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FAENA DISTRICT’S MODEL LOOKS

Alan Faena tips his hat to the launch of the

highly anticipated Faena District Miami Beach.

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THE ARSHT CENTER: A CULTURAL CORNERSTONE

DanIel Cappello In its first 10 years, the Adrienne

Arsht Center for the Performing Arts has helped make Miami a cultural capital of the world. Here, Quest sits down with its benefactor and namesake. by DanIel Cappello

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THE EXPERTS OF REAL ESTATE

Quest consults with its favorite agents for advice

about buying and selling in 2015—and beyond. by elIzabeTh QuInn bRown

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GENERATIONS OF EAST 72ND STREET

turn, the history of the Upper East Side.

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Exploring the history of the street and, in by

DavID paTRICk ColumbIa

BAL HARBOUR SHOPS GOLD ANNIVERSARY

Bal Harbour remains the exciting

shopping mecca developer Stanley Whitman always intended it to be. by alex TRaveRs

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SUNSHINE STATE SHOPPING

The best shops Miami has to offer. by alex TRaveRs

LAYING CLAIM TO THE MANHATTAN OF THE SOUTH

Douglas Elliman makes

big moves in South Florida real estate. by anDRea speeDy

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A BEACON FOR MODERN ART

The local and international ambitions of the

Pérez Art Museum Miami. by lIly hoaglanD

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C olumns 26

SOCIAL DIARY

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HARRY BENSON

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ANGLOPHILES TO THE HUNT

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FRESH FINDS

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CANTEENS

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FOOD & LIFESTYLE

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RESIDENCES

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OPEN HOUSE

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SKYLINE

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ART

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CHARITY

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TRAVEL

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SOCIAL CALENDER

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YOUNG & THE GUESTLIST

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SNAPSHOT

Our columnist says that book parties are where it’s at.

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Capturing Cassius Clay, floating and stinging, with the Beatles in Miami in 1964.

America’s love for British sporting culture.

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A break from tweeds—and smartphone selfies. by DanIel Cappello anD elIzabeTh meIgheR

Taking in the scene—and the heat—at Cecconi’s, at Soho Beach House. by DanIel Cappello Giving thanks for Connie Wald, and her high art of hostessing. by alex hITz

1 Hotel & Homes proves that penthouse living in Miami doesn’t get much better than this.

Lourdes Gutierrez escorts our readers through The Setai, South Beach.

With its newest high-rise, Elysee Residences, Two Roads Development reimagines Miami living.

Photographs By Kelly Klein may be the photographer’s most revealing book yet. by lIly hoaglanD With the Earl Spencer, Ralph Lauren celebrates a Pink Pony milestone in true British style.

Casa de Campo’s synergy of natural beauty and wide range of exciting activities can’t be beat.

The most anticipated galas and gatherings in New York and South Florida this fall.

Keeping up with the PYTs as they hit the clubs.

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New York City and Miami, characterized by their stomping grounds, gimlets, and gadgets.

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This page, clockwise from top left: Miami’s waterfront skyline has always had a special spot in American culture; “Angeles veloces arcanos fugaces,” an instillation coming to the Faena District this December; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; an original rendering of Bal Harbour, the shopping center that’s turning 50 this year.

names in real estate, our experts reveal their thoughts and tips on how to navigate this prosperous market.

Yet the crowds aren’t coming to Miami for the realty alone.

Thanks in part to Art Basel, the culturati have added the city to their destination rosters. The area has become a magnet for prestigious institutions, such as the Pérez Art Museum and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, both worthy platforms for great art.

Read all about what’s making Miami hot again—in the meantime, we’ll be over here, working on our tans. u A BANNER READING “Welcome to Miami Beach” flutters in the sky, being pulled by an invisible plane. The horns kick in. The camera pulls back to track across the skyline, white buildings against a blue ocean. The swanky soundtrack conveys that this is a place where people know how to live their lives not just well, but with flair.

Fifty-one years ago, Goldfinger opened with that scene, and the past repeats itself today, with James Bond back in theaters and Miami experiencing a renewed popularity. With that in mind, Quest answered the siren’s call of those beaches for our Real Estate Issue. Acting as guides into this foray, Alan Faena and Cindy Crawford bade us a warm welcome (of course it was warm—Miami doesn’t understand the word “cold”). Who wouldn’t want to kick off a trip with a game-changing supermodel and a man whose local namesake is an art district?

Turns out, Miami real estate is capital “B” booming. In fact, it’s a trend that holds true across the country—ask any broker.

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York just to have lunch. It had been many months since we’d lunched together.

When I arrived, the place was jumping as usual. So, as I sat down, I noticed Maria Cooper Janis coming across the room in my direction. Maria told me she was lunching with Tab Hunter and Allan

Glaser, who produced the documentary: Tab Hunter Confidential. Maria wanted to know if I wanted to take a picture of Tab, who was in town to publicize the film.

Of course. So, I excused myself from Rosina (who had been waiting patiently when I was 20 minutes late) and I

went over and met Tab and Allan. The thing is this: When you meet a famous movie star—and I mean famous to you, because of your generation—it is an odd pleasure, a kind of thrill. But, at the same time, he or she is just another human being like you and me.

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impression you get.

The impression you get from Tab is “nice man.” With the same handsome, young presence he had on the screen.

He stood up to greet me, like a gentleman, and to shake my hand. I told him we had a mutual acquaintance/friend from Santa Barbara, where he lives.

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bie Reynolds, when writing her autobiography, that her and Tab’s generation of movie actors were highly disciplined in their relationship to the public. Always. They put on a good face, look good, and act courteously. Not all of the stars were able to achieve that, and those who could achieve that were generally nice people. Tab is a gent. It’s a corny thing to say but, at 84, he still maintains that personable persona that made him a big star as a young man on the

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screen 65 years ago.

The documentary is based on the man’s memoir (same title) and, since I have not yet read the book or seen the movie, I can only tell you what the blurbs on the film and book tell us—which is essentially that they’re the Hollywood story of a very young man, in Southern California, who was discovered by a talent agent and became a matinee idol.

By the time he was 24, he had starred in World War II drama Battle Cry, where his character

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A and art historian. Last year, he published Elsie DeWolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm.

Currently, Charlie is project director for the creation of the “Elizabeth Taylor Archive” for Elizabeth Taylor’s trust.

Because she lived in Los Angeles at the end of her life (as well as at the beginning), the main material is located there, so Charlie’s back and forth to L.A. frequently these days.

Despite Taylor’s far-flung life (both privately and publicly), she was very business-like with her possessions, properties, and assets. Nothing was disposed of. For example, back when I lived there in the 1980s, I. Magnin (the department store in Beverly Hills)

had sold their “fur storage” department to an independent company. In making that switch of ownership, those who had furs stored at I. Magnin had to remove them from the store for 24 hours.

This was a major assignment for Taylor, who had 64 fur coats stored at I. Magnin.

I learned that, not only did she have those furs in storage there, but she had another 84 furs in a warehouse in Gstaad, Switzerland (where she also had a residence). Also in that warehouse: every piece of clothing she had ever worn.

Taylor’s career and life were intensely documented with contracts, photos, letters, art, properties, and publicity. Her

estate is enormous financially, and about a quarter of it is marked for her Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. All of her collections and possessions are still in hand and now in the process of being archived under Charlie’s direction.

Meanwhile, the book business. Book parties are now a staple on the New York social calendar. Never a week goes by when there isn’t at least one, or more than that, in someone’s house or apartment. They’re usually in the early evening—cocktail party time. For example, Susan and David Rockefeller, Jr., hosted a book party for Leslie Zemeckis in celebration of her newest book: Goddess of Love

Incarnate; The Life of Stripgteuse Lili St. Cyr. When I was a kid, always reading about Hollywood, that faraway magic land, Lili St. Cyr was famous across America for being a stripper who was a headliner in Hollywood nightclubs.

All those actors, stars, and characters you love watching on Turner Classic Movies were there when St. Cyr was there, and she was the talk of their town. I think she played at a famous nightclub called Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood (though, I could be wrong about this). St. Cyr was as much a glamour queen as many of the movie stars during the era of the 1950s, but with an edge (she stripped

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A in public). She was out there in her entirety. She had class, with a capitol K. That’s all I will know about her until I read this biography of a culturally transforming era in the film industry and ultimately in American life.

Among those in attendance at the Rockefellers’ party were the author’s husband, director Robert Zemeckis; Tony Bennett; actress Kelly Rutherford; burlesque artist Angie Pontani; Cameron Silver; author Amy Fine Collins; and musician Brian Newman.

Also, just a few blocks south of the book party, Alice Mason was hosting a dinner

party at her East 72nd Street apartment. This was a small dinner for Alice, with only 24 guests at three tables. It was actually the smallest dinner party she’s given in the past 50 years. Alice has been at it that long. For the last four decades Alice has been hosting dinners for 60 in this same apartment, at least ten times a year since the early 1960s.

Long ago, these parties became famous in New York for the guest list—which was Alice’s version of “select,” or people who interested her. Media, publishing, politics, finance, authors, CEOs, ambassadors, presidents, ty-

coons, actors, and society, Alice had hundreds of names on her “list,” varying it thusly.

Although, at different times, there were certain individuals (such as Norman Mailer, Malcolm Forbes, Alexander Haig, and Mike Wallace) who made it known that they always liked to be included. And frequently, they were.

Alice’s secret—beside her guest list—was the table, the seating, and the conversation.

She purposely used a round table for six people to seat eight people. The closer together, the easier the conversation.

Conversation was the treasure discovered at her tables. That

Wednesday night was no different in that way. The dining room was rife with voices and chatter and a lot of laughter.

Among the guests (including Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn) was Carmen Dell’Orefice: the world-famous international model who, at 84, continues to work. She started when she was 13, when a friend took her to Vogue and suggested they use her. That was 72 years ago, amazingly.

She has taken a break for two knee replacements and a hip replacement, which she pointed out when I asked her if she’d been traveling very much lately for her work. She

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smiled and shook her head, and said, gently grasping her left hip, “No, because I had to replace her three months ago, after replacing her last year” (she said, indicating to her right hip).

I remember going to Carmen’s 70th birthday that a friend hosted for her at the old Café Nicholson. I remember thinking: “Geez, that’s old…”

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the result of genes and good, healthy living and taking care, there is something else with Carmen. The only word for it is “spirit.” She’s one of those one-foot-in-front-of-the-other girls. She brought her iPad and, after the table was cleared for dessert, she was photographing the groups.

Mid-month, the weather was really nice one day after another in New York with temps hovering in the high 60s. After all the complaining we did about the summer heat, these past few weeks—

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even with the rain—have been a pleasure.

On another night, I started out at the Four Seasons Restaurant, where Larry Lederman and Kitty Hawks hosted a cocktail reception with the New York School of Interior Design for Larry’s new book, Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York, which he coauthored with Judith Gura and Kate Wood.

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er, Mark Gilbertson, Hugh Hardy, Bunny Williams, John Rosselli, Barbara Tober, and Newell Turner.

Larry takes beautiful photographs. Impeccable, patient, connected. He produced a beautiful book a few years ago of the trees of the New York Botanical Garden. Stunning to look at, and you can almost lose yourself in the pages. I don’t know Larry very well but it is clear that he has a strong affinity for natural beauty, including that created by man.

This new book, in which he

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Kitty is a child of Hollywood, where her father was Howard Hawks, a film director of the Golden Age of filmmaking with such classics (again, TCM fodder) as The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Scarface, and Sergeant York (starring Maria Cooper Janis’ father, Gary Cooper). He is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time.

That same night, in the Pool Room of the Four Seasons Restaurant, the Directors Council of the Museum

of the City of New York was hosting its annual “New York After Dark” in honor of Nicole Hanley Mellon, Andrew Roosevelt, and Alexia Hamm Ryan—all active supporters of the council’s work at the museum. This is a very popular party with a large group of loyal supporters. Among the guests: Chuck Scarborough, Evelyn Tompkins, Polly Onet, Karen Klopp, Candy and Bill Hamm, Chele and Richard Farley, Chris Brokaw and Amanda Taylor, Allie and Bill Hanley, Hilary Dick, Mary and Ian Snow, Amy Fine Collins, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Nina Griscom,

Somers Farkas, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Rachel Hovnanian, Michael Cominotto and Dennis Basso, Nancy Sambuco, Caroline Dean, Eric and Caroline Villency, Blair Husain, Kathy and Othon Prounis, Prakash and Anjali Melwani, and many more. Plus, of course, Mark Gilbertson—who makes the whole thing happen.

More, mid-month. On a Thursday night, the Park Avenue Armory held its annual fundraiser, this year themed the Gilded Gala. It was attended by more than 700 guests for dinner and performance. They honored Angela Thompson, Charles Thomp-

son, and Amanda Riegel of the Thompson Family Foundation for their vital contributions (of approximately $129 million to the development of the Park Avenue Armory’s new cultural model). The late Wade Thompson spearheaded the campaign to secure the lease from the state, and the Thompson Family Foundation has seeded many campaigns to restore and renovate the drill hall and several rooms. The evening also honored Marina Abramovic for her work as a visual art form.

Also on a Monday night, mid-month, John and Joan Jakobson hosted a book party for their friend Joan King-

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sley and her new book, The Fear-Free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform Your Business Culture (which she wrote with Paul Brown and Sue Paterson).

Joan and I are old friends.

We met in 1967 when we were actors in summer stock together in Lake Placid, New York.

Joan, who grew up on Long Island, is a longtime resident of London, where she has been married for more than 30 years to Philip Kingsley, the great hair doctor of the world. (He is famous, especially among the famous—men and women: film and stage stars, prime ministers, and royals—of the world for his wisdom and ability for preserving the hair on your head. No small matter, as 38 QUEST

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anyone past puberty knows.)

Joan and Philip are parents to two daughters. Joan is a practicing psychotherapist—from which this book came. I read it, initially uninterested (since I don’t work in an organization) and was surprised to learn that it was actually applicable to myself, as an individual, and my relationship to my work and my world. All good.

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The night of the Larry Lederman party, I was on my way to the Park Avenue Armory for the New York–Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine’s “Cabaret.”

More than a thousand guests gathered at the Park Avenue Armory for the gala. Black-tie for the gents, many of which were doctors or other person-

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ages in the medical field. The hospital complex seems vast to this outsider, though I live about 12 blocks up from it.

And it is growing all the time.

Cornell-Weill changed its name from “medical college” to “medicine” because (as it was explained to us) it is a university of medical research covering a vast canvas.

For a big party, it is especially spectacular—for what, ironically, could be classified as a conservative crowd.

But thanks to Bronson van Wyck (who has the theatrical sense for making the most of it) it was larger than life. The Wade Thompson Drill Hall is a perfect venue for theatrical extravaganza, and Bronson loves nothing more than the opportunity to produce it. It

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On another night at the Four Seasons Restaurant, Dalia and Larry Leeds celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They took over the entire restaurant, holding cocktails in the Grille Room, followed by dinner and live performances on a stage suspended over the pool in the Pool Room. Among the hundreds of friends joining them was John Gutfreund, who was a member of the wedding. In the gallery connecting the two dining rooms, they commissioned a life size montage of 40 QUEST

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the big day in 1955. It was a black-tie affair. It seems like 10 minutes ago that Larry and Dalia celebrated their 50th in another party that took over the Four Seasons Restaurant.

That was spectacular also, including a tent that extended out over the Seagram’s Plaza.

