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SUMMER AT THE STABLES IN GREENWICH
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LANDSCAPES OF TIME AND MEMORY A new exhibition displays the paintings of David Smith and others celebrating the landscapes of Lake George. by Tony hall
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TOP BROKERS IN TOP LOCATIONS Our top real estate agents discuss their properties and strategies in the country’s most desirable markets. by brooke kelly
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Deborah Goodrich Royce explores themes of identity in her debut novel, Finding Mrs. Ford. by kaThryn Maier
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CAPRI’S ETERNAL ALLURE A new book from Assouline is a photographic love letter to the storied Italian isle and the people who’ve called it home. by kaThryn Maier
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GREENWICH’S GREATEST From scarves to swimsuits, and shoes to precious stones, our annual guide to the best boutiques and salons on and around Greenwich Avenue.
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Clockwise from near left: Our cover model, Adrienne Sternlicht, with her horse; Anthony F. “Tony” Hall, publisher of the Lake George Mirror; America’s most renowned sculptor, David Smith, at his studio above Bolton Landing; post-match at the 2017 Mashomack International Polo Challenge; Bruce Colley takes a breather between chukkers; Deborah
AHHH...JUNE—the month with the longest days of the year and the beginnings of what Henry James called the two most beautiful words in the English lexicon: “summer afternoon.” And for the past dozen years, June at Quest means Greenwich, the most celebrated of all American suburbs. The British-borrowed name itself connotes a lifestyle of genteel country living, amateur sportsmanship, and crisp, sun-kissed afternoons. Our talented features editor, Brooke Kelly, has led our Greenwich coverage for the past three years, and she’s called on Quest’s brilliant photographer-at-large, Julie Skarratt, to shoot equestrian Adrienne Sternlicht in Greenwich, at a Taconic Road manse and at Adrienne’s back county stables. The day proved to be overcast and rainy, but the verdant green of Greenwich remained unfazed. Senior Editor Kathryn Maier has cleverly penned a thumbsup review of Greenwich resident (and Quest 400 member) Deborah Royce’s inaugural novel, Finding Mrs. Ford. This blue-blooded thriller has already hit the best-seller lists, while dear Deborah is well onto her second novel, titled Ruby Falls. No green Greenwich grass has had time to grow under this author’s feet! And the June issue of Quest also includes our annual Polo Journal. This year we salute the Mashomack Polo Club, which will be hosting its 21st International Polo Challenge on June 22nd. The Challenge has been ably steered for nearly two decades by my friend Bruce Colley, a true gent and Laddie Sanford look-alike who has also captained Quest’s polo team to victory in past Challenges. May Team Quest prevail again this year—both on and off the field! Finally, we welcome my fellow publisher and Lake George pal, Tony Hall, back to Quest’s pages. Tony’s insightful piece 18 QUEST
on the just-opened “Landscapes Lost and Found” exhibition at the Bolton Landing Historical Museum reveals a few of the earliest (1930s) paintings by David Smith, America’s most heralded and revered sculptor. These vivid and very personal pictures have never before been exhibited, and reflect Smith’s ultimately successful search for a summer place (the hills above Lake George) where he could simply “make art.” It’s all found on pages 94-99; better yet, come to Bolton Landing and visit these paintings in person! Enjoy your June, and do let me hear from you; Quest’s operators are never on vacation! u
Chris Meigher ON THE COVER: Adrienne Sternlicht wearing a dress by Tory Burch, photographed at 230 Taconic Road in Greenwich. Part of “Summer at the Stables in Greenwich,” produced by Brooke Kelly, photographed by Julie Skarratt (page 86).
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Terry had died early last month after a brief illness and a bout of pneumonia. You may have read about it in the New York Times obit, which celebrated her as the successful Broadway producer that she was. I met her in the mid-’90s through our mutual friend
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gift, but it is also, at the very least, a challenge, and at the very worst, a destroyer of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Terry Kramer surely faced those challenges, although in some ways she was lucky to escape the worst of it. I learned that she was very close to her father, but not so close to her mother. Maybe that was her good fortune, in more ways than one. Terry was a lifelong New York girl, growing up mid-century, when New York was at its zenith in the world. She loved being around people, had great access to
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people, and frequently entertained. She also loved theatre, and in time became a big investor/ producer who actually won five Tonys for best-production Broadway shows. If you needed to get good seats, Terry would take care of it if you asked her. We first met at a big house she had on the beach in Southampton. I had never seen her up to that point, only heard of her. The house had a large living room with lots of comfortable sofas and chairs and ottomans. You were invited, just from the look of it, to sit down and enjoy the company and the atmosphere. It reminded me of
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a grand house in Beverly Hills. Formally casual. It had some of that show-biz glamour glitz to the interior design. A good-looking woman with thick blond hair with the grays denied entry, she seemed perpetually tanned in my memory’s eye. Her kindly, bright eyes smiled a lot, her lipstick red and fresh, she was immediately warm on meeting. There was a matter-of-fact-ness about it all, about her. I took her to be one of those people who likes people and is welcoming. All these years later, the last time I saw her, at dinner at her apartment a couple of months ago, it was all still there. I could see she was her father’s girl. She had a natural,
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A self-confident warmth about her. Someone once described her to me as “wearing the pants” in the family. I don’t think she played that role with the men in her life. But she wore slacks a lot. She was a woman in her sixties when we met, and unlike so many of her contemporaries, she had not had “work” done. Age was beginning to set in on the attractive face and kind eyes. I saw her from time to time for the next 20 years, either at a restaurant with her guests, or at a cocktail party on the fabulous terrace of her blocklong duplex penthouse on Madison Avenue in the East 70s. It had 360-degree views of the metropolis, and large
and comfortable reception rooms. Everything was the very best and “tasteful” in the old New York way. Elegant, sophisticated, but comfortable to be with always. That was how one always felt in her company. It came from within, a need for that company, those friends. The enormous 13-bedroom house she built on the ocean in Palm Beach was far-flung and grand, again in that Hollywood sense; but again, very comfortable for the guests. She’d invited me several times to spend time there and enjoy the conveniences and luxuries that were there for guests. She liked having guests “make themselves at home.”
I never did visit to stay, although the few times I was down there, I’d let her know I was coming, and she’d invite me to dinner with friends. The last time was a few years ago, when JH and I were down there along with Steve Millington and Michael McCarty (of Michael’s—where Terry also often lunched). We were at a big, round table on the terrace overlooking the beach and ocean, and the fare presented was fantastic. Inviting a restaurateur to her table required that she match his largesse and sophistication. And she did. In 1999, after Irwin Kramer, her husband of 41 years, had died, she moved her win-
ter residence from Lyford Cay to Palm Beach, and the newly built La Follia which is just down the road from the Bath & Tennis and Mar-a-Lago. There, she often entertained and eventually took on a new partner—an Englishman named Nick Simunek. Nick was possibly a few years younger than Terry, a hail-fellow-well-met of an Englishman. I never knew what his education or background was, but he was familiar with all of the Right (British) People, both high and low, and maintained a bright, humorous personality that was entertaining as well as good company. It was clear among his friends that the marriage
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Beach, and Saint Tropez in the summer months. She always had guests and friends surrounding; she loved her dog, a sweet little shih-tzu. Alas, a few years ago, her longtime pup died, and Terry adopted a new shih-tzu, who survives her. An associate, who liked her very much, recalled that “she wasn’t everybody’s kettle of fish.” She had the certainty of a woman of wealth whose background afforded her whatever she wanted or expected. She could express that certainty in a variety of ways. She could even be heard yelling at her dog when he was
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I never met and rarely saw Mrs. Wrightsman, although apparently she got out enough. What she and Terry Allen Kramer had in common was centimillion-dollar fortunes. Jayne Wrightsman’s social prominence arose from a far less financially distinguished upbringing. She was born Jane Larkin in October 1919 in Flint, Michigan. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, like many Americans in the Midwest, Jane’s mother, without her husband, moved her young family to Los Angeles. Because of the spectacular growth of the film industry, Los Angeles was fast becoming the City of Dreams—for the entire civilization.
