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CONTENTS The R eal e sTaTe Issue 106
TOURING MIAMI’S FALL ART SCENE
See the best Miami has to
offer at these five museums and theaters.
by
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A CANVAS FOR CREATIVITY
A new book brings the Wynwood Walls,
Miami’s most exciting new arts district, to life.
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alex TRaveRs
PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH AT 40
The organization
has preserved and shaped Palm Beach’s history over the past 40 years.
122
CLASSIC HERITAGE
The vice president of Antinori tells how 26 generations
of history and tradition have shaped the family business. by KaThRyn MaIeR
126
THE MAGIC OF MOVIE POSTERS
A new book celebrates more than a
century of these wonders of graphic design. by KaThRyn MaIeR
130
PRIME SHOPPING IN MIAMI
From Bal Harbour to Lincoln Road, there’s
plenty of luxury shopping destinations in the Magic City.
136
THE SUNNY SPIRIT OF PALM BEACH
Aerin Lauder spills on her favorite
Palm Beach haunts in a new book from Assouline. by bRooKe Kelly
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CONTENTS C oluMns
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SOCIAL DIARY
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BENSON
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FRESH FINDS
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JEWELRY
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REAL ESTATE
We touch base with our brokers for insights into today’s markets. by bRooKe Kelly
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REAL ESTATE
A client of Wadia Associates shares her experiences with the firm.
104
SOCIAL CALENDAR
140
YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST
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SNAPSHOT
On parties, apparel, and a legendary actors’ studio. by DavID PaTRICK ColuMbIa
Shooting Halston, Liz, and Liza, in a most unexpected location.
The columnist questions the power of the so-called “elites.”
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Our columnist profiles the founder of the American Jockey Club.
by
J aMIe M aC G uIRe
Temps drop, but the fashion index rises. by KaThRyn MaIeR anD elIzabeTh MeIGheR
Jewelry designer Fabio Angri’s nature-inspired jewels reveal their wearer’s internal identity.
by
bRooKe Kelly
Our guide to the most exciting galas and social engagements for the month. The best parties from coast to coast and in Paris.
Jacqueline Kennedy’s speech at the 1962 Orange Bowl.
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bRooKe Kelly
D anIel CaPPello
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Quintessential Estate. 4-5 Bedroom Main House. 2 Bedroom Guesthouse. Caretaker’s Apartment. Pool. Barns. Pond. Views. Privacy. 46.7± Acres. $4.750.000. Peter Klemm. 860.868.7313.
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QUEST LOVES all things real estate, and the ever-changing nature of the property markets is a constant in our underlying mission. As the sage Mark Twain once uttered: “Buy land— they’re not making it anymore.” Wise words, as the majority of lasting family dynasties were built and secured by land acquisitions. Sadly, New York recently lost one of its foremost family real estate scions when Robert “Bobby” Goelet passed away last month at 96 years young. Quest celebrates the property sector and its leaders in every issue we publish, especially in November when we also focus on the evolving culture of Miami, perhaps the most cosmopolitan city in North America. Grace and I experienced our first taste of Miami in the mid-1970s, when I was at business school, and we bought a small townhouse on Key Biscayne when it was still a casual sand-in-your-toes seaside village. Needless to note, the Miami we knew then has exploded in every direction, most especially as the epicenter of international art fairs and world-famous expositions. Covering this premier platform of artists and galleries, and returning to Quest as a welcomed contributor, is our own Alex Travers. As you further explore this issue, dear readers, turn to pages 116 to 121 for a graphic glimpse of the Preservation Society of Palm Beach, which is now 40 years old. Under the enlightened aegis of chairman Pauline Baker Pitt and executive director Amanda Skier, the Preservation Society has protected and enhanced both the heritage and physical beauty of Palm Beach, a fabled and favorite community of Quest’s readers. A relative newcomer to this South Florida paradise is my talented friend Dinyar Wadia, an architect of deserved renown and respect who has hung out his elegant shingle on Palm Beach’s South County Road. Dinyar is perhaps unique among the “estate” architects in that his classic design ethic incorpo-
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NEW YORK SO CIAL DIARY NEW YORK STUFF. Books. And fashion. And both. One weekday evening over at the Polo Mansion on East 72nd Street and Madison Avenue, Ralph Lauren‚ the man himself—hosted a party for GQ’s legendary fashion editor Jim Moore and his new book Hunks
& Heroes: Four Decades of Fashion (Rizzoli). The Gilded Age mansion, built in 1898 by a Rhinelander real estate heiress (but never lived in), now the long-time home in New York of Ralph Lauren/ Polo, was packed with hundreds of guests. Among
the dozens of fashion’s most influential who were present: Jon Hamm, Zachary Quinto, Alfie Allen, William Jackson Harper, Brian d’Arcy James, Kevin Love, and Saquon Barkley. Jim Moore started out at GQ as an intern, a kid who came to New York with
dreams of working in the magazine world as an editor. That was in 1977. His is the classic New York story. The big town has always been a magnet for those of us from Out There who came with dreams of a professional life. It’s in the air. It must be in the water. I think it started
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with the Dutch (until the British caught on). Men’s fashion. It’s partly an age thing. I grew up starry-eyed with the worldly, sophisticated figures of movie stars like Cary Grant or Gary Cooper or Fred Astaire. They defined the ideal male fashion for Americans of a certain economic class (which ran from middle- to high-). Now I wear jeans as often as possible and AllBirds whenever possible. Most of us never attain that movie-star visual distinction (or that “class”) although it 30 QUEST
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was a pleasant pretense to imitate. When I was a teenager, there were two distinct styles: the public school kid (shirt and pants) and the preppies whose uniform of aspiration was a blue blazer, a button-down B r o o k s Brothers shirt, and khakis (also Weejun loafers until Gucci opened up a shop on Fifth Avenue in the mid-’60s). That was when Ralph Lauren, the man, came on
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the scene, at first with a wider solid-color silk tie. This was the beginning of an empire. Because the Ralph Lauren tie was just a little snazzier than Brooks, and a little wider, which gave the wearer a kind of sartorial pride, it was also a couple of bucks more expensive. (I think it was five bucks to Brooks’ average three bucks.) After that Ralph took on
all of Brooks Bros, bringing the classic styles into the late 20th century. Snazzier, classier, and building a retail empire known ’round the world. Jim Moore’s book is at once an art book—fashion, photography—and a memoir, a history of how we men have addressed dressing in the last 50 years, and how it’s changed for everybody. You can trace the winds of change to the arrival of The Beatles in New York in 1964. They were soon the most popular rock performers on the
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A planet. They were young like their audience and, most distinctively, they wore their hair long! Length for men was revolutionary in those days. At their first press conference on arrival, some reporter asked Ringo Starr: “Whatta you call that hair of yours?” (referring to the shoulder length cut, worn only by women up until that time). Ringo replied, “Arthur.” Hilarity abounded. By 1970, men’s hair length had grown to ponytails and more. And with it, their style of dress. (Sybil Burton Christopher later opened a very popular discotheque
on East 54th Street, which she called “Arthur,” after Ringo’s hair.) The Beatles are now part of the consciousness of men’s fashion, but there is no uniform any more. There are no rules—at least outside of the workplace. Fashion passion. On another afternoon, I went over to Susan Gutfreund’s to have a last look at her magnificent duplex apartment, where she has lived since 1985 with her late husband John. The apartment has been sold, and Susan is in the throes of moving, re-organizing her vast array of furniture, art, books, and collectibles.
It’s an enormous residence on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park, and for a long, long time, it was one of the most accommodating and spectacular in New York. The Gutfreunds, graced by their choices and their interior designer, the celebrated Henri Samuel, achieved a grandeur that was warm and inviting as well as quietly but clearly spectacular. The spacious foyer with its grand staircase was jammed with racks and racks of couture, separated and categorized by designer— Givenchy, Dior, Chanel, Blass, de la Renta, and many more of both formal and
everyday wear. They were being donated to Parsons/ Paris, to the Met, and to the Museum at FIT. In the dining room there were are round tables covered with the lady’s shoes, dozens and dozens of pair. They are going to Vanessa Noel’s Shoe Museum. Many other items are being tagged for auction at Christie’s. Vanessa, not so incidentally, is a thoroughly modern entrepreneur. This year marks her 30th as the sole owner of her luxury shoe company, where she has been designer and manufacturer of shoes bearing her name. Since then, she’s opened two
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the same every year. About 450 of Mark’s friends and acquaintances are invited (and show up) about this time in a large reception room in one of those old New York men’s clubs. You see many of the same guests year after year. That’s a big part of its charm. It’s kind of like going to a class reunion. Many look forward to it just to see old friends. But then there are the new friends of the old. I like this kind of party because, if nothing else, you can people watch. For me, people-watching is endlessly interesting and informative. You don’t even have to know them; you can just take it in. Because of the dynamics of New York life, large social
gatherings tend to have an overall purpose, either philanthropic, religious, or financial. Mark’s party carries no weight. The dress code is traditional: jacket and tie for the men, and a comfortable dressy-ish dress for the women. People tend to want to look their best for this affair. There’s nothing original or remarkable, except the nowadays rarer pleasure of getting together with a group of people for the pleasure of the company. Mark’s always given parties as long as I’ve known him (25+ years). He likes the role of host. It’s actually the most interesting way to go to a party: If you give it, you don’t have to socialize or do anything other than keeping the
drinks and hors d’oeuvres passing around. There was also the compulsory social photographer, as well as the occasional selfie photogs which are now compulsory everywhere. Cutty McGill was there and snapping away. Our host loves doing this, but is obsessive (maybe compulsive?) about every detail, including whether or not you received your invitation, and whether or not you are attending. It isn’t unlike him even to make last minute calls to make sure you’re gonna be there. Whew! Such attention could make you feel special, although if you know Mark—and many do—he’s just “obsessive” about the little things. The
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A result is always the same: big crowd, lots of talkers, lots of listeners, strangers, old friends, new friends, and a good bar. Or two. Starts at 6, runs to 8:30 and then some. You can see the results on the faces of the guests. They weren’t just smiling for the camera, they were enjoying themselves. Mark succeeded. More books. Two new ones I received this month: The Contender; The Story of Marlon Brando, by William J. Mann, and Jerome Robbins by Himself, which is actually by its editor, Robbins’ biographer, Amanda Vaill. I naturally took a (quick) look at both. Quick enough
to read a bit, to get a feel for them; a preview. I never thought of myself as a Brando fan, although I had great respect, even awe, for his ability as an actor. I never saw him or heard much about him when I lived in Los Angeles in the thick of the film colony, so he was entirely a screen image to these eyes. You believe that’s what the man (the character in real life) is like. According to his biographer, Mann, I believe it now too. For those interested in acting per se,
as a technique, a talent, etc., (and I am a hapless one) you will learn how the legendary Stella Adler opened up the very young man to his talent. The other side of that is, we the audience took it more seriously than he ever did. And as for the great Jerome Robbins, Ms. Vaill shows us how he did everything but actually write a memoir, or a novel, or a screenplay. His memory is very fortunate that she was his historian because this book can keep
you up all night reading about his life as he saw it. I’d never been particularly interested in a dancer’s life. Doesn’t matter; Jerome Robbins is bigger than that. An interesting connection always existed between Robbins and his biographer. Amanda Vaill grew up here in New York, on East 81st Street between Park and Lex. When she was working on her Robbins’ biography, her mother asked her if she remembered when growing up, when she walked the family dog, that there was a man across the street also walking his dog about the same time? Indeed, she did remember
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her neighbor and his dog, although she never knew who he was. Aha, her mother revealed, it was Jerome Robbins himself, whom she saw frequently walking his dog on the other side of 81st Street (where he had a townhouse). Stars everywhere! The era of Robbins was the great age when New York and Hollywood were creative partners, when much inspiration and material came out of Broadway along with its creators going Hollywood. It was also the time when “Society” was 38 QUEST
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enticed by the denizens of both creative centers, mixed Society with stars and other members of the film and stage communities. I was reminded of this earlier this month when the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute celebrated its 50th Anniversary, titled “The Next 50 Years,” here in New York at a dinner and performance, raising funds for scholarships in the two schools here and in Holly-
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wood. Alec Baldwin and Marlo Thomas were honorary co-chairs, honoring Geoffrey Horne and featuring Ellen Burstyn and Renee Taylor, along with many Strasberg Alumni and friends. Lee Strasberg. The name itself evokes many memories of the man and his time. Today it is a well-known name because of the Institute and his distinguished career. But for those of us who lived in the second half