More Anniversaries. The New York Botanical Garden hosted the 25th anniversary of their annual Rose Garden Dinner. They honored Julie Andrews and Stephen Scanniello, who is the curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, in recognition of their enduring passion for roses.

The evening began with cocktails in the world-re-

nowned Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, followed by dinner and dancing in the Garden Terrace Room. The chairmen of this year’s Rose Garden Dinner were Friederike Biggs, Maureen and Richard Chilton, Janet and Tom Montag, Wendy Pels, Katharine and William Rayner, Marjorie and Jeffrey Rosen, Gillian and Robert Steel, Nonie and John Sullivan, and Julia and Hans Utsch. The honorary chairmen were Mary and Marvin Davidson, Anne and Tom Hubbard, and Eliot and Roly Nolen.

On a Monday morning at the roof of the St. Regis Hotel, there was the American Cancer Society’s 20th anniversary

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“Mothers of the Year” awards luncheon. It started at 11:45 a.m., which is still morning for me. Reminds me of when I was a kid on Saturday mornings and my mother would say, reproaching: “Aren’t you ever going to get out of bed?” My immediate response (not spoken): “No!” No. Sunday night, in the middle of the night, I woke up thinking about the luncheon, wondering if Monday was the day. I remembered Diana telling me about it and my telling her that I’d go.

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A pens. Not infrequently. I went back to bed. It’s 3 a.m.

Gawd. I’m lying there, knowing Diana had told me about it a while back and I said yes.

So I get back up again and go to my desk, turn on the computer and go through my emails. Scroll scroll… There it is! Monday October 21, at 11:30 a.m. at the St. Regis Roof. Oy. The only word for it. I go back to bed.

I like this event for what it stands for. It’s a great and wonderful cause, and cancer has affected everyone’s life in one way or another. The event is basically a ladies charity luncheon. They’re wonderful but

I could live without going to another since I’ve probably been to hundreds over the years. I admire and support all the good works that I’m exposed to. And it’s a pleasure to be able to spread the word as much as possible. But 20 years later? Couldn’t I just stay home, ma, and phone it in? I could do that you know, and get it right.

Ma says, “No, you gotta go.” I’ve been through this rap before in my life. More times than you can imagine.

And on a Monday morning after a late work night, it’s rapping in my head.

However, as much as I have

always found this luncheon to be an easy pleasure and sometimes amusing (and something to write about), Diana is the one. I basically go for her. She gives a speech at the beginning of each luncheon. I’m not sure what her job is. She’s a total volunteer, but it has something to do with organizing (or causing) these events. And she’s a good friend, and a good person. In her speech, she always talks about cancer and taking the lives from her life. We all get it, whether we’ve experienced it or not; we all get it.

Diana’s mother died of cancer a little more than 20 years ago. Diana revered and

loved her mother. The grief was very difficult to move on from. Finally, Mrs. Henri Bendel, who was a close friend of Diana’s mother, advised her to “do something about it” rather than just mourn. And so she went to an American Cancer Society’s meeting and got started.

Twenty years later, they were recognizing her work and devotion at this luncheon.

Diana has a very cheerful demeanor with other people.

She smiles a lot and laughs a lot, too. It’s a lightness that attracts but also the exterior of a very serious side. She had a good mother.

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This year’s luncheon had a lot of honorees and they must have sold out the place as the ballroom was entirely filled with tables of 10. They honored Marion Scotto, Rosanna Scotto, and Elaina Scotto. The sisters were presented with their award by two daughters, Julia Faucetta and Jenna Ruggiero, joined by Greg Kelly (who works everyday on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” with Rosanna in the morning).

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Scotto, who was known affectionately as “mom.”

Marion lives in New York City with her husband and has eight grandchildren. She also runs the front-of-the-house duties in the family restaurant, Fresco. Zagat Survey has voted her as one of the “Most Gracious Hostesses.” She comes up on stage. You get right away why she’s one of the Most Gracious Hostesses. You get that because of the way her daughters and granddaughters talked about her. A saint, yes. A know-it-all mother, yes.

Caring, yes. The boss who is always right, yes. You can tell by everyone’s reaction that this mother was a powerful leader

who created a family of women who are powerful leaders or potentially.

This is what the Mother of the Year luncheon is always about. I don’t forget it when I’m whining with myself about the obligation of attending because I know its value. I had a mother who had all kinds of qualities and characteristics, many or several of which I could criticize.

However, the boy’s still here because of that mother.

After Marion’s family was honored, they called on the family of the next honoree, Dr. Susan Drossman, an interventional breast radiologist in private practice in New York.

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Then, Drossman took the podium to thank the room and her family. This is the thing about “Mother of the Year” for the American Cancer Society: these women are serious about their lives, which include motherhood.

They understand that they make a difference and part of that difference is comfort and part of that difference is the

understanding of responsibility we have to each other. They make it clear by demonstrating it. Diana does that with the American Cancer Society and she demonstrates that to her friends. It’s all an affirmation of life. With everything else going on in this insane world of ours, it is a comfort, no matter how fleeting, of what is possible when the women of valor (which is what the quality is) exercise their sense of responsibility to their family and their fellow man.

Paula Zahn was the emcee of the luncheon, as she has been for as long as I can recall.

Paula is a pro. She grew up in a family in the Midwest, with

a father who worked for IBM. Cancer took the lives of both of her parents. They left her, however, with that common sense of responsibility and it is evident even in her work.

As an emcee, she is informed, empathic, and a professional at moving the occasion along.

It was a great day, and I felt fortunate to have been there to witness it. It served as a reconfirmation that there are strong, stable, powerful people (women, in this case) among us working for a better world.

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The evening’s program included a new creation by Millepied entitled “Thème et Variations” from George Balanchine and the famous “grand defile”—a unique and powerful signature from the Paris Opera and Ballet including the whole company (154 dancers) as well as the school

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IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY AFTER THEIR sensational first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles flew to Miami on February 13, 1964, to prepare for their second appearance on the show.

When we landed at the Miami airport, an onslaught of actual beauty queens befittingly dressed in bathing suits and their satin sashes had to be dragged away by the police as the Beatles dashed into their getaway limo.

Cooped up in our hotel rooms because of the fans outside with several days to kill before the show, we had lots of time to watch T.V. There was Cassius Clay bragging about how beautiful he was and how he was going to beat the heavyweight champion of the world Sonny Liston in their upcoming fight (which was to be held in Miami on February 25). I thought to myself, “That would make a good picture—five of the most famous people in the world together for the first time.

When I mentioned it to the Beatles, John said, “No! We want to meet Liston the champ, not the loudmouth contender.” I went to Liston who didn’t even look up at me as he was tying his shoes and said he didn’t want to meet “those bums.” So I went back to the Beatles with a car and driver and took them to the Fifth Street Gym where Clay was training. Clay who didn’t change his name to Mohammad Ali until after he won the fight, ran circles around the Beatles, making them stand up, lie down (pictured here), carry signs, and shout “You’re the greatest. You’re the most beautiful.”

John was angry with me afterward, and said it was my fault that Clay made them look silly. He wouldn’t talk to me, but the next day I was off to Jamaica to photograph Ian Fleming as the James Bond films were the rage. When we all returned to London, the Beatles had forgotten about it, and all was well. ◆ NOVEMBER 2015 75

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ANGLOPHILES TO THE HUNT LONG BEFORE the word “oligarch” became a substitute for major Russian crooks and fraudsters, and a decade before Tom Wolfe invented “masters of the universe,” we had Wall Street Croesuses posing as gentlemen in Scottish moors. I remember it as if it were yesterday. Clay Felker, my editor at Esquire magazine, assigned me to write about this new breed of American multi-millionaires who were busy shooting down everything that flew, and lots of things that didn’t. I did as I was told and rang up my friend Peter Salm, an Austrian-American aristocrat whose property near Southampton, Long Island, was famous for its shoot.

Peter is no longer with us, and his lovely “Port o’ Missing Men” estate has been sold, although he clued me in rather well.

Until the late 1970s, American nouveaux riche did not bother with shooting birds.

A trip to Miami and a winter suntan was enough to distinguish themselves from the rest of us. Some went even far enough as to go skiing in Canada or Austria, but God’s flying creatures were left alone. Then it happened: Some wise guy Englishman with a nose for making money took an upwardly mobile visiting Wall Streeter for a shoot on a weekend, a shoot that included all sorts of dukes and earls and other such British species that blew the Wall Streeter’s mind. Upon his return, he talked at length about his recent acquaintances, and presto, the northeastern seaboard of America had discovered a new way to infiltrate the British aristocracy.

By killing everything that flies.

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This page, clockwise from above: Hunting and shooting have existed for centuries as a part of the British sporting culture; a hunt at the “Port o’ Missing Men” estate; established in 1835, Holland & Holland’s renewed popularity. Opposite page: Wealthy American Anglophiles adopted the British tradition with relish.

Mind you, it wasn’t as simple as I make it sound. There is etiquette involved in shooting birds, especially in Britain, so Esquire deemed it necessary to publish an article by Alistair Horne, an English historian, explaining the lingo.

For example, shooting verbiage includes phrases such as “pricked,” “running cocks,” and “did you have a good bag today?” Such words would easily have American ladies blushing until it was explained that the lexicon meant no harm. “Don’t go running to the doctor when a ‘running cock’ is mentioned,” had many a man feel silent relief. Ditto for the words “bag” and “pricked”—no blushing or punching necessary.

Nevertheless, things did not always go smoothly. Before heading for Blighty, prospective great shots took to training over on these shores. It began in Southampton, when a new gun—English country word for a hunter—shot low and, instead of peppering a beater, hit no less than five joggers. Worse, the joggers did not see their getting shot as an inevitable risk that those exercising outdoors must accept. They called the cops. And in Southampton, the fuzz loves overenforcing the law. When they heard about the gunfire, they armed themselves with heavy artillery and charged behind

armored personnel carriers. Soon the place looked like a Chicago speakeasy after a gang battle. Ironically, it was Saint Valentine’s Day. At another shoot, again in Southampton, an Italian-American socialite shot across the line of guns, decimating a group of newly rich record executives out trying to impress their girlfriends with their knowledge of potato farms. While they lay writhing in their brand new tweeds and cursing the “dirty dago,” the predictable happened. The police were summoned by one of the hysterical women more used to discos than cocks. When the host of the shoot, Peter Salm, explained to the cops that the offender was not only a gentleman but also the finest shot in Italy, they were not impressed. Said one officer, “the way he shoots he must be the only one left.”

Needless to say, the masters of the universe began shooting in merry old England come the Eighties. Everyone who was anyone had to be seen shooting in Yorkshire and Scotland come the autumn. Purdeys, Holland & Holland, and other purveyors of guns and clothes pertaining to country pursuits made fortunes. As did broken-down English and Scottish lairds with shooting estates but with no shower and barely a piece

of soap or warm room in the vicinity.

Eventually, some famed shooting estates fell into American hands. The plumbing improved to no end. Gunnerside, considered one of the best shoots in England, was bought by my friend Bob Miller, the duty-free billionaire.

Personally, I only shoot to kill clay pigeons. Although friends invite me to shoots, I do not enjoy watching the massacres. It’s an English tradition, just as it’s an American one to hunt animals. Live and let live, says I, but try and tell that to the joggers who got peppered on a quiet Saturday in Southampton. They’re still looking for that “dago” Duke who did them in, but the poor guy is long gone.

Apparently he shot, but missed, a couple of angels on his way up.

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Offering a vintage twist with cream enamel and Swarovski rhinestones set in polished gold-plated frames, these elegant clipon Ciner rhinestone earrings are available at Linda Horn: 1327 Madison Ave. (at 93rd St.), or lindahorn.com.

There’s no such thing as too fancy, especially when it comes to Nirav Modi’s Fancy Yellow Jasmine necklace from the jeweler’s Fluire Collection, with 7 carats in 18-kt. yellow gold. $47,000.

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Nancy Gonzalez endeavors a most transporting accessory: the Taj Mahal laser-cut clutch. $4,250 by special order at Bergdorf Goodman (888.774.2424).

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When stepping out, be sure to slip on this carvedwood fluted Estate Betteridge Collection cuff with cabochon moonstones and square aquamarines set in yellow gold. $2,100. Betteridge: Solaris, 141 East Meadow Dr., Vail, Colo., 970.790.6560.

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Bottega Veneta’s multicolor embroidered lace dress is fit for just about every fall occasion. $11,000. Bottega Veneta: In select stores and by calling 800.845.6790.

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Cherish your memories in style with Scully and Scully’s leopard enameled 5x7” frame ($1,800) and crocodile enameled 8x10” frame ($2,230). Scully and Scully: 504 Park Ave., 212.755.2590.

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Get in touch with your kindred preppy spirit by wrapping up in J.McLaughlin’s cotton Kindred scarf. $35 at jmclaughlin.com.

The master of the new American cut, Michael Bastian, always keeps the classics interesting.

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Gear up for winter with an iconic shoe that’s getting the Barneys treatment: a limited-edition mid-cut Timberland boot, detailed in hairy suede and nubuck leather, from the Exclusively Ours XO footwear project at Barneys. $220 per pair at Barneys New York or barneys.com.

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Fresh Finds

Support never felt—nor looked—so good: La Perla’s Zephyra underwired bra ($248) and Zephyra culotte thong ($168), available at laperla.com and La Perla boutiques.

Akris keeps you on trend this season with the oh-so-chic Nappa leather and python Ai bag. $3,590. Akris: 835 Madison Ave., 212.717.1172, or akris.ch.

Made of crystal and stingray, the Hirondelles cuff from Lalique is an instant—and timeless—classic. $495. Lalique: 609 Madison Ave., 212.355.6550.

It’s hard not to fall in love with the latest from Amour Vert, the San Francisco–based fashion house with a zero-waste design philosophy, bringing us this Perla skirt. $132 at amourvert.com.

Nili Lotan’s mock-neck gown takes a reliably fashionable print and elevates it with a modern, elegant silhouette. $645 at nililotan.com.

La Prairie partners with the house of Baccarat to offer the ultimate in luxe beauty: the limited-edition Caviar Spectaculaire, a 75-ml. jar of the line’s legendary lifting and firming Skin Caviar Luxe Cream in a Baccarat crystal caviar set (only 1,500 produced worldwide). $2,200 at laprairie.com.

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Hyde Park | $4,900,000 | Set amid the grand historic mansions along the Hudson River, this one-of-a kind estate is steeped in American history.

Graced with all the grandeur of a bygone era, this passionately, fully-restored mansion exudes both sophistication and comfort while showcasing spectacular Hudson River views from all the principal rooms. Grand yet immensely inviting, the main residence offers 7 bedrooms, 7 baths and formal dining and living rooms that flow out to a stone terrace and extensive decking – the perfect venue for entertaining or simply relaxing and enjoying the blissful river views. Additional highlights include a fabulous kitchen designed to accommodate events of all proportions, a richly-paneled presidential library that serves as a focal point of the home and a garden level game room and den. A pool and hot tub is adjacent to the pool house featuring a kitchenette and a bedroom suite for guests or staff. A newly resurfaced lighted tennis court adds to the spectacular 9-acre setting comprised of beautifully landscaped, fenced grounds enhanced with lush gardens. In the heart of the scenic Hudson Valley, this remarkable estate is convenient to all area attractions as well as New York City, approximately 80 miles away. Web# 4523852.

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CECCONI’S: MIAMI’S HOTTEST COOL SPOT

“I’LL HAVE THE stone crabs!” the woman sitting next to you blurts out, before the server can even take her table’s drink order. “Oh…we don’t have stone crabs tonight,” he politely, regretfully, informs her. “But I came for the stone crabs…” she pleads, with a slight threat in the lingering tone, as if to say she and her friend will take their trendy clutches from the marble tabletop and leave if stone crabs don’t somehow appear.

