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CONTENTS T he E ntertaining Issue 100

The publication of chef, author, and consummate

a gracious host

host Gail Monaghan’s latest book, The Entrées, is the inspiration for

a stylish dinner party in her downtown loft. produced and styled by 130

D aniel Cappello,

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the poet of interior design

Dave L ieberman

Alexa Hampton proves she can

carry the torch of her family’s design legacy.

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118 wit and whimsy A monograph released this month pays tribute

to the work of Piero Fornasetti, tracing seventy years of lively furniture,

sculpture, ceramic, and textile design.

by

Georgina Schaeffer

122 starring high society From Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to the Beales’ Grey Gardens, Quest looks back on the greatest

WASPy movies and characters of all time.

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the joyous table

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J ohn F arr

A new book on tabletop decorator Alberto Pinto

details the making of a festive legacy.

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Georgina Schaeffer

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In 1935, British daredevil Sir Malcolm Campbell set the world land speed record, with a Rolex Oyster on his wrist, and entered the history books as the f irst human to exceed 300 miles (483 kilometers) per hour in his famous “Bluebird.”

Before transcontinental flights were considered the everyday experience they have now become, before satellite broadcasting, and long before the cellular telephone, Rolex was perfecting the world’s most accurate stopwatches. In 1963, with the 6239 model, Rolex launched a new line called Cosmograph. The revolutionary design of the Cosmograph allowed the measurement of speed in units of time through a stopwatch function recording elapsed time. It would not be until 1965, however, that the name “Daytona” was added to the dial as a tribute to the great Florida race, the “world center of speed.”

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Social Calendar

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Our guide to the month’s best benefits, balls, and more.

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Remembering a day with larger-than-life restaurateur Warner LeRoy.

observations

The Great Gatsby is adapted once again. by Taki Theodoracopulos

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A sailor’s love story aboard the boat White Wings.

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Dining in Empire Deco style at the Lambs Club.

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Partying with the junior set.

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My parents frequently entertained at home. Right: Guests at the table, Laura and John McCloy and Marcia Breen in the 1970s.

when i was a little girl, I loved falling asleep while my parents hosted a dinner party. The sound of laughter wafted from the dining room back to my bedroom, and I was safe in the knowledge that there could be no bogeyman in the closet or monster under the bed because the sounds of happiness and joyous celebration were everywhere.

My parents were consummate entertainers. And, also worthy of note, they did everything themselves. My mother still prefers to cook the meal (she will accept help with the dishes, however).

But no one topped my dad in the kitchen. He could make a cheese soufflé without a measuring cup, and was famous for saying, “If you can read, you can cook.” He was also a mischievous entertainer. He always served a stiff drink to nervous guests to help take the edge off. And he was known to turn the music off mid-dinner to put on a recording of crickets and wait to see guests’ reactions as they looked around at the silvery reed motif wallpaper, then at each other, and then back to the wallpaper.

My mother, on the other hand, takes special care in creating a mix of people who do and do not know each other, but will enjoy one another’s company. There are countless hours in our house spent with round circles drawn on scrap paper or using a leather seating arranger to map out dinner partners.

The art of entertaining was something I was schooled in at a very early age, and it influences my life today. At its heart, entertaining is about sharing—good food or a bottle of wine, good company and a good laugh. Entertaining is about warmth and welcome. It is about generosity—and not in a monetary way, but generosity of self, which is equally measurable.

In this Entertaining Issue, we take you first to the home of Gail Monaghan, a chef, author, and first-rate entertainer. Gail hosts regular cooking classes in her downtown loft, which are rumored to be some of the most fun evenings ever spent in a kitchen. We gathered together a group of people who had never met, of all ages, from all over town, and brought them into her 2 0 Q U EST

apartment to let the magic happen.

Also in the issue, regular Quest contributor Daisy Prince profiles design aficionado Alexa Hampton, who is known for creating classic, comfortable homes that echo the spirit of her father, designer Mark Hampton’s, work. Alexa is certainly not the only woman to be influenced by her father. As I mentioned, my dad loved entertaining, but, moreover, he loved design, and there is much of my own design sense that I owe to him.

My first encounter with Fornasetti was the humorous oversized Grecianstyled foot umbrella stand in our front hall that he purchased in the 1960s.

This month, I offer a piece on the designer whose son is releasing a new book on Fornasetti’s designs.

Also this month, first-time Quest contributor, film blogger for the Huffington Post, and editor of bestmoviesbyfarr. com, (and fellow St. Marker) Jonathan Farr reviews the best movies about high society throughout the ages. From The Philadelphia Story to Trading Places, if you have somehow missed one of these films, it’s worth checking them out.

Finally, we feature the table settings of Alberto Pinto. With Pinto’s humor and palpable joy for entertaining, this book resonated with me quickly (as I hope it will for you). Most importantly, the tables span from the very formal and elaborate to the casual and simple—but always set with the idea of “welcoming friends and sharing happy moments around a table that has been imagined and decorated for their pleasure.”

My personal challenge this month is to start entertaining in my own apartment. And I share that challenge with you. So break out the good china, polish the silver, and rinse the crystal.

Set a beautiful table (even if it is your studio coffee table) to share with your friends and family. Gather together and celebrate—an occasion or just the occasion of being together. And, as my father would say, “If you read, you can cook.” I would add, if not, there’s always delivery. Anyone for Chinese? u

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on the cover: Angel Sanchez, Jennie Tarr Coyne (in Ralph Lauren Blue Label), Sebastian Corsini Bland, and Gary Van Dis enjoy Veuve Clicquot Brut Yellow Label at a dinner party hosted by Gail Monaghan.

Monaghan’s latest book, The Entrées, was published this fall by Rizzoli. Floral arrangements are by Renny & Reed.

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NEW YORK SO C IAL DIARY By the Book. (And buy the book.) Bookstores may be fighting the commerce of the internet but books in New York (and that includes bookstores too) have become the reason for a party for the rich, the chic (and the shameless), as well as the Downtown Folk—not to mention the intelligentsia and their cousins, the cognescenti.

Straight up or dirty, it’s as good a reason as any for getting out and about.

It’s a phenomenon, in terms of quantity anyway. In the past month I went to a booksigning at least once a week and sometimes two or three times.

They were all crowded to the rafters. Some cheese and wine, if it’s in a bookstore.

Full bar and hors d’oeuvres if in a designer showroom (like that of John Rosselli or Liz O’Brien). It’s the new New York cocktail party. Plus, it’s good for business.

What it says to me is that “good times, bum times.”

New Yorkers are going to go out and mix. After all, isn’t that why we’re here? And what better conduit than a good book?

For example: One night Andrew Solomon and John Habich hosted a book party for Ivana Lowell at her Victorian brownstone on West 10th Street. The house has a distinguished history, once

having belonged to Emma Lazarus (of “Give me your tired, your poor…” fame).

The house’s enormous front parlor (as they were once called) is a perfect spot for a large reception. The author looked lovely and very chic in her black dress. There was a big cross-section of a crowd: writers, editors, publishers, socials, Brits, old friends, and new friends. There were a lot of people who knew each

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married to her first husband, a sculptor named Cytkowitz. In the meantime, she had other men in her life, including the poet Robert Lowell, who lent his name to Ivana.

After Caroline Blackwood died, Ivana found out that her biological father was Ivan Moffat, a British screenwriter and producer who lived in Hollywood. Hence the name, Ivana. As it happened, I knew Ivan Moffat in Hollywood.

He was an interesting man, full of anecdotes about his life and times.

I’ve known Ivana almost as long as I’ve been back in New York—about seventeen years.

By which I mean I’ve seen her

dozens, maybe hundreds of times at restaurants, parties, and dinners. We never had much of a conversation, always passing like two ships in the night. New York can be like this. However, she and I share many mutual friends and acquaintances, and I’ve noticed over the years that she has a devoted coterie.

Ivana has had a dramatic life. That’s kind of common knowledge in her set, as well as among literary people and social people across the sea.

That’s because of her mother.

Although, from her point of view, it is the only life she’s had so she sees a lot of it as simply her life. Period. Although in

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reading this very readable book, it is a story about what Americans would call an alcoholic dysfunctional family.

Both her mother and birthfather were alcoholics.

In other words, they could and would drink themselves into a pickle when they felt like it. In their day it was just considered a great deal of drinking followed by a great deal of apparently eccentric or ragingly destructive behavior.

It’s a more romantic notion and fits well into literature. It also runs in a lot of families— both the notion and the disease—as we have now learned. Although it almost always produces the same

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A thing: a mess, especially for children of alcoholics, who are quite likely to grow up and join the crowd.

The word always was that, growing up, it was hard on Ivana having a mother with those problems. Makes sense.

Although Ivana, who is quite frank about her life (after all, the title is, Why Not Say What Happened?), loved her mother and loved her company. There are those who object to this

kind of literature, but this is not a Mommie Dearest. This is Ivana’s first book, but it is written with such ease in recounting the facts—grim, weird, funny, and fun—that you could imagine her writing another, like a novel. Why Not Say What Happened? could easily be a novel. And a screenplay, and maybe even a musical, the way things are going these days.

It’s a very good read and

the author caught my interest early on with this recollection of her mother’s last days: “During her last few days, [February 1996] my mother was unbelievably sweet and considerate. She never complained about anything, and even though we knew she was very frightened she tried to not let her children see it.

I just can’t believe I am not going to be here anymore, she said to me, matter-of-factly,

and I knew exactly what she meant. It is too odd a concept to contemplate. “‘How will I know that you are all right? Do you promise you will be all right?’ she asked me. She seemed to want assurance desperately. I promised I would, but I didn’t feel or sound very convincing.

I wasn’t at all sure that I would be all right but I didn’t want her to know I felt that way “It was Valentine’s Day,

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of all things. New York was sunny and the streets were full of men carrying bunches of red roses and chocolates for their loved ones. I left the hotel just to get some fresh air and maybe buy a magazine or two.”

Then, back in her mother’s suite: “The night nurse told me that my mother’s breathing had slowed. When she did exhale, a ghastly choking crackle came out of her mouth. She was permanently in Morocco now. Her room had the sick, sweet smell of deterioration.

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be any little jokes between us, never any laughing about us being a ‘couple of clowns.’

This really was ‘too bad even for us,’ and yet I couldn’t share it with her.

“When she had stopped breathing for good, we opened the window in her room. It’s an Irish tradition to let the spirit of the dead fly out. It was a beautiful clear cold day that I thought my mother wouldn’t mind going out into it...”

The book took Ivana about two or three years to put together and complete. She had a lot of encouragement from her brother and her friend, journalist Howard Blum, to whom the book is dedicated. An achievement to share.

Meanwhile, back to

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the bookshelves (and the cocktails). I had lunch one day at Michael’s with Jamee Gregory, on the official pub date of her second book, New York Parties: Private Views.

This is one of those glamorous coffee table books.

It was quite a coup because it included the domiciles of some of our most prominent New Yorkers, many of whom rarely, if ever, allow their homes to be photographed.

Even if you’re not interested in interior design, these books are great documents of the time. It’s also interesting to see how “the other half” (or, more precisely, the .001%) live—at least part of the time.

The dinner party is always an interesting topic. It reveals much about the host’s

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personal tastes, financial wherewithal, and, most especially, personality—the good, the bad, but never the indifferent. The history of the dinner party goes back to the ancients. Even Socrates had considerations of what were good topics of conversation at dinner parties.

The kings of France ate separately while their guests watched, since no one else was at suitable rank to be seated with them. In the midtwentieth century, long after the Bourbons had departed Versailles, Elsie DeWolfe, aka Lady Mendl, gave copious dinner parties wherever she was residing. At the house in Versailles, which she shared with Bessie Marbury before she married Sir Charles Mendl

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(and continued living there), she gave a famous Pink Party in the summertime where she made her entrance riding a pink elephant.

In the late nineteenth century in New York, society dinners were lavish, with several courses, several wines, and several hours spent at table. An invitation to Mrs. Astor’s table meant you were accepted in society.

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drank vintage champagne from crystal glasses.