of the 20th century, Lee Strasberg was what today would be regarded to be as People magazine-famous as his students, as an acting teacher of the famous Stanislavsky method, popularly known as “method acting.” His was a distinguished presence in American theatrical circles beginning in 1931. As the country was falling into a deep depression, Strasberg and Harold Thurman and Cheryl Crawford founded the nowlegendary Group Theatre. Their objective in that very difficult economic time was
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A to assist in giving actors the opportunity to train in the art of acting. It was a true theatre collective, staging works of contemporary American playwrights of that era. By the mid-1930s, it became known for its groundbreaking Broadway productions, many of which were directed by Strasberg. The Group Theatre produced writers, directors, and actors who greatly influenced theatre and film for the last half of the 20th century. Fame and the famous as well. In 1950, Lee was named the lifetime Artistic Director of The Actors Studio, a position he held until his
death in 1982. His students, who were almost religious in their respect for the man and his work included—to name only a few—Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, Geraldine Page, Eli Wallach, and directors Frank Perry and Elia Kazan. That link to Society was even there in the person of Janet (Mrs. William Rhinelander) Stewart who was known as “the most beautiful
woman in Society” during her young adulthood. Mrs. Stewart was the devoted assistant in Lee’s office, registering and keeping track of the attendance and membership. Lee Strasberg’s reputation by that time preceded him in the theatre and film world. And then, sometime in the mid- to late-’50s, Marilyn Monroe was introduced to the director by his daughter— Marilyn’s friend, the actress Susan Strasberg. Attending the Actor’s Studio was a
personal statement, a badge of distinction of any actor, and the most famous blond bombshell of the movies was seriously devoted to expanding her talent and being taken seriously. Her presence in the venerable workplace of the theatre fascinated the public. Lee was her aspiration to a higher distinction as an actress, and much was written about it in all the top magazines of the day. The world’s most famous film sexpot—as the press would refer to her—became a devoted student of the very serious Lee Strasberg and also a welcome friend of his family. Aside from his fame, in
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real life, Lee Strasberg was an actor, director, master teacher, and author, and known throughout the world as the “Father of Method Acting.” He revolutionized modern acting technique in the theater and film and taught several generations of prominent actors, directors, and playwrights. As director of the nonprofit Actor’s Studio in New York City, it became the nation’s most prestigious acting school. Fifteen years later, in 1966, he was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles. 42 QUEST
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Born in 1901 in Budaniv, Poland, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now the Ukraine, his family immigrated to the United Stateswhen he was 8 years old. They joined the great European emigration to this country around the turn of the 20th century. Growing up on the Lower East Side, then a kind of ghetto of recently emigrated Europeans, he educated himself in great literature and the arts by reading books from the public libraries. He also discovered his love of the theater by acting in
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plays at the Chrystie Street Settlement, as well as being inspired by the great actors who came to New York to perform, especially Eleonora Duse and The Moscow Art Theatre, which introduced him to the innovative work of the actor and director Konstantin Stanislavsky. Author Mel Gussow wrote, for more than 60 years, until his death in 1982, “Lee revolutionized the art of acting by having a profound influence on performance in American theatre and film.” His student Elia Kazan, who went on to become
a legendary director on Broadway and in Hollywood, described him in his autobiography as having “the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst and a feared father of a Jewish home.... [He] was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.” In 1970, after 20 years as director of the Actors Studio, still going strong in a changing world, he was ready to expand his horizon. With his third wife, Anna, The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute was
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A founded in 1969 at 115 East 15th St., in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. They also launched a branch in Hollywood. The objective was to continue teaching the “system” of Konstantin Stanislavsky, which he had interpreted and developed, particularly in light of the ideas of Yevgeny Vakhangov for contemporary actors. The Institute’s primary goal was “to reach a larger audience of eager and emerging talent” than was being served by the Actors Studio, which was notoriously selective in its admission process.
Today, the Institute is the only acting school that teaches Lee Strasberg Method Acting in its authentic form. The Institute has been a partner acting studio with New York University since 1974. Strasberg alumni figure prominently on the stages and film, television, and digital screens, as well as behind the scenes, around the world. He always believed in giving back to New York, the city and community that had nurtured his talent. For more than four decades, The Lee Strasberg Creative Center has awarded scholarships to young people to offer
them the opportunity to pursue their dreams in the performing arts. Among these is an annual scholarship program for residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). As it always is in the theatrical world, time moves on and history redefines us, and it is not surprising that almost a century since Lee Strasberg made his imprint as a young man creating the Group Theatre, he is probably best known by the movie-going public as an actor, especially for his memorable supporting role as gangster Hyman Roth
alongside his former student Pacino in The Godfather Part II (1974). He took the role at Pacino’s suggestion after Elia Kazan turned it down. He earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in …And Justice for All (1979). We’re in the thick of the fall social season now. All of the major philanthropies are hosting galas and receptions, as well as the pre-holiday dinner dances and cocktail parties and luncheons. New Yorkers are so used to large groups of people that they even seek it out, if
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enormous collections—books, manuscripts, art, and sculpture that were theretofore his Library. He had an imaginative appetite for collecting. Charles McKim of McKim, Mead and White was hired to design the library. Morgan’s house was razed in 1903. The building of what we know as the Library was completed for use three years later. Elegant and classic, it was known as the Pierpont Morgan Library. Which was extensive and historical. The area today is residential, but the Morgan blocks explain what they were 150
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Morgan knew who Mrs. Douglas was. More than a century later (Morgan died in 1913), in 2006, his library, having expanded even more, added a new entrance building designed by Renzo Piano. That’s where the luncheon was held. The new pavilion is bright, light, high, and airy. And in another part of the new building, there was even more construction going on. The marriage of the contemporary with the classic architecture takes some adjustment to these eyes. I tell myself that is how history operates: The old and the new become the same. There must have been more than 200 guests at this luncheon. No doubt there were clients of Ms. Selldorf, who is a wonder—she has her own firm here in New York, which she founded in 1988 at age 28. It now has a staff of 70, as well as the many admirers of her work, both clients
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cellist who has played at Carnegie Hall? She introduced Basil Walter, who is the chair of the Foundation. He then introduced Paul Goldberger, the architectural critic whom you may have first read when he wrote The New Yorker’s “Skyline column.” Mr. Goldberger introduced Ms. Selldorf and her “conversation” about her work with Barry Bergdoll, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. One of Ms. Selldorf’s famous commissions was turning the 19th-century mansion,
the last home of Mrs. Cornelius (Grace Wilson) Vanderbilt III, on 86th Street and Fifth Avenue, into Ronald Lauder’s Neue Galerie. Keeping the old and making the new. Just as Renzo Piano did in that room where we were lunching. To give you an idea of respected reputation of our hosts and its work, the luncheon had corporate chairs: Hearst, RFR, VOCON, Vornado Realty Trust. Co-chairs were Barry Bergdoll, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Arie Kopelman, Michael Silverman, Gaston Silva, Jacqueline Terrebonne, Samuel White.
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Kelli Shaughnessy and Jim Stanton
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Live among magazine-worthy interiors in this impeccably designed home featured on the cover of House Beautiful. Spanning 2,756 square feet, the 4BD/3.5BA designer duplex features white oak hardwood floors, 15-foot-tall ceilings, designer lighting and custom wall coverings and window treatments throughout. The corner great room boasts western and northern exposures and gorgeous built-in cabinetry, and the adjacent open kitchen is a masterpiece in white lacquer, Caesarstone and top-notch appliances by Wolf, Bosch and Sub-Zero. A row of custom closets lines the entry to the luxurious master suite featuring a spa-inspired en suite bathroom. Two more bedrooms with large closets are situated near another well-appointed marble bathroom and powderroom. On the mezzanine level, you’ll find another bed and bath, a home office, laundry room and five additional closets. Smart home prewiring and built in Sonos speakers adds effortless ease to this impeccable West Village showplace at The Printing House, a remarkable full-service condominium offering attentive staff, storage, laundry, and access to the on-site Equinox health club offering world-class training facilities, a rooftop pool and sun deck.
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Upper East Side Two Townhouse Compound with Enchanted Garden
This exceptional two townhouse compound represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a private enclave anchored by the city’s most glorious garden. The two back-to-back homes, connected by a 75-foot garden with 40-foot trees and a heated outdoor plunge pool, are located on 81st and 80th Streets in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. With coveted architectural details and flexible layouts to serve any need, these fine town homes provide more than 9,000-square-feet of interior living space and in excess of 2,000-square-feet of outdoor space, perfect for a seamless indoor-outdoor lifestyle, peaceful relaxation and exquisite entertaining.
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Residents of this white glove prewar co-op enjoy full-time doorman service, live-in superintendent, storage, a newly renovated lobby, fitness center and a stunning rooftop garden with views that stretch across Central Park. Located within the Park Avenue Historic District at the corner of 82nd Street, this home conveys a wonderful residential sensibility and outstanding access to the Upper East Side’s best shopping, dining and cultural destinations. Central Park and the Museum Mile are just two blocks away, and your street leads directly to the iconic stairway entrance to the Met.
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H A R RY B E N S O N
IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY HALSTON WAS HOSTING a gala benefit for one of his favorite charities at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, and had invited two of his closest friends, Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli, to join him. The trio had agreed to let me photograph them at the event. When I arrived that lovely sunny June afternoon in 1977, Liza and Liz were getting ready. Hair and makeup artists were buzzing around. And each was wearing a dress designed especially for them by Halston. Halston was busy making certain every detail was perfect, insuring the event would go as smoothly as planned. As I needed a portrait of the three together with a plain background, my assistant, photographer Jonathan Delano, brought along a roll of seamless paper. The dilemma was where to put up the background paper? Wall space was tight, as the dinner was being held in the garden—the tables covered in floral tablecloths topped with white flowers, but there were no walls except outside the bathroom where Liz and Liza were dressing. As improvisation is the father of invention, Jonathan proceeded to tape the seamless paper to the outside of the bathroom wall. When the stars emerged, camera-ready, I asked them to stand where they were with Halston in between the two. The idea of being photographed outside the loo struck them as so funny that they immediately cracked up laughing. I have a feeling it was the first time these three extraordinary stars had been asked to pose in front of a bathroom. I’m glad I had the opportunity to photograph these three icons—Halston, Liz, and Liza—together. They were all good sports—superstars with no egos having a good time as I clicked away. u 78 QUEST
Halston, Liza, and Liz, photographed at Tanglewood, June 1977.
TA K I
ATTACK OF THE ELITES
From left: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (above) and
IT’S INDIAN SUMMERTIME and the living is easy. There hasn’t been a cloud above the Bagel for two weeks, the temperature is perfect, the noise of cement mixers and construction everywhere is unbearable, and there is gridlock while the world’s greatest freeloaders are in town for the U.N. annual. Despite the great weather, the place feels joyless, the media full of dire warnings about safe spaces and racism. There’s something very wrong here. Pessimism rules an anxious, depressed, and angry people. Well, I’d be depressed too if I took American media and its pundits seriously. 80 QUEST
And speaking of depressed and angry buffoons, a half-wit called Krugman who writes for The New York Times has just announced that close to 70 million Americans are foreign agents. I kid you not. The hysterical moron has a column and wrote “[The GOP] has effectively become part of a cross-national coalition of authoritarian white nationalists…but at this point they’ve pretty much crossed the line into being foreign agents.” Poor old Krugman, someone with a heart should take him upstate and put him in a barrel and send him over Niagara Falls. He’d be doing Krug the crock a favor.