Surely they didn’t come for stone crabs alone. This, after all, is a scene worth savoring, even if food weren’t on the menu.

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though outdoors—and that certainly enhances its appeal—a retractable roof slides over the pergola tops above to transform the space into a covered outdoor dining room on threatening nights like this one. Add to the Miami humidity a room filled to the max, and the heat can be almost oppressive.

Then again, the heat is but one of the reminders of the cool factor here. A quick look around the room and you know there can’t be a cooler crowd anywhere in town. A gaggle of models struts to its table and almost everyone puts down their forks to look up, but then the clatter of conversation picks up again and the impossibly good-looking women go almost unnoticed. It’s just another night at Cecconi’s, and models seem comme il faut.

So do Pucci bandanas, boho-chic rompers, even a floor-length

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CANTEENS eyelet-lace Cavalli dress or two, not to mention Chanel bags—a fun reminder of how fabulous that quilted companion can be.

The silver-haired fox in the room looks like he’s just returned from Naples, Italy, sporting a pale blue sports coat that matches his eyes exactly. You see him sipping a Negroni from a cut-crystal rocks glass and feel transported to Italy itself. So you order one, and it doesn’t disappoint. In fact, it tastes better than how you remembered them to be.

The menu, in the end, reminds you why you came: to eat.

Finding it hard to digest the extensive offerings—chiccetti, appetizers, salads, pizzas, carpaccio and tartare, pasta, meats

match for the homemade pasta itself, perfected to a delicious density all its own. Braised short ribs might have been another way to go (who doesn’t love short ribs with polenta and smoked carrots?), or perhaps the scallops with crispy kale and pancetta, or maybe even the branzino you see at the table across from you.

Not to worry, you think: there will be return visits, even if you have to monitor Jet Blue specials to Miami from New York in order to make a return trip soon. (Without being able to wait that long, you actually sneak in one more dinner here before having to leave Miami, unable to stop thinking about the cavatelli with lamb ragù and artichoke, which carries you through the

and fishes, and sides—you decide to start with the fried olives wrapped with mortadella and provolone. They whet your appetite, and help round out maybe another Negroni (impossible to resist). Knowing you’ve decided upon the lobster and spaghetti as a main course, the waiter suggests sticking to something from the sea for an appetizer, and the octopus with celery, lemon capers, and olives is right on target. So is the glass of white Vermentino that pairs so nicely with it.

When it’s time for the main course, the Sangiovese blend, a delicate red that arrives slightly chilled—the right temperature for any red—proves worthy of switching to from white for the spaghetti. And those rich, meaty chunks of Maine lobster, seasoned subtly yet harmoniously with chili and basil, are an equal

whole plane ride home.) This being Miami, you’d be foolish to skip the Key lime pie, however “touristy” some might call it. To hell with them: made of limes from the not-so-distant Florida Keys, you’re reminded of why this dessert is such a local specialty, and your sweet (and sour) tooth thanks you. u From top left: The inviting 14-seat bar; octopus with lemon capers, celery, and olives; tufted sofas and upholstered chairs in the dining room; a Subtle and Sage cocktail; black truffle and goat cheese pizza. Opposite page: The outdoor restaurant (protected by retractable roof in inclement weather). Cecconi’s Miami Beach: At Soho Beach House, 4385 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. Open daily; for reservations: 786.507.7902 or cecconismiamibeach.com.

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This page, from left: Connie Wald, Jerry Wald, Andrew Wald, and Robbie Wald at home

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started spending time in Los Angeles, Dominick Dunne said, “Alex, you’ll only need ONE friend out there. Through that one, you’ll meet EVERYBODY.” Early on—like, the second day I was there—Marguerite Littman, who was visiting from London, introduced me to Connie Wald. Connie was the

ultimate Hollywood hostess—a former model, a mega-producer’s wife who served stylish home-cooked lunches and dinners for six or seven decades to the who’s who of Hollywood. In 1941, Connie and her husband, Jerry, had bought a three-year-old “Connecticut farm house” in the flats of Beverly

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MOST OF THE TIME, if you move to a new city far away from the one you grew up in, you end up making another kind of family: the family of beloved friends. I’ve now done this twice, both in New York and in Los Angeles. This family, not the one you were born into, is the one you choose—and it chooses you. When I first

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Hills, the same house that the Walds lived in for 75 years. Although Joan Crawford and Audrey Hepburn—both the very closest cohorts to Connie— were before my time, I was a frequent guest and made my share of notable friends there: Olivia de Havilland, Gore Vidal, Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson, Julian Sands, Samuel Goldwyn, Roddy McDowell, the Jimmy Stewarts, and on and on.

Connie was a delicious friend: generous, loyal, caring, and beloved by generations. She and I bonded over food and recipes, and I was very lucky that she shared some of her guests’ and my favorites with me for my first book: Penne alla Vodka, Parmesan Gnocci, “Red” Chicken, Pineapple Upside-Down

Cake, and homemade Chocolate Roll.

Still, the most delicious thing I’ve almost ever tasted was her Chestnut Dressing at Thanksgiving. That recipe is coming soon in my second book, and trust me: it’s worth the wait.

Connie loved parties because she loved people. She was a hostess in the great sense of the word—she genuinely cared about the well-being of her guests. When she died in mid-November of 2012 at age 96, Connie—and her two sons, Andrew and Robbie—were planning on having a couple of dozen people or so for lunch on Thanksgiving day, about ten days later. Her last words to her sons? “Whatever you do, don’t cancel Thanksgiving.”

And they didn’t. That Thanksgiving,

more than 30 of us gathered…Connie’s closest friends, the holiday regulars: Nancy Reagan, David Jones, Bob Bookman, Felisa Vanoff, Connie’s sons and their families, and friends of their families, and Sean Ferrer—her best friend Audrey Hepburn’s son, who came from Europe, just like always. We gave thanks for the blessings in our lives, for friendship and family, for delicious food and drink, for being together. It was business as usual— and thoughtful and poignant—but definitely not a somber gathering. Connie had given us all too much joy over the years for that. The group from Thanksgivings past felt privileged to gather again, if for the last time. The only person that was missing that year was Connie.

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This page, clockwise from bottom left: Connie Wald with Kenneth Jay Lane at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party, 2008; Rocky (Mrs. Gary) Cooper, Maureen O’Hara, Jimmy Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Gloria Stewart, Jerry Wald, Connie Wald, and Maria Cooper at a movie premiere in 1962; Thanksgiving, 2012; Connie with Audrey Hepburn in the Alps, 1967; Connie’s favorite orange roses by David Jones on the author’s dinner table; Connie and Dominick Dunne at the author’s house in Los Angeles for dinner, 2007.

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UP IN THE MIAMI SKY, atop the newly opened 1 Hotel South Beach, sits an oceanfront home with both beauty and soul. At first, it’s easy to assume that this sprawling space, a penthouse at 1 Hotel & Homes, is just that—a home with unparalleled amenities and stunning views. And yet, it’s so much more. Even as a visiting guest, it seems a privilege to be here.

Award-winning Brazilian interior designer Debora Aguiar was inspired by nature and designed 1 Homes to bring the outside in. A white and sand-colored private entrance exclusively for the residences encompasses the calm and timelessness of the beach, allowing owners to relax and unwind the moment they arrive home.

Owners at 1 Homes enjoy the services and amenities of 1 Hotel South Beach that include valet parking, concierge services, in-room dining, residential signing privileges and direct billing services, eco-conscious housekeeping and linen service and priority status for hotel room reservations. All services at 1 Homes are wrapped into the 1 Guide, a Nexus 90 QUEST

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This page: The penthouses at 1 Hotel & Homes translate the sensory experience of South Beach into exquisite spaces that exude grace and harmony. Inspiration taken from the coastal setting can be seen in the immaculate finishes and carefully chosen materials that transform each room into its own sanctuary. Opposite page: The entrance to 1 Hotel & Homes, situated in the heart of Miami Beach; drinks at the rooftop pool, one of four located on the property.

smartphone that provides owners with a smart home and easy access to all the hotel amenities. Owners have priority seating at Beachcraft, the celebrated new restaurant by critically acclaimed, James Beard Award–winning, Chef Tom Colicchio with South Florida native Michael Fiorello as Executive Chef.

Owners can enjoy any of the four swimming pools on property including the only rooftop pool on South Beach along with the full-service fitness center and spa.

With an unparalleled location in a neighborhood that is rich in retail, restaurants, culture, and entertainment, owners are only steps from the shopping and dining options on the famed Lincoln Road Mall, the Frank Gehry–designed New World Center, the Bass Museum of Art, and Miami Beach Botanical Garden. 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach also offers easy access to the gallery-lined streets of the Wynwood Art District, worldclass shopping at Bal Harbour Shops and in Miami’s Design District and 1 Hotel South Beach’s own #daylife activities such as golf, tennis, yoga, fishing, watersports, and more.

But in a way, even benefits of these kinds are too specific to explain what is to be discovered and cherished at 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach, for you could mistakenly imagine that life here consists entirely of conveniences you may have when staying at a luxury hotel. It’s not only that. What is truly amazing is not the convenience—the amenities, the services— but the entire world that envelops you between experiencing these comforts.

1 Hotel & Homes South Beach is surrounded by the bright, colorful nature of Miami Beach, especially the water and the sky. On clear evenings, as the day begins to ebb away, improbable pinks and oranges make cameos in the sky. Fortunately, each penthouse at 1 Homes is designed to capture more of this natural light, as large windows allow the sun to seep into airy interiors decorated with reclaimed woods, limestone, and silver travertine.

LeFrak and Starwood Capital Group are the development partners for 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach and Douglas Elliman is the exclusive sales and marketing firm for the penthouses. “I woke up one morning and realized I wanted to leave a different kind of mark on the world,” said Starwood Capital Group Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht. “It has been my dream for seven years to establish a retreat that celebrates and protects nature. Of course owners and guests alike will always want the ultimate in experiences and services, and I believe we can deliver that in a modern, responsible way that feels natural, organic and connected with the local environment.” u To schedule a private tour of the penthouses, contact Douglas Elliman at 305.361.5100 or visit homes.1hotels.com for further information.

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This page: On clear evenings, as the day begins to ebb away, improbable pinks and oranges make cameos in the sky; to make interactions and access to the hotel amenities seamless, each residence at 1 Hotel & Homes includes the 1 Guide on a Nexus smartphone. Opposite page: Penthouse owners will enjoy all the conveniences of hotel living.

1 Homes is located at 102 24th Street, Miami Beach, FL. For additional information, call 305.361.5100.

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MIAMI BEACH LUXURY ed ocean and city views. On a clear night, the views from this spectacular, 2,521-square-foot pied-Ă -terre extend from downtown to the Palm Beaches.

Designer Jennifer Post employed her expertise in designing the home. The space features white stone flooring, pure white walls, and millwork accented with subtle, sophisticated tones of green, blue, and turquoise: hues that graciously welcome one in and then allow the eye to focus on the panoramic

views. The aesthetics of this interior scheme speak to both the style and ease of the so-called Magic City.

The Setai, South Beach, is renowned for its exceptional staff and services and for offering its residents a serene, elegant, and intimate atmosphere. u For more information, contact Lourdes Gutierrez of EWM Realty International at 305.206.8096 or gutierrez.ld@ewm.com.

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PERCHED ABOVE South Beach on the 37th floor of the luxurious Setai Hotel and Residences is a spectacular residence with panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean, Miami Beach, and the Miami skyline. This three-bedroom and three-bathroom unit has been beautifully renovated. It boasts spacious living areas filled with natural light, a chef’s kitchen, two master suites with en-suite bathrooms, motorized shades, and wraparound balconies with unobstruct-

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This page: The views from this unit at the Setai Hotel and Residences in Miami Beach, Florida, are echoed by pops of color (above); from the 37th floor, you are treated to a 180-degree view of Magic City (below). Opposite page, clockwise from above:

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The interiors were decorated by designer Jennifer Post; the expansive eat-in kitchen; the T.V. room boasts views as well.

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This spread: The rendering for Two Roads’ newest boutique high-rise, Elysee Residences, a 57-story waterfront tower set directly on Biscayne Bay.

MIAMI HAS ALWAYS BEEN caliente, but of late the real estate down there has been seriously on fuego—and its smoke signals are attracting the eyes of savvy New Yorkers. Buyers are eager to capitalize on prices as much as 60 to 70 percent lower than in New York. A new wave of buildings designed by “starchitects” and decorated by names known the world over is hitting all that waterfront property, and the surf looks good.

One group taking the plunge is Two Roads Real Estate Group, headed by New Yorker Jim Harpel with partners Reid Boren and Taylor Collins. The group’s Two Road Development is the majority owner of Eastwood Development, which, along with GTIS Partners, was responsible for developing the Biscayne Beach Residences. Since then, it is estimated that between 25 and 35 new residential, mixed-use, and commercial projects will follow in its sandy footsteps. Biscayne Beach made its mark on the new landscape in many ways, not the least of which are that it is one of the few towers with actual bay frontage, as well as having Thom Filicia work on the inside, effectively setting the bar for interior design.

“We’re likely to keep seeing development in South Florida

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for quite a while,” explains Harpel. “Miami’s status as a global capital is definitely secure.” He contends that there are many opportunities around, something that the Two Roads Group love to identify in previously underutilized locales throughout Miami. These are the types of deals to which New York developers—at least those who keep an ear out for the next great boom—pay attention.

Two Roads’ newest boutique high-rise, Elysee Residences, is going to offer the only 100 units in a 57-story waterfront tower set directly on Biscayne Bay at 700 NE 23rd Street. Elysee will offer expansive three- to five-bedroom residences with den options, as well as duplexes and full-floor penthouses, measuring from 2,660 to 4,000 square feet. With only two units per floor, every residence at Elysee will boast direct unobstructed

views of Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach, and the downtown Miami skyline. The glass structure, designed by acclaimed Miami architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia, will boast a unique three-tiered telescoping shape, and the interiors will be under the elegant hand of Jean-Louis Deniot. Preconstruction reservations are now underway, with prices ranging from $1.65 million to over $10 million, and averaging about $750 per square foot.

“As downtown Miami continues to emerge as a community, East Edgewater [the neighborhood east of Biscayne Boulevard] is growing more and more vibrant,” says Collins.

“Today’s buyers have access to a host of luxuries and amenities that simply didn’t exist—from world-class arts and cultural destinations to some of the best shops and restaurants in Miami. And Elysee is in the center of it all!” u

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This page, clockwise from top left: All the luxury touchstones are available in Biscayne Bay, like Tiffany & Co.; a delicious local eatery; the American Airlines arena. Opposite page, clockwise from above: Jim Harpel with partners Reid Boren and Taylor Collins, the Two Roads Development team; Miami’s art scene; fantastic nearby shopping.

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KELLY’S CHARMED LIFE: A STUDY IN PICTURES AUGUST 4, 1994. A beautiful summer’s day in Amagansett. John F. Kennedy Jr. and Ed Schlossberg are among a group gathered to celebrate the 35th birthday of Anthony Radziwill. Circulating among the revelers: Kelly Klein, a bright young woman with a passion for photography. She snaps a picture of the three men, at ease and, in a couple of cases, shirtless. Now, just over 20 years later, she shares it with the world in the pages of her new book.