One society matron, a successor to Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, hated long dinner hours and wasn’t that crazy about eating anyway. She cut her dinners down to an hour, max. This was practically anarchy. And everyone knew Mrs. Fish loved putting a joke over on her guests. One Newport season she invited her guests to dinner in honor of a Prince del Drago. When guests arrived, they discovered Mrs. Fish’s prince was actually a monkey.

When I lived in California, the dinner party hostess par excellence at the end of an era

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was Edie Goetz, the eldest daughter of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Irene Selznick.

Edie claimed she was such an expert at planning menus that, even though she’d never lifted a finger in a kitchen in her life, she could “taste” a menu just from reading the ingredients. She was very proud of this talent.

Her style was Hollywood grand—a style that went out with the studio system, although as good as an MGM production at the time.

The hostess and her female guests wore long dresses and jewels (if they had them), and the men wore dark suits.

Exceptions were made for

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movie stars who had their own style, although few went against Goetz’s rules.

She was famous for having the “best chef” in southern California, whomever that might be, and an impeccable English butler direct from the Royal Household. Her china, she claimed, was the same as that of the Queen Mother. The orchids and other floral arrangements came from her greenhouse, and the guest list was and cyclical (over a half century) as everything else in the film business, a perfect arc.

Her dinners were called for 7:30, and often on Tuesdays and Thursdays (different

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At 8:15 the butler would quietly announce that dinner was served. Guests would cross the long art-filled living room through the tall double doors and enter the candlelit dining room, with its Bonnard, Degas, Fantin-Latour, Manet, Modigliani, Morisot, and Picasso placed perfectly on the ample wall space.

There were usually eight or ten guest placements. Edie kept records of all of her dinners through the years— the menus, the guest lists, the placements—so that returning guests always had different experiences.

The table included a finger bowl placed at the center of each setting. Once a young costume designer in from New York mistook it for water to drink and held it up for a sip, whereupon the hostess followed suit while everyone else watched the human comedy.

When her husband Billy was alive (he died in 1969, at age 66), he sat at one end and she at the other. Billy had a

big sense of humor and loved laughter and jokes. His best buddy was Jack Benny and Billy did his best to make Jack laugh. He would often do this while toasting his wife, poking fun at her grand pretensions, and provoking laughter from everyone—including her, whom he called “Snoogie,” as she also called him.

In her heyday and even after she’d entered what could only be described as the inevitable “Norma Desmond” syndrome, Edie Goetz’s dinner parties were fancy and fun. In the later years, frequent guests included Freddy de Cordova and his wife, Janet, and Jimmy and Gloria Stewart. Freddy was a jolly fellow, quick with

a quip and full of raucous remarks that often had the table laughing. Conversation at the table, no matter what it was, often included everyone.

Dinner was always over by 9:15. Edie kept a gold toothpick at her plate, an idea she got from her friend Cole Porter, who always had gold toothpicks at every place setting. And she used it— discreetly, of course. Then she would get out her compact and apply a fresh coat of lipstick—while still seated.

Once she rose, everyone would follow her into the living room and take their seats for a screening of an often not-yet-released film.

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parties, she once told me, were orchestrations she had learned during her early days of marriage, from observing Frances Goldwyn, and Dorothy Paley. They were timed and organized down to the minute. They set the standards that other women of fashion followed in the film colony.

In her seventies and early eighties, a lot of her nolonger-invited guests referred to her and her dinners as pretentious and silly. A couple of others who were frequent guests disagreed.

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workday at the studio, because “you knew you were going to have a helluva good time and a helluva meal.” Jean Howard put it another way: “They all badmouthed her behind her back but kissed her (you know what) to be invited.”

Dinner parties in New York in the twenty-first century have many of the same qualities, although a lot of the formalities have been set aside.

Jamee Gregory’s New York Parties: Private Views take in the diversity of style that is prevalent today. Among the hosts and hostesses featured are: Hilary and Wilbur Ross, Tory Burch, Joan and Michael Steinberg, Zang Toi, Jamie

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Drake, Whitney and James Fairchild, Michael Kors, Antony Todd, Blair and Alistair Clarke, Shafi and Alex Roepers, Frances Beatty Adler (whose time of year for dinner parties is especially the Christmas holidays), Fernanda Kellogg and Kurt Henckels.

Jamee’s first New York dinner parties came when she became engaged to her husband, a New York boy brought up by sophisticated and elegant parents who emigrated here Russia’s fall to communism. The Gregorys were highly cultured, as well as stylish.

The first summer she was married, her mother-in-law,

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who was going off to Europe for the summer, told her she was going to lend Jamee her chef so that she “could learn to cook.” As it happened, the cook spoke only Spanish, which Jamee didn’t understand. She was, however, a wonderful cook, and while Jamee could learn by watching and keeping notes, it also occurred to her that the cook could prepare some menus for dinner parties. Soon the newlyweds were using the cook’s talents to everyone’s advantage. That’s where the first seeds were planted for this beautiful book.

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On another night I went down to the new shop of modern and contemporary furniture dealer Liz O’Brien at 306 East 61st Street for

a booksigning by Pauline Metcalf. Her new book is called Syrie Maugham, published by Acanthus Press.

This is a good book, a beautiful book. I love the Acanthus Press books.

They’re like having your own private archive of architectural and interior design history—a feast.

I was particularly interested in this book because earlier this year I’d read Selina Hastings’s

absorbing biography of Syrie Maugham’s second (and most famous) husband, Somerset Maugham, one of the most prolific and best-selling writers of the 20th century. He was also famously gnarly and nettlesome in some circles— like those of his interior decorator wife Syrie.

Metcalf’s book is about Syrie’s career and her great influence on her field. She had a very dramatic life,

married to two enormously successful and insensitive husbands.

The Hastings biography paints a picture of a driven, difficult woman who laid plans for capturing a man and succeeded—at all costs—although Metcalf thinks Syrie got short shrift.

Whatever the story, you can be the judge when you read these compatible books.

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She was born into a time and a world that deemed women of late age grande dames and dowagers. Judy herself, albeit a woman of the later twentieth century, had all the cultural attributes of those who came before her, except for a profound empathic sensibility for those whose suffering is exacerbated by the forced isolation of prison.

In her young womanhood, Judy Dunnington Peabody was one of the glamorous

New York society women who graced the fashion shows, opera and ballet openings, and best-dressed lists. She and her husband, Sam, hosted chic dinner parties and lived among the glitterati. They were also engaged in good works for the neighborhoods.

By the time she was in her late thirties, she was also visiting inmates in prison—as if on a mission. She told me once that her mother would have died if she knew where her daughter was going on those afternoons. It simply wasn’t done, at least not by a

lady of her “station” in life.

When AIDS hit in the early 1980s and was so much a mystery that even many members of the medical community didn’t want to serve its victims, when many people didn’t want to touch a person who had “touched” an AIDS patient, Judy Peabody got herself down to the newly formed Gay Men’s Health Crisis. For the next eighteen years, she spent the better part of her days (and often her nights) ministering to the needs, comforts, and company of AIDS patients.

She was one of those rare women who acquired greatness as a result of her enormous humanity. Florence Nightingale. She restored the dignity of life to others as she moved on through. St. James’, a very large sanctuary, was filled with a complete crosssection of New York. Her philanthropy was her heart and she touched the lives of thousands of people with it.

A Day In the Life. I started out one evening at John Rosselli’s gallery at 306 East 61st Street for—what else?—a book signing. John

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And then, on another evening, there was a party for Debra Shriver’s Stealing Magnolias: Tales from a New Orleans Courtyard.

New Orleans as a place of residence came onto my radar prominently in the past year since our friend Peter Rogers deserted New York for his old stomping ground and bought himself a house in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

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about his life in New Orleans for more than a year now, but since he made the move this past September (and continues to rhapsodize about it), the country’s curiosity has been piqued. Through Deb Shriver I learned that it’s a destination for a lot of New Yorkers.

However, aside from friends’ interest, I really had no idea what the city might “feel” like until I looked at Deb’s book. Nor did I know that she was a southern girl (she’s twelfth generation and Peter Rogers is from Hattiesburg, Mississippi).

She’s also, it turns out, a Francophile, a jazz devotee and a preservationist. She and her husband have been visiting NOLA, as it’s often referred to, for a long time.

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began to dream of a house…I memorized its streets, studied its architecture, soaked in the pastel-colored cottages...gazed past tall wrought iron gates into the lush foliage of semihidden courtyards…admired the old Colonial and Greek Revival houses. Their ornate balcony railings, tumbledown bouquets of blooming bougainvillea and Confederate jasmine…and eventually, almost as if I had willed it to happen, a house found us.”

This book is a woman’s introduction to that city and all of its Frenchness, its exotic riches, history, and charm. It’s a tour, but a tour of what it feels like to live there, with its colors, texture, cuisine, soul, and, of course, its antiquity—restored and maintained because of the of its citizen devotees. This is it for Debra Shriver. She could convince you.

On another beautiful autumn evening I started out at, again, where else?

A book party at Archivia, the bookstore on Lexington between 71st and 72nd Street where Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker were signing their new book, Peter Pennoyer Architects. It was a mob scene.

When I arrived, at 7 p.m., an hour into the party, there were dozens of people even on the sidewalk in front of the store, chatting, having a cigarette, a glass of wine. Inside, the place was packed. I’ve never seen quite such a crowd.

Meanwhile, back to the near future and more books: My friend, the aforementioned Peter Rogers, called me on another day from New Orleans to tell me he’d just read the new book on Gloria Vanderbilt

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As the holiday season approaches, another important tradition should be nearing as well: a review of your year-end financial to-do list.

First, one should always review their tax situation with their accountant. For many people, the end of the year provides an interesting opportunity to harvest losses incurred during the course of past investments.

Taking advantage of tax loss harvesting can save substantial taxes on investment gains.

This year provides another interesting dynamic given the prospect of increased taxes in coming years. It is worth consulting your accountant to see if any current income should be accelerated into the current year or to sell off low basis positions in advance of an increasing capital gains rate.

Second, most people should consult their estate planning attorney before the year ends.

With the estate tax system in such flux, it is important to understand the state of your affairs both in the current tax scheme and the contemplated future tax schemes. This will make you more prepared as the law becomes clearer and will help your advisor make any needed changes as quickly as possible.

Third, it is always a good idea to get a jump on your philanthropic giving before the year-end crush. By setting out your planned giving ahead of time, you can coordinate the tax benefits of your philanthropy with your overall goals. Furthermore, you can remove the headache of remembering which worthy causes have received a check and which causes need your attention.

Finally, it is worth your time to go over allocation changes with your investment advisor. Armed with advice from your tax specialist, this may be the time to make moves in your portfolio in a tax efficient way. You may have a better handle on income needs that require an allocation shift as well.

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an old friend of Gloria’s, and has read every book and memoir she’s written.

He knows as much about her life as a friend can know. This new book, he told me was “the best; just amazing.”

I’ve read most of Gloria’s books, as well as the page-turning Barbara Goldsmith biography, Little Gloria, Happy at Last, that came out in 1979. Gloria’s life is a compelling story, all the way back to when she was a very young child and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, went to court to gain custody of her from her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in the mid-1930s.

The trial was a national sensation, served up as a heart-wrenching tabloid diversion for the masses suffering in the midst of the Great Depression. She was dubbed the Poor Little Rich Girl. Even Cole Porter poked fun at it in one of his stanzas from “Anything Goes:”

“When folks who still can ride in jitneys Find out Vanderbilts and Whitney lack baby clothes, Anything goes…”

In 1922, an alcoholic, compulsivegambling playboy named Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, in his early forties, married a teenage Gloria Mercedes Morgan. Two years later, the couple had a daughter named Gloria. The following year Vanderbilt died of cirrhosis at his gentleman’s farm near Newport, having gambled and partied away much of the huge fortune inherited from his father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and leaving a trust fund of $5 million (more than $50 million in today’s currency) to be divided between his infant daughter and an older daughter from a first marriage, Cathleen. And so began an amazingly dramatic, highly publicized,

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A highly creative and prolific life of an enchanting child that is brilliantly summarized (although Gloria is still going strong) eighty-six years later in this book.

I met Gloria about twenty years ago. She’s one of the most accessible celebrities I’ve ever encountered. When you’re in her company she’s there, like an artist who’s at work on his or her canvas.

