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LISA AND NICK PREDDICE Driven by values

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12 Gardener of light 16 Now, voyager 20 A richness of spirit 22 The political and economic education of David Paterson 26 Plugging into social media 28 Sharing the wealth is its own reward 30 New man for Neiman’s 32 Giving new meaning to ‘gold bricking’ 34 Something to watch for 38 A most stylish conversation 42 A wealth of opportunity 46 Jewelry for the confident woman 48 Alchemy and history 50 Lord & Taylor Stamford reveals revamp 52 Closet envy 56 Strike up the docs 62 Passport to beauty

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NIC ROLDAN, HELPING HORSES HELP COMMUNITY

This page Nic Roldan in Guatemala with Brooke USA seeing some of Brooke’s work firsthand. Photograph

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TERRI FERRI A rich life

NIC ROLDAN

Champion of the working horse

DAVID PATERSON

Governor’s second act

LISA AND NICK PREDDICE Driven by values

JONATHAN ADLER’S

Modern American glamour

GAIL HORWOOD

Digital diva

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A wealth of talent

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Nic Roldan at his barn in Wellington, Florida, during the 2016 US High-Goal season.

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GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

Welcome to a new year, a new yearly theme – “Explorations” – and a new theme for January, always one of our swing months, as we explore Wealth.

Sounds a bit crass, doesn’t it? As Audrey observes in her look at the Chinese version of the billionaire boys’ club, we Americans are circumspect about wealth.

Whereas Chinese billionaires say if you’ve got it, flaunt it, unlike American billionaires – well, all but one American billionaire.

Wealth, however, is like sex, the internet or anything else in this world. What matters is your attitude toward it and how you use it. For many people, wealth or a lucrative career is a question of compassionate pragmatism: Money can be used for a greater good. Polo player and cover guy Nic Roldan is one of these compassionate pragmatists. Nic – whom you’ve undoubtedly thrilled to at Greenwich Polo Club, where he plays for Team Audi – raises thousands of dollars for Brooke USA, which helps support the mules, donkeys and horses that serve the poorest of the poor. This, however, is just one of the charities in which Nic is actively engaged.

Lisa and Nick Preddice, a golden Goldens Bridge couple, know what that’s like. Secure materially – but mostly, as you’ll see in Jane’s story, in each other – they have devoted themselves to a number of causes, including the child care agency Leake & Watts.

So this is also our “Wealth of Ideas” issue. Few people were richer in this sense than Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American New Yorker who perfected alternating current, thereby ensuring seamless electricity for us all, and foreshadowed the digital age by patenting the radio.

But the experimentation that yields such wonder costs money, and that proved the limit of Tesla’s genius. Tesla needed someone like Terri Ferri, the Morgan Stanley executive Mary profiles for us here, or David Paterson, the former governor of New York state, who has started his own financial firm, as Bill reports. They could’ve guided Tesla so he would’ve had enough of his own resources to continue his work.

Elsewhere in this issue, we have interpreted our theme literally – and luxuriously. Our Wanderers Jeremy and Debbi were born for such a theme. He takes us to the revamped bungalows at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel and can’t make up his mind between the one inspired by Ol’ Blue Eyes and the one inspired by La Liz Taylor. (Oh, Jeremy, spend a night in each.) Meanwhile, Debbi takes a sentimental journey aboard KLM’s World Business Class, books ground transport worldwide through Boston Carriage and pampers herself with sumptuous beauty products. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.

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For me, the word “wealth” evokes a Proustian memory of attending a cocktail party at Halston’s Manhattan townhouse in the 1980s. Martha Graham was holding court in the sunken living room – a tiny, fiercely passionate, birdlike creature done up like a dowager Chinese empress in a shimmering caftan and Princess Leia cinnamon rolls of raven tresses. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Liza Minnelli attended her. When I finally got a few moments alone with Graham all I could blurt out was what a feminist role model she was.

“Oh, don’t say that my dear,” she said in her grand, breathy manner. “I always got from men exactly what I wanted.”

What I remember most about that night, though, was Halston’s kindness to my aunt when she tripped down the living room steps.

You can’t buy class. And if you have it, you are rich indeed.

Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group) and “The Penalty for Holding” (Less Than Three Press, 2017). They’re part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes at thegamesmenplay. com. Readers may find weekly installments of her novel “Seamless Sky” on wattpad.com.

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THE SCIENTIFIC MAN DOES NOT AIM AT AN IMMEDIATE RESULT. HE DOES NOT EXPECT THAT HIS ADVANCED IDEAS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN UP. HIS WORK IS LIKE THAT OF A PLANTER – FOR THE FUTURE. – NIKOLA TESLA This photograph by Napoleon Sarony (circa 1890) captures the then-34-year-old Nikola Tesla’s playful nature.

He created the alternating current induction motor, ensuring that the world could have continuous electricity.

He pioneered wireless technology — he is credited with inventing radio — prefiguring the digital revolution.

He dazzled the Gilded Age’s high society and hoi polloi alike, wielding light tubes, forerunners of fluorescence, like a 19th-century Jedi; unleashing a gnarled crescendo of AC voltage through his patented coil; and even taking hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity through his own skin.

And yet when he died at the height of World War II, inventor Nikola Tesla was all but forgotten, a poignant figure, the ultimate eccentric genius, shuffling from one Manhattan hotel to another — always one step ahead of his creditors and always staying in a room and on a floor whose numbers were divisible by three; communing with pigeons in Bryant Park; subsisting on crackers somewhere between reality and madness.

But as Tesla would say, “Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

That future is now. In a time that has seen the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Tesla is the darling of Silicon Valley. His name is on everything from a unit of measure for the flux density of magnetic fields and an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) award to airports, museums and, of course, the electric car company, while his complex persona has sparked movies (“The Prestige,” the forthcoming “The Current War”), novels (“The Invention of Everything Else”) and plays (“Tesla’s Letters”).

“When you think about electricity, you think of (Thomas Alva) Edison,” physicist Peter Fisher said in the recent “Tesla” documentary on PBS’ “American Experience.” “But Tesla was just more of an original American than Edison.”

That Tesla is still not thought of in the same breath as Edison or Guglielmo Marconi, who made the first transatlantic radio transmission, says as much about the vagaries of time, science’s knotty relationship to business and the shadow side of the American immigrant dream as it does about Tesla himself — a poetic, impractical man for whom capital, intellectual and financial, would be his making and his undoing.

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myth who always seemed to be straddling two worlds — claimed by Europe (Croatia and Serbia) and America and, in America, by the East and the West. Fittingly he was born on the stroke of midnight July 10, 1856, in Smiljian, Croatia to parents who were ethnic Serbs, amid a raging storm. “He’ll be a child of the storm,” the midwife said. But his mother, an illiterate yet inventive woman, knew better. “No,” she said. “Of light.”

Tesla’s father was a Serbian Orthodox priest descended from a long line of priests who ingrained in his son the Orthodox belief that everything was ultimately knowable and expected him to join what was the family business. But possessed of an artistic imagination, his mother’s photographic memory, impressive linguistic skills and visions that he controlled with his mind, little Nikola devised a waterwheel as well as a windmill powered

by June bugs. He even tried to fly off the roof of a barn. It was soon apparent that Tesla would never be a priest, and he ultimately made his way to the Austrian Polytechnic School where he would study math, physics and mechanics and where a pattern would emerge that would haunt him in America — a wealth of and an obsession with ideas, tireless work, money troubles, flame out.

Leaving school, Tesla bounced around Europe, taking low-level jobs where he could. But by then he was already fired up about alternating current.

Direct current sends the flow of electrons in a loop, losing and limiting energy along the way. In alternating current, the electrons ebb and flow, sending electricity over long distances. But how to make it work?

For four years, Tesla thought of little else. He was like a young Bill Gates obsessing over software.

And then one day in 1882 as Tesla was walking in a Budapest park with a friend, it came to him like a lightning bolt: Instead of having metal rub on metal, he devised a motor with an inner copper cylinder and sent electricity through the outer ring, creating a rotating magnetized device. No sparks, no smell, no breakdown — an elegant solution. Two years later on June 6, 1884, Tesla arrived in Manhattan with four cents, some favorite poems and a letter of introduction to Edison. But while Edison hired him immediately, he was invested in direct current and practical products he could sell. He wasn’t interested in Tesla’s AC motor.

After six months of fixing generators day and night, Tesla decided to go it alone. He was cheated out of patents for arc lights and dug ditches for $2 a day. Then he met George Westinghouse, the successful inventor of the railroad air brake, who in

1888 bought Tesla’s AC patents for tens of thousands of dollars. Now rich, Tesla would’ve been far richer still had he not relinquished the royalty of $2.50 per horsepower of AC sold to give Westinghouse more capital. To Tesla, wealth lay in ideas not cash.

The two would go on to electrify the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and harness Niagara Falls. Tall, dark, lithe and handsome in his cutaway and striped dress pants, Tesla would dine at Delmonico’s and the Waldorf Astoria, charming everyone from John Jacob Astor IV to Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, despite his phobia for germs, pearl earrings and touching human hair.

And though rumors percolated about his attraction to well-muscled young men, Tesla’s great love remained ideas.

This is where Tesla’s Gilded Age dream becomes tarnished. He dreamt of sending electricity and wireless messages around the world cheaply, even freely, burning through thousands of dollars of Astor’s and J.P. Morgan’s money respectively with experiments in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and on the 200 acres he called Wardenclyffe on Long Island. He produced patents but no products. And when Marconi sent the first transatlantic cable in 1902, Tesla’s fate was sealed.

For the rest of his life he longed to make enough money to return to Wardenclyffe, which he lost to his Waldorf debts. He died on Jan. 7, 1943, in Room 3327 on the 33rd floor of the New Yorker Hotel. Six months later, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Marconi’s wireless patents were really his.

But how many people know that today, despite Tesla’s popularity? W. Bernard Carlson, author of “Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age” (Princeton University Press, 2013) writes that Tesla’s relatively obscure legacy lay not only in his lack of a company of his own and tangible accomplishments but in his otherness — as a Serb and a possibly gay man in white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant America. (It’s interesting that although Tesla became an American citizen in 1891, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize his belongings, perhaps due to their possible international sensitivity, two days after he died. His effects were shipped to Belgrade, as well as his remains, in the 1950s.)

And yet, Carlson writes, that outlier status is part of the Tesla renaissance today.

Perhaps Tesla best understood that our successes and failures are two sides of the same coin, that human nature, like an invention, is all of a piece: “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

NOW, VOYAGER Shipping scion Charles Mallory sails the seas of hospitality

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN RIZZO

At a time when American business leaders are under pressure to create and keep jobs on the home front, hotelier and restaurateur Charles Mallory offers a sterling example.

His Greenwich Hospitality Group owns and operates the Delamar Greenwich Harbor; the Delamar Southport; Hotel Zero Degrees in Stamford, Danbury and Norwalk; Four Columns in Newfane, Vermont; The Hotel Limpia in Fort Davis, Texas; and the Holland Hotel and The Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas. When the renovated Goodwin Hotel in Hartford, Connecticut, opens March 1 and the new Delamar West Hartford makes its debut later that spring, he will reach the 1,000 mark with the number of total hotel employees. (The renovated Goodwin, like the three Hotel Zero Degrees hotels, is a partnership with RMS Cos.) “We’ve created a lot of jobs, but that’s because we’re in the service business,” he adds quickly, “and that’s one of the sectors that’s growing.”

He is like that — one who tells it like it is, though he does so with gentleness and humanity. Talking about turning the Delamar Greenwich Harbor, which in previous iterations was the Showboat and the Greenwich Harbor Inn, into a Mediterranean palazzo, he says it was like “putting lipstick on a pig,” since he and his 17-year-old company had to work with the existing brick-and-mortar structure. (Yes, but let’s just say the resulting design and accompanying l’escale restaurant bar — so redolent of the French and Italian Riveras — are more like a creamy Tom Ford lipstick on a pig.)

Over a pre-holiday lunch at l’escale — we have the kale, frisee and quinoa-rich Georgette Salad in honor of Mallory’s wife, Georgette — Mallory doesn’t mince words as he described how his father “twisted my arm” to join the family shipping business.

Ah, yes, the shipping business. The Mallorys have been to shipping what the Kennedys have been to politics. According to Eric Martin’s thorough “The Mystic Mallorys” (tradewindnews.com), the first Charles Mallory (1796-1882) settled in Mystic, Connecticut, in 1816, walking there from New London on Christmas morning after losing his sailmaker’s job in a dispute over a 75-cent loan. But from such pettiness great things may come. From his popular sailmaker’s loft in Mystic, he began investing in merchant ships, embracing a fleet of 92 sloops, schooners, brigs and other cargo vessels by the start of the Civil War. By then, the family had established the Mystic River Bank as well.

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His son Charles Henry Mallory (1818-90), who took to the sea as a cabin boy, steered the family business into iron steamships, making it the third largest owner and operator of U.S.-flagged steamships. The string of Charleses was broken by his successor, second son Henry Rogers Mallory (18481919). Martin writes that he was pious and meticulous where his older brother Charles was careless and irreverent, presiding over the family business in a topsy-turvy era of speculation, banking collapse, sellouts and regrouping.

His eldest son, Clifford Day Mallory Sr. (18811941) distinguished himself in World War I at the helm of the Shipping Board, coordinating cargo vessels to aid the war effort, then navigated the company into control of the largest independent American tanker fleet. His son, Clifford Day Jr. (1916-2000) also saw military service, as a U.S. Navy commander arranging merchant shipping in the Pacific during World War II. When his father died of a massive heart attack as America entered the war, Clifford Jr. was unprepared to take the reins of the company and it was sold. He formed his own firm in 1960, which operated under the Mallory name until the early 1980s when Clifford Jr. retired and the firm became Glander International, focus-

ing on marine fuels brokerage before being subsumed into Dubai’s International Bunkering.

His son — the present Charles Mallory, who was born in New London, raised in New York City and lives in Greenwich — would seem to have been made for the sea. Indeed, he looks like a rugged seaman, tall and burly with a face right out of a Rembrandt painting. But his interests, which have grown to include art and car collecting, lay elsewhere. His days at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, were heady ones as he interned with ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” worked summers for an investment banking firm in London and was even a winning contestant on a 1970 installment of “The Dating Game.”

But what he really wanted to do after graduating in 1974 was start a restaurant in Palo Alto, California, to tap into the Stanford University crowd — and what would ultimately become Silicon Valley. His father, however, appealed to the freedom he had afforded him — and the bonds of filial loyalty.

“I was in the shipping business the day I graduated college,” Mallory says. Soon he was brokering deals with the likes of Christina Onassis. In 1979, he, Sam Jones and Charles Lynch formed Mallory, Jones and Lynch, later MJLF, a leading American tanker

house. That in turn led him to real estate and his true professional passions, hotels and restaurants.

As lunch wanes, Mallory says, “I often wonder what would’ve happened had I stayed in California.”

But he also recognizes the circuitous circularity of fate and that, like Tennyson’s Ulysses, we are the products of all that we have met. Shipping was just the transport to his destination in the hospitality trade where having a memorable experience is the name of Mallory’s game.

At the Delamars and Four Columns, which WAG has covered, everything is designed for your luxurious comfort, from the spacious yet homey rooms to the sensitive spa treatments, complimentary breakfasts, farm-to-table fare and even the bathrobes, which are like wearing a mink coat.

In Texas, the Holland Hotel and The Maverick Inn give visitors a taste of Big Bend National Park on the Rio Grande, while The Hotel Limpia is a 20-minute ride from artistic Marfa, where “Giant,” co-starring James Dean, was filmed. These boutique hotels offer tourists from home and abroad a touch of movie-sized America.

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A RICHNESS OF SPIRIT Terri Ferri knows the true meaning of wealth

BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPH BY SEBASTIAN FLORES

Terri Ferri is surrounded by affluence. As the senior vice president and branch manager of the Morgan Stanley Purchase office since November of 2013, her days – and sometimes beyond – are filled with financial details.

“It’s always 24-7. Technology is a blessing and a curse,” she says, as WAG sits on the obligatory leather couch in her well-appointed office on a recent morning. “My advisers know they can reach me weekends.”

So, what’s her work schedule like?

“It’s a busy day, let’s put it that way,” she says with a smile.

Indeed. Ferri meets with those 70-plus advisers on a weekly basis in the branch, but her job entails much more.

“I do a lot of one-on-one,” she says, and, overall, “My role is to grow revenue. My role is to hire advisers, increase my team” and also interact with clients and create business plans.

This latest step continues a long career. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Ferri was with Citi/ Smith Barney for some 20 years in various management positions.

A STEADY PATH Ferri grew up a daughter of dress-factory owners.

John is an Italian immigrant who married American-born Louise, and her parents, Ferri says, gave her and her two sisters a strong foundation from the start.

“Neither one of them went to college but they always pushed (us),” she says. “They gave us a good home. They taught me ethics and values.”

Ferri graduated from Fordham University — “Rose Hill campus,” the Bronx native proudly notes — and began her career in finance in 1993.

“I knew I would do something in business, but I didn’t know what.”

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Terri Ferri in her office at Morgan Stanley in Purchase.

She first took a temp job in the field, as assistant to an adviser — and went home telling her father that it was “such a dumb job,” that the people were just on the phone all day.

He told her, she says, “Well, that’s what they’re supposed to do. They’re calling their clients.”