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A It was there that young Jane added the “y” to her name. As soon as she was old enough, she went to work. That was how young American women could support—and, if they were lucky, educate—themselves in those days. Out in the world one met people; one learned about life. And if you had curiosity, imagination, and some intelligence (the most reliable quality in the end), a young woman with ambition could make a life, or a career; or both. If she were also lucky. Because it wasn’t handed to her; she had to work. Jayne Larkin was a pretty young girl with the makings and imagination of becoming
a beauty. By her late teens, she had worked as a salesgirl in one of the department stores (at the women’s glove counter, it’s been said) along Wilshire Boulevard. She was also pretty enough to occasionally model the merchandise. The idea of a film career may have passed through her young mind, especially since she was in close geographical proximity. Her looks and youth were eligible to involve her, if nothing else, in the social life of the film business. Los Angeles was still a small city, but the spectacular growth of the still new film industry made it already a highly sophisticated social center. By the mid-1930s, Los An-
geles and Palm Springs were hot destinations for rich and social New Yorkers. The younger members of society in New York, including Vanderbilts, Whitneys and Astors, were frequent visitors, rubbing elbows with movie stars and moguls in Hollywood/ Beverly Hills. Jock Whitney and his cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney had formed their own production company, and in 1935 produced the first fully Technicolor film, Becky Sharp. (Jock Whitney also owned the film rights to the best-selling novel of the age, Gone With The Wind.) Everyone was new in that special world of opportunity. Everything was new and
young; even the young local woman making her way in that world was new. When Jayne first met Mr. Wrightsman—which is how she would have addressed him; he had been married and divorced, with two daughters closer to Jayne’s age—he was identifiably a rich, older man. What later became their mutual leap to prominence in the international world was clearly not any more accidental than a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers dance number. It could be argued that neither could have done it without the other. Charles’ father, also Charles Wrightsman, was an oilman and lawyer who made a huge fortune in the Oklahoma oil
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fields at the beginning of the 20th century. Charles Senior was also the man credited for thinking up the “oil depletion allowance” for which he is gratefully (wrong word but right idea) remembered to this day by any and all in the mineral deposit and timber business. It is a tax law that allows the owners of such to regard them as a “wasting asset,” allowing the wasted part to be reasonably depreciated against income. Born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, in 1895 when it was still a “territory,” young Charles was educated at Phillips Exeter and Stanford and Columbia Universities. That took the boy 30 QUEST
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out of Pawnee into the worlds of New York and Europe, as well as into the movie industry. His exposure to the great big world out there changed his life. Although he had been left a fortune by his father, by the time he and Jayne Larkin had met, he had been head of Standard Oil Kansas and was retired, and still a young man (at 48) with ambition. In 1944, having met at a dinner party of a film producer, and after having known each other for less than a year, Jayne and Charles Wrightsman married. It was an exceptionally fateful marriage of ambition. Whether or not it could be seen at the time, their life to-
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gether unfolded with clarity. She was 24 and he was 48. The early years of marriage must have been an education, perhaps for both man and wife. It wouldn’t be hard to speculate that both he and she knew early on that they had made a good deal for themselves. He was anxious to assuage the ego of the boy from Pawnee and she was anxious to learn How To Be. Somewhere in their meeting was the mutual understanding of individual ambitions. Charles had already begun to involve himself with “collecting.” How it came together for them is unknown to me, but most importantly it was
unique to the American eye in those days. Their undertaking, the development of the collection took place over the next three decades. By the 1950s, they were living in New York and had gotten involved in collecting 18th century French furniture and art. I don’t know which of them was the first to be attracted to the 18th century. The appeal of 18th century French furniture and arts was popular among the very rich in the first half of the 20th century. It had gone out of vogue with the French for almost a century, after the collapse of the monarchy with the murder of the King and Queen. Its decora-
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A tive value was revived in the early 20th century by, among others, two American women, Elsie de Wolfe, later Lady Mendl, and Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, who had been married to the ninth Duke of Marlborough. The growing Wrightsman collection was accompanied by a beautiful New York residence and a fashionable Palm Beach mansion which had once belonged to the Society icon of those times: Mona, Countess Bismarck when she was Mrs. Harrison Williams. In 1961, when Jack Kennedy was President, he and his wife Jackie were guests of the Wrightsmans in Palm Beach. Whatever the road they
traveled, with hosting the most glamorous presidential couple ever known, their position was indemnified in the New Society brought on by the Kennedy Presidency. The young, married Jayne Wrightsman was not only interested in the connoisseurship of the 18th century, and collecting, but she also developed and represented that hauteur and froideur that we often associate with women of her imagined “station.” It was a style of life that for a newcomer spoke very quietly of ambition and imagination, as well as an intelligence that could
be cultivated. She could be pleasantly friendly with some, but standoffish and even rude to others—including women who were (in the beginning) her “betters.” This was not perceived, by those who experienced it, as shortsighted of her, but rather as a conceit. Her marriage to Charles had been the greatest opportunity of a lifetime, and she grasped it when offered. Her public image and behavior gave her an esteem in the world they aspired to. But it also masked her own insecurities. You can take the Jane out of the Jayne but the
truth remains intact, Y or no Y. By the mid-20th century, when the new couple began openly developing their interest as collectors, 18th century French furniture and objet was already de rigueur in the private salons of what was then called Society. The difference between those who were furnishing their drawing rooms with what was “proper,” and Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, was that the Wrightsmans were buying real history and making history socially with it. Coincidentally or not, at the same time, Charlene Wrightsman, a Wrightsman daughter from his first marriage, had
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establishing themselves. One night in 1963, while watching television, Charlene, who was only seven years younger than her stepmother, overdosed on more than two dozen sleeping pills. I, along with the rest of the world, had first heard about Jayne Wrightsman back in the early 1960s, when President and Mrs. Kennedy were their guests in Palm Beach. It was said by those who knew her, and by those in the interior design business, that her residences were prime examples of great taste—accented by treasures that were originally made for palaces. Despite the abundance of gilt, it was never
reduced to gaudiness or c’est trop. She had already gotten involved with Jacqueline Kennedy’s refurbishing the collections at the White House. Aside from the obvious passion that Jayne and Charles Wrightsman had developed for art, antiques, and interior design, and the great knowledge and expertise they achieved, it also was their ticket to society. By the mid-20th century, the Victorian-era Society had completely loosened to what an earlier “Cholly Knickerbocker,” Maury Paul, called “Café Society.” The newly prominent Wrightsmans, besides collecting and furnishing their domi-
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ciles with gilted fauteuil, etc., began donating important pieces and paintings to the Metropolitan Museum. It also led to their becoming members of the board of directors of the museum. Today, the Wrightsman Collections at the Met are vast. It demonstrates how, unlike today, where people on the rise pursue status and acknowledgement via the various forms of social media, Jayne and Charles Wrightsman pursued it through style and connoisseurship, and left a lasting legacy to the world. The little girl from L.A. departed a legend in her lifetime. Rich or Royal. Or Both.
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proper role needs to be found for Harry as Prince William starts preparing to be king. They want to keep Harry and Meghan as part of the royal ‘firm’ rather than letting them pursue their own projects, such as a planned television series on mental health with Oprah Winfrey.” And then little Archie Harrison was born, and even Gale King got into the act. A friend of mine in London wrote: “It is most unfortunate (the sending Harry and Meghan away), and bound to alienate almost everyone. The most exclusive club in the world does not like outsiders, does not embrace diversity, does not value independent women, and does not like change. They’ve once again displayed an uncanny and particular talent for shooting themselves in the foot. And this is just a foretaste of what’s to come when QEII passes. But hey, it makes for excellent
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A reading. And a welcome relief from Brexit.” All is leftover from the saga of the boys’ mother, Princess Diana, who remains in memory with bittersweet grace. Her presence in the world during her short life made a difference to so many people all over the globe, and actually elevated the esteem for the Royal Family, because Diana represented kindness and empathy. Her sons are heirs to that aura. Harry is almost, and was bound to be, as popular in the world as his mother—and for the same reasons. He is England’s greatest ambassador of good will, glad tidings, and a better world for all. That may seem
like it’s stretching it, but his image conveys that entirely. Then, the first official photograph of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh and Meghan’s mother, Dora, in the first official photograph of Baby Archie and his mother and father, confirmed it: It’s a new world. William, the Duke of Cambridge, is being “prepared” for the throne, but lacks that public mystique, which evidently goes with the territory of male heirs to the throne. He and his wife, Catherine, wear the image of a well-todo upper-class couple very comfortably. When—and if—his father succeeds to
the throne, the Cambridges will become the Prince and Princess of Wales. As grand a title as it seems, William’s father Charles, the present and lifelong Prince of Wales, has spent his entire life (he’s 70 this year) biding his time being as serious and useful and royally royal as he can be under the bizarre circumstances. The last Prince of Wales to be in Charles’ position (of waiting and waiting) was his great-great-grandfather, Edward VII, who was 61 when he succeeded his mother Queen Victoria to the throne. His comment about the circumstances at the time was brief: “Too late.” Bertie—as Edward VII was
known to his family and his people—unlike Charles, had a mother who didn’t like being around the people, or even being in London. So her son, then PoW, when he came to maturity, had the advantage of having his mother’s availability to the rest of the world. And he flourished with it. When he came to the throne, Bertie was king of an empire, and his political expertise and natural common sense affected the common man positively. It has often been written that had Bertie lived beyond 1910, there may never have been a World War I because of his relationship with his nephew, the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A There is no longer an empire, however, and Queen Elizabeth II has developed and possesses the role of a monarch without great political power, but with enormous popular and political influence because of her manner, her womanhood, and her natural sense of belonging with the people. That’s real power. It can be said that only Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is eligible for that kind of reputation and role, on the throne or never on the throne. There has been a lot of talk, much of which was probably speculation, that since Harry’s marriage to Meghan, things have
changed for him with his family. The resulting rumors have been that his wife and Will’s wife don’t get along, and that Meghan is a woman with her own American way of doing things, which is not appreciated. Again, the Times: “… Palace insiders say a hybrid role will be devised that would take them away from Britain for two or three years. ‘Discussions are at an early stage, but the plan is to find a new way of using their soft power abilities, most likely in Africa,’ a source said. “A second source confirmed: “There are discussions in palace circles about: how do we harness Harry
and Meghan? How do you harness this phenomenon that has emerged? You make it productive.” Whatever occurs, Harry married far outside their norm, since his duchess is American, an actress, and already has been independently famous. The nearest comparison is Harry’s great-great-uncle, David, the Duke of Windsor, who briefly was King Edward VIII until he abdicated to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. His influence was lost with the marriage, and he spent his the rest of his life living off of his legend, and his royal background and bank account.
Harry and Meghan are the young couple of their time and their generation. It’s historically ironic, this business about sending them away— the same thing they tried to do with his mother, whose memory exceeds any of the living royals with the exception of the Queen. But at this time in our history, I wonder if we’re looking at the end of the monarchy as it has been known. From these outsider-eyes, Meghan and Harry look like the future, and William and his wife look like the past. More Royal stories, although, alas, no crowns around. On a Thursday night last month, Barbara
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H A R RY B E N S O N Lee Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy in the doorway of Radziwill’s London home, 1962.