Mind you, the establishment has subverted Brexit over where you are, and is subverting the presidency over where I am. I am having fun discussing Brexit with American friends. There’s an antidemocratic coup taking place in London by the sellouts, I tell them, a smug, self-righteous so-called establishment—you know who they are, the BBC, Welby, May, Major, the civil service, and the universities—and those who naive Britons sent to Parliament to represent them. The latter truly deserve the tumbrels. Madame Defarge, where oh where are you now that we so
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TA K I badly need you? My friend, the talented director and scriptwriter James Toback, grilled me about the British Supreme Court. A very educated man, he was surprised to be unaware of its existence until now. “Don’t take it seriously, Jimmy,” I told him. “It was a con man’s creation that consists of lawyers of murky morality as far as Brexit is concerned.” Jimmy got it right away. The fix was and is on. Incidentally, I always suspected men who wear ball huggers, as my son called them, rather than boxer shorts, a gent’s underwear. John Major was revealed to wear the former by his indiscreet and
like a law professor, including legal references and detailed footnotes. This is a well-thought-out plot to get The Donald. In the U.K. it was done more in the open, but the poisoned dwarf who runs Parliament is in it up to his nonexistent neck. Trump knew a thing or two when he pledged to drain the swamp. He knew the CIA and the FBI included elements that would be out to get him. When the British spook Christopher Steele compiled the bogus Russian allegations at the behest of the Democrats, the media went wild. Trump was in Putin’s pocket, they screamed. Steele’s bogus findings were
Michael Mailer has been offered a terrific job directing a major film and is off to Louisiana for the duration. He gave a party for me the night before he left and it was a zinger. The next day was the opening of a Roy Cohn HBO documentary in which I appear and am among the few who say kind words about a very controversial character. The irony is that the documentarian, Ivy Meeropol, is the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the atomic spies who fried in the electric chair back in 1953 for giving secrets to Uncle Joe Stalin. When we met—she was filming Michael up in the Cape where Norman’s old house is locat-
From left: Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in 1984; Christopher Steele.
unattractive mistress, and now Charles Moore’s third volume of the greatest British prime minister ever reveals what a snake Major was, and is. Both the U.K. and the U.S. have become battlegrounds over turf. Think about it as an old gangster film plot. The metropolitan elite in the U.K. are the godfathers who want to keep the status quo, the godfathers in the U.S. are trying to get their turf back after a nobody from Queens came in from left field and is top banana. It’s as simple as that. Perhaps a bit more sophisticated, but not really: The whistle-blower against Trump used language
called the gold standard of intelligence and Trump was declared dead. Once they were totally debunked…silence. The Russian-collusion hoax is similar to that of the whistle-blower. The fact that the call between Trump and the Ukrainian prime minister did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national-security perspective means nothing to the media. Actually what this is, is a culture war of the elites against people who support The Donald. It’s a war against those who love their borders, their language, and their culture. Otherwise everything is hunky-dory.
ed—he told her I knew Roy well. As luck would have it, Michael was cut out of the picture but Taki stayed. I told Michael it was a Rosenberg plot but they got the wrong man. Life is funny. I remember when Ivy’s grandparents went to the chair. I was down from boarding school to have my tonsils out and could sit at home all day doing nothing. Then the news came in and I was happy because back then I was a ferocious anti-communist. Now I ain’t so sure—about Russia, that is. Communism is still a no-no. u For more Taki, visit takimag.com. NOVEMBER 2019 81
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This page: A portrait of Leonard Jerome. Opposite page: A portrait of Jerome Park’s racetrack in New York by H. Schile in 1872.
LEONARD JEROME AND THE AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB AFTER CODE OF Honor’s stirring victories in this year’s Travers Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup for former Ambassador to the Court of Saint James Will Farish, it is timely to recollect another titan of the turf with transatlantic connections who has unfairly fallen onto history’s shadows and whose memory cries out to be appropriately preserved. Leonard Jerome, best remembered today as the grandfather of Winston Churchill, was born near Syracuse, New York on November 3rd, 1817 and grew up on a family farm with nine siblings. His mother was Aurora Murray Jerome,
and his father, Isaac, was of French Huguenot stock. His paternal grandmother, Betsy Ball, was a relative of George Washington’s. Jerome attended Princeton and then Union College before setting up a law practice in Rochester. He then moved to New York and, with his brother Lawrence, became famous as a stock speculator and sportsman, often partnering with such Gilded Age entrepreneurs as Jay Gould, Jim Fiske, and Daniel Drew. He made and lost several fortunes and became known as “The King of Wall Street.” In 1856, Leonard Jerome
partnered with William R. Travers to found the financial house of Travers and Jerome. The New York Times said the firm “became known on the Street for its bold and successful operations.” Travers was a gregarious Baltimorean who belonged to 27 clubs, including his presidency of the New York Athletic Club, the summer home of which is still called Travers Island. He was famous for his stutter and quick wit. Told by a Baltimore friend that his stuttering was more severe than ever since he had come to New York, he responded, “H-h-have to...b-b-b-bigger city.” The Democratic NOVEMBER 2019 83
Party pushed Travers to run for Mayor, but he always shunned politics. “I’ve had the rep-u-t-tation of being an honest man for a long time. I d-d-don’t want to wake up and r-r-read in the papers I’ve b-become a s-s-scoundrel.” Meanwhile, Leonard Jerome held interests in many railroad companies, often in partnership with Cornelius Vanderbilt. For many years, he also held a 25 percent interest in the New York Times. In fact, during the Civil War New York Draft Riots, Jerome defended the Times office with a gatling gun. He was also a patron of the arts and joined in the founding of the Academy of Music, an early New York opera house and predecessor to the Metropolitan Opera. What Jerome loved most, however, was sport. He enjoyed yachting with his friend William K. Vanderbilt. He joined several hunting trips to the West guided by Buffalo Bill Cody. Most of all he loved horses and was an expert rider and coachman. He had bought Lippazaners in Trieste and drove his pair of pacers 84 QUEST
fast up Third Avenue in Manhattan. In 1864, Leonard Jerome partnered with William R. Travers and John Hunter to open the Saratoga Race Course, Travers becoming president of the Saratoga Association, a position he held until 1874, and inaugurating the Travers Stakes, “The Midsummer Derby.” In 1866, Jerome bought the estate of James Bathgate in what was then rural Westchester but is today the Bronx. Partnering with August Belmont Sr., and William Travers, he formed the American Jockey Club, and built Jerome Park in 1866, with a luxurious clubhouse built near a rise that looked over the race course on what was known as “The Bluff.” The first Belmont Stakes, oldest of the Triple Crown races, was run there until 1890, when it was moved to Morris Park, built by John A. Morris, “The Lottery King,” a friend and partner of Jerome’s, so called because in addition to his considerable wealth he acquired a new fortune through a majority interest in the Louisiana State Lottery Company. Morris died in 1896,
and Morris Park discontinued racing in 1904. It then moved to Belmont Park and Empire City. At the opening of Jerome Park on September 25, 1866, the New-York Tribune wrote, “In those early October days with the purple and gold of Autumn on mead and wood, and the glories of the Indian Summer enveloping the earth in their short-lived brilliancy, Mr. Leonard W. Jerome and the American Jockey Club summon us forth to witness the exhibition of all that is admirable in the American race horse—strength and speed, and beauty and blood.” Ulysses S. Grant was the guest of honor, and the crowd was diverse— from millionaires on down. Jerome Park meeting quickly became a social attraction for ladies as well as gentlemen. In the spring of 1876, soon after the sport had crossed the Atlantic from England to Newport, a group of polo enthusiasts founded the Westchester Polo Club at Jerome Park, and the first outdoor match in the U.S. was held
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This page, from above: The Saratoga Race Course, circa 1940; Cornelius Vanderbilt. Opposite page: Sir Winston Churchill at age 26; Leonard Jerome’s New York City mansion at Madison Avenue and 26th Street, now torn down, was built between 1859 and 1865.
there on May 13th. On July 13, 1867 Jerome opened a new clubhouse for the American Jockey Club in a magnificent four-story mansion on the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 27th Street, just a block away from his personal residence, that had no fewer than four balconies overhanging the avenue. Later, the New York Yacht Club moved into the second floor, until it acquired its own building at 67 Madison Avenue in 1884. As Lloyd R. Morris wrote in Incredible New York (Random House, 1951), Leonard Jerome “dazzles society with the glitter and novelty of his carriages, the costliness of his blooded horses. He excited its dubious admiration by his extravagance and assurance. Both were obvious in all his activities: his fantastic speculations, his scandalous love affairs (Jenny Lind, Minnie Hauck, Fanny Ronalds, whom upon meeting, Clara Jerome said, taking Fanny’s proffered white-gloved hand, “I don’t blame you. I know how irresistible he is”), his
incredible parties…” In his memoir, another leading horseman of the day, Frank Griswold, recounts being present 20 years later as August Belmont and Leonard were lunching at Jerome Park, and Leonard looked across the table and asked, “August, do you remember Fanny’s celebrated ball?” “Indeed, I ought to,” Belmont replied, “I paid for it.” There was a sad faraway look suddenly in Jerome’s eyes. “Why, how very strange. So did I.” Lorenzo Delmonico, the restaurateur, found his talents stretched to the utmost when Leonard Jerome, August Belmont, and William Travers arranged a competition among themselves in sumptuous dinner parties. “Here three gentlemen come to me and order three dinners, and each one charges me to make his the best.” Jerome added to the menu by placing a jeweled pendant in every lady’s napkin. Leonard Jerome also founded the Coaching Club of America, delighted in driving his four-in-hand carriage briskly up Fifth Avenue on Sundays at church time. In due course, Leonard Jerome moved to Brooklyn and was instrumental in founding the Coney Island Jockey Club, which in 1884 built the Sheepshead Bay Racetrack. Several years later William Travers died in Bermuda, where he latterly pursued his sailing interests, and Jerome immediately went there to accompany his old friend’s body home. Jerome had mixed emotions about Jenny marrying Randolph Churchill. When the question of dowry came up, Leonard Jerome hesitated. He was an American. He wished his daughter to be well provided for, but in his opinion her husband was the proper man to do it. In his own struggling youth, he had felt it unchivalrous to marry until he could support his wife in the accustomed manner. Leonard also worried because, after Leonie married Irish baronet Sir John Leslie, there was no fortune to settle on his youngest, and he was too tired to make one for her. His great health had begun to fail. Anita Leslie, Jerome’s great-grand86 QUEST
daughter, wrote in The Remarkable Mr. Jerome: “Every afternoon a tall, large, bony figure walks slowly into the Union Club; proceeds directly to the billiard room; is warmly welcomed by the two or three persons who are knocking the balls about while awaiting the newcomer, and begins at once a game of pool. He is attired in a loose-fitting, old-fashioned black frock coat, a white waistcoat and grey trousers. The face is bronzed by exposure to the weather; the grey eyes are large but heavy-lidded; the hair is iron grey and closely cropped; a long drooping moustache conceals the mouth and adds to the semi-military appearance of Leonard Jerome… Once he dominated Wall Street as Jay Gould does now; but his was a merry despotism, and he was loved where Jay Gould would be hated.” About this time Jerome wrote to Lady Constance that a great friend was coming to London, and at a subsequent dinner she lectured this guest on all the sights, the Tower, the sports, Hampton Court, and the Derby. “That will take place next week. You really ought to see it.” “Yes,” Pierre Lorillard replied humbly, “I hope to. I won it last year.” Winston Churchill wrote of his mother, Jennie Jerome Churchill, “She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly but at a distance.” The same could be said for Leonard Jerome and his family, so often separated as they were by the Atlantic Ocean. Anita Leslie wrote of Jerome in this period: “…he had abandoned all efforts to earn big money on the market. Having settled all he had on his girls, he simply kept his eye on his race horses and lived contentedly in a room in the Brunswick Hotel, where the Coaching Club met annually, and saw sporting friends.” After retiring from business in 1888, Jerome spent his last years enjoying his horses and other sporting ventures. In 1889, working with John Morris, he struggled to transfer the American Jockey Club to the new Morris Park, which opened in July of 1889. The press began lamenting the possibility that the American Jockey Club could disappear.