Though Photographs By Kelly Klein (Rizzoli) is hardly Klein’s first book—she’s had a string of successes with Pools, Horses, Reflections, Underworld, and Cross—it may be her most revealing. She has led a high-profile life, from her early days as a junior show jumper to her marriage to Calvin Klein, and this collection gives a glimpse into the lives of the monumental people she’s known. These intimate moments, interspersed among her compelling landscapes, still lifes, and fashion shots, show a different side of famous personalities with carefully 100 QUEST

constructed public faces. Around Klein, they let down their guard, making it possible for her to capture the human moments in mythological lives.

The book is astutely curated: a picture from Monument Valley will be found laid out opposite an image of a girl in a backless dress. There’s a sense that though the styles are juxtaposed in a patchwork layout, a common theme flows throughout. The creative director behind the book, Sam Shahid, has a great eye for a balanced collection.

With a foreword by longtime pal Aerin Lauder (who can be spotted in the picture of a 2010 Halloween club crowd, disarmingly fresh-faced among the heavily made-up and disguised) and an afterword by Bob Colacello, Photographs By Kelly Klein (Rizzoli) is one of those rare beasts: a striking coffee table book that also reveals a vivid narrative of a moment in history by those who lived it best. u

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This page: Savannah Hoge, Wellington, Florida, 2008. Opposite page: Horse Scratching, Bridgehampton, New York, 2003. Kelly Klein juxtaposes personal moments with friends alongside still lifes and landscapes to create a visually arresting narrative.

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This page: Bathing Suit, New York City, 1995; Klein’s new book, Photographs by Kelly Klein, published by Rizzoli and available at rizzoliusa.com (inset).

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This page: Bridget Hall, New York City, 1998. Klein has previously stated that, despite all the luminaries she has photographed, her favorite subjects are supermodels (which is why they’re supermodels, of course).

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anniversary of Ralph Lauren’s Pink Pony charity, benefitting breast cancer research (as well as the brand’s continued partnership with The Royal Marsden, the cancer treatment hospital in London). Hosted by The Right Honorable The Earl Spencer and Andrew Lauren, the evening began with a fashion show in Althorp’s picture gallery before guests—dressed exclusively in Ralph Lauren Collection, Black Label, and Purple Label—were escorted into the state dining room for dinner.

Some of the gentlemen guests like Jeremy Piven and David Gandy wore Purple Label tuxedos and dinner jackets while others, such as James Marshall and Allen Leech, looked dapper in Black Label. The ladies, including Lady Spencer and Lady Kitty Spencer, were stately and sublime in Ralph Lauren Collection and Black Label. Royal blood or not, all wore tradition well. u

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WHEN IT COMES to American dynasties, few can match the regal Ralph Laurens. The American fashion designer, long inspired by aristocratic British country life, revisited his label’s roots this season with a fall advertising campaign for the Purple Label line photographed on the grounds of Althorp House, the storied Spencer family home in Northamptonshire, England.

In the campaign, one of Lauren’s heirs apparent—eldest son Andrew Lauren—is captured among Althorp’s gilt frames and glossy wood paneling, in everything from purple velvet dinner jackets to camel turtlenecks, from animal-print slippers to muddied wellies, the well-worn crest of English country life.

So it was only fitting that Althorp, the family home of the late Princess Diana, should be the setting in October for an exclusive fashion show and intimate dinner in celebration of the 15th

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The guests, clockwise from top left, wore Ralph Lauren exclusively: Lord and Lady Spencer, Lady Kitty Spencer, and Andrew Lauren; David Gandy and Mollie King; Chris Peck and Toby Huntington-Whiteley; Lottie Moss; Laura Whitmore; Alice Eve. Bottom left: A warm welcome to the evening. Opposite page: The exterior entrance to Althorp Estate, the storied Spencer family home in Northamptonshire, England.

NEW HORIZONS AT CASA DE CAMPO CASA DE CAMPO has always been a leader in the luxury resort category, but has evolved even more of late, thanks to many exiting new experiences available. This sophisticated upscale destination is for travelers who like to live each moment to the fullest, and offers unique sporting programs including golf, a polo club and equestrian center, shooting center, sport fishing, and a health and fitness program with an emphasis on physical therapy and rehabilitation. Strategic partnerships with tennis legend Jim Courier and FBCEscola (Soccer) have elevated sports programming at Casa de Campo, offering year-round training with some of the world’s best pros.

On top of what has always made Casa de Campo great—the lavish villas, the Mediterranean Marina, the cultural village

Casa de Campo has partnered with two other polo clubs in the Dominican Republic to build an official international polo season.

Attracting the world’s top polo players, Polo Challenge Dominican Republic will catapult the country into the elite world of polo.

Altos de Chavon, and excellent dining options—there are the perles rares of the golf world, the three championship golf courses: Teeth of the Dog, Dye Fore, and The Links. Teeth of the Dog is widely considered the top course in Latin America, making enthusiasts everywhere yell “Fore!” with glee. It stands to reason that the Latin America Championship selected the course to host their event in January of next year.

This new direction of this unique destination is clearly aligned with the aspirations of experienced travelers seeking a destination to call home. The highest-quality service standards, along with excellent dining options and unparalled sporting programs, makes Casa de Campo a place that appeals to the entire family, creating a sense of belonging and home. u

T R AV E L A partnership with Pinecrest Physical Therapy will offer Pinecrest PT at Casa de Campo, a full-service physical therapy clinic, to introduce the resort as a venue for athletes to rehabilitate, as well as a location to spend quality time with their families.

A partnership with Jim Courier Tennis (JCT) was launched with the arrival of Jose Vaca Bustamante and offers a full-service tennis program featuring the finest teaching professionals in the world. Jim Courier Tennis ensures that even a short amount of time spent with their pros will make a difference in anyone’s tennis game.

For an authentic in-the-wild shooting experience, look no further than Casa de Campo’s spectacular 245-acre Shooting Club. With over 200 sporting clay stations and a 110-foothigh tower—plus trap and skeet—the Shooting Club is the most extensive in the Caribbean. For more sophisticated guns, there is first-rate driven shooting of pheasants, partriges, and ducks in the hills of Rancho Peligro, a 10,000-acre game bird preserve. Shooters of all ages and skill levels are welcome to explore the flexibility of the layout and landscape.

The Casa de Campo Marina is where resort guests shop, dine, and gaze at some of the finest vessels cruising the high seas. Inspired by the old sea-

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side villages of the Mediterranean—but equipped with the most modern of services to guarantee a comfortable, relaxing stay—Casa de Campo Marina extends over more than 90,000 square meters.

Its colorful residential architecture incorporates 105 units, including villas and townhouse-type apartments, many with a private pier.

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T R AV E L Casa de Campo was selected to host the 2016 Latin America Amateur Championship (LAAC) on its legendary course, Teeth of the Dog, designed by the fabled architect Pete Dye. Each year, the LAAC champion receives an invitation to compete at the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. The 2016 LAAC will bring the region’s best players to one of the world’s most highly regarded venues.

Casa de Campo is gearing up for new villa construction in an undeveloped portion of oceanfront land. Attracting young professionals seeking to invest in their family’s future, the development will include an additional 100 luxury 3- to 10-bedroom homes featuring environmentally responsible LEED techniques.

The Pubbelly Restaurant Group is bringing its hip, Asianinspired sushi restaurant to Casa de Campo, to be located in the Marina so diners can look out on the water as they nibble on fish. The eclectic menu will feature dishes created to take guests on an edible tour of Asia, and draw from locally sourced seafood, heightening the caliber and standards of excellence at this much-anticipated restaurant.

owners of the very successful Sophia’s Bar and Grill located in Santo Domingo. A staple among the affluent young professionals in the country, SBG at The Marina is slated to open mid-December and will offer sharing menus of unique tapas and specialty cocktails.

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EVERY DAY at Casa de Campo Resort & Villas is special, but spending the holiday season with us is simply magical. Families who have shared their holidays with us return year after year.

Envision a magnificent oceanfront villa filled with your loved ones, excited to celebrate together, and the best part is that you don’t have to worry about doing a thing—it’s marvelous beyond description. It’s a family tradition everyone enjoys and remembers for a lifetime. The entire destination of Casa de Campo, especially Altos de Chavón, turns into a beautifully decorated wonderland. Every day Casa de Campo hosts a variety of special events leading up to Christmas Eve and into the New Year. Guests can expect holiday concerts, including the renowned Juan Luis Guerra performing on December 30th, theatrical performances, Christmas caroling, classics like The Nutcracker and, of course, visits from old Saint Nick. Our sporting program also goes into high gear with youth sports camps, championship golf, polo and equestrian activities, target shooting, horseback riding, yoga and Pilates by the Casa de Campo Spa, tennis by Jim Courier Tennis Academy, and soccer activities by FBCEscola based on the techniques and training of the professional and very successful, Fútbol Club Barcelona. An improved and more robust Health & Fitness program is also in place this year, so guests can feel free to indulge and know they can still continue to lead the active lifestyle they love. Our culinary team goes above and beyond by crafting delectable menus for the season featuring international and local holiday favorites.

This year is extra special as we’ll be welcoming two new dining establishments: Pubbelly Sushi, originally from Miami, and a Santo Domingo staple among foodies, SBG. The Marina hosts a holiday boat parade that is not to be missed and its atmosphere is contagious with joy and the holiday spirit.

Casa de Campo will ring in the New Year with a Beach Party at Minitas Beach, musical entertainment throughout, and an after-hours party at the resort’s new nightclub located at Altos de Chavón. The celebration continues on New Year’s Day with a fantastic brunch at The Beach Club by Le Cirque. I am so fortunate to be a part of this extraordinary place and hope I’ll have the pleasure of welcoming you very soon to Casa de Campo.

Here’s to a wonderful holiday season and a very prosperous New Year.

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This page: Christmas at Casa de Campo goes off with a bang; Rafael Torres, President of Casa de Campo Resort & Villas (inset).

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From December 3–6, Art Basel Miami Beach will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center, showcasing works by 267 of the world’s leading Modern and contemporary art galleries. For more information, call 305.674.1292.

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The International Women’s Health Coalition will host its 2015 gala at the Metropolitan Club at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.874.5457.

The 52nd Annual Delaware Antiques Show will take place at the Chase Center on the Riverfront. For more information, call 305.243.4656.

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The Central Park Conservancy will hold its Autumn in Central Park fundraiser at Naumburg Bandshell, under a clear ceiling tent, at 7 p.m. For more information, call 212.446.2242.

Carl Sorenson will host a book signing at the Nanz SoHo

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Showroom (20 Vandam Street).

For more information, call 212.367.7000.

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The HOPE luncheon seminar, hosted by the Hope for Depression Research Foundation in New York City, will take place at 583 Park Avenue at 11:45 a.m.

For more information, call 212.676.3209.

The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Fall Party will take place at the Four Seasons Restaurant. For more information, call 212.639.2000.

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The Palm Beach Junior Assembly/ Junior League of the Palm Beaches will hold their dinner at the Beach Club. For more information, call 561.689.7590.

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The Visiting Nurse Service of New York will celebrate its 2015 benefit dinner, Investing in Children, Strengthening Families, at the Waldorf=Astoria at 6:30 p.m. The Lillian D. Ward Award will be presented to Andrew N. Schiff. For more information, call 212.609.1565.

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The New York Landmarks Conservancy will host its 22nd Living Landmarks Celebration at The Plaza at 7 p.m. For more information, call 212.921.9070.

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The American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will hold its New York City gala at Carnegie Hall at 7 p.m. The event will kick off the cross-county tour, featuring conductor Zubin Mehta. For more information, call 212.527.7531.

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On November 4, the Central Park Conservancy will host its Autumn in Central Park fundraiser at Naumburg Bandshell, under a clear ceiling tent, at 7 p.m. For more information, call 212.446.2242.

The Humane Society of the United States will hold its To the Rescue! gala at Cipriani 42nd Street at 6 p.m. For more information, call 301.258.3155.

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at The Plaza at 7 p.m.

The evening will benefit the French Institute Alliance Française and its mission to teach French, explore French and Francophone cultures, and foster cultural exchange between France and the United States.

For more information, call 646.388.6632.

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On October 13, the Humane Society of the United States will hold its annual To the Rescue! gala at Cipriani 42nd Street at 6 p.m.

For more information, call 301.258.3155.

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The New York Stage and Film “Wintergala” will take place at The Plaza at 6 p.m. For more information, call 212.463.0684.

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Silver Hill Hospital will host its sixth annual gala at Cipriani 42nd Street. For more information, call 212.254.6677.

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dinner, and dancing. For more information, call 212.7596846.

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The National Urban League will hold its 59th Equal Opportunity Dinner at the New York Marriott Marquis at 6 p.m. For more information, call 212.254.6677.

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The Trophée des Arts 2015 gala, celebrating the achievements of Alexandre de Juniac, will be held

Yuletide at Winterthur, featuring a tour of Henry Francis du Pont’s house decorated in holiday style, will begin at 6 p.m. In addition to the Yuletide Tour, guests will be able to partake in opportunities such as familyfriendly garden workshops and a live performance of A Christmas Carol as well as nighttime events like Yuletide Jazz and Wine and University of Delaware Chorale performing “Carols

by Candlelight.” For more information, call 800.448.3883.

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The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a non-profit organization fostering the importance of humanistic patient care, will host its 2015 Golden Thread gala at Gotham Hall (1356 Broadway) at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.763.8590.

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New Hope Charities will celebrate its Holiday Bazaar at the Beach Club. For more information, call 561.842.4874.

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Christie’s will host the 13th Tibet Benefit Auction at 20 Rockefeller Plaza at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.446.2242.

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The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Art Market preview party will take place at the museum at 4 p.m.

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The New Victory Theater Family Benefit will be held at the theater at 1 p.m. For more information, call 646.223.3085.

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The Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League will hold its 44th annual Christmas Ball at the Sailfish Club. For more information, call 561.844.0206.

The Carter Burden Center for the Aging’s 44th anniversary gala will take place at the Mandarin Oriental at 7 p.m. For more information, call 914.235.1490.

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The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s 2015 gala will be held at the Metropolitan Club at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.920.7341.

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The Olana Partnership’s 2015 Frederic E. Church Award gala will take place at the Metropolitan Club at 7 p.m. For more information, call 212.759.6846.

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The French Heritage Society will celebrate its gala at the Pierre Hotel at 7 p.m. The blacktie affair will include cocktails,

On October 17, the Olana Partnership’s 2015 Frederic E. Church Award gala will take place at the Metropolitan Club at 7 p.m. For more information, call 212.759.6846.

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SOMETIMES A BOOK PARTY is more than just a book party. When the author and subject are none other than supermodel Cindy Crawford, you know it’s of superstar proportions. Factor in the cover boy for high-concept 21st-century real estate development as co-host, and what you get is one definitively chic party in one of the most highly anticipated real estate districts of Miami.

Such was the scene at the recent celebration for Crawford’s new book, Becoming, published by Rizzoli and co-authored by Katherine O’Leary. Faena Rose—Faena Group’s exclusive arts and culture–based membership community offering privileges that include a series of exclusive arts and cultural experiences—hosted a lunch at one of Faena’s latest properties, Casa Claridge’s Faena Miami Beach. The luncheon was followed by a talk moderated by Faena Rose’s Pablo De Ritis, after which Crawford sat to sign copies of her visually stunning and persuasively honest reflection of her renowned career.