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AS EVERYONE WHO uses the New York Times as a gefilte fish wrapper knows, Charlottesville is an enchanting Virginia college town graced by the neoclassical architecture of the university’s founder, the great Thomas Jefferson. I flew to Charlottesville recently with two old friends, the talented photographer and heartthrob Jonathan Becker, and Silver Star winner in Vietnam, Special Forces Captain Chuck Pfeifer. The reason was the memorial service of Willy von Raab, commissioner of customs under Ronald Reagan and scourge of drug dealers and illegal immigrants for
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TA K I was. Willy was not a great talker, so she decided to investigate. She had to remove the steering wheel in order to extricate herself, a near-300-pound African-American policewoman, and then approached us. While she chatted with Willy and he showed her his badge, I walked over and looked at the back seat of the police car where a lady (of the night) was handcuffed. When the officer came back, I told her that the arrested woman happened to be Countess Esterhazy (one of Hungary’s greatest dynasties) and also that Commissioner von Raab really had the hots for her (the police officer). “You sure about
and off they went. That’s when Willy panicked. Although notoriously lazy where such mundane mechanical matters were concerned, he opened the hood and managed to fix it in seconds. He was trembling with fear. We then drove back to Alexandria where he remained indoors for three days and nights in case the fuzz was looking for him. Afterwards, we met for lunch and drinks with Willy’s family and friends— mostly people from the south, all ladies and gentlemen, well dressed, full of good will and humor, not a single F-word to be heard. You know the type—a rapidly disappearing species. I then drove with Chuck and Jonathan to
drinking. Although intolerance is now the norm in the United States, back then the students were—and still are— under the honor system. There were no scams or hoaxes, no phony accusations of rape, no vile language, none of what makes today’s students so exasperatingly limp, woke, and ready to take offense. No one talked about identity or empowerment; only freaks swore or failed to wear a coat and tie. What I remember distinctly was that our ways were not the only right ones. We did not insist that all others were wrong. We did not seek to impose a single standard, and we did not become extremely upset when others seemed to
Left to right: The University of Virginia in Charlottesville; photographer Jonathan Becker.
that?” “I’ve never been surer in my life,” said poor little me. “I don’t know about no countess, but I gotta take her in for soliciting, then I’ll be back.” “Please officer, Countess Esterhazy is a Hungarian legend, it will make a whole nation grieve...” or words to that effect. “And the commissioner loves you, it might spoil his mood if the countess ends up in jail.” It was the closest I’ve ever come to bribing an officer of the law. “Alright, I’ll take her in and write her up and let her go, then I’ll be back and you better be here.” The “countess” smiled at me
the main street in Charlottesville, sat at the same bar I used to sit when I was a student at UVA 60 years ago, and asked the student waitress, a cute little thing, if I needed to show my draft card. She looked confused. I explained that back then we used fake ones to buy alcohol and she laughed. “Why draft cards?” she asked. We got quite tipsy and then I took the boys around to Fraternity Row, where my old house, St. Elmo’s, is located. It brought back very pleasant memories of great friends, beautiful southern belles, and Karamazovian
not even recognize those truths that we held to be self-evident. I suppose that was because of the honor code we so believed in and adhered to. One did not lie about one’s perceived enemies or make up stories. As nighttime fell, I managed to make a fool of myself when I spotted a very pretty stewardess at the airport. As I chatted her up, Chuck and Jonathan whispered to me that I was talking to a man. It was a disgraceful ending to a perfect day. But no one’s perfect. u For more Taki, visit takimag.com. JUNE 2019 67
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1969 BEGAN AUSPICIOUSLY when Joe Willie Namath and the underdog Jets upset the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Superbowl III. But violent student protests at Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard soon set a grimmer mood as Chris Wallace, Frank Rich, and Tommy Lee Jones recounted in a recent Harvard Magazine. By that June, I was visiting my friend Joe Tobin in Hillsborough, California, hitting the head shops in Haight-Asbury and going to concerts at the Fillmore to hear Santana and the Jefferson Airplane at night. One night Joan Baez dedicated a song to Governor Ronald Reagan that 68 QUEST
began with the lines: “He’s a drug store, truck drivin’ man You know he’s the head of his own Ku Klux Klan….” Today’s incivility in political discourse is nothing new! The Summer of Love had been declared dead a couple of years before, but alternative newspapers, radio, and retail shops flourished. Don and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap that summer on Ocean Avenue. One night Joe took me to a nearby neighbor’s for dinner. One of Randolph Hearst’s four beautiful daughters was a
pretty blond 15-year-old named Patty, today the lovely Patricia Hearst-Shaw, whose defense fund Joe would found after her kidnapping and repeated rape several years later. In July I went down to Los Angeles, where on a cloudless night I rode on Disneyland’s “Moonwalk” while Neil Armstrong was projected walking on the moon on a 60-foot television screen nearby, all beneath a brilliantly full Southern California full moon. Chappaquidick happened that same week. My friend Art Nicol was working in a liquor store in Edgartown when
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This page, clockwise from above: Neil Armstrong on the moon; Joan Baez; Edward Kennedy after attending the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne in July 1969. Opposite page: Weeb Ewbank, coach of the New York Jets, congratulates quarterback Joe Namath during the final seconds of Super Bowl III in 1969.
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and Jimmy Hendrix rang in the druggy dawn with the festival finale of a stonedout “Purple Haze,” followed by his eerie electric guitar solo of “The StarSpangled Banner.” During the course of the night, I got separated from my friends and hitchhiked home with a blond-haired, Indian head-banded girl named Vickie. We ended up spending the night at my aunt and uncle’s pad on 79th Street, assuming they were at their beach house for the weekend. It was my first time, and Vickie made it absolutely clear I was wanting in technique. In the morning my uncle turned up bright and early to collect the week’s mail. He wasn’t happy to see us. We grabbed our knapsacks and hightailed it to Penn Station before jumping onto different trains. Vickie’s kind last words to me were, “Be good.” I wonder where she is now. The next week, a bus dropped me at the top of Cory’s Lane, and I walked down to Portsmouth Priory to make up for the 29 I had received on my final math exam. For 10 days, I lived with the monks as Father Andrew patiently and brilliantly guided me to a 99 on my re-exam. I prayed with them, ate with them, and heard their life stories. A part of me wanted to be like them. Looking back, I think that was the most counter-cultural thing of all I did that summer of 1969.
When I left Portsmouth, I flew back down on a small Newport Aero plane with James and Candy Van Alen (Jimmy being the savior of the Newport Casino and the inventor of the revolutionary tennis tiebreaker) on their way to the second U.S. Open, where Rod Laver would complete his second Grand Slam. Later that year came the Trial of the Chicago 7, the Mets’ World Series win over the heavily favored Orioles, the My Lai Massacre, and the November anti-war Moratorium March on Washington. There was another side of 1969 as well. In addition to putting a man on the moon, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet made its first successful test flight. Scientists at UCLA and Stanford created ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. The combination of our market-driven economy, constitutional government, and individual freedoms enabled us to create amazing scientific and technological breakthroughs to achieve unprecedented wealth. But 50 years on, those two weeks in the monastery are what stay with me most, and the words from St. Benedict’s Rule still echo in my ears: “Seek peace and quiet; be more of a listener than a talker; if you must speak, speak the truth from your heart... To start with, ask God for the help of his Grace; then never give up…” u
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Teddy Kennedy came in to stock up for his office party on the fateful night. Artie duly carried the booze out to Ted’s station wagon and, for his trouble, got stiffed on the tip. “They saith not a pater noster there,” my father commented when the story broke, quoting Judge Learned Hand. On August 9th, eight-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate and coffee heiress Abigail Folger were murdered brutally by followers of Charles Manson. The next night they killed again. A week or so later, I bought a ticket at the local record store for 15 bucks and told my parents I was going camping upstate with some friends to listen to music. By the time we got to Woodstock, it was a sea of people and traffic jams, in the second-largest city in all of New York State. Richie Haven started things off with “Freedom,” followed by Arlo Guthrie and Country McDonald, bringing the crowd to its feet: “Well, it’s one, two, three, What are we fighting for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn Next stop is Vietnam…” Then the rain began, and as Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Who, and Joe Cocker sang, Woodstock turned into a sea of mud. Sly and the Family Stone played “I Want to Take You Higher”; Paul Butterfield played “Love March”;
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This page, from above: Rod Laver; the celebration at Shea Stadium in New York after the New York Mets defeated the Baltimore Orioles to win the World Series in 1969. Opposite page: A photo of the Woodstock music festival, 1969.
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Fresh Finds BY K AT H R Y N M A I E R A N D E L I Z A B E T H M E I G H E R
THESE EARLY DAYS OF SUMMER call for sparkly baubles and rosé bottles—just what
you need for enjoying the warm weather, whether here or away (we’ve rounded up some inspirations for planning a summertime escape). We’ve also included stylish-yet-comfortable shoes for taking a stroll on a lovely evening, and Father’s Day gift ideas sure to put a sparkle in any dad’s eye. “Ferris” Creole Earrings, in 18-kt. gold with cabochon-cut moonstones, designed by Seaman Schepps. $9,800 at Betteridge, 239 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, Conn., 203.869.0124.
Rich and powerful yet elegant, Château d’Esclans’ Garrus is the king of rosé. $100 A summery look in marigold crinkle silk-chiffon, from Oscar de la Renta’s Spring 2019 runway. Visit oscardelarenta.com for details.
John Ferren’s Untitled Sketch for Rug Design I, 1942 (gouache on paper). $12,000. Findlay Galleries: 724 Fifth Ave., 7th Floor; 212.421.5390.
at Sherry-Lehman.
Vhernier’s Eclisse cufflinks in 18-kt. rose gold and ebony; $4,600 (far left) and $4,300 (left). Vhernier: 783 Madison Ave.
For all your car rental needs, rely on National for superior rental car service. For more information and to reserve, visit nationalcar.com.
Created in 1862, this golden sipping rum is one of the oldest private rum blends in the world—perfect on its own or in cocktails like the Old Cuban. $30 at reservebar.com. Purdey’s Men’s Printed Linen Shirt in Green (£125), leather belt, and Men’s Chino
Rolex’s updated version of a fan favorite made a splash at Baselworld
Shorts in Desert
earlier this year. GMT-
(£130) at
Master II 40mm in
purdey.com.
Oystersteel. $9,250. Visit rolex.com for retail locations.
Elvis’ famed blue shoes had nothing on Belgian Shoes’ Prince of Wales loafer in Blue Plaid. $490 at Belgian Shoes, 110 E. 55th. St. JUNE 2019 73
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Show your American spirit with this ring from Lusso by Fabio Angri. Visit lussobyfabioangri. com for details.
A covetable piece from Chloe’s pre-fall collection. Visit chloe.com for details.
Put your Pride on display with this tote from Ralph Lauren’s capsule col-
Show your true stripes in this
lection. $150 at ralphlauren.com,
look from Dennis Basso. $9,500;
with half of the purchase price going
available by special order at
to the Stonewall Community Foundation.
Dennis Basso’s Madison Avenue boutique, 825 Madison Ave.
Take stylish steps in ADEAM’s Yuka Mules in black. $795; available upon request by calling 212.644.7999.
Escape to Santorini (and other luxe locations worldwide) in style with Wimco’s collection of properties like the five-bedroom Villa Erossea, pictured. Visit wimco.com for more information and to reserve.