Ferri was eventually offered a job in the field, again with her father’s firm encouragement — “They will pay you to learn,” she says he told her — guiding her path. Once on her way, she knew she has made the right decision, each step bringing her new experience as she advanced within the industry.

“I just knew that I liked people. I liked managing people,” she says, noting that her relationship skills may indeed be her strongest asset.

In time, Ferri reached a milestone.

“My first branch manager position was in 2008,” she says.

And she felt more than ready… mostly.

“I did every job, and I just felt that I understood the intensity. These are commission-based people.

They’re not salary.”

And, she says, her temperament is suited to the fast-paced, market-driven environment.

“I have a high-tolerance level, which you need,” she says.

But, she still had to adjust to being in charge.

“That, in the beginning, was a little bit difficult,” she says.

And later joining Morgan Stanley, she adds, also meant adjusting to a new environment, but it’s proven to be “everything I thought it would be and more.”

Ferri, clearly a hands-on leader, speaks enthusiastically about support-staff appreciation events and the office’s banding together once again during the holidays to adopt a family, working with a local nonprofit that serves victims of domestic violence.

“It’s such a nice thing to give back because I feel fortunate.”

THE FEMALE FACTOR Though she doesn’t initiate the subject, Ferri says she knows that being a woman in such a powerful position is a rarity — but from the start of her career, she embraced every challenge.

“I think for me I got a lot of opportunity in the beginning,” she says. “It forced me to come out of my comfort zone.”

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I THINK ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS, FAMILY TRADITIONS. — Terri Ferri

She realized what she needed to do.

“This is a very male-dominated industry, so there aren’t a lot of women,” she says. “I think that as a woman you can never really show the emotional side of you.”

But, she says, she sees things evolving.

“I think the world is changing,” she says. “I think more women control money now, more women are heads of households.”

She says that women are looking for advisers — male or female — who “get” them and their needs. Her staff of 72 advisers, she says, includes eight women.

“The adviser roles haven’t changed as much but the clients have.”

FAMILY FIRST, LAST — AND ALWAYS For Ferri, work in Purchase signifies not only a professional achievement but adds a welcome element to her personal life.

“I always worked in the city, so I didn’t come here because of the location, but it’s definitely helped me. It’s definitely allowed me easier access to be with my kids.”

Ferri lives in Eastchester with her husband of two years, Seth Marcus, and her daughters, Arielle, 19, and Toni, 15. Since her husband is also in finance — with Citi Personal Wealth Management — the subject of wealth is always close at hand.

“We always have something to talk about,” she

says with a laugh.

Having had a mother who works hard is a good example for her daughters, she adds.

“I think part of them sees what I do and that I enjoy it,” she says, adding she encourages them in whatever they pursue. “What I try to say to them is if you love what you do, you will be good at it.”

It’s all about instilling the same values she learned growing up.

“I didn’t grow up a privileged, rich kid, but our parents took very good care of us.”

She jokes that there was always that encouragement to do better. Bring home a 99 on an exam? Her mother might ask why ‘“You couldn’t get one point more?’ So, we’d strive for that.”

While family is everything to Ferri, so is her Italian heritage.

She shares that she has visited Italy a few times and is a member of the board of trustees of the Italian American Forum.

“The Italian tradition to me is such a… I can’t think of the word. When you talk about wealth, these are the family traditions.”

Ferri has become very involved with Bronxville-based Italian American Forum Inc., a network of business and community leaders committed to promoting and preserving the Italian and Italian-American heritage. Ferri is proud of the forum’s work, which includes everything from raising funds for restoring architecture in Italy to supporting cultural and educational programs for local students.

“I like to do that anyway, but when it’s your own heritage, it means more,” she says. It’s almost, she says with a laugh, “cheating,” since she likes the work so much.

But no matter what activities she pursues, it all comes back to family — with Ferri making time for annual family vacations and long weekends with her husband.

Pausing to think about the very idea of wealth, Ferri says that, of course, at the most basic level, it’s about how you “can buy the designer shoes, the designer bag.”

But, she says, “money can’t make you happy.”

Wealth is so much deeper.

“I think about the holidays, family traditions.”

She mentions Christmas, when “even though there’s 26 people at the table, and I killed myself the last two days… to me, that’s wealth.”

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THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC EDUCATION OF DAVID PATERSON

BY BILL HELTZEL PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN RIZZO

The U.S. economy was on the verge of collapse in summer 2008 when New York state Gov. David Paterson made a speech that came to define his tenure.

He had assumed office in March, after Eliot Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal. Paterson quickly passed a budget that cut the state deficit by a drastic $4.6 billion. Now in July he was telling the public that the state was facing a $26 billion deficit over the next three years.

Paterson warned that the U.S. economy was facing a recession as challenging as the Great Depression.

“Let’s be honest,” he said. “This situation will get worse before it gets better.”

It did get worse.

Such adversity can easily defeat a political leader. Or it can reveal strength. Or it can instruct.

Paterson experienced all three.

Ultimately, he lost the will of the people and dropped out of politics. But he stuck to an unpopular political path that stabilized the state’s finances.

And he got an invaluable education in how government, politics and finances interact.

His speech made an impression on Ed Moldaver. Last year, the financial industry veteran asked Paterson to join his team at Stifel Investment Services’ New York office, and the ex-governor became a director of investments at Moldaver Paterson Lee & Chrebet Group.

“His speech touched on how likely we were to see a financial calamity not seen since the Great Depression,” Moldaver told clients in a November email. “Those who heeded his advice fared much better than most.”

Paterson was an unlikely financial hero.

Three months after he was born in Brooklyn in 1954, an ear infection spread to his optic nerve

and left him blind in one eye and limited his vision severely in the other.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia University and a law degree from Hofstra Law School.

Paterson was elected to the state senate in 1985 at age 31. By 49 he was senate minority leader and the first African-American legislative leader in state history.

As a Democrat representing Harlem and the Upper West Side, he said in a recent interview at Stifel offices near Byrant Park, he advocated for a progressive liberal agenda, including a tax-the-rich solution to fixing deficits.

Spitzer chose him to run as lieutenant gover-

I THINK IN THE ULTRA-WEALTH AREA, YOU’VE GOT TO BE WILLING TO PLAY A LONGER HAND. — David Paterson

nor in 2006. After little more than a year in office, Spitzer suddenly resigned, leaving Paterson with two weeks to pass a balanced budget.

It’s not as if he were a complete financial novice.

Years before he had noticed that the state debt had more than doubled in eight years and that the state, New York City, Nassau County and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority were among the biggest debtors nationwide.

“And what I learned is, you can tax and spend,” he said. “And then, there’s borrow and spend. You

don’t actually tax the public but you borrow money and run up huge deficits. And so I realized that has become a popular way to defer problems.”

As minority leader, he participated in state budget negotiations. As lieutenant governor, he attended Spitzer’s budget meetings, until he questioned the governor’s budget.

Spitzer wanted to raise spending in 2008. Paterson noted that revenues were down, the housing market was drying up and the stock market seemed about to tank.

“Well, David,” he recalled Spitzer responding, “the market’s up, the market’s down. No one ever knows where the market’s going to be.

“And I said, ‘I don’t know where the market’s going to be, but I sure know where the state is going to be if the market is trending the way most people think it is.’

“Well, I think in that one statement, I voted myself off the island. Nobody invited me to any more budget meetings.”

A few weeks later, he was governor. He learned that tax revenues from the 40 largest corporations was down 86 percent. Then he got a report that said the 16 largest banks were paying 97 percent less in taxes than the year before.

He called for a special legislative session to make more budget cuts and he made the speech predicting a great recession.

A woman called and said the only reason he was governor was because Spitzer messed up and now he’s on TV lecturing about the national economy, “like you think you’re the president.

“That was my mother.”

In September 2008, Lehman Brothers failed.

The insurance giant American International Group was expected to fall, but Paterson allowed AIG to borrow funds before federal officials agreed to a bailout.

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mused by what life has presented him — candid about his shortcomings, confident in what he knows, curious about what he doesn’t know and unperturbed by challenges.

But in 2008, he worried that he would be found out.

“All of a sudden, everybody is listening to me, which I find frightening.

“All they have to ask me is, What is a credit default swap? And I’m dead on national TV.” Economist Nouriel Roubini calmed him. He said nobody on Wall Street knew what credit default swaps were. So however Paterson answered, everybody would have agreed.

As an unelected governor, he felt a greater sense of duty to keep the state out of default.

The financial hemorrhaging continued. Jobs were lost. State programs were cut to the bone. In 33 months, Paterson and the legislature trimmed $41 billion from the state budget.

His favorability rating in a Siena College poll dropped to 21 percent, from 64 percent, in a year and a half. He withdrew from the 2010 gubernatorial race.

In the years after his term ended, he was named to the MTA board and appointed chairman of the

state Democratic Party. There was talk of him running for U.S. Congress.

“I never wanted to be one of those elected officials who was just hanging around endlessly waiting for some kind of new office to open up,” he said.

“I always thought that I had enough talent that I should be able to find another career.”

Ex-governors are often in demand for corporate and nonprofit boards, and everything they do is put under a microscope.

Paterson did some radio, started a consulting company and advised a few clients. One client got him in a regulatory bind.

For nine months he was on the board of Medient Studios Inc., a Georgia company that proposed building the largest movie studio in North America. In September, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused three Medient executives of defrauding investors.

Paterson was not implicated in the fraud but the SEC fined him $25,000 for failure to report stock awards in a timely manner.

Paterson said he didn’t know about the stock until it was reported in a newspaper, he never received it and it is worthless. But he said the rule protects investors and “it’s actually a good rule.”

Now Paterson is applying his political skills and hard-won financial savvy to bringing in new clients to Stifel.

He said he was a good political fundraiser and he knows many wealthy people, including some who became good friends.

But he avoids asking them directly for their business. He learned in politics that that once you ask for something big, if you are turned down “that’s the end of the conversation.”

The prospect knows you want to ask for his money, but wealthy people often don’t like to talk about money. So he tries to identify services that can help the prospect, like selling assets.

“You’re trying to get something from someone, and it would be in their best interest to give it to you, but they don’t know it yet. The challenge is to teach them.”

By avoiding the direct request and by not making a sales pitch, you create a conversation that can ultimately reveal what the person wants or needs.

“So what I’m saying is, I think in the ultra-wealth area, you’ve got to be willing to play a longer hand,” he said.

“It also could be viewed as having a certain amount of respect.”

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PLUGGING INTO SOCIAL MEDIA

BY DANIELLE RENDA PHOTOGRAPH BY SEBASTIAN FLORES

Gail Horwood is watching you – on social media, that is.

Though for this Scarsdale native, it’s all in a day’s work.

As the worldwide vice president of digital strategy for Johnson & Johnson — the New Jersey-based medical, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged products corporation — it’s Horwood’s responsibility to connect with consumers and track trends, which is no easy task considering the some 3.5 billion internet users worldwide, 2.5 billion of whom are tapped into social networks.

“For me, this is not an alternative,” Horwood says. “It’s not either-or. You really need to engage in social media as a business. Why? Because the world is engaging in social media.”

According to Horwood, social media creates user-friendly avenues for companies to interact and engage in e-commerce with consumers. But in order to gain traction with their target demographic(s), companies must first understand their consumers’ unique needs and produce content that appeals to such.

“We spend a lot of time trying to understand our consumers’ behavior,” she says. “So the people that buy from our brands: What do they do, what do they need and what do they like to hear from our brands?”

And with this information, businesses produce relevant digital content — whether it be in the form of an article, video, photograph or graphic — and the consumer either bites, or doesn’t. But companies can use the content’s feedback to improve their existing presence.

For Johnson & Johnson, a company whose target demographic — mothers — spends more than 50 percent of media time on mobile devices, the “bite” occurs when users stop scrolling, because something caught their attention, even for just a few seconds.

“We call it ‘thumb-stopping content,’” Horwood says. “You really want people to take a minute, stop and think about what you’re doing.”

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platform serves its own purpose, companies must tailor their messages appropriately.

“They’ve sort of evolved to have different use cases,” Horwood says of the different social media handles.

She describes the most ubiquitous networks, beginning with Facebook (1.79 billion active monthly users), which is associated with personal and familial matters, while LinkedIn (467 million members) is for business and Pinterest (150 million active monthly users) is for the home, as in recipe ideas, do-it-yourself projects and design inspiration. For the latest news updates, she personally turns to Twitter (313 million active monthly users) and for interacting with her favorite brands, she uses Instagram (500 million active monthly users).

“We really have to think about how to be creative to stay relevant in all those channels,” she says.

This is a challenge for businesses, which, regardless of the platform, have just seconds to catch consumers’ attention. And these precious seconds can mean the difference between a bite — gaining a customer and making a sale — or losing the opportunity to a competitor.

YOU REALLY NEED TO ENGAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS A BUSINESS. — Gail Horwood

“Our job is to figure out what role our brand can play in social media,” Horwood says.

For example, compared to the traditional TV commercial, she says, which runs for approximately 15 to 20 seconds, the average Facebook video lasts only about six seconds. And most Facebook users watch videos with the sound off.

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“I think it’s important for any business to connect with consumers via social media,” she says.

“It saddens me that some of the local businesses have had to wind down their business, because they can’t compete in this world…The challenge is they have to teach themselves how to use (social media).”

And one of the easiest ways to get started is by snapping a picture.

“Photos are so powerful online,” Horwood says.

“Photos increase people’s interaction with content exponentially.”

But regardless of how or why social media is being used, Horwood always suggests taking a moment to think before you post.

“Social media takes away some barriers — obviously — and that’s a good thing and a bad thing,” she says. “I think if you wouldn’t be comfortable with screaming something in a crowded room, then you shouldn’t post it on social media.”

SHARING THE WEALTH IS ITS OWN REWARD

BY JANE K. DOVE

Nick and Lisa Preddice. Photograph by John Rizzo.

Being generous with their happy and prosperous lives comes easily and naturally to Nick and Lisa Preddice.

“We came from modest backgrounds and have worked hard and been fortunate,” says Nick, who lives with Lisa and their two boys in the Arbor Hills section of Goldens Bridge. “We never lose sight of our roots and the needs of others.”

The couple both work in the financial services industry. Nick is the founder and CEO of The Affinity Group LLC, a wealth management firm with offices in Norwalk and Albany. Lisa, a certified public accountant, is a partner in PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers),

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Despite their high-powered day-to-day activities and responsibilities in the financial world, the couple still finds time to be active in a variety of charitable causes, most recently co-chairing the child care agency Leake & Watts’ annual Awards Gala, held this past October at The Pierre in Manhattan.

The Awards Gala is the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser of the year.

UPSTATE ROOTS The Preddices both hail from upstate New York and share similar family backgrounds and values.

“I was born in Schenectady and went to college at SUNY Oneonta, graduating in 1990,” Nick says.

“I got into the financial services industry right

away, worked in Albany for seven years, then in Manhattan.”

Lisa, the youngest of four girls, attended college at SUNY Oswego, studying accounting and graduating in 1988. “I went to work in my field immediately, joining Coopers & Lybrand, now PwC, soon after graduating and later became a partner.”

Lisa says the couple met in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1996 at a local nightspot, The Parting Glass.

“Both of us were out that night with mutual friends and struck up a conversation. We hit it off immediately, got engaged and married in September of 1997.”

Both Nick and Lisa found their paths to success early on. Lisa was dedicated to her work with nonprofit clients at PwC, while Nick, after serving as managing director at MONY in Manhattan, decided

to use his experience to build a financial-services business with the goal of making a difference in the lives of its clients, the people the firm works with and the larger community.

He founded The Affinity Group LLC in 2002 with like-minded partner Gary Sancilio, another industry veteran who was focused on developing strong client relationships.

FOCUS ON PEOPLE “Our clients have already succeeded at making money and are now looking at what’s next in their lives,” Nick says. “We give them our best guidance and work with their bankers, attorneys, business associates and all others who touch their lives. We are geared to people, not products. We have found that this relationship-building approach works very well both for our clients and the larger community. We have met a lot of great people this way.”

Both Nick and Lisa have always shared an awareness of the needs of the community, dedicating themselves to many nonprofit causes. They agreed that this is an element of their outlook on life that serves as a strong bond in their marriage and family life with their two sons, Jonathan, 16, and William, 12.

“At PwC, I have always served mission-based organizations, including foundations, museums,

colleges and universities and health care organizations,” Lisa says. “As a CPA, I serve as an auditor and certify their financial statements. I take pride and satisfaction in serving a variety of nonprofit organizations. Organizations are made up of people and my work for them at PwC helps them do better at what they want to accomplish.”

Nick says working on behalf of charitable and community-based organizations is important to both of them, both inside and outside the office.

“For example, helping Leake & Watts raise money for their programs is a way of sharing the wealth,” Nick says. “The event we chaired last October brought in more than $500,000. Leake & Watts is committed to addressing a variety of challenges that confront individuals and families dealing with poverty, disabilities and a lack of access to education and basic services.”

The organization began caring for orphaned children in the 1830s and today affects the lives of more than 11,000 children, adults and families in the greater New York metropolitan area.

Nick is also an executive cabinet member of the Wildwood Foundation Inc., which serves autistic children, and is an adviser to the Youth Bureau, both in Schenectady. He donates time and money to the support of more than a dozen addition-

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al nonprofit organizations. In 2006, the Albany Business Review named Nick in its “Forty Under Forty,” a list of 40 young movers and shakers in business in the area.