She’s the only celebrity I’ve ever met—and I’ve met scores, if not hundreds— whose charisma remains intact at all times. This is not pretense but just the magic of the woman’s personality.

Furthermore, she’s a beauty, and although age has made

its transformations as it does with all of us, with Gloria, you get the feeling that (aside from a little help from her professional “advisers”) age transforms with her.

So much has been written about her, along with so much that she has written, you might think there’s nothing left to say.

Her son, Anderson, now far more famous than his mother (many if not most of the last two generations of adults have never heard of his mother), has written the foreword. It is short and concise and includes these words: “When you have lost, as a child, a father, a mother; when you are raised with the terrible knowledge that

nothing is what it seems, and nothing can protect you, you come to understand that anything is possible, anything can happen. Great pain, great pleasure. There is no safety in guarantees.

“My mother learned that lesson early on…”

Not surprisingly, Gloria has many loyal friends, (some dating back to her childhood), including her housekeeper and steadfast friend, Nora Mulkerins Marley, who is a contemporary of Gloria’s and has been with her for most of her long adult life, as well as Nora’s daughter, GG, who is also part of Gloria’s extended family that she began creating at an early age, as her birth

family was ebbing.

It’s a beautiful book, alluringly designed and art directed by Chip Kidd. It’s full of fascinating archival photos dating from the beginning right up to today. Gloria once told me that many years ago, when she was traveling all over the country promoting her famous line of jeans, that someone came up to her in an airport and said to her: “Congratulations on your life.” Those kind and simple words touched her so deeply that she found herself sobbing in reaction. The solitary, lonely child, bereft from her earliest losses, had managed to triumph.

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ographer and deep-sea explorer Dr. Sylvia A. Earle with the “America and the Sea Award” during its black-tie fund-raising gala at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Regis Hotel. For more information, call 860.271.3980.

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IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY no doubt being the grandson of the legendary Harry Warner, of War-

ner Bros. fame, and the son of film producer-director Mervyn LeRoy, had a little something to do with the drama and extravagance that epitomized the larger-than-life restaurateur Warner LeRoy. A showman at heart, LeRoy’s three restaurants each had his distinct signature indelibly written all over them. Tavern on the Green, bathed in glistening white and blue lights, was a film fantasy right in the middle of Central Park. Maxwell’s Plum, the must-eat-at place when coming to New York for the first time, was a favorite of the New York glitterati as well. One look at the amazing Tiffany kaleidoscope ceiling and you were hooked. The Russian Tea Room transported you to another era, another time and place, one in which caviar abounded and the supply seemed inexhaustible. To say that nothing Warner LeRoy did was nondescript would be quite the understatement.

He brought entertainment to eating and made it fun. If you weren’t happy when you walked in, you were when you walked out. Eating wasn’t just to satisfy hunger. You were going out for the evening—and how! So many other places in the world—Germany, France, Italy—soon copied LeRoy’s lead.

When we met in 1976 for this photograph, Warner greeted me with open arms and flowing champagne. The photo session went quickly because he knew what was needed to make the photograph one you will stop and look at. That made my life easier, too.

Warner LeRoy was a very special entrepreneur. He was the Barnum and Bailey of restaurateurs, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a while and we may never see again. u NOVEMBER 2010 71

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gatz’s

great adaptation My first copy of The Great Gatsby cost me $2. It was 1953. The cover was dark blue with city lights in the background, and a pair of mournful green eyes looking at nothing in particular. I had just finished Tender Is The Night, so I took Gatsby home in exhilaration, not unlike going home with the girl of your dreams—well, almost. I was not to be disappointed. Although I never related to Jay Gatsby the way I did to Tender’s Dick Diver—Jay reminded me of a couple of men I had met in my fifteen years of life, whereas Dick was someone tragic, a trait I aspired to—it was the most glamorous of novels. It was lyrical as well as brutal, and like all of Fitzgerald’s novels, magical, mystical, and full of romance. Here’s the narrator, Nick Carraway: “There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life…It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and it is not likely I shall ever find again.”

The story of Jay Gatsby, who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan is well known. Three films have been made, among which the second, with Alan Ladd playing Gatsby, is by far the best. The last and most expensive one had a ludicrous Robert Redford trying to play a cool Jay, and an ever-so-flighty Mia Farrow Left: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald poses with his wife, Zelda Sayre, and their daughter, Scottie, in Paris in 1925.

as Daisy. During the planning of the movie, the producer, Robert Evans, told me that they were trying to get Truman Capote to write the screenplay. I knew Evans from way back, when his name was Shapiro. He is still with us and he’s okay, but very Hollywood. I had heard rumors about Capote’s drug use and inability to deliver, and I said so.

“Well, who do you think we should get? You?” Evans said dismissively.

Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay and, very surprisingly for such a good writer, messed it up. Looking cool and calling everyone a sport was not what Gatsby was about, nor is he symbolized by having a hell of a lot of new shirts and beautiful clothes. That was Shapiro’s view, or rather Evans’s. Many have called The Great Gatsby the best American novel ever written. Something to do with the way it’s structured. I don’t know how one measures such things, but good books to me are like beautiful women—you can’t compare them. I loved Gatsby and have read it two or three times. Tender I have read more than five. (Papa’s A Moveable Feast almost annually.) When people ask me why I refuse to expand my horizons, I answer the same way Paul Newman once did about women: “Why eat hamburgers out when you have steak at home?” Reading Salman Rushdie would hardly expand anything.

Fitzgerald obviously based all his heroines on Zelda, the apparition that was the love of his life as well as his ruin. Here’s Ring Lardner, a great writer of the 1920s, sending Zelda a rhyme he wrote while sitting across her at a dinner table: “Of all the girls for whom I care, And there are quite a number, None can compare with Zelda Sayre, Now wedded to a plumber.”

Scott laughed when he saw the note, but didn’t like it a bit. Some plumber.

The reason I bring all this up is that The Great Gatsby is back on the stage, debuting at the Public Theater last month. Not a single word from the novel has been changed, and all 49,000 words are included. They are read out by the main characters exactly the way they appeared in the novel. There are no flap-

Clockwise from top: Covers of the Fitzgerald novels Tender is the Night (1934) and The Great Gatsby (1925); Zelda Fitzgerald in her ballet slippers.

per gowns, no long cigarette holders, no bobbed hair. The play starts like the book: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.” It’s called Gatz, Gatsby’s original name in the novel. This is not the first time the novel has been staged.

Back in 1926 it ran for four months on Broadway, directed by George Cukor, with very good notices. Fitzgerald needed the money and it came in handy, despite some infelicities, such as murdering Gatsby in his library and without Nick Carraway’s disillusionment at the lack of mourners at Gatsby’s funeral.

Nevermind. Hollywood types see Fitzgerald’s gem as emerald lawns, silk shirts, golden sunlight, and great mansions by the sea. That’s what drew me in at the start. I had been on the Riviera at age fourteen, had read Tender Is the Night, and then came upon the American Riviera in West Egg. I was shut away in boarding school, but lived at the SherryNetherland on Fifth Avenue, across from the Plaza Hotel, when I was home on breaks. I could imagine Daisy and Jordan and Jay across the street from me better than anyone. And still can.

Writing, you see, does not exist without a consenting reader. And no two readers are alike. I knew Jay better than anyone, except that I knew Dick Diver better.

It all seems so long ago now. When I first read about Fitzgerald’s tragic life, his work had just begun to be appreciated again. He reached superstardom during the 1960s and ’70s, and is still selling well.

He died broke and forgotten before he was forty-five. Zelda died in a fire while institutionalized. Sic transit gloria. u NOVEMBER 2010 73

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by da n i e l c a p p e l lo AND e l i z a b e t h m e i g h e r

november is looking pretty glamorous this year. High-

end fashions from the likes of Roberto Cavalli, Valentino, and Max Mara are being met with equal romance from newcomer Kristin Klonoski of Astrophel + Stella. Jewelry, bags, shoes, and accessories never looked better (or more exclusive), either. So go ahead, fall for the best this season has to offer.

Keep evenings sleek with the Morgan jewel clutch in black satin with jeweled T closing furnished with Austrian crystals. $995.

Tiffany & Co.: 800.843.3269 or tiffany.com.

Max Mara’s Nettare coat, from the Max Mara Atelier collection, is the perfect staple for this time of year. $3,990. Max Mara Atelier: 813 Madison Avenue or 212.879.6100.

The extraordinary de Grisogono Onde ring in yellow gold with brown diamonds. $12,700. de Grisogono: 824 Madison Avenue, 212.439.4220, or degrisogono.com.

Slim and chic: Prada’s burgundy patent leather sandal with black patent bow detail. $650.

Prada: Select Prada boutiques or prada.com.

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by KIM tanzanite necklace in 18-kt. white gold with one tanzanite and 128 brilliant-cut diamonds. $47,220. Wempe: 700 Fifth Avenue or 212.397.9000.

Be fit for fall in J. Crew’s Coletta double-cloth coat, which comes in the cleanest shade of sea salt. $298.

J. Crew: 800.562.0258 or jcrew.com.

The Oyster Perpetual YachtMaster II with 18-kt. white gold case and special platinum ring command bezel. $40,400. Rolex: 800.36.ROLEX or rolex.com.

The trolleys and suitcases from the Asprey Londoner collection are made in England

by Globetrotter and may be personalized. $2,200-3,500.

Asprey: 853 Madison Avenue, 212.688.1811, or asprey.com.

Montblanc’s limited John Lennon Edition 70 Fountain Pen celebrates the singer and songwriter’s seventieth birthday. $27,000. Montblanc: 598 Madison Avenue or 212.223.8888.

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Kristin Klonoski, the designer behind the recently launched label Astrophel + Stella, is turning out irresistible pieces like the gold Margaret dress. $775.

Astrophel + Stella: The Plaza Hotel Emerging Designer Boutique, 212.546.5454.

Be on the cutting edge with a Diva bag in python ($3,060) or a jacket with diamond and suede inlay ($5,250) from Roberto Cavalli’s Pre Collection 2011. Roberto Cavalli: 212.755.7722 or robertocavalli.com.

Ralph Lauren’s tartan leather attaché is sold exclusively at the newly refurbished men’s flagship store. $3,995. Ralph Lauren: 867 Madison Avenue, 212.606.2100.

The Hermès Silkin long wallet in leather looks just as good open as it does closed. $1,125. Hermès: 691 Madison Avenue, 212.751.3181, or hermes.com.

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Pump it up in the Clausado heel by Manolo Blahnik, in sumptuous yellow satin. $775. Manolo Blahnik: Available at Neiman Marcus, 800.937.9146.

Move like leaves in the wind in Valentino’s one-shoulder two-tone chiffon gown with ruffles. $7,900. Valentino: 747 Madison Avenue, 212.772.6969, or valentino.com.

Nothing is more solid for the season than David Yurman’s large woven cable cuff in 18-kt. yellow gold. $14,750. David Yurman: David Yurman Townhouse, 712 Madison Avenue, 212.752.4255.

The Britney Duffle Tote from the J. McLaughlin Luggage Collection is perfect for your fall weekend getaways. $295. J. McLaughlin: 1004 Lexington Avenue, 212.879.9565, or JMcLaughlin.com.

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This C. 1935 home offers 4356 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 ½ baths, 2 working fireplaces, hardwood floors, and numerous window seats, nooks and crannies for added character. The glorious backyard features an in-ground pool with spa and sizeable barbeque and patio area. The property also includes a former dairy barn and pond.

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The wall of windows in this contemporary lakeside cottage frames a fabulous view of Lake Oscawana. The home offers spacious open floor plan, hardwood floors, commercial grade kitchen, 2 bedrooms and den. A boathouse and dock enhance the lake frontage, and a separate 1 bedroom cottage will charm your guests.

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s e rv i c e

crossing air and sea

By NatalIA RE STRE PO

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Gary Hume sculpture, to original works from the 1925 Paris Exhibition. Whatever and, more importantly, wherever, your treasured possessions will be in safe and experienced hands.

Conveniently, this transportation company offers a regular trailer service between Paris and London or New York and Los Angeles, as well as a weekly, consolidated ocean container service between Europe and the U.S. AirSea Packing also regularly manages installations in Moscow, Turks and Caicos, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Tel Aviv.