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McQueen and the Violet Fog gin ($40) is made in small batches and distilled with 21 botanicals— perfect for gin &tonics on the veranda.
Summer getaways are always pictureperfect at Ocean House, Rhode Island’s AAA Five-Diamond resort. To reserve, call 888.552.2588 or visit oceanhouseri.com.
Be garden partyperfect in the Mary Short Kaftan in Water Mill, by Ala von Auersperg. $925 at alavonauersperg.com. Persol’s first four-lens style, PO005, has been resurrected from the brand’s archives and is shown here in Terra Di Siena with light blue lenses. $340 at sunglasshut.com.
Shine on in Bally’s Evoria laminated calf leather sandal with heel. $630 at Bally Madison, 689 Madison Ave., or bally.com.
A powerful piece: Maja DuBrul’s Rome III Gold Ring in 20-kt. gold. $14,800 at majadubrul.com.
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Elizabeth and Charles were married before 205 guests on the golf course of the Ausable Club. The bride wore a gown by Mira Zwillinger, a crest ring borrowed from the groom’s family, and earrings gifted by her new in-laws. She also carried a bouquet of green trick dyanthus, green and white hydrangeas, mini mojito hydrangeas, green hypericom, snowy jewel, and bells of Ireland. The bride’s father, Roland Morris, Jr., walked her down the aisle. After the ceremony, everyone made their way to the main clubhouse for a reception and vanilla and chocolate layered cake by Centerplate. The couple shared their first dance to “Perfect Duet” by Ed Sheeran, performed by Carnivale. Over 11 days, Elizabeth and Charles honeymooned in Italy—between Florence, the Sorrento Coast, and Rome.
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Coray and Marc were married at the St. Mauritius Church in Zermatt before 70 guests. The bride’s father, Thomas O’Halloran, walked her down the aisle. Coray carried a bouquet of white roses, brunia, white anemone, pine cones, and evergreen with white lace. She donned a gown by Pronovias and shoes by Manolo Blahnik, also worn by her maid of honor and twin sister Charlotte. After the ceremony and amid a winter wonderland, Coray and Marc were transported to a reception at Grand Hotel Zermatterhof by horse-drawn carriage. Guests enjoyed marzipan and vanilla buttercream cake by the hotel’s chef, Heinz Rufibach, and watched the newlyweds share their first dance to “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers, performed by Lara Bellerose Dogustan.A week after the festivities, Coray and Marc enjoyed a romantic honeymoon in Paris.
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Hailey Rankin & Kyle Elliott Davis January 20, 2018 j Lost tree , FLorida PhotograPhed by Jack bates PhotograPhy Despite the heavy wind, Hailey and Kyle were married at Lost Tree Beach Club in front of 140 guests. The bride’s father, Richard Rankin, walked her down the aisle. Hailey carried a bouquet of peonies, David Austin roses, white roses, succulents, and dusty miller plants. She also wore a dress by Nardos Custom Design and her grandmother’s beloved diamonds. After the ceremony, everyone enjoyed white and chocolate chip cake by Earth and Sugar and watched the couple share their first dance to “Coming Home” by Leon Bridges. Hailey and Kyle then spent their honeymoon traveling across Northern California in an RV with their Instagram-famous Frenchie.
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AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN as “The Pink Paradise,” The Colony Hotel is a well-known historic landmark in Palm Beach. Built in 1947, and a mid-century haunt of stars like Judy Garland and the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, the property evokes a vintage glamour that feels deeply more authentic than the packaged concepting of modern hospitality. But before The Colony, before Lilly Pulitzer held fashion shows by the pool or Coconuts hosted New Year’s Eve in the ballroom, there was Casa Manana. Now the home of The Colony’s seven villa apartments, Casa Manana is one of Palm Beach’s original manses. Tucked behind tall palms and bursting bougainvillea, it was the family home of the hotel’s original developers. Hailing from Chicago, William Waller III and his wife, Lucia, were among the city’s elite and began construction on the Waller Estate, better known as Casa Manana, in 1928. Lucia Waller was a renowned fashion plate and artist who adored entertaining and did so frequently at the estate and down the road at the Everglades Club. Designed by O.T. Graham, the estate has stood the test of time thanks to George W. Brown, a prolific Palm Beach builder of the Jazz Age. The Wallers remained at Casa Manana for decades, even after the family sold the hotel, but by the 1980s the Mediterraneanstyle mansion had fallen into disrepair. In an era when Palm Beach’s famed and most iconic homes were being lost to 82 QUEST
neglect and demolition, Casa Manana was saved when The Colony Hotel acquired it, reuniting the two adjacent properties and transforming Casa Manana into a hidden sanctuary in the heart of Palm Beach. History whispers everywhere in The Colony’s villa apartments. Original pecky cypress beams, deeply bored over hundreds of years, support the ceilings and swing heavily as doors. Original mantles are as ready to frame social gatherings now as they were in Lucia Waller’s day. Those feeling adventurous can climb the wooden stairs to the turret, and pass through a hand-hewn elfin door to discover a hidden rooftop sun deck with panoramic views. Each two-bedroom apartment lives like a little home, albeit one with room service and a butler. Each villa is totally unique, with luxe custom upholstered furnishings, original artwork and accessories, private outdoor spaces, and a concealed private pool. Two of the villas were recently renovated by Kemble Interiors, who embraced the classical architectural elements while imbuing the décor with soft oceanic colors, whimsical prints, and natural textures. The lasting charm of Palm Beach is its ability to be both past and present at the same time, an art that The Colony Hotel excels at in its enchanting villa apartments. u For more information, visit www.thecolonypalmbeach.com.
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This page, clockwise from top left: Tucked within the magnificently restored Casa Manana adjacent to The Colony, the seven two-bedroom villas offer modern-day comfort and style; valet at The Colony’s main entrance; guestroom beach amenities; the gated villas share a private pool; each villa is decorated in luxe custom upholstered furnishings and original artwork; a walkway in one of the villas. Opposite page: The exterior of the villas at Casa Manana.
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On June 9, Greenwich Polo Club will open its season with the Shreve, Crump, & Low Cup at 3 p.m. Tickets include VIP parking with prime field-side lawn seating and an exclusive premium bar. For more information, visit greenwichpoloclub.com.
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The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) will host its 36th Tribute Dinner at the American Museum of Natural History at 6:15 p.m. This year’s event promises to be an exciting evening shared with many longtime friends, distinguished medical staff, civic leaders, celebrities, and prominent sports figures, who join to celebrate the mobility restored by HSS. For more information, visit hss.edu.
The Central Park Conservancy will host its annual Taste of Summer evening for more than 800 guests at 7 p.m. Friends of the park will enjoy delectable food and seasonal cocktails from some of the city’s best restaurants, a luxury-filled silent auction, music, and dancing in support of the Conservancy’s mission to restore, maintain, and
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enhance Central Park. This year’s culinary chair is Chef David Burtka. For more information, visit centralparknyc.org.
along with other celebrity guests that support the charity’s important mission. For more information, visit childrenofthecity.org.
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The New York Giants will hold its 5th Annual David Tyree Charity Bowl to Benefit the Children of the City at Lucky Strike. The evening will offer the opportunity to chat with your favorite Giants players,
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Beginning June 6, three new exhibitions will be on display at Carter Burden Gallery through July 3. The gallery showcases the vibrant, cutting-edge, and transformative art that is the product of the unique cultural wealth possessed by older professional artists. For more information, visit carterburdengallery.org.
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The Gordon Parks Foundation will hold its annual awards dinner and auction at Cipriani 42nd Street. Recognized as the most important African-American photographer of the 20th century, Gordon Parks exposed the face of American poverty with empathy and dignity, using the arts to champion social change through his photography, film, music, and writing. For the past decade, the Gordon Parks Foundation has provided scholarships to students whose creative work reflects the vision of Gordon Parks. For more information, visit gordonparksfoundation.org. 84 QUEST
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The New York Botanical Garden’s Conservatory Ball will take place at 7:30 p.m. This year’s event will display the highly anticipated exhibition, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, as well as garden tours, cocktails, and dinner. For more information, visit nybg.org. WOMEN IN MOTION
On July 8, the International 12 Metre Class’ 2019 World Championship will take place in Newport through July 13, hosted by Ida Lewis Yacht Club and the 12 Metre Yacht Club. For more information, visit 12mrworlds.com.
The Arthritis Foundation will host its annual Women in Motion Awards Luncheon at The Pierre at 11:30 a.m. The event will honor women who have achieved tremendous goals
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For more information and to purchase tickets, visit mashomackpoloclub.com.
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The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center will host its 13th Annual Get Wild Benefit in Southampton at 5 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit wildliferescuecenter.org.
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WATERFRONT GALA
On July 6, the IYRS School of Technology & Trades in Newport will hold its 22nd Annual IYRS Summer Gala at its waterfront campus on Thames Street. For more information, visit iyrs.edu. in business. Fore more information, visit arthne.ejoinme.org.
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Theater Resources Unlimited will hold the 2019 TRU Tony Award Party at Jack Doyle’s Pub & Restaurant at 7 p.m. Fore more information, visit truonline.org. GREENWICH POLO
The Greenwich Polo Club will open its season with the Shreve, Crump & Low Cup at 3 p.m. Tickets include VIP parking with prime field-side lawn seating and an exclusive premium bar. For more information, visit greenwichpoloclub.com.
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Concern Worldwide U.S. will host its Women of Concern Luncheon at The Pierre at 11 a.m. to celebrate the accomplishments of women and girls around the world. The event unites more than 400 of New York’s business and community leaders committed to raising funds that go directly towards the organization’s programs that affect the lives of millions of women. For more information, visit concernusa.org.
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MIDSUMMER DRINKS
God’s Love We Deliver will hold its Annual Midsummer Night Drinks
event at the historic Samuel Parrish House in the Hamptons at 6 p.m. For more information, visit glwd.org.
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GOLF OUTING
The Boys’ Club of New York (BCNY) will host its Annual Golf Outing and Pro-Am at The Creek Club in Locust Valley at 10:30 a.m. in support of BCNY’s programming. For more information, visit bcny.org.
