI

The latest—and greatest—collection of work by renowned photographer Ben Watts is both inspired by and a touching testament to the Long Island town adopted by the London-born photographer in 1995. Rejecting cumbersome long lenses and professional grade cameras, Watts’ shot his entire book with his iPhone and colored with filters from his own photo app. The result is a vibrant, Endless Summer sorbet-toned collection of photographs that manage to truly capture the spirit of the beach town Watts loves so much.

THE BIG BOOK OF CHIC ASSOULINE

The Big Book of Chic might just be the ultimate in home décor information; the fact that the book itself makes a perfectly chic piece of décor is just an added bonus.

The elegantly covered volume is comprised of 300 pages of eclectic, modern spaces by famed interior designer and Oscar de la Renta creative director Miles Redd, serving as the perfect piece for anyone interested in the versatility of home design—or even just the gorgeous illustrations. Each space profiled is one personally designed by Redd, exhibiting his unqiue yet completely classic take on the age-old art of home décor.

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The Myles Cocktail A Hamptons summer includes many things: sunny days at the beach, exclusive all-night events and fruit in our cocktails. This year try a different twist on the summery staple with the Myles cocktail, compliments of the Backyard Restaurant at Montauk's Solé East.

1 3 2 4 1.5 ounces of Bacardi Silver, because nothing says summer like a splash of rum.

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0.5 ounces of peach purée to make it super sweet

2 or 3 chopped strawberries, (’tis the season, after all).

Muddle mint and lime for a little refreshment and combine with ice, rum, peach and strawberries.

Remember to shake!

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Add 2.5 more ounces of bourbon, and pack the cup with crushed ice.

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rom My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine by Kate Betts When my father died in the winter of 2011, I inherited the house in Sag Harbor where he’d lived for twentyfive years, a pristine reconstructed colonial on Madison Street. My husband, kids, and I planned to spend weekends and summers there. But first we had to make it our own. We repainted it, changing the interiors from bright Josef Albers-inspired primaries to soft Scandinavian grays—or were they Parisian?

I scoured the Internet for hours at a time, searching for the best shade of white for the living room and then the dining room and the hallways—Benjamin Moore Coastal Fog, Silver Cloud, Seashell, and, finally, French Canvas, my favorite. The repainting was clearly a physical manifestation of a deeper psychological metamorphosis. I was honoring and then letting go of an emotional presence and powerful figure in my life. My father was an

architect. He loved order and color and the work of the abstract expressionist painters of the 1950s and 1960s.

Upstairs, there was an attic that had been beautifully maintained by my father. He even left a vacuum in the corner in case one had the urge to purge dust.

After we sorted through the things my father had left under the eaves—extra pillows, Moroccan rugs, a lonely white Eames rocking chair, and a needlepoint-covered Le Corbusier chair that had belonged to my grandmother—I moved the contents of my storage bin to his attic. There were boxes and boxes of journals from the years that I had lived in Paris after college, working as a reporter for the fashion trade paper Women’s Wear Daily. There were textbooks on French Impressionist painting from the art history courses I’d taken at Princeton, and a copy of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. From my years working at fashion magazines, there were handwritten notes from Karl Lagerfeld, Emanuel Ungaro, Gianfranco Ferré, and Christian Lacroix, and stacks of magazines— back issues of W, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Time: It was a library-sized résumé.

But the real library, the one holding so many memories and so much meaning, was hanging in the sturdy garment bags: clothes I had once worn as a young reporter in Paris, as a Vogue editor, as the editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar. They were talismans, memories of who I had been. A gold-lamé Gucci leather coat I had pilfered from one of Tom Ford’s first collections. The red velvet tuxedo I’d worn to a Tom Ford party in Los Angeles in 1996, where naked go-go dancers gyrated on Plexiglas pillars. A Vivienne Westwood plaid mini-kilt I bought at her store, Worlds End, on my first trip to London to cover the shows for Women’s Wear Daily in 1989. The tomato-red bouclé Chanel jacket I bought in New York when I moved back to work for Vogue, the same one Pamela Harriman had admired at a Vogue party she hosted at the American ambassador’s residence. Two Azzedine Alaïa suits—one in Donegal tweed, another in black barathea—that I’d worn religiously at Vogue the year I met my husband. A white satin Dior gown, designed by John Galliano to lace up like a straitjacket.

My wedding dress, also a Galliano creation, was there, too, a slinky satin-backed crepe dress with tiny eyelet flowers twisting down the torso. I could still remember the numerous fittings I had attended in Galliano’s

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Bastille studio in Paris, accompanied by my good friend Natasha. The original design of the dress had been quite transparent, and Natasha had raised an eyebrow. She made Galliano recut the dress, lining it with something more opaque. Galliano had the dress delivered in a shoe box, and my mother had looked at the package with disbelief. “Your wedding dress is in here?” she said.

Why had I saved these pieces and not others? Helmut Lang funnel-neck coats, Calvin Klein cashmere suits, Narciso Rodriguez sequined slip dresses—they were all gone. The pieces I saved corresponded to seminal moments in my fashion life, like notches on a belt. More than books or notes or articles, they tell the story of my fashion education, how I grew up and matured and became a woman. They were pieces that defined my style when I had become the person I wanted to be.

Whenever I go back to Paris, or speak truck-driver French slang to business asso-

“Willa Cather believed that if you have a wish for something from a young age and you nourish it, if you continually make an effort to nurture this wish and stay connected to this dream, then you will live a fulfilled life.”

ciates, or applaud a runway look, people ask me, “How do you know? How do you speak French like that? How did you learn about fashion?” I learned from the best.

Willa Cather believed that if you have a wish for something from a young age and you nourish it, if you continually make an effort to nurture this wish and stay connected to this dream, then you will live a fulfilled life. If you believe in something, it invests everything you do with meaning. Paris has always stayed with me, close to me, and I’ve continually felt nourished by it. ✦

Excerpted from MY PARIS DREAM by Kate Betts Copyright © 2015 by Kate Betts.

Excerpted by permission of Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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My husband and I recently went to a party where we were required to “surrender” our phones since one of the guests was a political figure who didn’t want to be photographed at a private event. Although initially cross about it, we ended up really enjoying ourselves because people were forced to interact with one another, instead of retreating to a corner to check Instagram. We are having a party this weekend and would like to encourage the same level of social intimacy. Do you think there is a polite way to ask our guests to switch their phones off or not check them?

Mrs. Tired of Technology, Southampton

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Dear Mrs. T & T, To put it in terms of My Dinner with Andre, Internet culture is too much Andre Gregory and not enough Wallace Shawn (i.e., stream of consciousness gibberish vs. simply conversing like we all used to about the ordinary pleasures of life). All written in such truncated spelling that the next generation will only know to spell “you” as “U.” The ingenious clothing designer Paul Smith does not text or email. He finds such drivel clutters his mind—as well as his creativity (then again, the knighted multimillionaire has many an assistant to check his hundreds of business emails). He rarely talks on his cell phone—and only a

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Dear Mr. Manners, I recently went on an Internet date and was horrified by his, well, manners. He suggested we meet at a West Village café for coffee and, after queuing up for our lattes, he had us split the bill. My heart sank.

He may have been a real “looker,” but the rest of our time together felt like he was looking in the mirror. What’s a girl to do?

Matcha Latte-less, New York

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Dear Match-less.com, Mr. Manners loathes rude behavior in a man. He will not tolerate it.

It’s a miracle this lout didn’t also ask you to drop a couple of bills into the ol’ tip jar.

Men such as he revel in Internet dating because they can reveal themselves rather anonymously online. I empathize, my darling.

You clearly feel like you can’t catch a fish, can’t charm a judge—but

GARY HOVLAND

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precious few know his number (Mr. Manners included). The divine Simon Doonan of Barneys recently recommended to Mr. Manners that he make a habit of occasionally leaving his cell phone at home.

Simon said it will do wonders in terms of liberating one’s psyche. And it did.

I adore the idea of checking one’s cell phone at the door (Harvey—as in Weinstein—does the same) and heartily endorse your motivation. It’s far better to have guests toss them in a chic basket than turn them off (would you trust your husband to silence his cell? Then again, do you trust your husband?). The invitation should note “Nanny Alert: Cell phones will be checked upon entrance” (the implication being that your landline will be readily available in case of a choleric heathen at home).

You’ll readily find that your guests not only will be swayin’ their hips to Mr. Manners’ fave summer feel-good sensation, Swedish House Mafia’s “Don’t You Worry Child,” but that their conversational skills and libidos will be nicely restored.

Granted, there may be some initial awkwardness. Some will feel naked, if not impotent, without their cell. Not unlike those first few moments when one arrives at a home such as Reed Krakoff ’s, he who asks that you remove your shoes at once (best you also remove those unsightly Odor-Eaters from your Berlutis). Let us raise a glass to the welcome absence of thy noxious cell.

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can cry on demand. It’s called compassion fatigue syndrome— overloaded from a particular feeling. In your case, the hopeless thought of another Internet date. But were you really going in “blind”? Mr. Manners believes you have the wherewithal to spot a narcissist beforehand online (he undoubtedly popped a Viagra before seeing you—for the bulging empowering effect alone) You are simply in what Sher, my ever-loyal Indian houseman, calls the “Wash, Spin, Rinse” cycle: always going after the same bad sort, over and over again. Remember, my dear: looks are a fleeting commodity. Be more discerning in your predate discourse. If not, you’ll find yourself seated across from fellows with the self-absorption of a texting teen.

You might as well be selling health insurance at your Bryn Mawr class reunion. We don’t want you committing matricide, revoking your bed license and forever sleeping on the sofa, now, do we?

Q:

Mr. Manners, I recently received a gift from my husband for my birthday and, though I suspected something was a bit off upon opening it, I later discovered he had regifted it! I wanted to skin him alive after realizing the croc iPad case had been given to him by a client. What’s the rule on “regifting”? Now I want to give it away! (As a gift, I mean: it really is quite exquisite.)

Ms. Giveaway Girl, Sag Harbor

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My Poor Dear, Let’s face it: He might as well have given you a microwave.

Regifting is a terrible no-no. Technically speaking. However, you all do it. It’s your Wildean streak: You can resist everything but temptation. That said, heed these tips or the act of regiving will be sure to come back to bite you in the arse. Upon receiving said unwanted gift, immediately make a note of who gave it and when it was given. When the spirit moves you to later cross the line, you’ll be reminded not to bequeath it to anyone at all associated with that person (or their immediate circle). Do not recycle any freebie from a party or otherwise: if the person wishes to exchange it, you’ll be instantly revealed. And please don’t risk such a reckless instinct on some major occasion. (Besides, the best gifts are spontaneous. You were simply thinking of them and came home with—ta-da!—a Boucheron ring.) And you’d better know how to retie a damn good bow (like the redoubtable Sher). Regifting is rife with risks, particularly mistakes of an unconscious nature. Mr. Manners can’t help but chuckle at his good friend, the prominent London interior decorator, who misfired a texted photo of himself in leather to his dowager mother, one of the most prudish and prominent ladies of the land.

Such is the case with regifting. We all love a little risk. But some risks are better than others. ✦

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n some towns, it is traditional for home buyers to be welcomed to the neighborhood with freshly baked pies or gardengrown vegetables. But in the seaside village of Southampton, New York, where designer William Sofield bought a charmingly eccentric, 2,900-square-foot Gothic castle in 1998, people more often presented themselves at his doorstep bearing stories: recollections and lore about the turreted brick oddity on the corner of Herrick and Little Plains Roads.

“What happens is the doorbell rings and it’s some nice old lady who says, ‘I grew up down the street,’” explained Sofield, who has designed stores for Gucci, Tom Ford and Harry Winston. “And before you know it, you’re having a cup of coffee or a cocktail and they stay an hour and you get a story.”

The Castle, as it is often called by locals, was constructed around 1910 by J. Edward Elliston, a self-taught builder, architect and master carver who was born in Southampton Village in 1870 and grew up on North Main Street. An imposing man—probably around six-foot-six, though legend has at times

inflated his height to seven-foot-four— Elliston had hands so large that each resembled “a bunch of bananas,” as one of his nephews once put it.

Elliston’s parents were Irish immigrants,

A period postcard shows the Castle when it housed Simmions Vocal Studio.

and it is believed that the robust Gothic confection he built on Herrick Road is modeled after an Irish castle. “I think he just wanted to do the Castle in recognition of his heritage,” said John Griffin, a grandnephew of Elliston who knew the builder well when Griffin was a child in the 1940s. “With his drive and personality, if he wanted to do something, it generally got done.”

Resting on a high foundation on its half-acre lot, the Castle is a one-story, five-bay residence dominated on its eastern end by a two-story square tower, which in turn is surmounted by a narrower, octagonal tower. Both these towers, as well as a small octagonal one on the house’s western end, are cloaked picturesquely with ivy. All feature castellated parapets in the fashion of medieval battlements.

The original intended purpose of the Castle, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and is listed with Sotheby’s International Realty for $4.3 million, is unclear. One neighbor who showed up at Sofield’s door with an intriguing story was the artist Larry Rivers, who said that while doing

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The living room windows are adorned with intricately carved Gothic tracery.

Some of the gazebo’s elaborate windows were originally intended for a Castle tower that was never built.

The interiors, once stark and utilitarian, have been sumptuously decorated.

A Bulova heiress is said to have lived in the Castle during the Depression and to have kept bear cubs in the gazebo.

The baronial master bedroom in the main tower once held the huge drafting table of the Castle’s creator.

an exhibit nearby in the 1970s he had learned that Elliston’s castle was planned as an Arts and Crafts school but that Elliston and his partner in the venture fell out.

This account dovetails with two others gathered by Mary Cummings, who manages the research center of the Southampton Historical Museum. Most notably, Ansley Elliston, a niece of the builder, told Cummings of the planned school for a 1984 Southampton Press article.

“It would make sense that it was intended as a school,” Sofield suggested, “because it has two sets of stairs going up to two front doors.”

Whatever its origins, the Castle was never completed. As Cummings reported, Ansley Elliston recalled that the enormous, intricately carved window frames intended for the unbuilt half of the structure were instead repurposed to create a striking, glass-walled woodworking studio on the grounds. (The octagonal studio, now reenvisioned as a poolside gazebo illuminated by Chinese lanterns, was completely rebuilt last year “peg by peg, joint by joint,” Sofield said.)

The Castle seems to have enjoyed a rich and varied life. In the 1920s, it was rented out as a dress shop, a tea room and an antiques shop, according to a 1979 survey performed for the historic preservation division of the New York State parks department. And a period postcard of the building, obtained by Sofield from a local collector, is printed with the words “Simmions Vocal Studio.”

Over the past century, legends have attached themselves to the Castle with as much tenacity as the ivy that clings to its battlements.

After World War II, German spies were rumored to be hiding inside.

Today, the scuttlebutt is that the structure was once a jail.

One of the more persistent tales concerns a Bulova watch heiress who is said to have lived in the house during the Depression and to have kept bear cubs in the gazebo. Sofield was told the story by multiple sources, and Cummings, the museum research center manager, said that when she was growing up in Southampton in the 1940s, she too

heard that bears had been kept on the property. (“The stories get better with age, don’t they?” said Griffin, the grandnephew, with a wry laugh.

“He probably told people that to keep them off his property, knowing Ed.”) By the time Griffin knew Elliston in the 1940s, the builder was living in the nearby community of North Sea in an old family homestead inherited by his wife, Emma Rose, whom Elliston had married in 1910. Her surname notwithstanding, Rose was no delicate flower. Her father, Jetur Rose, was a whaling captain, and her mother, Caroline, gave birth to her in 1856 in the port of Honolulu, in what were then called the Sandwich Islands. When the infant was five weeks old, she, her parents and the crew sailed out of port and north to the Arctic Ocean. Emma Rose was raised on whaling ships, logging thousands of miles at sea before her 13th birthday.

“Father shot a white bear yesterday. and we have got another whale,” she wrote to her grandparents from the “Polar Sea” in 1864, when she was eight years old. “Our second mate gave me two rats he said to make a pot-pie, one I gave to my dog and he ate it all up.”

In 1910, the year Rose married Elliston at the age of 54 (he was 40), she gave an interview to a newspaperman from Westchester, New York.

Recalling her childhood seafaring days, she said: “I will always remember Honolulu for the lesson Mother gave a missionary and for the only mutiny Father ever had. A missionary woman came on board our ship, she told mother it was time she began to educate me as no one on a whaler ever knew anything. Mother just looked at the woman, called out to me, playing: ‘Child, come here and tell this lady what you know.’ I ran up and with a little bow told her: ‘I know the Ten Commandments and multiplication table, and that is enough for any little girl to know.’”

As for the mutiny, Rose recalled that the crew refused to unload or repair the ship after returning from shore leave because they felt their time off was too short and the sea too rough. Then, Rose remembered, “Cook came along with butter, and a great big fellow threw it overboard, saying they wanted MEAT. Father was at his side in an instant and before the man knew what struck him, he had followed the butter.” Captain Rose eventually fought the remaining mutineers, his daughter recalled, and placed them in irons until they begged for their release. “After that,” she concluded, “they were loyal to a man.”

In the years after Emma Rose died in 1933, Elliston, in what amounted to an enduring act of reverence, left her sewing and other possessions more or less untouched in their North Sea homestead.

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“He was kind of a hermit, especially after his wife passed away,” said Griffin, the grandnephew, noting that for the most part Elliston lived in just two rooms of the house, which had neither electricity nor plumbing.

Elliston regularly drove a Model T coupe from his home to the Castle, where he designed and executed decorative wood carvings and other carpentry projects for area churches as well as secular clients.

Most of the Castle’s interior was “very crude, very stark,” Griffin recalled. The basement had a cot for Elliston’s occasional use.

“That basement was like a dungeon,” Griffin added. “I remember going down there as a kid and seeing how dark and dreary and a little scary it was.”

Then, as now, a spiral staircase corkscrewed up from the basement to the main floor and then up to a second-floor room in the square tower.

There, warmed by a wood-burning stove, Elliston did his design work on a drafting table so enormous that he may have constructed it on-site.

Although the windows on the main floor of the square tower are adorned with intricately carved Gothic tracery, the windows on the top floor, oddly enough, resemble large ones on the Taj Mahal. Sofield observed that in 1911, around the time Elliston built the Castle, King George V and Queen Mary of England visited India, generating tremendous press coverage and perhaps influencing the Southampton builder.

After completing his design work in his tower drafting room, Elliston generally carved and assembled his works in his octagonal glass studio, where he had rigged an overhead electric belt-drive system to power his lathe and other equipment. Among his many noteworthy creations were the display cases and cabinetry that his friend Samuel

Longstreth Parrish, founder of the Art Museum at Southampton, commissioned for the institution, later renamed the Parrish Art Museum. And three of his carvings, two exquisitely intricate panels and a portrait of Elliston himself, hang in Southampton Town Hall today.

In a sense, the Castle serves as an unofficial museum of Elliston’s work, as many of the carved details on the property are echoes of carvings Elliston made around Southampton.

“Basically he would carve one or two for the project and one for himself,” Sofield said, “so that most of the architectural detail is a twin to some detail in town.”

The square windows at the front of the gazebo facing Herrick Road, for example, have doppelgängers at the former Parrish Art Museum on Jobs Lane, Sofield noted. And the arched side windows of what once served as the Herrick Road entry corridor to the gazebo are cousins of windows at St. Andrew’s Dune Church.

More subtly, Elliston often included a rose in his carvings as an homage to his wife, much the way Al Hirschfeld, in a different time and medium, tucked the name of his daughter into his illustrations.

Elliston’s devotion to his wife endured after her death. He carved a design out of wood that was then incised into her gravestone in the North Sea cemetery. And after he joined her there in 1951, his will conveyed some 130 acres in North Sea to the Town of Southampton.

The land was used to create the Emma Rose Elliston Memorial Park, a lush reminder of the gifted carver’s feelings for his wife, which are also inscribed on her tombstone: “Beneath this stone rests a sweet, kindly and unselfish soul.” ✦

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orsche 911s are the Marmite of cars—they divide opinion as no other. To some they are an object of desire, something that is the culmination of, and reward for, years of hard work: a marvel of superb German engineering without the overtly flashy nature of a Ferrari but with a usability that really does make it the everyday supercar. To others they are the fourwheeled embodiment of the midlife crisis, a vain attempt to recapture a long gone youth—they are motoring’s equivalent to an advert saying, “I’ve still got it!” These are two camps that will never reconcile.

There could be something in this huge chasm of opinion, because Porsche is a company largely devoid of any form of romanticism (look to Ferrari, Bentley and Aston Martin for that). It is therefore very difficult to set the pulses racing when thinking of a Porsche, and indeed there are those who see them as little more than expensive and glorified Volkswagen Beetles.

Perhaps the Marmite factor stems from the company’s questionable youth. For it was three years after it was formed in 1931 that Hitler informed Dr. Porsche that he was to develop a basic car capable of carrying two adults and three children at sustained speeds of 62 miles per hour on Germany’s new autobahns, all for the cost of a small motorcycle. The “People’s Car” was born, and it went on to be the bestselling automobile in history.

At the first opportunity Porsche broke free and started selling cars under its own name in 1948. It came in the form of the beautiful 356, but it was not until a Le Mans victory in 1951 and the introduction of the 356 Speedster in 1954, which was aimed squarely at the American market and was a huge hit (and nowadays a collector’s dream), that Porsche became a household name. This was undoubtedly added to

by the tragic death of “rebel without a cause” James Dean at the age of 24 at the wheel of his Porsche 550 Spyder in 1955.

Of the two camps I fall firmly into the former. There is a theory that men secretly hanker after the cars that they had on their bedroom walls as kids. As an ’80s child I grew up in that extraordinary environment where the new “mobile phones” were huge, but the hair and the shoulder pads were even bigger. It was a decade of rampant capitalism, pinstripe suits, red suspenders, Brylcreem and Bud Fox. And the car that exemplified all of this excess? Without a doubt the whale-tailed, brash, loud and unapologetic Porsche 911. It is the ’80s.

So when a friend asked me to drive his 1986 Carrera 3.2 from New York to Southampton I leapt at the chance. And I simply could not resist the temptation to start my journey on Wall Street—a stereotype, I know, but you just would, wouldn’t you? They say you should not meet your heroes or drive your childhood dream cars for fear of serious disappointment. There is none of that when seeing the unmistakable outline of the 911, with that outrageous rear wing.

It really does look even better than in the pictures. The door shuts with a satisfying “clunk,” but then the doubt sets in.

I take some time to try to acclimatize. The pedals are offset quite badly, and the clutch is heavy. The gear stick is miles away, and the controls for the heater (no air-conditioning in Porsches until 1989) seem to have been scattered around the cabin by a man in a rush to leave on a Friday afternoon. The gearbox is notoriously notchy and difficult until it’s up to temperature, and I am desperately wishing I had started the journey somewhere less conspicuous. The opportunity to look as foolish as many people did on Black Monday passes, and I am heading out onto the Brooklyn Bridge and down the 495, the

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H A M P T O N DR IVE continuous “ker-thump, ker-thump” from the surface of the roadbed made all the louder by the sheer size of the tires and one’s proximity to the tarmac.