“How strange the whole thing is that the man who gave Jerome Park to the public is the man who has done most to take it away. Is this honourable and honoured institution to die?” But the sad fact was that the bell was ringing for Jerome Park’s demise. John Morris’ New-York Jockey Club scheduled racing on the same days as the declining Jerome Park meetings, and the city had decided Jerome Park would be an ideal spot for the reservoir that was desperately needed to supply the growing metropolis with high-quality water. Thus, Jerome Park closed in 1894 to make way for the Jerome Park Reservoir. The clubhouse on Madison Avenue hung on, now under the name of The Jockey Club, and August Belmont remained its president. But after racing was outlawed in 1908, the club moved into the Windsor Arcade on Fifth Avenue, and the clubhouse was sold. The Jerome Mansion, a block away, survived into the late 1960s, when, despite a valiant effort by Ambassador Earle Mack to preserve it, the wrecking ball made way for a 34-story office building. Although beginning to be beset by health issues, Jerome continued to maintain his interest in racing and was still president of the Coney Island Jockey Club in 1890. However, he returned to England late that year, where his daughters were shocked to see how he had declined. The bleak London fogs descended and his lungs ached. His daughters stayed faithfully by his side. And then, in late February of 1891, his cough grew worse, and he died of consumption in Brighton, just before a wintry dawn lit the sky. Leonard Jerome is buried in a family vault at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Several years ago his greatgreat-great-grandson, Randolph Churchill, crossed the Atlantic and visited his resting place. Given his extraordinary contributions to the Sport of Kings, including his role in creating the American Jockey Club and guiding its successor to the leadership position it still holds in the sport, surely Leonard Jerome deserves to be named an honorary member of the Jockey Club today. u
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This page, clockwise from above: An illustration of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park in New York, published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper on June 8, 1857; William R. Travers; Sheepshead Bay Track at Coney Island Jockey Club, 1916; Jay Gould.
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AS THE HOLIDAYS APPROACH, it’s time to break out some sparkle and shine. Think festive! We’ve rounded up some glimmering gift-appropriate picks (and we’ll have lots more on that front next month—stay tuned), suitable for giving to yourself, too, and have also included our favorite spots for getaways to warmer climes as the weather cools. Shine on in J.McLaughlin’s Carter Sequin Wide Leg Pant. $198 at jmclaughlin.com.
Sparkle and swirl in the Medium Navete Harp Earrings in 18-kt. white gold and diamonds by Graziela. $23,500. grazielagems.com.
Coral branches in silver and crystal create a timeless statement bracelet from Kenneth Jay Lane. $700 at kennethjaylane.com.
Be a star with the Cece Medium StarEmbellished Leather Convertible Shoulder Bag from Michael Kors. $750 at michaelkors.com.
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Fall florals and dramatic details abound in the Georgia Dress by AMUR. $598 at amur.com. The Night & Day Dome Earclips are part of Verdura’s 80th Anniversary Collection. $22,500 at verdura.com.
Flutter into fall with Fabio Angri’s Big Butterfly Diamond Cuff Bracelet. $63,700 at fabioangri.com.
This Oyster Perpetual Datejust 31, in Oystersteel and 18-kt. yellow gold, features an olive green sunray-finish dial with 11 diamonds set on the VI. $11,550. Visit rolex.com for retail locations.
Stubbs & Wootton’s Blackwatch slipper features a Highland Black Watch tartan pattern. $500 at stubbsandwootton.com.
Luxury resort Casa de Campo is currently holding its biggest sale ever for winter travel, offering up to 40 percent off and assorted complimentary perks. Visit casadecampo.com.do for information or reservations.
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Fresh Finds Growing Blue, oil and gold pigment on canvas (59.06 x 47.24 inches) by Henrik Simonsen (b. 1974). $35,000. On view Nov. 5 at Findlay Galleries: 724 5th Ave.; 212.421.5390.
The Delhi Tote by Aranyani features tiger eye inlaid in brass. $1,280. aranyani.com.
Onirikka’s My Lady Cuore Earrings in 18-kt. yellow gold with enamel, diamonds, and green tourmaline. $5,110 at onirikka.com.
The Glenfiddich Grand Cru, the latest release from the Speyside distillery, is a single-malt scotch whisky aged 23 years and finished in the finest French cuvée casks. $300 at fine wine and spirits merchants.
Get your glow on in Josie Natori’s Gold Embroidered Mesh Blouse With Cami ($1,295), Knit Crepe Ankle Pants ($495), and Gold-Plated Brass Tassel Earrings ($495), all at natori.com.
Cozy up with the Chains Throw in Turquoise and Savage Beige ($1,500) or the Pure Cashmere Throw in Milk ($1,500) from Frette: frette.com. 90 QUEST
Vendome Lace Double Full Black Spinel Ring in 18-kt. yellow gold and black spinel. $4,200. Nouvel Heritage: nouvelheritage.com.
Field sports fans will love these solid silver cartridge bag cufflinks
Puntacana Resort & Club offers a world-class
from Purdey, with lids that open and close to reveal the cartridges inside. £545 at purdey.com.
vacation experience within its 15,000 acres, with a Six Senses spa, two championship golf courses, a full-service marina, and more. For more information or to book, visit puntacana.com.
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“ANIMALS ARE MY TRUE ESSENCE,” says Italian jewelry designer Fabio Angri, “and being all different, each one can convey different emotions.” With that in mind, the brand asks, “Who are you inside?” Are you a gentle dove? A lion or tiger? Wearing a Fabio Angri piece helps you express this inner self. ”Fabio is a creative genius and an artist,” observes Gina Bonacci Clark, a gemologist with whom Fabio Angri partnered to bring his pieces to the American market. In early 2018, the duo launched Fabio Angri’s luxury jewelry collection in the States, with events in Manhattan, Miami, and Palm Beach. Fabio Angri returns to Palm Beach in early December, with an event at Mary Mahoney from December 6 through 11. There, he’ll have several large pieces on display, including some of his butterfly works like the one shown on the opposite page and the cuff we feature in this month’s Fresh Finds. “Butterflies are the symbol of loveliness,” says Angri, “and with their multiple colors and shades, they give me the opportunity to recreate them at my best. Every 92 QUEST
woman wearing a butterfly is as if she were a sweet flower.” That’s just one facet of his collection, which focuses on wildlife and nature. Working with 18-karat gold and diamonds and colored gemstones, Angri brings flora and fauna to life in the jewels he creates. The 18 artisans in his workshop each have a role in crafting the bespoke jewelry, and all of the delicate stones are individually hand-set with microscopic precision to create one-of-a-kind pieces. “I usually take inspiration from nature because it is the most beautiful gift that the Lord has given us,” says Angri, “and I think I am attracted by the diversity of fantasy that is in the colors and shapes of the flowers that convey love and passion.” “Fabio wants people to be moved by his creations,” says Bonacci Clark. “He wants to bring joy to those who wear them. In wearing his pieces, he feels people are celebrating his passion for wildlife and nature…celebrating life!” u For more information or to schedule a private appointment for viewing, please visit fabioangri.com
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This page, clockwise from above: A necklace from the Butterfly Collection; zebra rings from the Africa/Asia Collection; Ivy Cuff Bracelet. Opposite page: Gina Bonacci Clark and Fabio Angri; a playful seal ring.
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agents—from Sotheby’s, Saunders & Associates, Daniel Gale, and Compass—discuss the appealing neighborhoods they fondly represent. In today’s market, sellers are advised to come to terms with realistic price points and invest in home updates. And luckily for local buyers in New York, negotiation opportunities are at an all-time high as the presence of foreign buyers continues to decline. Out in Long Island, the Hamptons still shines as the optimal summer getaway, while people are increasingly looking to the North Shore as a permanent residence due to the favorable lifestyle it offers, from beautiful beaches to highly ranked schools. The same is true of Palm Beach, where the sunny island gears up for the busy social season ahead. 94 QUEST
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Q: Tell us more about the foreign buyer fallout in New York. A: Foreign buyers are in a stall. Internationals are on the sidelines due to a multitude of reasons: Geopolitical, tax increases, ROI declines, and other more attractive investment opportunities elsewhere. Foreign investment in U.S. real estate is down 36 percent year over year. In the past, international buyers made up a large part of the real estate market until recently, when several countries implemented new policies making it difficult to invest in the U.S. and driving a decline in market activity. Q: What does this mean for local buyers in New York? A: Good news: The local New York buyer is no longer competing with and being outbid by international investors who once came with deep pockets and relentless appetites for all things New York. The results: The foreign buyer disappearance created the new development bloated inventory. International buyers were the fuel that lit the new development surge. Now, scorched-earth negotiating from our local buyers is in full swing, with developers throwing in concessions that severely burn their bottom line in order to unload inventory as quickly as possible. Negotiability is high, pushing 8 to 12 percent on average off of last asking prices.
Q: So what do you recommend sellers do? A: Sellers have zero leverage today and competition among growing inventory has reined in and eliminated aggressive pricing. Real sellers embrace price incentives and creative terms. They invest in improvements to give their property a “feel new” advantage and have no unreasonable expectations as aspirational pricing no longer gets deals done. We prepare them for the reality of selling at a price far lower than what their home was worth in 2016. Q: Anything else you’d like to mention? A: If you are reading this because you want an insider’s view on market forecasts…opportunity is rising! Trade up—the market sweet spot with best bargains is the larger units.
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encourage clients to invest in renovations and accretive rehabilitation projects in advance of a listing, I have recently found success with clients willing to list slightly below their target to drive activity and interest. This has proven to be an effective way to engage buyers who are otherwise moving more slowly. Q: What kind of properties are hot right now? A: Despite the headlines on empty new development, I have had success with certain buyers who insist on new development with high-quality developers and architects. If it meets these criteria and brings something unique such as park or water views, then there is demand.
Q: Which neighborhoods in Manhattan do you cover? How would you describe the buyers the gravitate toward each area? A: While I particularly enjoy working with clients throughout Manhattan, I have been especially active on the Upper East Side, and in Flatiron, Union Square, the East Village, the West Village, Greenwich Village, and Tribeca. It has been exciting to be part of many family (school) driven activities on the Upper East Side, and also assisting other families that are increasingly focused on finding solutions downtown. Q: How can our readers optimize a sale? A: I have worked with many clients selling real estate who have optimized value in a variety of ways. While I always
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950 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side in New York; $5,800,000.
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Q: Please share your thoughts on the Manhattan real estate market. What kind of trends are you noticing? A: We are seeing a number of challenges in the Manhattan residential real estate market right now, led by oversupply, economic factors such as changes to the tax law, and a higher level of caution from buyers concerned that we may be late cycle in the economic phase of the past decade.