“Managing the day-to-day operations of The Affinity Group is fulfilling to me, but it is equally important to reach out to others,” Nick says. “This is a priority for both of us. I think our parents instilled this in us and I hope we are able to instill the same values in our children.”

Lisa agrees. “I feel very fortunate in the experience I have had at PwC, Having the ability to give back, both on the job and outside, is very important. We have both worked hard and now it’s time.”

A cancer survivor, Lisa has been involved in the American Cancer Society’s “Relay for Life” fundraiser since its inception. “This annual event means a lot to me, and I am happy that it has grown into such a success,” she says.

Lisa also balances her commute to Manhattan with other community and school events, especially their two sons’ strong focus on baseball, which keeps the couple hopping once spring arrives.

The Preddices agree that their relationship is a true partnership. “We share our careers in finance, but we also share the same larger values,” Nick said.

“It’s a balance, but we believe we have succeeded.”

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NEW MAN FOR NEIMAN’S

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN RIZZO

Please, no jokes about Neiman Marcus Westchester making Jeff O’Geary an offer he couldn’t refuse.

But apparently the luxe anchor of The Westchester mall in White Plains did and now O’Geary, the former vice president and general manager of Saks Fifth Avenue Greenwich, holds the same titles, just at NMW. At a moment when Saks Fifth Avenue Greenwich has become The Saks Shops Greenwich, expanding on Greenwich Avenue and Elm Street, O’Geary says, “I was interested in having a full line under one roof — men’s, women’s and children’s — from head to toe” — as Neiman Marcus does.

Plus, he adds, it had been a while since he worked in a mall environment. He praised the Simon Property Group — which owns and manages The Westchester — for its classy renovations of the mall.

“It’s speaking to the taste of the customer,” O’Geary says, “and the company’s dedication to this market.”

Neiman Marcus Westchester, too, has undergone a makeover with a sleek new Beauty department, Van Cleef & Arpels Boutique, Precious Jewels Salon, The Man’s Store and Mariposa restaurant, to name a few. “We’ve also tried to do more seating areas,” O’Geary says.

But in essentials, Neiman Marcus is much the same, a first and last word in luxury. It’s not just about price points, however, O’Geary says. It’s still also about craftsmanship “and having the right person to sell.” As he looks around, O’Geary sees many veteran associates on the sales staff — “people who know the history of the brand and what’s important to the customer in the brand.”

At their helm, in turn, is a man also unchanged from the one we profiled in the September 2014 WAG. He’s still the courtly Southern gentleman with the lilt of North Carolina in his voice, still the natty dresser. On this day, a tie and matching pocket square with gold and green tones offset a crisp navy blazer, although he says, “I love clothes but I just as soon dress other people as myself.”

And there’s still the fastidious eye at work. As we walk to the Van Cleef & Arpels Boutique, O’Geary tucks in an errant piece of merchandise without

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breaking his stride.

It’s an eye he honed over 18 years selling, buying and planning at May Department Stores Co. and Macy’s, whose parent company, Federated, acquired May; serving as assistant general manager of merchandising at Saks Fifth Avenue Greenwich; and running the designer apparel floors at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship in Manhattan.

But it was in Henderson, North Carolina, that O’Geary was introduced to retail at the family-owned Roth-Stewart. The East Carolina University graduate then worked for the now-defunct Thalhimers, a Richmond, Virginia, department store that was ultimately taken over by May. Now as he heads into the thick of a new year, O’Geary will look to tweak NMW’s stellar lineup, which includes such “fantastic brands” as Tom Ford, Brunello Cucinelli and Valentino, just to name a few, to ensure that there are the right pieces within the collections. The Neiman Marcus Westchester customer — whether she lives in

Scarsdale or Greenwich — is the New York customer, interested in the sophisticated and the classic as well as the trendy.

“She’s confident, not quirky. And we want to edit the buy for the Westchester customers so we have things that reflect her likes and the way she dresses, the right mix of dresses and separates, colors and blacks, prints and solids, plus pieces that travel well and have a million uses.” They include dresses that go from day to night with a change of accessories.

It’s all part of a job that begins for O’Geary at 7 a.m. and doesn’t end until almost 12 hours later.

Meanwhile, he’s looking for digs in Westchester, forgoing the New Haven home he did so much work on but keeping the one in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Perhaps that’s why when you ask him his idea of luxury, he doesn’t mention a yacht or a Lamborghini but rather “an hour of quiet.”

For more, visit neimanmarcus.com.

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GIVING NEW MEANING TO ‘GOLD BRICKING’ China’s flashy billionaires STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY AUDREY RONNING TOPPING

In China, magnificent floorings of Imperial Palace halls, emperor’s chambers and courts were paved with jinzhan (gold bricks) for 2,000 years, dating from the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.).

During the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911), the bricks became distinctive features of classical architecture. Today “gold bricks” have become a metaphor for great wealth, particularly China’s distinctive billionaires, who lead the pack of the world’s 1 percent.

Since dynastic days, millions of tourists have trod the “gold brick”-paved floors and courtyards of the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Ming Tombs and other imperial monuments, perhaps without realizing the value of what they were stepping on. Although the bricks are not made of real gold, they are so-called because they are hard as rock and when tapped produce a metallic sound. Bricks of this quality could only be used in the royal palaces in the capital.

Since Beijing has overtaken New York as the “billionaire capital” of the world, the phrase “gold bricks” is back in fashion. Most of China’s billionaires live in Beijing, followed by Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hangzhou. China’s annual rich list, compiled by the Hurun Report for the past 18 years, is one of the most accurate assessments of wealth in China and often compared to the

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The Qing Dynasty imperial throne sits on a floor of paved "gold bricks" that resemble black jade and are rock-hard.

Forbes list in the United States. It has indicated that the country has more dollar billionaires, 594 compared to 535 in the U.S., and the gap is widening. However, none of China’s super-rich is listed in the global top 20, which is led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates with $75 billion, followed

by American investor Warren Buffet.

The real estate magnet Wang Jianlin of the Dalian Wanda Group Co. Ltd. leads the list of billionaires in China. This mild-mannered gentleman sits on a personal fortune of $32.1 billion. His company made headlines in 2016 with its acquisition of Legendary Pictures for $3.5 billion, a bold foray into the American movie market. It has also stepped into U.S. and U.K. cinema chains and is striking a deal with Sony Pictures.

Probably the best-known self-made billionaire is Jack Ma, the colorful CEO of Alibaba Group, a collection of internet-based businesses, who comes in as close second, with $30.6 billion, his wealth having risen 41 percent since 2015. Coming in third with $24.6 billion is another Ma, Ma Huateng, known as Pony Ma, co-founder of the internet and gaming giant Tencent. The biggest

UNLIKE MOST AMERICAN BILLIONAIRES, WHO TEND TO AVOID PRETENTIOUSNESS, MOST CHINESE FLAUNT IT. THE AMOUNT OF RICHES POSSESSED BY CHINA’S NOUVEAU RICHE CLIMBED IN 2016 TO U.S. $2.1 TRILLION.

increase in wealth came from Yao Zhenhua of the investment and real estate firm Baoneng Group, whose fortune jumped 82 percent to $17.2 billion, putting him in fourth position.

Rupert Hoogewerf (Chinese name Hu Run),

publisher of the Hurun Report, says Yao’s financial investment model represents the new wave of wealth creation in China. He explained, “The first money made in China 20 years ago came from trading, followed by manufacturing and real estate. Today it is about using the capital markets for financial investments.”

Unlike most American billionaires, who tend to avoid pretentiousness, most Chinese flaunt it.

The amount of riches possessed by China’s nouveau riche climbed in 2016 to U.S. $2.1 trillion. The “must-haves” for the class-conscious, super-hot shots in their so-called socialist, “classless” society include a luxury mansion, filled with an English-trained butler and other servants; a Rolls-Royce and perhaps a couple of sport cars; bodyguards; a yacht; and a private jet.

Pu Yun, marketing director for TIBA’s Chengdu campus, told News China that China’s high-end real estate market has recently encountered a bottleneck in development. “Materially, we don’t know what else we can do to improve properties,” he said, “The only thing left to do is to cover each brick with gold.”

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SOMETHING TO WATCH FOR… Patek Philippe bringing historic exhibition to NY

BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY PATEK PHILIPPE

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There’s exciting news for watch collectors, antiques lovers and history buffs alike.

Patek Philippe has announced “The Art of Watches, Grand Exhibition New York 2017” is coming to Manhattan this summer.

The free exhibition, set for July 13-23 at Cipriani 42nd Street, has been designed to both showcase the luxury brand’s tradition of high-precision watch manufacturing and offer a glimpse into the Geneva-based company’s 178-year history.

A two-story structure will be designed within Cipriani to accommodate the 13,218-square-foot exhibition, which will feature both pocket and wristwatches. Ten specific rooms will be created

BY OFFERING VISITORS AN IMMERSION INSIDE THE WORLD OF PATEK PHILIPPE, WE REALLY WANT TO SHARE OUR PASSION FOR WATCHMAKING Cipriani 42nd Street Ballroom, above; and right, Patek Philippe Ref. 6002 Sky Moon Tourbillon.

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for the exhibition and are set to include the Film Theatre room where the Patek Philippe historical movie will be shown. In addition, the Current Collection room will showcase the latest styles in a design created to replicate the Patek Philippe Salon on the Rue du Rhône in Geneva.

The Museum room, said to be very much like the company’s museum in Geneva, will be divided into two sections. The Antique Collection (1600s to 1900s) will be the focus of the first section and serve as a showcase of historical timepieces, including some of the earliest watches ever made. The second section will highlight historical Patek Philippe timepieces that date from its 1839 inception.

The Rare Handcrafts Gallery will be the home of artisans who will demonstrate the techniques used to decorate the company’s enamel timepieces and dome clocks, a living example of the company’s commitment to skillful creation and time-honored traditions.

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A pair of historical watches include, from left, a jewel of its own kind-diamond star-studded pendant watch delivered on Dec. 31, 1852 to Tiffany, Young & Ellis, New York, Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 4740; and a watch presented to Queen Victoria during the great exhibition of London in 1851., Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 4536.

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Jasmina Steele, the international communication and public relations director of Patek Philippe, added, “By offering visitors an immersion inside the world of Patek Philippe, we really want to share our passion for watchmaking and hope visitors will come out of the exhibition with a greater knowledge and appreciation of the art of watches.”

Guided tours will be offered each day, with school tours and a family day also planned.

Tour-goers will be welcome to conclude their visit in the Patek Philippe Café.

A dedicated exhibition website is expected to be launched in February.

For more, visit patekphilippe.com.

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A MOST STYLISH CONVERSATION Jonathan Adler comes to Greenwich

BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY JONATHAN ADLER

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There’s no denying the talent and creativity on display at Jonathan Adler in Greenwich.

On a recent chilly evening that premise is reinforced with the quickest of glances.

It’s seen in the paint-splattered design elevating what would have otherwise been simple gold coasters. It’s noted in the unexpected candle scents that include vodka, absinthe and bourbon.

It’s boldly pronounced with the Canaan accent table, a study in Carrara marble with a solid brass sleeve; with the selection of unusually shaped mirrors; and again, in the colorful and quirky flair of an oversize print featuring a peacock.

And it’s amped up to another level with the arrival of Adler himself, who walks into the bright Greenwich Avenue design destination in his trademark white jeans — in December? Oh yes, he’s pulling it off — and with a buoyant attitude that sets the tone for the festive evening.

On this night, the simple potter-turned-design legend and author is hosting a “Shop for a Cause” event, with 20 percent of the evening’s proceeds to benefit the Breast Cancer Alliance.

WAG was kindly invited along, given the chance to sit down with Adler before things got into full swing and have, what he suggests, a bit of a “saucy” conversation.

OK, we say with a laugh, lets’s start at the beginning.

“I started so by accident and without any plan,” the New Jersey native says.

“I just started pursuing my passion for pottery, and I never thought other than ‘a’ pot. I never thought that I could make a business and a life.”

But that he certainly did, opening his first location in Soho in 1998.

So, we ask, what do you call your places — showroom, studio, boutique? Some designers, we note, get a bit huffy if you don’t use their preferred term.

Not Adler, who says “my parents never taught me anything,” except “never use a euphemism — it’s a store.”

And, he adds, he now has 30 of them — with an equally stylish Westport store in the region.

“I like to do stuff that has a nod to tradition,” he says, but reminds us, “Glamour always comes first.”

Greenwich and Westport, he says, are “uniquely sophisticated.”

He says that here, people not only have beautiful homes but are “not afraid to be bold.” In short, they are his ideal customers — and he’s working to keep them ever satisfied.

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“My motto is kind of more, more, more. More pots. More furniture.”

Over the years, Adler has truly identified what he sees as his unique look.

“I call my design style modern American glamour. I think my work reflects an American sense of optimism.”

And these days, he agrees, that’s really important.

“I think it’s a turbulent time and hope it’s a time for people to make their homes a chic refuge.”

To help those efforts, Adler is constantly at work.

“Every day I come to my office-slash-studio, and there are always some exciting samples from around the world.”

It’s all about, he says, “tingling my chakras.”

But in today’s marketplace, it’s also more.

“It’s a funny thing being a creative person,” he says. It’s no longer enough. It’s also about being a marketer, a promoter — all about the “tweets and twiddle and doodle.”

He made quite a recent splash — in the form of a 7-foot-tall bronze banana, his first public art commission — that was the centerpiece of a refreshing of the Parker Palm Springs resort in California.

The work, he notes, was a revisit of his decade-old project, noting slyly: “I find every 10 years it’s time for a facelift.”

For Adler, the work continues to flow, though he hates being pinned down to a schedule — something he admits can exasperate those around him.

“Mine has been a journey of trying to rein me in and normalize me — and it’s been a complete failure,” he says. “I’m a slave to my muse, and she does not have a schedule.”

He will call her “quixotic,” but clearly, she calls the shots.

“All I care about is making stuff,” he says.

Inspiration is everywhere.

“I do see movies and get inspired, but I could just as easily be inspired by say an old movie as taking a hike and seeing a leaf.”

Clearly, it’s a life filled with whimsy — and dedication.

So, how does it all play out with his husband, Simon Doonan, the creative ambassador for Barneys New York and fellow author? (Doonan, on hand this evening, is equally charming and seems quite bemused by WAG’s name. He tells us with

an amazed look he’s spent the day writing about WAGs for his new book on soccer — “Wives and girlfriends” of famous athletes, not our magazine.

We share a laugh at the inside joke.)

“For Simon and me, it’s completely organic,” Adler says. “There’s not an ounce of separation between anything.”

Adler says that he and Doonan, together for 22 years, share a New York-based life that naturally falls into place — and often focuses on their dog, Foxylady.

“Have you seen a picture?” Adler asks, pulling out his phone.

This particular shot features the (admittedly adorable) pup posing with a soccer ball — one sporting Louis Vuitton logos, of course.

Looking intently at the image, he says, “It captured her soulfulness.”

Soon after, it’s time to thank Adler, allowing him to go meet and greet his stylish supporters here in Greenwich.

Jonathan Adler is at 88 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich; and 166 Main St., Westport. For more, visit jonathanadler.com.

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A WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITY Jennifer Pitman embraces her new role

BY MARY SHUSTACK

Chatting with Jennifer Pitman about her new job is a conversation that’s filled with words such as adventure, fun and excitement.

Though the longtime Westchester County resident is just a couple of months into a new role in the world of auctions, art and antiques, her enthusiasm is more than evident.

“Oh my God, it is so much fun,” she says. “It’s just learning all the time.”

In late October, Rago Arts & Auction Center, a full-service auction house based in Lambertville, New Jersey, with annual sales of $33 million, announced the addition of Pitman to its staff.

In making the announcement, founder David Rago noted, “New York City has long been one of our key markets and the natural next step is to invest in reaching our existing and new clients in Westchester and Connecticut, both sellers and buyers. A critical component of that effort is an experienced auction professional dedicated to driving this expansion.”

And that is where Pitman, formerly head of Sale, Silver at Christie’s New York, comes into the picture, joining Rago as specialist and senior account manager, Westchester/Connecticut.

“I worked in the auction field for 20 years,” she says. “I call this my second act.”

An act, she calls, “an exciting venture for me — and Rago,” before adding with a wry laugh that it “does involve a lot of driving.”

ON THE ROAD But we get the sense it’s all a welcome change for Pitman after a long career in Manhattan.

At Christie’s, Pitman says, “people would tend to come to you.”

Now, she says, “I’m on the road a lot. I’m (Rago’s) boots on the ground here… I’m in Hartford,

Greenwich, Tuckahoe, Garrison.”

And Lambertville, of course, where she goes for “for views and auctions.”

Pitman was looking for a new challenge and knew well of Rago.

“I really loved the entrepreneurial spirit of Rago.

They’re very forward-looking in seeking out new markets.”

She says that Rago’s foray into the region is a savvy move.

“There kind of seems to be a need for a ‘middle-ground’ auction house,” she says. People seem to be seeking more personal attention than they might receive from a large international firm but also more expertise than a tiny local establishment might provide.

Pitman, a Toronto native who followed up her studies at McGill University with postgraduate work at The Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, looks forward to sharing her expertise.

“I did a master’s in decorative arts, so I’m wellversed in a number of categories.”

That training, she says, helped her develop a discerning eye.