It was an especially fitting occasion and venue, all things considered. On hand to toast Crawford was the man responsible for the understatedly tasteful renovation of Casa Claridge’s, Alan Faena. Faena has been making headlines this month for the debut of his Faena Hotel Miami Beach, the first opening in what’s being called Faena District Miami Beach, a new neighborhood

with art and culture at its core. (Casa Claridge’s, just diagonally across from the soaring new hotel, is a charming period property that’s been restored as a more approachable “guesthouse” for the district.) Situated on a majestic strip of beach in the heart of Miami Beach, Faena District stretches north from 32nd Street to 36th Street—between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Creek— and is set to open in phases over the next three years. It will feature a unique combination of cultural, residential, hotel, retail, restaurant, and public environments that have been conceived as dynamic expressions of art, design, nature, technology, and service.

On 32nd Street and Collins Avenue, Faena Hotel Miami Beach typifies South American hospitality.

Formerly the historic Saxony Hotel, the hotel features 169 rooms and suites and 13 penthouse residences spanning the top two floors, all designed in collaboration with Mr. Faena by award-winning film director and producer Baz Luhrmann and Academy Award–winning production and costume designer Catherine Martin. The Saxony was one of Miami Beach’s first luxury hotels and a beacon of glamour, where Hollywood icons like Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and Dean Martin entertained the crowds. Faena enlisted Luhrmann and Martin to create a hotel that will carry on this colorful legacy.

This page: A rendering of the Faena Hotel Miami Beach beachfront view. Opposite page: The Antwerp-based design collective Studio Job was commissioned to create “Faena Fountain,” a site-specific sculpture that explores man’s search for spiritual and physical renewal.

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Clockwise from top left: A rendering of the Faena Forum façade from Collins Avenue; Cindy Crawford at Casa Claridge’s Faena Miami Beach during a party celebrating her new book, Becoming (Rizzoli); Pablo De Ritis, executive vice president of Faena Rose, introducing Cindy Crawford during the book party held in her honor at Casa Claridge’s Faena Miami Beach; the front entrance of Casa Claridge’s Faena Miami Beach, the beachside guesthouse of Faena District; “Angeles veloces arcanos fugaces,” a site-specific commission that was installed at Faena Arts Center Buenos Aires last October to commemorate the center’s 10th anniversary, will be reimagined this December in Miami as an Art Basel–specific roller-disco experience for the beach of Faena District, allowing DJs to

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Rounding out Faena District will be its luxurious residential units, including the 18-story Fosters + Partners–designed Faena House, as well as the William Sofield–designed Faena Versailles Classic, which offers 22 exclusive residences. Faena House and Faena Versailles residents will enjoy privileged access to all hotel services provided by Faena Hotel Miami Beach, as well as all cultural offerings of the district.

With the debut of Faena District Miami Beach, Faena remains true to its mission of creating inspiring cultural communities of world-class hotels, residences, exhibition and entertainment spaces, retail environments, and restaurants. Mr. Faena has long believed in balancing art, architecture, nature, and technology to develop neighborhoods that redefine how we live. Whether this latest Faena District will actually redefine the way we (or Miami Beach visitors and residents) live remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure: just like Crawford did with her first magazine cover a few decades before, Faena is offering us a rarefied vision of the world. u

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Culture and theatrics are set to play an instrumental role. Inspired by the great opera houses of the world, the 3,000-square-foot Theater at Faena Hotel Miami Beach will present live cabaret shows for guests and the public alike. The property’s 22,000-square-foot Tierra Santa Spa brings to Miami the first South American–inspired spa, while the hotel’s fire kitchen, Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann, marks the celebrated South American chef’s only restaurant in the United States (complete with asados, or outdoor barbecues).

Faena District will include Faena Forum, an institution dedicated to cultural programming across disciplines.

Designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, the 50,000-squarefoot building will debut in April 2016, and will feature a series of large flexible spaces for site-specific projects, installations, performances, and events. It will serve as a public venue for the exploration of ideas by professionals and practitioners from a range of fields, including the arts, sciences, technology, politics, and urbanism, to foster “transdisciplinary research and discovery.”

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THE ARSHT CENTER: A CULTURAL CORNERSTONE

LIKE ANY CAPITAL CITY, Miami—sometimes dubbed the “capital of South America,” given its cemented importance to both the United States and neighbors south—understands the value of culture and the arts. At the center of it all stands the Cesar Pelli–designed Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, in the heart of downtown. Since its 2006 opening, the Arsht Center has emerged as a cultural world leader. Along with bringing global talents to Miami, it also helps launch local artists on the international stage (or eight flexible, state-of-the-art performance spaces, as the case may be).

The Center’s name honors the business leader and philanthropist whose lifelong passion for the arts made it all possible.

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over $1.4 billion in assets, she sold it in 2007 to Banco Popular Español. Arsht, for one, believes that the arts matter. Her $30 million contribution to Miami’s performing arts center in 2008 secured its financial footing and ensured the cultural (and business) boom that followed. Beyond the merely financial, her belief in the arts and vision for the Center helped shape it as a model for other institutions across the country.

Here, Quest catches up with Arsht to talk about the upcoming anniversary of the cultural center that bears her name, and the state of the arts more generally: DANIEL CAPPELLO: Why have you chosen to focus on performing arts centers as opposed to, say, individual companies?

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Opposite page: The exterior of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. This page: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs at the Arsht Center; Ricky Arriola, Adrienne Arsht, and Mike Eidson at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s 5th Anniversary Gala (inset, above); Kevin Spacey performing at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s annual gala on April 5, 2014 (inset, below).

Above: Children sing along in December 2013 with Dan Zanes and Friends during the Arsht Center’s Free Family Fest, a series of free family-friendly performances ranging from local to internationally acclaimed artists. Opposite page, from above: The Arsht Center’s John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall; B. B. King’s 2014 performance; Harry Connick, Jr., performing at the Arsht Center’s 7th Annual Gala in 2013; the Flamenco Festival, featuring Ballet Nacional de España.

DC: What impact has the Arsht Center had in Miami?

AA: The Arsht Center has played a key role in the resurgence and transformation of the immediate area, the city of Miami, and beyond. It’s the center of activity for people planning where they live. The apartments in the neighborhood are selling out quickly. Other businesses have bought land in the vicinity. Hotels are coming up in the neighborhood. It revitalized downtown Miami. It’s really become the town square.

From a cultural standpoint, the Arsht Center presents nearly 500 events each year. Our programming incorporates 12 signature series, including the largest jazz series in South Florida and the biggest flamenco festival on the East Coast.

Our arts education program serves nearly 30,000 children each year. Since its inception, the Arsht Center has supported South Florida artists and the creation of new work. We are proud of the artistic relationships we have built with our community partners City Theatre, Peter London Global Dance Theater, and Zoetic Stage, just to name a few.

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DC: Do you have a favorite art form in particular?

AA: I love musical theater. I made a $5 million gift to the Kennedy Center [in Washington, D.C.] to fund the Adrienne Arsht Musical Theater Series. Some of it is for Broadway shows that travel, and some for shows that we create at the Kennedy Center. It’s a form of music that I think is a significant part of our heritage, and I want to make sure that it is preserved for generations to come. Musical theater is a unique part of America’s cultural patrimony—it really doesn’t exist anywhere else. Such artists include Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim— that’s an American musical art form.

DC: How has Miami shaped the person you are today, and your endeavors?

AA: After selling TotalBank in 2007, I moved back to Washington, D.C. But it immediately became clear to me that there was a need to integrate the interests of Latin America with Europe and the United States to shape the global future and create a broad community of common values. In 2013, this became a reality with the creation of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. This Center is dedicated to forging an effective Latin America–United States–Europe partnership of common values and shared interests. I am thrilled to spearhead an initiative that will embrace Latin America as an integral part of the transatlantic world and give this vibrant region the recognition it deserves. u

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forms to everyone of every generation and every interest. By supporting what I’ll call “the brand,” you permit a variety of performing arts entities to have their day in the sun or their moment on stage. When there’s a whole dance series, as there is in New York at City Center, there are companies you’ve never heard of that come. This allows for lesser-known companies that are terrific to be showcased, and it offers more variety to patrons.

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BY ELIZABETH QUINN BROWN

THE REAL ESTATE MARKETS on the East Coast, from New York to Florida, continue to flourish for buyers and sellers. Developments, as spurred by the success of the economy, are attracting attention—especially in Miami, which is buzzing with interest. That said, the offerings are diverse: classic properties on Fifth Avenue or in Palm Beach are beckoning, as well. Our experts report that, across the board, inventory is low, so buyers are being asked to act (and sellers are being asked to list). The amount of movement in the markets is astonishing—a trajectory that causes investors to forget about 2008, leaving it in the dust. Are you interested in buying or selling? Consult the agents on these pages, featured because of their successes in the industry (as proven by their many accolades).

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ELIZABETH STRIBLING Chairman at Stribling & Associates: 212.452.4400 / estribling@stribling.com

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I entered real estate in 1967 after graduate work in literature at Cambridge University. I thought it would be very glamorous and I loved the idea of selling duplexes and penthouses and townhouses. I quickly learned it was a lot of work, but I loved working with lots of different personalities and negotiating deals—anyone can open a door and show a property but it’s the negotiation that closes the deal. I was good at bringing people to see the other side of a transaction!

Perhaps because of being born in the South and growing up in New York, I could always appreciate another way of looking at the world. To succeed in negotiation, one must never take a side.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: Any property that is well priced will sell quickly. I live in Brooklyn and it’s really hot: fun and young, with the ambience of living in a relaxed, country atmosphere while never leaving the vibrant city. I love it and have never felt younger. Also, the area on the West Side in midtown around the future Hudson Yards is quickly transforming and will be a destination area in the near future.

Q: What are your thoughts on the state of the market?

A: The market should remain relatively stable for the next year without a noticeable up or down change. Each neighborhood and each market—co-op or condo resale, new project or townhouse—will attract different buyers. I believe the perception of the United States as a safe haven in global political and economic turmoil will serve us well.

Q: What distinguishes Stribling & Associates?

A: Stribling & Associates is known as a luxury firm that gives professional, quality advice. I founded Stribling in 1980 and am so proud of each of the brokers that carries our calling cards. As we say, the right broker makes all the difference.

18 Quai d’Orleans in Paris, France, is on the market for $7.6 million.

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Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: I would say that Palm Beach, as a whole, is in great demand. I always remind people that there’s no such thing as a bad area. It’s just a question of where in Palm Beach do you want to live. There are clients who say, “I only want to be in town, where I can walk to restaurants and walk to shopping” (which is more of an environment for pedestrians). Some people want the north end of the island, which is arguably more casual. And then there are individuals who want an estate, south of Worth

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1485 South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida. Price upon request.

Avenue—an older, vintage home in the “Mizner” style.

The inventory on the waterfront is very tight. Areas that are strong with limited inventory include homes with five or more bedrooms.

Q: What distinguishes Christian Angle Real Estate?

A: I believe that what has differentiated us is our level of service and our commitment. We run a boutique operation and we take considerable pride in our market knowledge.

My experience and expertise allow me to seek out and find unique opportunities in a tight market. It’s a white-glove operation and together with my seasoned team we work tirelessly to achieve our clients’ goals.

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I’ve been practicing real estate for over 15 years and we’re celebrating our 10th year at Christian Angle Real Estate.

I moved to the Palm Beaches from Boston about 20 years ago and met my wife shortly thereafter. Now we have three children together and we are in business together. We’ve embraced our career in real estate as a lifestyle. I enjoy working hard and diligently. Being very results driven and having closed approximately a billion dollars in real estate sales I feel truly committed to my clients and their real estate goals and needs.

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I have had the good fortune of building my career from the ground up. First, nearly 20 years ago, as a rental agent and then as a mentee, junior agent, and on-site sales agent.

Today, I’ve reached one of the highest levels in our industry: being named one of the top 250 real estate agents in the country by REAL Trends/The Wall Street Journal.

For many of my clients, I have become part of a trusted group of advisors acting alongside their financial, legal, and accounting teams, which has allowed me to create long-term relationships resulting in multiple transactions and generational clientele.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: The talk of the town is definitely the super towers that are being built along Central Park South and Park Avenue. At the same time, the townhouse market and traditional co-op and condominium markets (especially those located in Historic Landmarked Districts) are seeing strong interest from buyers. Madison Square Park is one of the most changing landscapes in the city, starting with the resurgence of the park, itself, and now surrounded

by multiple new condominium buildings and conversions.

There is also a great deal of interest in the area surrounding the high line and the new Hudson Yards.

Q: What distinguishes Sotheby’s International Realty?

A: Sotheby’s International Realty exemplifies the highest level of service and discretion: a truly cohesive brand that is trusted and sought after by buyers and sellers alike.

Working with us carries with it a level of trust and assurance that their home and investment is best in class. My goal is to match the level of service that my clients expect from their private banker or legal advisor.

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SUSAN BREITENBACH Licensed Associated Real Estate Broker at The Corcoran Group: 631.899.0303 / smb@corcoran.com

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: I think my success has a lot to do with a combination of things, with determination being an important one. From the very beginning, I worked 24/7 and wanted to be the best at what I do. I researched everything, and I still believe people want the most knowledgeable and professional broker. I think it takes all of that plus a sixth sense for feeling out what will work for customers and never giving up. Negotiating skills are extremely important as well. There are so many opportunities and most deals are not easy, so it is even more important to have an experienced broker that can get the deal to closing.

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207 Highland Terrace in Bridgehampton, New York, is on the market with The Corcoran Group for $35 million.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: Hot properties at the moment are anything on or near the water and south of the highway on two acres or more. Modern architecture is very popular, too, with integrated outdoor space—which is more like resort living! Hot, new areas now include waterfront in Sag Harbor and Montauk.

Q: What advice are you giving buyers and sellers?

A: My advice for buyers is to look and buy now, since there is still a lot of inventory and we all know supply and demand— when it depletes, the market will go up. My advice for sellers is to price their property correctly and not overprice.

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I have been selling real estate full-time in the Hamptons for the last 26 years, and I have been the top broker or one of the top few since the very beginning— the only broker in the Hamptons ranked in the Top 5 nationwide twice by The Wall Street Journal!

I always loved real estate and working with people. My husband is a high-end custom builder and real estate seemed to be a good fit when I moved to the Hamptons over 30 years ago. Before then, I had been working in sales on Wall Street.

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ROGER ERICKSON Senior Global Real Estate Advisor at Sotheby’s International Realty: 212.606.7612 / roger.erickson@sothebyshomes.com

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I was working in the marketing department of CBS Records International at the time that I decided to jump into the real estate brokerage business. The move was predicated by a book I read about real estate, and it turned out to be a great move.

My first customers were recording artists and record executives. After my first full year in real estate, I was the #1 broker at the firm I had joined.

apartments to the ultra-luxury condominium units in 220 Central Park South and other “Billionaire Row” buildings.

There seem to be fewer buyers at the moment for the grand prewar co-op apartments lining Park Avenue, which are making those apartments more attractive financially.

Q: What advice are you giving buyers and sellers?

A: I am advising sellers not to delay putting their apartments on the market as there are many buyers out there looking for properties and not much in terms of inventory. Buyers need to act decisively on properties that are well priced because, the minute a property hits the market, suddenly a lot of buyers materialize eager to purchase it.