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Q: What are the popular residential areas in Palm Beach? A: Palm Beach has a number of neighborhoods, each of which has its own distinctive characteristics. I work with a wide range of luxury buyers with varying criteria, therefore no specific area is the most popular. Waterfront is always extremely desirable, and those looking for coveted water views are willing to pay a premium. There has been keen interest in new construction or newly renovated homes and condominiums. Some buyers prefer the immediate satisfaction of a turnkey property in order to eliminate the process of building or renovating. In-town attracts those buyers seeking the convenience of living in the center of activity. The near north end of town (in the vicinity of the Breakers) has seen tremendous redevelopment that has garnered attention with the resurgence of new dining, shopping, and condominiums that have undergone restoration and redesign. Q: Who’s buying? A: We are seeing an increase in younger buyers with families who are seeking a simpler lifestyle and refuge from higher taxed states, and international buyers who benefit from a stronger currency. We have excellent schools—
both public and private. Properties are selling well on and off the island in surrounding areas such as West Palm Beach, Jupiter, and Manalapan, all being within proximity of Palm Beach’s social and cultural offerings. Q: As a resident, tell us about Palm Beach’s hot restaurants and shopping destinations. A: The most popular restaurants on the island continue to be Honor Bar (sister of Palm Beach Grill), BrickTop’s, Cucina, Imoto, and Bice. For more upscale dining, Sant Ambroeus and Chez Jean-Pierre. Palm Beach residents are anxiously awaiting the opening of New York’s renowned La Goulue French bistro later this fall 2019 season.
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Q: I know that the North Shore is becoming an increasingly popular area for people to settle—why is this? A: The North Shore is seeing an increase in popularity because of the incredible lifestyle it offers. You can spend the day on the beach and be in Manhattan for dinner the same night. The shoreline, with its coves, bays, and inlets, sustains myriad wildlife and stunning natural beauty. Opportunities for all kinds of water sports, including sailing and kayaking, are everywhere, and we have amazing housing stock from colonial-era homes to brand-new construction. The North Shore, with its charming villages, bustling towns, beautiful beaches, golf courses, and parks, really has something for everyone. We are seeing buyers ranging from first-time buyers to downsizers, people trading with-
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in the community, and new transplants from New York City and the South Shore. Q: What are the popular restaurants and shopping destinations in the area? What about schools? A: Throughout the North Shore, you will find all kinds of shopping, including high-end luxury stores, smaller boutiques, and unique, quirky thrift shops. Go for burgers and beers at Finnegan’s in Huntington, or travel a little further down the street and end up at Piccolo’s, where Italian classics reign supreme. Oyster Bay, Northport, Locust Valley, and every other village along the North Shore provide a variety of other options.
275 Southdown Road in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island; $3,750,000.
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Q: Tell me about the different areas in Long Island that you represent. A: I grew up in Huntington Bay, raised my children in Lloyd Harbor, and have spent my whole life on the North Shore of Long Island. While I list and sell primarily within the town of Huntington, I travel wherever and whenever my clients need me from the South Shore, the Hamptons to New York City and in between.
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Q: What’s new out East? A: My favorite health food store, Provisions, has just expanded to their second location in Water Mill. We really do have the best food, yoga, and beaches here on the East End. A truly awesome lifestyle.
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Q: How do you feel about the real estate market right now? A: As always, the Hamptons offers great investment opportunities. Buyers are definitely taking advantage of these and the last six weeks have seen an uptick in the higher end of the market. This year’s fourth quarter will be our strongest. Q: What do you love about real estate sales and what kind of unique services do you offer? A: I love bringing the deal to fruition! The feeling of achievement, both in creating a meeting of the minds and especially closing the deal. Not to mention Hamptons homes are spectacular and located in the most beautiful settings in the world—I feel very blessed to live and work here. Saunders & Associates brings a unique approach to dealing with our clients, a concierge service that remains unsurpassed. When we mobilize behind our buyers and sellers, we really are a “higher form of realty.”
Q: Tell us about the core areas in the Hamptons and the neighborhoods that are gaining popularity. A: Water sports continue to be a favorite among my clients—from yachting to surfing—so waterfront real estate is always in high demand. Sag Harbor, with its beautiful marinas and waterways, is definitely a vacation favorite. Q: Anything else you’d like to share? A: If you are looking for a spectacular modern home, Hamptons top developer Farrell Building Company has a new construction due for completion next summer. It definitely has the “wow” factor and has ocean views in an A+ location—65 Sandpiper Lane in Bridgehampton. u
65 Sandpiper Lane in Bridgehampton, New York; $14,995,000.
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FOR DECADES, Dinyar Wadia’s eponymous firm has been designing breathtaking homes for discerning clients in Connecticut and Westchester County. While substantial, Wadia Associates homes are also meticulously crafted for the comfort of its clients with features tailored to meet the needs of today’s modern lifestyle. And perhaps most notably, the firm’s ability to blend each home into the site of its construction is unmatched. Luckily for Quest readers, Wadia Associates recently expanded its footprint to Palm Beach and is ready to conform its designs to the South Florida landscape. To learn more about the Wadia experience, we chat with one of the company’s dedicated clients, Marian Mule, who put her trust in Wadia to build her permanent residence, and is excited to work with the firm on her most recent purchase in Palm Beach. Brooke Kelly: Tell me about your experience with Wadia Associates. Marian Mule: We found Wadia Associates very professional, knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. My husband and I were comfortable knowing that they would take care of our interests and would follow through and accomplish our objective in the most beautiful yet efficient, cost-effective way.
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BK: What makes you excited about Wadia Associates opening an office in Palm Beach? MM: They can design anything; their ability to design in any setting is a huge asset in Palm Beach and across Southern Florida. Their reputation is based on homes beautifully designed and built correctly the first time around. BK: What else should we know about Wadia? Why should our readers use Wadia over other companies that provide similar services in the area? MM: It’s hard to find another firm that provides similar services. Wadia Associates provides guidance for the entire process from beginning to end. We didn’t have to be involved in any of the administrative tasks that are part and parcel of
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the design and construction process. We choose them because of their track record and because their designs “immediately feel like home.” Moreover, the design process was done with respect for our wishes and needs, and truly was an enjoyable process. They have designed hundreds of homes that are clearly head and shoulders above homes designed by many other high-end architectural firms. The first reason your readers should use Wadia Associates is because their focus is on your requirements. They work in a wide range of architectural styles. Every home they design—no matter the size or style, always looks and feels just right, and they get it right the first time around. They combine casual elegance and comfort with good proportions. Their work has been highly spoken of by the Prince of Wales in the foreword to the Wadia Associates monograph. Even though Dinyar never mentions this, he is one of about 40 architects worldwide to be invited to join the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU) by the Prince’s Foundation and he is also one of the few architects who is inducted into the New England Design Hall of Fame.
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Wadia Associates’ Palm Beach office will open its doors on February 1, 2020 and is located at 375 South County Road. For more information, visit wadiaassociates.com or call 203.966.0048.
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BK: What made for a great experience? MM: Wadia Associates worked seamlessly with the interior designer, landscape architect, and lighting consultant to round out the project. When it all came together, nothing looks like an afterthought. They carefully reviewed bids and make recommendations for a general contractor and oversaw the project to make sure the construction matched the specifications. Finally, I would recommend Wadia Associates because the process does not stop at the completion of the drawings. Dinyar Wadia and his team were with us from the beginning to the time we moved in, and they’ve remained available long after the project was complete. u
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On December 5th, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia will return to Miami to showcase their significant works during Art Basel through December 8th. For more information, visit artbasel.com.
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The 20th Annual Make Believe on Broadway Gala will take place at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre at 7 p.m. For more information, visit onlymakebelieve.org.
The Children’s Cancer & Blood Foundation will hold its annual Breakthrough Ball at The Plaza at 6 p.m. to help raise funds to support innovative research, physician training, and cutting-edge treatment
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The Episcopal Charities Annual Tribute Dinner, which celebrates a commitment to caring, will take
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Hope for Depression Research Foundation (HDRF) will host its 13th Annual HOPE Luncheon Seminar at The Plaza at 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit hopefordepression.org.
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The National Urban League will host its annual Equal Opportunity Dinner at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel at 6 p.m. Founded in 1910, the National Urban League is the leading civil rights organization dedicated to creating economic opportunities and elevating the standard of living in historically underserved communities. For more information, call 212.254.6677.
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The darker side of human nature will be on display during Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival through November 23rd in Druid Shakespeare: Richard III, a chilling story of power and ambition in a wickedly comic production from Ireland’s Druid theater company and director Garry Hynes. For more information, visit lincolncenter.org.
place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.316.7575.
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The Palm Beach Police & Fire Foundation will host a kickoff reception for the Palm Beach Policemen’s & Firemen’s Ball. For more information, visit palmbeachpolicefoundation.org. On November 6th, Hope for Depression Research Foundation will host its 13th Annual HOPE Luncheon Seminar. For more information, visit hopefordepression.org.
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The French Heritage Society will host its annual Black & White Ball at 7 p.m. The black-tie affair will honor Margaret and Gregory Hedberg for their invaluable contributions in the fields of philanthropy and art as well as world-renowned interior designer, Geoffrey Bradfield. The evening will include an elegant dinner followed by music and dancing to The Bob Hardwick Sound. For more information, call 212.759.6846, ext. 201. PROTECTING JOURNALISTS
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Studio will host its Annual Art Auction and Benefit at 7 p.m. Fountain House Gallery and Studio provides an environment where artists living with mental illness can express their creative visions, exhibit their work, and challenge the stigma that surrounds mental illness. For more information, visit fountainhousegallery.org. HOSPITAL OF PARIS
The American Hospital of Paris Foundation will host its Award Gala to honor Michel David-Weill at 7 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit ahpf.org.
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The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach will hold a cocktail reception for the 25th anniversary of Pan’s Garden at 5:30 p.m. For more information, visit palmbeachpreservation.org.
On November 23rd, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach will hold a cocktail reception for the 25th anniversary of Pan’s Garden. For more information, visit palmbeachpreservation.org.
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The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach will host its Founders’ Dinner featuring Jose Pepe Fanjul at Club Colette at 7 p.m. For more information, visit palmbeachpreservation.org.
The Young Friends of Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League will hold its Inaugural “Party Animal” event at The Norton Museum of Art at 7:30p.m. For more information, visit peggyadams.org.
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The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, a renowned international touring dance company led by Chinese American choreographer Nai-Ni Chen, will launch its 30th anniversary season at New York Live Arts with the production “CrossCurrent” at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit newyorklivearts.org. ART BASEL MIAMI
Leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia will return to Miami to showcase their significant works during Art Basel through December 8th. For more information, visit artbasel.com. CHRISTMAS BALL
On December 5th, Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League will host its 48th Annual Christmas Ball at the Sailfish Club at 7 p.m. For more information, visit peggyadams.org.
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This spread, from above: The “Miami, the Magic City” exhibition inside the HistoryMiami Museum; the exterior of HistoryMiami.
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HISTORYMIAMI MUSEUM 101 W. Flagler St. / 305.375.1492 It’s been a rough year for Miami sports, but that doesn’t mean fans can’t reminisce about past accomplishments. Like when Dan Marino broke the career passing-yardage record. Or when Jason Taylor reached double-digits in sacks for the sixth time in his tenure with the Miami Dolphins. Opening on September 28th, “Gridiron Glory: The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame” will showcase all that and more. It’s billed as the largest and most comprehensive exhibition on America’s favorite sport, with more than 200 artifacts, rare photographs, and interactive displays. NOVEMBER 2019 107
3201 Collins Ave. / 305.534.8800 Check your morals at the door, advises the Faena Theater. That’s because you’ll be playing a part in an interactive version of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, a play about lust, barbarism, and bad table manners. But that’s not all. The show, a Sleep No More– like version of Peter Greenaway’s acclaimed film, also highlights the basic weaknesses and strength of the human soul. Here, however, the cook actually serves up dishes from a menu created by James Beard Award Winner (and South Florida native) Michelle Bernstein. And after the meal, the plot thickens. What’s real? What’s fake? Well, that’s for you to decide. 108 QUEST
From above: A scene from The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; the Faena Theater.