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The Preservation Society of Newport County will host its annual Newport Flower Show at Rosecliff through June 23. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit newportmansions.org.
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The Mashomack Polo Club will hold its 21st Annual International Polo Challenge Luncheon at 11:30 a.m.
The IYRS School of Technology & Trades in Newport will hold its 22nd Annual IYRS Summer Gala at its waterfront campus on Thames Street in Rhode Island. IYRS is an incredibly unique educational institution as the only boatbuilding school in Rhode Island and one of only a handful in the country. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit iyrs.edu.
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The International 12 Metre Class’ 2019 World Championship will take place in Newport, Rhode Island through July 13, hosted by the Ida Lewis Yacht Club and the 12 Metre Yacht Club. The event is the largest-ever gathering of 12 Metre yachts in the country. For more information, visit 12mrworlds.com.
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City Harvest will hold its annual Summer in the City event at Chelsea Piers. Guests will enjoy bites from the city’s hottest restaurants and bars at this premier tasting event. For more information, visit cityharvest.org.
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The annual Nantucket Film Festival will take place and promote the cultural awareness and appreciation of the art of screenwriting in the world of cinema through June 24. Visitors come from all over to experience the preview screenings, unique signature programs, and stand out hospitality on a magical island rich with history, a friendly atmosphere, and beautiful sandy beaches. For more information, visit nantucketfilmfestival.org.
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P R O D U C E D A N D S T Y L E D B Y B R O O K E K E L LY PHOTOGRAPHED BY JULIE SKARRATT BEAUTY BY HOPSCOTCH SALON HAIR BY NERY SANTOS MAKEUP BY JÉSSICA FORTI
SUMMER AT THE STABLES IN GREENWICH Accomplished equestrian and Connecticut native Adrienne Sternlicht guides us through her hometown.
Opposite page: Adrienne Sternlicht sitting on Carriage House Motor Cars’ blue 1957 Chevrolet Corvette (email sales@carriagehousemotorcars.com for inquiries) at the entrance of 230 Taconic Road, listed with Compass. Sternlicht wears a dress by Tory Burch, Stuart Weitzman’s Starla heels in clay, and holds J.McLaughlin’s Kourtney Bamboo Clutch. 86 QUEST
This page, above to below: Photos of Adrienne Sternlicht wearing Shoshanna’s Midnight Zirara Dress and Vhernier’s Eclisse Ring in the master bedroom at 230 Taconic Road; Sternlicht by the pool at 230 Taconic Road, wearing Shoshanna’s Medallion Eyelet Drawstring Cover Up Tunic and earrings by de Mer. Opposite page: Sternlicht in the family room at 230 Taconic Road, wearing Veronica Beard’s Empire Dickey Jacket in black and Cindy V-Neck Tee, and Stubbs & Wootton’s Coronet Black Women’s Slippers.
AS A CELEBRATED ATHLETE and recent gold medal-winner at the FEI World Equestrian Games, Adrienne Sternlicht may spend a large portion of her time competing internationally, particularly in Canada and Europe, but she has nevertheless chosen Greenwich, Connecticut as her current home base. Born and raised in the picturesque town, Sternlicht earned degrees from Choate Rosemary Hall and Brown University before fully dedicating her time to the sport. Having grown up in its serene and sprawling bucolic surroundings, Sternlicht knew Greenwich would be the perfect backdrop for the new stables that now house her 10 show horses and recently rescued pony, Taco. She is currently gearing up for a busy summer ahead competing in Canada and Michigan, with the ultimate goal of participating in (and winning) the Olympic Games. Throughout these pages, we take a ride out to Greenwich in Carriage House Motor Cars’ 1957 Chevrolet Corvette and visit Sternlicht’s barn and 230 Taconic Road, listed with Shelly Tretter Lynch at Compass. u 88 QUEST
This page: Adrienne Sternlicht wearing Shoshanna’s Tina Dress at her barn, surrounded by her beloved dogs and new rescue pony, Taco. Opposite page: Sternlicht preparing her horse for a ride inside her stables.
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This page: Adrienne Sternlicht taking her horse for a ride in her U.S. Equestrian Team jacket. Opposite page: Sternlicht wearing J.McLaughlin’s Lois Silk Shirt in Race Day, Veronica Beard’s Carly Kick Flare jeans in white, and shoes by Tory Burch.
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LANDSCAPES OF TIME AND MEMORY BOLTON LANDING, a resort town on Lake George, was the permanent home of David Smith, an artist commonly regarded as the greatest American sculptor of the 20th century. Smith bought a home there in 1929 and was accepted quickly by the small year-round community as he continued to produce his work. “Landscapes Lost and Found: Two Centuries of Art from Bolton Landing” is now on view (through Oct. 14) at the Bolton Historical Museum. Thanks to Smith’s daughters, Rebecca and Candida, both of whom have summer homes in town, the show’s organizers have been able to include not only sculptures and drawings by Smith, but also his paintings of the surrounding landscapes that have never before been exhibited. They may remind you of Cezanne’s paintings of Provence. Like Cezanne 60 years earlier, Smith was in search of a summer studio, a place where he could escape the city’s distractions, discomfort, and expense while continuing to make art. At the invitation of Weber Furlong, an administrator at the Art Students League who had established an artists’ colony on a farm overlooking Lake George, Smith and his first wife, Dorothy Dehner, began visiting Bolton Landing in the 1920s. (It’s This page: An untitled work by David Smith, circa 1936. Opposite page: David Smith, shown with his sculpture “Primo Piano I,” 1962. JUNE 2019 95
All three images are untitled works by David Smith, circa 1930,
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or memory. In any event, the paintings are renderings of a specific, verifiable place rather than of a vague, amorphous ideal. These different treatments of the same views can be attributed in part to changes in the landscape—but also, no doubt, to different political philosophies. As Thomas Cole himself emphasized, landscapes are composed, not copied. Smith, who was assigned to the WPA’s Federal Art Project in 1937, was intrigued by the New Deal’s promotion of what he called “American Romantic Nationalism,” otherwise known as Regionalism, in the arts. By reminding us that we are rooted in specific places, landscapes, and communities, the progenitors of Regionalism may have hoped that this trend, persuasion or disposition—call it what you will—would serve as a bulwark against foreign ideologies, from Fascism on the one hand and Soviet-style Communism on the other. Regardless, a walk through the Bolton Historical Museum’s gallery is a pictoral narration of Bolton Landing’s history, from wild forest to farmland and beyond, to second-growth woods and second homes. These are the “landscapes lost and found”: some irreversibly lost, and some preserved through the efforts of conservationists. And as the 21st century artists included in the exhibition suggest, all are mutable, subject to human-induced
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worth noting that Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Steiglitz, who also spent summers on Lake George, brought John Marin to the colony in 1927, a visit that inspired several of his paintings of the lake.) Furlong is attracting renewed interest as a path-breaking modernist, and her work, as well as that of Dehner and others who spent their summers with her, such as John Graham, are represented in the exhibition. Those artists were fully conscious of the fact that these landscapes were already iconic. Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, first visited Bolton Landing in 1826. He was followed to Lake George by younger members of the Hudson River School, who portrayed Lake George as one of many possible manifestations of something spiritual, eternal, and universal. Like Cole, they idealized Lake George, expressing, however obliquely, ambivalence about the benefits of industrial progress, already encroaching upon the Hudson Valley. This exhibition includes work by many of them. By the 1930s, when David Smith was painting these same scenes, the landscape was supporting a settled community, civilized though sparsely populated. Perhaps it is to be viewed as a prodigal’s native land, one seen through the scrim of nostalgia
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depicting landscapes around the Lake George area.
We cannot, of course, see the world as he saw it, but like his more famous abstract sculptures, these paintings may teach us to see it for ourselves.
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This page, clockwise from above: an untitled, non-dated work by David Smith; Artist’s Retreat, by John Henry Hill (1839-1922); Bolton Landing, by Hermann Fuechsel (1833-1915). Opposite page, from top: Tongue Mountain Near Bolton Landing by Henry Ferguson (1842-1911); an untitled work ca. 1930 by David Smith.
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market forces and climate change. The landscapes by David Smith are themselves “lost and found.” So far as we know, he never again painted the surroundings he knew and clearly loved in this representational way. He once said of his art that it “possesses nothing unknown to you.” Perhaps. We cannot, of course, see the world as he saw it, but like his more famous abstract sculptures, these paintings may teach us to see it for ourselves. u
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Q: Tell me about your transi- was there, but what about all of the paperwork and the tion from a New York resident legal details of writing a contract? I did know that the customer is always right, patience is a virtue, and I loved to a Palm Beach resident? A: My husband had been com- the search for matching my client with the right property. muting between New York City Having the insight to figure out a client’s needs and what and Florida every other week lifestyle works for them is the biggest challenge. You are to visit his mom, who was quite the psychiatrist who will bring them the divine happiness ill. He came home one night in their new lifestyle. I take such interest that my husband and said he thought we should always reminds me that I am not buying the property for move to Florida. That was 25 myself, but for someone else. I don’t care if I have to years ago. We ended up buying in a golf community called Admirals Cove. All of the properties are on the water, you can have a boat in your backyard. My friend, who had a home there, invited us for the weekend and told me how great it was. “You can sit in your back yard and watch the boats go by.” I thought to myself, Is she crazy? Am I going to give up Madison Avenue for this? I was working as a realtor for William B. May at the time, just getting my new career off the ground. I had been in the fashion business all my life. After selling my company, I decided to go into real estate. Having worked with the public, doing personal appearances and fashion shows, it was an easy transition into selling property. The work ethic S Ocean Blvd in Palm Beach; price available upon request.
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Q: Tell me about the current state of the market. A: We had a very challenging January and February of 2019. Starting in March, the market picked up tremendously with a lot of energy. The sales volume has been strong. Our typical season has been extended well beyond its historical ending of mid-April. People are looking for homes that they can purchase so they are ready when the coming winter season is upon us. With the new tax laws, there is a strong migration to the Palm Beach for homes with brand-new construction and condos that have beautiful water views; being completely redone, you only have to bring your toothbrush. I cannot wait to meet you and show off the island of Palm Beach!
buying the property for myself, but for someone else.”