“You can spot that something looks good.”

Pitman wants to maintain her role as specialist, “because it keeps me very close to the property.”

“I continue to be a specialist in silver and increasingly in jewelry,” she says, noting she will soon complete her studies at the Gemological Institute of America in Manhattan.

It all adds up to support her role, which she describes as one designed “to help clients buy and sell fine and decorative arts.”

She says that people may purchase items in hopes of them maintaining or increasing in value, but “I think ultimately people buy things to live with them and enjoy them.”

And she recently saw a “spectacular” example of just that.

“I was on a Greenwich house tour yesterday, and one house had this fabulous Nakashima table and next to it was a 17th-century English fire screen that

they had decorated with a Brazilian tapestry from the 1960s. It was wonderful.”

A WARM WELCOME Pitman is relishing such chances to explore her home turf much more in depth.

In addition to client work, “The other part is really to try to get involved with the community… There are many areas of outreach.”

She meets with people in specific towns to get a sense of the community, “that sort of gives me a road map and from there, I get in and talk with the institutions.”

She talks of an appointment in Hartford. On that trip, “then I try to nip into the New Britain Museum (of American Art).”

“One of the really fun things is finding out about all the different museums,” she says, briefly mentioning the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Lyndhurst, both recent WAG subjects.

Pitman has already been involved in the planning of some local events, including an April 22 Appraisal Day to benefit the New Castle Historical Society.

Cassie Ward, the society’s executive director, says that the “Antiques Roadshow”-style event at the Horace Greeley House Museum in Chappaqua will allow people to learn about their prized possessions from experts in the field and include a talk with Sebastian Clarke, the director of estate services at Rago.

Ward says the event was spurred by her meeting Pitman.

“I have had the pleasure of meeting Jenny on a couple of occasions. Her knowledge, skill, professionalism and enthusiasm are bringing fresh perspectives, excitement and educational opportunities to the auction and antiques world in Westchester.”

As Ward says, “We couldn’t be more thrilled to collaborate with Rago to host such an exciting and interesting event.”

And we bet Pitman feels the same.

For more, visit ragoarts.com or contact Pitman directly at jenny@ragoarts.com or 917-745-2730. For more on the April event, visit newcastlehs.org.

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COZY UP WITH A GOOD BOOK

Images courtesy Thames & Hudson.

WAG has often featured books from Thames & Hudson in its pages. The venerable publishing house has again shared a selection of recent titles — editions we think would make ideal companions for a wintery afternoon.

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Among the standouts are: • “Fine Jewelry Couture: Contemporary Heirlooms” ($60) features the work of more than 35 designers from around the world, from upand-coming artists to established names. Design expert and author Olivier Dupon has paid particular attention to, as press materials describe, “high-end luxe pieces, boasting experimental approaches, exquisite craftsmanship and extraordinary attention to detail.”

• “The Handmade Life, A Companion to Modern Crafting” ($40) is a hefty reference inspired by the Australian blog handmadelife, created in 2006 by Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson. The book focuses on more than 30 crafting techniques from embroidery to clay to baskets, showcasing work of more than 150 contemporary artists. Exploring history, design, process and more, the book also features 170 project ideas for everyone from beginners to experienced crafters.

• Expect quite a reaction to “A Sea Voyage, A Pop-Up Story about all Sorts of Boats” ($29.95), an inventive pop-up book designed to captivate boat enthusiasts of all ages. Readers follow along as two sailors and their dog journey across the sea, encountering an array of boats along the way.

With sophisticated paper engineering by illustrator and pop-up book expert Gérard Lo Monaco, the book is both thoughtful and playful.

• Fashionistas with an appreciation of history will delight in “19th-Century Fashion in Detail” by Lucy Johnston with Marion Kite and Helen Persson ($34.95), which turns the spotlight on a collection of fragile beauties. A rare chance to explore these historical garments in detail, the book takes readers from early designer dresses to studies of details ranging from elaborate trims to refined embroidery.

• “Moment by Moment, Photographs by John Loengard” ($50) draws you in the moment you see its cover — the iconic Life photographer’s shot of The Beatles at play, here, in a swimming pool. Featuring more than 130 of his images, the book’s tone is set by words from Loengard himself: “The fact is: a good photograph cannot be repeated. This may be why a photograph of a brief moment, an instant in time, can hold our interest forever.” Subjects range from film stars to writers, politicians to artists and plenty of everyday people, objects and places, as well.

For more, visit thamesandhudsonUSA.com.

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JEWELRY FOR THE CONFIDENT WOMAN

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MARCO BICEGO

From Marco Bicego’s new Masai Collection – a necklace hand-coiled in 18-karat yellow gold with pavé diamonds, $33,500.

Marco Bicego deceives delightfully. You look at his designs and you feel the weight of Byzantine history in colorful stones, the power of African warriors in roped necklaces inspired by just some of his travels. Then you try on the pieces at a Neiman Marcus Westchester trunk show and are utterly disarmed. They’re as light as angel’s wings.

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The secret may lie in the various techniques used to create Bicego’s (BICH ee go’s) collections. The new Masai Collection, sparked by the kinds of ornaments worn by the East African tribe, consists of hand-coiled, stackable strands in 18-karat white and yellow gold that cling to the female body’s curves. Lunaria features flat, textured, otherworldly designs engraved with hundreds of tiny lines by craftsmen using a Bulino tool in his Italian atelier. Other collections like Unico and Jaipur, with their multicolored precious and semiprecious gemstones, evoke the Eastern influences of Bicego’s native Venice.

His father was a goldsmith who founded a brand of gold chains in 1958. But while absorbing everything he could from his father – family is a big influence – Bicego wanted to contribute something different and debuted his first collection in 2000.

Today, Bicego’s jewelry can be found in high-end retailers like Neiman Marcus, gracing strong women like Kate Winslet and Hillary Clinton.

“My greatest inspiration is the woman wearing it,” Bicego told Forbes in 2015. “The Marco Bicego woman is modern. She has a tremendous sense of personal style and is not afraid to experiment with jewelry in unconventional ways….”

For more, visit marcobicego.com.

Top left, Jaipur topaz stackable ring, $1,090; Masai bracelet hand-coiled in 18-karat yellow gold with pavé diamonds, $4,280. Bottom left, the new white diamond Lunaria ring hand-engraved in 18-karat white gold with pavé diamonds, $2,530; Unico aquamarine and pink tourmaline drop earrings, $10,350.

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ALCHEMY AND HISTORY: An interview with Michael Boriskin of Copland House

BY GREGG SHAPIRO

As residents and visitors to the area can attest, there is no shortage of cultural attractions in Westchester County. However, few have the distinction of Copland House in Cortlandt Manor.

The late composer Aaron Copland — whose folk-flavored melodies and open chords would define the sweeping American landscape in works like “Appalachian Spring,” “Billy the Kid,” “Fanfare for the Common Man, “Rodeo” and the Oscar-winning score of “The Heiress” — was, ironically, a product of the East, like so many artists who came to define the American West, New Rochelle sculptor Frederic Remington and novelist Zane Grey among them.

Copland was a Brooklynite who spent many years in bucolic Cortlandt Manor, purchasing his home, Rock Hill, in 1960. He lived and created there until his death in 1990 at age 90.

Now an historic landmark, Copland House has been a creative center of American music for almost 20 years, offering residencies, commissions for composers and scholarships. It is also renowned for concerts performed by the resident ensemble, Music From Copland House, under the guidance of artistic and executive director Michael Boriskin. (Another aspect of Copland House is the performance and collaborative residency space Copland House at Merestead in Armonk, a private-public partnership with Westchester that began in 2009.)

Recently, WAG spoke with Boriskin about Copland House, as well as “Secret Alchemy: Chamber Works

by Pierre Jalbert,” the 2017 CD by Music from Copland House:

Michael, as an accomplished musician, what did it mean to you to be named artistic director of Copland House in 1998 and executive director in 2003?

“Being involved with this undertaking, which started as a genuine grassroots movement to preserve Aaron Copland’s longtime home in Westchester, was, in a lot of ways, an opportunity of a lifetime, to be able to build something in Aaron Copland’s name right here in Westchester. At the very beginning of what’s become a long and exhilarating journey, most of us had very little idea about how big and far-flung this would eventually become.”

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The Music From Copland House ensemble performing at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Courtesy Gabe Palacio Photography.

meeting him two or three times late in his life. It was, as you can imagine, a real treat.”

Copland House is the only national historic landmark in the country directly linked to someone from the realm of classical music. What do you think that means to the residents of Westchester County?

“For that reason, and many others, Copland House is a real cultural, historical and civic asset to the county. It points to the fact that we have a number of truly iconic figures, not only in the arts but in other fields, that have been attracted to this place. Certainly, Copland House’s public activities have drawn large numbers of people from throughout the region and around the country to come here. It brings value to the county in that sense. The artists that have come to be in residence at Copland House come from all over the country. Copland House itself has served as an on-air media location for broadcast and television stations and networks from all over the world. We really feel it is, on many levels, (important) for attracting people to Westchester and view it as an important part of the landscape of the county.”

The new Music from Copland House CD “Secret Alchemy: Chamber Works by Pierre Jalbert” was recorded between 2013 and 2015. What can you tell me about the process and why it took almost two years?

“Actually, compared to pop or rock recordings,

two years could be a very short time. It was a combination of logistical reasons in terms of planning and scheduling when individual works for a particular recording project are going to be (recorded).”

In the liner notes that you wrote for “Secret Alchemy,” you include a quote from The New Yorker about Jalbert that describes him as “an acknowledged chamber-music master.” What is it about Jalbert that makes him so?

“He really looks at chamber music like an animated, exciting and intelligent conversation amongst a small group of people who happen to be playing instruments instead of speaking. His music is multilayered, dynamic and really urgent. There’s a kind of clarity and focus to his work that maybe best manifests itself in working with smaller ensembles.”

Also in the liner notes for “Secret Alchemy,” there is a quote attributed to Jalbert in which he makes mention of having listened to “a lot” of Copland while he was growing up. Was that an important factor when it came to working with him?

“I wouldn’t say that that was. It was obviously an important factor for him as he developed as a young artist. For us, what was really most important was the dynamism and high quality of his music. Ultimately, that’s where we stand or fall — on the level of the music that we present.”

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LORD & TAYLOR STAMFORD REVEALS REVAMP

BY DANIELLE RENDA • PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY GETTY IMAGES

Lord & Taylor Stamford is now home to some 45,000 pairs of shoes – and 157,000 square feet of updated space.

The store celebrated the completion of the branch’s yearlong renovation, which touches all three floors, Dec. 1, meriting excitement from shoppers and community members alike.

The massive redesign expanded and updated existing departments to offer new brands and a modern shopping experience. It was a venture much anticipated, as the store, which employs some 350 workers, is one of the retailer's longest standing, having opened its doors in 1969.

The celebration kicked off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, led by Elizabeth Rodbell, president of Lord & Taylor and Hudson’s Bay, who stood with the surprise guests, actress Victoria Justice and former NBA player John Starks. The three posed for photos before a backdrop adorned with roses hugging the Lord & Taylor logo.

“I am so excited, and I am so proud of what the team has put together here for the Stamford community,” Rodbell said. “I think the store is spacious, modern and well-lit, with new brands added. We’re really very excited, and it’s a nice evening for us as a company.”

Stations were set up throughout the store, inviting guests to explore the aesthetic. On the main floor, Deanna First, a New York City-based fashion and beauty artist, drew complimentary sketches of the guests (myself included), while cheeky tweens and teens eagerly awaited a photograph with Justice on the upper level and sports fans gathered to pose with Starks on the lower level.

The store’s renovation was completed in two phases, beginning with the lower and upper levels, followed by the main floor.

The main floor ladies’ shoe department grew some 10,000 square feet, totaling approximately 13,000 square feet. The cosmetics department also gained some 2,000 square feet, totaling approximately 4,500 square feet to house new brands like Flawless by Friday, Fillerina, BrowGal and Blowpro, as well as a beauty “play space.”

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Actress Victoria Justice made a surprise guest appearance at the grand reopening of Lord & Taylor Stamford.

The ladies' shoe department grew to approximately 13,000 square feet.

There's a pair of shoes for everyone as Lord & Taylor Stamford is now home to 45,000 pairs.

The lower level women’s dresses department migrated to the upper level, doubling in size to nearly 8,000 square feet to include brands like Karl Lagerfeld Paris, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and Vera Wang. And with the women’s dresses department moved upstairs, new space in the men’s

department gave way to brands like J Brand, Vince, MPG, New Balance, 2(x)ist, Selected Homme and Timberland. These levels also received flooring and lighting upgrades while buttons installed in the fitting rooms directly connect with staff headsets to alert sales associates to guest service needs.

On the main floor, new women’s clothing includes Melissa McCarthy, June Rose, Modamix, Marc New York Performance and Nic+Zoe, as well as a Rebecca Minkoff popup store. And one floor up, the third level women’s active wear department welcomes New Balance, MPG, Nanette Lepore and Betsy Johnson. “(Lord & Taylor) committed such a great amount of their resources to making the citizens of Stamford so much happier — by the way you look, and the gifts you give,” said Michael Pollard, chief of staff for the city of Stamford, also in attendance.

The Signature Café, offering small bites, sandwiches and sweets on the upper level, also received a refresh. And a concierge was added to the store’s service list, along with three personal shoppers, including one who specializes in dresses.

Lord & Taylor Stamford is at 110 High Ridge Road. For more, visit lordandtaylor.com.

CLOSET ENVY The Met shows off its recent fashion acquisitions

BY MARY SHUSTACK

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The new year often brings on an urge to start fresh, to get things in order finally.

Ensemble, Raf Simons (Belgian, born 1968) for House of Dior (French, founded 1947), autumn/winter 2014-15 haute couture; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Christian Dior Couture, in honor of Harold Koda, 2016 (2016.256). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen.

For a lot of women — and perhaps even some men — that frequently plays out in the exercise known as the closet overhaul.

The heart of this project is making an honest assessment of what you have and, sometimes, the process yields a few forgotten treasures.

We can only imagine how an exercise similar in theme played out at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as its assessing of its own “closet” has put a most fashionable spotlight on its significant acquisitions of the last 10 years.

The result of this exploration is “Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion,” which continues through Feb. 5 in The Anna Wintour Costume Center at The Met Fifth Avenue.

And the exhibition, we must agree — with its treasure trove of fashions from the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Raf Simons, Christian Louboutin, Maison Margiela, Paul Poiret, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Philip Treacy, Yohji Yamamoto and so many others — puts most of our own humble closets to shame.

Curated by Assistant Curator Jessica Regan with support from Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton, the show is said to explore “how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed the course of fashion history and advanced fashion as an art form.”

In press materials, Bolton says, “Our mission is to present fashion as a living art that interprets history, becomes part of the historical process and inspires subsequent art. Over the seven decades since The Costume Institute became part of The Met in 1946, our collecting strategy has shifted from creating a collection of Western high fashion that is encyclopedic in breadth to one focused on acquiring a body of masterworks.”

The show is a walk through several centuries of fashion, showcasing some 60 of the collection’s masterworks — mostly women’s wear but also a few men’s fashions and a selection of accessories — from the early 18th century to present day. Its focus is on designs that have joined the holdings since the Institute’s last acquisitions show, “blog.mode: addressing fashion” in 2007-08.

The main space, the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery, offers a chronological journey with designs displayed on platforms that resemble giant packing crates.

As you walk down the steps to the exhibition entrance, an eye-catching ball gown by Viktor&Rolf greets you. The design, from the Dutch firm’s spring/ summer 2010 collection, features some 200 yards of tulle. With a midsection that appears to have been chopped in half, the design was crafted as subversive commentary on the traditional 1950s gown.

As you travel through the compact exhibition, one where thoughtful choices bring home the quality-versus-quantity theme, you’ll pass from a 1730 French robe to a stunning 1911 Paul Poiret opera coat inspired by a kimono. There are Surrealist looks from Elsa Schiaparelli, working with Jean Cocteau and the House of Lesage, a dramatic Charles James 1949 “Tulip” evening dress and a punk wedding dress by Zandra Rhodes (1977). And that famous Gianni Versace safety-pin dress — which caused an international sensation when worn by WAG’s November cover girl Elizabeth Hurley in 1994 — is here, in a 2016 interpretation, as well.

Some of the newly acquired designs are paired with pieces already in the collection to show parallels in influences and silhouettes, perfectly exemplified by the side-by-side display of a 1929 evening dress from Madeleine Vionnet and a 1999 John Galliano design.

Unusual materials abound, from a Maison Martin

Dress, Sarah Burton (British, born 1974) for Alexander McQueen (British, founded 1992), spring/summer 2011; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2014 (2015.69). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen.

Margiela waistcoat (1989-90), fashioned from porcelain plate shards, to a Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen spring/summer 2011 dress that’s a fantasy of fluttering butterflies. There are also quite a few examples of quirky footwear, including the can-you-

really-wear-it work by Noritaka Tatehana.

In the adjacent space, the Carl and Iris Barrel Apfel Gallery, are ensembles donated by designers in honor of Harold Koda upon his retirement as curator in charge of The Costume Institute in January 2016.

It is here that we see a most fanciful orchid-inspired hat from Philip Treacy (spring/summer 2000 haute couture) and a standout embellished long coat that caps an ensemble by Raf Simons for House of Dior, an haute couture design from autumn/winter 2014-15.