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VIZCAYA MUSEUM & GARDENS 3251 S. Miami Ave. / 305.250.9133 No matter where you stand on maximalist design—whether, in your estimation, it is garish, situation-appropriate, or sublime—let’s all agree that Miami is the perfect backdrop for the style. At Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, a place that has been described as “the finest private house ever built in America” and “a jewel among Miami’s skyscrapers,” opulence rules. It is lavish, excessive, and wonderful. And the serenity of its gardens—all surrounded by a verdant tropical forest—offers harmony to grand style of the main house. If the Palace of Versailles had never existed, James Deering (the industrialist who once inhabited Vizcaya) would have crafted the next-best thing without ever leaving America.
Clockwise from above: The dining room inside Vizcaya Museum & Gardens; a faun bust at the museum; the Tea House gazebo; inside the museum’s East Loggia at sunrise.
Clockwise from top left: An untitled 1981 painting by Keith Haring; an untitled 1982 painting by Keith Haring; the 1979 New Hoover Deluxe Rug Shampooer work by Jeff Koons; an untitled 1978 painting by Cindy Sherman.
RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION 1100 Northwest 23rd St. (On December 4th) / 305.573.6090
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The constantly expanding Rubell Museum is almost ready to move into its new home. Mera and Don Rubell have operated the private collection for nearly 55 years, and it is better than ever. What originally started in New York has now become a large part of Miami’s art vocabulary, a collection that is rich and deeply personal. And it’s about to get even more exciting come December 4th when it opens in its new space on Northwest 23rd Street. The new 2.5-acre space will offer a sweep of contemporary art that cannot be found anywhere else.
Counterclockwise from above: Pérez Art Museum Miami at dusk; the museum’s hanging
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PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI (PAMM) 1103 Biscayne Blvd. / 305.375.3000 Hanging green gardens, an expertly curated selection of modern and contemporary art, and stunning views of Biscayne Bay: Welcome to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the city’s most-treasured art destination. In beauty, significance, and even controversy—the museum once lost some funding for a show featuring artists still living in Cuba—PAMM is unrivaled. Its exhibitions are original. And visionary. (Be sure to see Teresita Fernández’s “Elemental,” on view through February 9.) Plus, PAMM’s obsession with South Florida traditions is bold and wide-ranging, not limited to art. It encompasses many elements of the city’s unique culture, including books, furnishings, and the waterfront restaurant, Verde. u
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A CANVAS FOR CREATIVITY BY ALEX TRAVERS MIAMI’S MOST exciting art district is not located in the city center or on South Beach, but on a curious inner-city core of the 305 that calls to mind a rough past, even though a more pleasant reality has encroached on its surroundings. Wynwood, the still-blossoming art and business center plucked from the dreams of developer Tony Goldman, might well be a lost fragment of the vertical city, an urban novelty that offers the latest in low-rise galleries, restaurants, and shops. But Wynwood is most known for its street murals—walls and walls of contemporary frescos that salute the city’s progress and celebrate its diversity. There are more than 200 of them in the 50-block district today. And the recent book Walls of Change: The Story of the Wynwood Walls (Assouline) helps bring their narratives—and the story of its developer, Tony Goldman—to life. This spread: Painter Stelios Faitakis at the Wynwood Walls in 2009; members of the Wynwood Walls team laying the groundwork for an upcoming exhibition (inset).
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lapidated, Wynwood was ugly, “architecturally and socially inert,” said Rubenstein. “There was nothing there.” Goldman prevailed. Each day, street artists painted commissioned murals, giving Wynwood new life. Licenses were approved; businesses opened. By 2009, Wynwood developed into the electric art district we know today. But Goldman, who died in 2012 of heart failure, didn’t like to be called a developer. The term put him in a pigeonhole. “Developers are knock ’em down, build ’em up guys,” he told the New York Times back in 2000. “That’s not me.” He thought the term “visionary” was arrogant as well, even though that’s what most of his friends and family called him. “Bold” would be the best way to describe Goldman, bold like the vibrant reds and oranges and yellows that adorn the Wynwood Walls today. Because he wasn’t just an entrepreneur, or an urban planner, or a creative thinker. Tony Goldman was daring, creative, and, most importantly, optimistic. u This page: Jessica Goldman Srebnick stands before the mural by Ashop Crew (sitting above their work) at the 2018 Wynwood Walls unveiling party; Assouline’s Walls of Change: The Story of the Wynwood Walls. Opposite page, from above: Tony Goldman and Jessica Goldman Srebnick; a work by Tristan Easton, 2017; artist Barry McGee’s iconic geometric print covers a building for a project for the Wynwood Walls in 2009.
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Goldman was always celebrated as an urban planner, but the secret behind his triumphs in Philadelphia, SoHo, South Beach, and Wynwood is that he was one of the greatest risk-takers. “Do I have the balls to do this?” he’d ask himself earnestly. “And if the answer was yes,” recalled Janet Goldman, chairman and principal of Goldman Properties, “that would drive him to plan.” Wynwood was Goldman’s biggest challenge. Goldman and his family had to lobby for rezoning, liquor licenses, and the rights to a café district. There were lots of barriers to entry and the infrastructure simply didn’t exist. He kept pushing. It got to the point where people told him he was crazy. “A lot of people told him he was crazy,” said his daughter, Jessica Goldman Srebnick. He kept pushing. Years ago, before Wynwood’s major renovation, the author Hal Rubenstein drove down to the area to meet Goldman. A local man looked at Rubenstein, who was stopped at a red light, and offered this: “Only a fool would cruise these streets with the top down on his convertible.” Flat, almost lifeless, and di-
SHORTLY AFTER THE formation of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach in 1980, founding Chairman Earl E. T. Smith gave an impassioned speech to the local governing body in which he explained the unique sense of place that the organization was formed to protect: “The Preservation Foundation believes that the physical environment of this town—the natural terrain, the town plan, the buildings, the landscape, and the island setting—makes ours the most beautiful and unique community in this country and that this environment is one of Palm Beach’s most precious resources.” The first project completed by the Preservation Foundation under Smith’s leadership—the relocation and restoration of Palm Beach’s oldest house—represented the organization’s steadfast belief in the importance of historic preservation. Over the past 40 years, the Preservation Foundation has undertaken numerous projects throughout the island that protect the heritage and enhance the beauty of Palm Beach. Millions of dollars have been raised to preserve and restore historic resources like Sea Gull Cottage and Town Hall. Projects such as Pan’s Garden have fostered a deeper appreciation for the island’s botanical heritage. Most recently, the beautification project at 116 QUEST
Bradley Park transformed a 4.4-acre public park located on the town’s historic main street. Along with special exhibitions and publications that advance scholarship on the history of Palm Beach, the Preservation Foundation offers educational programs that serve 6,000 students annually. Heritage Education outreach programs teach the concept of learning about the history and culture of the community through the medium of local architecture. Field trips to Pan’s Garden and the Little Red Schoolhouse create immersive experiences that engage the next generation of stewards. The map included in the following pages provides an opportunity to celebrate some of the projects and programs of the Preservation Foundation and to quantify its impact on the community. These civic contributions would not have been possible without the vision of the organization’s founders and the generous support of Palm Beach residents. First Dinner Dance Chairwoman Sue Whitmore, Founder and First Chairman Earl E.T. Smith, The Honorable Lesly S. Smith, Alice Willard, Founder and First President Le Baron Willard at the inaugural Dinner Dance in 1982.
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FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS 311 Peruvian Avenue Built in 2004, the Preservation Foundation’s Mediterranean Revival-style headquarters is the location of the organization’s architectural archives and a locale for cultural events, lectures, and special exhibitions. Programming for the 2019–2020 season will highlight the leadership role the Preservation Foundation serves in the community.
PAN’S GARDEN 386 Hibiscus Avenue Established in 1994 by the Preservation Foundation, Pan’s Garden is a half-acre botanical garden showcasing Florida’s native plants. As a distinctive environmental concept featuring a wetlands and uplands area, the mission of Pan’s Garden—to protect and celebrate Florida’s indigenous plants and the wildlife they support—is a guiding example of landscape stewardship.
SEA GULL COTTAGE 58 Cocoanut Row When Sea Gull Cottage— the oldest existing house in Palm Beach—was threatened with demolition in 1984, the Preservation Foundation had it moved across the island to a location near its original lakefront location. The cottage was restored in the Victorian style of the late 1800s using original photographs. On land provided by the Royal Poinciana Chapel located along the historic Lake Trail, the cottage continues a useful life of service and serves as a nostalgic reminder of Palm Beach’s past. NOVEMBER 2019 00
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THE PALM SALE & RIGHT LIGHT County Road and Ocean Boulevard | Town Hall Historic District The origins of the Palm Sale began with the lethal-yellowing disease that destroyed some 25,000 trees in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A campaign to “bring back the palms” was started in response. Replenishing palms along County Road and Ocean Boulevard, the Palm Sale continued for over 25 years to address blight and hurricane damage. In 1999, the Preservation Foundation launched the Campaign for the Right Light. The $300,000 campaign allowed the organization to replace the modern street lights in the historic Town Square and nearby business areas with the original historical street lighting.
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2185 South Ocean Boulevard The first schoolhouse in Dade County was a oneroom frame vernacular structure built in 1886. In 1901, the county abandoned the schoolhouse and it became a toolshed on the John S. Phipps property. Today, the schoolhouse, located at Phipps Ocean Park, serves as the setting for a fourth grade “living history” program started by the Preservation Foundation in 1990. Students from Palm Beach, Martin, and Broward counties visit each year to participate in a school day as it would have been in 1886. 120 QUEST
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Completed in December 2017, the Preservation Foundation’s $2.7 million beautification project at Bradley Park was the result of a public-private partnership with the Garden Club of Palm Beach and Town of Palm Beach. The project transformed a 4.4-acre public park located on the town’s historic main street. Introducing a comprehensive landscape design, the project showcases the historic and natural features of the park.
TOWN HALL 360 South County Road By the late ’80s, Town Hall was a faded example of a municipal building. Designed in 1926 by Harvey and Clarke, it was one of the first structures landmarked in 1979. The exterior restoration in 1989 brought the historical details back to life, while the interior renovations in 2009 updated the building for use as a modern municipal building. The Foundation’s campaigns raised over $1,000,000 for the exterior and interior renovations.
EARL E.T. SMITH PRESERVATION PARK 356 South County Road Since its dedication in 1989, Earl E.T. Smith Preservation Park has been a noteworthy illustration of the Preservation Foundation’s community-oriented goals. This privately owned public open space is located directly west of Town Hall in the Town Hall Historic District. Formerly the site of a gas station, the park is an integral part of the area’s historic charm and was recently restored for the organization’s 40th anniversary.