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: I read every book and listened to every audio book I could find that had anything to do with selling and motivation. Friends would tease me for being so dedicated, since there I’d be on a beach in the Hamptons or walking to an appointment listening to Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and on and on. In reality, that dedication was extremely beneficial as I learned a lot about of the basic skills you need to help a customer make a decision.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: I find all segments of the Manhattan market are “hot” at this moment, from the smaller one- or two-bedroom

510 Park Avenue in New York, New York, is on the market for $11.35 million.

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LOURDES GUTIERREZ Agent at EWM Realty International: 305.206.8096 / gutierrez.ld@ewm.com / www.luxurymiamilifestyle.com

and Residences, Faena House, Setai Residences, and The Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach. The Faena District is changing the face of an entire area of Miami Beach. To the south, Park Grove and Grove at Grand Bay are revitalizing Coconut Grove.

Q: What distinguishes EWM Realty International?

A: EWM Realty is a Christie’s International affiliate. Christie’s is the leading powerhouse for sales over a million dollars globally. EWM has been in Miami for over 50 years and prides itself on offering bespoke services, client confidentiality, and hands-on customer service. I believe this is what sets us apart and distinguishes us in the community.

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: I believe in a full concierge service concept, from beginning to end. Most of my clients are out of state or international. Therefore, they require me to be extremely hands on in finding them the right property, helping finalize the sale, finding schools for their children, and helping the family integrate into the Miami community.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: South Florida is exploding from Miami Beach to Design District, to Coconut Grove, and everywhere in between.

Miami has really matured into a global luxury brand.

Some of the hottest properties at the moment are 1 Hotel

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Setai Residences #3709 in Miami Beach, Florida, is offered for sale.

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I started my real estate career eight years ago, with the sale of Oscar de la Renta’s former home in Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. At the time the house belonged to a dear friend. It sold quickly, and thus began my passion for real estate. I have always had an affinity for architecture and interior design. These experiences play a large role in understanding and finding the right fit for each client’s needs and desires.

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ANDREW SAUNDERS President at Saunders & Associates: 631.537.9482 / as@saunders.com

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I started as a developer in the Hamptons in the mid ’90s.

I built a number of homes that sold for record prices. There was a lot of downtime once you got the project set up and I joined Sotheby’s International Realty with the rationale of getting in on the ground floor so as to identify interesting, buildable properties that were entering the market. I evolved into the leading developer’s broker in the Hamptons. I worked in that capacity and brokerage turned into a real business for me—it was very lucrative. At that time, the brokerage universe in the Hamptons was very decentralized, idiosyncratic, and quirky but very profitable.

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: For me, it all started with developing. The reason why developers are successful generally is because they do things that aren’t obvious to others and they take risk. I’ve been a risk-taker my entire career and it’s suited me well in Hamptons real estate, but you have to be committed.

I think you have to have a vision regarding what you want to execute and you have to stay with it and you have to trust your inner voice and you have to take risks.

Q: What distinguishes Saunders & Associates?

A: We have 180 brokers now and, in 2014, we were involved in 40 percent of all transactions from Southampton to Montauk. We have $1.7 billion in exclusive listings, and we’re frequently involved in very noteworthy transactions.

We’ve galvanized the industry and we’re slaughtering the competition. Our model is unique in that we treat our agents like customers and mobilize significant resources behind all the disciplines that enhance their ability to list and sell properties. Featuring technologically sophisticated infrastructure and concierge-oriented administrative and marketing personnel, our luxurious offices enhance our ability to execute transactions.

33 Mecox Lane in Water Mill, New York, is on the market for $22.5 million.

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ROGER CHRISTMAN Agent at Weichert Realtors: 908.672.0861 / rchristman@weichertrealtors.net

open spaces plus bonus rooms such as wine cellars and multiple garages. Also, areas close to train lines, easy access to cities, and areas with low property taxes.

Q: What distinguishes Weichert Realtors?

A: Weichert has full-service companies within the Weichert family of companies that cover all aspects of the real estate industry. For example, we have a new homes division; one of the largest relocation companies in the world; a mortgage company; a title company; and an insurance company while we still maintain a tailored, local, and personal approach for each client. Weichert’s website is one of the most highly trafficked real estate websites in the United States.

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: My career has spanned two decades and I feel I have seen it all. The key—and the essence of success in real estate—is to stay calm and flexible during the ups and downs of the market. Keeping an even keel and not reacting emotionally or viscerally to the changing fortunes of the economy is critical to ensuring a long, steady, and solid career.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: The hot properties are homes with all the “bells and whistles,” meaning updated kitchens, bathrooms, and big

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45 Sand Spring Road in Harding, New Jersey, is on the market with Weichert Realtors for $4.5 million.

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I have been in real estate my whole life—it is part of my DNA. My father has been with Weichert for 43 years and he always had brochures of homes and real estate facts and figures around our house growing up. I always preferred reading about real estate than any other reading materials from school.

The values and locations of homes, along with the quality of construction, have always fascinated me. What has intrigued me most, however, is how a home is intricately tied to people’s memories and the quality of people’s lives.

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CRISTINA CONDON Agent at Sotheby’s International Realty: 561.301.2211 / cristina.condon@sothebyshomes.com

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I have had a wonderful 33-year career with Sotheby’s International Realty and have been fortunate to meet many fascinating people and to have the opportunity to market some of the most remarkable residences in Palm Beach. I was drawn to real estate because I thought it would be an interesting and enjoyable career and that has certainly proven to be the case.

Q: What are your thoughts on the state of the market?

A: Over the past three years, Palm Beach has become more desirable as people evaluate the benefits of the favorable tax environment, the convenience of transportation, and the mild weather.

Q: What advice are you giving buyers and sellers?

A: To sellers, I’m advising them to research the market and have an idea where they might go once they sell. At the moment, there are fewer choices than in the past so it is important to have a plan. To buyers, I’m reminding them that this is a very fast-moving market so quick decisions are important once you find a property that meets your criteria.

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: My ability to market all types of residential real estate, whether it be a modest two-bedroom condominium or a multi-million dollar estate, along with a strong work ethic and an optimistic attitude have been major contributing factors to my success.

Q: What areas and properties are considered to be “hot” at the moment?

A: Newly constructed properties and those that have been recently renovated are most in demand currently. Due to limited supply in every price range, all areas in an around Palm Beach are experiencing high demand.

640 South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, is on the market with Sotheby’s International Realty for $42.9 million.

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GINGER BROKAW Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker at Town Residential: 646.998.7408 / gbrokaw@townrealestate.com

and intelligent pricing to reflect the current market. In a market of rising and upcoming new inventory, the properties that represent what is “best in class” are the most desired. Apart from the neighborhoods that are consistently seen as highly desirable, we are experiencing an expansion in several places that are now evolving into areas of interest. A good example of this is the change we see on the Upper East Side, east of Third Avenue. New development and transportation has created a renaissance in an often overlooked and undervalued neighborhood. Pricing is still favorable and the product offered, whether it is a prewar co-op or new construction is compelling.

Q: What skills and talents are integral to your success?

A: My years in the financial sector are a great asset. Selling real estate transcends the ability to find the right property; real estate sales are multifaceted business transactions, thatcombine financial, personal, and emotional elements that require consistent management to ensure successful results.

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: The answer to this is not necessarily about address because boundaries are constantly changing. Properties are interesting when they possess a number of components like great design and layout, good execution of interior finishes,

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161 East 63rd Street in New York, New York, is on the market with Town Residential for $5,885/month.

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Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: Real estate is my second career. Prior to becoming a broker, I was an equity trader on Wall Street for 24 years. Becoming involved in real estate was what I like to call a “happy accident.” A top broker that I was working with at the time to sell my own property, made an intelligent case for me to consider becoming a broker. I possessed a strong business background and wanted a new challenge. The rest is history.

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President at Washington Fine Properties: 202.243.1657 / thomas.anderson@wfp.com

Q: Tell us about your career.

What is your experience in the world of real estate?

A: I have been fortunate to have enjoyed an incredible career. In 2010, I was honored to receive the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by “Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate.” My response: “I didn’t think my career was over!” Looking back, in 1980, I was hired by the founders of what was then the Sotheby Parke Bernet International Realty Corporation to build a network outside New York. For 24 years, I ran the “Country Properties” division in the Tri-State area and the Mid-Atlantic states (along with other executive duties). It was an honor to meet and represent the owners of some of the most magnificent properties in the country. In 2004, Sotheby’s sold Sotheby’s International Realty. It was the end of an era and I very quickly resigned my position and joined my three partners to build our own firm in the nation’s capital region. Here, it’s not about brands; it’s all about the people. And simply put, we are blessed to have the best agents across all our markets!

Q: What areas and properties are “hot” at the moment?

A: Urban living in all of our markets is hot! Washington is an “it” city today and the real estate scene is as bullish

as ever. Downtown Washington, D.C., Bethesda, MD, McLean, VA, and “country chic” towns such as Middleburg, Upperville, and Little Washington as well as the Eastern Shore of Maryland are powerfully in strong demand. The sleeker the better. We are in an “instant” world, with everything available at the push of a button or click, so buyers will pay more for less, meaning less space to maintain, perfect condition, and shorter commuting times. It is all about location and condition. In the cities, it’s high-end condos, buildings with services, and anything “downtown.” And in the suburbs, it’s new construction, homes with land, and classic residences masterfully restored and updated. u

Oakendale Farm on Landmark School Road in Middleburg, Virginia, is on the market for $27.5 million.

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GENERATIONS OF EAST 72ND STREET

BY DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA REAL ESTATE REMAINS a hot topic in contemporary conversation, especially because of the past 30 years of rising prices.

The interest in the subject is almost entirely devoted to that and, occasionally, to architecture. My interest is more personal and based on nothing but curiosity, and the writer’s scent of drama that exists in every dwelling of every man and woman.

When walking around the Upper East Side, where I have lived (on and off) since the mid-1960s, I often pass buildings where people I know, or have known, live or lived. The sense memory kicks in, and the lives involved return to my consciousness and my memory’s eye and ear. Houses are always stories—often dramas, comedies, tragedies, and (to borrow from Luigi Pirandello): Six Characters In Search Of An Author.

When Pope Francis paid a visit to the city this year, his brief stay aroused my curiosity. It was in a house at 20 East 72nd Street between Fifth and Madison avenues. East 72nd Street has always been one of the better streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Its proximity to Central Park (which had an entrance for carriages, horses, and passenger vehicles) increased its desirability.

As it was developed for residential living in the last quarter of the 19th century, its architectural substantiveness was established—

and it has largely remained more than a century later.

After the Civil War ended, in 1880, New York had entered what Mark Twain famously referred to as the Gilded Age. Great fortunes had been made or were on the make as the Industrial Revolution was transforming America from an agricultural to an industrial country. New York was booming and on the move.

In the late 1870s and early 1880s, the Vanderbilts (after the death of the Commodore, Cornelius Vanderbilt II) were the richest family in the world. After the old man passed away, the Commodore’s principal heir built a great double mansion occupying the entire block between 51st and 52nd streets on the west side of Fifth Avenue. Soon after, in 1883, his son William K. and wife, Alva, built the first limestone château on the southwestern corner of 52nd Street. Their “housewarming” established them in Mrs. Astor’s society, whether the dowager liked it or not. William K.’s brother, Cornelius II, also built a château on the northwest corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, later expanding it so that it occupied the entire block to 58th Street (where Bergdorf Goodman is today). Along Fifth Avenue, above 42nd Street on both the East Side and the West Side, the city was moving north.

By the time the Vanderbilt palaces had reached 58th Street,

This page: William Henry Vanderbilt’s “double” mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue (ab0ve); the Lenox Library, at Fifth Avenue between 71st and 72nd streets (below). Opposite page: The mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who resided at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street.

Central Park (which is just one block north) had begun to flourish into its majestic self that we know today. Up until that time, this had been the “outskirts” of Manhattan. To the east of Fifth Avenue had been farmland or barren, rocky, hilly land.

The land that we now call the Upper East Side was divided

by Fourth Avenue. The east and west sides of the avenue were divided by a large gulley, which featured the tracks of the Commodore’s New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line). It was all smoke and soot. In the early 1870s, however, the avenue was covered, piece by piece, until it was transformed and renamed Park Avenue. The entire area, real estate–wise, took on a different outlook. Madison and Park avenues as well as Fifth Avenue became a new destination for the prosperous New Yorkers as well as the Old Guard.

Its early residents were the newer New York elite, names that today might be regarded as the Old Guard but were then mainly the new tycoons and business titans. The Old Guard with their roots in the Knickerbocker families naturally preferred—or hoped—to remain. Enter the Gilded Age. In 1880, East 72nd Street was still largely undeveloped land.

It had been part of the Lenox Farm: 30 acres acquired in 1819 by a businessman named Robert Lenox for $6,920. It was believed that Lenox had overpaid because the land was “way out of town,” although favorable to wealthy New Yorkers of the 1820s and 1830s when they wanted to get away from the city (which was way downtown). Lenox died a wealthy man 20 years later in 1839, leaving the property to his son, James, an intensely private and active collector of books and art.

In 1870, James—who lived in a mansion on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, where the major part of the city’s elite still lived— hired the architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a library on a plot of the land on the avenue “way uptown” between 70th and 71st streets. The Lenox Library was a stately building overlooking Central Park, housing Assyrian antiquities and paintings

by Constable, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Turner, and Raeburn alongside American works by Church, Cole, Morse, Copley, and Inman. Although it was a library, it was mainly private and rarely open to the public.

James died in 1880, leaving the remaining acreage—which had already been subdivided by the grid—to his heirs, which included the library. It had grown over the years and needed to expand. The family eventually decided to merge it with the newly built New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The land was sold to Henry Clay Frick, who hired Carrere & Hastings to design a house for him and his

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extensive art collection.

James had already previously donated land on Lexington Avenue and 66th and 67th streets to the New York–Presbyterian Hospital as well as to the Seventh Regiment Armory. The new era of real estate development had begun with those contributions.

In the 19th century, the wide avenues and wide cross streets were most appealing residential locations for the rich and their large houses. With its vista of the Central Park entrance, East 72nd Street (one block north of the Lenox Library) was a highly favorable location.

In 1880, Charles Lewis Tiffany, who owned the highly successful silver and diamond jewelry establishment on Union Square, purchased the lot on the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 72nd Street. Until that time, most of the block, north and south, was undeveloped. In fact, in that same year, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., purchased a double lot on the northeast corner of 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue with the intention of building a mansion. Rockefeller, however, later purchased the West 54th Street mansion of Arabella Huntington (where the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art is located today) and sold his 72nd Street plot (where the cooperative apartment house 910 Fifth Avenue stands today).

Tiffany’s purchase came with a plan. Tiffany was a rich man.

He was annually selling $6 million (more than $100 million in today’s currency) in diamonds with their “revolutionary” six-prong

setting at his Union Square store. He had a sufficiently large and comfortable residence 30 blocks south of East 72nd Street. After his children (he had two sons and two daughters) reached adulthood and started their own lives, Tiffany wanted something where his entire family could be together—but separately—under one roof.

His eldest son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, was the artist in the family. He had started out as a painter, but in 1875, when he was in his late twenties, he became interested in glassmaking.

In 1879, the year before his father bought the corner lot of East 72nd Street and Madison Avenue, he formed Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists.

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Charles had kept his son away from the family business, where his clientele was interested in diamonds and pearls rather than Louis’ glass creations. Nevertheless, Louis’ business thrived and he was an important figure in architectural and decorative arts movements of the time. By his early thirties, he was his own man—a success. In 1881, he did the interior design of the Mark Twain house in Hartford, Connecticut, which is still intact. The following year, President Chester Alan Arthur hired him to redecorate the White House, which he found “charmless.” The result was a strong departure from the original Federal style, including screens and glass accessories and an opalescent floor-toceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. (President Teddy Roosevelt had the screen and all the Victorian additions removed and destroyed when redecorating the White House in 1902.)