I pass the signs for Ronkonkoma and know that I am almost halfway there, heading to one of my favorite parts of the journey, through Suffolk County’s pine barrens. Here I can drop a few cogs, and the windows (my God, it’s hot in here!), and let that air-cooled flat six really sing. It is a visceral noise, throaty and loud, but at the same time utterly beautiful and totally unique.

Coming into traffic as the 27 narrows before hitting Southampton, I do not regret for one second meeting my childhood automotive hero.

As a company, Porsche might be cold and Germanic, and the 911 is controversial; however, as a way of evoking a bygone era that I remember so fondly, this hero has really hit the spot. ✦

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5,500: The price in U.S. dollars of the 911 when it debuted as an instant hit in 1964.

1996: The one-millionth Porsche built.

40: The original horsepower of Porsche’s first sportscar, the 356.

1954: The introduction year of the 356 Speedster, which are now among the most sought-after collector models.

24: The age of James Dean during his fatal accident behind the wheel of a Porsche 550 Spyder in 1955.

901: The original name intended for the Porsche 911 (successor to the 356).

35: Years before the 911 models switched from air-cooled to water-cooled engines.

2009: The opening year of the Porsche Museum in Germany, which features more than 80 vehicles on display in a 60,250 square-foot exhibition area.

47,007: The number of Porsche units sold in 2014, which set a U.S. record.

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iven her stormy past, and given the scorched-earth honesty about that past in her autobiography, not to mention the way she photographs with blue eyes blazing in a gaze that could cut diamonds, one might expect meeting Tamara Mellon to be quite a formidable proposition, like bumping gloves with a gorgeous prizefighter, perhaps.

But she seems to be at peace these days, and she’ll happily tell you the reasons why. When we meet she is padding around her sunny house in Bridgehampton where a lovely light beams around the high ceilings and the clean, uncluttered interior. It was 9 a.m. and the house was alive with a dozen strangers there to attend a photo session, and she was comfortable with the mix.

“I grew up in such chaos,” she says, sitting down to a goat-cheese omelet and coffee, her phone at hand and a Nicorette lozenge container within reach. “I always said I want my house to be a peaceful, nurturing kind of good environment.”

The life she’d led in the twenty years of becoming the empress of shoes in building the Jimmy Choo brand was anything but peaceful. But after stepping down in 2011 and selling out, she had a one-year noncompete clause that afforded her plenty of time for reflection, which animated the fiery autobiography called In My Shoes, written with William Patrick. “I didn’t want to sugarcoat it,” she smiles.

“Control is called 51 percent.”

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f ever there was the example of someone who fought his way (sometimes literally) up from nothing, it was Tommy.

Broad-shouldered and six-foot-four, athletic enough to be a movie stunt double for Rock Hudson or Victor Mature, Tommy made his bones in the London club scene of the 1950s, squiring the likes of actress Diana Dors. The British tabloids would later have fun connecting him to London underworld figures, but the evidence suggests that it was his observation of the hard boys that persuaded him to move out of the club scene and into other businesses, such as the Glenby hair-curler kit appreciated by bouffant ladies of the day. As hairstyles changed, Tommy hooked up with another London beauty-shop guy struggling to create a new image, Vidal Sassoon. Tommy would run the international Sassoon organization and get rich.

Tommy and his wife, former model Ann Davis, had three children and lived in England’s Berkshire countryside before decamping for Beverly Hills, which is where their first-born, Tamara, now a grade-schooler, gained a sudden appreciation of fast-moving wealth and glitzy shops. “Then at 14,” Tamara recalls, smiling widely, “I went to boarding school in England.

You couldn’t get two more completely different cultures if you tried. It was definitely a culture shock, but it gave me a rounder, bigger worldview. I understood how to adapt.”

nlike the business autobiographies that paint a rosy picture of the determined executive wading into the thickets and straightening everything out and achieving success, Tamara rips into the shortsighted greedheads who hound any creative enterprise into obsolescence. She names the names and hardly leaves any bottom unkicked.

“I’d say that writing it left me feeling calm,” she says, her large, aquarium-blue eyes engaged. She is a convivial, clear-speaking woman given to warm and frequent laughter. “When you grow up in the conditions I did with all the secrets, it was just great to get it all out there.

“You’re just as sick as your secrets, yeah. But I also wanted to write a book that would inspire women who wanted to get into business. Or inspire anybody who wanted to get sober. But I did want to inspire women.”

Tamara Mellon (then Yeardye) was a smart young woman working for British Vogue when her wild nightlife led right out of the magazine business and into rehab by the age of 27. After recovery, her entrepreneurial instincts took over. One of her tasks at the magazine had been to organize shoes and accessories for photo shoots. To get past the inevitable Manolo Blahniks, she

tracked down Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian shoemaker working in the riskier precincts of London’s East End, in a tiny shop surrounded by barbed wire. From such a humble shop came shoes to fit on Princess Diana’s feet.

“I would get him to make things for shoes,” she recalls. “So if it was a Spartacus shoot, I’d say, right, I want a gladiator sandal, I want straps here, a stud there, this and that. What I didn’t realize till later was that I was telling him what to make. So we’d photograph it and give him a credit line in Vogue.” Alert readers noted the credit, and Choo got more orders.

When Tamara suggested they go into business together, she could turn to the most important man in her life: her father, Tom Yeardye, once known in knockabout London circles as Tommy.

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t Heathfield School, telephone usage was limited to one call home per week. “The big thing was letters. We all used to run to the letter box every morning. If there was a letter from a boy, we’d all sit around reading it over and over!”

Daydreams about the future came hard because she was “such a contradiction. I wasn’t good in school and nobody thought I’d do anything. But at the same time I had this secret, hidden, internal drive that nobody saw. I guess my dad was the only one who saw it.”

Tamara describes her father as a kind and thoughtful gentleman. In the stormy Yeardye household (Tamara blames her mother for the endless storms), Tommy was the negotiator. “He was always elegant and well-mannered. He was like the velvet glove with the iron fist underneath.”

“When you’re the owner of a company, you take a long-term view.

You want to pay your people properly, you want happy employees.

You want your customers to be happy.”

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s she grew up, business was always being discussed at the table. Thus when she sought her father’s advice on the Jimmy Choo partnership, he was able to loan her $250,000 to get it started and propose himself as the first chairman.

Within a decade it was a $200 million business, and eventually her own worth would top $100 million. She would meet the queen, earn an OBE and have a love life splashed across the newspapers. But why did her shoe designs catch on?

Women might claim that her fierce, Italian-made shoes were exceptionally comfortable, but Tamara just thinks it was her sense of fun.

“The focus then wasn’t on accessories—it was on ready-towear, and accessories were considered boring. There weren’t the details or sense of fun. So we started doing crazy things like putting feathers on the shoes and having more fun with it. We made the shoe the focus of the outfit.”

Then there was her willingness to do whatever it took. For the 1999 Academy Awards, she camped out in Beverly Hills with a pile of white satin shoes and a bathroom racked with dyes, then sent out the word to indecisive starlets that her company would match the shoes to anyone’s dress.

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here came to be more than fifty Jimmy Choo outlets, and the next lucky break came when author Candace Bushnell walked into the London shop. She ended up making Tamara’s shoes an object of affection, if not deification, in Sex and the City, as critical to modern living as Candace’s beloved cosmo martinis.

With all that kind of attention coming her way, Tamara didn’t mind the various buzzes of high-profile attention. She dated actors, singers, racing-team owners. When she married Matthew Mellon, descendant of the famed Pittsburgh banker, the wedding ceremony took place in Blenheim Palace.

The fairytale turned dark in 2004 when her father died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. The next year, after witnessing a monstrous amount of substance abuse by her husband, she got a divorce, taking with her the most beloved charm of her life, her daughter Araminta (“Minty”).

What makes her recent story very interesting is the ferocious series of battles she endured with her partners. When Choo sold his 51 percent of the company in 2001, Tamara found herself sitting on boards facing ten men in suits. There followed a series of hostile takeovers that had her constantly at the battlements, pouring hot oil on the raiding infidels. In her descriptions, never has the private equity firm been discussed in such scathing language. “Vulture” is one of her kinder terms. Sociopaths.

Feedlot farmers. Men who miss the emotional connection to a product. Men who are afraid of creativity because it can’t be controlled. PE firms are, she says, emblematic of why the world’s economy is at risk.

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he ones I dealt with were guys just starting out and trying to make it. It was very important for them to buy and sell companies and get a track record. So they were solely focused on profits where they were squeezing everything, squeezing the blood out of the stone. They burn your team out, they underpay you, they ask you to lower the quality of the leather you’re purchasing to increase the margins. And when you’re the owner of a company, you take a long-term view. You want to pay your people properly, you want happy employees. You want your customers to be happy.”

But not the private equity partners. “They’re not looking for the long-term viability of the company. They just want to maximize it right now, and they don’t care if they destroy it in the process.”

When asked what she wishes she knew then that she knows now, she says, “Just to be able to speak up. And move swifter on decisions.

“It’s funny. I was 27 when I started Jimmy Choo. And as a young woman, you don’t know to use your voice. What a woman does is work herself to death and hope someone notices. Rather than speak up. Today I’m much more vocal.”

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ne of the continuing battles in her life has been with her mother, with whom she hasn’t spoken in years. Just as her father was perpetually supportive, her mother was, she says, unendingly negative. After he died, there was no one to negotiate the family dramas. The warfare escalated and climaxed with a protracted trial after Tamara felt that thousands of Jimmy Choo shares had been unfairly moved to her mother’s account.

Tamara won the case and moved forward.

Replacing that tension is the easy affection she feels for Minty, who strolls in after a while. A slender girl of 13, she spends most of her day at a stable down the road with her beloved horse, Ratatouille. Mother and daughter seem more like best friends.

“She’s been everywhere with me,” she says, fondly stroking her daughter’s hair.

In 2011, Tamara sold out for good and cut all ties from the Jimmy Choo brand she created. Now based in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, she took the required one year away from the business to regroup and recall, write the book, make plans for what would become the Tamara Mellon brand, and attend to Minty.

The new brand is growing strong. When asked if it’s possible to avoid the compromises that seem inevitable with success, her eyes turn to steel. She responds: “Control is called 51 percent.”

“It’s funny. I was 27 when I started Jimmy Choo.

And as a young woman, you don’t know to use your voice. What a woman does is work herself to death and hope someone notices rather than speak up. Today I’m much more vocal.”

The difficulties in dealing with competitive men have not gone away. “It still happens to me. I took a meeting the other day, and even after selling Jimmy Choo for $850 million, I was still being spoken to as”—here she adopts a patronizing tone—“‘Well, dear, to run a business you have to do this and this.’ And somebody at the meeting said, ‘She’s really bright, get on here.’

“It was really surprising for me.”

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f there is one business heavyweight who treats her with proper respect, it would be Michael Ovitz, former Hollywood macher. The founder of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and briefly the head of Disney, he was known for his, ahem, “drive.”

Once called the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood, he suffered a Shakespearean fall from grace, and then learned what it took to remake a shattered life. They met at a Tony Burch party in Aspen when he walked up and suggested they have a drink. Two decades her senior, he had witnessed every sort of deeply felt litigation there was, and they bonded.

Asked today who her best friend is, she responds readily. “That person today is Michael Ovitz. He’s the person who gets all the calls my dad used to get.” Having said this, she breaks out in loud laughter: it’s all just too obvious.

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Imperial Champagne Garnet total: 14.54 carats. Pink Spinels total: 3.26 carats.

Diamond total: .51 carats. Available at campbellian.nyc. 18k Gold and Diamond Hinged Bangle by Betteridge. Diamond total: 1.00 carats. Available at Betteridge Jewelers, 2 Jobs Lane, Southampton, betteridge.com. Bracelet by Cartier and 14k Rings, Mintyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own.

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“I always said I want my house to be a peaceful, nurturing kind of good environment.”

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Tamara Mellon and Karlie Kloss

Tamara Mellon and Lucy Sykes Rellie

Tamara Mellon and Vera Wang

Tamara Mellon, Franca Sozzani, Giancarlo Giammetti and Riccardo Tisci

Alessandra Ambrosio, Tamara Mellon and Lily Aldridge

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Tamara Mellon and Michael Ovitz

Joanna Coles and Tamara Mellon

Tamara Mellon, Samantha Boardman and Wendi Murdoch

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“[Michael Ovitz] understands the creative process, and the way a creative brain works differently than a numbers brain. So it’s great to be able to talk to him.”

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eah, he gets three or four of those a day. He understands the creative process, and the way a creative brain works differently than a numbers brain. So it’s great to be able to talk to him.” They won’t get married, she says, but he did give her a ring to symbolize a lifetime commitment.

“Another thing is, he understands the product. A number of people can walk into the showroom and they have no idea if it’s good or bad. He’ll walk in and he knows that’s good, that’s not so good, that’s great. His eye for design is off the charts.” Tutored in art by Arne Glimcher of the Pace Gallery, Ovitz now guides her through the art world, which she thinks can be more intimidating than the fashion world.

Now a habitué of Palo Alto, Ovitz leads a social life packed with people from the tech world, which makes for dinner-table conversations that Tamara finds thrilling. “They see the world in a different way.”

This is doubly thrilling for Tamara as she seeks to build a new business model for her new company. While her lines of shoes and accessories and clothes can be found in the best stores, the future, she thinks lays down a different path.

“No one is going into department stories anymore. My daughter has never asked me to go. She gets everything online.

I think physical presence is important, but the next big brand is going to be built with its own e-commerce and its own retail.”

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easonal lines, she believes, are also out. No more having the fall line getting pushed in stores in July. “Women today, they want to buy it today and wear it tomorrow. The customer has moved on but the businesses haven’t caught up with the customer yet. A lot of businesses, it’s like trying to turn the Titanic. So I think in the next three to five years we’re going to see an enormous shift in the business.”

Still, she remains the hands-on boss, and gleefully hauls out her phone to show off pictures of her hunched over on the shoe-factory floor in Italy, goggles on, working with the leather trimmer. No doubt it’s the same in Hong Kong, where her clothes are produced.

“You can’t make products unless you’re right there with the cutters. A sketch can be interpreted any which way. You have to be there with them. And I love it.”

This was the Tamara Mellon that the private-equity boys just did not see. They would hear her honesty, but they likely did not see the woman on the factory floor, wielding a large pair of scissors, living and breathing her creations.

Tamara’s greatest creation is, of course, herself. It was time for her and Minty to get dolled up and pose for pictures in the backyard pool. The photo crew was swarming. It was a fine, sunny, summer day and the breeze off the Atlantic was bracing.

For Tamara, the future should certainly be considered equally sunny and clear. ✦

Tamara Mellon receiving an Order of the British Empire for her service to the fashion industry (wearing Jimmy Choo heels)

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Fork Road

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Masello

When artists exit the Long Island Expressway at Riverhead,

they now head to the Orient Point to work,

live and be inspired.

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rtists like to go where roads end. Key West. Provincetown. West Chelsea. Venice Beach. Marfa.

Taos. Bushwick. For a decade or so now, a paint chart-numbers’-worth of name-brand artists and gallerists have been hauling their canvases and easels along scrubby Route 25 from Riverhead as it courses the North Fork of Long Island to where the road stops at Orient Point.

There, the squat, offshore lighthouse, its tantalizing beacon beating every five seconds, marks the actual end of land. Next stop: Plum Island, the federally owned animal disease research center, where it’s rumored life forms might exist to rival those imagined by the most extreme Surrealist.

“They’re all gravitating to the North Fork because of me,” claims Gavin Brown, the gallerist behind New York’s Gavin Brown Enterprises, who also recently opened an exhibition/performance space in an eighth-century church in Rome, indicating, perhaps, that all of the next art roads lead to Rome. He is referring specifically to the towns of Cutchogue, Peconic, Southold, Greenport, East Marion and Orient, bordered to the north by Block Island Sound and by the Great Peconic and Gardiners Bays to the south. “All the artists there now owe their summer holidays and their pleasant lives there, where their kids can run in packs, to me, after I moved there in 1992 with my ex-wife, Lucy [Barnes].

Seriously, though, it’s cheap there, you can buy places on the water, even if it’s

John Currin

“They’re all gravitating to the North Fork because of me.” —Gavin Brown

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riter Christopher Bollen, the former editor in chief of Interview, was spending so much time with his many artist friends and acquaintances and friends of friends along the North Fork that he wrote a novel, Orient (published last May by Harper), about a group of fictional artists and residents. The real-life figures out there include Rob Pruitt, T.J. Wilcox, Wade Guyton, Kelley Walker, Lisa Yuskavage, Ryan Sullivan, Rafael Ferrer, sculptors Robert Gober and Donald Moffett, Arden Scott, Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi, gallerists

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not the ocean, and something about the light and the bay waters is Greek-like. Those towns, especially Greenport and Orient, are like something out of a more simple America that some people feel has otherwise disappeared.” One of Brown’s prize figures in his stable of artists is the painter Laura Owens, who mixes her paints at a home and studio on the North Fork.

Although Richard Serra has long had a residence in Orient, he apparently hides behind the curvaceous walls of his rusted steel enclosures, since he is seen so rarely in public. And the portraitist Elizabeth Peyton, who has painted high-wattage personalities from David Bowie to David Hockney, Princes William and Harry to Kanye West, stays out of the bright light when she’s in her home in Orient.

“Peyton is incredibly reclusive when she’s here, and you see her occasionally walking around Greenport or Orient. John Currin and his [painter] wife, Rachel Feinstein, are extremely social when they’re in the city, but not out here,” says the sculptor Jenny Feder, who lives in Greenport with her spouse, Jill Dunbar, both once co-owners of Greenwich Village’s Three Lives bookstore. “We moved here more than twenty years ago simply because it’s private and quiet and cocoon-like.

It can be downright dead. There’s nowhere to go, except natural places, and for me that was a liberation from my old life in New York.” Though

Feder adds, “I no longer live here in the winters—it’s too bleak.”

While abstract canvases and minimalist sculptures are now increasingly one of the North Fork’s new commodities, until the artists started setting up their easels on its rocky inlets and within converted garages, the main products, for generations, to come out of the 30-mile long spit of land were cauliflowers and potatoes. Many of the farms that once grew those crops have since been replanted with vineyards. “In 1973, Louisa Hargrave and her husband, Alex, created the first vineyard out here,” explains William McNaught, curator of the Orient Historical Society.

“And while Oyster Ponds, the former name for what became East Marion and Orient, was settled in the 1640s, with whaling and shipbuilding industries coming later, Greenport and other towns never became fashionable the way Sag Harbor and other towns did in the Hamptons. Around the turn of the last century, some younger artists started coming here.”

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Jose Martos and Barbara Gladstone, and Yvonne Force Villareal. Bollen’s characters get caught up in a collage-like murder mystery that involves some paintballing between longtime North Fork residents and newcomer artists, artistes and arrivistes.

“I don’t have a house out there, and that’s part of the reason why I felt I could write about the artists,” says Bollen. “I just came upon the idea for this story while being a classic New York freeloader staying in houses in those towns. I saw all these artists moving to the North Fork starting in the mid 2000s, and it’s still going on.” Despite the “zillion times I’ve gone out there,” he adds, “I’m waiting to see the reaction to the book from Orient locales before I venture out there again.”

Not that Bollen is worried that he might become a victim of his own murder mystery, but he is aware of the tense conflicts arising between longtime working-class locals and the new glossy arrivals from the city. Bollen writes in his novel of one of the least sympathetic locals: “Pam perceived artists the way poor minority groups in the outer boroughs perceived artists: as garish, warning canaries sent down defenseless mine shafts, paving the way for gentrification, displacing families and prepping abandoned storefronts for coffeehouses and Swedish design boutiques.”

Orient Country Store

“There’s nowhere to go, except natural places, and for me that was a liberation from my old life in New York.” —Jenny Feder

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ollen recognizes, too, the odd migratory inversion, whereby so many of the city-based artists, who resettled scarred neighborhoods in Brooklyn and elsewhere, are returning to far-out Long Island towns decidedly more suburban than urban in feel.

Yet another local character in Orient “imagined a perverse nightmare future: artists pushing lawn mowers, clogging supermarket aisles, running PTA bake-offs, bullying their boys and girls for low-battingaverages in Little League, attending church, singing in the choir.” Bollen’s novel is no typical paint-by-number murder mystery, but, rather, a nuanced literary canvas that combines violence with cultural trends.

And like an increasing number of artists who are attracted to the milieu of the North Fork, Bollen admits to being priced out. “I looked hard for a house in Orient and all the way to Peconic,” he says, “but I couldn’t afford it. It’ll be interesting to see if the artists’ community will last,” he adds, noting that he recently purchased instead a cottage in the Massachusetts Berkshires. “I certainly get the appeal of the North Fork. Artists don’t really hang out at any particular bar or restaurant.

Instead, they go kayaking in the ponds or grill out in their backyards.”

Some liken the massing of artists along the North Fork to an earlier era in East Hampton and the Springs, when Krasner, Pollock, de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Freilicher, Motherwell, and others gravitated there. Responding to that notion, Gavin Brown says, “Wherever artists gather, it’s compared to previous ages and places, like the old East Hampton. But I think the Zeitgeist is very different now. This is a much more affluent age. I’m not sure there’s a Bohemia on the North Fork, but the artists are there.”