AirSea Packing will work professionally and efficiently with you, whether you are an antique dealer shopping in the South of France or a C.E.O. looking to outsource a logistical operation. AirSea executive Bradley van Dalen says, “Our core principle of our business is to be the safest distance between two points for any object that could be found in your residence, office, museum, or favorite gallery, from a Pottery Barn table to a priceless Picasso.”

Perhaps the secret to AirSea Packing’s success comes from the diversity of its staff and their enthusiasm and passion, not just for the items of historical significance, but everything they handle on a day-to-day basis. So, on your next trip, don’t be afraid to fall in love with even the largest of armoires. You now know whom to count on to bring it home in one piece. u With locations worldwide, AirSea Packing delivers its services to a variety of clients, including Bernd Goeckler Antiques in the New York area.

Oliver ames

Do you remember that one-of-a-kind Louis XIV armoire you fell in love with on a trip to Maastrich? And your disappointment when you realized that it would be too much of a hassle to get it back home?

Luckily for all those priceless collection pieces, favorite international indulgences, and even spontaneous, on-a-whim buys, AirSea Packing ensures that no matter what item you fall in love with, no matter where in the world, it will make it home safely.

The company has dubbed itself “the safest distance between two points”—and rightly so, considering the value of the objects the forty-five-year-old firm transports successfully for its clients, both corporate and private. AirSea Packing was solely responsible for safely moving from London to Texas what can only be described as the most famous (and valuable) piano in modern history—the Steinway on which John Lennon composed “Imagine.” But even that was nothing exceptional for the expert team. On a daily basis, the firm deals with the transportation of incredibly precious items, like John Harrison’s clock, H2, created in 1741 for measuring longitude, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s personal regulator, and the Philadelphia Academy of Music’s Chandelier, which measured more than fifty feet in circumference and weighed more than 5,000 pounds.

With materials and manpower always at the ready, AirSea Packing can transport anything from a 3,000-pound marble

W-Class crew member Dan on the bow of White Wings, seventy-six feet of clean teak decks to the stern, sailing on the south shore of St. Barths.

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A sailor’s love story This is the story of Jessica and James, young lovers who met in St. Barths and sailed off together on White Wings.

By Donald tofias

the year was 2000—the new millenium. The place was St. Barths. James, an eighteen-year-old from a proper English family, was working on the W.76 racing sloop, White Wings, doing his gap year before attending Oxford. Jessica was a senior at Fieldston who was on break with her family in a house overlooking Gustavia Harbour. They met on St. Jean beach and fell quickly in love, and so began a ten-year long-distance relationship. This is their story.

March 15, 2000, St Barths Dear Diary, I’m bored. We have been in St. Barths for four days and I have not met a soul. Mom and Dad are hovering. They say that I can’t go out alone at night. Please, someone help?

Jessica March 16, 2000, Gustavia, St. Barths Sailor’s Log, Just arrived in Gustavia from Antigua. The owner is on board. Antigua was getting a little

“Then she said, ‘We are getting married in St. Barths,’ and of course I said, ‘Yes.’ Then I said, ‘Can we charter my old boat, White Wings, for our honeymoon so we can go sailing everyday?’

And of course she said, ‘Yes!’”

March 17, 2000, St. Barths Dear Diary, Met the cutest English sailor yesterday on the beach. His name is James. He is such a yachtie! Great tan. Long curly hair—sunbleached blond—and a huge smile.

Jess March 17, 2000, Gustavia, St. Barths Sailor’s Log, Picked up a real winner yesterday on the beach. She’s American, young, and adorable.

Her name is Jessica.

August 17, 2000, Nantucket Sailor’s Log, So nice to be back with Jess. We had a great day on the water today. The owner let her sail with us in the Opera House Cup. White Wings is the biggest and fastest boat in her class.

whole time, but we never came up for air.

June 3, 2004, Princeton, New Jersey Dear Diary, Today is graduation. Everyone is here. Even Jamie came from London. He’s such a doll.

Jess June 2, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts Sailor’s Log, Today is the day I get my MBA from the business school. Jess and I are just a little nervous. All of our parents are here and they will be meeting for the first time.> September 15, 2008, Hong Kong Sailor’s Log, Could two star-crossed lovers be so far apart and so much in love at the same time? This long-distance relationship is too much. But this new job at Goldman is a great opportunity.

August 21, 2000, New York City Dear Diary, Back home in Manhattan. Wish I could have stayed in Nantucket, but Princeton beckons.

Jess

February 12, 2009, St. Barths Dear Diary, James arrived this morning from Hong Kong.

I’m going to surprise him this Valentine’s Day and propose. There’s one condition: we must live together, forever and always.

Jess

February 16, 2001, Paris Sailor’s Log, I’m hooked. Hook, line, and sinker. Jessica is the one. Great weekend in Paris—it rained the

Feburary 14, 2009, St. Barths, Gustavia Sailor’s Log, Jesssica proposed to me at dinner tonight.

We were having a quiet dinner at Eden Rock

when she pulls out this little blue box from Tiffany—wow! I did not expect that. It’s a ring with an anchor. And of course I said “yes.” Then she said I must move to New York and of course I said “yes.” Then she said we are getting married in St. Barths and of course I said “yes.” Then I said can we charter my old boat, White Wings, for our honeymoon so we can go sailing everyday— and of course she said “yes!”

February, 20, 2010, Gustavia, St. Barths Dear Diary, The wedding went without a hitch. Once everyone left, we chartered White Wings with a crew of five and sailed off to a secret cove to swim, sun, and snorkel. We had wine on the fantail and then sailed back into Gustavia Harbor. It was a lovely ending to wonderful wedding weekend.

Today the newlyweds own an old firehouse in the West Village. They have already chartered White Wings for August’s Nantucket Race Week and the Opera House Cup. u This page: Brando on the yacht as it goes to weather. Opposite, clockwise from top left: Heather on the lookout for whales; Andrea on the coffee grinder helps trim the jib; Kim on the jib

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sheet as White Wings goes upwind; the W-Class crew works together—guests are welcome to help sail; Brett eases the jib sheet; Dan steers the yacht with its six-foot in diameter wheel.

a l i so n l a n g le y / Co r i n n a H a llo r a n M e d i a ( k i m ) / Nata l i e J ad e Ray ( b r a n do )

stale. Only drinking beer with young stews off the stink-pots. Headed to the beach.

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h o te l s

stopping by the

surrey By elizabeth brown

“we have done everything from cocktail receptions to book readings, fashion photo shoots to celebrity interviews to very formal dining events,” says Spencer Wadama, general manager of The Surrey, at 20 East 76th Street. And the hotel is, indeed, ideal for all sorts of entertaining, boasting a variety of unique spaces and a superior staff. Another plus? In-house catering by Café Boulud.

Because The Surrey feels almost residential, all of its events maintain an effortless air of exclusivity. “It’s not necessarily about having an oversized grand ballroom space, but more about unique and intimate settings for only the most special guests at your event,” Wadama says.

The premier accomodations at The Surrey are the 2,700square-foot Presidential Suite for one-hundred guests and the 1,200-square-foot Penthouse Suite on the seventeenth floor for seventy-five guests. Both exemplify sophistication, featuring dining rooms, fireplaces, private outdoor spaces, and original collections of artwork. A baby grand piano graces the Presidential Suite, inviting musicans (or guests) to perform at parties. “Most events would replicate an evening in your Upper East Side home,” says Wadama. Other spaces available at The Surrey include additional suites, boardrooms, and a rooftop garden, as well as Café Boulud and Bar Pleiades.

The Surrey is the perfect host to every event, from smaller suppers to bigger benefits. Even your holiday office party, if you’re lucky. Wadama adds: “We strive to work closely with our partners to customize each event to their guests’ distinct tastes." u The Penthouse Suite (pictured) showcases artwork by Ann Hamilton, Jonathan Borofsky, Mel Bochner, and Donald Baechler. The Presidential Suite showcases artwork by Donald Sultan, Richard Serra, Cecily Brown, and Imogen Cunningham. Inset: The Surrey’s roof garden boasts views any guest can appreciate. Above: The Surrey hosts a variety of functions for organizations like Dressed to Kilt and Madison Avenue BID, taking advantage of its indoor and outdoor spaces.

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fisher island’s renaissance By elizabeth brown

hotels

“Blending a celebrated storybook history with unparalleled privacy, relaxation, and easy access to the South Beach scene, Fisher Island offers a superlative vacation experience to those who want the exclusivity and access without the crowds.”

“My island for your boat,” proposed Carl Fisher to

Fisher Island Hotel & Resort, off of the coast of Miami, boasts a

William Kissam Vanderbilt II in the 1920s. And, with that, Vanderbilt lost his 250-foot yacht, the Eagle, and won Fisher Island, a 216-acre destination off of the coast of Miami. Today, the community hosts the Fisher Island Hotel & Resort, a luxury property that is currently benefiting from a $60 million “renaissance.”

Thus far, the project has included a renovation of the cottages and villas, “The Links at Fisher Island,” designed by P. B. Dye, the world-class tennis center with eighteen courts, the beach club, and the marina. The original Mediterranean-style Vanderbilt Mansion has also been restored, and continues to function grandly as a centerpiece to a forty-five-room hotel.

“Blending a celebrated storybook history, with unparalleled privacy, relaxation, and easy access to the South Beach scene, Fisher Island offers a superlative vacation experience to those who want the exclusivity and access without the crowds,” says Larry Brown, CEO of Fisher Island Hotel & Resort. “The ‘renaissance’ of Fisher Island will serve to bring that experience to a whole new world-class level.”

The experience is certainly world-class, with the full-service Spa Internazionale and seven dining options among its extensive offerings. So, as Vanderbilt and his wife, Rosamund, would entertain the luminaries of their time at their $1.5 million retreat, you, too, can relish in all that is Fisher Island. u

beautiful marina that was recently updated in a $60 million renovation.

For more information on Fisher Island Hotel & Resort, call 305.535.6000 or visit fisherislandclub.com.

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TOWNHOUSE-SIZED RESIDENCES Three New York City townhouse-sized homes offer the ultimate in traditional elegance and modern convenience The Buckley Maisonette: Built by Rosario Candela in 1831, the 18-story English Renaissance cooperative on 73rd Street and Park Avenue is heralded as one of New York’s finest buildings. This apartment has its own private entry and address: 73 East 73rd Street as well as access from the main lobby of 778 Park Avenue. The marble floored 18-foot front hall of the 5,350-square-foot duplex maisonette opens onto a 27-foot-long gallery. With windows on Park Avenue and on 73rd Street, the 29-foot-long living room is bathed in light. The formal dining room, featuring two tall windows and a fireplace, measures 27 feet by 18 feet. The upper level contains a large master suite, as well as three additional bedrooms and two full baths.

Time Warner Penthouse: This apartment is the highest penthouse condominium available for purchase in New York. With four bedrooms and five and a half baths, the approximately 90 QUEST

4,825-square-foot residence features panoramas stretching from the George Washington Bridge to the Statue of Liberty. The combination of hotel services from the Mandarin Oriental and amenities from the Time Warner Center make this penthouse the finest residential destination for high-end living in New York.

Restoration at The Osborne: Thomas Osborne constructed this Romanesque Revival building at 205 West 57th Street in 1883 with architect James Edward Ware. Artisans who worked on the lobby included Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John LaFarge, and Tiffany Studios. This immaculately restored cooperative features approximately 3,300 square feet, with three bedrooms and three and a half baths. The double living room is adorned with the original wood and plaster and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.

The space’s dramatic windows enable the sun to flood through its stained glass panes, all recreated and landmark approved. u

This page, from top: the stunning living room of the penthouse at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. The apartment is currently the highest penthouse available in New York; the gorgeous living room at the Osborne, which has been recently restored with the original woodwork and plaster. Opposite: the living room of the special maisonette apartment of 73 East 73rd Street (part of 778 Park Avenue), built by Rosario Candela.

For more information, please contact Paula Del Nunzio, Brown Harris Stevens, 212.906.9207, PDelNunzio@bhsusa.com.

finance

Sam Ramirez, Jr., with his father, Sam Ramirez. Together they manage Samuel A. Ramirez and Co., a full-service securities firm.

A bullish future Q: What distinguishes your firm from your competitors?