In 1881, Charles hired the rising young architect Stanford White to design a new house for the corner of East 72nd Street and Madison Avenue. White and Louis were contemporaries.

They had recently worked together on the decoration of the newly built Seventh Regiment Armory (now the Park Avenue Armory) on East 66th Street and Park Avenue. Charles presented White with a preliminary sketch of what he wanted. It was mammoth, Romanesque, with arches and turrets, gables and balconies. A departure from all that was around.

Design work began in 1882 but would not be completed until 1885. White created a monumental, five-story building with an interior courtyard large enough for a horse and carriage to enter and turn around. There were three separate residences within, each with its own entrance on the courtyard. It totaled 57 rooms. When the plans were completed, only two of the four siblings would live there. Charles and his wife would occupy the first and second floors; their daughter, Annie Olivia Mitchell, and her husband and family on the third floor; and Louis and his family on the fourth floor (plus an enormous fifth-floor attic for Louis’ studio).

The upper part of the house was cover by thin, flat bricks of a light brownish/yellowish color, speckled with black. White created these bricks with craftsmen from a brickmaking company in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. They were subsequently known as “Tiffany bricks.” He additionally softened the heavy medieval feeling of his client’s original sketch by adding triple Palladian windows to the steep, black-tile gables and including “Colonial” features.

The house soon became the object of much attention. New York had never seen anything like it, for it resembled a European castle as if transplanted on a Manhattan street corner. An English literary critic named Edmund Gosse gave it the stamp of approval, calling it the “most beautiful modern domestic building” he’d ever seen, referring to “a sort of vastness, as if it had grown like a mountain.”

This page, clockwise from above: Louis Comfort Tiffany’s mansion at East 72nd Street and Madison Avenue; architect Stanford White; the Rosario Candela–designed 19 East 72nd Street was built in 1938; 907 FIfth Avenue, which replaced James A. Burden’s mansion. Opposite page: Tiffany conducting business at his company, Tiffany & Co.

Louis was in charge of the interior decoration of his father’s (and his) new house. He brought in Augustus Saint-Gaudens and John LaFarge to contribute. The vast interior spaces were complete with “gargantuan” fireplaces, surrounded by constellations of hanging lamps of multicolored materials.

When finished, the enormous structure dominated the surrounding land (which was nearly empty). Its final cost was more than $500,000 (or more than $200 million in today’s currency).

Ironically, Charles’ plan to bring (part of) his grown-up family together under one roof failed. Whatever the drama—presuming there was some—Charles was not pleased when it was completed and ready for occupancy. He was not pleased with Louis’ interior design of the parents’ apartment. His own ideal had been thwarted. What he said about it to his son is unknown, but he decided that he would remain in his house, 30 blocks south.

Louis died in 1933, one month before his 85th birthday. He had lived in his unique mansion for almost a half century. Three years later, the house was sold to a developer and demolished to make way for the Rosario Candela–designed 19 East 72nd Street apartment house, which today remains one of the top most desirable apartment buildings on the Upper East Side. While Candela’s replacement of White’s masterpiece is a noble one, the loss of Tiffany’s unique mansion remains a

lamentable loss to the city’s architectural history.

By 1890, New York was largest city in the country with a population of more than 1.5 million. As it was expanding, real estate was escalating. By the mid-1890s, the block of East 72nd Street between Madison and Fifth avenues reflected this expansion grandly. In 1890, James A. Burden (whose father, Henry Burden, had founded a very prosperous iron works company in Albany, New York) purchased a double lot on the southeast corner of East 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue from the Lenox estate and built a mansion that was completed in 1893. The residence was short-lived. Twenty years later, it was demolished to make way for a 12-story luxury residential building designed by J.E.R. Carpenter in the Italian Renaissance style, with two 12room apartments on each floor. The top floor was occupied by one apartment featuring 25 rooms. These were all rentals. Herbert Pratt, a Standard Oil partner, was its first resident in 1916. He paid a rent of $30,000 per year (about $750,000 in today’s currency).

On the northern corner, John D. Rockefeller’s double lot was sold and a large house of no existing record was built. That house was replaced in 1920 by developer Fred French, who built the 12-story 910 Fifth Avenue, a limestone-covered sister building to 907 Fifth Avenue, also in the Italian Renaissance style.

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This page, clockwise from above left: The James A. Burden house; Oliver Jennings’ mansion (7 East 72nd Street), Henry Sloane’s mansion (9 East 72nd Street), and Benjamin Guggenheim’s mansion (15 East 72nd Street); 18 and 20 East 72nd Street belonged to Felix and Frieda Warburg and mayor Hugh T. Grant, repectively. Opposite page: The mansion of Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo (at 867 Madison Avenue) is now home to Ralph Lauren’s men’s store (above); Ralph Lauren’s women’s store was once the site of Alva Vanderbilt’s home (below).

brothers: real estate investors and developers Henry and Alexander Hirsch.

In 1894, Henry T. Sloane (the furniture and carpet retailer) purchased a large lot which was mid-block, between Fifth and Madison avenues and two doors west of the Tiffany mansion. He hired the architect Carrere & Hastings to build a French-style mansion. Before construction was finished, however, it emerged that Sloane’s wife, Jessie, was having a torrid affair with Perry Belmont (son of August Belmont, who was the Rothschilds’ business agent in New York). The couple separated before it became time to occupy the house.

In January 1897, Jessie hosted a “housewarming” reception for 200 guests, inviting many prominent New Yorkers including: Ava and Jack Astor (parents of Vincent Astor); the Stanford Whites; Mamie and Stuyvesant Fish (whose new house was close to completion on East 78th Street and Madison Avenue); Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills; and William K. Vanderbilt (who was now divorced from Alva, who had married Belmont’s brother, Oliver).

Sloane was absent.

The Sloanes’ divorce was a huge scandal of the day, made more colorful by the fact that Jessie had been a girl from Brooklyn, starstruck by New York society. Five hours after the divorce was granted in 1899, Jessie became Mrs. Perry Belmont. At her new husband’s insistence, she returned the deed to the mansion to Sloane. He rented the house to Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, and his family as well as his 17 servants. In 1901, Pulitzer vacated and the house was sold to James Stillman, one of the founders of National City Bank (now CitiBank), a widower who lived there until his death at 67 in 1918. The house was then sold to John Sanford, a businessman and horse breeder, and heir to a carpet fortune.

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Sanford’s son, Stephen “Laddie” Sanford, was a famous Palm Beach–based polo player as well as director of the family carpet business.

The essence of East 72nd Street that gives it the architectural and social finesse that it retains today is a result of the construction in the mid-1890s. In 1894, across the street from the Tiffany mansion, another McKim, Mead, & White design was purchased by the then newly divorced Alva Vanderbilt who had abandoned her famous château on Fifth Avenue to her ex-husband William K. Vanderbilt. It was in this new house that her daughter Consuelo, forced by her willful mother, dressed and prepared for her wedding to Lord John Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough.

Alva, it was said, had originally wished to marry her daughter into royalty. Everything came with a price, and the Vanderbilts could provide that. She couldn’t find a suitable king or prince and so she settled on Churchill, who lived in the largest private ducal palace in England: Blenheim. For Churchill, it was the answer to the expensive upkeep of such an establishment. It was, perhaps, the most famous marriage of an American at the end of the 19th century, a financial transaction that embellished Alva’s strong sense of breeding.

Also in 1895, diagonally across from the Tiffany house on the northeast corner of East 72nd Street and Madison Avenue, a real estate heiress by the name of Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo began a’building. Waldo’s architect, Alexander Mackintosh from Kimball & Thompson, created a mansion modeled after a château in Loire. The house was completed in 1898 but Waldo, who was then a widow in her forties, never moved in. Instead, she lived most her life in a smaller house adjoining it. Its first occupants were antique dealers and interior decorators and, in the 1980s, Ralph Lauren leased it for

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his flagship store. Lauren was the first and only occupant of the mansion who created an interior space that is mentally harmonious with its exterior grandeur.

Also on East 72nd Street, there were three townhouses that went up in 1894–95: numbers 18, 20, and 22. The middle house, number 20, was purchased in 1894 by the newly married businessman and mayor of New York, Hugh T. Grant, as a wedding gift to his wife. The Grant marriage was solid and so was Grant’s business. But he died early, at age 52 in 1910, leaving his wife an estate in the tens of millions in today’s currency. After Mrs. Grant’s death, the house was eventually sold to the Vatican to use for their United Nations. One of the selling points, according to Alice Mason (the prominent private residence broker who sold the house for the family), was that Grant’s wife had long ago built a chapel within on the first floor.

The house next door, number 18 was purchased by Jacob Schiff as a wedding gift for his daughter Frieda and her husband, Felix Warburg, the young banker from Hamburg, Germany.

The Warburgs remained in residence for less than 10 years when they moved into a palatial mansion designed and built for them

by C.P.H. Gilbert on the corner of East 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Frieda’s father expressed his disapproval of his daughter and son-in-law’s architectural choices, noting that the opulence and grandeur of the French Renaissance style could easily be considered in poor taste—a kind of showing off that lacked the dignity that the Schiffs presented to the community. Nevertheless, a large and creative family emerged from that grandeur: songwriters, cultural impresarios, writers, and bankers. And 36 years after its building, Frieda donated the house to the Jewish Museum. Her father would have been proud.

Just across the street from these houses, in 1898, Benjamin Guggenheim (one of the heirs to the immense mining fortune of Meyer Guggenheim) and his wife (the former Florette Seligman, daughter of the prominent banker James Seligman) moved in to their newly built number 15. The house, which is still standing today, was sandwiched between the mountainous Tiffany residence and the Sloane palazzo. It replaced a 20-footwide brownstone of modest note.

The Guggenheim marriage, however, was one of lessening passions. Benjamin traveled to Europe frequently on business, enough so that he would have an apartment in Paris. On April 10, 1912, Benjamin was returning to New York after one of his business trips and boarded the newly launched R.M.S. Titanic.

He was accompanied by his valet, his chauffeur, and his mistress (a French singer, Leontine Aubart) with her maid. Everyone was asleep when the boat struck the iceberg on April 15. Benjamin, who shared his stateroom with his valet, was awakened not by it but by Leontine and her maid (who were in the stateroom adjoining). Everyone was being helped into lifebelts and heavy sweaters. The two ladies got into lifeboat number nine. Benjamin soon realized that he was not going to be saved, but he told

Leontine and the maid that he would see them later on. However, he and his valet were last seen seated in the foyer of the Grand Staircase sipping brandy and smoking cigars. His body was never found.

Florette was devastated and, within a month, she and her two daughters moved out of number 15 and into The St. Regis. Her sister-inlaw, Cora Guggenheim Rothschild, moved into the house with her husband.

By the late 1920s, the gilded block of East 72nd Street had changed noticeably with the large (now cooperative) apartment buildings. However, when Ralph Lauren expanded his business several years ago, taking over the southeast corner for his women’s store, he revived the Beaux-Arts influence with a magnificent structure that is wholly compatible with the architectural styles that dominated the block from the late 19th century and onwards, maintaining and punctuating the charisma and aesthetic of the late Gilded Age. u

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BAL HARBOUR SHOPS’ GOLD ANNIVERSARY

BY ALEX TRAVERS THERE ARE MANY places to shop in Miami: the Aventura Mall, Lincoln Road, Bal Harbour Shops, the Design District. All of these offer high-end fashion brands and unique experiences. But Bal Harbour has a rather distinctive appeal.

Much about what makes Bal Harbour Shops special involves its exclusive offerings. The other hallmark for which Bal Harbour is known is its serenity. Even on days when the sun struggles to make appearances through the clouds, shoppers can leisurely explore stores in an outdoor setting surrounded by fountains and fishponds and greeneries. And, as was intended by founder Stanley Whitman from day one, it’s remained this way since its inception.

This year, Bal Harbour Shops turns 50. “For our fiftieth anniversary,” says Matthew Whitman Lazenby, president and CEO of Whitman Family Development, “as we honor and uphold my grandfather’s original vision, we’ve planned a series of events that fit the DNA of Bal Harbour Shops to show gratitude to our loyal customers.” London-based exhibition designer Judith Clark, for This page: Retail visionary Stanley Whitman, the founder of Bal Harbour Shops. Opposite page: Bal Harbour Shops today.

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reason for Bal Harbour’s ability to draw crowds. My guess is that the combination of fresh, exclusive products, all cherry-picked by Whitman, and its outdoor design allowed consumers to shop in a tropical setting for items they would otherwise only find in Europe. At the very least, it was a destination worth talking about. Perhaps Whitman was also, in his own forward-thinking way, obliquely acknowledging something significant about the lack of luxury offerings and shopping experiences in the United States. If he could attract both locals and wealthy tourists, then Bal Harbour had the potential of becoming a shopping mecca. Today, arguably, it is exactly that.

Still, the ambitions to set the bar higher do not wane. There are plans to add 300,000 square feet of retail space and a third specialty department store (Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue are the current two). “We look forward to another 50 years of engaging patrons, partners, and colleagues,” declares Whitman Lazenby, “connecting them with an even better Bal Harbour Shops.” u This page: A historical rendering of Bal Harbour Shops. Opposite page: Bal Harbour Shops is located at 9700 Collins Avenue in Bal Harbour, FL. 142 QUEST

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example, is working with Bal Harbour Shops on an experimental space devoted to thought-provoking projects and public programs that explore fashion and the culture surrounding its design, production, and consumption.

Bal Harbour’s beginning comes from untried, more unconventional history as well. This area was an army barracks in the Second World War, and when retail experts first listened to Whitman’s proposals, the idea of an open-air luxury shopping center here seemed, as many bold ideas often do at first, absurd. Indoor malls, with their mix of offerings and services, were flourishing. Plus, they all took advantage of a relatively new and much desired amenity in South Florida: air conditioning.

It has been said that Bal Harbour’s early success is owed to Neiman Marcus, the Texas-based retail store that Whitman convinced to open its first outpost at Bal Harbour in 1971. Although this may be partially true, it seems speculative to proclaim this as the sole

SUNSHINE STATE SHOPPING Let’s say you are looking for the best shops Miami has to offer. And also, that you want to be in an area surrounded by other boutiques of the same caliber. You may do a Google search and let your eyes try to absorb the hundreds of red dots scattered across the map, ordered below in a manner that would baffle Einstein in his prime. Stop.

There’s no need to stress. Your ultimate Miami shopping guide is right here.

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RALPH LAUREN 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.861.2059 / ralphlauren.com Bal Harbour is a must-visit for any serious shopper. Since opening in 1965, it’s been a hit with both locals and visitors. Here today at this unique outdoor shopping mecca, you’ll find a charming Ralph Lauren boutique, offering a wide selection of Lauren’s many labels.

For men: Purple Label, Made to Measure, RRL, accessories, and footwear. For women: Collection, Black Label, accessories, and footwear. So whether you need a fresh polo for your morning tee time at the recently renovated Blue Monster, or a cute dress for a girl’s night out, or a new beach bag, or even just a cool pair of avaitor shades to block out the strong Miami sun, you’ll find it all here. And you’ll find that these items will all have a long, exciting life in your wardrobe. Happy shopping!