Throughout, a sense of the common threads that run through fashion history come to light.

As Regan says, “While fashion is often derided for its ephemerality, its quick responsiveness to change ensures that it is an immediate expression of the spirit of its time — a vivid reflection of social, cultural and political circumstances, and of shifting ideals of beauty. The masterworks we’ve chosen to highlight are among many we have collected in the past decade that draw on forms, motifs and themes of the past, reinterpreting fashion history in ways that resonate in the present.”

All we can say is, it’s quite a captivating exhibition and one that provides plenty of food for thought as you glance over your own closet.

For more, visit metmuseum.org/FashionMasterworks.

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STRIKE UP THE DOCS For Stephen Moshman, medicine and music are the perfect mix.

BY JANE K. DOVE

Mixing music and medicine comes naturally to Stephen E. Moshman, MD. The professor of clinical medicine at New York Medical College is also a talented violinist who founded and conducts the Albert Einstein Symphony Orchestra.

“Music has always been in my life,” says the Dobbs Ferry resident. “I have always been intrigued by its inner voices and now, at age 72, am as excited and enthused as ever.”

The Albert Einstein Symphony Orchestra, headquartered in the Bronx, is comprised of students, house staff and faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals. “The orchestra also includes talented musicians from surrounding communities,” Moshman says. “We usually perform four concerts a year at the Robbins Auditorium, attracting several hundred people to each one.”

A true son of Brooklyn, Moshman grew up in Flatbush near the late, lamented Ebbets Field, then the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, whose graduates include Barbra Streisand.

“My mother was a teacher and my father an attorney,” he says. “My father was also a musician who played the violin and viola. I started playing the violin around age 9 or so, but was interested in music long before that.”

The budding musician regularly attended concerts as a young boy and was memorizing scores at 10 or 11. “I did become an excellent violinist, but not of soloist caliber. I enjoyed it tremendously, especially playing second violin, and was concert master for the Erasmus Hall Orchestra.”

Moshman went on to the University of Rochester, where he founded the University of Rochester Baroque Ensemble. “We played at the River Campus several times a year,” he says. “It was a small chamber group and I served as conductor.”

He didn’t decide to pursue medicine as a career until late in his undergraduate studies, which focused on biological research. “After thinking about it, I decided I wanted to go into a field that involved human interaction and chose internal medicine. I attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, getting my M.D. degree in 1969.

“I knew that practicing internal medicine would give me the flexibility to integrate music and medicine,” he says. “After getting my M.D. degree and completing my internship, I was drafted into the U.S. Public Health Service and spent two years working in New York City. This solidified my desire to have a career in direct patient care. I then went on for an internal medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where I spent the next 30 years as an attending physician.”

Teaching internal medicine was one of Moshman’s primary responsibilities at Montefiore, which is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

“It occurred to me there were a lot of musicians at Einstein,” he says. “Back then, there was a strong interest in music and the arts. I made friends with fellow musicians and in 1982 organized the Albert Einstein Symphony Orchestra.”

The orchestra typically has had 50 to 55 musicians at any one time and performed four times a year at the Robbins Auditorium. “In addition to our core group, we have attracted many internationally known musicians who come to perform with us. Everything has worked beautifully.”

One of the highlights for the orchestra and its audiences are alternate-year performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. “Gilbert and Sul-

livan still brings people out of the woodwork,” Moshman says. “Their music was a favorite of my father’s and we have performed it all, including ‘HMS Pinafore,’ ‘The Mikado’ and ‘The Pirates of Penzance.’”

As conductor and music director for the group, Moshman plans the programs and selects music for the Sunday concerts. Music ranges from early Baroque through the 20th century, from small chamber pieces to larger symphonies and concertos.

But Moshman says he sees what could be clouds on the future horizon for the orchestra.

“For the past two or three years we have had difficulty recruiting medical students,” he says. “I trace this to the falloff in teaching the arts and music in high school and college. Science and technology now rule. Outside interests like music are becoming less important and don’t rank highly in consideration of candidates for medical school. I see this as a real problem in our society's outlook.

“In my teaching, I used to use a lot of music analogies. Then I realized the students didn’t know what I was talking about. No one learns or speaks a musical language any more. Musicians used to be all over the place, but sadly, this is no longer the case. It’s a shame, because string instruments like the violin and the viola are the backbone of any ensemble and badly needed.”

For now the orchestra is taking a hiatus of about a year to recruit string instrumentalists and will resume its schedule in the fall of 2017.

Besides heading up the Albert Einstein Symphony Orchestra, Moshman teaches five courses at New York Medical College. “I love teaching and never have two days that are alike,” he says. “It’s a pleasure to come to work. Teaching is my first love.

What I am doing now, mixing music and medicine is the culmination of everything I had hoped to accomplish. The music keeps me young and the teaching is a great pleasure.”

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FASHIONABLE FIGURES STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY SHUSTACK

WAG still remembers the excitement of our September 2015 cover story devoted to Ralph Pucci.

The Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan was hosting a career retrospective, “Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin,” and we got to visit Pucci himself at the Chelsea headquarters of Ralph Pucci International.

We found Pucci, a Greenwich resident at the time and former Bedford resident who grew up in both Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, to be one of those rare creatures — someone who found business success while maintaining an unwavering devotion to the arts.

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His field might be fashion — his artistic creations grace the toniest of stores — but his passion for art, from home décor to dance to music to visual arts, was discussed as well.

And so WAG was delighted to be able, finally, make it to one of Ralph Pucci’s “events,” launches of new collections that have been accompanied by everything from modern dance to edgy fashions.

It was on a recent evening we found ourselves back in the Pucci headquarters as he presented “Rebecca Moses: Mannequins/Art/Fashion.”

The show, “Mes Demoiselles Imperfectly Perfect,” featured the results of Pucci’s collaboration with the noted fashion illustrator.

Stepping off the elevator began an evening full of meeting new “friends” with names ranging from Zelda to Shani, Nicole to Inez, Lucy to Lulu.

The busts and full-size mannequins were artfully displayed throughout the gallery, with Moses’ art as the fanciful backdrop. Throughout, the creations set a celebratory tone that touched on diversity, individuality, art and fashion.

It drew, to be sure, quite a fashionable crowd — yes, that was back-in-the-day supermodel Kim Alexis taking it all in — that seemed uniformly captivated.

WAG got a moment to congratulate Moses — and another to catch up, if ever so briefly, with Pucci.

As he told us about Moses, “She designed it. She painted it. Obviously, we sculpted it.”

And when we said how stunning and transportive it all was, he could only agree, saying, “It’s Rebecca’s world.”

One we’d like to visit again — and again.

For more, visit ralphpucci.net.

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Isabel Dunay’s creative process begins with one question: “What would I like to wear?”

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“It’s really every mood I’ve ever had,” she says of her work.

And if Dunay likes it, somebody else has to — right?

It’s a philosophy that’s proven successful for Dunay, who’s built a career as a jeweler. After graduating college, she attended the Gemological Institute of America, where she worked in the laboratory, going on to Tiffany & Co., where she served as head gemologist. In 1991, she started her own line.

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It’s a collection that has options for every style.

“Basically, I make what I want to wear,” Dunay says with a laugh. “I love accessorizing, because it really changes the way you feel and how you carry yourself throughout the day.”

Her collection includes an interchangeable earring set, which allows the wearer to change the look of her jewelry to suit the day’s fashion. For this, clients may purchase a single set of posts and, separately, sets of earring “charms” to substitute as the face of the jewelry.

But regardless of the wide selection, we couldn’t help but notice a single motif — the use of gemstones in rich shades of green, blue, aquamarine and turquoise.

Perhaps a stylish reminder of a tropical getaway to carry us through the winter, we thought.

For more, visit isabeldunay.com.

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CelticComplexion.com From Boston: What practically obviates the need for any beauty cream? An award-winning “Best of Boston” board-certified aesthetic surgeon who specializes in craniofacial surgery for facelifts that look completely natural — and youthful. The Boston Center’s Michael Yaremchuk, MD is renowned among not only the medical community, but among the international clients who fly in from all over the world for his “bespoke” cosmetic surgery that is highly personalized to create a “golden ratio” of facial symmetry. Yaremchuk Skypes his professional consults with non-local and international patients on a weekly basis and is professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. His injectable facial rejuvenations are also highly sought-after. dryaremchuk.com For Jetsetters: Le Metier de Beauté (Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman) was founded by Richard Blanch, who worked with chemists to create a roster of products. Using a family of global pharmaceutical patents, the Peau Vierge Anti-Aging Complexe is a tinted moisturizer, foundation, skin cream, or whatever you want it to be, that has revolutionized the beauty industry. It’s one of the most gorgeous, gossamer facial products I’ve ever used and looks as if it were applied by the angels. ($125 for 1 ounce that comes in four shades). Even better is Le Metier de Beauté’s Instant Lifting and Firming Face Serum with a wealth of trademarked ingredients that support the architecture of the skin. ($350 for 1.7 ounce). It’s no wonder stylists and supermodels adore this cult beauty brand. lemetierdebeaute.com From Around The World: Here’s how to make the beauty trip without the trek to the airport. Pearlesque Box is a new breed of monthly beauty boxes offering full-size products from all-natural skincare brands around the world. Kits include Honey Girl Organics from Hawaii, Skin&Co Roma from Umbria, Italy; ModelCo Cosmetics from Australia, and Province Apothecary from Toronto. Founder Rochelle Truxal has found a new way to educate beauty fans about the latest and greatest organic products and skincare developments worldwide. ($39.95 per month). Pearlesquebox.com Beauty without borders — it just might be the secret to complexion perfection.

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HELPING HORSES HELP COMMUNITY

Polo star Nic Roldan seeks to serve

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

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Nic Roldan getting ready for the East Coast Open at Greenwich Polo Club.

Photograph by Chichi UbiĂąa.

Ask Nic Roldan, the rising polo star, what drew him to the sport of kings, and his answer is simple.

“I think first and foremost, the horses. I always had horses growing up,” says the third-generation player, who was born in Buenos Aires but raised in Wellington, Florida, the capital of American polo. “They’re a real passion.”

So is Nic’s love for the fast, intense sport, which has been on display since he turned pro as a teenager. In 1998, a 15-year-old Nic became the youngest player to capture the U.S. Open Polo Championship, along with Escue teammates Sebastien and Juan I. Merlos and Stuart Erskine.

Now an eight-goaler (out of a possible 10), Roldan thrilled a Greenwich Polo Club throng as he scored the winning goal for Team Audi in a 14-13 upset of the home Team White Birch in the finals of the 2015 East Coast Open. In an equally taut rematch on Sept. 11 of this year, Team White Birch turned the tables, with Roldan nonetheless capturing the MVP. (He also played with Team Flexjet at the United States Polo Association’s recent National 20-Goal Championship at Grand Champions Polo Club in Wellington, where the winter season gets underway the first week of this month.)

But if his 25 polo ponies — mostly mares with some geldings — are among his treasures, so are the less fortunate working equines of the world.

And that’s why among Nic’s activities this winter in Wellington will be the second Sunset Polo & White Party March 24 at The Wanderers Club to benefit Brooke USA, the American arm of The Brooke — a nonprofit that operates in 11 countries throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, supporting working donkeys, mules and horses among the poorest of the poor with veterinary services, owner education and equipment.

(The 2016 event raised more than $140,000.)

When Nic became Brooke USA ambassador last year, it was a natural fit.

“I have a working relationship with my horses, so I can relate,” he says. Indeed, in addition to team training three or four times a week and the cross training he does (cardio, Pilates, yoga) to maintain a lean but strong body similar to a tennis player’s for a sport that combines ruggedness and elegance, Nic spends a good deal of time training his horses. (A polo player may need anywhere from seven to 13 ponies in a match.)

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Nic Roldan in Guatemala with Brooke USA to support working equines. Photograph by Enrique Urdaneta.

Nic Roldan signing autographs for young fans at Greenwich Polo Club during the East Coast Open.

Photograph by Chichi Ubiña.

Nic Roldan in Guatemala with Brooke USA, visiting a school in one of the communities where Brooke works. Photograph by Enrique Urdaneta.

executive director Emily Dulin to Guatemala to see how the organization is improving the lives of that country’s working equines. Roldan and the Brooke USA team traveled more than 2,000 miles in a week over tough terrain to visit communities in the Zacapa and Quiché regions.

"I was blown away by the number of people, particularly women, who rely on the donkeys they use to carry their essentials, such as wood, water and other goods," Nic said in a statement at that time. "It was an emotional moment to see how these people live, how proud they are and how enthused they are to learn. It was truly inspirational. It was amazing to see where the funds that Brooke USA raises were being used."

Now talking with WAG, he stresses that this is not just about animal rights.

“We’re helping animals helping communities,” he says.

“Community” is an important word to Nic, who is warm and friendly in our conversation.

With its roots in the ancient Persian imperial cavalry, “polo has always been an elite sport,” he says. But stars like Nacho Figueras, WAG’s August cover guy, have sought to broaden its ap-

BUT IF HIS 25 POLO PONIES — MOSTLY MARES WITH SOME GELDINGS — ARE AMONG HIS TREASURES, SO ARE THE LESS FORTUNATE WORKING EQUINES OF THE WORLD.

peal, particularly through charitable efforts. “I’ve been doing the same,” Nic says.

He works with the Neil S. Hirsch Family Boys & Girls Club in Wellington and the Kids Cancer Foundation in neighboring Royal Palm Beach.

This internationalist, who thrives on the peripatetic life of a polo player, told Equestrian Quarterly that the polo in Wellington is nonetheless “the best of the best.” But Wellington is more than a place to ply his trade. It is home, where

he was raised by his father, Raul, a polo player who once played with the Sultan of Brunei, and mother, Dee, an interior designer. (Nic also has a sister, Lupe.)

He’d rather talk about the community of Wellington than his work as a model, representing the watchmaker Piaget SA, among others.

“I don’t consider myself a model,” says Nic, a “diehard” sportsman who has played baseball, football, golf, ice hockey and soccer. “I’m an athlete and as a trained athlete, it’s all about building my brand.”

He’d certainly rather talk about community than his personal life, preferring to keep it and his relationship with Jessica Springsteen private.

Springsteen, daughter of Bruce, is the brilliant equestrian who captured the 2014 American Gold Cup at Old Salem Farm in North Salem with a poised performance aboard Vindicat W. This past September, she scored her first five-star win aboard Cynar VA in the HITS Saugerties $1 Million Grand Prix.

Show jumping is the precise yin to polo’s sometimes intricate, sometimes thunderous yang. Nic says Jessica has been out on the polo field, and he in turn has gotten into the show ring.

“It’s very tough to learn. The sport is so different,” he says. “But I’m passionate about it.”

For more, visit nicroldan.com and BrookeUSA.org.

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MAGNIFICENT MATTHIESSEN PARK

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

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Do you think that when Henry Hudson sailed up the river that would ultimately bear his name aboard the little Half Moon in 1609, he might have ever imagined this house in Matthiessen Park?

The 10,773-square-foot stone, Dutch-style house, overlooking the Hudson River in Irvington, would no doubt be too grand for the flush but frugal Dutch. And yet its beauty lies in a magnificence that is entirely understated.

Begin with great bones — spacious rooms, high, crown-molded ceilings, hardwood floors and plenty of windows and French doors that seem to offer riparian views at every turn. The rooms include a two-story foyer that sweeps you up a curv-

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ing staircase, a two-story library with a gallery, a family room with cherry wood paneling and a master suite with generous his and her baths.

(There are seven bedrooms, eight and a half baths and just as many fireplaces, eight.)

Add stone patios that command 5.3 acres of lush, terraced gardens and stone paths with pebbled borders and you have a grand, traditional space. But at this Matthiessen Park abode, tradition easily marries modernity. The chef’s kitchen, the elevator to the three floors, the Lutron lighting and security systems and the finished lower level with an indoor Endless Pool speak of a 2002 dwelling that is up-to-date.

Yet just as tradition and modernity meld here, so, too, do privacy and accessibility. You’re whisked along a private road with a pebbled drive into the enclave. And yet, you’re within walking distance of the village, the train to Manhattan and the surrounding trails.

Our guess is that Henry Hudson would’ve been happy to visit.

Price upon request. For more, call Dalia Valdes at 914-772-8002 or 914-967-4600 or email her at dalia.valdes@juliabfee.com.

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Edward Mortimer presents

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BY DANIELLE RENDA • PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY LENA ERZIAK

If you think Lena Erziak sounds like the name of a designer, you’d be twice right. That’s because it represents not one designer, but two.

When sisters Leona and Hanna Erziak launched their luxury handbag collection in 2009, they wanted it to represent collaboration. The bags have been worn by the likes of Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, Katy Perry and Harper’s Bazaar executive fashion and beauty editor Avril Graham.

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with that, the pair relaunched Lena Erziak as a luxury footwear collection.

“A woman can be a mother, a lover, an artist, an executive, a warrior and a siren, without compromise,” the sisters have said. “We survive in a life full of paradoxes.”

Their shoes are bold, playful and edgy, with cultural underpinnings and jazzy embellishments, like bows, feathers and a woman’s silhouette.

And they convey the unquestionable confidence of the women who wear them.

But the heart and soul of the shoes is love.

“Love is what inspires both me and Leona,” Hanna says. “We want all women to love themselves and acknowledge that they are worth more

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than they could ever know.”