A: Service and performance are the foundations to the longterm success of a financial firm. Ramirez and Company has built an impressive track record with individual and institutional investors over the past forty years. My father has more than forty years of experience in the business and I have about twenty. We have assembled senior teams of professionals in all of our divisions, and we currently have 120 employees and eleven offices nationwide.

Our key principle has always been to put our clients first and to help them accomplish both their short and long-term goals as well as, or better than, our competition. We believe that we can compete with any financial firm out there in our core businesses. And we feel even more so today. The proof is in our impressive client list and rankings. We are a top-ten ranked municipal bond underwriting firm in the U.S. We have been involved in the municipal market for forty years and have experience that is hard to find at other firms.

We believe that fixed income is a very important part of a balanced portfolio, which many investors tend to forget in a bull market. Equities and hedge funds became the major allocations in many portfolios. However, over the past two years, investors have been reminded that a meaningful allocation to fixed income makes sense.

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While the municipal market is currently experiencing pockets of stress, we do not feel there will be any major defaults on the horizon. Now more than ever, it is important to have an advisor that can provide the credit work on the issues in one’s portfolio. Diversification amongst different issuers is also important.

Ramirez is also a top-ranked firm in debt and equity capital markets among regional investment banks. In addition, we advise on portfolios for individuals and institutions in excess of $5.5 billion in both our Wealth Management Group and our Asset Management company.

Having an experienced team that can structure a portfolio to perform well in various economic and interest rate environments is extremely important to us. We feel that the U.S. economy will eventually re-inflate and, as such, are structuring portfolios to take advantage of higher interest rates in the future.

Lastly, a very important part of doing the right thing for the client has been our decision over the years to stick to what we know best and are comfortable recommending, such as traditional asset classes within fixed income and equities. We do not believe in excessive leverage, and while we are always looking for ways to maximize our clients’ returns, we do not chase the latest products and fads.

Q: Your firm capitalized during times of market weakness and hired away experienced talent. Since we’ve just been through arguably the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s, were you able to once again capitalize?

A: Yes. The last two years have been a great time for our firm to expand and gain market share. We went into the crisis with a solid balance sheet. The financial products we focus on remained relatively stable and we were able to capitalize on this. Our client portfolios performed well and our investment advisory business has expanded.

The largest area of growth has been in our municipal business, in both numbers and market penetration. This is due to our existing strong positioning in the marketplace, the exit of many of our competitors, and our ability to attract senior professionals from these other investment firms. Plus, our Capital Markets Group, which focuses on debt, equity, and advisory work for Fortune 500 corporations, has expanded, as well as our wealth management, institutional equity division, and sales and trading divisions. The firm has also expanded our affiliated company, Ramirez Asset Management, which provides institutional fixed-income asset management.

Q: How did you handle clients’ concerns during the 2008 crisis?

A: It was a very stressful time for all and something that I hope will not happen again. It was one crisis after another. It reached the core of our business and brought into question even the most conservative recommendations. Ethics scandals on top of all of the excessive leverage and questionable derivative products, was the final blow to investor confidence. The level of trust that had taken years to build was put in jeopardy.

The combination of our conservative philosophy, transparent investment process and solid reputation helped us come through the crisis in a very good position. Many traditional asset classes traded to historically cheap levels as a result, which we took advantage of for our clients. As the markets settled down and clients gained an understanding of what their portfolios were worth at other advisers, we started to experience a significant influx of client assets. Many clients were simply tired of the complicated packaged products offered by larger firms. People realized that bigger is not necessarily better.

Q: Next time there’s an economic upheaval, how can we prevent a destructive perception of Wall Street?

A: Politics aside, the excessive leverage and lack of controls that existed and still exists in our financial system is simply put, bad business. The banks/investment banks, individual investors, and government entities, like Fannie Mae, were all in it together and share the blame. Leverage can be a positive thing for earnings and returns in a bull market but can instantly becomes a bad thing when the market goes the other way. Many firms lost sight of this fact or convinced themselves that they had risk controls in place to protect themselves and their clients.

Certain areas of the market need to be better regulated.

Leverage and exposure to certain products must be better monitored and collateral/capital reserves should to be established to avoid future crises. Don’t get me wrong, financial

innovation is a good thing, however, the exposure to risk these complex products entail must be controlled. The failure of many portfolios was due to the client not fully understanding the risks involved.

Ramirez and Company is a privately held company that has strict risk controls on investments we are involved with. Many publicly traded financial firms have done a lot of good work and continue to do so. However, they are under the gun to produce strong quarterly earnings and to improve the price of their stock. As a privately held company we can take the time and think more long term and concern ourselves with our client’s future.

Q: Does the prospect of increased government regulation and the new reform bill, dubbed FinReg, worry you?

A: My strong belief is in laissez-faire markets and little to no government intervention. However, leverage, capital requirements, and exposure to certain products need to be regulated to ensure that prudent risk controls and business practices exist.

After the repeal of Glass Steagall, we saw massive consolidation of financial firms into very large lending banks. The current financial crisis has also resulted in fewer firms competing for business. This has led us to the point today, with roughly ten mega firms controlling a very large percentage of the financial business in the U.S. With this concentration of the financial system in so few hands, the risks to our system have escalated.

Unfortunately, there is nothing in the FinReg that addresses this concentration, and post-crisis, we feel this problem has actually gotten worse.

Q: Your focus has traditionally been on the prudent management of capital versus making risky bets. In light of all the variables in today’s environment, what advice can you offer the high-net-worth client?

A: Our economists feel that the Federal Reserve has their hands tied and will be forced to keep the Fed Funds rate at present levels for an extended period of time. This is due to the high unemployment rate and low projected GDP growth. Plus, longer-term inflation is more likely than deflation. The near-term trend for interest rates is most likely to be a bit lower. However, as the U.S. economy goes through the inevitable de-leveraging process; the market will gradually improve. With that said, we anticipate a lower growth environment for our economy for the foreseeable future.

In this environment, we are positioning our clients in quality fixed-income and equities. Our asset allocations for the most part recommend higher percentages to fixed income than most of our competitors. We are closely monitoring the unemployment figures, consumer sentiment, and the housing numbers. As we see the economy turn, we will most likely increase our allocation to equities and shift the structuring of our fixed-income portfolios to more of a barbell type positioning. This will help our investors take advantage of rising interest rates and the eventual flattening of the yield curve that will result.

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canteens

supper in style

By DANIEL CAPPELLO

The main dining room.

Opposite page: a dinner menu, the Stanford White

what do a top new york chef, veteran virtuosos of the nightlife scene, and a twice-knighted architect have in common?

The answer lies in the newly revamped Lambs Club restaurant, housed inside the The Chatwal hotel, in the historic Stanford White-designed building at 132 West 44th Street.

The building—and its storied past—should be enough to carry a much-hyped restaurant (since its opening, diners flocking in for post-theatre or Fashion Week meals have included regular bold-facers such as Arden Wohl, Mick Jagger, Kanye West, Edward Spencer Churchill, and Hamish Bowles) into 9 4 Q U EST

instantaneous stardom. Originally, in 1905, the site was a home for the prestigious Lambs, America’s first professional theatrical club founded in 1874 by a group of actors and enthusiasts who took their name from drama critic and essayist Charles Lamb. Over time, notable Lambs would include Irving Berlin, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin, and John Wayne.

White was the original architect of The Lambs clubhouse, for which he designed a six-story, neo-Georgian brick building featuring a façade with ornamental rams heads. White’s building boasted a boisterous grill room and billiard room on the

P h i ll i p E n n i s P h oto g r a p h y

Studio, a view of the bar.

first floor, a banquet hall on the second floor, and a performance theatre on the third floor. The building doubled in size in 1915, and was designated a landmark in 1974.

Now, notable names have joined forces again to inaugurate the newly minted Lambs Club. Chef Geoffrey Zakarian (of restaurants 44, Town, and Country fame) has teamed up with nightlife aces David Rabin, Will Regan, and Jeffrey Jah, and architect and interior designer Thierry Despont, to offer a fresh take on the classic American bar and grill. The space, owing to

hurriedness in the harried greetings at the heavy wroughtiron doors. On a recent night, in spite of an eight o’clock reservation, a nearly empty front-of-house dining area, and several lurking maitre d’s, it was impossible to sit for dinner until closer to nine. Service was no faster at the bar, a snazzy homage to standard drinks like the Southside, the Gimlet, and the Old Fashioned (one appreciates a carefully crafted cocktail, but the almost braggartly shaking, stirring, and slapping of mint leaves can fast get tedious).

Despont’s indisputable talent, is a real treat. He’s maintained the Empire Deco aesthetic with a fully restored 1920s limestone fireplace, black-and-white photos of original Lambs Club members on the walls, bright chrome light fixtures, and hand-crafted red leather banquettes. The restaurant conjures a clubhouse of a bygone day, while maintaining the polish and buzz of a Theatre District “regulars’ place.” Think Sardi’s meets Monkey Bar. There are a lot of names associated with The Lambs Club, and though it’s easy to fall on that old cliché, perhaps there is such a thing as too many chefs in the kitchen. There’s a certain

Once seated, the food proves comfortably American grillcum-supper club—if slightly unexcitingly so. The wine list (not to mention the sommelier) is adept, and likeable. Then again, what’s not to like about finding Domaine Fourrier’s 2006 Gevrey-Chambertin, “Aux Echezeaux,” one of the best Burgundies out there? Starters and sides, from raw oysters and beef tartare to roasted cauliflower and tomato-zucchini gratin, are stars. Meanwhile, main courses range the gamut from seafood stalwarts loup de mer and seared scallops to a hefty heritage pork chop and—what else?—roasted saddle of lamb. u NO V E M B ER 2 0 1 0 9 5

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the gracious host P r o d u c e d a n d s t y l e d B y d a n i e l c a pp e l l o Photographed By dave lieberman

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Chef, author, and consummate host Gail Monaghan, in a black silk gazar cocktail dress

by Angel Sanchez, prepares .

for an intimate dinner party at home. Opposite page: Gail’s preparation of Charles Ranhofer’s Crown Roast of Pork, as photographed

by Eric Boman.

in certain new york circles, she is referred to and recognized simply by her first name. Mention “Gail” at a cocktail party, and you’re bound to elicit a gush of excitement: “Yes, I’ve been to Gail’s!” And by “Gail’s,” they probably mean one of Gail’s cooking classes, which are held four times each month out of her Murray Moss-designed showroom-style kitchen. Or they could be referring to one of Gail’s famous dinner parties, which she hosts out of her Mid-Century modern living and dining rooms, in her sprawling Madison Square Park loft.

To be sure, Gail Monaghan is the modern host par excellence. She is a successful chef and cooking instructor, and the author of several books, including Perfect Picnics for All Seasons (Abbeville) and the much-adored Lost Desserts (Rizzoli). A globe-trotting adventurer and lover of art, Gail is friends with some of the greatest chefs of the world, and always returns from her travels with fresh takes on classic dishes, as well as inspiration for new meals. She imparts This page, from top left: Gail, in a Marni coat, De Clercq & De Clercq scarf, and Manolo Blahnik boots, returns home from the food markets; partial view of Gail’s living room; a preparation of Alain Senderens’s Duck à l’Apicius, as photographed by Eric Boman. Opposite page: Sebastian Corsini Bland, in a Polo Ralph Lauren tuxedo, helps Ada Martin, in a burgundy J. Mendel gown, out of her Dennis Basso fur bolero.

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As guests arrive, they gather for cocktails around the open bar that Gail has assembled on top of her 1930s Art Deco Steinway piano. From left: Ada Martin, Angel Sanchez, Jennie Tarr Coyne, Sebastian Corsini Bland, and Gary Van Dis, who is pouring Veuve Clicquot Brut Yellow Label, with Gail Monaghan.

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her culinary wisdom during her evening-long cooking classes, which are more like a modern-day salon than mere instructionals. Gail is a gourmand, yes, but there is nothing fussy about her; she’s haute cuisine without the haughtiness.

Students like to gather for Gail’s easygoing style and engaging storytelling, which are also at the core of the private dinner parties that she hosts for friends.