Bollen adds, “I’m not suggesting that artists are abandoning New York, but it’s no longer necessary for an artist to live and work just in the city. Part of the appeal of the North Fork is its stock of older, unpretentiously scaled humble houses. The quiet and contemplative spirit of the North Fork still exists, and it’s perfect for artists.” ✦ JULY 2015 • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 103

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A The Summer of 2015

LIST

Power never sleeps. It is no secret that the relaxing and picturesque East End is both an oasis and a summit of movers and shakers. Here, we present the Hampton dwellers making waves in their summer settings. photographs by Billy

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Summer Sizzlers

Mollie Ruprecht and Alex Acquavella To find out how to plan a breathtaking wedding

Ones to watch this summer

Muriel Brandolini To compare (okay, steal) home décor and design ideas Christopher Burch For the latest in both the business and fashion worlds, both equally important out East Adrian Grenier To stare into his baby blues and learn about environmental protection while doing so Zani Gugelmann To see her latest sculpture Tom Hill To talk shop (and the latest at the Lincoln Center Theater) with this titan of industry Zani Gugelmann

Jazz Merton To chat about her book, The Social Climbers Bible Alessandra and Jon Neidich To get past every doorman

Alessandra Brawn and Jon Neidich

David Netto For décor tips from the ultimate designer and to discuss the latest work on his popular blog, The Notebook Lauren Remington Platt To get all the best beauty tips from her Vênsette team

Lauren Remington Platt

Natalya Poniatowski To join the LuxCartel Hilary Rhoda To experience Southampton like a supermodel Natalya Poniatowski

Hilary Rhoda

Eleanor Balfour and Alexis Theodoracopulos To try to rub off some of their creative genius Ben Watts To get your copy of Montauk Dreaming signed

Ben Watts

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Bertha González Nieves and Mishele Wells To take shots of Casa Dragones

Alex Acquavella and Mollie Ruprecht

Elad Yifrach Because the only time you’ll be leaving L’OBJET this summer is to pepper the store’s owner with question’s about the products

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Perenially Interesting Always A-listers

Dan Abrams Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan Annette Tapert and Joe Allen Dylan Lauren and Paul Arrouet Ruth Appelhof Gabrielle and Louis Bacon

Lauren Santo Domingo and AndrĂŠs Santo Domingo

Hilaria and Alec Baldwin

Katharina OttoBernstein and Nathan Bernstein

Ann and Keith Barish Dennis Basso and Michael Cominotto Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Nathan Bernstein Lisa and Jeff Blau Ross Bleckner Georgina Bloomberg Donya and Scott Bommer Harry Brant and Peter Brant Jr. Alison and George Brokaw

Emily Mortimer

Hannah Bronfman Henry Buhl Tory Burch

Kimberly Kravis

Bevin Butler

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Alexandra Chantecaille Mike Clifford and Robert Levy Andy Cohen Stephanie and Chase Coleman Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Bob Colacello

Terrie Sultan

Virginia Coleman and Peter Duchin Vanessa and Henry Cornell Gabby Karan and Gianpaolo DeFelice Jane and Michael Deflorio

Dorothy Lichtenstein

Ellin and Ron Delsener Patrick Demarchelier Beth Rudin DeWoody Kyle DeWoody Vanessa and Lee Eastman

Lauren Bush Lauren and David Lauren

Mica Ertegun Lise and Michael Evans Delfina Blaquier and Nacho Figueras Steven Gambrel Larry Gagosian Mario Grauso and Serkan Sarier Mindy and Jon Gray

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Cindy Sherman

Shoshanna Gruss Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola Gherardo Guarducci Marjorie Gubelmann Amanda Hearst Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy Carola and Bobby Jain Billy Joel Jamie Johnson Donna Karan Calvin Klein Julia and David Koch

Tory Burch

Beth and Chris Kojima Delphine and Reed Krakoff Kimberly Kravis Lauren Bush and David Lauren Harrison LeFrak Jonathan Adler

Abby and Anton Levy Dorothy Lichtenstein

Simon Doonan

Dan and Margaret Loeb Rachelle Hruska and Sean MacPherson Amanda Hearst

David Maupin and Stefano Tonchi Chloe Malle Anna and Bill Mann Peter Marino Tara and Matthew Mark Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney Lorne Michaels Tico Mugrabi Mary Kathryn and Alex Navab

Andy Cohen

Laura and Brent Nicklas Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola John and Alessandra Neidich Christine Schwarzman

Gwyneth Paltrow Tricia and Jason Pantzer Marcie and Jordan Pantzer Victoria and Jon Patricof Jenny and John Paulson Perri Peltz Ana Maria and Carlos Perez Enoc Perez

Lise and Michael Evans

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Perenially Interesting Kathy and Billy Rayner Lucy Sykes and Euan Rellie Zibby and Andrew Right Jeanne Greenberg and Nick Rohatyn Julia Restoin Roitfeld Dr. Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen Clifford Ross Courtney Sale Ross Hilary Geary Ross and Wilbur Ross

Samantha Boardman Rosen and Aby Rosen

Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict Georgina Bloomberg

Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy Alejandro Santo Domingo Lauren and Andrés Santo Domingo Chuck Scarborough Drew Schiff Vito Schnabel Lesley and David Schulhof Kimberly Kravis and Jonathan Schulhof Christine and Stephen Schwarzman Ellen and Teddy Schwarzman

Dylan Lauren

Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld Annabelle Selldorf Cindy Sherman Peggy Siegal

Shoshanna Gruss

Paul Simon Barbara Smith Terrie Sultan

Lisa Blau

Serena Boardman and John Theodoracopulos Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Bronson van Wyck Edwina von Gal Antonia Salm Ludi Salm Stephanie von Watzdorf Vera Wang Roger Waters

Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos

Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos

Cynthia Cliff and David Wassong Lally Weymouth Robert Wilson

Hannah Bronfman

Joey Wölffer

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Notable Families of the East End Entire families of influencers

Bancroft Family Becker Family Bloomberg Family Borghese Family Brodsky Family Buffett Family Lydia Hearst

Channing Family Currey Family Duke Family

Savannah Buffett and Jane Buffett

Elgort Family

Fernanda Niven

Ford Family Galesi Family Geddes Family Goelet Family Hearst Family Johnson Family Kessler Family Kravis Family

Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor

Lauder Family Lauren Family LeFrak Family Mortimer Family Nederlander Family Niven Family Pappas Family Sulzberger Family Topping Family Wölffer Family Zilkha Family

Minnie Mortimer

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A Conversation with Wednesday Martin

The Primates of PARK AVENUE Are Going Apesh*t Wednesday Martin’s book, Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir, has gotten all of New York talking, since hitting shelves June 2. By rooting through the social research, Martin, who holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University, turns an academic eye on a small “tribe” in a big town: mothers on the Upper East Side.

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s an Upper East Side mom of four children, I was quite interested in learning more about Wednesday’s findings. We sat down in her office to discuss them, only interrupted by a call from her nanny reporting that her son was happily ensconced in a eucalyptus steam shower. She was ready to chat.

What were your goals in writing this book?

I really wanted to crack the cultural code of a world that I landed in and didn’t understand. I wanted to understand this world where women looked so beautiful at 8:00 a.m. for drop-off, where there was so much competition for a size 0 and the plum spot at the best music group, where men and women were sex-segregated. My social researcher antennae went up. I thought it would make a great story to figure it out using anthropological and social research. I had moved from the West Village, and it was clear that the Upper East Side (UES) was a very different place. I wanted to understand this one particular version of motherhood and childhood. However you judge it or however you think about it, it’s a very unique ecological niche for studying mothers and children.

Personally though, in addition to the “cracking the code,” what were your personal goals in doing this?

I really just wanted to try to understand this world where I landed and felt I didn’t understand.

And you thought writing the book would help?

I did. As I went through the process of trying to get my kids into playgroups and music classes and schools, that’s when I got interested in reviewing the sociological and anthropological literature about

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motherhood worldwide. I wanted to see it in perspective. I really did a lot of research on the anthropology of childhood and how it’s different where, and it confirmed that we do it really differently than anywhere else in the industrialized west, and it’s reduced to a concentrated sauce on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Nowhere have we more turned childhood on its head from its evolutionary script than where privileged parenting prevails, and one of those places is the Upper East Side.

What reaction have you gotten from the people in your “tribe” and the people you’ve listed in the acknowledgments section, now that you’ve published this? I would say some of it is a pretty focused skewering, particularly of the moms of the kids in your sons’ classes.

Were you surprised by the reaction? Was it what you expected?

I just have friends who are posting about it and Instagramming about it and being really supportive, and that’s really what I’ve heard. I aimed to write a book that looks at a whole culture, not judgmentally.

Everywhere you go in the country, there are mommies struggling to find a way to fit in with other mommies. One thing that really occurs to me is that we like to talk about aggression and competition in the workplace, like Sheryl Sandberg does, but there’s also, whether we like it or not, aggression and competition in the workplace of stay-at-home moms. That was one part of the book. But there’s also cooperation and friendship, which is another really important part of the book that people don’t seem to write about as much. The big part of the book for me is the dramatic arc: starting out in a culture I didn’t understand and coming out on the other side with friendships with people I really admire. These are highly educated women who take their charity work and motherhood very seriously. But it doesn’t mean that parts of it aren’t funny. Just like some parts of it are touching.

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At the beginning, you recount being ignored by the other moms at your school, rejected for playdates, etc. What specifically made you think this was because you were a newcomer to the Upper East Side?

Because women are primates above anything else. Wherever there’s a rigidly hierarchical society, that will happen. It’s not even particularly unusual. And I didn’t take it terribly personally. Many women were really welcoming and warm and nice, but sharp elbows are notable.

But couldn’t it have been other things? Does it have to be that just because this is repeated in the primate world (which is very interesting), it couldn’t have been for some other factors? Maybe the

moms were busy or distracted or maybe it was just a bad fit among the people you met. Does this have to extend to how everyone on the Upper East Side behaves if a newcomer comes in?

I think that we’re primates. And I think that we’re subject to a whole range of behaviors about dominance hierarchies. I think there’s both cooperation and conflict. I got to see all of those things. This wasn’t a one-shot deal. Not everyone without exception was the same way.

There were welcoming friendly people. But I don’t think I’m the only person who feels that there are places on the UES that you go where things are very exclusive, maybe even a playgroup. But there are Park Avenues and Upper East Sides all over the country. These things are specific to the niche I looked at, but it happens everywhere.

People in India are saying they experience a version of this. It’s another universal thing about arriving somewhere new with a child. You want to do your best.

You mention your sample size is about 150 people. Do you feel that’s representative of the entire culture and neighborhood?

Who were they, in general?

They were women from playgroups, schools, playgrounds. I think that they were representative of that group of women. I think there is always variation in a population, but basically they were highly educated women, most of them in their thirties, who took motherhood seriously, their vocation as mothers seriously, their vocation to be beautiful very seriously. They did a good job at it. To me they seemed like a specific culture.

Do you think there was any adverse selection, that the women willing to talk to you about their experiences aren’t representative of the larger culture?

I think what I noticed was that so many women, when they found out I was writing my book, came to me and asked, “Do you know about this or that?” When you’re a mommy living on the UES, there’s a lot—if you have irony and insight—that you realize about the world you live in, so they shared this stuff with me. I think that the people who wanted to talk to me had some insight and found their world interesting. They had a sense of the UES being a specific place in Manhattan and UES motherhood as being a thing unto itself that was interesting and worth examining and sometimes funny and sometimes over the top and sometimes touching.

I’ll give you a few examples of things you pointed out about moms on the Upper East Side: Apologizing for a mess that wasn’t there. Saying where your kids go to school as a way of identifying yourself among the tribes. Planning way, way ahead. Obsessing over kids’ schedules, camps, living situation, finances. Putting on makeup before drop-off. Feeling anxiety about parenting. Do you think these are unique to the UES? How does this differ from affluent neighborhoods in Houston or L.A. or Denver?

I don’t know because I didn’t go to those places, but I have had so many women write to me saying, “This reminds me so much of Houston” or “so much of Tennessee.” I think what all these women have in common is the ideology of intensive motherhood. The sociologist Sharon Hays talks about it a lot and says it’s really specific to privileged people as opposed to how some of us grew up when our parents could just open up the back door and tell us to play. When I was little, doctors told my mother to just let me play alone in my room and the yard because kids needed that.

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problem. I believe no life is more inherently worthy of study than another. I thought it was important to understand this part of motherhood.

I have to ask: Did you really have a co-op board interview you in your bedroom while you were in bed, pregnant, on bed rest, wearing a jacket and pearls? Seriously?

Yes! I was on bed rest. My husband talked to the board about it and they said, “No problem.” I thought that meant we didn’t have to do the interview, but it meant they would come to me!

Wife bonuses: You say “male primates of Park Avenue . . . subjugate their dependent females . . . by controlling female access to resources...”

Not all of them! Some of these men are wonderful partners. ...and that “several women” let you know that a common practice was a “year-end bonus for wives, which may be outlined in a pre-nup or may just be given out of largesse or withheld for any reason.” I’ve talked to lots of people and everyone is most surprised by this finding. No one has heard of it. How many people confessed to this? Are you sure this is really what was happening? And also, as a corollary, just because a husband is successful, why does that mean he can’t have a marriage based on love and partnership?

It doesn’t mean he can’t. It just means that worldwide, where women are economically dependent and control the offspring and men control the resources and the society is rigidly stratified, the status of women will be lower. What’s interesting about this question is that all the women writing about it and talking about it online are saying “Mine is not like this,” “Oh, we do it differently,” “I want one,” “I don’t want one,” “This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard of,” “This is the best thing I’ve be engaged and trying to enhance that experience. If you’re cooking with your children, it should be a pedagogical experience. It’s not enough now if you’re a privileged mother to tell your child to find a quiet place for her homework and tell her just to do it. It’s not enough to sit there with your child while they do their homework. In some communities, you’re supposed to go to the school open house math night to learn the math so you can really understand it so you can be a better learning coach, occupational therapist and psychologist to your child. This is historically and culturally unique and very specific to niches like the UES where there’s a lot of wealth and women are not working full-time outside the home.

I don’t put anybody down. A lot of people say of these mothers, “Oh, they’re so neurotic and so overinvolved and they just need to leave their kids alone.” Really? But if they do leave their kids alone, then the culture tells them they’re bad mothers. So I think they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. It creates anxiety if you yourself are responsible for making sure that you’re providing your child with the very best childhood on every measure. That is unduly stressful and makes it uniquely pressure-filled in ways that it hasn’t been historically. That was one of the things I noticed and felt myself.

Still feel sometimes. And I have a lot of sympathy for people who feel that. I don’t care if people say it’s a first-class problem or a 1 percent

“I really wanted to crack the cultural code of a world that I landed in and didn’t understand.” ever heard of,” “Why shouldn’t I get one?” The conversation it sparked has plenty of women saying, “Yeah, I get one, but I get it like this or like that.” What surprised and interested me is women using it to negotiate economic dependency, saying this is one of the ways that I equal out my marriage. It was just one little detail of so many interesting things that women told me about their lives, but then the conversation spun off to “If you stay at home, should you be compensated for taking care of the kids?” Women are saying it’s a hard job and they should be compensated for it.

You said about downtown that it “reminded you there was a world outside the one I was trying to break into, a world I understood.

It was a place where women worked…” You must know that many women work on the UES. Yes, I know that, but those aren’t the women I studied. Obviously I can find you lots of women on the UES who work...Yes, but you just can’t do fieldwork with them because you can’t follow them to the office! To make the obvious point, I was studying this particular group of women, but of course there’s a huge variety of women on the UES! It’s one of the things that make it so interesting. There are plenty of

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women who work, it’s just that they weren’t the ones hanging out with me after school, after playgroup, on the playground or at luncheons, because those women were in the world of work all day long. So that’s how that ended up happening.

It came across more like women didn’t work on the Upper East Side.

That’s obviously not true! I just studied and hung out with the women I had access to. It would be great to do a study with working women all across the city with children and follow them to work and see how they’re negotiating childhood and motherhood and work.

Book number two!

Ha! You seemed at certain times like you were being a bit judgmental of women who stayed home. What was fundamentally wrong with being an Upper East Side stay-at-home mom? The Upper East Side obviously isn’t the only place where men and women divide the labor with one in the workplace and one at home.

What was the issue with it?

Nothing’s wrong with it, and I don’t judge women who stay home. I just look at the worldwide ethnographic data to look at the power structures in relationships if one person is bringing home resources and the other one isn’t, but I understand why women stay home, and I did it for a time when my children were born: I had a great time with my kids. It was important.

What’s really sad is that we’re so hypocritical about motherhood. We say it’s the most important thing, but then we degrade it culturally.

When you’re sitting at a dinner party and you say you’re a stay-at-home mom, the conversation just ends; they’re not interested in talking to you anymore.

I think that the women whom I know are caught in that cultural contradiction, and I think it’s destructive and don’t judge them at all for deciding to stay home. What I question, first of all, is if so many women who stay at home are really choosing to stay home and if that’s an actual choice or a false choice. I’ll give you an example: one woman told me, “I had my absolute dream job in marketing, not just in marketing but a niche within it,” and she was thrilled. Then she had a baby. She asked her firm if she could wait to go back to work until the baby was six months. They said no, you have to start now. Then she asked if she could have a flexible schedule. The answer was no, you have to come full-time. “So,” she said, “I chose to stay home with my baby.” Was that a choice? That’s what I like to ask.

It doesn’t mean that I’m judging women who stay home, but I want to push at that issue of whether it’s a choice and what happens to power in relationships if you do go in that direction. And by the way, what do we expect wealthy women who can technically afford to stay home to do? Do we expect them to say, “Yeah, I’m going to put my child in substandard day care where there’s a terrible ratio of caregivers to children, too many kids, the caregivers are turning over a lot (because that is the state of the U.S. child care system) and I’m going to pursue some work on some abstraction.” Of course they’re not going to do that! Why should we expect women without any support to have some singlehanded fix for a national child care crisis. I feel very passionately about child care, Head Start, Every Mother Counts (www.everymothercounts.org).

Those things are very important to me. And by the way, that’s something I learned on the UES. Be charitable. Do something about it. You have the resources to do it, so do it. I really think it’s important and I really admire that. I just wish, like motherhood, it wasn’t culturally degraded relative to paid work.

Regarding nonprofits, you discuss charity lunches and galas. At times, it seemed like you thought it was much more of a social thing without seeing the good that these nonprofits are doing. Many of them couldn’t even run without the help the moms were giving.

They do a lot of good, but as a social researcher I wanted to study the social apparatus that springs up all around it: the socializing, the events, the luncheons. They go together in our city, and that’s one of the best things. People don’t just write a check, they want to be affiliative and sit together and be tribal and have their charity, and that’s a fascinating thing to study. That’s one thing I learned: get involved with causes that I care about, like Head Start at the Children’s Museum of the East End (CMEE) (www.cmee.org) and New Knowledge (www.newknowledge.org), a family think tank where I’m on the board. I learned that from the women around me.

I’m very interested in these women who were managing to be involved in nonprofits with kids, managing households, working on the couples’ place in the world, supervising their renovations. I really admired how their charity work took priority.

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you tell your husband “Somebody better flirt with me” before you go out. You say, “What, I wondered, was the point of life and having a body you worked on like crazy if you didn’t have fun flirting . . . the women I studied were somehow above things like flirting.” How is it a negative? Maybe the women you studied didn’t feel it was appropriate to flirt with their friends’ husbands.

I think what I just noticed is that I wasn’t in France or the West Village anymore, and that it was a sex-segregated world. My inner social researcher really noticed these things. Personally I noticed it. It’s just different from ecological niche to ecological niche, downtown, Paris and Rome. As modern metropolises go, Manhattan and the UES are very fascinating. I have friends who all the time say “I really miss the way men look at me in Paris” after they’ve been there for several weeks. Some people like it. Mostly it was just a question of noticing it.

For anyone who has gone through IVF, the idea that someone skips cycles in a month to avoid having kids in “bad birthday months” seems . . . well . . . most people in that situation are dying to have kids at any cost. Do you feel badly about including that as a joking anecdote?

I think the point is that motherhood is a vocation in certain places and that mothers advocate for their children however they can, and in some places it might mean making sure that your child has every advantage, including not being the youngest kid in the class, not falling behind.

People have been redshirting kids forever. I think that planning a pregnancy is just part of the ideology of intensive motherhood. I think that for anyone who has gone through IVF, I wish them luck and have nothing but compassion for them having had my own harrowing experiences with fertility. I just remember thinking, “Oh god, I didn’t even get pregnant at the right time!” But pregnancy is a gift, and only in certain ecological niches is there pressure on women. I read it as a pressure. And I don’t judge mothers trying to give their kids every advantage, I really don’t.

In fundamental ways we’re wired for it.

You claim that you “went native” after acclimating to the ways of the UES in order to fit in, presumably for the sake of your children.

You spend a whole chapter discussing your pursuit of an Hermès Birkin bag, including a day when you “woke up exhausted from . . . ruminations” about breaking some “unspoken but important rules about the etiquette of Birkin acquisition.” You got a blowout while you were in labor. You went out and bought a $600 pair of shoes for a moms-night-in evening. That wasn’t any other UES mom. That’s just what you did. Why do you think you needed to go to these extremes when most women here don’t necessarily do these things?

I don’t think we can say that most women don’t go to those extremes.

I think it’s an extreme body display culture. I think there’s an extreme pressure to be beautiful. I don’t think I would have done it if I were the only one. We’re living in a culture where female beauty is highly valued, for good and for bad and for neutral. I absolutely assimilated and adjusted to that. It’s something that happens which is called habituation. It happens to animals and to people. You change up your game and your practices to fit in better with the world around you and you adjust your own expectations over time. I don’t think there’s anything bad about the fact that I started to enjoy taking better care of myself, wanting to look good. The UES is a beautiful place to look at women. There’s nothing wrong with that. But yes, I did assimilate.

I’m not saying every single woman on the UES gets a blowout when she’s in labor, but it’s more likely to happen there than in some other places in the world, and that’s what really got my attention.

High-pressure, high-stakes, high-glamour motherhood.

The last chapter of the book was just so heart-wrenchingly, beautifully written and just so moving. It was so touching, and I’m so sorry for your loss and your friend’s loss. It was awful.

After that, you say at the end of the book that the things you had cared about and focused on now seemed ridiculous. “Why had I ever cared so much?” you say.

You realize through the loss of your daughter, Daphne, that the UES women weren’t who you thought they were.

“Surprisingly, unexpectedly, the mothers, many of whom I had dismissed as unfriendly, self-involved, and shallow, showed me what they were made of, showed me what motherhood is.” You were “ashamed and confused and relieved in equal parts” that you’d dismissed these women too quickly. How do you reconcile how you felt at the end of the book with all the things you said at the beginning of the book? What real learning was taken away, and how do you feel? Maybe you didn’t mean it, but it seems like the beginning is more judgmental of this particular clan and that at the end, you come around. But it wasn’t really until the last chapter.

To me, there’s an arc to the story. What I saw first was all the differences: how these women were so different from everybody else, what separated them, what cultural practices they used to establish and reinforce their tribalism. What I came to later, after Daphne died, was a firsthand understanding of what I had learned about and studied, which is that we’re still cooperative breeders. We always raised our children in a dense network of kin and fictive kin and we’ve just been split off from that. It’s really unique in our evolutionary history to have to mother the way we do now. It’s amazing to me that having dispersed from our kin, living neolocally, many of us being economically dependent on our husbands. It’s amazing to me that women are able to forge the connections that they do.

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In the end, I stood in awe of that, how those women came out to do that for me. That part of the story came to the fore rather than the differences, rather than how they set themselves apart. When they told me their own stories, when they came to me, that’s when I realized we have always been cooperative breeders. We have never done this by ourselves. Needing to do it by ourselves and being anxious that our children might die might explain a lot of these behaviors that seem so bizarre to me. A lot of these behaviors might be ways you displace your anxiety. Not just that I won’t be a good mother, but the ultimate anxiety that my child might die. That was really what I saw in the end, and that was the arc of the story for me.

I have to be honest. After I read the book, especially after talking to you about it, your intentions seem so positive, and yet some of the things you put in are, to an objective eye, I think a little . . .well, not quite incendiary, but they evoke strong reactions in people, East Siders and West Siders alike, in a way that almost suggests to me some sort of self-destructive instinct. People are going to be mad at you for saying these things, so why do you do it? Maybe you don’t feel like you’re doing it. Maybe you don’t realize that people

especially rich women. They want to read a bunch of clichés and stereotypes, and I do not think that that is what I gave them. That might be what they long for. I hope to have painted a more complex and nuanced portrait of a group of women whom I found to be smart and interesting.

After our hour-long conversation, we chitchatted nicely about our kids as I got up to leave. I told her I fully ascribed to the age-old “it takes a village” philosophy. She said we should all be very grateful for our “allomothers” (caregivers, family members, etc). Part of me found it hard to believe that she was unaware that her book had caused such a reaction and that she felt it was basically benign. She had taken such an academic, calm, almost pedantic tone with me that I started to doubt whether I had even read the correct book.

But perhaps she truly does believe that her tome was a purely intellectual yet funny take on a unique community. Perhaps that disconnection from reality is also what happened when she arrived on the Upper East Side and started noticing things in her own way.