With a strong feminist message for challenging times, they nonetheless didn’t anticipate working in fashion.

In college, Hanna studied international relations, while Leona studied communications and international relations, and both went on to become successful real estate developers.

But they couldn’t shake their creative spirits, which were seeking something more.

“Being born in a family of two beautiful, creative minds — our mother was a seamstress and our father was a sculptor — we’ve dreamed of starting our own maison de couture,” Hanna says. “That’s what inspired the founding of Lena Erziak.”

Even though their parents were artistic, they initially discouraged their girls — the youngest of eight children — from entering a creative field, because of the financial insecurity. The sisters worked in real estate up until the recession of 2008, when they decided to try their hands at fashion.

“When you have a dream in your head that becomes real, that’s the most euphoric and satisfying moment that you can experience,” Leona says. “The same process holds true in fashion.”

“Let’s say that we wished strongly, and the universe gave us the opportunity to start our own line,” Hanna says.

Drawing inspiration from their multicultural backgrounds, they turned to their surrounding world and past experiences for ideas. Born and raised in Belgium with Moroccan roots, Hanna is based in Paris and Leona, who lived briefly in Kenya, resides in New York City, while both still have homes in Marrakech, Morocco.

“We get inspired all the time,” Hanna says. “From the strangers who cross our paths to visiting a museum and observing a piece of art or learning about history. Most everything we do inspires our creativity.”

Although they work together, Hanna and Leona incorporate their individual personalities into some of their designs as well. According to Hanna, their signature “Lola” heel, featuring a large bow on the ankle, is named after Leona for her larger-than-life presence, while “Hanna’s Pump” reflects Hanna’s “fun and quirky” personality.

“Fashion is about having fun and should make you smile,” Hanna says.

The sisters are working on offering customized options, in which select styles can be made available in shorter heels with additional fabric choices. They are also planning on reintroducing their handbag collection in the near future.

“The bags will follow shortly, when we are ready,” Hanna says.

For more, visit lenaerziack.com.

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JUAN LAMARCA Award winning photographer and director Juan Lamarca graduated as a film director from Universidad del Cine located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has lived and worked between Palm Beach and New York for the past 10 years when he started a full time career dedicated to photography, films, and advertising.

Although Juan has done and continues to do many commercials, lifestyle editorials, and fashion jobs; fine art and travel photography has always been his main focus.

His latest photography series envision a duality between harmonic beauty and power of both horses and oceans, through a unique point of view.

The horse portrait series is an abstract series of photographs of high performance horses that captures the essence of the horses while concentrating primarily on the simplicity of the details.

His ocean series portfolio is an intimate look of different places, capturing the feeling of the beach life and transporting the viewer around the world.

The majority of Lamarca’s work is part of different private collections in the Hamptons, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, and Miami.

His work is available in different art galleries and Interior design stores in New York, The Hamptons, Miami, Palm Beach, and California.

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BEVERLY HILLS HOSPITALITY

BY JEREMY WAYNE

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Even if you’re not usually susceptible to the January blues, I fear this January may prove the exception. But I’m not here to talk politics, nor even hint at it. What I am here to do is to suggest where you might take your next vacation and the fact that I’m going to suggest California, pretty much as far as you can get from New York or D.C. in the contiguous United States, is merely coincidental.

Plus, of course, this is the Wealth Issue and Beverly Hills — the focus of this month’s Wanders — is no slouch in the wealth department. No siree, primped and manicured, BH is fairly brimming over with it, although I’m often struck with the refinement of our Californian cousins, who usually have the good taste to hide their (often immense) wealth behind elegantly trimmed privet hedges rather than flaunting it for all the world to see.

And speaking of discretion, can you imagine anywhere more discreet than The Beverly Hills Hotel, that candy-striped Eden of loveliness, where the covers are starting to come off their 23 historic bungalow suites, remodeled by the gifted New Yorkbased designer Alexandra Champalimaud? This is where I would happily spend the rest of my life, moolah permitting, if only my wife would let me — I am married to a very grounded woman — but even that would not be without it stresses. You see, I’d never be able to make up my mind which particular

Patio at Hotel Bel-Air. Courtesy Hotel Bel-Air.

bungalow to stay in, as they are all strikingly distinct but almost equally alluring. Would it be Bungalow 22, for instance, inspired by Frank Sinatra’s wood-accented Palm Springs house, with its grand piano, vast gray marble bathroom and dressing room the size of New Jersey? It very well could. With its “Ultimate Sinatra” LP — there’s a word you don’t hear often these days — playing on a proper, old-fashioned turntable and a bottle of Jack Daniels sitting invitingly on the living room table, along with a couple of tumblers, I felt this was the bungalow for me before I’d barely seen around the door.

But, as I said, there are alternatives, and as someone who is confidently in touch with his feminine side, I’d hardly turn my nose up at Bungalow 5 either, inspired by Elizabeth Taylor, who honeymooned there with six of her eight husbands. This bungalow has a color palette of pink and gold and I’d fairly ache to hang my manly suits in that bespoke armoire, etched with Taylor’s famous Cleopatra headdress. (Not, of course, that anyone wears a suit in California.) Throw in a heavenly bougainvillea-filled patio complete with full-size swimming pool — all hidden from public view, of course, because The Beverly Hills Hotel is nothing if not decorous and supremely tasteful — and I’m an unholy mess of indecision.

Its sister property too, Hotel Bel-Air, is so self-effacing that the uninitiated, driving too fast in their rented Porsches, often go careening past the entrance along Stone Canyon Road (much to the amusement of the valets), only to turn around a mile later when they realize their mistake, seconds before they go headlong into Stone Canyon Reservoir. Take it from me, no one makes that mistake twice.

At Hotel Bel-Air, the guest suites nestle among luxurious gardens of hibiscus, jasmine and tuberose, so completely tucked away that you practically need a ball of string to find your way back to the front desk. Not that the front desk is actually a front desk, more like a very cozy study where the vulgar business of money — quite a lot of, actually, because the Bel-Air isn’t exactly given away — is taken care of with a nonchalant swipe of a platinum credit card and then never referred to again, just as an embarrassing relative might be finally expunged from the family for life simply by never being mentioned again. And in Wolfgang Puck’s brilliant onsite restaurant at the Bel-Air, the gorgeous booths around the central patio are so private you could plot a military coup and no one, not even the all-seeing headwaiter, would know what you were up to.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills is another hotel that would never dream of drawing attention to its celebrity guests, although it’s not uncommon to find two or three Hollywood A-listers in its paneled bar

on any given evening. A cabana at The Peninsula’s rooftop pool, meanwhile, is the way to go if you want to sunbathe without the neighbors gawking.

I mean, you can peek, of course, but people don’t.

The Peninsula is that sort of place. Good manners, after all, breed, well… good manners.

Diagonally across from The Peninsula, the newbuild Waldorf Astoria will be launching later this year, just as the flagship Waldorf Astoria on Park Avenue closes for the biggest overhaul in its long and illustrious history. Luxurious it will doubtless be, but if I know those clever people at Waldorf Astoria, it won’t be showy or sprauncy, because the thing about real wealth is that it doesn’t need to flaunt itself. Gold faucets? A bit last century, frankly.

And I can’t see faux Roccoco making a comeback any time soon.

So there you have it. Four great, or soon-to-begreat, hotels and four good reasons to get to Beverly Hills soon. But if you still feel that California is not quite far west enough for you this inauguration season, all I can say is, there is always Hawaii. Not far enough? Try Wake Island. Happy January and remember the old maxim: If you have to ask the price….

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Club Bar at The Peninsula Beverly Hills. Courtesy The Peninsula Beverly Hills.

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ENCHANTING WATERFRONT RETREAT | $6,995,000 | WEB ID: 0067950 In Lucas Point, perched in an enviable spot at the end of a private peninsula on Greenwich Cove this charming Colonial home on an over-sized lot enjoys dazzling panoramas of sunrises, sunsets, and the iconic Manhattan skyline. Built in 1937, the classic four-bedroom residence offers a variety of appealing spaces, including formal living and dining rooms, a cheerful sunroom enveloped by windows, light-filled private quarters, and a secondlevel balcony with a water view. The property is beautifully landscaped with verdant lawns, mature trees, and other vibrant plantings. Covered and openair patios are designed for enjoyment of sun and cool breezes. A private dock and moorings in the cove encourage all manner of water sports, from sailing and swimming to kayaking.

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SKY-HIGH SERVICE FROM KLM

BY DEBBI K. KICKHAM

I flew KLM on my first plane trip ever, in 1964. To this day, I remember what a wonderful experience it was.

I was 11 years old, all dressed up for the occasion (with black patent leather shoes, of course), traveling with my mom and sister Chris on our way to Poland to see our family. (At that point, my mom hadn’t seen her parents in 25 years since she immigrated to the United States before World War II.) I can still recall the food, the service, the stewardesses, the fun. A boyfriend of my sister’s had actually sent me a gift of crossword puzzles, which was delivered to me onboard and thrilled me even more.

The only other thing I remember was suffering from motion sickness, and I can still recall the helpful KLM steward who took care of me and gently escorted me off the plane. Notwithstanding, it was a great trip and one that I still remember fondly.

With such an experience under my (Gucci) belt, the three of us once again flew together on KLM last July, 52 years later, and I am pleased to report it was an even more wonderful experience. Lucky me, I luxuriated in World Business Class, and to my complete delight, had a seat that turned into a bed so I could sleep — but more on that in a minute.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was founded in 1919, making it the world’s oldest airline still operating under its original name. In 2004, Air France and KLM merged to form Air France KLM. The merger produced the strongest European airline group based on two powerful brands and hubs — Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

It was a delight to fly over “the Pond” in such pampered style. Of course, one of the nicest aspects of this plush environment was the comfort amenity kit presented to all passengers on intercontinental flights in World Business Class. Created by Dutch designer Jan Taminiau, the new bags contained items that are essential on a long flight, following in the footsteps of Viktor&Rolf, which launched their design for a KLM comfort bag in 2011.

But let’s get back to that seat-bed. You’ll float to your next destination in new comfort, with in-seat power, a privacy canopy and a personal entertainment system. I don’t know about you, but for

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In KLM's World Business Class, you'll float to your destination in comfortable seats that recline fully. They’re a respite at 35,000 feet.

me, the ability to sleep while flying is perhaps the world’s greatest luxury. With this snooze, you just can’t lose.

Dining was also divine. KLM serves meals created by a three-star Dutch chef, Jacob Jan Boerma of the De Leest Restaurant in Vaassen, who is one of the leaders in Dutch gastronomy.

Dinner started with grilled scallops with preserved lemon and crushed red peppercorns, or a butternut squash soup. For a main course, you could order rigatoni pasta, miso-glazed cod or beef stroganoff with spring vegetables. And, this being KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, for dessert, you got Gouda as well as chocolate mousse and seasonal fruit.

For breakfast, there was egg quiche plus yogurt, granola, cold cuts, hot rolls and Viennese pastries.

Right before landing, the airline distributed adorable, ceramic, miniature models of the old Dutch houses that are situated along the canals in Amsterdam. Each contained the liqueur Lucas Bols, which is known as the world’s oldest distilled brand.

But that’s not all. KLM gives to the community in many ways as well. For years now, KLM has worked

toward the development of a market for sustainable biofuel. It also has high ambitions for sustainable catering. By co-designing smart techniques to reduce weight and waste, KLM takes part in reducing CO2 emissions.

Just as impressive, KLM closely cooperates with national and international organizations that promote biodiversity, fair trade and animal welfare. Last June, KLM transported six lucky tigers from Amsterdam to Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem, South Africa, where they would have a chance to live in freedom. The “Four Paws” shelter saves animals from circuses or private owners who keep them in atrocious conditions. Having lived in captivity, the tigers can never return to the wild. But their new home at Lionsrock offers them a spacious alternative where they can live to a ripe old age.

Kudos to KLM for providing such comfortable transport. Like their human counterparts, tigers Cromwell, Juno, Mirza, Rafik, Zita and Rasputin had a comfortable and luxurious journey.

For more, visit KLM.com. And for more on Debbi, visit GorgeousGlobetrotter.com and MarketingAuthor.com.

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BOSTON CARRIAGE: WHAT A WAY TO GO

BY DEBBI K. KICKHAM

Has this horrific travel situation ever happened to you?

It’s 11 p.m., you’re traveling overseas on vacation with your family -- and you’re at the airport or at the train station -- and there’s no one in sight. You’re not sure where to go, you’ve got too much luggage and there’s not a taxi anywhere. What to do, besides have an anxiety attack?

There’s a simple solution to solve that problem, which allows you to travel confidently, securely and safety.

It’s Boston Carriage, an international transportation company located in Westwood, Massachusetts.

But don’t let the name fool you. Boston Carriage is a national and worldwide limousine company. One of its many advantages is that it lets you book all of your transportation in advance from Westchester to the West End. “Many vacation travelers, especially, are unaware that they can book all of their high-end transportation abroad — and in advance — with Boston Carriage,” says co-founder Igor Portnoy. “We can handle it all, to make traveling overseas more reliable, comfortable and affordable. We can eliminate a tremendous amount of worry and anxiety that many vacation and business travelers experience when arriving or departing from a foreign country.”

While business travelers typically are familiar with booking transportation in advance, many vacation travelers never think about it, relying instead on hailing a cab at their destination — if there is one to be found — or calling Uber. However, Boston Carriage customers rave about the excellent first-class service, and the convenience of knowing beforehand that their luxury transportation overseas — everywhere from Dublin to Dubai — can be handled professionally. Just step outside your door, and a suited professional chauffeur is waiting for you, ready and able to handle all your luggage, provide you with a water bottle and transport you to your destination securely and promptly.

One recent client found herself in Prague at the train station at 6:30 a.m. with no idea — and with no signage — of how to exit with her family members and get to their hotel with all of their baggage.

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Because of its stellar service, Boston Carriage is referred to as the "Waldorf Astoria on wheels."

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Faster than you can say, “Czech Republic,” their assigned Boston Carriage chauffeur showed up with a smile, personally handled four of their bags in his two hands and escorted them to the luxury sedan that would take them to their hotel. The three travelers also had so many bags — seven in total — that they otherwise would have required two taxis.

Boston Carriage solved that problem too, by showing up in a large luxury SUV. “Boston Carriage was a lifesaver,” she says.

Furthermore, Boston Carriage, as a national and international company, can provide travelers in New York and Connecticut with transportation to a wealth of destinations that include John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, the Martha’s Vineyard ferry and Cape Cod. Its service is so stellar that frequently clients refer to Boston Carriage as the “Waldorf Astoria on wheels.”

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nity. It offers complimentary healthy snacks and goodies from Whole Foods to all of its employees and chauffeurs, so that they can be at their best on the job. This month, the company will round up its chauffeurs, friends, family, neighbors and colleagues and invite them to “take the pledge” against texting and driving. This is part of AT&T’s “It Can Wait” public service campaign. Boston Carriage wants to be a leader in the community, encouraging drivers all over the world to take this pledge, and act responsibly and safely behind the wheel, even if they already do so.

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They are perhaps the ultimate in luxury, these sleek, floating mansions that have all the comforts of home, and then some – at sea.

They have wonderful names like Atlante, Graceful, Kismet, Nirvana, Seahawk, Serenity and Stella Maris and features to match, whether those be a gym with an ocean view, a 49-footby-10-foot indoor pool or an open-air cinema.

Throw in some terraced gardens and you’d be on many a grand estate. We bet they have those, too.

They are the world’s superyachts, and teNeues Publishing Co. has berthed them in “The Superyacht Book,” (285 pages, $75), a gorgeous tome fit for the spacious living room of any of these beauties — and yours as well.

“Yachting is continually changing,” “Superyacht” editor Tony Harris writes. “Design, engineering and technological advancements are consistently pushing the boundaries of what is possible in order to meet owners’ demands.”

These are not your granddaddy’s yachts. Today’s fleet, he continues, contains an increased use of glass and a casual beach club vibe to bring owners and guests even closer to the sea. Then, too, diesel electric hybrid propulsion systems — easier on the environment and fuel efficiency — as well as global satellite communications ensure that the superyacht remains cutting edge.

But you don’t have to know anything about yacht design and engineering — indeed, you don’t have to know port from starboard — to appreciate the plush furnishings of 11.11, built by Benetti; or the multipurpose space of the Atlante, built

by CRN, which can house three custom tenders (boats) or serve as a semi-enclosed lounge or open-air movie theater; or the Persia-meets-Art Deco spa-like style of the Kismet, built by Lürssen.

You just want to melt into these pages, cuddle up with a good book — preferably this one on superyachts — and declare to your captain, “Sail away.”

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You can hear the sounds of The Roundhouse’s surroundings before you can see them.

A Madam Brett cocktail features bourbon, mint and bitter liqueur with a grapefruit foam.

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Sitting on the corner of Main and East Main streets in Beacon, the David Rockwell-designed boutique hotel overlooks a striking gorge, with a roaring waterfall and impressive views of the rushing Fishkill Creek. Formerly a factory built in the 1800s that was originally part of the Matteawan Manufacturing Co., the building was converted into a hotel in 2010. Much of the uniquely curved structure was preserved during the renovations, and the hotel sports classic exposed bricks and many original fixtures.