Q: Do you find many residents remaining in Palm Beach throughout the summer months? A: When we first arrived in Palm Beach, the summer seemed really dead. I couldn’t wait to plan a trip and get out of town, to the south of Italy or France. As the years went by, I started to appreciate this time of the year. No reservations are needed, the casualness and impromptu is great, no traffic, catching up with old friends, visiting the new gorgeous Norton Museum, having lunch in their lovely garden, seeing a show at the Kravis Center that you missed when you were in New York. May and June are
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Q: What kind of buyers have you seen in Litchfield County recently (young couples, singles, families, etc.)? A: Our insulated market is being reinvigorated both by an influx of value conscious younger and older full-time and weekend buyers alike, along with existing owners who are either renovating and/or upgrading. Young fashion designers, members of the arts community, top New York real estate brokers, TV personalities, entertainment executives, and technology and media moguls
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are recent examples of who’s buying here. Q: How is the current market doing? A: Turn-key properties and those with waterfront, privacy, and large acreage are commanding the most significant premiums. The high-end Litchfield County luxury real estate market for properties in excess of $3 million has seen significant activity during the past several years, and although our prime selling season has just begun for 2019, there have already been an equal number of $3+ million sales year-todate through mid-May vs. 2018 in its entirety, abating the implications of the new tax laws. The values and current property selection are the best they’ve been in years.
Cobble Hill Farm in West Cornwall, Connecticut; $6,900,000.
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Q: What makes Litchfield County so special? A: Litchfield County is European in character, with charming villages, working farms, world class farm-to-table restaurants, and a rich social, artistic, and intellectual lifestyle for a very international set. There are more private preparatory schools per capita than in any other county in New England and New York. Northwest Connecticut offers a wonderful year-round quality of life, proximity to New York City, and extraordinary natural beauty with thousands of acres of land trust affording unlimited hiking, mountain biking, snow shoeing, horseback riding, golfing, and fly fishing, to name a few easily accessible outdoor activities.
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Q: Do you expect to see a lot of activity over the next couple of months? A: Yes. There was a real slowdown in the first quarter this year, but many more houses are now in contract—in all price points, too. I expect this upward trend in sales to continue through summer. Prices have really come down from last year, so buyers are now getting some terrific deals. In addition, each summer there are renters that become buyers after falling in love with the area.
and outdoor seating, as well as their menu with steak, seafood, and sushi. And now there is a real spa in the area. Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill just opened, offering holistic living with nutrition, education, fitness, and skin care therapies. It is a gorgeous retreat. Q: Tell us about a listing. A: I am so proud to represent 70 South Hill Street in Southampton, as it is a beautiful new construction home located in the Estate Section. Surrounded by properties that sell for many millions more, this is the perfect home for a young family looking to bike to the beach or a couple seeking to downsize.
Q: Why is Southampton such a desirable place to settle? A: Southampton’s close proximity to the city makes it very desirable, but also its mix of people. There are old families here as well as a constant influx of new families from New York, Connecticut, the South, as well as Europe. Residents hail from many different backgrounds, too. The financial sector is obviously well represented, but also prominent is the art and fashion world. Everyone appreciates Southampton’s beauty, light, and unbeatable beaches. Q: As a resident, can you tell us about the new hotspots? A: A new T Bar restaurant is set to open this summer at 268 Elm Street. All are looking forward to their indoor
70 South Hill Street in Southampton, New York; $3,495,000.
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Q: Given the increased taxes and slowing seller’s market, what can homeowners do to optimize sales? A: In today’s market, homeowners need to stand out. Buyers are looking near town for either a newly built state-of-the-art smart home or a value property that, with minimum work, can become their dream home. Properties that lie between these two ends and situated back country have tended to linger on the market a little longer. However, as in-town property prices are on the rise, I am seeing a push north to back
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country. Buyers, especially weekend home buyers, are seizing on opportunities to purchase bigger estates with pools and tennis courts that can be converted to compounds for family and friends. Q: What are the must-visit Greenwich Ave. destinations? A: In addition to the big-name luxury brands, Greenwich Avenue has fantastic local shops, such as Hoaglands (for decorative home gifts), Lynnens (for exquisite linens), and Betteridge and Steven Fox jewelers (for incredible jewelry pieces and high-end watches). There are also great art galleries, such as Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, and top restaurants like Dourro, El Polpo, Le Penguin, and Harvest.
230 Taconic Road in Greenwich, Connecticut; $9,450,000.
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Q: What continuously draws people to Connecticut? A: Connecticut, and Fairfield County in particular, offers expansive town amenities, green spaces and beaches, top-rated schools, waterfront activities, high-end shopping, and incredible restaurants, all within an hour’s commute to the city. Additionally, Greenwich was recently acknowledged as the safest city in the United States for the third straight year, according to safehome. org. While it’s difficult to beat everything Connecticut has to offer, the biggest attraction is the draw of more living space and a great backyard for raising a family or creating a country retreat.
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Q: Why is Northern Westchester County an ideal place to settle? A: With easy access to the city both by car and Metro North, it offers beautiful historic villages, land that provides privacy, the ability to garden or farm, excellent schools, access to the top equestrian trainers, barns, and trails. We are also so fortunate to have many parks and outdoor sanctuaries.
hamlet of Bedford, offers great “non-chain” shopping— unique boutiques, galleries, and cafes. Q: What kind of lifestyle does the area offer? A: Northern Westchester offers those who want to be near the city but live in the country the perfect option. Since the late 1800s, the bucolic lifestyle that only open land can create has been very carefully protected with low density zoning and a community that has been, and is, very dedicated to preserving it. It also offers residents privacy, which has attracted many high-profile celebrities, media, tech moguls, and financial giants looking for a chance to relax and recharge in this beautiful idyllic setting. u
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Q: What are the most popular towns in the area? A: The most popular towns are Bedford, Katonah, North Salem, and Pound Ridge. Q: What about the hotspots in terms of dining, etc.? A: The Inn at Pound Ridge Restaurant by Jean-Georges is a beautifully restored space originally built in 1833. Chef Jean-Georges and his amazing team offer a true farm-to-table menu with food sourced from the immediate area as well as farms from the greater Hudson Valley. We also have the Bedford Post Inn, which is a Relais & Chateaux property right outside of Bedford Village. The restaurant, inn, and Yoga Loft are absolutely fabulous. Katonah, a charming
159 North Salem Road in Katonah, New York; $4,475,000.
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REVITALIZATIONS AND REIMAGININGS In her forthcoming debut novel, Deborah Goodrich Royce explores themes of identity: her character’s and her own
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Mrs. Ford (Post Hill Press, June 2019), Susan Ford is living a comfortable middle-aged life in the seaside village of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, until the FBI unexpectedly pays her a visit. The agents’ questions spark the unfurling of a mystery, one that slowly—and then quickly—unfolds as the book’s narrative weaves together modern-day scenes with flashbacks to the summer of 1979, when the main character and her best friend spent a season working at a louche discotheque on the edge of Detroit, and a series of events sent their lives spinning in directions they (and the reader) would never expect. It’s a thriller, yes—an engrossing read. But among its main themes is one familiar to many women: Identity, and how and why it shifts over time. “I think one of the major themes of the book,” Royce says, “apart from the actual plot, is: What is a woman’s identity? Who are we really? Are we different in different settings? Can we reinvent ourselves? If there’s some event that we’re trying to escape, can we?” Those are questions that the book’s author, Deborah Goodrich Royce, has faced in her own life. Like her main character, Royce grew up near Detroit. Since then she’s been, by turns, a Hollywood actress (her breakout role was as Erica Kane’s scheming sister, Silver, on All My Children), a story editor for a major entertainment company, a preservationist/building restorer, and, now, a novelist. “My life has been very episodic, and 106 QUEST
I would say that can be true of many women,” says Royce. No surprise, then, that she’s created a complex character whose life can be divided into “before” and “after” on many different levels. Not to mention, after all that… Why a novel? Why now? “When my youngest child left the house, I got the real estate in my brain back,” Royce says, not entirely joking. It was only once her nest was empty that she was able to make writing a priority in her life. Her screenplay editing role at Miramax had served as a strong education for her (“It really was like some sort of graduate writing program for me,” she says, “getting to work with writers the caliber of which they were hiring and whose work they were buying”), and now she could begin focusing on her own writing. The book didn’t come together overnight, however. She started writing the novel in the summer of 2014, and finished the first draft almost exactly a year later. It took another year to find an agent, and another two years—and plenty of rejections and revisions, Royce says—before it was purchased by a publishing house. Seeing a novel to fruition is not a quick process. But, as Royce says of taking on any massive endeavor in life, “I don’t think it’s helpful to look at the entirety of what stretches in front of us.” Encouraging touchpoints along her four-year journey—receiving positive feedback from editors, landing an agent— showed her she should persevere.
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This page, clockwise from above left: Deborah Goodrich Royce and her husband, Chuck, at The New York Botanical Garden’s Conservatory Ball; a family photo taken at Ocean House, in Watch Hill, Rhode Island; Royce at home with her dogs. Opposite page: The cover of Finding Mrs. Ford (Post Hill Press, 2019).