HERITAGE EDUCATION 241 Seaview Avenue In 1987, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach introduced the Heritage Education Program as a pilot program at Palm Beach Day Academy. The program teaches the concept of learning about the history and culture of the community through the medium of local architecture. Today, the program is taught in four local schools in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. At the culmination of the program, students design, build, and landscape their own house using a Mediterranean Revival, Colonial Revival, or Bungalow-style house kit. u NOVEMBER 2019 00
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CLASSIC HERITAGE BY KATHRYN MAIER ALESSIA ANTINORI, vice president of the storied Italian wine house, greets me at the door of her West Village home bearing a tray holding a bottle of Tormaresca Calafuria rosé, wine glasses, and a dish of Iranian pistachios. She’s just back from the harvest in Tuscany. She, along with her sisters Albiera and Allegra, are the 26th generation to lead Antinori in the family’s more than six centuries in the wine business. “That tradition and history is extremely important and it’s our strength, because it’s what has built us,” she tells me as we sip the rosé. “The most important thing now is to maintain it. I always say that it took 600 years to build what we have created, but it takes one minute to destroy everything. So that’s a huge responsibility we are always aware of.” Her father, Piero, revolutionized the Italian wine market in the 1970s by
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creating the category of “super Tuscan,” high-quality wines from Tuscany that include non-indigenous grape varietals or use blends not allowed under DOC standards; he also purchased wine estates outside the Chianti Classico region, such as in Montepulciano, Montalcino, and Bolgheri. Their grandfather’s generation, between the two world wars, had focused on producing Chianti Classico, and the sisters have returned their attention to that region. It’s important, Alessia says, because “We come from there. Our roots are there. We are Florentines.” She considers Sangiovese to be one of the most interesting grape varietals in the world, and the family wants to highlight its different expressions and keep bringing it to the next level of quality. Not only are the sisters the first women to lead the house of Antinori, they each have diverse interests that they’re working into the business as well. Alessia’s passion is art. She’s on the board of MoMA, and she’s started commissioning site-specific works by up-and-coming modern artists at the family’s wineries. “To us this is a very important aspect of our family, because we grew up surrounded by beautiful art,” she says. The family has commissioned and collected pieces from the Renaissance period up through the present time. “Our family’s approach has always been to look ahead. Whatever we’re doing now will one day be the past, so we have to continue it.” And so the Antinori Art Project was born. Alessia commissions a work from one artist a year, who visits the winery and selects a theme—nature, history, tradition, time—for a site-specific work. Sometimes the artist chooses to live on the property while creating the piece. There have been seven or eight so far; Alessia has lost count. Among the first works commissioned was a conceptual piece by the Italian artist Rosa Barba, a sun dial of sorts, reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s meridianas. The most recent 124 QUEST
is by Sam Falls, the first American artist tapped for the project. Falls chose nature as his theme, laying an enormous canvas on the ground at the Tignanello property and letting the elements work their effects on pigments on the canvas. One might say it’s as close as an artist can get to transmitting terroir directly onto a piece. “It’s a reflection of the earth, of Tignanello,” Alessia says. Another sister, Allegra, has a passion for food. The family’s sixdecade-old restaurant in Florence, Cantinetta Antinori, has just been renovated. “It’s renewed. I finally see younger Florentines coming in to have drinks,” Alessia says. “It’s a little bit trendy.” Now an international brand, with locations in Moscow, Vienna, Monte Carlo, and Zurich, it’s not merely a passion project but also a shrewd way to promote the family’s wines, exposing them to a wider audience. “I think it’s the best way to market wine,” she says, “because with Tuscan food, in our style, you showcase the wines in the best way.” Eldest sister Albiera has recently taken the reins as the company’s president, and is getting into art as well—which, naturally, thrills Alessia. Albiera has long been responsible for the company’s marketing efforts, including all the wine labels, and recently she joined her sister in helping commission and purchase Falls’ work, then donating it to the company. And now, the 27th generation, Albiera’s son, has recently joined the family business. The sisters agree they want their children to follow them into the business only if they choose. “They have to have passion,” Alessia says. “Which, in our business especially, I think is essential.” The most vital thing, she says, is transmitting the family’s heritage and values—curiosity, a long-term view, an appreciation of what has been inherited—to her children. “Especially as a woman and a mother, it’s the most important aspect we’re thinking of, this transition to the next generation.” u
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THE MAGIC OF MOVIE POSTERS “MOVIES UNFOLD OVER TIME and can take hours to communicate a story or effect an emotional reaction. Movie posters have to do this in just moments, as we catch a glimpse in passing,” says Matthew Bird, a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design. “When they work best, they become invisible, leaving only the desire to buy a ticket.” Much has been made of the romance of film as a medium. 126 QUEST
But movie posters hold a magic of their own, an art form at once both pure and commercial, timely and timeless. A new book, Cinema on Paper: The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters (Assouline, 2019), explores this form through more than 100 works from one of the most significant private collections of film posters in the world. “Movie posters are a special breed of graphic design. They capture and retain the memory of
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This spread: Vintage movie posters from Cinema on Paper: The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters (Assouline, 2019). All images Š Dwight M. Cleveland.
a film. They crystallize on paper in shorthand an overall conception of what is fleshed out on the big screen,” the book’s introduction states. “What the best posters do is connect fans to a rich storehouse of intimate and universally shared experiences.” Dwight Cleveland began collecting film posters in 1977, when he was still in high school. Traveling the world hunting down rare film art, he eventually amassed the world’s largest archive, representing more than 100 years of film history. The posters selected for this book span genres from the turn of the 20th century to the early 2000s: comedies, musicals, Westerns, and sci-fi thrillers, as well as foreign films and cult classics. In some instances, Hollywood- and foreignproduced posters are shown side-byside to illustrate cultural differences in viewpoints. The volume features a foreword by Ben Mankiewicz, the prime time host of Turner Classic Movies, and an introduction by Steven Heller, co-chair of the SVA MFA Design program, with quotes from graphic designers, movie directors, and more interspersed throughout. A lovingly compiled addition to any contemporary art library, Cinema on Paper celebrates film posters not only as works of graphic art, but also as cultural time capsules that reflect design trends and popular culture. As Martin Scorsese is quoted as saying in the book, “Posters carry the DNA of their era. You’re confronted with an image that is speaking directly of, and from, its time. And it’s often speaking beautifully and gracefully, because that’s the visual language of movie posters at their best.” u This spread: Vintage movie posters from Cinema on Paper: The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters (Assouline, 2019). All images © Dwight M. Cleveland. 10208QQUUE ES ST T
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PRIME SHOPPING IN MIAMI From Bal Harbour and Brickell to the ever-chic Design District and the Lincoln Road mall just steps from the beach, we guide you through the hottest boutiques—both old and new—in Miami’s bustling shopping destinations.
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RALPH LAUREN 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.861.2059 / ralphlauren.com The new Bal Harbour is taking shape, heading toward the goal of adding 340,387 square feet of retail to the outdoor shopping mecca, but that doesn’t mean your tried-and-true destinations are going anywhere, like the mainstay Ralph Lauren. Having just celebrated its 50th year in business, Ralph Lauren is returning to its roots of classic essentials—from cableknit sweaters to polos and rugby shirts and every type of denim. The Bal Harbour boutique offers the brand’s many labels for men and women, including Made to Measure, Lauren Women, accessories, and footwear.
CHANEL FRAGRANCE AND BEAUTÉ BOUTIQUE 701 S Miami Avenue (Brickell City Centre) 786.673.4077 / chanel.com In late September, Brickell City Centre introduced the new Chanel Fragrance and Beauté Boutique, offering the brand’s coveted makeup, fragrances, and skincare products as well as a selection of Chanel Eyewear. Situated in the center of the boutique, the “Espace Parfum” station, Chanel’s first of its kind in the U.S., also serves as a unique digital interactive experience that invites customers to experience the its fragrances like Les Exclusifs, Les Extraits, and Les Eaux de Chanel in unexpected ways. Those seeking guidance in making their beauty selections can also participate in Master Classes in this chic space, and book makeup application appointments or skincare consultations.
BALMAIN 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.397.8152 / balmain.com Since Pierre Balmain founded his eponymous label in 1945, the house of Balmain has been known for flattering the female figure and decking women around the world in Parisian opulence. From his nipped-waist dresses of the ’40s and ’50s to today’s famous bandage dress, the line celebrates those hourglass curves. In its flagship boutique in the Bal Harbour Shops, find an array of those coveted Balmain mini dresses along with a selection of ready-to-wear, shoes, and accessories. For the men, shop this season’s biker jacket, sweaters, and printed cotton T-shirts.
DSQUARED2 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.866.7880 / dsquared2.com Dsquared2 designers Dean and Dan Caten (they are identical twin brothers) have a knack for punchedup design. The duo’s Italian flair is right at home in Miami, where showing off skin is encouraged. So are bold, bright colors and sexy silhouettes. And who better than Dsquared2 to provide you with those kind of outfits? At the Bal Harbour boutique, you’ll find the latest in men’s and women’s fashion, perfect for the beach or a night out. Its stylish sneakers turn track shoes into dress shoes with their clean lines, high-end materials, and colorful construction. You’ll be living your best life in the brand’s staples.
KIEHL’S 540 Lincoln Road 305.531.0404 / kiehls.com Founded in 1851 in New York, Kiehl’s began as an apothecary. But when it was taken over by Aaron Morse, a World War II pilot, just over 100 years later, the brand began expanding and became popular for its skincare lines. Today, Kiehl’s still uses nature and science to create one-ofa-kind products. For example, the brand’s latest anti-aging face mask—infused with avocado fruit extract, avocado oil and evening primrose oil—helps smooth and hydrate skin while preventing water loss by sealing in moisture. A quick stop into the Kiehl’s Lincoln Road store can refresh your whole routine, with options for face, hair, and body as well as a full line for men.
DYLAN’S CANDY BAR 801 Lincoln Road 305.531.1988 / dylanscandybar.com Subscribing to the motto that life is sweet, Dylan’s Candy Bar has been giving customers that much-needed spoonful of sugar since 2001. Housing more than 7,000 confections, this Miami outpost is a must-visit, from its colorful seating outside to the sugary wonders found within. This modern-day Willy Wonka factory has it all, from sweet chocolate to mouth-puckering sour candy in every flavor imaginable. If you’re feeling tired, go for the “energy-packed” gummy bears. You can even find a souvenir for that special someone in the form of personalized candy gift baskets.
LACOSTE 1026 Lincoln Road 305.674.6810 / lacoste.com There are many reasons to visit Lacoste’s attractive Lincoln Road boutique: Stock up on piqué polos in every color, test the latest fragrances, check out the new Fashion Show collection, try on some fresh sneakers, and see what the Lacoste Sport section has to offer. And, along with the latest trends, the Miami outpost stocks the warm-weather necessities needed year-round in Southern Florida. Shop colorful beach towels, sleek swimwear, sandals and slip-ons, and an array of punchy totes to carry all of your accessories for a day at the beach.
TOD’S 139 NE 39th Street (Design District) 305.576.8132 / tods.com A leader in creating luxury leather goods and shoes for men and women, Tod’s opened a boutique in 2017 in Miami’s bustling Design District that houses its iconic handcrafted accessories as well as apparel from its runway collections. Designed by Bonetti & Kozerski, the space perfectly aligns with the strong appreciation for craftsmanship and the arts that the brand has shown since its founding: a marble runway, polished floors, contemporary furniture, artwok curated by the Tod’s team, Italian décor, and moveable leather-clad walls that can be used to transform the area into a gallery occupy the area. Coupled with the wide selection of luxurious pieces—from the iconic loafers to Double T bags—the shop’s interior will impress from the moment you step inside.
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140 NE 39th Street (Design District) 786.615.2722 / vhernier.com Originally opened as a goldsmith’s workshop in 1984, Vhernier has always had a passion for gold and a fascination with gemstones. Today, the Italian designer aims to create jewelry that is contemporary and unconventional. Building upon its icons, like the Calla necklace, the Pirouette ring, the Palloncino brooch, and the Vague earrings, each year the brand’s collections offer sophisticated, nature-inspired silhouettes, which boast a singular movement that separates each piece from the crowded market of high jewelry. Each unique item is crafted by hand by highly skilled artisans in the workshops located in Valenza, Italy. NOVEMBER 2019 133
GUCCI 139 NE 41st Street (Design District) 786.915.8710 / gucci.com Gucci’s Alessandro Michele has been credited by many for waking up a tired fashion cycle of designers who were afraid to take risks. As lead risk-taker, Gucci’s designs range from eclectic to contemporary to romantic—and often all at once. Perfectly at home in Miami’s Design District, shop this season’s opulent introductions or find Gucci’s treasured staples, from the coveted logo belt to expertly crafted leather goods for men and women, highlighted by that instantaneously recognizable red-and-green stripe.