This fall, in a delicious follow-up to Lost Desserts, Gail has turned her attention to forgotten main-course recipes from bygone eras in The Entrées: Remembered Favorites from the Past (Rizzoli). Sifting through vintage cookbooks, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and personal archives, Gail selected seventy-five dishes that embody classic entrées now lost to a more elegant past—from the heyday of Hollywood and the glory of New York nightlife to the ritualized menus at the Ritz hotels in London and Paris. Here, in the spirit of her new book, Gail hosts several friends for a stylish dinner party at her home, as only she can. À votre santé! —D.C. This page, from top: Angel takes a break from cocktails to catch up with the Times; in the living room, Sebastian shares a laugh with Jennie, who is wearing Ralph Lauren Blue Label’s Rena dress with herringbone beading and black Christian Louboutin heels. Opposite page: Lizzy Harris, in a Marchesa Notte silk crepe long-column dress with ruffled sleeves, admires Gail’s art collection while chatting with Ada.

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Bass à la Dugléré, from the famed nineteenth-century Paris restaurant Café Anglais, as prepared by Gail and photographed by Eric Boman. Inset: Sebastian and Gail, who is in Carolina Herrera’s mulberry organza floral-jacquard ball gown, have fun whipping up a Fané for dessert.

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Toasts and cheers are had before dinner is served. Gary’s midnight blue tuxedo is his own design.

Floral arrangements by Renny & Reed. Hair styling by Kimberly Gueldner for the Rita Hazan Salon.

Makeup by Alexa Rodulfo. Shoot assistant: Natalia Restrepo.

the poet of interior design By daisy prince

for her job. “It was important to see those buildings as it helped me to design in her blood. The daughter learn the rules. Visually, it meant I of uber-designer Mark Hampton, could create a poem or high drama her childhood vacations were spent or something very quietly spoken. traveling through Europe and being Once you have that vocabulary you introduced to some of the most can find your own voice.” impressive buildings in the world. She Alexa uses her vocabulary to remembers having to dress up for these great effect in her first book, Alexa visits, as her father wouldn’t hesitate Hampton: The Language of Interior to ring the doorbell of a historic house Design. Reminiscent of Edith not open to the public, thinking that Wharton’s first book, The Decoration if his family was chicly dressed it was of Houses, it’s an insider’s guide on less likely they’d be turned away. But achieving great, classic taste without even at eight years old, Alexa loved appearing stuffy. Having spent her Venice and Rome. “The merger of summers working for her father, she those cities and my temperament says that interior design was always was perfect. I was the right age; there going to be her career choice, and was an added layer of interest with felt so comfortable with her decision the great shopping at Benetton, the that she chose to major in literature search for good leather shoes—always The cover of Alexa Hampton’s new book, The Language at Brown instead of studying art a great carrot for a child. Naturally, I of Interior Design. Opposite: The wrought-iron staircase history. Her degree has served her loved the great food.” and doors speak to the traditional architecture of well. Alexa is a great communicator One of her favorite visits was to New Orleans and allow the sun to flow through the space. who uses precise language to describe Villa La Pietra, outside Florence and once home to Harold Acton, a family friend. She remembers her designs, and it makes a big difference in the text. “I grew the gardens in particular as, “idiosyncratic and weird, but they up with imperfect grammar being a huge bugaboo.”

The book is a collection of Alexa’s greatest hits, which sweeps were wonderful and reflected Harold’s personality.” She later came to spend some time there as an adult when enrolled at the from a palatial house in New Orleans to a Tudor Revival Manor in Kent, England. She has chapters on contrast, color, proportion, Institute of Fine Arts.

Her parents can feel vindicated about their decision to and how to avoid common pitfalls. Refreshingly, she includes introduce their daughter to culture from such a young age as the apartment that she and her husband, Pavlos Papageorgiou, Alexa says that her visual education provided a good grounding share in New York City. It is a mix of understated elegance with 1 1 2 Q U EST

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alexa hampton has got interior

touches of Greek spirit thrown in. “I’m not sure if I fell in love with Greek forms before my husband or because of him. I love the notion of taking classic forms and then subverting them. So I would love to take patterns that you might see in wood, like the parquet floors in Versailles, and then use them in fabric.” The couple has lived there since 1995 and recently expanded into the apartment next door. In her book, Alexa shows that she’s not afraid to break the rules, like when she puts a hole (gasp!)

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in a Napoleon III Bibliotheque so that her TV could fit there.

“Though I don’t believe in altering antiques as a rule,” she says, “I wanted to make the pieces I had work for our lifestyle.”

From the pictures in her book, the apartment looks clean and serene, but Alexa is a working mother with three children— twin boys and a girl—and readily admits that it really doesn’t look like that most of the time. “Frankly, tears well up in the corner of my eye when I see those pictures. The one room

“The arched and vaulted colonnade, palace-sized antique rug, and furniture groupings help organize the space and bring this room of castle-like dimensions down to scale,” writes

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Alexa Hampton in her book.

that looks the same is the bedroom—that’s my sanctuary, and I’ve earned the right to keep it looking like that.”

As someone who’s been in the interior design business for well over a decade, Alexa has lots of useful suggestions on how to avoid common mistakes, like mismeasurement. “People forget to measure height. There are certain easy things to miss, like when hanging a picture, the picture should be hung to your eyes, not to the height of the ceiling. Art should key in to your eyes.”

Lighting can be another tricky element. “People need to light rooms well and lamp light is the best. If sconces are too high then you will know it because the light bulb will shine into your eyes.”

She fears that often when people work with interior designers they are convinced that their instincts are wrong. “People are often talked out of their natural color palette. We all have one and there is no shame in preferring one color to another.”

Another misconception is that interior designers will pit

themselves against the architect. “There is nothing we like better than collaborating with an architect. We have a deep appreciation of working with architectural elements. I’m a designer’s designer. I love the work of architecture and I will look up and think very literally in my inspiration.”

As you might expect from someone of her upbringing, Alexa is really an adventurer at heart who loves nothing better than working on a range of different projects. To date, her hardest technical job was working on a super-luxurious Feadship based out of Amsterdam. “There were so many engineering consider-

Queen Anne chairs help establish the sophisticated country feel of this summer house’s kitchen. Set against the large windows, the British antique pieces in dark wood certainly define the space. In her book, Alexa Hampton writes, “Nothing helps new construction more than using antiques, such as these Queen Anne chairs, to add a sense of character.”

ations. I have worked on complicated private planes as well.”

Mostly, Alexa likes variety in her working life. As she notes, “I’m very happy to work for all different kinds of people. I know lots of people who know what they want but

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don’t have the time to pursue it. I also love to design.”

And she does it very well. Aside from managing an extensive portfolio for her clients, Alexa is also a burgeoning design mogul. She is putting out her own line of fabric, lighting, furniture, chairs, and carpet. If Alexa were a stock, this would be the time to buy her (before a big bounce turns her into the next Martha Stewart—with more sophisticated taste).

When Alexa’s father died ten years ago, it was a shock to the design community. He was a highly venerated and well-loved figure. Although Alexa certainly had her share

of heartache over her father’s death, she’s come through it stronger. “Funnily enough, my daughter was born on the tenth anniversary of his death and that kind of rehabilitated the day for us.”

For the future, Alexa hopes to keep on carrying on with what she’s doing. “I’m going to try not to pile everything on, I hope to continue to be doing what I’m doing and that I bring quality to what I’m doing.” If her first book indicates what she’s capable of then there can be no question that Alexa Hampton will carry on the family tradition with wings. u NO V EM B ER 2 0 1 0 1 1 7

wit and whimsy By georgina schaeffer

This page: the “Sole” chair from the early 1950s was reissued in the ’80s. Opposite: Designer Piero Fornasetti with the “Occhi” tray, 1980s.

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Piero Fornasetti’s work, the face of opera singer Lina Cavalieri is the most prevalent and the most famous. Fornasetti found her picture in a nineteenthcentury magazine and, when asked what inspired him to create more than five hundred varying prints of this single face, he said, “I don’t know. I began to make them and I never stopped.” His famous “Tema e Variazioni” (theme and variation) plate series based on Cavalieri’s face is numbered at more than 350. Sometimes she winks. Sometimes she cries.

Sometimes she smokes. But her big soulful eyes are unmistakable.

While 350 variations sounds substantial, at the time of his death, in 1988, Fornasetti had created more than 11,000 items during his career. Among his favorite motifs are butterflies and insects, hotair balloons, and the sun. Playing with illusions and architectural perspectives became his signature.

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And his style merged the surreal with the neoclassical.

This month, Rizzoli releases a tribute to this prodigous designer with a new monograph produced and edited by Fornasetti’s son, Barnaba Fornasetti, who currently heads the Italian atelier.

Fornasetti: The Complete Universe is a look inside the witty and whimsical world of Fornasetti. The book itself is divided into two sections, the first exploring the mind of the artist with pictoral and graphic work. The second half focuses on the more than seventy years of production, from furniture to sculpture, textiles to glass, screens to ceramics, and so much more.

Piero Fornasetti was born in Milan in 1913. He enrolled at Brera Academy in 1930 to study drawing and was expelled two years later for insubordination. In 1933, the young artist showed his first work at a student exhibition at Milano University. Two years later, at the sixth Triennale in Milan, Fornasetti showed his first decorative items, including a decorative bronze-and-ceramic frieze in an archaic style. It was at the Triennale that Fornasetti caught the eye of famed Italian architect and designer Gio Ponte, and later designed the Lunar Calendar with him, as well as executed his first frescoes for the Palazzo Bo in Padova. But as World War II took hold in Europe, Fornasetti went into exile in Switzerland.

Fornasetti and Ponti continued to collaborate after the war when Fornasetti returned. He went to the Casino at San Remo in 1950, where playing cards would become another of his great motifs. Then in 1952, in one of the first-class state rooms on the great Italian liner Andrea Dorea, Fornasetti developed his popular fish motif. Shortly thereafter, Fornasetti created one of his most important works: the Stanza Metafisica, thirty-two decorative panels that could be arranged into an interior environment.

Fornasetti’s popularity dropped during the ’60s, but the designer would rise again in the ’80s, when design store Themes and Variations opened in London. Today, Forasetti’s son continues his father’s legacy by releasing true re-editions, as well as his own objects, referred to as “re-inventions.” Using the elements and imagery from the archives, he revives this magical world for another generation. u 1 2 0 Q U EST

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“I have placed a message in every work—a small story that is sometimes ironic, obviously wordless, but audible to those who believe in poetry.” ­—Piero Fornasetti

This page: Milk cups in Empire style with saucer and lid, 1960s. Clients could choose from among forty patterns or select one of twenty solid versions.

starring high society By john farr

This page: Investigative detective Mark McPherson, played by Dana Andrews, is bewitched in Laura.

Inset: a movie poster for Sabrina.

Opposite: Audrey Hepburn on set as the title character, Sabrina.

whit stillman’s Metropolitan, recently given prestigious

new life via a Criterion DVD release, is likely the most overt WASP movie ever made. Focusing on New York’s debutante season, and the various preppies who populate these longstanding annual events, Metropolitan unfolds from the point of view of Tom, an outsider who falls in with an insular coterie of cotillion attendees. What makes Tom an outsider?

He lives on the West Side, for God’s sake!

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Here are the best of them, in chronological order: Topper (1937): A delirious screwball comedy in which hen-pecked, stuffy banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) gets haunted by two of his biggest clients, George and Marion Kirby (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett), a charming, formerly high-living couple who have just died in a car accident, and come back from the grave to teach Topper how to live.

The Women (1939): Clare Boothe Luce’s biting comedy with an all-female cast concerns the faltering marriage of socialite Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), whose husband has taken up with sexy shop girl Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). Mary’s sharp-tongued pal Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) proceeds to burn up the phone lines, generating one of the cattiest gossip fests ever.

unassuming Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) also recalls his unexpected courtship and marriage to his spirited wife Katherine (Greer Garson). The grandaddy of boarding school movies.

The Philadelphia Story (1940): This screen adaptation of Philip Barry’s play centers on mixed-up Main Line heiress Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). About to enter an ill-advised second marriage, Tracy finds herself suddenly drawn to Mike Connor (James Stewart), a reporter sent to cover the nuptials, which in turn forces her to confront unresolved feelings for her prior spouse, C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant). The ultimate sophisticated comedy about “high society,” which is the name of the picture’s musical remake in 1956.