The Roundhouse’s restaurant received a more-recent makeover this past fall with the addition of Chef Terrance Brennan. Best-known for his New York City restaurants Artisanal and Picholine, Brennan’s moved to the Hudson Valley, which has led him to take a new approach to cooking at The Roundhouse. After touring local farms and engaging in conversations with purveyors, Brennan became strongly committed to both sourcing ingredients from the Hudson Valley and practicing sustainability in the kitchen.

At The Roundhouse, Brennan puts a focus on “whole-farm” and “nose-to-tail” cookery, practices that make use of nearly all parts of an animal or vegetable and dramatically reduce food waste.

"The result of these practices also means innovation in the kitchen,” Brennan says. “Whole-farm cookery provides the opportunity, incentive and necessity to break away from the usual cuts and preparations you can find in any restaurant.”

The restaurant’s dinner menu is divided into four sections — fields and woods, nose to tail, sea to table and pasture — each paying tribute to that renewed commitment to sustainability.

"Using a whole-farm approach has been a real paradigm shift for me," Brennan says. "I won't be abandoning haute cuisine entirely, but you will see a more organic, rustic and simpler approach to some of the dishes that I create. In the past, I may have been concerned about the precise pre-

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A baked Gala apple is drizzled with an oat-walnut crumble.

sentation of a dish, but now, for example, I will make root top vegetable chips just because I don't want to waste them, and they taste good."

On our visit to The Roundhouse, we start with the fields and woods, where a spoonful of housemade ricotta sourced from nearby Ronnybrook Farm is served with cranberry jam. Wait staff soon after delivers baskets of warm sourdough or fluffy multigrain bread.

A lighter plate of compressed pear salad features greens grown at Obercreek Farm. The salad is garnished with walnuts and creamy crumbles

Compressed pear salad is served with local greens, blue cheese and walnut dressing.

of blue cheese. Though a pleasantly tart walnut dressing tops the salad, the dish seems lacking in both flavor and creativity. A second starter proves wildly more successful, with florets of blackened cauliflower served with a delectable cured yolk bottarga and sprinkled with shaved Parmesan, lemon and pistachios.

Seared New Bedford diver sea scallops are plated with a crispy potato fondant and a tart pickled onion. A smoked duck breast is a star of the evening, served rare and wonderfully juicy. Sides of Brussels sprouts are delightfully crisp, and the dish’s subtle hints of citrus prove a true delight.

A baked Gala apple from Fishkill Farms acts as the serving dish for a dollop of vanilla ice cream in our dessert selection. The artfully presented sweets are drizzled with a whey-caramel sorbet and an oat-walnut crumble. While aesthetically pleasing, the toppings ultimately are too salty to achieve the dessert’s full potential.

After that dessert, we make our way to the lounge area where we sit in overstuffed chairs by floor-to-ceiling windows and sip on cocktails — including a Manhattan we will continue to find ourselves reminiscing about weeks later. As we cozy up by the fireplace and take in the superb views of the illuminated creek, we find ourselves feeling completely at ease, though miles away from home.

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NEW YEAR, NEW FREE-AND-EASY LOOK

BY BRIAN TOOHEY

It was a Saturday morning and the Warren Tricomi Salon was just getting started. I noticed a new client on my column, Jennifer Kean, coming up from Manhattan. I wondered how she found her way to me. Her appointment was for mid-afternoon so I would know soon enough.

I wondered if she would feel overwhelmed as she walked through the large glass doors and suddenly found herself in this other world with a steady beat of music, the hum of blow dryers, all wafting up to the high ceilings, and all the current fashion on full display. I know it can be intimidating when someone new arrives at the salon. As they usually are, the front desk was welcoming towards Jennifer and the manager, Dana Duff, took the time to introduce us. At first glance, I sensed that Jennifer was someone I could work with.

As an assistant escorted her to the changing room, I thought about my approach to working with her. I had an idea I wanted to draw on, one that would be most natural for her. Just then she appeared and, as she walked towards me, I noticed she was a lovely young woman with natural grace and poise. We smiled as I invited her to be seated in my chair. Before the consultation began, I let her know that I understood the environment can be overwhelming on the first visit and assured her she was going to receive the best possible care and that my attention would be toward her and making her comfortable. She agreed it was like walking into another world as we both laughed. As the consultation began, there was a recognition we were in this other world together. I asked Jennifer how she came to me and she explained that her mother had read about me and suggested she schedule an appointment with me during her next visit up from the city.

I am sharing this experience with you now so you might see how a new style can happen for you as well.

My approach is to pay attention to the details. Jennifer’s hair was too long to have any movement and did not allow for the light to reflect her soft, golden highlights. A shorter cut was appropriate.

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Marion Cotillard at the Los Angeles premiere of `Allied,` held at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, California, on Nov. 9, 2016. Courtesy dreamstime.com.

longer and continued gradually to shorten the length until it would release a natural light and movement, gaining body and swing. We were both surprised to see how much body her hair had. What we were creating was a soft, mid-length bob with a lift in the back.

The perfect style for Jennifer was there right before our eyes. It was a beautiful style created simply by paying attention to all the details and accessing the hidden beauty that was always there.

I get great satisfaction seeing this unfold. I observe the process as if I am watching someone else do the work. I am confident that Jennifer’s new haircut will grow in beautifully. I think of it as growing in rather than growing out, because I believe that when shaped with the proper care, the cut continues to grow and evolve through every stage.

Coincidently, that evening I went to see the movie “Allied,” starring Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt. When Marion’s character appeared on screen, I was struck by how much her hair resembled the style I just created for Jennifer. Jennifer’s style was more current, as “Allied” is a period piece, but the same simple elegance and flair were there, uncontrived and beautifully shaped. A great haircut is always timeless.

I saw a similar look on Jennifer Lawrence on the cover of Vanity Fair. This new bob with a soft, natural elegance has a free-and-easy feeling that lets the hair move in an unconstructed way.

We will see many new looks in 2017 as the wheels of fashion keep turning. For hair, it is obvious that a freer spirit is on the horizon — less contrived and fun to wear.

After an intense 2016, the desire to let go and express your vision of change is more important than ever. I know from experience that these moments often generate more creativity.

I expect fashion to move along as it always does, full of wonderful surprises. It can prove to be the best time to think of a fresh new look. In 2017, why not express yourself as you feel free and let the creative forces that are in all of us come through? As for me, I want to keep paying attention to details and let the big things take care of themselves.

Happy New Year and, as I like to say, treat your hair with love and it will never leave you.

Visit Brian at Warren Tricomi Salon, 1 E. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. To book an appointment with him, call 212-262-8899.

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THE WINES OF SPIRITED CATALONIA STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PAULDING

Not long ago when I visited a wine estate on a trip to the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Southern France, the owner talked to me about the importance of Catalan traditions, of which I knew nothing.

At one point I asked him, “Do you consider yourself more French or more Catalan?” Without hesitation he said emphatically, “Catalan. Of course.”

I just got back from a wine-centric trip to Catalonia, a region in northeast Spain south of the Pyrenees. The Catalan region used to be a separate protectorate extending into current-day France, established many centuries ago as a buffer against invading forces, mostly the Moors. Catalonia was its own region until the Spanish Civil War when Franco essentially annexed it and made the Catalan government, language and customs illegal. The language is similar to the French dialect Provençal, a mix of Spanish and French, with some Italian thrown in for good measure.

Because of its strategic location on the western edge of the Mediterranean Sea, the region has always done well and its people have been industrious and creative. Today there is a secessionist movement much like the Basque secessionist movement a few years ago. Many locals feel they give way more than they get from the Spanish government and imagine an independent existence would be preferable. Still, Catalonia is a vibrant region with villages and cities — Barcelona is the capital — displaying Greek, Roman, Muslim and Christian influences, to name a few.

I am a firm believer in experiential family vacations in which everyone is exposed to other cultures, languages, food and history. It gives you a broader worldview and a personal stake in studying a multitude of subjects in school. The Spanish tourism board (winetourismspain.com) has done an amazing job of putting together wine routes of various lengths and areas in Catalonia. There are organized bus trips to wineries, or you can travel by car or train.

Just a generation ago, much of the wine made in Spain was consumed locally or was sold in bulk to other regions. I visited Castell del Remei, the first winery in the region with its own brand. Said proprietor Tomàs Cusiné, “In Spain, we are going through a second revolution. We planted Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1920s. Now we are going back to planting in-

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David Molas Alberti (seated), winemaker and owner of Vinyes Del Apres winery, with export manager, Ricard Zamora Islanda at their winery in the foothills of the Pyrenees in the Catalan region of Spain.

digenous varieties like Garnatxa (also known as Grenache) and Monastrell. And more local wineries are welcoming visitors.” A visit to one of these smaller wineries will likely find you talking and touring with the owner or the winemaker.

We also visited and tasted the wines of Clos Pons, which began as a massive olive tree farm and olive oil producer. It has more than 200 varieties of olive trees, with Arbequina being the specific variety of olive oil that chefs treasure and love most for finishing and flavoring dishes.

Clos Pons planted its first vines in 2005 and 2008 was its first vintage wine. And just as in the south of France, the predictable and thunderous Tramontane winds make it easy for olive farms in Catalonia to be organic and sustainable. Both regions tend not to get a lot of rain or humidity and the winds will dry things quickly, reducing any need for fungicides. We visited the mega Cava house, Codorníu and tasted a variety of its sparkling wine styles. Its Cavas are made in the traditional method and are both delicious for

any occasion and affordably priced. Kids will love the theme park-style train/tram ride through the underground wine-aging tunnels. Perelada is another wonderful estate, complete with a castle, a casino and a golf course. The castle’s restaurant is not to be missed.

There is so much more to the region. There are very large estates and producers. There are momand-pop boutique producers. There are vineyards and production houses dating from the Middle Ages and wineries that have sprung up just recently.

There is easy access to the Mediterranean beaches, medieval villages, botanical gardens, hiking, ballooning, snorkeling and kayaking. There are street festivals featuring food, music, art and even a festival dedicated to the dreaded phylloxera pest that destroyed vineyards worldwide. In short, there is something, many things, for everyone. It is a vacation and experience that will change someone forever, for the better.

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This is one of my favorite recipes to make on a cold day in January.

Indeed, chicken Parmesan has always been one of my favorite dishes. Whether serving with pasta or making a hero on Italian bread, it always hits the spot. My daughter could literally eat this every day. It has been her favorite since she was 2. Enjoy.

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4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts 2 eggs 3 cups Italian-flavored breadcrumbs ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon of olive oil for frying 1 ½ cups prepared tomato sauce 1 whole fresh mozzarella, thinly sliced ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon chopped basil 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 teaspoon oregano Salt and pepper to taste

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Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Place cutlets between 2 large zip lock bags and pound with a mallet to ½-inch thickness.

Season cutlets with salt and pepper on both sides.

Beat eggs in a bowl and set aside.

Mix breadcrumbs, oregano and Parmesan in a bowl.

Dip cutlets in egg mixture and then dip into breadcrumbs on both sides.

Shake off excess — and put on a large dish.

Heat ½ cup of olive oil on medium heat and sear each breast about 2 minutes on each side.

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REFRESH, REVIVE AND REV UP FOR A NEW YEAR

The WAG staff knows just what you’re thinking: The holidays are over and you’re feeling (and looking) a bit sluggish. So two of our beloved Waggers – Aleesia Forni and Danielle Renda – hit the mats, yoga and otherwise, to sample different workouts to get you ready for 2017. Here’s their field report: HERE&NOW YOGA + BODY Move with intention and move with purpose.

Those are mantras owner Jocelyn Koenig repeats to patrons. During a recent early morning visit to the studio at 138 Garth Road in Scarsdale, we were treated to a FlowNow class that left us feeling refreshed, revived and ready to take on the rest of our day. Perfect for beginners or experts alike, this vinyasa flow class emphasizes the connection between breath and movement.

Koenig expertly guided her fellow yogis through a series of yoga poses from downward dog to tabletop. For those looking to spice up their practice, Here&Now also offers a variety of classes like Barre&Flow or Power Now. For more, visit hereandnowyogabody.com — Aleesia Forni

Jocelyn Koenig, owner of Here&Now yoga+body.

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TotalFusion Studios at 347 Halstead Ave. in Harrison is the epitome of a New Age fitness experience.

It’s among the few studios in the country — according to Hana Rukaj, one of the studio’s five partners — that incorporates technology into its cycling workouts through means of a virtual world, known as Spivi.

“It’s sort of like being inside of a video game,” says Alex Bayer, another of the studio’s partners. “It’s a beautiful visual. You kind of get lost in it sometimes.”

Spivi enables cyclers to create a personal avatar and essentially watch themselves — via television screens in the studio — navigate through environments of the instructor’s choosing.

Meanwhile, the program tracks cyclers’ performances over time, from their calories burned to their distance and RPM (revolutions per minute), which earn them points in the online community.

WAG was treated to a Cy-Co class, which combines a 30-minute cycle session with 20 minutes of core exercise, a model that reflects the studio’s “Fusionology” concept. Each TotalFusion class “fuses” together different workouts, so as to circumvent repetitive motion.

Such a class combination includes Piloxing Barre, which incorporates elements of Pilates, boxing and Barre.

But not to worry, because the intensity of the classes is balanced by the studio’s luxury treatment. After the class ended, we were immediately treated to sips of protein shakes and small bites, along with warm, eucalyptus-scented hand towels.

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CONDITIONING IS KEY FOR INJURY-FREE FUN ON THE SLOPES

BY KEVIN PLANCHER, MD

As the team physician for the United States’ men’s and women’s downhill teams, as well as the snowboarding and freestyle teams, I understand the needs of skiers and snowboarders perhaps better than most.

Together, their disciplines attract more than 28 million participants each year, with the athletes — both weekend and professional — pushing the envelope by adding challenging tricks and lengthy bump runs in both sports. At Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Greenwich’s Cos Cob and Manhattan, the ultimate goal is to keep even the novice injury-free while out on the slopes. Proper conditioning can prevent many of the associated downhill injuries by adding strength and flexibility to the muscles, tendons and ligaments that are used in the sport.

Common injuries for skiers are to the knee and shoulder, whereas snowboarders need to remain particularly aware of the ankle and wrist. By following some simple guidelines, you can greatly decrease the incidence of injury to any body part.

Focus on the four areas below to ensure a great season: 1. Balance: Balance is the first step toward safe skiing. The better your balance, the less likely you are to fall. The ability to balance on one leg can be achieved with a few simple exercises. A single-leg dead lift while holding light weights works well, as does simply standing on one leg.

2. Flexibility: Increasing your flexibility can protect your joints during a downhill run as well as during an unexpected fall. Flexibility decreases the chance of falling while also providing better and safer falling. Make stretching a part of your post-cardio exercise program to ensure all muscles are warm and ready to go.

3. Strengthening: Strengthening muscles, tendons and ligaments is imperative to good form.

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Kevin Plancher

Squats and rotations on a Bosu ball, a device with a large flat surface on top and a soft ball-shaped underside, are excellent starting points. You can build strength in your lower legs with band work and strength-training machines, but we do caution you to avoid deep knee squats and weighted leg extension exercises as they can put unnecessary strain on the knees.

4. Cardio: There is no question that improved cardiovascular fitness can make a better skier and snowboarder by increasing stamina and decreasing fatigue. We recommend a fitness/aerobic program that includes at least 30 minutes of conditioning each day. You can choose biking, running, swimming or even walking. You can begin slowly with the end goal of achieving 60 minutes of cardiovascular training each day.

5. Core Development: A strong and stable core

equates to better balance, better coordination and overall increased power on the hill. These are critical components to avoid injury. Core strength can easily be achieved with yoga, Pilates or dance classes. It can also be achieved with proper sit-ups, planks or oblique reaches.

Remember, skiing and snowboarding are fun group activities that are exhilarating for all of the senses. We, at Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, believe that with the above training program in place and with thoughtful preparation, enthusiasts can enjoy a healthier and safer season. So get out there, have fun and stay injury-free.

Kevin D. Plancher, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and the founder of Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, a general orthopedics and sports medicine practice. For more, visit plancherortho.com.

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REDEFINING PAIN CONTROL

BY PAUL SETHI, MD

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44 people die every day in the United States from an overdose of prescription painkillers. This troubling statistic has ignited the search for pain-management alternatives among many surgeons, who are unsettled by the idea that a prescription for hydrocodone or oxycodone that is intended to help a patient recover from surgery could lead to a lifelong battle with addiction or even death.

For the past eight months, my colleagues and I have been successfully using a new pain-relieving method in knee and shoulder surgeries that helps reduce or eliminate a patient’s need for opioids to control postsurgical pain. By injecting a new, slow-release local analgesic into the deep tissue around the bone and the muscles that surround the operation site, we are able to numb it for 72 hours after surgery, the most critical period of intense pain.

Some patients who have been administered the analgesic have not needed any narcotics for pain, or, if they did, they’ve needed far fewer than with traditional postsurgical pain control. Since those patients take painkillers for a much shorter period of time, the risk of addiction is greatly reduced, as is the risk that unused pills will fall into the hands of friends or loved ones. Currently, about 70 percent of prescription opioids used for nonmedical reasons are obtained through family or friends, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

In the past, recovery from total shoulder replacement surgery has usually required weeks of pain and opioids to control it. This was not the case for Manhattan resident Marjorie Purnick, who was out to dinner with friends the night after her procedure, which included the administration of the numbing medicine. She said she has never taken a single pill for pain in the four months since her shoulder replacement surgery.