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away from breaking ground on the restoration of another theater called the United, in Westerly, Rhode Island, that will have an even wider array of programming. What many of the restoration projects have in common is restoring not just the buildings but also a sense of community in the towns where they’re located, she says—helping to revitalize the downtown areas by creating anchors in a Main Street setting to draw people in. She’s having to set future restoration projects aside for now, though, as she embarks on a book tour for Finding Mrs. Ford… and continues working on a second novel called Ruby Falls, also a thriller. “Now that I’ve made my commitment to myself to write,” Royce says, it and her restoration work “are not really compatible activities on a daily basis” since both are so demanding, time-wise. Ruby Falls is a cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee. It’s where we first meet the book’s main character, as a young girl, whose name is also Ruby—and it’s the setting for a formative experience in Ruby’s life. The book finds Ruby again 20 years later, recently married to a man who seems to be harboring some secrets…as Ruby herself is also. “Things get scarier and scarier with her husband,” Royce says, “and she maybe starts to unravel.” You’ll again find elements of Royce’s past in the novel. (For one thing, Ruby is an actress who worked on a soap opera). And, as with Royce’s first novel, Ruby Falls deals heavily with the idea of identity, a topic that never seems far from Royce’s mind. “I think for many [women], our lives can take us in different directions,” Royce says. “What of us do we bring with us, and what of us do we reinvent? It’s a question that intrigues me.” u
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It didn’t even start out as a thriller. Royce says she originally wrote a work of literary fiction “with a whopping surprise,” as she characterizes it, and it was her agent who saw what the book was really aiming to be and encouraged significant revisions. “I’ve always loved Hitchcock; that’s the level of thriller I like,” Royce says. “So it was kind of fun to play with it and push it a little bit farther and increasingly farther into a thriller.” Royce admits to having woven elements of her current life into the book. “Of course I shamelessly draw from the people I know and the places I know,” she says. “My husband, Chuck Royce, is absolutely the model for Jack Ford.” The book mentions a boat Jack has restored called Venus, which exists in real life, named Aphrodite. The very next page sees Mr. Ford buying jewelry for Susan at Betteridge in Greenwich, the town where Royce lives with her husband. Why did she choose to set the story in Watch Hill rather than Greenwich? “I wanted the much more sealed bubble of a summer community,” Royce says. “It was completely opposite to the declining suburban Detroit setting of the book. I loved the contrast of it.” But the choice also has something to do with the fact that when she began writing the novel, Royce was fresh off an intense restoration of Ocean House, now a luxury hotel in Watch Hill, one of many buildings she and her husband have restored over the years. “When Chuck and I met,” Royce recalls, “one of his courting gambits was to purchase the Avon Theatre” in Stamford, Connecticut. The couple restored the theater and currently run it as an independent art house cinema with carefully considered programming. It’s also where she met the late actor and screenwriter Gene Wilder, who proved an enormously supportive presence as she was writing the book. When we spoke, she was days
This page, from above: Deborah Royce at home in Riverside; Royce at the wheel aboard her boat Aphrodite. Opposite page, from left: Royce on the cover of Soap Opera Digest during her All My Children days; Royce and her husband, Chuck, aboard Aphrodite.
CAPRI’S ETERNAL ALLURE BY KATHRYN MAIER
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CAPRI, A RESORT ISLAND dating back to the height of the Roman Empire, has long served as a refuge for characters of all sorts, from royals to eccentrics, movie stars, literary luminaries, and the jet set. They come for the island’s natural beauty, its cliffs descending steeply to lapis waters, its chic villas and their stunning gardens, its social scene at once inclusive and exclusionary. “Capri means eccentricity paraded as a sense of belonging, a belonging that exploded in the media with la dolce vita and that launched itself on the path of a dreamy gypsy in the late sixties,” Cesare Cunaccia writes in a new book, Capri Dolce Vita (Assouline, June 2019). “Until a few decades ago she was a jealously guarded realm of beauty, which could only be entered by those who knew its entry code or by hereditary right.” The coffee-table tome captures the island’s appeal with stunning photographs, from the mid-20th century to modern days, interspersed throughout with quotes from some of the notables who’ve frequented Capri over the years, which illuminate the hold the island’s ancient charm possesses over those loyal to this extraordinary destination. “There is no other place in the world like Capri, that puts together the special beauty of the
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It features photos of landscapes, and brightly colored buildings ascending a steep hillside, and welcoming hotel terraces; boats in a harbor and a favorite gelateria; plates of seafood and parties on boats; swimming pools and sculptures; fruit platters and fashion shoots; Jackie O and Brigitte Bardot. The photographs are of the type to evoke nostalgia in those who’ve ever considered the island a home, and to inspire daydreams in those This page, clockwise from above: Panorama from the end of Punta Tragara; waves crash against Capri’s rocks on a windy day; the Fontelina Beach Club has been a favorite hideaway since the Jet Set’s time. Opposite page: Lounging in the sun at the Fontelina is a daily activity of the beautiful people; the cover of Capri Dolce Vita (Assouline, 2019) (inset).
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island with an extraordinary history, a passion extremely rich in values and the great personality and energy of southern Italy,” says Leonardo Ferragamo in the book. And yet, while geographically and culturally Italian, the isle can feel as though it were its own universe. “Its remove, its special distance offshore, gives Caprese a perspective and remote rapport with the rest of civilization. Naples and Amalfi reduce to faraway twinkles on clear nights, plenty far enough for just vague awareness, way too far to hear or for worry. And the southern and western views out past the Faraglioni, only sea, forever, give as complete a peace as one can conjure,” the book quotes photographer Jonathan Becker as saying. Indeed, its images capture this exotic seclusion.
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who haven’t yet visited. The book focuses its lens particularly tightly on the 1960s, during Capri’s heyday as an exclusive hideaway for the elite. “We’d dance all night, get up late the next day, and have lunch on the motoscafi. Everybody knew everybody. It was what used to be called ‘a happening’ and really was quite a moment in time,” model Marisa Berenson recalls of the era. Designer Valentino Garavani reminisces similarly: “It was a crazy moment. All the fashion people, all the models, all the movie stars; it was a sort of dolce vita.” u The famous Casa Malaparte, built by Curzio Malaparte in 1937. Insets, from left: The view from Casa Malaparte; the iconic
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J.MCLAUGHLIN 55 East Putnam Avenue 203.862.9777 / jmclaughlin.com The first J.McLaughlin, located in an Ivy League enclave on the Upper East Side, was a homey, well-bred shopping destination with a welcoming feel. People instantly fell in love, and it quickly acquired a cult following. The retailer has expanded its presence tremendously since then, and now has more than 100 stores throughout the country—from metropolises like Dallas to suburban outposts like Palm Beach and Greenwich—and a thriving e-commerce presence. The clothes, as they have since 1977, are preppy and traditional and, in J.McLaughlin’s own words, innovatively nostalgic.
HOPSCOTCH SALON 1800 East Putnam Avenue 203.661.0107 / hopscotchsalon.com Longing for a solution to those frizzy locks on particularly humid days? Or simply seeking a quick blowout? Hopscotch Salon, which recently moved to the Hyatt Regency Greenwich after years on Railroad Avenue, offers hair services ranging from a straightforward cut or updo to color services like balayage and ombre. Their specialty offerings include a popular keratin treatment, which will leave you with smooth and manageable hair for months. But it doesn’t stop there; this one-stop shop offers additional spa services, including waxing, facials, and even teeth whitening that will have you photo-ready for any occasion. Built on a foundation of helping its customers look good and feel good for over 20 years, the salon utilizes top products from exclusive brands like Oribe, Kérastase, and Bumble and Bumble.
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289 Greenwich Avenue 203.622.3007 / hermes.com Hermès was founded over 100 years ago by Thierry Hermès, and has since become known for its exceptional luxury goods, which are exactly what you can expect to find when visiting the Greenwich Avenue location. The store displays a large collection of the brand’s iconic silk accessories— scarves, bow ties, and mufflers, as well as various styles of large silk shawls and pocket squares. You will also come across a selection of the brand’s celebrated enamel and leather jewelry, runway ensembles, shoes, and an outstanding collection of fragrances.
VILEBREQUIN 200 Greenwich Avenue 203.869.6989 / vilebrequin.com Stepping into Vilebrequin will brighten anyone’s day. You will immediately find yourself surrounded by cheerful colors and patterns that reflect the sunny days of a summer in St. Tropez. The store has been buzzing since 1971 when Fred Prysquel created the brand. The themes of the initial 1970s designs have been reimagined year after year to maintain their youthful energy. Inside the store, you are bound to come across the Moorea cut—Vilebrequin’s legendary men’s swim style. You will also find a large selection of polos perfect for sporting during a weekend getaway in Nantucket, Newport, or the Hamptons.
RAG & BONE 244 Greenwich Avenue 203.622.6222 / rag-bone.com Rag & Bone continuously redefines city style through its clothing, which c o m bines classic tailoring and an edgy-yet-understated New York aesthetic. Throughout the store, shoppers can expect to find an array of casual yet trendy options. Think clean-cut silhouettes, slip dresses suitable for the warm weather, and, of course: denim, denim, denim. The brand is probably most well known for its wide selection of quality jeans for both men and women, made with modern design and expert craftsmanship. You find luxury accessories, including eyewear, hats and fedoras, silk scarves, and footwear options in leathers and suedes. Also not to be missed is the fragrance collection, with iconic scents including amber, bergamot, cypress, oud, rose, and neroli.
SWEATY BETTY LONDON 200 Greenwich Avenue 203.717.1095 / sweatybetty.com In 1998, Tamara Hill-Norton founded active lifestyle brand Sweaty Betty after spotting a gap in the activewear market in London—she was shocked by the lack of inspiring women’s sportswear in the city. Unimpressed by the many mundane exercise silhouettes available throughout London, Hill-Norton opened a clothing line filled with life and color—creating high quality workout apparel for all shapes and sizes that was also fashionable and exciting to wear. The brand urges all who love exercising— and also cake—to visit its uplifting shop on Greenwich Avenue.
BETTERIDGE 239 Greenwich Avenue 203.869.0124 / betteridge.com Betteridge prides itself on being America’s most trusted jeweler since 1897. The retailer carries the most coveted pieces from Rolex, Cartier, Chanel, Patek Philippe, Bulgari, Verdura, David Webb, and more. The jeweler also has a “By Betteridge” collection with classic, clean, and elegant pieces that are guaranteed to withstand the test of time. The pieces are created by Betteridge’s own highly skilled craftsmen—right here in Greenwich. Visit if you’re searching for an extra-special gift for a loved one, be it a watch for a graduation, a ring for an engagement, or a diamond necklace for a big birthday or anniversary celebration.
SHERWOOD GREEN LIFE 88 Greenwich Avenue 203.489.3547 / sherwoodgreenlife.com Throughout her life, Rhonda Sherwood developed an avid passion for healthy living. She determined that protecting her family and kids from the toxins of the environment was a priority in her life, and eventually decided to help the public achieve this toxin-free lifestyle as well. Sherwood Green Life is built around the notion that even if you exercise frequently and stick to a healthy diet, the toxins in the air and in consumer products can be detrimental to one’s health. The brand offers petroleum-free, plant-based beauty products, including makeup, skincare and haircare solutions, brushes, tools, bath and body options, and more. Developed to make you look good and feel your best, the products are the perfect uplifting gift for anyone.