ROLEX 135 NE 39th Street (Design District) 305.576.5391 / rolex.com Time is a valuable thing, and no one takes that mantra more seriously than Rolex, which has been making innovative and impeccable timepieces for the past century. In its sleek, futuristic Miami Design District boutique, discover the latest in luxury watches like the Explorer, Datejust, Pearlmaster, and Daytona. Since the brand strives for perfection (which, it says, is found in the details), only official Rolex retailers are allowed to sell and maintain a timepiece from the brand. With the necessary skills, technical know-how and special equipment, they guarentee the authenticity of each and every part of your Rolex, not to mention its reliability.
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Emilio Pucci began showing his collections to international press and buyers in 1951. His designs featured sensual, free-flowing lines that followed the natural curves of the body—elegant and color-packed clothing that took women from day to evening, from jets to seaside cocktail parties, perfectly complementing the lifestyle of the high-rolling, international crowd. Today’s collections appeal to that same elusive crowd, and you can find chevron-knit jumpers, print button-downs, trousers, dresses, and wrap skirts, as well as chic leather pumps and booties and shearling coats. 134 QUEST
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ROBERTO COIN 130 NE 40th Street (Design District) 305.576.4466 / robertocoin.com Constantly experimenting with light, texture, color, and pattern, Roberto Coin’s style has been ever-evolving since 1977. Fusing thoughtful elegance and creativity, Coin’s designs all contain his signature ruby for peace, prosperity, and happiness. The Design District boutique features some of the iconic collections from Roberto Coin, such as Pois Moi, Haute Couture, Black Jade, Roberto Coin, and Cento Collection. This season, Roberto Coin is offering designs based on your favorite Disney characters, such as the Cinderella Diamond Tiara Ring and the Cinderella Mouse Necklace with Diamond Accent, among other new collections.
HERMÈS 163 NE 39th Street (Design District) 305.868.0118 / hermes.com Hermès, the French brand specializing in leather, lifestyle accessories, perfume, luxury goods, and ready-to-wear, is synonymous with smart style. Established in 1837, the celebrated house has had equally influential designers, including Lola Prusac, Pierre Hardy, Eric Bergère, Marc Audibet, Mariot Chane, Martin Margiela, and JeanPaul Gaultier. Hermès brings its enduring craftsmanship, rich heritage, and timeless Parisian style to the boutique at Miami Design District. The selection encompasses all 14 product categories of the house, from the iconic Birkin and Kelly bags, to men’s cashmere suits and fine silk scarves and ties. Each object is made by hand, employing the same technique practiced nearly two centuries ago.
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170 NE 40th Street (Design District) 305.573.6024 / toryburch.com Tory Burch is an American brand that embodies the preppy and bohemian style of its founder. Launched in 2004, Tory Burch’s eponymous line features everything you need for you next tropical getaway, including shoes, accessories, statement jewelry, swimwear and ready-to-wear collections—making Miami the perfect home for one of its many lively boutiques. In the Design District shop, you will find the brand’s latest offerings for fall, such as tunics with bold prints, brightly colored sandals, and an array of revamped classics like the iconic crossbody bags. u
This page: An outdoor beach area in Palm Beach, designed by Lisa Perry; Lilly Pulitzer emerges from a plane clutching dress fabric, 1963 (inset). Opposite page: Estée Lauder photographed by her dining room table for Town & Country in Palm Beach, circa 1970.
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of access to the area. At the same time, Addison Mizner and Paris Singer began to make their mark across Palm Beach, filling the area with Spanish-Mediterranean–style architecture with the goal of making “Palm Beach the winter capital of the world.” In their view, “there [was] no place in Europe to compare with the climate: All that [was] needed [was] to make it gay and attractive.” And that they did. Now the ultimate resort town for the country’s upper crust, Palm Beach is filled with the creative stamps left by these early players—serving as a reminder of their imagination and Palm Beach’s artistic roots. Spanish-Mediterranean architecture, sculpture gardens, and dreamy courtyards still dominate the
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“TENNIS, SWIMMING, LUNCH. Golf, drinks, dinner. The movies. The Colony. Bradley’s. Bed.” While the faces and places have since changed, Cecil Beaton’s description of a typical visit to Palm Beach for Vogue in 1937 still aptly captures the carefree spirit and character of the island today. Longtime Palm Beach resident Aerin Lauder takes us through her favorite stops on the island in her new coffee table book for Assouline, paying homage to the longstanding treasures and traditions that have kept families—including her own—returning for generations. In the early 1900s, industrialist Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the Island’s earliest settlers, purchased large land plots to build two new hotels (one of which was The Breakers, formerly the Palm Beach Inn) and established a railroad facilitating ease
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area. There is also a certain unique color palette built into the city, adding vibrancy and a cheerful spirit that is truly exclusive to Palm Beach. Colorful facades line the streets like The Colony Hotel’s pink exterior and elaborate tile-scapes. The color of the city is also reflected in the people—from their choice of cars and bikes, to how they dress. It’s a place that’s “not always sunny, but in a sunny state of mind,” as Lilly Pulitzer once said. Worth Avenue is the place to achieve the signature Palm Beach style. Many of the shops, including J.McLaughlin, Tory Burch, and Lilly Pulitzer, offer the casual and colorful American apparel that is donned by the island’s residents. Perhaps no brand is more emblematic of Palm Beach than Stubbs & Wootton, with its famous flamboyant velvet slippers. High-end designers also abound, such as Chanel and Ralph Lauren, as the casual island attitude does not detract from the still-thriving social scene and glamorous nightlife which has been celebrated by society’s elite for decades—from the Guests, Fairbanks, and Kennedys, to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The iconic shopping strip shines even after the shops close for the day: At night, the palm trees are lit from below, and “the effect is magical,” says Lauder. One of the most anticipated—and exclusive—nightlife traditions is The Coconuts black-tie New Year’s Eve ball, held each year at the nearby Flagler Museum. In the 1920s it was the place to be as the clock struck midnight, and it still is today. It’s the quirky, playful attitude, along with the old-age glamour and exclusive roster of frequenters, that make Palm Beach truly unlike any other place in the world. And while Buccan may have taken the place of Nandos, not much has changed in Palm Beach since its early days. As Lauder puts it, “There’s a great respect for the past in Palm Beach—an embracing of the Old World—but there’s also a younger generation that keeps this special place modern and relevant. It is at once old and new.” u
This page: Aerin Lauder at her house in Palm Beach, shot for Architectural Digest; a vintage Palm Beach postcard (inset). Opposite page, from above: Vibrant colors pop in The Breakers’ Palm Courtyard; the Lauder family in 1972; a horse comes face-to-face with a puissance wall at Palm Beach’s Wellington Equestrian Center; the cover of Assouline’s new book, Palm Beach, by Aerin Lauder.
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Clockwise from top left: Kirsten Dunst at Veuve Clicquot’s annual Polo Classic in Los Angeles; Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman; Rachel Bilson; Nacho Figueras, Julia Roberts, and Delfina Blaquier; the USC marching band performing the National Anthem.
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annual Polo Classic in the California Hills. To kick off the match, the University of Southern California’s marching band took to the field and performed the National Anthem for over 7,500 spectators, followed by the ball toss ceremony— this year taken on by Rachel Zoe, who has proudly attended the event each year since its founding. The match ended in a victory for the Champagne house against Team Will Rogers.
This year’s event was particularly special as it marked its 10th anniversary, and Veuve Clicquot urged guests to join in on the celebration by presenting an elaborate cake decorated in the brand’s iconic colors. The milestone event also featured music by DJs Markus Molinari and Johnny Wujek and, as always, attracted a stylish celebrity crowd which included Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Regina Hall, Kaley Cuoco, Mandy Moore, Rachel Bilson, and Lea Michele. NOVEMBER 2019 141
following Louis XIII Cognac’s premiere of The Broken Butterfly; Ludovic du Plessis and Halston Sage; Nick Champagne, Filippe Vasilescu, and Randall Shu.
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LAST MONTH, the Cinema Society hosted a screening of Ira Sachs’ new film, Frankie, at the Metrograph theater in the Lower East Side. The drama takes place over a summer in the dreamy town of Sintra, Portugal, and follows three generations who have gathered there for a family getaway. What begins as a fairy tale vacation suddenly takes a turn— as certain romantic impulses among the group stir the pot. The film stars Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Tomei, who were both present at the screening as well as an afterparty at The Crown at Hotel 50 Bowery. Additional guests included Tory Burch, Donna Karan, and Dana Delany.
Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation premiered The Broken Butterfly—a 1919 film restored by the organization to support Louis XIII’s 100 Years campaign, which has been working to bring attention to climate change. “Thanks to The Film Foundation and Martin Scorsese, The Broken Butterfly can be experienced once again one century later. Restoring this piece of memory is for us, at Louis XIII, a real pleasure and honor,” said Ludovic du Plessis of Louis XIII. The screening was followed by a Q&A and dinner with Scorsese, and was attended by Kelly Rutherford, Halston Sage, Jean Reno, among others.
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Clockwise from top left: Rebecca de Ravenel at The Peninsula Paris for the debut of the new art installations, as part of its “Art in Resonance” program; Allie Michler and Kerby Jean-Raymond; Olivia Palermo; the fashion presentation from Brother Vellies, founded by Aurora James (center); the curators and artists.
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Paris held a celebration to toast the next chapter of the brand’s global contemporary art program “Art in Resonance”. The initiative was launched in March at The Peninsula’s Hong Kong headquarters and aims to redefine hotel art, with a focus on promoting modern and emerging artists that use art to reach a wide range of cultures and generations. At the celebration, artists Elise Morin and Saya Woolfalk raised a glass to their
own installations, which will be on display in Paris through November 15th. A popular neon sculpture by Iván Navarro that originally debuted in Hong Kong will also sit alongside the new works. The artists and curators were joined by an intimate crowd to preview the collection, including Kerby Jean-Raymond, Selby Drummond, Rebecca de Ravenel, and Olivia Palermo. “Art in Resonance” will return to Hong Kong in the new year, followed by a stop at The Peninsula Tokyo. u NOVEMBER 2019 143
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JACQUELINE KENNEDY was not inclined to public speaking, which is well known—nor was she, in spite of the countless images of her in the color, very fond of wearing pink (she thought light blues, bright greens, blacks, and beiges suited her best). She was resolute, however, about being of use to her husband, and if President Kennedy asked her to give a speech (usually in a foreign language, which she was so adept at) or to wear pink (he thought it made her stand out in a crowd and on magazine covers), she complied. Jackie measured up on both of these counts in the scene pictured here, taken on December 29, 1962, at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The president and first lady arrived for a rally to welcome home members of Brigade 2506, the group of nearly 1,400 Cuban exiles who in April 1961 had launched the doomed invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. The surviving brigade prisoners remained in captivity for 20 months, and were eventually released in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine. In Miami, the president 144 QUEST
needed to reconcile with the Cuban exile community, and so he relied on his wife, who spoke beautiful Spanish, to say a few words to woo the crowd. Dressed in a pink sleeveless dress with an updo to keep her cool in the Miami heat, Jackie watched as the brigade’s flag was handed over to her husband, who saluted the men for the “profound impression” their brave service, even in prison, made on the people of this hemisphere. “I can assure you,” the president promised, in his heavy Boston accent, “that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana.” Mrs. Kennedy made no such promises, but in a slowly articulated Spanish took to the microphone and spoke of the honor it was to be in their presence. “I am proud that my son has met the officers,” she continued. “He is too young to realize what has happened here, but I will be sure to tell him the story of your valor as he grows older. It is my wish and my hope that one day he may become a man at least half as brave as the members of Brigade 2506 have been.” —Daniel Cappello
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