As I walked out onto the street (on the Upper West Side, mind you: she had told me to bring my passport when emailing me her office address), I felt frustrated and a bit incredulous by her take on the book. Yet as I headed down the block, I noticed another woman walking toward me, and I have to say, I paused a bit to see if she was “charging” me. (She wasn’t.) You never know what you’ll find when you put an anthropologist’s hat on. Even one from the Central Park luncheon. ✦

“Look, it’s a fascinating topic. People are fascinated by rich people, especially rich women. They want to read a bunch of clichés and stereotypes, and I do not think that that is what I gave them.” will respond this way. You’re obviously super bright and this was a well-written book, but people get very offended by what you’re saying. All the West Siders were saying, “Yeah, yeah, those East Siders,” and then the Post article came out and they were like, “Hey! Now you’re after us? What’s going on?”

There’s responding to the book and then there’s responding to the way some things have been pulled out of the book. But as far as what I actually wrote in the book itself as opposed to what gets selected, I really strove not to make fun, but also not to deny that some things about Upper East Side motherhood are funny. I don’t mean to sound like a total nerd, but I really did want to write a work about my personal experience in a specific place and to do a work of cultural analysis. I wanted to make a contribution to the literature on motherhood because I don’t think any mothers are more or less worth studying or any childhoods are more or less important. We need to learn about all of them. So I certainly didn’t set out to incite and I tried to be fair. I’ve had several friends say to me, “I don’t see how anyone reading this book could see that it was unfair or be unduly offended,” and I’ve mostly had that response.

I guess you have a particular point of view when you’re reviewing the anthropological, sociological and psychological literature. When you’re reviewing the social science on how people make their place in the world, it’s easy to say something that you think is quite neutral and then for there to be a discrepancy in how people living in this world feel about it.

So no one has said to you that they’re upset by what has come out?

Look, it’s a fascinating topic. People are fascinated by rich people,

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Showtime’s The Affair and its depictions of Hamptons life (and lust) have caused quite the buzz east of the Shinnecock Canal. But the show is hardly the first to depict the fabled East End. Christopher Lawrence ponders some filmic looks at the area and wonders where the new show might fit in.

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hese days, people tend to giggle about Gordon Gekko’s brick-sized cell phone in 1988’s Wall Street.

There’s Douglas as the greenmail maestro and corporate raider, pacing back and forth along Southampton’s Fowler Beach at sunrise, and he’s got Charlie Sheen’s Bud Fox on the DynaTAC “line”—in every sense of that term. Gekko has just shaken $800,000 (those are Reagan dollars) out of the Nikkei and is calling to announce that he’s staking Bud to his first claim. The younger man has been passed out at his desk after the previous night’s go-fer round trip out to the boss’ Meadow Lane palace and back to the salt mines of Manhattan. The evening went down like a big, pastel-drenched, 1980s dream: Daryl Hannah was there. And Gekko was sparring with Terence Stamp. With Schnabelesque art hanging on the walls. The lunches at “21,” the cars, the planes, even the women, all merely leading up to Gekko’s sunrise speech: Beachfront at Southampton: The Ultimate Temptation. What won’t Bud now do for a piece of the dream?

This is Oliver Stone, so subtlety is not often in evidence. But Douglas pulls back. And just for an instant, even his Gekko appears to be just a little humbled and awed by the beauty of the place. He’s been acting as a wilier, more calculating Tom Buchanan, but there’s a note of Gatsby dreamer there, too. Douglas offers an intriguing hint that Gekko can still see that sea and that sky, Fitzgerald’s “fresh, green breast of the new world,” with “Dutch sailors’ eyes.”

That wonder dissolves into a crooked smile. Innocence and pure wonder are a long way behind Gekko, but maybe traces linger.

And in a grand total of two scenes, Wall Street has managed to say a little something about the pleasure of Long Island and the prize of “The Hamptons.”

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hrough the long nights of Winter 2014–’15, a good deal of talk around Provisions in Sag Harbor, or Mary’s Marvelous in Amagansett, or Joni’s in Montauk— or wherever, really—a lot of talk around the East End’s big imaginary watercooler, centered around Showtime’s The Affair.

Could you believe the mock-intelligent lunkheadedness of Noah? The vacancy and self-absorption (yes, yes, hardly surprising in light of her son’s drowning) of Alison? There was the Lobster Roll restaurant out on the Napeague stretch . . . and there was Deep Hollow Ranch further east. And that was . . . what?! Huh? Where were we now?

Nassau County? Litchfield County?

The essayist Melanie Corowitz nailed the phenomenon. Confronted with a silly late-1980s Rob Lowe caper called Masquerade, she dubbed that film’s Long Island world “Splice Hampton.” Sag Harbor to Southampton to Amagansett. Bay to beach, Scuttlehole Road to Lily Pond Lane—in an instant, and in high season—all with a quick snip of the celluloid. And while The Affair did its own “Splice Hampton” and perhaps even more “Splice Brooklyn,” (Park Slope, Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights), it mattered, somehow. In its guilty, pulpy, sometimes pretentious, always heavily laden way, it seemed actually to have something to do with the social and physical worlds of its setting.

And it was entertaining. Royal Pains? Revenge? Barely worthy of notice. “The Hamptons” only as the vaguest of “luxury” signifiers.

Lacking the slightest social or cultural or even geographic awareness of the area. Concocted for—ahem, so sorry—concocted for flyover country consumption only.

But The Affair stuck, somehow. As a new depiction of eastern Long Island, it was at least worth discussing.

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f course, filmed uses of the East End have long been intertwined with the quite understandable wish of actors and filmmakers to call the area home. The debacle of George Costanza’s Hamptons “shrinkage” (“I was in the pool! I was in the pool!”) helped Jerry Seinfeld make it to Further Lane. Southampton’s tripartite clubland atmosphere has tended to keep the western end of things oriented toward business and finance, but from Bridgehampton eastward, movie folk have done more than their fair share to make the East End into “The Hamptons.” The phenomenon is now hitting the century mark. Hulda from Holland (1916) used Bridgehampton (flat, and with a windmill) as a backdrop.

The film’s leading lady, Mary Pickford, wound up spending considerable time with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, and fellow actress Ethel Barrymore in the section of North Haven that came to be known as the “Actors Colony.” It’s a designation that has remained current.

Michael Caine fell for the colony and then gave significant space in his memoirs to his loving memories of Sag Harbor Bay and the view out to Shelter Island. (He’d been in Sag Harbor, adding that patented distance ’n’ detachment of his to Alan Alda’s inept Sweet Liberty.) The enduring tranquility has drawn Richard Gere, Julie Andrews and nonthespian Jimmy Buffett. The civilized remove from Sag Harbor and East Hampton comes at a price: Gere’s Strongheart Manor is listed at $47.5 million at the time of this writing.

with, say, Reds or Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

A (cinematic) hometown-girl-made-good was back. The day was a pleasure, and for a moment all the big money and star power of the area was somehow deeply touching. A world-famous-and-gilded-to-the-hilt small town—but a small town, nonetheless.

It felt like (sigh) yesterday that Keaton and King Rascal Jack Nicholson had been around the corner shooting Something’s at Ina Garten’s late, lamented Barefoot Contessa shop on Newtown. In fact, more than a decade had slipped away, but Nancy Meyers’ big-budget sitcom had settled nicely in the consciousness of a certain aging and prosperous demographic that is well represented in and around Book Hampton on summer weekends. The film had done its job by giving two Towering Boomer Icons a space in which they could just be Diane and Jack sparring, then falling in love, by the sea.

Keaton and Nicholson the legends towered over their ostensible parts and over the plot’s proceedings. Was there really ever a doubt that plucky Diane would rope aging lothario Nicholson in?

Along with Keaton and Nicholson, “The Hamptons” as a brand had played the next biggest role in the film. The beach, the famously diffused light (somehow even inside! in Keaton’s magnificent kitchen!), and a broad sense of the area as simply a prize for successful New York-

“Meyers’ ‘Hamptons’ was a sexy backdrop without the least little bit of texture or depth. But with excellent linens and appliances: lifestyle porn to go with the sweetly encouraging romantic comedy. “ From top: Mary Pickford; Douglas Fairbanks; a scene from Nancy Meyers’ Something’s Gotta Give

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ummer 2014 touched a pleasantly surreal high point when Annie Hall herself turned up on Main Street in East Hampton early last July. Diane Keaton was at BookHampton, signing copies of her memoir Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty. It was an event—a celebrity event, a literary event, a Baby Boomer event. A women’s event. Part of the overall in-season this-is-the-center-of-the-world conceit of “The Hamptons” would have to be that even quintessential Californian Diane Keaton is forever considered “from here” based on Annie Hall and, especially now, on Something’s Gotta Give. The energy and goodwill certainly seemed to have lots more to do with the latter than it did

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teps away from the Spielberg place is a monument to another strain of Hamptons filmmaking and another thread of the area’s story.

Grey Gardens, the former home of “Big Edie” Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, became (in) famous when the Maysles brothers made a 1975 documentary revealing the squalor of the pair’s lives in the house. The women’s relationships to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (aunt and cousin, respectively) made the story a nationally visible parable of WASP eccentricity and decline. Grey Gardens, cult classic that it is, stands at the head of a class of art house films that includes Henry Jaglom’s Last Summer in the Hamptons, Tod Williams’ eerie The Door in the Floor, or even Norman Mailer’s chaotic Maidstone.

They’re the movies that, in one way or another, get at what happens when the season ends and the crowds go home.

“And after the flood tide of fabulousness has receded a bit, the beach chairs have been packed away, and Hamptons High Season 2015 has passed into fall, we’ll have The Affair to cushion the comedown.”

ers—Meyers’ “Hamptons” was a sexy backdrop without the least little bit of texture or depth. But with excellent linens and appliances: lifestyle porn to go with the sweetly encouraging romantic comedy. (The Barefoot Contessa reference proved significant: Meyers hung some of the Ina Garten story on the Meryl Streep “character” in her next film, It’s Complicated. This time, Santa Barbara was cast in the old “Hamptons” role, and real-life Amagansett/ East Hampton fixture Alec Baldwin came along for the ride.)

Something’s Gotta Give serves nicely as a token of in-season luxe Haute Showbiz East Hampton. Not the East Hampton of Dina Merrill– Cliff Robertson or Candace Bergen–Louis Malle, but the more exuberant East Hampton of (the late Time Warner architect) Steve Ross and his protégé Steven Spielberg. It’s a Los Angeles love affair with the place that comes laced with massive money and a dream of the classic Eastern seaside resort. Spielberg had had his own brushes with the area when bringing Jaws to the screen in 1975. Peter Benchley’s novel had been set in a fictional town between Bridgehampton and East Hampton, but the production was forced for various logistical reasons to shift to the then comparatively gritty and out-of-the-way Martha’s Vineyard. Only the film’s premiere—in Southampton—retained the book’s original setting.

Years later, and with Ross’ guidance, Spielberg wound up with a Charles Gwathmey estate on Georgica Pond. A happier—certainly a more wholesome—version of Gekko and Bud Fox.

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ut in mythic terms, probably nothing competes with the story, setting, and the consequence of 2000’s Pollock.

Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden as Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner did noble work in getting the story of East Hampton’s role in the rise of Abstract Expressionism to the screen. And beyond the history and the lore of the people (Willem de Kooning, Peggy Guggenheim, Clement Greenberg) and the place of remote, early 1950s Springs, the film carries a still resonant sense of the challenges of living through the all four seasons in a place that can seem designed only for one. Watching

“This is Oliver Stone, so subtlety is not often in evidence. But Douglas pulls back. And just for an instant, even his Gekko appears to be just a little humbled and awed by the beauty of the place.” the film, it’s also natural to remember Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller and their marriage, which began in the summer of 1957. The two shared a simple farmhouse in Amagansett, not far at all from where Pollock had died in an automobile accident the previous August. The union was, of course, ill-fated, but looking at Sam Shaw’s golden photos of the two at the beach, it’s hard not to wish for that time and place. There was certainly nothing about last summer’s Kardashian residency likely to shake that feeling.

Who could possibly top Monroe and Miller for a love that was brilliant and fragile and unlikely? And fleeting? It would certainly be too much to ask of Showtime and The Affair. But still: The idea of a worlds-apart liaison that was nurtured and then blessed (very much in passing) by the sands and waters of the East End made for an beguiling point of departure. Upscale Brookynite Noah, struggling with the disorienting messiness of parenting as well as his status as a kept man, wanders into the fraught Montauk of a woman awash in her own crises. Alison is connected by her own decaying marriage to the town’s last surviving ranch and, through that, to a knot of political and business intrigues. The show succeeded well in catching the luxe vacation dimension of “The Hamptons” and its preoccupations with

Top: A scene from Pollock. Bottom: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in Amagansett

class and status cues, with familial and social webs of envy and obligation.

The obsessions of money, career, and real estate hang all over every single move both Alison and Noah make.

But the sex—perhaps especially for Noah—seems almost Edenic. It’s a blessed relief from all the demands of the metropolis. Even as that metropolis is always reaching outward, further and deeper into the endangered East End of the Lockhart Ranch.

There was a murder investigation, too. Which confined the two principals in a Rashomon frame and forced the presentation of the lead characters’ story from the two drastically different viewpoints. As structured, the narrative had its intriguing and unsettling moments— who hasn’t sometimes felt that a lover who had once seemed so close experienced something so different as to be unrecognizable? The story of these desperate-for-one-another-types dissolved out into two distinct tales. And if it was all a bit cartoonish, there was still an intriguing attempt to get at the symbiosis and the strangeness of the encounter between New Yorkers and the locals of the East End. He: the callous urban exploiter; she: the mermaid seductress. The interplay between them and their swirling fears and fantasies of each other. The physical proximity via Jitney or LIRR between Montauk and brownstone Brooklyn. And also the vast psychic distance. All very ripe, certainly. But often pretty evocative, too. The Affair added a little bit of (tarted-up) “town” to go with Michael Douglas’ or Diane Keaton’s versions of “gown.” And let the two dance a bit. It was a guilty pleasure, but perhaps a useful addition to filmed notions of the area simply as a shining prize for the Gekkos of the world. And after the flood tide of fabulousness has receded a bit, the beach chairs have been packed away, and Hamptons High Season 2015 has passed into fall, we’ll have The Affair to cushion the comedown. ✦

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he fashionable set flocks to the East End—the beach—to get away from it all, to unwind, relax and live the good life. But if you’re a city dweller during the week you may long for a touch of urbanity, even when you’re “roughing it.” Marc Zowine is a city boy who decided to do as his famous clients do and weekend in the Hamptons.

Zowine is a celebrity hairstylist and colorist who pretties up many boldface names in his New York penthouse salon and in their homes. He is quiet about that, though: “It’s better that way,” he says knowingly. For the second season now Zowine has partnered with fellow hairstylist Xavier Merat in his namesake Salon Xavier in Sag Harbor Village.

How are these two handsome pros getting along? In Zowine’s words, “Love, love, love! Xavier is so talented, and it is so wonderful here to work with so many talented people. All of the beauty technicians are true experts who have really great energy.” The salon itself is gorgeous, with its exposed brick and old-school wood beams and floors.

It’s a great place to get your beauty on—though Zowine also styles many of his top clients in their Hamptons homes.

Considered a master technician in the field, Zowine is something of a rarity in that he is equally renowned for his abilities as a colorist and as a stylist. He may be best known in the Hamptons for his chunky highlights that mimic the effects of the sun. And he has a wonderful ability to match

your color, blond or dark, with more depth, for what he calls “chiaroscuro”— the Italian term that refers to the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting. “I feel that I am an artist and sculptor,” he says, and indeed he is.

What drew Zowine to do hair? “I changed careers over 20 years ago. I was out to dinner with Michael Kors, a longtime friend, and I asked him what he thought I would be good at, and he said, ‘You’d be a great hairstylist,’ and I took it to heart.” He says, “I was working at NBC at the time in news finance and Wilfred Beauty Academy was nearby, so I met with one of their consultants . . . and the rest is history.

I immediately began under the tutelage of John D’Orazio, who had a small, exclusive salon on the Upper East Side, and working there exposed me to a slew of great ladies, including Jacqueline Onassis, Diane von Fürstenberg and Gloria Steinem. John taught me how to cut and gave me a great sense of how to treat ladies in your chair. It’s a very personal matter. My experience at Frédéric Fekkai was very intense. He runs a tight ship and a great business. With hair color I basically taught myself, as I grew up painting and drawing as a child. It came naturally.”

Zowine’s reflections on city versus the beach? “I want my clients to look as good in the Hamptons as they do in the city, but it tends to go more natural at the beach. I believe how we are is relative to where we are. We should always be ourselves and a little more,” he says with a smile. ✦

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Above: Xavier Merat, left, and Marc Zowine, right, at Xavier Salon in Sag Harbor.

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nspired by nature and dedicated to environmental responsibility, Landscape Details and its founder, Michael Derrig, have been behind some of the most beautiful, notable properties throughout the Hamptons since the company’s inception in 2000.

First drawn to the field of landscape architecture by his love of nature and the outdoors, Derrig now employs a cohesive team of more than 100 horticulturists, craftsmen, landscape architects and artisans to plan, develop and create landscape and property designs in Landscape Details’ signature elegant aesthetic.

Years of expertise and an eye for design inform Derrig and his team’s approach to each new project, but he attributes his success to his ability to bring his clients’ ideas to life. “We create beautifully integrated landscapes by working very closely with our clients,” Derrig says, noting that the firm takes care to be completely responsive to the unique environment and architecture of each property they work with. “Our firm has grown because of our dedication to excellence and our unparalleled commitment to realizing each client’s vision.”

Derrig says the goal of each project is always to increase the value and stability of a property while maximizing the homeowner’s enjoyment of the space. In addition to the design and creation of uniquely stunning landscapes, Landscape Details’ team is also known for the quality and beauty of their masonry—construction of everything from stone walls to terraces and patios.

Derrig chalks up their stonework success to three practices he implements with each new undertaking: classic, timeless designs created to enhance rather than compete with the environment; a world-class team to plan and execute each project perfectly; and the use of high-quality materials from reclaimed stone, brick and granite to imported French limestone. By continuing to maintain these guiding tenets, he is able to exceed his clients’ expectations.

In the end, Landscape Detail’s unparalleled success speaks for itself.

With more than 15 years in the business under its belt and a new location opening in East Hampton next year, the team is in demand more than ever.

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A FABULOUS HOME / UPPER EAST SIDE Excl. Triple mint 3 bedroom. Gracious split bedroom layout. 2 windowed baths and a house-sized windowed kitchen with Subzero etc. W/D OK. $380. Garage! F/S DM. Electric included in the maintenance! $1,625,000. Web#11309550

MINT PREWAR CLASSIC SIX / UPPER EAST SIDE Excl. Graciously restored pre-war co-op features 10’ ceilings, elegant custom woodwork and details! LR with WBF, chef’s kitchen, FDR, 2 windowed baths. W/D & 5x7x9 private storage bin included! Low maintenance! $1,695,000. Web#12413215

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FERN HAMMOND

Over 35 years in real estate. Featured in New York Magazine, Crain’s, The New York Times, Real Estate Trends and winner of Halstead Property’s 2015 Award for the Highest Priced Sale of the Year.

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“There is no better broker than Fern to have on your side of the deal, whether buying or selling, she never gives up and truly takes pride in getting her clients the very best price possible” – Dean Silvers, Board of Director Member for 10 years

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50 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH | $50,000,000 FULL FLOOR | Web ID: 00110110 Roberta Golubock | 212.606.7704

927 FIFTH AVENUE, APT 1N | $22,000,000 3 BR/3.5 BA | Web ID: 00110148 A. Koffman 606.7688 | J. Janssens 606.7670

993 FIFTH AVENUE | $12,950,000 3 BR/4 BA | Web ID: 00110128 Louise C. Beit | 212.606.7703

20 WEST 53RD STREET, APT 26A | $8,695,000 3 BR/3.5 BA | Web ID: 00110174 Chris Poore | 212.606.7676

880 FIFTH AVENUE, APT 15B | $5,280,000 2 BR/3 BA | Web ID: 00110111 Anne V. Corey | 212.606.7733

130 EAST 67TH STREET, APT 4EF | $4,250,000 3 BR/2.5 BA | Web ID: 0137831 Jeremy V. Stein | 212.431.2427

156 EAST 79TH STREET, APT 10BE | $4,000,000 25 MURRAY STREET, APT 6A | $2,599,000 3 BR/3 BA | Web ID: 00110114 2 BR/2 BA | Web ID: 00110191 G. Devlin 606.7729 | L. Summers 606.7789 M. Perceval 606.7790 | A. Borland 606.7628

162 EAST 80TH STREET, APT 3C | $1,900,000 2 BR/2 BA | Web ID: 00110178 A. White 606.7624 | Z. Haydock 606.7727

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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE, NY | $15,000,000 | Web: 0056554 Grosvenor Atterbury home, 2+/- acres, 5 bedrooms, pool, tennis

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE, NY | $17,995,000 | Web: 0054203 Grosvenor Atterbury Estate, 3+/- acres, 11 bedrooms, 12 baths, pool

WATER MILL, NY | $14,000,000 | Web: 0056674 William Georgis-designed, 1+/- acre, pool, 175+/- ft. waterfront, dock

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE, NY | $13,900,000 | Web: 0056528 2+/- acres, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, pool, tennis

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE, NY | $19,900,000 | Web: 0056728 Estate section, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, 3.7+/- acres, pool, tennis

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE, NY | $7,495,000 | Web: 0056556 New build, .70+/- acre, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, pool,estate section

Harald Grant

Senior Global Real Estate Advisor I Associate Broker d: 631.227.4916 c: 516.356.5136 pat.petrillo@sothebyshomes.com SOUTHAMPTON BROKERAGE 50 Nugent St. I Southampton, NY 11968 I 631.283.0600

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William Pitt Julia B Fee

Scarsdale, NY

$8,680,000

Scarsdale, NY

$5,998,000

New Canaan, CT

$5,195,000

Harrison, NY

$3,785,000

Rye, NY

$3,185,000

Salisbury, CT

$2,800,000

Rye, NY

$2,795,000

Tyringham, MA

$2,775,000

Madison, CT

$2,495,000

Madison, CT

$1,995,000

Stamford, CT

$1,925,000

Madison, CT

$1,695,000

Stunning new estate home. 13,800 square feet, 1.5 acres with infinity pool. 30 minutes to New York City.

MLS: 4502128 Scarsdale Brokerage Dawn Knief, Mary Katchis 914.393.1159

Stone and shingle home encompasses over 6,000 sq. ft. set on over an acre with today’s most modern and transitional lifestyle amenities. MLS: 4446510 Rye Brokerage Liz Ross 914.882.3937

Milton Point Hamptons-style 4-bedroom beach home, stunning water views, gorgeous decor, move right in. MLS: 4518104 Rye Brokerage Fiona Dogan 914.414.5147

Charming home on almost a half acre in a picture perfect waterfront community. Built to code in 2002.