The Palm Beach Story (1942): In this sublime Preston Sturges farce, wife Gerry Geffers (Claudette Colbert) impulsively This page: The vicious gossip circle between the ladies of The Women begins in this scene at the nail salon. Inset: A poster for the 1939 film. Opposite, from top: Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is wooed by both Larrabee brothers

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939): Chips traces the life of a beloved schoolmaster who serves more than fifty years in an English public school. Reminiscing about his life and career, the shy, 1 2 4 Q U EST

when she returns home from Paris all grown up; the classic wedding finale scene from The Philadelphia Story, starring Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and Cary Grant. Inset: a movie poster for the film, released in 1940.

neighbors one New York summer, and becomes fascinated with a man across the way who he thinks may have killed his wife. Jeff’s tony girlfriend Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly) also gets caught up playing amateur sleuth, and soon the couple find themselves in danger. A Hitchcock peak, and Grace oozes WASP appeal.

The World Of Henry Orient (1964): Two New York City private school girls develop a crush on the title character, a second-rate concert pianist and frustrated ladies’ man (Peter Sellers). They then stalk Orient, foiling his meticulously planned assignations.

Sellers is brilliant, and the two girls (Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker) give refreshingly natural performances. Angela Lansbury also scores as one mother you’ll love to hate.

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968): After suave tycoon Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) executes a bank robbery for his own amusement, crack insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) is put on the case. As Crown and Anderson circle each other, suspicion mingles with attraction. Will Vicki get her man? The film’s chic trappings and star chemistry still comprise a winning formula.

leaves husband Tom (Joel McCrea) over money worries, and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce. By the time Tom catches up with her, Gerry has caught the eye of mega-wealthy John D. Hackensacker, III (Rudy Vallee). Soon enough, John D.’s eccentric sister, Princess Centimillia (Mary Astor), takes an interest in Tom. Which will win out in the end, love or money? It’s one long howl finding out.

Laura (1944): In this classic noir, detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned to investigate the murder of Laura (Gene Tierney), a stunning socialite who bewitched virtually every man she met. Soon, Laura is consuming Mark as well, even from the beyond the grave. But is Laura really dead?

Laura earns inclusion in this list due to its star, Tierney, one of the signature WASP heroines of the silver screen.

Sabrina (1954): Shipped off to Paris for cooking lessons, charming Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn)—daughter of a chauffeur for the wealthy Long Island Larrabee clan—returns a sophisticated woman. Playboy David Larrabee (Willliam Holden) is enthralled, but older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart,) has other plans for David, and woos Sabrina to keep them apart. It’s an effervescent comedy from Billy Wilder.

Grey Gardens (1975): Albert Maysles’s offbeat documentary follows “Big Edie” Bouvier and daughter “Little Edie” Beale, aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis, who’ve retreated from the world in a decaying East Hampton mansion. Quibbling and reminiscing with each other, they share their squalid house with cats, raccoons, and occasional human visitors, but are locked into a routine of isolated co-dependence. By turns funny, haunting and heartbreaking.

Annie Hall (1977): Neurotic gag writer Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), a New York Jew, falls for midwestern gentile Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), and this touching, knowing film follows their unlikely romance. The split-screen sequence featuring Annie’s contained family on the left and Alvy’s raucous brood on the right speaks volumes about the WASP persona.

Ordinary People (1980): Adolescent Conrad Jarrett (Timothy Hutton) must rebuild his life after he and his older brother experience a horrific boating accident, and only he survives.

Ironically, his biggest obstacle lies with his own mother (Mary Tyler Moore), who irrationally seems to blame Conrad for the death of her favorite son. It’s a powerful, harrowing film from first-time director Robert Redford.

This page: Claudette Colbert in A Palm Beach Story (1942). Opposite, clockwise from top left: Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw in Love Story (1970); Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in The Way We Were (1973); a movie poster for the musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, called High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra; Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly spy on their neighbors in Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954); Streisand and Redford in The Way We Were; Robert Donat and Greer Grayson in Goodbye Mr.

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Chips (1939); a poster from The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway (1968); Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society.

Trading Places (1983): Wealthy, crusty brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) make a wager to test their theories on genetics versus environment, arranging to switch identities between über-WASP Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd), who manages their firm, and street con-man Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy). Suddenly, Louis finds himself homeless and wanted by police, while Billy Ray’s in the pink.

The comic madness escalates from there.

Reversal Of Fortune (1990): After the drug overdose of wealthy Sunny Von Bulow (Glenn Close) places her in a vegetative state, Sunny’s elder children suspect suave second husband, Claus Von Bulow (Jeremy Irons), and their efforts lead to Claus’s conviction for attempted murder. Von Bulow then hires scrappy defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) for his appeal. “Reversal” deftly dramatizes the bizarre 1980 crime and subsequent trial that hit Newport like a time bomb.

The Ice Storm (1997): This disturbing tale of suburban malaise in 1970s New Canaan tracks less than cozy relations between two families, the Hoods and the Carvers. It seems Hood patriarch Ben (Kevin Kline) is carrying on with cynical mother/ wife Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver). Director Ang Lee brilliantly recaptures the bad hangover of the 1960s drug-andsex revolution. Kline, Weaver, Maguire, and Joan Allen, as Ben’s stoic wife, Elena, are all first-rate.

Honorable Mentions Love Story (1970): Harvard prep Oliver Barrett, IV, (Ryan O’Neal) meets beautiful Radcliffe girl Jennifer Cavalleri (Ali MacGraw), who comes from humbler stock. They fall in love anyway, but then she gets terminal cancer. Wildly popular then, but one problem: neither star can act!

The Way We Were (1973): Sydney Pollack’s glossy period romance portrays the unlikely on-again-off-again relationship between fiery political activist Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand), and handsome WASP writer Hubbell Gardner (Robert Redford).

Top production values, but stars share little chemistry.

Dead Poets Society (1985): New boarding school master John Keating (Robin Williams) makes his passion for learning infectious, encouraging his charges to discover the beauty in poetry and life. Film follows Keating’s progress at the school, and that of his students (Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke).

Great start, but it eventually overdoses on melodrama.

Six Degrees Of Separation (1993): Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing), high-living, old Manhattan WASPs, have their privileged, cocooned world infiltrated by a young black man named Paul (Will Smith) who claims to be Sidney Poitier’s son, and to know their kids from prep school. Events will prove Paul is a fraud. Adaptation of John Guare’s play is well mounted and clever, but ultimately betrays its stage origins with too many declamatory monologues. u

“Laura earns inclusion on this list because of its star, Gene Tierney, who, playing a stunning socialite, is one of the signature WASP heroines of the silver screen.�

This page: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura (1944). Opposite, from top: the movie poster from 1980s classic Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy; Hollywood stars Jimmy Stewart and Kate Hepburn in a scene from The Philadelphia Story.

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the joyous TABLE By georgina schaeffer

“Collecting, according to the dictionary, is assembling objects of aesthetic, cultural, or especially emotional value over a lifetime,” writes Dane McDowell in the first chapter of the new book Alberto Pinto: Table Settings. “Taken individually, each object recounts the story of an emotional attachment. Taken as a whole, they reflect a passion for excellence and a quality of life where joie de vivre and the pleasure of entertaining and sharing show through.”

Pleasure sums up the work of Alberto Pinto’s table settings. But, interestingly enough, most descriptions of Pinto’s design sense involve a juxtapostion: elegant, yet lively; discreet, yet theatrical; sophisticated, yet current. Certain words seem to reappear: “imaginative,” “eclectic,” “nonconformist,” and “joyous.” In this new book, Pinto takes us through the wonder that can be a beautiful table.

French journalist Claire Chazal writes on the many times she has been to Pinto’s own table in her introduction: “On each occasion, whether the moment was simple, mundane, or exceptional it was childlike wonder I felt in the presence of his audacious color associations, bizarre porcelain animals, Against a background of Regency wood paneling, precious Syrian marquetry commodes play a starring role. On the holiday table, a pair of bronze Sileni lifting armfuls of glasses with flared stems accompany engraved crystal glasses by William Yeoward and Sèvre porcelain in the “Feuilles de choux” pattern.

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gerberas and orchids stand out against the symmetric organization of the room. Antique

With its black-and-white wall and floor tiles, 1950s-style elegance is kitchen. The master of the house often plans lunches for friends here.

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In this austere dining room décor, dominated by a Pierre Dmitrienko painting that was formerly in the Roger Vivier collection, the tablesetting underlines decorator Alberto Pinto’s love for black and white. The “Viux Kyoto” services inspire a bucolic scene. The silver birds by Luis Ferreira have not noticed the little English frog pulling a snail under an arrangement of black-and-white flowers and berries. Next to William Yeoward bread plates, hunting scenes ring Bohemian tumblers.

and unthinkable profusion of orchids or tiny anemones.”

There is an air of welcome to each of Pinto’s tables, from the grandest setting of a formal dining room designed for dignitaries, to the most playful table for a luncheon with friends in a kitchen. This welcome is formed from the lively combination of objects and flowers that are a joy to the eye. An example of this humor is the mischevious English frog pulling a snail in the company of silver birds on the dining-room table in Pinto’s own Paris home. Each table has a different mood for a different time of day and a different occasion. But each celebrates the occasion at hand.

Pinto calculates that it takes him fifteen minutes to dress a table, which means he relies on instinct and spontaneity to create his tableaus. But each breathe new life into a space, melding flowers, colors, shapes, and materials—all while rejecting traditional convention by juxtaposing different styles and eras into a single setting. “It is a game of references of which he is the sole author,” said friend and stylist Bruno Roy. Writer Philippe Renaud describes Pinto’s tables as “the combination of memories that are nurtured by mementos of mythical voyages and distant aesthetics.”

Pinto grew up in a house where there was always room for one more at the table, and it is perhaps this notion that is the one constant in his work: there is always a feeling of abundance and comfort. The goal is always “welcoming friends and sharing happy moments around a table that has been imagined and decorated for their pleasure.” It is this homage to the pleasures of collecting, decorating, entertaining, and friendship that make these tables a joy to come to. u NO V E M B ER 2 0 1 0 1 3 5

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FALL TAKES THE STAGE by hilary geary

From left: Tina Sloan McPherson receives flowers from her son, Remy, and her husband, Steve; performing her one-woman show, Changing Shoes.

Come fall, everybody is back in the

Big Apple and the city comes to life.

There are the usual round of lunches, dinners, charity events, Fashion Week, plus the re-openings of restaurants like La Grenouille, which come back after summer break. And, this year, there are even some beautiful new stores, like Ralph Lauren’s and Reed Krakoff’s on Madison Avenue. The season was kicked off with Liz and Jeff Peek’s annual “Back to School” cocktail party at their penthouse, which has lovely planted terraces overlooking Park Avenue. I spotted Mayor

Bloomberg and Diana Taylor, along with Lauren and John Veronis, among many others there.

Everybody had a good time for an excellent cause at the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation luncheon as it was beautifully orchestrated and ran on time—pretty impressive for its inaugural luncheon. Before lunch, Dr. Howard Fillit gave a fascinating seminar on the progress that has been made in conquering this ghastly disease. It was a soldout event with excellent speakers and Charlie Rose moderating. Cobb salad

was on the menu and everyone was out by 2 p.m. Bravo! Among the group: Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder, Lynn de Rothschild, Paula Zahn, Chris and Grace Meigher, Freddie Melhado, Susie Elson, Alexandra Lebenthal, Virginia Coleman, Beth De Woody, Michele Herbert, and more.

Jewelry has been on everyone’s mind it seems. First, jeweler extraordinaire Graff opened its doors at dusk and popped open some champagne to toast Maria Bartiromo and her new book, The Weekend that Changed Wall Street. Then,

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on another night, Graff fêted Julia Koch and the Museum of Natural History.

Plus, everyone got to take a peek at the Wittelsbach-Graff thirty-one-carat blue diamond on display! Still another night, Evelyn Lauder was honored at Leviev.

Debbie Bancroft joined forces with Tiffany Dubin to celebrate at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion the Heritage Auction House as it has moved to 57th street. That same night, Renee Price, director of the Neue Gallery, and Ronald Lauder, president, toasted his brother, Leonard, and his remarkable “Postcard of the Wiener Werkstatte” collection to which they have donated a section of the Neue Gallery.