TOMAS MAIER 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.351.9560 / tomasmaier.com New to Bal Harbour Shops is Tomas Maier, one of today’s most celebrated designers. Ever since signing a deal with luxury goods holding company Kering in 2013, Maier has been able to put more work into his eponymous brand, something he’s quite pleased about. (He is also the creative director of the Kering-owned Italian luxury goods house Bottega Veneta.) “My brand always suffered from not having different categories,” he conceded a few years back, when his efforts leaned more toward Bottega than his own line. “Now I can finally have a store that is filled with products that are all designed by me.” This is how Maier’s shops, always expertly laid out, have come to be in places like New York City and the Hamptons. And now, here in Miami, another good fit for the fashion designer.

LA PERLA 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) Tk203.622.5036 / stuartweitzman.com They may be known for lingerie, but they also make great bathing suits, and you’ll need plenty of those in Miami. There are bikinis, one-pieces, and even swim accessories to discover. Like beach wraps, belts, and cover-ups.

All with sheer, sleek details, of course. Actually, you may be surprised to see what La Perla has been up to lately.

They have started making lounge wear for men. There was recently a runway show. Among the key pieces were night robes and kimonos in luxurious raffias and silks. With fresh, innovative products and some of the sexiest advertising campaigns you’ll find flipping through the glossies, La Perla’s offerings are bold and inciting. Go explore.

DYLAN’S CANDY BAR 801 Lincoln Road 305.531.1988 / dylanscandybar.com Confession: I have a sweet tooth. Hell, it’s hard for me to walk by Dylan’s Candy Bar without stopping in. In fact, when I’m here in Miami, I’ll usually head to Dylan’s first, often before checking into the hotel. But, so what? This Willy Wonka–inspired wonderland has it all, from sweet chocolate to mouth-puckering sour candy in every flavor imaginable. If you’re feeling tired, go for the “energy-packed” gummy bears. Or if it’s sugar-free candy you crave, the store has a large selection of healthier gummies as well. Dylan Lauren, the company’s founder and daughter of designer Ralph Lauren, even offers pop art– inspired apparel, from beach bags to shirts.

CH CAROLINA HERRERA 9700 Collins Ave (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.864.0888 / carolinaherrera.com/ch You’re going to like what you find at CH Carolina Herrera. That we promise. There is clothing for men, women, and kids. Plus: fragrances—several with playfully accessorized bottles. Here at Quest, we love reading about Herrera’s inspirations, whether it be for the clothing or those neatly nuanced fragrances. It’s great fun to imagine the CH woman or man through her descriptions. For CH L’eau, a citrus-y scent, the “olfactive notes” read: “She is natural, fresh, and joyful, she doesn’t take life too seriously… A woman who prefers lighter and more accessible fragrances.” Oh, and don’t forget about the CH luggage and travel accessories, which you may need more of after your trip to Bal Harbour.

LACOSTE 1026 Lincoln Road 305.674.6810 / lacoste.com There are many reasons to visit Lacoste’s attractive Lincoln Road boutique: stock up on classic piqué polos, test the latest fragrances, check out the new Chantaco bag, see what the Lacoste Sport collection has to offer. But alternatively—if faced, say, with a sudden urge to take a trip to the beach—you can also find neat swimwear and beach towels, along with a colorful selection of bags to pack everything you may want to bring along for your trip.

And if you need a new pair of sunglasses, they have you covered. After all, Lacoste likes to think of life as a beautiful sport.

DSQUARED2 9700 Collins Avenue (Bal Harbour Shops) 305.866.7880/ dsquared2.com Dsquared2 designers Dean and Dan Caten (they are identical twin brothers) have a knack for flash. There’s something about Italian fashion—particularly brands like Versace, Pucci, and Dsquared2—that works well in Miami. Always has, always will. Here in the sunshine state, showing off skin is encouraged. So are bold, bright colors and sexy silhouettes. And who better than Dsquared2 to provide you with those kind of outfits? At the Bal Harbour boutique, you’ll find the latest in men’s and women’s fashion, perfect for the beach, a night out on the town...or anything else you can imagine.

HERMÈS 175 NE 40th Street (Design District) 305.868.0118 / hermes.com Hermès, the French brand specializing in leather, lifestyle accessories, perfume, luxury goods, and ready-to-wear, is synonymous with smart style.

Established in 1837, the celebrated house has had equally influential designers, including Lola Prusac, Christophe Lemaire, Pierre Hardy, Eric Bergère, Marc Audibet, Mariot Chane, Martin Margiela, and Jean-Paul Gaultier. Eager shoppers who make their way to the Design District store will be able to dive in and discover all that Hermès has to offer: gorgeous clothes, accessories, jewelry, and watches. Be sure to check out some of its neighbors too, as the Design District is filling up with exciting stores, including Christian Louboutin, Céline, Roberto Coin, Tom Ford, Valentino, Loewe, and Pucci.

APPLE 1021 Lincoln Road 305.421.0400 / apple.com Gadgets galore! Here at the Lincoln Road Apple store, get ready to explore the latest iPhone 6s, the Apple Watch, and much, much more. It’s also great to have this place around in case something goes wrong with your phone during your trip. (Hey, who hasn’t accidently cracked their iPhone screen at least once?) Within hours, screens can be fixed, bugs repaired. Plus, if your hotel room is lacking a decent sound system (they often are), the Apple store has a fun selection of portable speakers. My favorite is the amp-shaped Marshall Stanmore Bluetooth speaker.

It’s a cool throwback—and it’s loud enough to get the party started.

LAYING CLAIM TO THE MANHATTAN OF THE SOUTH Douglas Elliman Real Estate Making Successful Strides in Miami and Beyond

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This page: For over a century, South Florida’s spectacular Atlantic Ocean coastline and lush landscape have attracted people seeking the luxury of a tropical lifestyle and residence; Jay Phillip Parker, CEO of Douglas Elliman’s Florida brokerage, and Dorothy Herman, President and CEO of Douglas Elliman (inset). Opposite page: 222 Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida, a 1930 property remastered & rebuilt by Todd Glazer, is an example of the unique properties for which Elliman is known.

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PERFORMANCE MATTERS. Just ask any fund manager, Fortune 500 CEO, elite athlete, or A-list entertainer and they’ll all confirm that results are still the universal currency. Ask Douglas Elliman Real Estate and they’ll tell you it’s the reason their 15 South Florida offices are quickly becoming the go-to resource for South Florida’s most prestigious property opportunities.

“From Miami to South Beach, Douglas Elliman is synonymous with excellence, professionalism, and being on the cutting-edge of the market. We represent the finest properties and new developments and we’re a force to be reckoned with,” says Jay Phillip Parker, CEO of the firm’s Florida Brokerage. “The vision was never to simply have a presence in South Florida,” he explains, “it was to be the first and only name considered by top developers and high-end buyers and sellers alike.” Current trends would seem to show Parker’s team is already well

on their way to achieving that distinction. With more than $4 billion in active developments on the market, plus another $4 billion in the pipeline, the Douglas Elliman South Florida roster reads like a “Who’s Who” of South Florida real estate. Faena House on Miami Beach sold out in less than a year—where the top unit (which listed at $50 million) recently sold for a record-breaking $60 million. Park Grove, by Rem Koolhaas on Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove, has a total projected sell-out value of more than $700 million. Eighty Seven Park by Renzo Piano, another Terra Group project, is on the verge of selling out as well. The famed Shore Club is being exclusively marketed

by Douglas Elliman, as is The Bristol in Palm Beach. The same holds true for the already renowned 1 Hotel & Homes, One River Point, and Casa Capri, amongst others, where Elliman is also the exclusive broker. Add in the Palau Sunset Harbour, plus dozens of privately-owned waterfront estates throughout the most sought-after communities, and the neighborhood has taken on a uniquely Elliman presence.

“From the beginning, we expected to make a statement in South Florida,” continues Parker. “As the largest brokerage in New York City, it’s big news when Douglas Elliman comes to any city. The market here definitely took notice right away.”

In the past year alone, the firm has added 400 new agents to

Florida has become equally preferred as a location for primary residences as well; the Bristol, breaking ground in early 2016 in West Palm Beach, is slated to become an iconic structure (inset). Opposite page: Elliman offers spectacular listings like 6021 Le Lac Road, a magnificent nine-acre sanctuary that seamlessly integrates elements of a destination resort with the warmth and comforts of an inviting family-style compound.

its ranks, through acquisitions and the migration of independent agents eager to make the switch to the Douglas Elliman team. Now almost 750 agents strong, buyers from all over the world have unprecedented access to the firm that New Yorkers have trusted for generations to deliver best-in-class expertise, data, and service. The same strategy and professionalism that proved successful in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hamptons, and most recently Greenwich, is making significant headway in Miami and the rest of South Florida—despite fierce competition and rapid development cycles.

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principles—a Douglas Elliman hallmark—has been key to attracting developers in highly competitive markets worldwide, not just in Miami and the rest of South Florida.

“Douglas Elliman expands into the markets where our clients want to be, and the natural progression since we opened up in Miami has been to continue into South Florida’s regions,” says Douglas Elliman President and CEO Dorothy “Dottie” Herman. “With key connections to New York, Florida has seen tremendous growth, especially in the past two years and currently has offices in Miami, Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Wellington, and Fort Lauderdale. Under the leadership of Jay Parker, Elliman’s South Florida Brokerage has recruited a number of top agents and management, increased total production, and currently has 15 offices.”

As capital continues to pour into Miami from New York and other major world cities, the solid 100+ year reputation of Douglas Elliman is more important than ever. Parker, a long-time Miami resident has seen first-hand the difference that commitment makes. “Those who have led clients to real and lasting value are those who are not just recognized—but also respected,” he says.

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A BEACON FOR MODERN ART The Pérez Art Museum Miami stakes its claim at home and abroad.

ATTENTION, ATTENTION, BASEL partygoers: Miami’s art scene doesn’t vanish after the first week of December. It’s there year-round, and it’s spectacular. In fact, long after the jet-set’s hurricane of money has moved on (you can’t even joke that “at this point, more is being spent on the parties than the art” because have you seen what people are spending on art) there remains an authentic and multicultural community with its own defined aesthetic. Miami artists often have a vibrant sincerity unburdened by the heavy self-awareness of their New York counterparts. With this great art comes the great responsibility to give it proper showcasing, and many museums have been vying for the privilege.

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bumpy—namely the controversy surrounding the naming of the institution after a donor, in this case billionaire Jorge Pérez (a practice that never seemed to hurt the Guggenheim)—the museum’s path to success has been a fairly smooth ride. PAMM has proven to be an impressive cultural center that, though young, understands what stories it wants to tell to the world.

“We have a very unusual relationship with North America, South America, and the Caribbean,” said Thomas Collins, the museum’s former director. “We want to take advantage of the fact that we’re central to that matrix of cultural and material exchange by organizing exhibitions and growing collections that really reflect the diversity of this place. The diverse demographics of Miami are an index for everything we do.”

That sense of community is reflected in exhibits by locals like Nicolas Lobo, whose piece “The Leisure Pit”

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This page, from top: Each weighing around two tons, lush circular columns of plants cascade from the roof of the building in order to ease visitors through the transition from the outdoors into the museum; Xaviera Simmons, “In the Lushness of,” 2015; Tony Capellán, “Mar Caribe,” 1996.

PAMM has proven to be an impressive cultural center that, though young, understands what stories it wants to tell to

was commissioned for one of PAMM’s project galleries.

The balance between regional and international focus has been hard-won: last year, controversial local artist Maximo Caminero smashed a vase by Ai Weiwei in protest of what he perceived to be the museum’s neglect of its native scene.

But PAMM has proven that it can handle its critics, having become a major civic institution in a city that draws crowds from next door and abroad.

PAMM’s new director, Franklin Sirmans, took the reins on October 15 of this year. He plans to take advantage of the incredible art and collections around the city. “The museum can be that central spot where everybody can come together and talk about these things—not only in December, but yearround,” he says. u 154 QUEST

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the world.

This page: Yto Barrada, “Twin Palm Island,� 2011 (above); two galleries with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook Biscayne Bay reflect the concept that art can be combined with views of the outside world (below).

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Lauren Remington Platt and Rebecca Regan at the Museum of the City of New York’s “New York After Dark” on October 8.

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Clockwise, from left: Eric and Caroline Villency; Alexandra O’Neill and Davina Mazarola; Katie Parker-Magyar; Evelyn Tompkins and Frederica Tompkins; and Casey Sills, Sloan Overstrom, Amory McAndrew, and Megan Ramm, at the Museum of the City of New York’s “New York After Dark” at the Four Seasons Restaurant.

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“NEW YORK AFTER DARK” WITH THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK THE FOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT—which, since 1959, has contributed to the tone of the city—is relocating in 2016. So, the feeling was final hurrah-ish when when the Museum of the City of New York hosted “New York After Dark” on October 8. The room was aswirl with PYTs (and PYTs at heart), including honorees from the Director’s Council: Nicole Hanley Mellon, Andrew Roosevelt, and Alexia Hamm Ryan. (An-

drew and Alexia were featured in the Philanthropy Issue of Quest so, you know, fingers and pulses.) I chatted with Georgina Schaeffer and indulged in a glass of Ca’ del Bosco and hors d’oeuvres (of the foie gras and/or risotto ball variety).

Then, Katie Parker-Magyar and I Uber’d to Tao Downtown to eat dumplings and hang with Rich Thomas and the gang, because hot children in the city.

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Jamie Beck; Elizabeth Kurpis and Kevin Michael Barba; Kelly Framel; and Amanda Kahn, at the launch of

CHRISTOFLE LAUNCHED MOOD

CHET FAKER PERFORMED AT THE STANDARD

CHRISTOFLE TOASTED to the launch of MOOD (a 24-piece

CHROMECAST AUDIO (a streaming product) was introduced

flatware set, housed in a seductive, sleek capsule design) at Omar’s La Ranita on October 1. The event, hosted by Kelly Framel of The Glamourai, drew a seductive, sleek crowd (including Quest’s Daniel Cappello) to the venue, where cocktails and small plates were passed in containers of MOOD. And if there were a joke to be made about growing up with silver spoons in your mouths, we would make it...

with a splash at “Wall of Sound”—an event featuring a performance by Chet Faker (the Australian electronica musician), as hosted by Google at the Standard Hotel. There, VIPs (including: Hannah Bronfman, Lindsay Ellingson, Brendan Fallis, Selena Gomez, Candice Huffine, Andreja Pejic, and Danielle Snyder) mixed as the music played... That, plus champagne and the views of the city, and we (and Google) were in business.

From left: Danielle Snyder; Hannah Bronfman; Lindsay Ellingson; and Chet Faker, at “Wall of Sound” hosted by Google at the Standard Hotel on October 14.

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Clockwise, from left: Daisy Sanders and Eaddy Kiernan; Lindsay Turkel, Lola Cooper, and Erica Sheftman; a guest and Danielle Prescod; Kylie Gattinella and Katherine Rosenthal; Charlotte Morse, Timothy Briggs, and Frederica Tompkins, at the School of American Ballet’s “A Fall Affair” at Lincoln Center on October 14.

“A FALL AFFAIR” WITH THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET hosted “A Fall Affair”

on October 14, which was chaired by Chris Coffee, Daria Foner, Kylie Gattinella, Ariele Gonzalez, Zara Kessler, Charlotte Morse, and Catherine Rawls. (The School of American Ballet is, of course, the feeder for New York City Ballet—with 97 percent of the company having trained at the academy.)

The event at Lincoln Center featured a “student choreography” workshop, sandwiched by cocktails and cocktails.

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Super club

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Tao Downtown

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Rubell Family Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Versace ›

Céline

Breaking a sweat

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Barry’s Bootcamp ›

Method of payment

Museum to visit

Timepieces

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Rolex ›

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