MLS: N10048611 Madison Brokerage Margaret Muir 203.738.0202

New construction in estate area showcases stunning design and premium finishes, with 9,035 sq. ft. on 1.37 acres with pool. MLS: 4521118 Scarsdale Brokerage Anne Dowd Moretti 914.815.0057

This spacious home offers over 4,600 sq. ft. of open living space with wonderful flow for family living as well as entertaining. MLS: 4439259 Rye Brokerage Liz Ross 914.882.3937

Classic 115-acre Berkshire Estate, privacy, views, convenience. Tennis & paddle-ball courts, cottages, barns, and pond. MLS: 206204 Berkshire Brokerage Gladys Montgomery 413.822.0929

‘The Mill House’ Historic New England farmhouse on 4.33 acres. Pool and tennis court. Rentable cottage.

MLS: 99103813 North Stamford Brokerage Gail Stone 203.561.0909

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Sophisticated brick Georgian. Stunning interiors and amenities. 4 plus private acres with pool and spas.

Prime location. 494PonusRidgeRoad.com New Canaan Brokerage Page Growney 203.984.9535

Beautiful home on 10 acres with stunning views over Salmon Kill Valley. Garage space for 9 cars.

MLS: L10041464 Lakeville Brokerage Mimi Harson 860.435.5922

Triple mint condition home on a very large lot overlooking Fence Creek and Long Island Sound with brand new dock. MLS: N10043108 Madison Brokerage Margaret Muir 203.738.0202

Nostalgic 4-bedroom summer cottage on magnificent large waterfront .67 acre lot with deep sandy beach. MLS: N10047841 Madison Brokerage Margaret Muir 203.738.0202

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WAINSCOTT SOUTH, NY | $16,500,000 | WEB ID: 0037709 In the most coveted, close to ocean location, this exquisite custom manor designed by renowned master architect James Merrell was constructed to the highest standards. On 2+/- acres with heated gunite outdoor pool, indoor pool, and room for tennis.

BRIDGEHAMPTON SOUTH, NY | $15,000,000 | WEB ID: 0037408 | 80SamsCreek.com Steps from the ocean, this cutting-edge 12,000+/- sq. ft. home constructed on 3 levels features an elegant façade opening to an expanse of space and light. Features include 8 bedrooms, 9.5 baths, heated gunite pool, theatre, custom wine cellar and fitness studio.

Beate V. Moore Senior Global Real Estate Advisor Associate Broker d: 631.613.7316 c: 516.527.7868 beate.moore@sothebyshomes.com BRIDGEHAMPTON BROKERAGE 2446 Main St. I Bridgehampton, NY 11932 631.537.6000

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Country Houses at tHe BeaCH 90 minutes from new york city

Madison, CT • $4,350,000 • MLS: N10037241

Madison, CT • $3,950,000 • MLS: M9146592

Madison, CT • $2,895,000 • MLS: N353894

Madison, CT • $2,895,000 • MLS: N10046302

Madison, CT • $2,750,000 • MLS: M9147121

Madison, CT • $1,975,000 • MLS: M9145879

One of a kind site on Fence Creek with Sound views. Extraordinary light filled modern Connecticut masterpiece with pool, dock and privacy.

Gracious Seaview Beach waterfront home including guest house with commanding elevation and sweeping water views.

Lovingly maintained iconic Middle Beach estate with two grand summer homes and over 148 ft. on Long Island Sound. Ideal family compound.

Spectacular hilltop setting, architect designed, extraordinary stonework. Custom one of a kind home with commanding views, treetop elevation.

Totally updated shingle style gem brimming with original 1922 details, water views, studio and deeded beach access.

Updated c.1904 historic home with generous proportions and many period details. Great for entertaining. Private drive to Sound views.

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AMAZING OCEANFRONT

Quogue | $13,400,000 | Folio# 15303 Offering 165' on the ocean with incredible ocean views on the best beaches in the Hamptons! Wellappointed home set on 2 acres with beautiful granite kitchen, living room with fireplace, den, office, master suite, and guest bedroom with bath. The lower level is complete with media room, cabana kitchen for pool and tennis area, four guest suites, wood floors throughout, two-car garage, outdoor shower, elevator, paved driveway, upstairs and downstairs washer/dryer, all weather tennis and heated gunite pool. Exclusively listed by Vicky Reynolds. 631.834.3440 100 Main Street, Westhampton Beach NY 11978 | 631.288.1050

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One of a Kind Palm Beach

SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARY $13,950,000 | Web: 0076613

EVERGLADES ISLAND LAND $8,950,000 | Web: 0076596

RARE OCEANFRONT DUPLEX - RITZ CARLTON $6,995,000 | Web: 0076490

BREATHTAKING VIEWS - ONE WATERMARK $4,475,000 | Web: 0076479

CRISTINA CONDON 561 301 2211

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IN-TOWN OCEAN BLOCK $3,950,000 | Web: 0075998

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Properties of the Month Luxury listings in the City and the Hamptons

Sotheby’s International Realty 927 FIFTH AVENUE Instant lifestyle and glamour await you in this stunning, fully furnished residence located in one of Fifth Avenue’s most exclusive and prestigious white-glove cooperatives. Brilliantly designed by Tony Ingrao, this apartment is a WOW! It seamlessly combines the ultrachic downtown loft feel in a classic uptown building and offers the privacy of townhouse living. This fabulous loft-style home has been meticulously designed with detailed and distinct spaces for fine living and stylish entertaining. $22M. WEB# 00110148. Contact Allison B. Koffman @ 212.606.7688 and Juliette R. Janssens @ 212.606.7670

The Corcoran Group EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE GEM Renovated to perfection and located in the heart of the Village.

Features a spacious interior with high-end finishes, 4 bedrooms (including a first-floor master suite), 3.5 baths, living room with coffered ceilings, eat-in kitchen and dining area with access to the lushly landscaped backyard and heated Gunite pool. Exclusive. $2.395M. WEB# 17037. Contact Evan R. Kulman @ 917.453.0733

Sotheby’s International Realty ELEGANT OX PASTURE ESTATE Key location in Southampton’s estate section set well behind high hedges, this exquisite property comprises almost 4 acres in total.

Complete with residence, extensive outdoor decking and patios, heated 40´ x 20´ Gunite pool and all-weather tennis court. $19.9M. WEB# 0056728. Contact Harald Grant @ 516.527.7712

Halstead Property SPACE, DETAIL, AND CRAFT Masterfully constructed newly built townhome with the perfect blend of space, detail and craft. Spanning 4,320 square feet, this home is brilliantly laid-out on 4 floors and features 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, a private garden, a roof terrace and an elevator. Ideally located close to popular restaurants, chic boutiques and Brooklyn’s world-class parks. $4.25M. WEB# 12386605. Contact Tamara Abir and Brian Lewis @ 718.613.2807 146 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • JULY 2015

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NORTH X 4

HOUSE, POOL AND TENNIS - AMAZING SETTING Water Mill | Price Upon Request | Web# H29167

MODERN IN THE VILLAGE OF BRIDGEHAMPTON Bridgehampton | Price Upon Request | Web# H45151

GRASSY HOLLOW EXCLUSIVE TRADITIONAL East Hampton | Price Upon Request | Web# H43801

CHARMING AND TRANQUIL, SUPERB LIVING Wainscott | Price Upon Request | Web# H45296

THE MOST SPECTACULAR HOMES IN THE HAMPTONS ALL SHARE THE SAME ADDRESS. ASKELLIMAN.COM 2488 MAIN ST, P.O. BOX 1251, BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY 11932. 631.537.5900 | © 2015 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS ARE DEEMED RELIABLE, BUT SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

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SOUTH X 4

HISTORIC LIVING IN SAGAPONACK SOUTH Sagaponack | Price Upon Request | Web# H45300

OCEAN AND PONDFRONT - BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Wainscott | Price Upon Request | Web# H38310

OCEANFRONT BRIDGEHAMPTON Bridgehampton | Price Upon Request | Web# H0147231

2.8 ACRES WITH OCEAN VIEWS Sagaponack | Price Upon Request | Web# H26256

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Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

O: 631.537.4144 pbrennan@elliman.com ASKELLIMAN.COM

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THE NORTH FORK | THE HAMPTONS | LONG ISLAND | MANHATTAN | BROOKLYN | QUEENS | RIVERDALE | WESTCHESTER/PUTNAM | GREENWICH | ASPEN | LOS ANGELES | FLORIDA 2488 MAIN ST, P.O. BOX 1251, BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY 11932. 631.537.5900 | © 2015 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS ARE DEEMED RELIABLE, BUT SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

MAJESTIC WATERFRONT COMPOUND IN NORTH HAVEN | Sag Harbor | $47,500,000 | Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a spectacular waterfront property in the Hamptons. The bayfront compound, which consists of 3 single and separate lots and residences, spans 6.3 acres and includes 300 ft of bay frontage, dock permits, and room for tennis. The main house, Strongheart, was built in 1902, renovated to the highest level possible, while it still retains all of its original charm. Forever views of Peconic Bay and Mashomack Preserve, absolute privacy, and incredible boating possibilities make it a dream property. Web# H35378

MICHAELA KESZLER, Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker O: 631.204.2743 | C: 631.525.3810 mkeszler@elliman.com

PAUL BRENNAN, Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker O: 631.537.4144 | pbrennan@elliman.com

RAYMOND SMITH, Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker O: 631.204.2728 | C: 516.381.2574 raymond.smith@elliman.com

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THE NORTH FORK | THE HAMPTONS | LONG ISLAND | MANHATTAN | BROOKLYN | QUEENS | RIVERDALE | WESTCHESTER/PUTNAM | GREENWICH | ASPEN | LOS ANGELES | FLORIDA 2488 MAIN ST, P.O. BOX 1251, BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY 11932. 631.537.5900 | © 2015 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS ARE DEEMED RELIABLE, BUT SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE ESTATE | Southampton | $17,900,000 | In one of Southampton’s most exclusive neighborhoods, first floor entertaining areas boast 3 fireplaces and views of the grand porches and manicured lawns. Upstairs the master, junior master and 4 guest rooms are all en suite. A sunlit indoor bridge connects the main house to an additional junior master suite. The lower level boasts 3 more en suite guest bedrooms, a gym, bonus room and game room. Oversized pool patio with spa, flanked by a generously appointed poolhouse. A Har-Tru tennis court and built-in BBQ round out the outdoor amenities. Web# H51710

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE OCEANFRONT | Southampton | $39,995,000 | This 6,700 sf residence offers 4.5 acres of dunes, over 500 ft of sandy beachfront and the beauty of Wickapogue Pond. You’ll find the house accented with crown moldings, hardwood floors, wood-burning fireplaces, French doors, elevator, living room with coffered ceilings, formal dining room, wood-paneled library, kitchen with butler’s pantry and separate dining area, master suite, 7 bedrooms, 9 baths, 4 guest suites, staff quarters, gym, and a cabana with indoor/outdoor access. French doors lead to a seaside terrace, a heated Gunite pool, and spa. A gazebo, sunken Har-Tru tennis court, and a 6-car garage. Web# H29148

ERICA GROSSMAN

Lic. R.E. Salesperson O: 631.204.2723 | C: 917.710.2512 erica.grossman@elliman.com

RAYMOND SMITH

Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker O: 631.204.2728 | C: 516.381.2574 raymond.smith@elliman.com

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teNNiS & privacy With a poiNt of vieW

Sag harbor. Stunning 4 bedroom modern home on just under 2.5 acres has gorgeous water views and great architectural details. The home features a great room with soaring ceilings, chefs kitchen, formal dining room and screened living area. The 1st floor master suite is in its own wing of the house. Exclusive. $5.295M WeB# 46379

Sag harbor. 5,750 SF of pure craftsmanship on 4.8 acres with tennis and sunset facing water views. 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, formal dining, great room, den, water view master suite, 3 fireplaces. Fully finished lower level, heated gunite pool.

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North haveN WaterfroNt With Dock Sag harbor. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a waterfront property that is hands down the best buy in its price point. Sited for spectacular views of Sag Harbor Bay and total privacy. Three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, gracious open living/dining space with fireplace, den with fireplace, custom kitchen, and attached garage. Exclusive. $2.325M WeB# 32542

WaterfroNt BuilDiNg opportuNity east hampton. Amazing 2.5 acre water view property offers gorgeous water views, easy water access and room for large (8,900 SF +/- ) house, accessory structures, pool and tennis.

Exclusive. $1.995M WeB# 03207

Representing all the best of the Hamptons

Mala Sander Lic. Associate RE Broker o: 631.899.0108 | m: 917.902.7654 msander@corcoran.com

Real estate agents affiliated with The Corcoran Group are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of The Corcoran Group.

Equal Housing Opportunity. The Corcoran Group is a licensed real estate broker. All information furnished regarding property for sale or rent or regarding financing is from sources deemed reliable, but Corcoran makes no warranty or representation as to the accuracy thereof. All property information is presented subject to errors, omissions, price changes, changed property conditions, and withdrawal of the property from the market, without notice. All dimensions provided are approximate. To obtain exact dimensions, Corcoran advises you to hire a qualified architect or engineer.

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alan schnurman exclusive

breathtaking sagaponack Panoramic ocean and reserve views surround this remarkable Sagaponack South estate. Light and space abound in this Val Florio designed 11,340+/- sq. ft. home featuring a total of nine bedrooms, 10 full baths, four half baths, six fireplaces, family, living and dining rooms, elevator, three-car garage and an expansive rooftop terrace with breathtaking views of the ocean and reserves. The outdoor entertaining space includes a 18’ x 72’ pool, kitchen, pool house and Har-Tru sunken tennis court. The residence features master suites on first and second floors, oversized gym with its own outdoor courtyard, sauna and steam room, a movie theater, billiards room, and a glass-enclosed wine cellar. This is a special home that offers value and top craftsmanship in the most sought after area of Sagaponack. Broker/Owner.

Exclusive $19,950,000 | 233HedgesLane.com

let alan's experience and passion work for you Alan has been successfully buying, selling and developing properties in the Hamptons for over 25 years.

As a broker, Alan has transacted over $75 Million of prime Hamptons real estate.

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House Call Exploring the timeless East Hampton treasure that is the Baker House 1650

T

ucked away on a lush plot of land deep in East Hampton sits the Baker House 1650, a charming inn that serves as both an homage to the past and a testament to the latest in luxury accommodations. Named the “Most Excellent Inn of the Americas” by Condé Nast on no less than three occasions, the luxury bed-and-breakfast is a top destination for those seeking a relaxing, top-of-the-line vacation in the Hamptons.

Managing to feel both cozy and expansive, the House was first erected in the mid-17th century by a sea captain who later sold both it and the property to Thomas Baker, credited as one of East Hampton’s most storied and prolific developers. As the House began to change hands and purposes over the years, its reputation as an architectural wonder stayed consistent until it finally settled with East Hamptonites Antonella Bertello-Rosen and Bob Rosen. The coupled turned it into the world-class destination it is today.

At the Baker House, guests can enjoy all the amenities of a five-star resort within the bucolic confines of its lush property. Enjoy unique guest suites with sprawling, adjoining private bathrooms; an English garden bursting with the brightest blooms year-round; rich, gourmet meals; and—of course—a very well-stocked bar.

One of the House’s biggest draws is the Baker Spa, a well-regarded necessity for anyone looking to completely unwind and relax. Featuring an endless swimming pool, Jacuzzi and sauna, the spa is a complimentary amenity provided to all guests. In addition to the opportunity to book a number of spa services, including massages and facials, guests are also given passes to the nearby East Hampton Gym for the duration of their stay.

In such a rapidly changing, evolving landscape, the Baker House allows guests to return to the simplicity of a Hampton long gone while still enjoying the conveniences of today. If its 150-year-plus history is any indication, the Baker House will continue to serve as an East Hampton landmark for quite some time to come. ✦

“In such a rapidly changing landscape, the Baker House allows guests to return to the simplicity of a Hampton long gone while still enjoying the conveniences of today.”

BAKER HOUSE 181 Main Street East Hampton, NY 11937 631.324.4081 thebakerhouse1650.com

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MID-CENTURYMODERN SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE Southampton | South of the Highway | 1.9 Acres | 7,000 SF+/- | 7 Bedrooms | 6.5 Bathrooms | Heated Gunite Pool | Pool House | Tennis | 2 Bedroom Cottage Exclusive. $13.999M WEB# 49955

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE LAND, ICONIC WYANDANCH LANE A ONCE IN A LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY Southampton | South of the Highway | .92 Acres Southwestern Sun Exposure | Immediate proximity to Ocean Beaches Exclusive. $9.5M WEB# 01956

STUNNING SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE NEW CONSTRUCTION

SPECTACULAR SOUTHAMPTON NEW CONSTRUCTION

Southampton | South of the Highway | .92 Acre Corner Lot 6,400 SF+/- | 6 Bedrooms | 6.5 Bathrooms | Full Basement 20’x40’ Heated Gunite Pool | Pool House

Southampton | 6,000 SF+/- | 7 Bedroom | 7.5 Bathroom Heated Gunite Pool | Pool House Exclusive. $4.875M WEB#35816

Exclusive. $5.85M WEB# 42976

SPECTACULAR SOUTHAMPTON NEW CONSTRUCTION

SPECTACULAR SOUTHAMPTON NEW CONSTRUCTION

Southampton | 6,000 SF+/- | 7 Bedroom | 7.5 Bathroom Heated Gunite Pool | Pool House

Southampton | 6,000 SF+/- | 7 Bedroom | 7 Bathroom Heated Gunite Pool | Pool House

Exclusive. $6.25M WEB#35782

Exclusive. $5.795M WEB#35815

Specializing in Seamless Transactions Shaunagh M. Byrne Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker m: 516.729.1713 sbyrne@corcoran.com

Real estate agents affiliated with The Corcoran Group are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of The Corcoran Group. Equal Housing Opportunity. The Corcoran Group is a licensed real estate broker. All information furnished regarding property for sale or rent or regarding financing is from sources deemed reliable, but Corcoran makes no warranty or representation as to the accuracy thereof. All property information is presented subject to errors, omissions, price changes, changed property conditions, and withdrawal of the property from the market, without notice. All dimensions provided are approximate. To obtain exact dimensions, Corcoran advises you to hire a qualified architect or engineer. 2405 Main Street, Bridgehampton NY 11932 | 631.537.7773

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240 RIVERSIDE BOULEVARD APT 6ATRIPLEX | $48,500,000 An unparalleled opportunity awaits within one of the most prestigious and elegant full service condo in New York A triplex home spanning ~10,500 square feet, in a style and finish quality both luxurious and opulent, is perched above Riverside Park offering views of the Hudson River from nearly every window. Currently laid out with 4 bedrooms, 4 full and 6 powder rooms, this space is as flexible and can easily accommodate additional sleeping areas. WebID 426996 RYAN SERHANT 646 443 3739 | BRIAN CHAN 646 996 5730

285 LAFAYETTE STREET APT 2B | $11,000,000 Your keyed elevator opens into this voluminous and timeless family sized 4060 square foot home comprised of fully equipped chef’s kitchen, four grand bedrooms plus library, three bathrooms, one powder room and private laundry room. It features enormous living and dining area of 48 feet by nearly 35 feet with 12 foot ceiling heights, original impressive cast iron columns and beautiful exposed wooden beams. WebID 475105 JESSICA C. CAMPBELL 917 621 7815 jessicac@nestseekers.com

60 RIVERSIDE BOULEVARD APT PH-3902 | $9,995,000 Located high above Riverside Boulevard is a magnificent Condominium Residence. This spectacular Multi-Corner 4 Bedroom, 4.5 Bath Penthouse with Terrace is meticulously designed.

This home offers mesmerizing, breathtaking panoramic views to the East, West, South and North of the Iconic NYC Skyline to the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. The 3096 Sqft. residence boasts, a glass-walled corner great room, optimizing light and views. WebID 442803 BRUCE MISHELL 212 714 0717 | MAOR SHEFER 917 539 8057

3 RIVERSIDE DRIVE | $27,000,000 This astounding French Renaissance Revival mansion has 18 rooms, 4 terraces, 8.5 baths and 9 gas fireplaces. Truly a masterpiece of art and design. This 37-foot wide house grandiose in size has been lavishly restored for the past 18 years. This 5 story home sits on a 95-foot lot and is 37 ft wide , has 6 bedrooms with room for additional bedrooms if required. This approximately 11,000 square-foot showplace is filled with exquisite restored details. WebID 258594 CAROL FRIEDMAN 917 287 2308 carolf@nestseekers.com

515 BROADWAY APT 3AR AND 3AF | $3,250,000 This approximately 3000 square foot loft has been artfully converted into a unique space with many platforms for use. Soaring thirteen and a half foot ceilings, original maple plank floors, six massive East and West facing windows, are just a few of the highlights. Built in the 1880’s, this traditional Soho Cast Iron Landmark houses just nineteen residential, and seven commercial units. Converted in 1978, the cooperative is 100% sold. WebID 437780 SABRINA SEIDNER 917 805 9475 sabrinas@nestseekers.com

401 EAST 60TH STREET PH | $6,500,000 UES Penthouse With 360 Views with Indoor and outdoor space combined total 4,960 sq ft.

This spacious two-bedroom apartment is a four-bedroom conversion that spans the entire 39th floor of Bridge Tower Place on Manhattans Upper East Side. The keyed, high-speed elevator will launch you to your eight-room perch in the sky, with 360-degree views that stretch to all five boroughs of New York City. WebID 421272 REGIS ROUMILA 646 325 7173 regis@nestseekers.com

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THE EXCLUSIVE HAMPTONS COMPOUND - EAST HAMPTON | $9,850,000 Magnificent estate on over 8.3 acres located in private waterfront community. Over 9,000 sq.ft. home plus an elegant single story cedar shingled guest house of over 3,000 sq.ft. Featuring 2 gunite pools, a pool house, a fountain, a columned pavilion and croquet lawn. The main residence, named “Rollinson House”, is comprised of 5 large bedroom/bathroom suites, The second house has 2 fireplaces, sitting room, dining room and library/media room. WebID 360384 GEOFF GIFKINS 516 429 6927 | DEBORAH GINSBURG 215 260 5154

BEAUTIFUL ESTATE HOME SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY - EAST HAMPTON | $5,500,000 Located south-of-the-highway, the house offers exceptional value at 11,000 sq. /ft. 11 bedrooms, 8 full and 2 half baths, 5 fireplaces, renovated chef’s kitchen with granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances, three story atrium, formal dining room and living room with direct access to the backyard. Landscaped 1.11 acres with wonderful mature gardens, heated gunite pool and spa, covered porch, brick and bluestone patios. WebID 466293 KEN SMALLWOOD 917 797 9201 | ALEX PICCIRILLO 516 313 1110

5 BEDROOM SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE TRADITIONAL | $4,175,000 Master bedroom suite on the first floor with an adjacent office/sitting area, a grand master bedroom suite on the second floor with a cathedral ceiling and french doors. The living room features a 11-foot coffered ceiling and french doors that open to a large wrap-around deck. Spacious open kitchen with Viking appliances, walk-in pantry, and large island. Gated 20 x 40 ft heated gunite pool and pool house, attached garage. Can be purchased fully furnished. WebID 48611 NICHOLAS AMATO 516 680 1759 nicholas@nestseekers.com

6,000 SQFT NEW CONSTRUCTION SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE | $5,875,000 Newly constructed 6,000 sqft home is completely customized in every detail offering all of today’s modern and luxurious finishes Home boasts 7 bedrooms, all en-suite with oversize baths, walk in closets, and fabulous ceiling height creating an open and fluid floor plan. French doors lead the entry way opening up onto your spectacular blue stone patio with views of your sun soaked, heated gunite pool, surrounded by sprawling lush lawns. WebID 472837 ROBERT CANBERG 631 816 0998 robertc@nestseekers.com

WATER MILL UPSCALE HOME | $4,250,000 Amazing newly built home of three floors with attention to details and perfect antiques, such as the front door made of cypress and mahogany nine inches thick which was a shop door in Buenos Aires, gracious dining room, chef’s eat in kitchen, sitting room, balcony, pool room, wine room, bar, sauna, amazing movie theatre, 7 bedrooms, dramatic staircases, apartment above the 3 car garage, heat pool with hot tub, full size tennis court and spacious yard. WebID 343885 LINDA KOUZOUJIAN 516 901 1034 lindak@Nestseekers.com

LUXURY MEETS EUROPEAN DESIGN - EAST HAMPTON | $1,575,000 Over 4300 sq. ft. of living space and a resort style backyard, stunning living room with soaring two-story ceiling, complete with fireplace and wood beams. Gourmet kitchen with all of the extras, including earth toned granite counters, spacious island with breakfast bar, stainless appliances, and brick alcoves for accented cooking areas. outdoor patio and heated gunite pool. WebID 403305 JOHN BRADY 631 353 3048 john@nestseekers.com

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Summer in the City

Top: 195 Hudson Street: Exquisite 3-bedroom, 2-bath loft home perfectly finished with a sleek style that is unique to Tribeca, $3,750,000. Randi Fisher 646-757-2543 Middle: 845 United Nations Plaza: A corner convertible 2-bedroom, 2-bath apartment in Trump World Tower with direct views of Central Park, $2,695,000. Adam Lichtin 646-757-2538 Bottom: Central Park South: Spectacular, mint condition 5-bedroom, 7-bath apartment with jaw-dropping views of Central Park from the living room, dining room, master bedroom and library, $60,000/month. Howard Morrel 212-956-4823

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LIST BROKERS

The names to watch in luxury real estate

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THE CORCORAN GROUP To what do you attribute your success in real estate? I was fortunate to begin my real estate career 20 years ago with the right agency.