A great big crowd showed up at the Florence Gould Theatre on East 59th Street to see the very talented and beauti-

and her husband Brad, Nancy Missett and her daughter Samantha Topping, France and Susan de Saint Phalle, Zac and Missy Taylor, Henry and Wendy Breck, Jim and Anne Sitrick, Gordon and Dailey Pattee, Ward and Priscilla Woods, Charlotte Ford, Jamie and Maisie Houghton, Kelley and Brenda Anderson, Jean Halberstam, Duane Hampton,Tony and Siri Mortimer, Stephen Drucker, Rick Salomon, Win and Mary Rutherford, Laura Landro, and more.

Another fun event was the exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, “Notorious and Notable: Twentieth Century Women of Style,” put together

by Judy Price. You will see a wide range of outfits and baubles that belonged to legends like Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Wallis Simpson, Babe Paley, and Gypsy

tail party at Bergdorf Goodman to salute Jamee Gregory and her new book, New York Parties: Private Views. In fact, so many people came that they had to move the festivities from the seventh floor to the larger space on the fourth floor. This beautiful book focuses on entertaining at lunch, brunch, dinner, and more. Jamee gives you a grand tour and takes you to Evelyn and Leonard Lauder’s for dinner, Tory Burch’s for lunch, a buffet dinner at Michael Kors, cocktails at Campion and Tatiana Platt’s, a hunt breakfast at Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henckel’s, and even to my apartment!

At Bergdorf’s I spotted Mila Mulroney, Anne Eisenhower and Wolfgang Flottl, Adrienne and Gigi Vittadini, Kate Gubelmann, Jamie Drake, Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, Michael Kors, Campion

From left: Joe Plummer, Nancy Missett and Samantha Topping arrive at Changing Shoes; Patsy Warner at the after-party for Tina McPherson’s show.

ful Tina Sloan McPherson star in a oneact, one-woman show, Changing Shoes, based on her terrific new book. Both the play and the book are charming autobiographies that cleverly use shoes as a metaphor as Tina steps through life’s challenges. After a standing ovation, we hoofed over to an after-party tossed by Maureen and Richard Chilton, Anne Ford, and Dan and Cynthia Lufkin. The party buzz was that the show was a roaring success.

Among the fans were, of course, Tina’s adorable husband and son, Steve and Remy McPherson, plus Amy Fine Collins

Rose Lee. Speaking of shows, if you are up in Boston, don’t miss legendary designer Arnold Scaasi’s blockbuster exhibition of his couture dresses at the Boston Fine Arts Museum. Arnold has dressed all the big names, from four First Ladies— Mamie Eisenhower, Hilary Clinton, Barbara Bush, and Laura Bush—to stars like Barbra Streisand and Arlene Francis.

Sadly, you cannot buy them anymore as Scaasi has closed down his clothing salon, but you can buy his faux baubles on the Home Shopping Network.

All of New York turned up at the cock-

and Tatiana Platt, Pat and Ed Ney, Freddie Melhado, Mai Harrison, Allison Mazzola, Grace Meigher, Peter Lyden, James Reginato, CeCe Cord, Richard and Karen LeFrak, John Mashek, Zang Toi, Alexandra Lebenthal, Douglas Hannant, Hamish Bowles, Susan and Timmy Mortimer, and Mark Gilbertson.

Speaking of Mark, right after Jamee’s book party, a big group headed over to the Museum of the City of New York bash at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Mark always gathers the most fun group and everyone had a blast! A perfect ending to fall! u NO V E M B E R 2 0 1 0 1 3 7

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THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST From rubbing shoulders with Justin Timberlake at The Social Network after-party to brunching at LAVO, Elizabeth Brown reports back on the hottest parties of the month—and then some.

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Attendants offering candy cigarettes and other vintage treats to guests at the first LAVO brunch.

Tyler Winklevoss, Carson Griffith, Cameron Winklevoss, and Rachelle Hruska at Plunge.

Olivia Palermo attends a screening of The Social Network.

Dree Hemingway poses for the photographers at the Crosby Street Hotel.

Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Luke

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Evans, and Bill Camp star in Tamara Drewe.

Delfina Blaquier and Nacho Figueras join the cast

Mionetto treated guests to Prosecco Brut D.o.c.

of The Social Network to celebrate the film.

at a Cinema Society after-party.

“that would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment,” wrote Dorothy Parker in But the One On the Right. As I found myself speeding down Park Avenue to a screening of Tamara Drewe on September 27, I considered my choice. It was a Monday, after all. “Monday Funday?” Is that a thing? I realized I wasn’t worried anymore when actor Dominic Cooper approached Caroline Smith and me at the Crosby Street Hotel, saying something or other in a British accent. Swoon!

A few days later, I snagged a seat at the Cinema Society screening of The Social Network. If I had been asked to take a shot every time Jesse Eisenberg’s character wore Exeter clothing, I would have left the theater mildly buzzed. In the elevator to the after-

party at Plunge, I found myself sandwiched between Kenneth Parcel (a.k.a. actor Jack McBrayer) and Precious (Gabourey Sidibe). Then, designer Rachel Roy in the bathroom, and actor Justin Timberlake ... in arm’s reach! Afterward, I stopped by Avenue for the launch of NYC’s La Societé Stella Artois where guests were indulging in the Belgian beer.

On October 1, I celebrated Abe & Arthur’s one-year anniversary. BlackBook’s Cayte Grieve, UrbanDaddy’s Justin Silverman, and I tasted the additions to the cocktail menu, including “Irish Cereal Milk” garnished with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Nom. On the 6th, I borrowed a dress from Quest’s Georgina Schaeffer before we strolled to the Colony Club. There, we mingled with Patricio Neuss, John Royall, and Elisabeth Saint-Amand. TopNO V E M B E R 2 0 1 0 1 3 9

ics of conversation: Grandmother’s aspic recipe, JG Melon, and needlepoint. Non-topics of conversation: Brooklyn, NASCAR, and public school.

On the 9th, I arrived at the first LAVO brunch with my girlfriends. After a “Hello!” to Andrew Goldberg, we were seated and served champagne and oysters. I must say, it was pretty romantic until DJ Drek Martinez and DJ Jacques started spinning. Oh, casual clubbing in the afternoon!

The Museum of the City of New York hosted “New York After Dark” at the Four Seasons Restaurant, with Edward Barsamian, Melissa Morris, and designer Michelle Smith among the guests encircling the pool. All said and done, it was a veritable “who’s who” of Manhattan. On the 15th, Zenas Hutcheson joined my friends and me for the Yorkville Ball at the Union Club where I bumped into Erika Billick and Lizzy Fraser.

On another night, I ventured over to The Surrey’s roof garden to sip Appleton Estate Reserve Rum cider with its Patrons Club. Café Boulud served hors d’oeuvres, including risotto with truffles, which are, according to Quest’s Daniel Cappello, “the sun-dried tomatoes of the ’00s.”

At the Cinema Society and Everlon Diamond Knot Collection’s screening of Welcome to the Rileys at the Tribeca Grand

Poppin’ bottles with sparklers at the first LAVO brunch on October 9; By the afternoon, revelers were dancing on the banquettes.

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Hotel, I joined Adelaide Polk-Bauman of the Diamond Information Center and Avenue’s Stephen Travierso in the theater. Following the film, we relocated to the SoHo Grand Hotel where actress Kristen Stewart had slipped into a flannel shirt and skinny jeans. So. Freaking. Hipster.

Bloomberg’s Gigi Stone celebrated her birthday on the 22nd at 49 Grove, with Neil Rasmus of Billy Farrell Agency and others in attendance. The following morning, I woke at dawn. Christmas Day? No, just “The Hunt” in Far Hills. I must’ve been a very good girl this year, because the car service sent a white Hummer H2 Super Stretch Limo! Charlie Bakke and Gordon Stewart met at my apartment before we swung downtown to grab Alex Ellis, Christina Miranda, Michelle Catalano, and others. I toted a canvas bag of the essentials: Absolut Peppar, homemade Bloody Mary mix, Lilly Pulitzer cups, and novelty sunglasses.

As horses raced around the infield, I hopped between tailgates, chatting with Bobby Goulding and Medora Hartz.

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Stephanie LaCava at the after-party for a screening of Welcome to the Rileys at the Tribeca Grand Hotel.

Gerard Butler at the SoHo Grand Hotel with Jake Scott, who directed Welcome to the Rileys.

Kristen Stewart at a screening hosted by the Cinema Society and the Everlon Diamond Knot Collection.

Partygoers adhere to the “Gatsby� theme, wearing fringe and pearls for the Yorkville Ball at the Union Club.

Vanessa Laurence, Cena Jackson, and Lara Meiland-Shaw at the Four Seasons Restaurant.

Mark Gilbertson and Nanette Lepore toast the Museum of the City of New York.

Linda V displaying stacked Everlon Diamond Knot Rings in oxidized white gold.

Selita Ebanks, Matthew Settle, and Kelly Bensimon

Andrew Saffir hugs Petra Nemcova at

raise glasses of Stella Artois at Avenue.

a Cinema Society after-party.

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Medo Charlie Bakke, Melissa Sink, and Michelle Catalano pre-gamed together on their way to Far Hills for “The Hunt.”

Rebecca Regan and Ashley Passik visit their friends at different tailgates on the hill and in the infield at The Far Hills Race Meeting on October 23.

Parker Cook and Frederica Tompkins wear fall clothing to “The Hunt.”

Christine Miranda and Gordon Stewart ride in a white Hummer H2 Super Stretch Limo.

Hundreds of tailgates decorate the annual event benefiting the Somerset Medical Center.

Eric Termini and Ngaere Durling are among the 40,000 spectators at “The Hunt.”

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A bagpiper plays amid the shenanigans taking

Kelsey Breining and Emma Greenberg join

place in Far Hills on October 23.

in the festivities at “The Hunt.”

Billy Farrell agency / Rebecca Regan / Gordon Stewart

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Twenty-somethings dance on a car at “The Hunt.” Insets taken at Gigi Stone’s birthday, clockwise from top left: Alina Cho and Rory Hermelee; Sebastian Bland and Lizzy Harris; Susan Shin, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Gigi Stone, and Anisha Lakhani.

S NA P S HO T

The origins of the Handsome Dan Dynasty: left, Yale football head coach Raymond White Pond with Handsome Dan II. Right: Handsome Dan I.

at high noon on November 20th thousands of students

and alumni will fill Havard Stadium for the 127th HarvardYale football game (aka The Game), in Cambridge. And sitting on the sidelines for Yale will be Handsome Dan XVII, arguably the most iconic mascot in college sports. He follows in the ivy-clad paw prints of seventeen Handsome Dan predecessors. Among Handsome Dan’s tricks: he can stare down a stuffed Princeton tiger and, when asked if he would rather die or attend Harvard, he rolls over and plays dead.

Yale was the first university in the United States to adopt a mascot. The Dan Dynasty dates back to 1889, when a young undergraduate, Andrew B. Graves (’92), purchased a bulldog from a local blacksmith for $5. “In personal appearance, he seemed like a cross between an alligator and a horned frog, and he was called handsome by the metaphysicians under the law of compensation,” eulogized the Hartford Courant. “The title came to him, he never sought it. He was always taken 144 QUEST

to games on a leash, and the Harvard football team for years owed its continued existence to the fact that the rope held.”

The Philadelphia Press recalled that “a favorite trick was to tell him to ‘Speak to Harvard.’ He would bark ferociously and work himself into physical contortions of rage never before dreamed of by a dog.”

Each Handsome Dan since has won the hearts of Yalies, regardless of how much luck they have brought to the team.

Handsome Dans have lived with deans, directors, and coaches. One Handsome Dan was taken care of by a head cheerleader who went on to become the Secretary of State. One Handsome Dan appeared on the cover of a national magazine and another had his picture taken with the President.

But no matter if you are rooting for the Crimson or cheering for Yale, we know Handsome Dan will be singing Yale alum Cole Porter’s (’13) classic fight song: “Bull-dog! Bulldog! Bow, wow, wow, Eli Yale!” —Georgina Schaeffer

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