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This page, top to bottom: A player competing in an Argentine match; a match played on elephants; a polo match put on by the War Department in 1925; the Rambagh Palace polo grounds in Jaipur, India. Opposite page: The International Polo Club in Meadowbrook, Long Island, 1914.
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This page: A polo player photographed during a U.S. Army match; two polo cups, which were won by the U.S. Army polo team in 1923 (inset). Opposite page, clockwise from top left: An action shot from the second annual Santa Ynez Valley Polo Classic, which took place in 2013; the Cartier World Cup Snow Polo Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 2010; a young woman sits on a wooden polo pony; the American and English polo teams face off in 1913.
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CASA DE CAMPO POLO International Tournament Positions D.R. at the Top of the Global Polo Scene
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This page: Players compete in Casa de Campo’s Polo Challenge International Tournament. The summer polo season will be held from June to the end of August. The next Polo Challenge season will begin in early 2020.
guests taking in the action of this exciting sport. Now, the Dominican Republic is preparing for the Summer Season, which will take place from June to the end of August. After a short time off to rest the horses and recondition the fields, Casa de Campo will stand ready to receive more players, patrons, and organizations to play a series of medium- and low-goal tournaments, including an amateur one. All this will gear up for the next Polo Challenge season, which will be held in early 2020. u For more information, visit casadecampo.com.do.
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MASHOMACK POLO Mashomack Polo Club Hosts its 21st Annual International Polo Challenge
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This page, clockwise from top left: Team Quest in action at the 2017 Mashomack International Polo Challenge; guests enjoying a match; a post-match photo from the 2017 Challenge; Valesca Guerrand-Hermes and her children Lucien and Clea present an award; going for the goal at Mashomack Polo Club.
day in the countryside and experience the sport. In June, the club hosts the eight-goal USPA Officers Cup (June 14-30); in July, the eight-goal USPA Eduardo Moore Invitational (July 3-28); in August, the Mashomack Family Day (August 3); and in September, the eight- to 10-goal Fall Classic (Sept. 11-22). Besides the exciting matches, private polo lessons are offered independently to both adults and children. Group clinics are also arranged from May through August. Go online to see the entire schedule and to view more images from past events and tournaments. u For more information, visit mashomackpoloclub.com.
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Located on a 1,900-acre preserve in Pine Plains, New York, just 90 minutes from New York City, the Mashomack Polo Club is a full-service club for polo players of all levels and features five tournament-class fields, one practice field, stickand-ball areas, and an outdoor polo arena. On June 22, Mashomack International Polo Challenge and Luncheon returns for its 21st year. The event begins at noon with a Champagne reception, followed by a tented fieldside luncheon and the exciting International Polo Challenge match. Teams representing the United States, Great Britain, India, Brazil, France, Egypt, Germany, and Italy have battled valiantly in the past to secure the coveted trophy for their team and country. In this year’s match, skilled players from around the world will once again vie for the title of Champion. This prestigious event attracts over 1,500 spectators and marks the official start of the summer social season in Millbrook. A wonderful day of sport brings guests from New York City, Westchester, and Fairfield County to spend the
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players improve speed, technique, and strategy. A high school polo program was introduced in 2011 and is available for young players who want to pursue the sport at the college level. “Many of our student athletes have gone on to play at the collegiate levels at one of the 42 intercollegiate polo programs in the country. In addition, many members receive compliments on the quality of their play when playing at other clubs around the world. Once our student athletes or members learn the basics, we encourage them to improve,” explains owner and two-goal rated player Sam Ramirez, Jr. “Our training team has a fivemonth program for even the most novice of players that gives them the foundation needed to enter the sport safely.” The club has successfully introduced people of all ages to this challenging and exciting sport in a unique way, and has produced many players who started out with little to no experience. The social aspects of NYC Polo offer horse enthusiasts an opportunity to come and watch scheduled games and tournaments as well as attend charity matches in September. Guests can also come see the USPA Players Cup starting on July 6 and the USPA Masters Cup starting on July 26. The fields are well-designed for an afternoon of relaxing on the hill while picnicking and viewing a match. u For more information, visit nycpolo.com.
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NYC Polo Club at Haviland Hollow Farm (www.nycpolo.com) is headed into its 11th Anniversary polo season. Since the club’s opening in the summer of 2009, NYC Polo Club has consistently developed a strong following of polo players, new players entering the sport through the club’s large lesson program, and supporters from around the world. The farm—conveniently located one hour from midtown Manhattan and 35 minutes from Greenwich—has become known for its high-quality facilities, comprehensive polo training program for beginner and intermediate players, fast and competitive polo tournaments, and its unique position as one of the few year-round polo clubs in the United States. NYC Polo Club boasts a program with two tournament polo fields and two polo arenas. The summer polo season runs from May until the end of September and has six- to eight-goal polo for its members, with a zero- to two-goal “Gringo” league for beginner players. The winter, arena season runs from November until March and play is of a similar level. The facilities include a 325-by-125-foot outdoor arena, a 200-by-100-foot indoor arena, riding trails, and turnout on 250 acres. In addition, the farm has two half-mile sand exercise tracks. Members have the ability to play competitive polo year-round. The club’s training and lessons program is one of the most active in the region introducing beginners to the sport through a comprehensive program that focuses on riding, hitting, rules, and strategy. In addition, the training team helps intermediate
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Play the Sport of Kings One Hour North of NYC! NYC Polo Club at Haviland Hollow Farm, entering its eleventh season, is the only year round polo facility in the Northeast and a great place to play, socialize and be introduced to this exciting and challenging sport. The 2019/2020 Polo season offers members 4 to 12 goal levels of play, tournaments and lesson/training programs throughout the summer. The season has already begun and runs until the end of September. For more information contact us at info@nycpolo.com
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This page: Scenes from the 2018 season at Saratoga Polo Club, where the Veuve Clicquot is always pouring and tailgating is encouraged. This year’s season begins July 5 and runs every Friday and Sunday through September 1.
Additionally, there will be two wedding-themed tailgate decorating contests on August 18 and 23rd to celebrate actual weddings happening at matches on those dates. Plus, try your hand at a Veuve Clicquot sabrage at every match during the season. The season kicks off with the Celebrate Saratoga Tournament, hits its peak with the Whitney Cup Tournament on August 4, and culminates with the SPA Anniversary Tournament, featuring some of the most exciting polo to be seen along the way. Tickets, tables, and tailgating spaces are going quickly! u For more information, visit saratogapolo.com.
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When Saratoga stepped into the limelight in 1882, Thomas Edison’s latest technology, the kinetoscope, was all the rage. Mega celebrities Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell wandered Broadway in Saratoga Springs, and New York City expanded when the five boroughs banded together to create the city that never sleeps. At the same time, tourists flocked upstate to summer in a Saratoga Springs that welcomed polo to the already famous race course scene. Although times have changed, Saratoga Polo Association will be returning with world-class polo every Friday and Sunday this summer, starting July 5 and running through September 1. The 2019 Season sees an upgraded Clubhouse experience, with new table seating on the Veranda Club with full-service dining and field-side lounges. The Winners Circle Lawn Terrace and Gazebo has been redesigned with food trucks and picnic tables, and a trophy stage for a party celebration experience.
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Clockwise from top left: Gigi Hadid at the 2019 camp-themed Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala; Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen; Anna Wintour; Lady Gaga; Billy Porter.
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THE 2019 MET GALA IN NEW YORK THIS YEAR’S Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, familiarly referred to as the Met Gala, was campthemed, and attendees were urged to dress with “studied triviality” in mind. Anna Wintour, who defined the theme simply as “fun,” donned a pink, crystal-embellished Chanel gown designed by Karl Lagerfeld shortly before his passing, with a matching pink feathered cape. And the celebrity guests clearly had varying interpretations of the word “fun.” As partygoers strutted across the red carpet, we also saw Kendall and Ky-
lie Jenner bedecked in feathers; Lady Gaga, who surrounded herself with a squad of escorts, in not one but four outfits designed by Brandon Maxwell as she continued to strip down; Katy Perry as a chandelier; Jared Leto holding his own head; Gigi Hadid in a galactic crystal jumpsuit designed by her date, Michael Kors; Billy Porter hoisted in by six men while kicking back on a lounge chair and wearing a gold-adorned bodysuit reminiscent of ancient Egypt; and also lovebirds Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, who color-coordinated in shades of rose. JUNE 2019 133
Tracy Edwards at the Water Club, celebrating the premiere of Maiden; Ashley Haas; Kea Ho at the Cinema Society’s afterparty.
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ON MAY 1, the Cinema Society hosted a screening for the Tribeca Film Festival’s premiere of Maiden, a timely depiction of women breaking barriers in 1989, at the Village East Cinema. The film centers around Tracy Edwards, a woman who led an all-female sailboat crew to the Whitbread Round the World Race in Southampton, England, impressing spectators all over the world. In 1990, Edwards was awarded the Yachtsman of the Year Award, and was subsequently named a Member of the Order of the British Empire. After the screening, Edwards herself and more were welcomed to an afterparty at the Water Club.
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ambiance. The event featured prizes, including a $5,000 gift card toward a purchase at BVLGARI’s New York boutique, for best-masked guests generously donated by the fashionable sponsors and executed by Hamish Bowles; music by DJ Ruckus, dinner, and dancing. Attendees included Lizzie da Trindade-Asher, who recently relaunched the Young Friends of Save Venice initiative, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Peter Brant, Timo Weiland, Emma Hepburn Ferrer, MarieChantal of Greece, Karolina Kurkova, and more. u JUNE 2019 135
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ARCHIE HARRISON MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR is indeed a jolly good fellow! As witnessed by these three Quest cover images, we’ve been tracking his father (and his mother, and his king-in-training brother) for almost 15 years. The seventh in line for the British throne and the eighth great-grandchild of the venerated Queen, Master Archie (he has yet to be dubbed with a royal moniker) will carry dual passports with American and British citizenry. We hope that Archie will embrace his American roots and enjoy a welcomed presence on both sides of the pond. Quest sends a proud salute from King George III’s original “colonies” to our newest Yank in London. —scmiii
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