At Allan Schneider Associates, the biggest and best firm of its era, I saw the best listings and the best advertising and learned from the best brokers. Add to that the unprecedented rise in the second home luxury real estate market, and I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at exactly the right time, and smart enough to capitalize on that great opportunity.

What experience do you bring to the table? What distinguishes you from your competitors? Twenty years of selling, listing and renting properties in one of the most dynamic real estate markets in the world has given me a wonderful perspective to share with my clients and customers. Couple that with one of the largest marketing strategies on the East End, honed over two decades of experience, allowing me to provide extensive exposure for those sellers listing their properties with me.

Gary DePersia

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

What do you like the most about your job? The great diversity of our market ensures that no two days are ever the same. With four full-time assistants working on my behalf, I am seldom in the office, freeing me to service buyers, sellers and renters from Southampton to Montauk and from Sagaponack to Shelter Island. One morning I may be showing my unique $20 million harborfront listing at the end of East Lake Drive in Montauk, and later that same day opening up my spectacular oceanfront listing on three acres on Dune Road in Quogue. My buyers, sellers and renters come from all walks of life, exposing me to as rich a diversity of experiences as I am exposing them to a great variety of Hamptons real estate.

Detail for us a new and exciting listing. James Michael Howard has outdone himself with

the completion of Mecox Farm. This 12,000-square-foot-plus, fully furnished residence spanning three beautifully landscaped acres overlooking Mecox Bay offers a fortunate buyer the opportunity to move immediately into it and enjoy one of the most exquisitely appointed estates on the market today. Water views from many rooms culminate on the roof deck, which affords vistas out past Mecox Bay to the surf breaking along the ocean beach.

What do you see as some of the best values out there (neighborhood or specific listings)? First and foremost, my listing of a 13,000-square-foot residence on three levels of living space anchoring a nearly three-acre estate at 379 Ocean Road in Bridgehampton for $18.5 million stands out as an amazing opportunity for the buyer looking for a complete Hamptons

experience in a central location with easy access to everything. With tennis, pool house and extensive landscaping, this fully furnished, seven-bedroom house with finished lower level, outdoor kitchen and broad stone patios will become the quintessential Hamptons estate for one fortunate buyer.

Tell us something about you that most people don’t know.

Although no one is confusing me with the 1970s Arnold, either early in the morning or late in the afternoon you can generally find me working out at the Sag Harbor Gym, a habit I began in my early teens. Outside of the obvious health benefits, I credit the discipline this imparts with success in all the other endeavors in my life.

In what field other than real estate could you see yourself . . . and why? I can’t.

One day, they will be prying my cell phone out of my cold, dead hands.

“One day, they will be prying my cell phone out of my cold, dead hands.”

3-acre, 13,000 SF+/- Ocean Road 7-bedroom estate with pool, pool house and tennis, Bridgehampton. $18,500,000. WEB# 27073.

James Michael Howard–designed 12,000 SF+/- fully furnished 7-bedroom bay view estate, Water Mill. $24,950,000. WEB# 40700.

Dune Road, 9-bedroom oceanfront estate with pool, cabana, tennis, 3.25 acres 13000 SF, Quogue. $24,950,000. WEB# 34397.

The Corcoran Group 5 1 M ain Street 631.899.0215

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DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE Did you have another career prior to real estate? If so, how has it contributed to your success in real estate? Prior to entering real estate, I worked in the film industry, which ingrained perfectionism, a strong work ethic and the “art of making the deal” into my very being. I learned from the best. My first boss out of graduate school, Dawn Steel, was the very first woman to run a major Hollywood studio. She was already a living legend before her untimely death at age 51. Back then, the film industry was an aggressive boys’ club, and women leaders were extremely rare.

Having successfully lived in a “swimming with sharks” environment for several years prepared me enormously when I chose to transition into Manhattan real estate. I seldom take no for an answer, always persist, strive to be five steps ahead of any situation, prepare for all possible outcomes and understand the needs and desires of my clients. Most important, I get things done no matter how complicated the deal. I’m often told I usually make the impossible possible: hearing clients say that makes me smile.

My greatest satisfaction, when a deal is done, is knowing I’ve made a positive impact in the lives of others and helped guide clients through the complicated maze of Manhattan real estate to a successful outcome of their most important investment.

What word or phrase best describes you professionally?

Clients, attorneys, mortgage brokers and executive management I’ve worked with over the years have described me a number of ways: an excellent negotiator, market savvy, trustworthy, a deal maker, a perfectionist, hard worker, persistent and dedicated. I believe all those attributes can be summed up in one phrase: “I get things done, and done well.”

of Manhattan to buyers and sellers alike.

With good due diligence and strong communication skills, and as a REBNY Certified Negotiation Expert, I love negotiating a deal!

Why do you think you attract so many A-List clients?

An excellent experience always leads clients to refer me to others. The expression “Your referral is the greatest compliment” is one I truly appreciate.

Buyers and sellers always want to feel well provided for, having access to the best information available and first-rate service. Plus, once they find a remarkable broker they can trust, who is honest and fair, there’s no need to use anyone else.

Valerie A. Lettan

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

“I’m often told I usually make the impossible possible: hearing clients say that makes me smile.”

What do you like most about your job? I greatly enjoy interfacing with people from all over and helping them successfully achieve their real estate goals. Working with people from foreign countries is also a joy. I speak French fluently and have a strong understanding of several other languages.

Since I’ve sold throughout the Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Midtown, Chelsea, etc., I am a solid resource for all

What advice would you give someone looking to buy real estate? The process of buying in Manhattan cannot be compared to that anywhere else in the world. A NYC real estate purchase can be highly involved (whether in a co-op or high-profile condo building) and most buyers are surprised that the sale process requires board application packages, which can be very work-intensive and feel highly intrusive. Depending on the building, a condo or co-op purchase can take months, even if it’s a cash deal, and one must be prepared to divulge all financials. Buyers should realize this is the standard process and it’s strictly confidential. Everyone who owns in Manhattan has gone through this. It is truly an accomplishment to own property in Manhattan, and one that buyers should be very proud of. An investment in NYC, no matter what the state of the market, always grows in value over the years. Many people have done much better investing in NYC real estate than in the stock market.

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THE CORCORAN GROUP Roberts and built on almost 5 waterfront acres and 358’ on Sagg Pond. Estate includes dramatic 30’ ceilings with floor to ceiling glass walls looking out over water views. Ten BR, 12 BA, 2 story guest wing, huge screened in porch, 1,800 bottle wine cellar by David Spon, 4 car garage and 3 fireplaces. Latest technology: Lutron lighting, Crestron, Jandy pool system, security system with cameras, back-up generator, geothermal HVAC. Incredible grounds designed by landscape architect Edmund Hollander. Gunite pool and spa with electric cover, pool house, all weather tennis court and much more. A unique first offering which can never be reproduced!

What is it about you that attracts so many A-list clients?

Clients want the very best: the most experienced, knowledgeable, professional and attentive agent. I feel that that is what I bring to the table: 27 years of experience in this market, during which I’ve consistently been at the very top of my profession. I’m straightforward, believe in total transparency and clients love the fact that I am a workaholic and a perfectionist.

What would you recommend to those trying to sell their home? What are the little things they can do that really go a long way? Price is most important. You don’t want to chase the market. Price competitively. I’d much rather you turn down offers than not receive any. Presentation of your home is

Which are your professional accomplishments that you are proudest of? I’m proudest of consistently being ranked in the top 15 Nationwide, year after year, by the Wall Street Journal. I was honored to be ranked #2 broker nationwide in 2012.

Also, being Corcoran’s #1 agent this year and from 2008 through 2013 is a big accomplishment.

Susan Breitenbach

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

Only Hamptons Broker Ranked #1 for Two Consecutive Years by WSJ also important. Fresh paint, decluttering, updated appliances and clean rooms are all important. If you have a new home or one that is unfurnished, it is extremely helpful to have it staged or furnished.

What current listing are you particularly proud of?

A masterpiece designed by Haynes-

Sagg Pond Modern—Bridgehampton. 15,000-square-foot masterpiece on 3 waterfront acres $35,000,000, plus 1.8 acres room for 10,000-square-foot home, pool, pool house and tennis for that dream compound at $43,000,000. WEB# 49013

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BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS What do you attribute your success in real estate to? My past building experience and speculative projects have always helped with my credibility and finding deals throughout the Hamptons. I am always eager to invest in a development project.

What phrase best describes your professional style?

“Just get it done.”

How and when did you get your start in real estate?

My real estate career started when I purchased my first home after a flood in 1998. Once renovated, it sold in 2001, where I almost doubled my money.

For those selling a home, what are the little things they can do that make a big difference?

Inexpensive repairs like paint and landscape always gets you a dollar-for-dollar return.

Always avoid costly repairs.

Christopher J. Burnside Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

What advice would you give someone looking to buy real estate in your area right now?

Keep looking for the right property, and if your broker is not a good match, call me.

Here, Christopher J. Burnside shares details on Two Trees Estates, a new and exciting development he is representing.

Brown Harris Stevens, the exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, has announced the launch of 12 new estates on Two Trees Lane in Bridgehampton. Located beside the iconic Two Trees Farm, the 115-acre

What do you like to do in your spare time? Water-skiing, boating and flying for entertainment. I also tend to tinker quite a bit on small projects.

property is well known as the longtime home of the Bridgehampton Polo Club.

The project’s developer, David Walentas, founder of Two Trees Management Company, is widely regarded for transforming New York City’s Dumbo from a deserted waterfront to one of the most sought-after communities. The Walentas family, the visionaries behind the project, will ensure that the newly constructed,

state-of-the-art homes are sold to discerning buyers who treasure artful construction, luxury, exclusivity, privacy and the natural beauty of Two Trees.

The first completed house of the initial four is 4 Two Trees Lane, a brilliant design

by Fleetwood & McMullan, Architects.

The firm has more than 30 years of experience preserving the aesthetic beauty of the Hamptons through their iconic architecture, rooted in the rich vernacular of the Shingle style. Beautifully sited on nearly two acres, this new manor home captures the essence of country living and the sophisticated lines sought by today’s most discerning buyers. Two additional Fleetwood & McMullan designs are currently under construction.

For the fourth house, architect Eric Woodard brings skillful manipulation of form and function with close attention to detail.

Each of the country estate homes feature a grand formal living room with a large central masonry fireplace and French doors that lead to outdoor terraces surrounded by countryside views.

Additional amenities include a paneled elevator, finished lower level, attached, heated three-car garage, 50´ heated pool, spa, pool house and tennis court.

Of the 12 properties, 11 home sites range from approximately 1.8 acres to more than 3 acres of property, and one parcel offers 9.7 acres of open space. All 12 lots are facing the iconic horse farm, paddocks and stables, and 5 include water frontage on Long Pond.

Architectural renderings of three homes currently under construction on Two Trees Lane, Bridgehampton.

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Two Trees Estates Living â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am honored to be a part of this incredible project with both historic and aesthetic importance. From its renowned developers and architects to its storied provenance, the project is already generating enormous attention, and we are overwhelmed by interest in these incredible residential properties.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christopher J. Burnside 4 Two Trees Lane, the first completed home in the private enclave.

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BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS What are some of the best values out there now? In my daily adventures, I occasionally come across properties that have been overlooked.

They may have been overpriced originally or poorly marketed, and may have had some flaws or specific dated qualities.

The trick is to be able to view the property with imagination and see past the current furniture with new paint, flooring and possible kitchen/bath work. There are many homes that are passed over because they haven’t been updated, are cluttered or poorly furnished or have the wrong color combinations. But these projects are fun to work on. I had to tell one client after the 60th home she wanted me to redesign that we should spend time on the ones that work for her and not turn this into a reality design show. She laughed and agreed.

What is the best part about your job? I am fortunate. I love architecture and landscape, so all day and every day I get to see the best inspiration and design. I am constantly impressed with the quality and attention to detail of the homes in the Hamptons.

The world’s best interior decorators, architects and landscape architects design these magnificent properties, ranging from modern glass structures with wonderful open spaces to classic shingle homes, waterfront homes and lush hedged garden properties. I get to say, “This is my job—how lucky am I!”

Why make an investment in the Hamptons? Some of my clients are looking to make a smart, long-term investment with their extra money. I help them to add real estate to their portfolio in an understandable and intelligent way.

This type of investment comes with the perk of having your own place in the Hamptons to use off-season and down the line!

What distinguishes you from others in your field? I have been in this business for 31 years. I have seen ups, downs and flat markets, and after all this time and the thousands of clients I have worked with, the philosophy I impart is that although this may be your home or vacation property, there is no reason why it shouldn’t also be a great investment. One never truly knows when they will decide to sell their property, so why not maximize and make the best investment possible?

Robert M. Nelson

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

“I am constantly impressed with the quality and attention to detail of the homes in the Hamptons.”

Stunning Southampton Waterfront with Dock.

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What is unique about you?

I always see the potential in a house.

I love to walk around and notice the outdoor space invisible from the home where a window or door would help bring the outdoor vision in, or the opening of a wall or garden vista to maximize the spaces. This genuine interest is very helpful when uncovering properties that might be overlooked.

What‘s your favorite way to spend your free time? I am an avid equestrian. I grew up jumping and showing dressage. I ride every morning at 8 a.m. I am fortunate to ride every day. It takes me back to my youth, and I get to think about the horse and nature.

After my training session I take a long walk or gallop down to the lake and say to myself, “What a beautiful place I live in.”

Magnificent Bay Front Property, Southampton.

WEB# 32838.

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ENGEL & VÖLKERS What professional accomplishment are you most proud of? I was very proud to have been selected as a member of the Private Office at Engel & Völkers, the leading global luxury real estate and lifestyle firm. Of the 6,000 Engel & Völkers sales advisors in more than 600 offices across 39 countries, I am one of only 30 designated as a Private Office Advisor, elected to serve the needs of the firm’s highest net worth clients. In addition to our renowned yacht brokerage division, Engel & Völkers recently announced the launch of Engel & Völkers Aviation, which will provide sales and chartering services for business aircraft and private jets worldwide. It’s a pleasure to be able to offer so many distinct services to our clients.

What would you recommend to an overseas buyer? First, hire a broker with experience in representing international clients. I find that some buyers go directly to the listing broker—either for convenience or with the impression that they will get a “deal.” It’s a mistake. The listing broker represents the seller, not you!

Second, hire an experienced lawyer.

How a foreigner owns property in the United States can have major tax consequences. We have extensive experience working with international buyers and can refer them to trusted accountants as well as to real estate and tax lawyers who specialize in advising international clients.

Did you have another career prior to real estate? If so, how has that given you an edge in real estate? I was formerly a Trusts and Estates lawyer at a well-known New York law firm. The experience of advising high net worth individuals and families on important legal matters has proved enormously beneficial to my real

Christine Miller Martin

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, NYRS Private Office Advisor

“It’s a pleasure to be able to offer so many distinct services to our clients.” estate career and valuable to my clients.

For example, I am amazed at how often buyers on the other side of my sales transactions are asked how they wish to own the property at the closing. This conversation needs to happen well before. How one titles a property can make an enormous difference in a whole host of issues down the road.

You have added to your team.

How do your collaborative efforts benefit your clients? The addition of Susanne Rhow and Deanna Lloyd provides a meaningful advantage to me and to our clients. Susanne has a strong international luxury marketing background and was a Vice President in the Trusts & Estates and Private Clients Group at Sotheby’s auction house.

Deanna worked in public relations at

Ralph Lauren. She loves the business, is incredibly driven and has tremendous interpersonal skills. Together, we provide our clients with a full array of expertise, including the strongest estates background of any real estate team out there. Additionally, we understand the international luxury market, and we hope, add some humor and fun to what is often a very stressful process.

Anything new to share? We continue to develop our relationships in the trusts and estates and private wealth communities, where we have created a niche practice in transforming and selling estate properties. Most recently, we organized our second annual “Women & Wealth” panel discussion co-hosted with Bessemer Trust, which was extremely well attended and received. This fall, we plan to co-host an event on financial tips for young women at the MILLY NYC boutique on 73rd and Madison, one of my favorite stores. I feel very strongly about increasing financial literacy and independence among women.

What are your plans for the summer? I am hoping to steal away to my place on Shelter Island as much as I can. I have a wedding in Colombia and am looking forward to traveling to Mallorca, Spain, to visit the private finca of Christian Völkers, Engel & Völkers founder and Co-CEO.

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STRIBLING & ASSOCIATES in my neighborhood of West Chelsea.

She is revolutionary in whatever she designs—not only in architecture, but design in any form.

What professional accomplishment(s) are you most proud of? While founding Zollinger & Associates and being named #1 broker in West Chelsea both in 2011 and 2013 for number and volume of condo deals were major accomplishments, I am proudest of my work while at Related Sales on One Madison, Superior Ink, Astor Place and my home, the Caledonia. I recently made the move to Stribling & Associates not only to focus on my resale business but to work with developers from pitch to close. My first week at the company we made a successful pitch for an upcoming development that will be very exciting.

To what do you attribute your success in real estate?

What distinguishes you from your competitors?

This August I celebrate 16 years in residential real estate. I have been very fortunate from the start, working every aspect of the deal from buyers, sellers and developers to coops, condos and new development, as well as having run my own real estate firm for three years. My success comes from a strong work ethic and a willingness to go the extra mile and not be afraid of long hours. I started as an assistant to two top brokers who instilled in me a strong foundation not only in the art of the deal but in the ethics as well.

Are there any causes you’re very passionate about? From the moment I viewed the model of the High Line at the MOMA exhibit in early 2006, I became a major supporter.

It embodies the true definition of

Eric L. Zollinger

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

“My success comes from a strong work ethic and willingness to go the extra mile and not be afraid of long hours.”

What do you like the most about your job? It is the spontaneity and the people. No two days are ever the same—that is what keeps you on your toes. Also the people—both in the industry and clients.

If money were no object, what property for sale in your area would you buy . . . and why? If money were no object, hands down it would be the main penthouse residence of the upcoming Zaha Hadid project

recycle/reuse, and it is remarkable how in today’s world where nothing gets accomplished due to politics, this amazing park was created and has become a world-class destination.

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S O T H E B Y ’ S I N T E R N A T I O N A L R E A LT Y What is the forecast for Hamptons real estate in 2015?

2014 was the year of the $100 million megawatt sales. Three of the top five largest sales worldwide were in the Hamptons ($147 million), Greenwich ($120 million) and New York ($100 million). There were also several other Hampton sales in the $50 to $100 million range. Not bad for a few “weekender” summer homes. One can almost understand these prices for high-end properties in major cities and global economic hubs, but when they happen in a secondary vacation home market, that speaks volumes about the values in the Hamptons.

This year, the Hamptons market piggybacked on the stunning 2014 numbers, which were strong across all segments of the market. A tough winter made for a slow start in 2015. Clients literally could not even get into most houses because the driveways were impassable with ice and snow, but as the area thawed out, sales picked up when buyers witnessed sellers getting close to or above asking prices.

With inventory dwindling, mortgage rates still low and values on the rise, buyers who can afford a $1 million fixer-upper or a $40 million trophy estate are viewing the Hamptons as a safe investment they can actually enjoy. What about record-breaking sales in the $50 to $100 million range in 2015? Stay tuned, but all indicators are pointing to a great year. As the economy stabilizes and the global stock market indices continue to report record highs, the super-wealthy are asking for—and getting—their prices.

Today, inventory at the top of the market is limited, so when a gorgeous waterfront property becomes available, it tends to go quickly.

What’s your secret weapon?

I actually have two. I am calm under pressure even during the toughest transactions. When negotiations become contentious or frustrating—or when circumstances suddenly change—my clients find me to be direct, factual, positive and communicative. And I never stop working. Trading emails at 2:00 a.m. and then again at 6:00 a.m. is normal for me.

What gives you your edge?

Simply said: 15 years of experience in this market. Real estate transactions can be a minefield. You can’t learn about the obstacles from a textbook or licensing class. It takes years to work through hundreds of scenarios, develop relationships with local experts and know who can best advance a transaction at just the precise moment.

Christina Galesi

Senior Global Real Estate Advisor Licensed Salesperson

“All indicators point to a great year. The superwealthy are asking for—and getting—their prices.”

Detail for us some of the new and exciting listings you are currently representing. This month, I am very excited to be launching one of the best-kept secret properties in the Hamptons. Chauncey Close is an extraordinary 7-acre compound on Georgica Pond in East Hampton on a private peninsula overlooking Georgica Beach and the ocean. It is the location of locations. Never offered before, it’s one of those rarefied “once in a lifetime” properties with incredible nature, take-your-breath-away views and ultimate privacy and exclusivity. The asking price is $46 million, but when you are there, many say it’s priceless.

What is it that you like about being a broker in the Hamptons? First, I meet the most interesting people from all over the world—CEOs and financial executives, artists and authors, cultural icons, and thought leaders in business, economics and science.

Second, I’m tasked and trusted to help them buy or sell properties that balance their desires across privacy, presence and price. Third—and this is both challenging and rewarding—I have to be continuously innovative and resourceful—getting the right experts in the right sequence to take the right steps at the right times toward a successful transaction while maintaining the equilibrium of all involved. Perhaps most meaningful to me is the satisfaction I get at a closing, when a clients will say “Thank you for making this easy for me.” And lastly, I get to do it all from one of the most beautiful places in the world!

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DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE To what do you attribute your success in real estate? I sell what I love and love what I sell. I live the very lifestyle that I am selling—and have done so for the past two decades. I like to think that I have acquired encyclopedic knowledge of all that is “the Wests”—a term I’ve coined to refer to the premier and highly coveted neighborhoods, West Tribeca, West Village and West Chelsea.

These historic neighborhoods have stunning views of the Hudson River and unfettered access to the Hudson River Park as their backyard.

new development history, 150 Charles has been one of my most rewarding projects—I have never seen anything like it.

Detail for us a current exciting listing. Without a doubt, 2 North Moore Street. It’s a townhouse, a penthouse and a loft all in one.

Sprawling over 11,000 square feet and at almost 70 feet wide, 2 North Moore is literally almost three times the width of most urban private homes, located at the historic corner of North Moore and West Broadway—the most intimate location in all of Tribeca. Its connection to the street is chic, unique and anonymous.

This magical property has every imaginable amenity: spectacular entertaining spaces, loft-height ceilings, private garage, a 50-foot indoor pool and glorious outdoor spaces. Peerless and perfect, 2 North Moore is the most stunning private home I have ever seen.

In your opinion, what sets these neighborhoods apart?

With stunning sunsets nightly, and a quality of life exclusive to this “magical mile,” there is simply no other way to live like this in Manhattan. The incessant demand for these neighborhoods far exceeds the limited inventory available as well, evidenced in the record-breaking three-week sellout of 92 units at 150 Charles Street.

People were waiting for the building for seven years, but the magic of 150 Charles was that the developers listened to what we told them the market was looking for, and not only did they deliver it, they exceeded expectations and never stopped asking “How do we make it better?”

What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?

As the fastest sellout in Manhattan’s

What advice would you give someone looking to buy real estate in your area now? Buy a slightly larger apartment at the top of your budget, because it’s better to take a little reach now than to chase the market later.

Darren Sukenik

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

“I sell what I love and love what I sell. I live the very lifestyle that I am selling—and have done so for the past two decades.”

West Village Luxury at Morton Square.

Urban Mansion at 2 North Moore Street.

NoHo/Nolita Designer Loft.

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BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS To what do you attribute your success in real estate? My work ethic and a love of the area.

producer of the East Hampton brokerage at BHS for five years, including last year.

What are some creative things you’ve done to attract buyers to a listing? Any success stories you can share as a result of that? I have staged some of my listings myself, and have also helped decorate a few.

Why do you think you attract so many A-list clients? I follow through, answer the phone and treat everyone with the respect they deserve.

What experience do you bring to the table? What distinguishes you from your competitors?

I have been down many roads of negotiation; I am a good listener and have good instincts: listening is important.

Give an example of a way you’ve gone over and beyond the call of duty to make the sale. I just had a property I have had on and off the market since 2006 sell. I helped them get updated certificate of occupancy, which required closing open building permits from 10 years ago, re-vegetating, and staging the house.

What do you like the most about your job? The properties and lifestyle here compare to nothing better.

We are surrounded by beauty, and there are so many talented people. It is exciting.

Are there any causes you’re very passionate about? Anything to help children and the elderly. I support cancer research and animal causes.

What word or phrase describes you professionally? Experienced, knowledgeable, and caring.

Did you have another career prior to real estate? If so how has it contributed to your success in real estate? We had a landscaping and decorating business.

What do you like to do in your spare time? Swimming and water sports, I love to swim in the bay.

Martha Gundersen

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

For those selling a home, what are the little things they can do that make a big difference?

Declutter and depersonalize your home.

Freshly painted rooms are inviting. Curb appeal is important too. Make sure you have a current certificate of occupancy and survey.

Detail for us a new and exciting listing. “Windmill Crossing” in Water Mill will be an extraordinary home in terms of architecture and style.

What do you see as some of the best values out there (neighborhood or specific

“The properties and lifestyle here compare to nothing better. We are surrounded by beauty, and there are so many talented people. It is exciting.” listings)? Amagansett North, Water Mill North. Both areas have great deals.

What one property are you representing that you’re shocked hasn’t sold? Why do you think that is? 252 Bluff Road.

I think timing was an issue. Now it’s the finest new construction so close to the beach in Amagansett and of A+ quality.

If money were no object, what property for sale in your area would you buy . . . and why?

41 Halsey, or Mecox Farms.

James Michael Howard is a genius, and his homes are extraordinary.

What professional accomplishments are you most proud of? I have been the top

Describe your perfect day (or night) in your area.

Watching sunset with friends after a sunny summer day in the Hamptons.

Tell us something about you that most people don’t know.

I grew up in a big family and my mom had an open door for everyone. She was like Eleanor Roosevelt.

In what field other than real estate could you see yourself . . . and why? Building and designing new homes, because I have seen so many amazing homes and have access to so much talent. I know who to call.

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DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE “People and deals are always on my mind. Once I meet a customer or client, I feel a great sense of responsibility.”

What word, or phrase, best describes you professionally?

Tenacious. My husband says that I’m like a dog with a bone. I recently closed on a $40 million deal with a customer with whom I worked with for seven years.

The tortoise crossed the finish line. The following week, I put an apartment on

the market for $600,000 which sold, above ask, in a bidding war.

If money were no object, what property for sale in your area would you buy . . . and why?

Hands down, 36 Central Park South.

Although still in development, this is one of the most anticipated new buildings coming to the market. I know the team behind it and have confidence it will be one of New York City’s most iconic buildings.

What do you like to do in your spare time? Spare time?

What’s that?!

Shari Scharfer-Rollins Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

How and when did you get a start in real estate? I grew up with real estate in my blood. My mother was an award-winning broker in New Jersey.

When other mothers were picking up their daughters after school to take them shopping, my mother would take me to open houses. After spending 25 years in the television industry as a producer, comedy writer and executive, I took a year off after I married my husband. It turned out retirement was not in my DNA, but real estate was. When a friend told me that she was going to get her real estate license, to me, that was a eureka moment! I passed the test, and continued on. She, unfortunately, did not.

To what do you attribute your success in real estate? Real estate is a 24/7 business. From the outside looking in it looks easy. Nothing could be further from the truth. People and deals are always on my mind. Once I meet a customer or client, I feel a great sense of responsibility. I care greatly about making sure all of their needs are being met and they have access to me and the most up-to-date market information. That means I sleep with one eye open, which occassionally freaks out my husband. One of my happiest moments was when I discovered Wi-Fi on a plane!

Current Townhouse Listing: 116 East 65th Street. $17,500,000.

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BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS To what do you attribute your success in real estate?

An unbelievable work ethic, attention to detail and excellent communication and negotiation skills, plus I love what I do.

Why do you think you attract so many A-list clients? I provide the expertise and high level of professional service they expect. I have a reputation for being discreet and for producing results.

I am always willing to go the extra mile for my clients. Once a client has worked with me, I’m referred to their friends and acquaintances. Nothing expands one’s A-list business faster than recommendations from other A-list clients.

What experience do you bring to the table? I have participated in more than a billion dollars in luxury sales and rentals over the last decade.

What distinguishes you from your competitors? My ability to very quickly understand the personalities involved in a transaction and adjust accordingly to create the perfect match.

Mark J. Baron

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

“I have participated in over a billion dollars in luxury sales and rentals over the last decade.”

In what field other than real estate could you see yourself . . . and why? There is no other field: I was born to do this. I have tried living the dream of being on my sailboat full-time in the Caribbean and learned very quickly how much the Hamptons real estate business has become an integral part of my psyche and how much I love the excitement of making high-end real estate deals.

What word or phrase best describes you professionally?

Tenacious! Highly effective.

Are there any causes you’re very passionate about?

Creating potable drinking water through desalination—a shortage of fresh water is one of the most serious global issues we face.

What do you like to do in your spare time? Blue water sailing, scuba diving, yoga and traveling.

New, Custom Estate in Bridgehampton with farm and ocean views. $10,995,000.

WEB# 42120.

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TOWN RESIDENTIAL To what do you attribute your success in real estate? My in-depth understanding of not only the real estate market, but the day-to-day lifestyle of New Yorkers as well, allows me to always find the right fit for each person I work with. —Claudia Saez-Fromm Why do you think you attract so many A-List clients? Our clientele come from the friendships we make along the way as parents and as professionals. For example, I have been fortunate to work out at Tracy Anderson Method in Tribeca, where I have developed an amazing support system of empowering woman who would do anything for one another. Real estate is not only knowing about the market and having superior negotiating skills but also about developing relationships of trust and value. Privacy is a golden standard when dealing with financials and certain circumstances that bring people to purchasing or selling.

—Claudia Saez-Fromm

Claudia Saez-Fromm

(neighborhood or specific listings)? Tribeca/Lower Manhattan is changing in a very exciting way. The new developments such as 30 Park Place, 111 Murray and 100 Barclay are going to be great investments. You can also get

Representative, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Mark David Fromm

Representative, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker What experience do you bring to the table? What distinguishes you from your competitors? I am able to appreciate every angle of the business as I was the chief operating officer and co-owner of a successful real estate venture for 10 years prior to joining the amazing team at TOWN Residential.

—Claudia Saez-Fromm What do you like the most about your job? Every day is different. Each buyer or seller has a story, and I love to learn the details of each chapter so I can deliver above their expectations.

Each new transaction allows me to continue to learn, to grow and improve how I can help people. Nothing is more rewarding than turning a client into a new friend and continuing to nurture that relationship. —Mark David Fromm

What TV or movie title sums you up your professional style?

The Pursuit of Happyness —Claudia Saez-Fromm For those selling a home, what are the little things they can do that make a big difference?

PRICING! The market is amazing for the homes that are priced accurately. With information easily accessible, sellers have to be realistic as to what their homes are worth and not be swayed by brokers who intentionally price high to win the listing. The last home we listed, we staged and decluttered it, and now have multiple offers within just two weeks due to our accurate pricing and marketing strategy. It took months to help the sellers become comfortable with the true

“Real estate is not only knowing about the market and having superior negotiating skills but also about developing relationships of trust and value.” value of their home—but they are now excited buyers ready to take the leap on their next new home.

Detail for us a new and exciting listing. We recently listed 111 West 13th Street—it is a once-ina-lifetime opportunity to own a true masterpiece on a gorgeous, tree-lined street in the heart of the Greenwich Village Historic District What do you see as some of the best values out there

great resale deals east of Church Street.

It may not be there yet, but all of the new developments like 56 Leonard will be changing the way we look at homes east of West Broadway.

If money were no object, what property for sale in your area would you buy . . . and why?

We would purchase the PH at the Four Seasons at 30 Park Place because I know it would increase in value by the time it’s completed in 2016, and the views are beyond spectacular!

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DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?

That I became Douglas Elliman’s #1 agent in the Hamptons in 2013 and #2 agent in the Hamptons in 2014.

I love the Hamptons, having been a resident here for more than 10 years. My job provides me with the opportunity to live year-round in this beautiful place.

What word, or phrase, best describes you professionally?

Dedication and hard work.

To what do you attribute your success in real estate? I have been involved in real estate for two decades, as a homeowner, a landlord, an investor and a sales agent for both buyers and sellers. So I believe my success stems from my experience in understanding various perspectives and applying them to the specifics of the situation at hand.

In what field other than real estate could you see yourself, and why? Private equity. I really enjoy “the deal”—the negotiation and the “successful execution.” It is that component of working in real estate that intrigues me the most. In addition, over the years, I have come across so many clients in various businesses (successful entrepreneurs, developers and clients in Wall Street and industry), so my Rolodex is quite expansive. Therefore, I think I could apply the skills and experience I have gained through bringing “buyers and sellers” together on a larger platform, bringing businesses the needed capital for their growing needs.

Why do you think you attract so many A-list clients? It’s about my relationships with my clients as well as other brokers, both of whom provide a significant referral base, and those relationships contribute to an expanded referral base.

What do you like most about your job? The satisfaction of finding the “right fit, the right home” for my clients—be it a rental or purchase, be it a primary residence or a vacation home.

Erica Grossman

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

“I love the Hamptons, having been a resident here for more than 10 years.

My job provides me with the opportunity to live year-round in this beautiful place.”

Grand waterfront estate On the Bluff in North Haven: $10,150,000.

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TOWN RESIDENTIAL What neighborhood is a special place to you? Tribeca is the only part of New York City that feels equal parts big-city excitement and secret neighborhood. Whether I’m riding my bike through Hudson River Park, walking my kids to school, coaching baseball on the Warren Street fields or eating outdoors at Estancia, I constantly bump into friends who are excited to chat about what’s going on in the ’hood.

You wouldn’t call it a small-town vibe though—the unique architecture, cobblestone streets and vibrant creative atmosphere make clear you couldn’t be anywhere but NYC. Plus, all the newly refurbished loft buildings are ideal for the ever-growing families who want to stay in the city but need a little more breathing space.

Why do you think you attract so many A-List clients? I have an incredible referral network. I have worked with many high-profile people, from Oscar-nominated celebrities, to Grammy Award–winning musicians, to Fortune 500 executives. I work efficiently and am a fiercely loyal advocate for my clients—I take great pride in always going above and beyond for my clients while keeping both my and their lives private. You will never see my name appear on Page Six!

Danny Davis

Representative, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Tell us about something new and exciting you’re currently representing. I have several properties on the market right now along with a few new and exciting listings coming soon. I have a sunny and spacious two-bedroom in Chelsea at 151 West 17thth Street, listed at $2,798,000 for less than $1,700 per square foot!

I also have a large one-bedroom with home office in Tribeca at 92 Laight Street, listed at $2,598,000. The incredible water views of the Hudson and beautiful sunset are breathtaking.

The unobstructed views alone can turn a bad day into a state of bliss! In the next few weeks, I will be listing a stunning 3,200-square-foot condo loft in a boutique building in prime SoHo on Wooster Street. The property will be priced just under $9,000,000. I am also very excited about two 25-foot townhouses coming on the market this fall—a renovated three family house which easily converts to a single family.

Perfect for an investor or end user looking for a gorgeous garden triplex, with two income producing rentals.

Seeing is believing!

“Tribeca is the only part of New York City that feels equal parts big-city excitement and secret neighborhood.”

92 Laight Street, #5B—“Stunning Sunset with Unobstructed Jersey and Water Views.”

104 Wooster Street, #4S—“Artful Design and Immaculate Modern Details.”

151 West 17th Street #4H—“Less than $1,700 Per Square Foot for Sunny, Spacious Loft.”

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SAUNDERS & ASSOCIATES What experience do you bring to the table? What distinguishes you from your competitors?

Uniquely, we have more than 30 years of combined experience working in the full spectrum of the real estate industry. We ourselves have been buyers, sellers, landlords, designers, developers and builders of more than $150 million in real estate.

Our experience in architecture, building, renovating, zoning and investment gives us a tremendously broad perspective and a unique ability to not only spot value, but also to add value in transactions.

What have you done recently?

Last year, we were involved in 22 transactions, totaling $60 million, triple the amount of the previous year; 9 were exclusives, and 6 achieved record prices on their streets. We’ve also designed and constructed two recent Hamptons Designer Showhouses. We are currently designing, building and marketing two projects: a 10,000-square-foot Designer Showhouse in Sag Harbor and a 12,000-square-foot waterfront home in Bridgehampton. And we have a number of real estate exclusives that range in price from $850,000 to $11.5 million.

previously with two separate agents.

They listened to our recommendations and trusted us to oversee certain improvements. After the work was finished three weeks later, we were able to create multiple-party interest, and only one month after that we sold their home near full ask.

Frank Bodenchak

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Dawn Bodenchak

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Did you have another career prior to real estate? If so, how has it contributed to your success in real estate? Actually, both of us held highly analytical positions on Wall Street prior to working full-time in real estate. [Frank} was a managing director at Morgan Stanley and founder of a hedge fund that invested in equities and real estate. [Dawn] worked in banking analysis and sales. Many of our customers have worked on Wall Street. Our backgrounds allow us to

“We bring an analytical perspective, backed by financial analysis, to help clients make the best decisions in what sometimes can be an emotional process.”

Why do you think you attract so many A-List clients? Referrals.

We treat every client’s listing as if it’s our own personal property. And whether that requires 25 open houses, front-page advertising, or helping a client improve their home prior to selling, we are always open to the work required. Our best source of new business is from clients who have used us previously.

$11,500,000 Pondfront with Dock in Bridgehampton

Give an example of how you have gone beyond the call of duty to make a sale. Perhaps our most gratifying listing was referred to us for someone who had their house on the market unsuccessfully for a year

identify our clients’ needs and to speak their language. We bring an analytical perspective, backed by financial analysis, to help clients make the best decisions in what sometimes can be an emotional process. We bring combined experience that many other brokers cannot offer.

Do you miss Wall Street? Of course, we miss some of the excitement of the financial markets. But our family absolutely loves living in the Hamptons, and we would miss being involved in Hamptons architecture, development and real estate sales far more. For us, it’s the most gorgeous setting in the world to work.

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TOWN RESIDENTIAL Why do you think you attract so many A-List clients? Many real estate agents think they are selling an apartment. It is easy to walk into a showing and just list the property’s features. My approach is more strategic: I sell a luxury lifestyle. My A-list clients trust me. I am more than just an agent to them—I am their trusted adviser and confidant. The end result is the sale of an apartment, but the relationship endures.

Many have become friends of mine and refer me to other A-list clients. Above all, especially for my celebrity and high-networth clients, the key word is discretion.

That is what I practice and that is why clients work with me.

Did you have another career prior to real estate? If so, how has it contributed to your success in real estate? I am from New York, but I used to live in Los Angeles and worked in the film industry. (I was an actor and I still even have my SAG card.)

During an audition, you are playing a character, but what you are really doing is selling yourself and showing who you are as a person. It’s the same thing when selling real estate, especially in the NYC luxury condo market. It goes back to branding that image. Anybody can read a script, but when you make a connection with someone, that’s when a character jumps off the page. That’s what I do with all my clients, I don’t want to sell them, I want to connect with them.

What are some creative things you’ve done to attract buyers to a listing? Any success stories you can share as a result of that? I had a beautiful $7,750,000 listing at 15 Union Square West that was on the market with two different firms for nearly a year before I took it over.

I wanted to make a big splash when

Gannon Forrester

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relisting it. I enlisted Interior Marketing Group (IMG) to stage the property, and through research learned that the building had actually been the original Tiffany headquarters, which gave us a great idea. We threw a huge “Cocktails at Tiffany’s” party, complete with Audrey Hepburn’s picture on the invitations, and blue cupcakes and cocktails. It was a very successful event that showed off the space and brought high-quality buyers, brokers and guests. That week, I secured three competing bids and went to contract.

“My A-list clients trust me.

I am more than just an agent to them, I am their trusted adviser and confidant.”

To what do you attribute your success in real estate?

I am relentless and resourceful. I make sure my clients know that I will not stop working for them, and I also have a great team behind me. I think of my real estate business as a collaborative effort and make sure that my clients are armed with every resource available to them, including my network of the top real estate attorneys, financial advisors, tax experts and mortgage brokers, as well as the senior management team at TOWN, and even a personal concierge for them through Town Attaché.

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DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE What experience do you bring to the table? My business is a real reflection of my own determination to be the best that I can be. I have been in the real estate business for more than 20 years, and I have discovered that to be successful you must be as forthright and accountable as you can possibly be. My goal is to be the best agent in terms of service, and in my experience honesty, knowledge of the area and giving the best service possible are the keys to being a success in real estate.

I worked in New York City at the Douglas Elliman Upper East Side offices in the 1990s, and that is where I began my real estate career. Manhattan is not an easy place to learn to sell real estate, I found. However, through the strong support of my company and after many years of working there, I managed to take away more solid real estate experience than I would have garnered anywhere else.

In what other field other than real estate do you see yourself . . . and why? I have an interest in the field of “farm to table” foods with an emphasis on whole and raw organic foods. The local farmers are in tune with the current trends in eating raw, whole and fresh foods right out of the garden. I have discovered several sources of fresh produce that is raised organically, and the fact that it is local produce is a plus! I have a plan to pursue the whole foods business in a very small way; I have developed an organic, low-sugar and nutritionally rich dessert that will be available at local farm stands in the very near future . . . watch for “Paula’s Puddings,” coming soon!

Paula Hathaway

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

“I get referrals based upon my knowledge of this area, both its history as well as the little-known attractions that people only find out about through a ‘local’ point of view.”

What distinguishes you from your competitors? From the psychology of the deal to the intricate workings of relationships with the buying and selling public, I learned the most basic “system” that I use to this day—it’s more than just making a deal.

It is all about what you do with and for your clients, and how accountable and forthright you are when you do it!

What are some of the creative things you do to attract buyers to your “niche” area? I have made an effort to become as expert as I can with the history of the Hamptons. As a result, I have a following of readers on my blog as well a roster of buyers unmatched by most other real estate agents. I get referrals based upon my knowledge of this area, both its history as well as the little-known attractions that people only find out about through a “local” point of view.

Great renovation in the heart of Southampton Village. 4 Bedroom Cape with Pool and 2 Car Garage—An Impeccable Home Near All! $2,995,000

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TOWN RESIDENTIAL Why do you think you attract so many A-List clients? A good ear, diplomacy, discretion, tact, great with an entourage, and being an excellent mediator! A-list clients don’t have the luxury of time to walk through fifty apartments, so as with all of my clients, I hone in on their specific criteria and don’t waste their time. Knowing which buildings will accept and serve the client well is equally important; this comes from years of product and market knowledge.

their draperies from the ceiling; this gives the illusion of height. My pet peeve is hanging artwork too high, and that’s an easy fix. Lastly, when I am representing a loft or a self-managed coop, I always suggest having an inspection done by an engineer before bringing the property to market to avoid any hidden surprises.

What word describes your professional style? Persistent. I am a terrier with a chew toy when it comes to negotiating on behalf of my clients, obtaining the very best deal for my buyer or seller is where I excel.

What is something that most people don’t know about you?

I was Miss Santa Barbara Children’s Opera. I also love to entertain. As an avid chef and seasoned hostess, nothing gives me as much pleasure as throwing a dinner party with great friends, old and new, enjoying each other’s company.

And of course, my healthy and delicious cooking! My father used to call me Perle Mesta. Those who know me call me the “Baking Broker” . . . I also read medical journals like pulp fiction. Truly.

What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?

I would say I share equal pride finding the appropriate $500,000 studio for a first-time buyer as I do in finding the perfect $10 million dollar townhouse for a more experienced buyer. Handing keys to a new homeowner for a property that meets their needs and exceeds their expectations is a truly rewarding feeling.

I am also proud of the fact that since joining TOWN Residential I have completed 15 transactions in less than a year. The momentum continues due mostly to my repeat and referral business.

As in every field, doing what you love is key, and I totally love what I do!

Brooke Davida

For those selling a home, what are all the little things that can make a difference? Bigger is better.

I am all about exploiting the ceiling height. If you have an 8-foot or 12-foot ceiling, I traditionally have clients hang

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

“Handing keys to a new homeowner for a property that meets their needs and exceeds their expectations is a truly rewarding feeling.”

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THE MATTHEWS GROUP AT WILLIAM RAVEIS What drew you to Litchfield County? My husband and I were working on Wall Street and wanted somewhere to go for weekends that was peaceful yet sophisticated. Under two hours from the city and a lack of heavy traffic or pretense were crucial. We spent eight years here as weekenders. After the birth of our twin boys in 2000, we made the full-time move and have built a successful real estate practice.

What types of buyers come to your area? We see it all: Wall Street, lawyers, doctors and many types of entrepreneurs, especially as people are able to connect from just about anywhere today. We also have a large number of actors and artists. We have weekenders and seasonal and full-time clients coming from all over, but New York City–based buyers still represent the bulk of our business. From a personality perspective, it’s generally people who are very comfortable in their own skin and are looking for a lifestyle that affords them the opportunity to relax with friends and family.

What attracts buyers to your area? People come for the natural beauty and stay for the people. The Lake Waramaug vicinity is also a large draw—it is both gorgeous and the hottest market in the area. We attract weekenders as well as those looking to flee the crowds of the Hamptons or Fairfield County. There are more than enough amenities and activities, as well as top-quality local restaurants where you don’t need to make a reservation four weeks in advance!

Stacey Matthews Real Estate Agent

“The Lake Waramaug vicinity is also a really large draw—it is both gorgeous and the hottest market in the area.”

Lake Waramaug, CT—Private beach and dock on Connecticut’s most exclusive lake, pool site. $3,395,000.

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TOWN RESIDENTIAL in my third apartment within the same building on 29th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. My grandfather (and his father) owned a liquor store on 28th Street off Madison from the 1950s until a few years before I moved into the neighborhood. My family and I have seen the neighborhood grow and transform with excitement. The Ace, Nomad and Gansevoort Hotels have all opened while I have lived in the area, and Madison Square Eats, Eataly and countless new restaurants have also opened over the past few years. There are several exciting new developments slated for the area with significant potential for continued growth and development.

How and when did you get your start in real estate?

I began my real estate career while still in school at The George Washington University. A good friend in the industry, Chris Mongeluzo, helped place me in a summer internship program with Newmark in Washington, DC, where I had the opportunity to work directly for the managing principal, Larry Bank. My position extended beyond the summer, and I worked there part-time during two semesters—I loved it.

What do you like the most about your job? That’s easy. Hands down, it is the people whom I have had the privilege to meet. My best friends are my colleagues and clients, and I

Jonathan Butwin

Director of Commercial Sales and Leasing

In what field other than real estate could you see yourself . . . and why? My last job before real estate was working for the New York Mets in their front office.

I spent two summers and one fantasy camp with the team. A huge baseball fan and an even greater Mets fan, it was a dream job. Friends and colleagues used to tease me and call me “Superfan.” This

“There is nothing more fun than working on a deal all day together, and then continuing the conversation at the Ranger game that evening.”

If money were no object, what property for sale in your area would you buy . . . and why?

I live in the newly named NoMad (North of Madison Square Park) neighborhood of Manhattan. I moved in more than seven years ago, and I am now living

genuinely enjoy the day-to-day (and nights) of working together. There is nothing more fun than working on a deal all day together, and then continuing the conversation at the Ranger game that evening.

year I sold a Brooklyn property to Sterling Equities (owners of the Mets), with Scott Wilpon and Todd Katz becoming good friends during the process. This was a really cool and rewarding deal for me.

Talk about bringing together the best of my two worlds!

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W A R B U R G R E A LT Y What are some of the most interesting points or values are you are seeing in today’s market place? The most important point to get across in this market is that although people think everything is overpriced, it’s not. It’s what the demand warrants. There is low inventory, and once you weed out what doesn’t work for your buyer within that short list, there is little left to see and or buy.

In some ways low inventory makes finding the right apartment easier. In general, people feel the need to overlook. As a good broker, you can promise your clients you know what is available to them, but people still like to see everything. I’ve had buyers see apartments the day they were signing a contract for another one.

When there is high inventory it can often be overwhelming and exhausting.

It’s much more efficient to find a home when there is low inventory. There are still plenty of great spaces to buy, just fewer to decisions to make. The most important point is when you fall in love with an apartment, act quickly and be prepared to sign. Whatever you felt when you first walked in is usually how you know for sure. If you need to talk

itself just as was intended. I also love 30 Park Place: it’s a very clean and direct design, and the building fits very well into its surrounding neighborhood. (Who wouldn’t want to live in a Four Seasons?)

I also love 100 Barclay, another well-constructed and incredible building that represents the original structure and workmanship. I think Ralph Walker would have approved.

What are your top five places in Tribeca? 56 Leonard, for its distinct material choice and striking exterior. The penthouse at 7 Harrison Street is another one of my favorite properties for sale right now. I am also very fond of 60 White, especially given the fact that it was completed with 80 percent reclaimed materials; 100 Barclay, because it’s built so tastefully; and 30 Park Place, for its pristine aesthetic.

Deborah Lupard

Licensed Associate Real Estate Salesperson

What are some of your recent accomplishments? I have been ranked as a top producer in my

“I work tirelessly and take every sale personally and earnestly.

Putting in the long hours really pays off.” yourself into it in any way, then it’s probably not for you.

What are some of your latest sales? Last week I sold three very different apartments: a true and authentic Tribeca loft at 434 Greenwich Street, a unit in another Ralph Walker building conversion at 100 Barclay Street,

What are some interesting new developments in your neighborhood? 56 Leonard is probably my favorite building in the neighborhood. The unique material choices are some of the most interesting I’ve seen. I think the “Jenga” effect exterior, even though it still underwhelms me, is going to reveal

and a home at 200 East 66th Street in the Manhattan House. All three of these sales represent the same attention to detail that I love in an apartment. All are very well built and handsomely designed.

Although they are each very different, they all convey a sense of pure luxury and alluring aesthetic that you can’t wait to move right in.

company for a consecutive number of years. Since starting with Warburg in 2007, I have sold more than $100 million to date. I work tirelessly and take every sale personally and earnestly. Putting in the long hours really pays off.

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SAUNDERS & ASSOCIATES Did you have another career prior to real estate? If so, how has that given you an edge in the business? At Cornell Law School, I concentrated on property law, land-use planning and governmental regulations affecting property rights and, then, at two prominent New York City Law firms— Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Schulte, Roth & Zabel—I represented banks in mortgage loan transactions, developers in analyzing and acquiring properties, and building owners negotiating leases. I can understand any issues that arise during negotiations and find a way to keep the deal moving forward despite obstacles. While I don’t have the desire to practice law again, my legal background in real estate is an invaluable support system for brokering real estate transactions in the Hamptons.

What represents value in today’s market? While there is a greater appreciation today for unique, thoughtful architectural and interior design, long-term value still depends upon location and the special attributes of a particular setting: waterfront, proximity to the shoreline, open views, adjacency to preserved land, plenty of natural light, an expansive yard, and privacy and quiet.

There is a geographic limit to the number of properties available in this market and, if your property has special attributes, your value will increase greatly over time.

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Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker Tell us about something you currently represent that demonstrates this value. I have the exclusive listing for a bayfront house at 1323 Meadow Lane, across from the ocean shoreline, on 4.5 acres, surrounded

by land preserves, with panoramic views of Shinnecock Bay; I have the exclusive listing for a brand-new construction house that represents the current evolution of design with transitional styling, 11-foot ceilings and windows for plenty

“My legal background in real estate is an invaluable support system for brokering real estate transactions in the Hamptons.” of natural light, an open floor plan, and energy-conscious features such as solar panels—at 125 Bay Lane, a special, quiet, block near Mecox Bay. What excites you most about your job? Finding that next building project or perfect home drives me. It is a constant search to find the right match for a specific customer, understanding their needs and desires and knowing the best possibilities in the market. Brokering in the Hamptons is unique because you

Wonderful Bay Lane New Construction, $8,795,000. www.125BayLane.com

have a wide assortment of possible environments: farm fields and horse meadows or waterfront; village houses near town or multi-acre parcels with tennis and expansive backyards. Each specific environment appeals to different buyers.

I have chosen to live here full-time with my wife and to raise two children here because I appreciate the special, natural qualities of the Hamptons—it is an exciting place to live and work.

What do you find rewarding about real estate? I truly enjoy working with customers—both buyers and sellers. Because I have brokered in the Hamptons for 14 years, I have been able to work with customers as they transition from one house to another when their needs or desires change, from renting for a summer, to purchasing and, then, selling and buying a home for their extended family. I have also worked with several developers and participated with them on consecutive projects, providing market insights that help shape their site selection as well as the appearance of the finished project.

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BROWN HARRIS STEVENS With the Four Freedoms Park complete, what might be your next public effort? I hope it will be to engage with others to save the “Renwick Ruin,” which is the smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island that was built during Abraham Lincoln’s administration. It is a hugely important piece of New York history, and I would like very much to see the structure preserved.

Why do you think you attract so many A-list clients? You’ve been reported to have worked with Robert Redford and Martha Stewart, among others.

To what do you attribute your success in real estate? Patience and a circle of close friends and family.

What I’ve learned is that you have to listen very hard to the customer— whether that means it’s necessary to look at 75 houses, 19 condos or 15 townhouses, or sell studio apartments or a seven bedroom on Fifth Avenue, that is the job. I also love that I’ve had the opportunity to work with multiple generations of families.

Tell us about your work in the international market. In the past three years, I’ve learned a great deal about Asia and the energy there, as well as the desires and needs of Asian customers coming to New York. Over the past year alone, I have been responsible for more than $100 million in deals with foreign purchasers.

Among the most celebrated customers you’re reported to

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have worked with are former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton when the president was in office.

Reports say you were the broker on the family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, where you showed them 91 homes in seven counties. Do you care to comment? I really cannot comment.

It was a privilege to have worked with them. I have always tried to protect the privacy of my clients, including those with very public images.

What causes are you passionate about? I’m a trustee of the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park.

I also worked as one of the early and main founders of the Four Freedoms Park

The combination of loyal friends and customers throughout the years has made it natural for me to work with many people whose names are known to the public. I work with many people who like to keep an extremely low profile.

Many times, it’s a huge responsibility, because I’m tasked with selling a property but also charged with protecting the privacy of highly public individuals.

“What I’ve learned is that you have to listen very hard to the customer—whether that means it’s necessary to look at 75 houses, 19 condos or 15 townhouses, or sell studio apartments or a seven bedroom on Fifth Avenue, that is the job.” on Roosevelt Island. It was—and will always be—one of the high moments of my life to have seen that park open three years ago. Since then, more than 400,000 people have visited the park.

Throughout my life, the principles of the Four Freedoms as articulated by Franklin Roosevelt have always been a center of discussion in my family’s home.

What do you like the most about your job? I never know who I’m going to meet. I never know whether I’m going to reconnect with a friend or client from the past. I like the fact that every day is a surprise.

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N O R M A R E Y N O L D S S O T H E B Y ’ S I N T E R N A T I O N A L R E A LT Y To what do you attribute your success in real estate? I have been in real estate since I was about 10 years old, when my mother, Norma Reynolds, started in the business. Learning the real estate business from the best broker, my mother, I have seen both sides; as a selling agent and now an owner at one of the top-producing “boutique” real estate agencies in the Hamptons. I pride myself on my amazing sales associates, my staff and the fact that I am hands-on seven days a week.

What professional accomplishments are you the most proud of? Probably handling the most difficult time in my life and overcoming the challenge of owning a real estate company during the economic and real estate recession. Losing my mom, my best friend, unexpectedly in 2008 and taking ownership of the company that she worked so hard to build was a trying time, but I feel it has made me a stronger broker and manager in the end.

Fast-forward to 2015, we are competing against firms that are much larger, but are considered one of the top brokerages in the area.

Tell us something about you that most people don’t know.

I am fourth generation out in the Hamptons. My grandfather and father were baymen out here for years, and my family has a deep-rooted history in the Hamptons. I also remain connected to New York City, having lived there for years when I started my career. My daughter, Carly, now lives and works in Manhattan as a third-generation real estate salesperson with Sotheby’s International Realty.

Vicky Reynolds

Describe your perfect day (or night) in your area.

My perfect day is sitting on the beach with my family and friends, sipping my favorite rosé wine. After the beach, my perfect night is coming back to my house with family and friends . . . relaxing by the pool, barbecuing, and continuing the fun!

Licensed Real Estate Broker, Owner

“My perfect day is sitting on the beach with my family and friends...”

Distinctive oceanfront compound set on just under 3 acres with more than 200´ of oceanfront...3,700-square-foot main house with amazing views and a well-appointed open floor plan guest house. Complete with heated pool, spa and spacious decking for entertaining. Listed at $8,900,000. Properties can also be sold separately.

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Ensure your physician is credentialed and certified to do what you are looking for. As a Facial Plastic Surgeon, I will not be performing breast augmentations. Review your surgeon’s testimonials on independent cosmetic surgery websites. Some physicians give talks on what they do – I find these events to be a great way to educate and allows prospective patients to get to know me and understand my philosophy. Patients feel empowered to ask questions they may not normally ask and listen to questions they may not have thought to ask.

Scheduling a consultation with one or two surgeons is imperative as it allows you to discuss your specific areas of concern, review your medical history and come up with a mutually agreeable plan, which may vary by surgeon.

Once you are completely satisfied, you are on your way; the decision is yours as to when to proceed. Cosmetic surgery is partly a medical process and mostly a personal journey.

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Edie Parker founder and designer Brett Heyman gives us the lowdown on the island BRETT HEYMAN is a textbook tastemaker. She has a natural gift for aesthetics. Edie Parker, her line of vintage-inspired architectural acrylic handbags, took off among the fashionable set upon the company’s launch in 2010. Heyman has since added other materials and silhouettes, as well as a very popular bespoke feature where customers can spell out anything they want onto their clutches. Heyman, a New Yorker by way of L.A., also has a vintage clothing and accessories collection to envy, not to mention an art collection that tops that, and was previously the PR director for Gucci and a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist. So, when she says to go to St. Lucia, we say, “Okay!”

Beach-bound Brett

St. Lucia is one my favorite places for a beach vacation.

Under the radar

Sugar Beach to-do list

There were not really other New Yorkers during our stay. Because of the history of the island there are a lot of people who come from London and Paris. It was nice not knowing anyone but the friends with whom we traveled.

Scuba dive, snorkel, swim, eat lobster and drink beer. There is a beautiful reef ten feet off the beach, and even more diverse sea life if you go out in a boat.

Hike the Pitons, and take a boat ride to some of the neighboring towns for lunch.

Ultra accommodations We stayed at the Viceroy’s Sugar Beach hotel. It’s at once luxurious and authentic.

It has the most beautiful topography of anyplace I’ve been in the Caribbean.

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Finding inspiration

Traveling to the Caribbean, I am most inspired by the sense of color. Houses dot the hillsides in shades of lavender, turquoise, yellow and mint green. It’s eye-popping and joyful.

Great big world

I believe in broadening your horizons for the sake of broadening horizons. It’s important to remember—and to teach your children—that it’s a big world

Words of wisdom Always travel with Benadryl.

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When my husband and I were first dating I went on a trip to Mexico with some girlfriends, and he asked me to bring him back the weirdest present I could find. So I gifted him with a miniature Mexican pink clock in the shape of a toilet. It has a prominent place in my daughter’s bedroom, and it makes me chuckle every time I see it. ✦

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SUMMER IN SOUTHAMPTON The Phil, Gardens, Gatsby, Royals, Horses, Dogs, Donkeys, Designers and Baseball HORSEPLAY

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Cornelia Guest & C. Z. Guest @ Bergdorf Goodman in 2003

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“I ran away when I was five years old after a fight with my mother,” said Cornelia Guest, whose mother was Boston Brahmin and style icon C. Z. Guest. “I was headed down the driveway on my pony, Ivanhoe, with my terrier, Jack, when I ran into my father. I told him I was leaving home and he asked if he could come with me. I said ‘Yes, please,’ but the next morning I magically woke up in my own bed.” Cornelia’s father was Winston F. C. Guest, a ten-goal polo champion and heir to a U. S. Steel fortune. Cornelia also told tales of the trouble she got into for jumping the picnic tables at Old Westbury Gardens. “And I didn’t care who was sitting at them,” she laughed.

These memories were recounted at a gala dinner dubbed “HorsePlay” that she co-chaired with Ellen Niven, which benefited the preservation projects of this fabled house and unparalleled gardens that spread out over 160 acres.

Westbury House, the Charles II–style mansion built to resemble Battle Abbey, the home of John Phipps’ British wife, Margarita, in 1903, and its formal gardens are open to the public and provide a glimpse into Long Island’s golden past. The estate was used as the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan’s house by Baz Lurhmann in his 2013 version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The T Great Gatsby. It was also used as a backdrop by Alfred Hitchcock for North by Northwest with Cary Grant and Love Story with Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. In the living room is a portrait by John Singer Sargent of Cornelia’s great-grandmother, Mrs. Henry “Annie” Phipps, and her father Winston, whose godfather was Winston Churchill.

Cornelia’s godparents were the former King Edward III, Duke of Windsor, and his Duchess, Wallis Simpson. Cornelia’s parents entertained them frequently down the road at Templeton, the estate Cornelia continues to reside in with her eight rescue dogs and a donkey named Madonna. Have you ever? The magical evening, with a dinner

by Sterling Affair, honored Jane Greenleaf. Supporters included Mary and Howard Phipps Jr., Carol Large, William Ivey Long, Mary Snow, Kimberly Bohner, Bohner Calvert Moore, Carolina Herrera, Freddy Bancroft, and Jennifer Griffin of Hunter’s Moon Farm in Muttontown.

The tent and red tables, overseen by Nina Campbell, were awash in burgundy colored flowers and had a polo theme. Sponsors included Hermès, J.P. Morgan and Land Rover. oldwestburygardens.org

Muffie Potter Aston & Gillian Miniter toasted the New York Botanical Garden at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée. The tea featured a fashion show by Dennis Basso, Bellinis and fresh scones that a surprising number of ladies took home. (You know who you are.) Among those sipping, nibbling and eyeing the sables up for sale were Joanne de Guardiola, Elyse Newhouse, Somers Farkas, Ivana Trump, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, Andrea Stark, Barbara Tober, Zoe and Janna Bullock, Harriette Rose Katz, Sharon Bush, Maggie Norris, Dori Cooperman, Karen Klopp, Lucia Hwong Gordon and others of that ilk and stripe. dennisbasso.com Basso donated a portion of the sales to the garden. “The first three women to get to the store get a free sable coat,” joked Basso as the ladies left. nybg.org

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“I was nervous until I started,” said Yankees legend Joe Torre of his stirring narration of Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait with the New York Philharmonic. “It’s like baseball; you wait to play the game, and then once you start all you think about is winning.” The Spring Gala celebrated 50 years of Concerts in the Parks and honored Didi and Oscar Schafer for presenting this series since 2007. “It’s the most rewarding thing we do,” Didi told me. Ray Kelly and special events chair and composer Karen LeFrak lead the applause for Maestro Alan Gilbert’s’s program, which included iconic music from the fresh air performances including Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. $1.2 million was raised. nyphil.org

GUILD HALL GOES FUNNY

“The one percenters have come together to celebrate one of their own,” said Martin Short at Guild Hall’s 30th Annual Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala. The night honored cartoonist Jules Feiffer, photographer Ralph Gibson, and Short’s friend Matthew Broderick. “Matthew is a nice guy and he won’t say anything bad about anyone unless he trusts you, and then it gets ugly.” (Short costarred with Broderick and Stockard Channing in the witty It’s Only a Play.) The painter Eric Fischl,, who is the new president of the Guild’s Academy, introduced Linda and Harry Macklowe,, who received a Special Award for Leadership. Guests included Laurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, April Gornik and Guild Hall’s executive director Ruth Appelhof. guildhall.org

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Blake Lively takes her Maltipoo Penny to be pampered and fluffed at the Dog Store on East 61st Street, which is also frequented by Beyoncé, Cesar Milan and Elton John. Now Hamptonites can drop their pooches off at Edward Alva’s new 5,000-square-foot Dog Store in East Hampton. In addition to the wide array of grooming services, your best friends can also have a massage, be walked on the beach, take a yoga class, go to sleepaway camp and have access to the best veterinarian teams on the East End, headed up by Dr. Cindy Bressler.

The store also has an elaborate selection of pet accessories that will make your pup a top dog. thedogstoreny.com . . . Southampton Hospital president Robert Chaloner has been busy opening both the Audrey and Martin Gruss Heart and Stroke Center as well as the dedicated entrance to the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center. Their gala on June 20 was chaired by Jean Shafiroff, who is also chairing the Southampton Animal Shelter’s gala on July 18. southamptonanimalshelter.com . . . Douglas Elliman chairman Howard Lorber is the Honorary Chairman of the Hospital’s Annual Summer Party and Jean Remmel will chair the benefit for the 14th time. “It’s my swan song,” said Jean, who promises surprises at the black-and-white-themed Fantasia fete that will feature music by society bandleader Alex Donner. southamptonhospital.org . . .

Designer Lisa Jackson will open a pop-up of her Madison Avenue shop LJ Cross at JANGEORGe in Sag Harbor that will showcase her diamond-encrusted jewelry and home accessories. ljcrossny.com ✦ Joanne de Guardiola & Dennis Basso @ HôtelPlaza Athénée

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WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE HAMPTONS? I’m a full-time resident of Springs in East Hampton, both summer and winter. I absolutely adore it. I don’t know anywhere in the world like East Hampton.

WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED? There are always new options available. And I’ve found it to be very true. There are always new doors to open. I’ve been at Guild Hall for 15 years and I’ve loved every single year because there’s always a new door, always something new.

WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE DINNER COMPANION? My husband, Gary Adamak, of course. He’s truly a great supporter of mine and of Guild Hall. I call him Guild Hall’s most important volunteer! He’s always more than willing to help us with whatever we need, even if it’s things like moving tables and setting up.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF LIVING IN THE HAMPTONS? Guild Hall.

It’s such a wonderful place and I’m so happy to be a part of it. We have such a wonderful team and have put on some truly great programs. I’m an art historian, so my first love was the museum.

My favorite program that we’ve done will be the Roy Lichtenstein show in August, and equally exciting is our theater’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons with Alec Baldwin. He’s incredible.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU? Of course I’m always looking ahead to the next season at Guild Hall, but I’ve also been wanting to do some writing. When I first came here in 1974, I was writing my master’s thesis and have a wonderful series of interviews with Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock’s wife and an incredible artist in her own right, that haven’t been published. I feel I owe it to Lee to publish them, whether it’s an article or in a book. She was a wonderful friend to me.

WHO IS THE MOST INTERESTING HAMPTONITE YOU KNOW? Alec Baldwin.

He’s such a good person and such a good friend. And he’s so much more interesting beyond being a big movie star. The work that he’s doing here is incredible.

WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST EXTRAVAGANCE? Buying art. My favorite piece is

by Carrie Mae Weems. She’s an amazing photographer. Though I wouldn’t call it an extravagance because whatever I paid for it, it was a deal because now I get to live with it.

NAME A WORK OF ART THAT REPRESENTS YOUR CURRENT STATE OF MIND. The collection of Roy Lichtenstein work coming in August is all pretty representative. The show is called “Between Sea and Sky” and it’s very inspiring.

WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF? This job, and my wonderful children and grandchildren. ✦

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