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“It was incredible. I kept waiting for the pain to hit, but it never did,” she says. “Friends who have had the same surgery don’t believe me when I tell them that I had no pain.” With the help of physical therapy, Marjorie has regained close to 100 percent of her range of motion, a recovery that she says has been four to eight months quicker than her friends.

“I think I’ve recovered so quickly, because I didn’t have pain holding me back. I could get started with therapy right away.”

Vivid memories of the agonizing pain that Rye resident Michele Herrera had endured following a surgery on her left shoulder five years ago had been preventing her from undergoing surgery to correct torn biceps and bone spurs in her right shoulder.

“I was petrified to have the surgery again because of that pain,” she recalls. This time around, however, it was completely different. “I am the happiest person in the world. I had surgery and I was

out walking the dog that same day.” When the medication did start to wear off three days later, she says she took pain medication, because she was afraid of how intense the pain would be. She soon realized that all she felt was a little sore. “Once I realized the pain was manageable, I switched to Tylenol.”

These types of results and the successes of other opioid-sparing efforts in this country are cause for cautious optimism that we can control at least the physical reason for opioid addiction. Still, we still have a long way to go. It is incumbent on the medical community as a whole to recognize its own responsibility and do the right thing for patients. Newer pain protocols will initially add to a physician’s costs, but if it can save a person from an overdose death or a lifelong addiction, it’s well worth the price.

I would do that for my patients any day of the week.

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MAKE YOUR HEALTH YOUR WEALTH IN THE NEW YEAR

BY GIOVANNI ROSELLI

“If you think wellness is expensive, then try illness.” — Unknown As we begin a new year filled with hope, resolutions and motivation, it won’t be hard to find plenty of articles exhorting you to live health-conscious in 2017. In my 2016 WAG articles, I explained the reasons for healthy living, along with the research on topics ranging from the importance of strength training to the benefits of rest and recovery, youth sports and everyday physical activities like gardening.

Ask any expectant mother and father about whether they want a boy or a girl, the answer usually always ends with, “…as long as the baby’s healthy.”

Ask any man and woman above the age of 50 what is important to them as they age, it usually includes something like “…I don’t want to get sick.”

Although we are all different, I’ve deduced that in general, we all have two things in common — 1.

No one wants to be in pain. And 2. Everyone wants the best quality of life possible.

Talk to anyone who is in pain and/or who has been in pain for a while, and watch how passionate the person gets about how much more challenging life has become.

Your quality of life is determined by any number of things, such as what you are putting in your body (nutrition), what you are doing with your body (movement) and how well you balance parasympathetic versus sympathetic tones (rest/digest versus fight/flight).

One of the easiest ways to analyze suffering from things such as depression, anxiety or obesity can simply be to consider two reasons — not enough of something or too much of something.

Think about some things that we often get too little of — sleep, vegetables, exercise and meditation.

Think about some things that we often get too much of — sugar, stress, alcohol and sitting.

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Giovanni Roselli. Photograph by Bob Rozycki.

Can you see how any one of these things could lead to a decrease in your quality of life?

There’s a very good chance that what you need is to do a little more of what you aren’t doing and/ or do a little less of what are you doing.

Beginning a new year, my simple advice would be to start with this: Look at what you may be doing too little of and what you may be doing too much of. If you can balance this out, you may find that the true meaning of living a life of wealth starts with your health.

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PET OF THE MONTH

A GRACE-FUL POOCH

“Southern belle” takes on a whole new meaning with Grace, a gorgeous Labrador mix. She is about a year old and was rescued from a high-kill shelter in Mississippi. Grace gains more and more confidence every day and has become a social butterfly since coming north. Initially, she was shy, but now she can’t wait to meet new people. Her tail never stops wagging, and she is very gentle and sweet.

Her whole body wiggles when she is excited. She also loves dogs. She’d be ever so Grace-ful in a quiet home with another canine companion.

To meet Grace, visit the SPCA of Westchester at 590 N. State Road in Briarcliff Manor.

Founded in 1883, the SPCA is a no-kill shelter and is not affiliated with the ASPCA. The SPCA is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. To learn more, call 914- 941-2896 or visit spca914.org.

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Darlington Hall North Salem, NY

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his stately english manor house was modeled after Sir edward Lutyens “ Salutation’’. Approached via a 1/2 mile driveway, passing by open fields & pond. The stunning 83 acres will accommodate an equestrian facility or gentleman’s farm. The grand entry hall features a double wrought iron staircase, antique limestone floor, 22 ft. ceiling & a carved stone fireplaces. The music room & Lr, both fitted w/fireplaces command views of the lily pond fountain pool. The gilt painted dr overlooks the garden & outdoor pool. A new boffi kitchen has an adjoining fam.rm. 2 floor: The walnut paneled library has a fireplaces & a detailed painted ceiling depicting a 16th century astrological map. The ample mbr suite includes a dressing room, sitting room & 2 baths. 2 family brs & en-suite baths. 3 floor: 7 brs w/4 full baths. Lower level: Screening rm. Play room. exercise room & a tunnel to a orangerie. The orangerie houses a 45 x 20ft pool, spa & changing room. The grounds include a 4 car garage, caretaker’s apt.& guest house.. mLS# 4631386 Price $8,800,000

Le Farm

Brook Farm

his 25 acre gentleman’s farm offers privacy in a stunning equestrian setting. The renovated 5 br main house is perfectly sited on the property, overlooking a pond, paddocks, & rolling lawns. french doors beckon guests to the terrace & pool, while large windows frame idyllic views. The heart of the home is great room w/a vaulted ceiling & stone fireplace, while formal living & dining rooms offer venues for traditional entertaining.

The master suite & oak-paneled study offer the perfect setting for quiet repose. Another 3 family brs, 2 bths & an additional guest suite occupies this home. Additionally their is a pool/pool house, terrace, tennis court, 2-br guest cottage, garage space, & a greenhouse.

The equestrian facilities include a 5 stall barn, outdoor arena, 6 paddocks, & direct access to the bedford riding lanes. mLS#4526323 Price: $7,950,000

Approached via a circular drive, stands the stately colonial home originally owned by playwright eugene o’neill. Thoughtfully renovated, this 7 br, 3.4 bath home was the inspiration for o’neills play “desire under the elms”. historic highlights include 9 ft ceilings, 7 fireplaces, maple floors, a grand entry w/double staircase, french doors, & large windows overlooking the bucolic setting.

The recent addition includes a mudrm, lndry rm, & bonus rm over the 2 car attached garage. Sited on 16 park like acres of rolling lawns, meadows, a sylvan pond, & specimen plantings. Proximity to the north Salem bridle trails makes this an equestrian enthusiast’s dream. The barn has 2 stalls, 4 bay garage & a 1,348 sq.ft. office. outdoor amenities include a salt water pool, flagstone terrace, & covered side porch. Subdivision possibilities! mLS# 4642150 Price:$4,200,000

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Bedford Spectacular 5 br, 6.1 bath 10,000 sq. ft. clapboard colonial overlooking the mianus gorge conservation land. The ideal house for entertaining or enjoying an incredible lifestyle.

Large rooms w/coffered & vaulted ceilings, 13 inch moldings. gourmet kitchen w/eat in breakfast room. beautiful bedrooms w/en-suite baths. extraordinary lower level w/ professional bar, 12 seat theatre, exercise room, sauna, & recreational space. balconies, decks, & patios overlook the magnificent backyard with infinity pool, 2 fire pits, built in barbecue, raised vegetable garden & open space. Premier house! mLS#4639945 Price: $2,249,000

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his private colonial is set on over 8 acres adjacent to the Pound ridge conservancy. The meticulously maintained home offers 5,861 square feet of living space. featured is a bright center entrance, formal Lr, formal dr, music/office & a gourmet eat-in kitchen w/butler’s pantry. The luxurious master suite includes a fireplace, his & her’s walk in closets & a beautiful master bath. There are an additional 5 br’s with 4 full baths & 1/2 bath. The outdoor living space boasts a gunite pool & spa w/a truly breathtaking landscape creating a private & serene setting. mLS# 4639693 Price: $1,645,000

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he d. d. Smith house. charming c. 1760 colonial completely restored w/updated systems across from the titicus reservoir on 6+ ac. elegant living, dining & Parlor rooms w/2 fireplaces. eat-in cook’s kit. w/adjoining sunporch overlooking brick terrace & heated pool. full bath on 1st fl. Attic space w/staircase suitable for studio. 3 bedrooms & 3 baths PLUS Legal attached 1 bedroom, 1 bath, living room & kit. rental cottage. Period barn & corn crib add excellent storage spaces. 10 acres of conservation land w/walking paths leading to bridle trails. mLS#4637480 Price: 1,425,000

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THE WATERS EDGE at Giovanni’s

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The TOP-TIER STEAKHOUSE is also One of Fairfield County’s Most Sought-After SPECIAL EVENTS VENUES

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“...if you’re hosting a wedding, a shower, or another special event here, we treat the guest of honor like she were our daughter, with love and care.” –JoAnn Latorraca The Waters Edge at Giovanni’s has stood the test of time as both an award-winning steakhouse and a luxe special events venue for more than 37 years.

As one longtime customer put it: “I have counted on Waters Edge for so many special occasions over the years because I can put the party in their hands and know that they will take care of every little detail so that I can enjoy my guests.” She added: “This is where we have hosted

she were our daughter, with love and care.

If you’re hosting a business event here, we treat it as though the caliber of our food and service will help you seal the deal and make the best impression on your clients and staff.”

And, if you’ve ever been to a special event at Waters Edge, you have seen JoAnn in action, fixing a bride’s bustle or smoothing a groom’s lapel, finessing a table setting, finding a quiet seat for an elder relative in the midst of a hopping party. This

many family birthdays and milestones, but most importantly, it was the place we chose for our daughter’s wedding. That’s saying something.

We knew the Latorraca family would create an unforgettable evening, and the wedding exceeded all of our expectations.”

JoAnn Latorraca, one of the owners, along with husband, Sal, says, “We’ve been making people happy for more than 37 years because Waters Edge is an extension of our family. We treat every guest as if he or she were family. That means, if you’re hosting a wedding, a shower, or another special event here, we treat the guest of honor like

love and personal attention is truly what sets The Waters Edge at Giovanni’s apart.

One of the Gold Coast’s premier special events venues, located in Darien, with a waterfront backdrop and spaces from intimate dinners to grand affairs, The Waters Edge is at its core, a toprated restaurant, where a team of highly skilled chefs turns out some of the finest cuisine in the state, with generous cuts of prime meats, freshly caught oysters and seafood, Italian specialties and to-die-for desserts. People initially come for the fine dining, but they return for special events.

For instance, one customer, the head of a large

Fortune 500 firm, now does all of his corporate entertaining at The Waters Edge. He says, “After coming here for small client lunches since the 90s, we learned that they do corporate events. From that point on, we have hosted company retreats, wine dinners, and even big office holiday parties here. Why wouldn’t we? They have the best food in Fairfield County and an impressive wine list that rivals those at some of our favorite restaurants in New York. We love the new VIP wine room.”

JoAnn says, ”Giovanni, the restaurant’s patriarch, taught us to view each of our guests as part of our family. Over the years, we’ve learned that it’s true. So many of our guests come back again and again. They are truly like family to us.”

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WHEN & WHERE

THROUGH JAN. 14 Rye Arts Center presents “A Gathering of Light,” an exhibition that features members of The Ground Glass, a Westchester-based association for fine art photographers. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 51 Milton Road, Rye; 914-967-0700, ryeartscenter.org

THROUGH JAN. 18 Featuring five contemporary artists who have created works that use by-products of today’s consumer

10,000 MANIACS JAN. 14, THE WAREHOUSE AT FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY

culture, “Reclaim, Reprocess,” now on view at the Flinn Gallery in the Greenwich Library, seeks to challenge people to think about waste in creative and inno-

THROUGH JAN. 28

to see some of the seals and waterfowl that spend

vative ways. 101 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich; 203-622-

The Gordon Parks Foundation presents “Fifty

their winter just off our shores during Seal-Spotting

7947, flinngallery.com

Years After: Gordon Parks, Mickalene Thomas

& Birding Cruises with The Maritime Aquarium at

and LaToya Ruby Frazier,” a group exhibition that

Norwalk. 10 N. Water St., Norwalk; 203-852-0700,

explores the works of photographer Gordon Parks

maritimeaquarium.org

THROUGH JAN. 19

and the effect he has had on successive generations

The Carriage Barn Arts Center presents the 37th an-

of black photographers. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays

nual Photography Show, juried by Laurie Kratochvil,

through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays, The

JAN. 14

the longtime photo editor of Rolling Stone magazine.

Gordon Parks Foundation, 48 Wheeler Ave., Pleas-

ArtsWestchester presents an artist talk and closing

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 1 to

antville; 914-238-2619, gordonparksfoundation.org

5 p.m. Sundays, Waveny Park, 681 South Ave., New Ca-

reception for its “Remedy” exhibition. Guests will explore the connection of art and healing. 4 p.m. to

naan; 203-972-1895, carriagebarn.org.

JAN. 5

6 p.m., 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains; 914-4284222, artswestchester.org/remedy

The Pequot Library presents “Cooking by the

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Book: The Changing Landscape Of American Cui-

With one foot in folk and the other in rock ‘n’ roll, 10,000

sine,” with food historian Sarah Wassberg, who will

Maniacs found themselves at the forefront of the col-

discuss the evolution of nutrition, food trends and

lege rock scene beginning in the early 1980s. They will

cookbooks in the United States. 7 p.m., The Pequot

be onstage at the Warehouse at Fairfield Theatre Com-

Library, 720 Pequot Ave., Southport; 203-259-

pany. 8 p.m., 70 Sanford St., Fairfield; 203-259-1036,

0346, pequotlibrary.org

fairfieldtheater.org

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JAN. 7

Tito Puente Jr. and his Latin Jazz Band will be in the area to thrill the crowd with their high-voltage cel-

Kim Jones, who served as a Marine during the Viet-

ebration of jazz and Latin beats. 8 p.m., The Palace

nam War, is joined In Dialogue with Steve Mumford,

Danbury, 165 Main St.; 203-794-9944, thepalace-

who has been embedded in Afghanistan and Iraq as

danbury.com

an artist since 2003, to discuss Jones’ current exhibition, “White Crow.” 3 p.m., Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main St., Ridgefield; 203-438-4519, aldrichart.org

REWIND: 60 YEARS AT CAC

JAN. 28 THROUGH MARCH 25, CLAY ART CENTER

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JAN. 20 Enjoy a musical evening with Pat Metheny, who has won countless polls as “Best Jazz Guitarist” as well as

JAN. 7 THROUGH MARCH 26 Cruise out onto Long Island Sound for the chance

three gold records and 20 Grammy Awards. 8 p.m., Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 E. Ridge Road; 203-438-5795, ridgefieldplayhouse.org

VALENTINE’S DAY GALA

Dance the night away with a night of hits by the Grammy Award Winning Commodores!

THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE for movies and the performing arts

january

Non-profit 501 (c) (3)

Raffle Prizes · Champagne and Dessert · Live Auction Items

Gala at 6pm · Live Auction at 8pm followed by concert

12 Leo Kottke & Keller Williams Shut the Folk Up and Listen Tour Partially underwritten by Casey Energy

13 Jefferson Starship

Meet and Greet tickets available!

14 The Coasters 15 The Wall Live Extravaganza: A Floydian Spectacle 19 David Johansen from The New York Dolls as Buster Poindexter 21 A Night of Comedy Headliners Ft. Rich Vos, Pete Correale & Robert Kelly

february

16 The Steppin Stones 17 The Machine Performs Pink Floyd 18 An Evening with Rita Moreno 22 Steve Hackett

Genesis Revisited With Classic Hackett 2017 US Tour

23 Howie Mandel 25 Dancin’ Broadway

Broadway dancers and vocalists re-create iconic dance moments from West Side Story and more!

march

25 An Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt

1 Los Lobos

27 Phil Vassar

2 Marc Maron

The Too Real Tour

28 The Cast of Beatlemania 29 Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Peter Gros

february

2 Constantine Maroulis Special Guest Brian Dunne

3 Shanghai Acrobats: The New Shanghai Circus 4 Jay and the Americans 5 The Musical Box Performs Genesis’ “Selliing England By The Pound”

8 Tiempo Libre

10 Rob Schneider

9 Winner of America’s Got Talent Illusionist Mat Franco

12 Steven Seagal Blues Band

10 Get The Led Out

26 Raul Midón

18 Leslie West of Mountain

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JAN. 28 THROUGH MARCH 25 Clay Arts Center presents “Rewind: 60 Years at CAC.” This exhibition, part of the yearlong program “RE/CLAY,” shares a narrative of the center from 1957 to the present, as arranged by its founding director, Reena Kashyap. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, Clay Arts Center, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, 914-937-2047, clayartcenter.org

JAN. 30 From the streets of the Bronx to the courts of the US Open, James Blake won 10 singles titles, helped the United States to a Davis Cup and penned the best-selling memoir “Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life.” He will be speaking at 8 p.m., at the Open Visions Forum at the Quick

TITO PUENTE JR. JAN. 14, THE PALACE DANBURY

Center for the Arts, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield; 203-254-4010, quickcenter.fairfield.edu

JAN. 20 AND 21

JAN. 26

JAN. 31

Clocktower Players’ Jr. Teen Troupe presents

Westchester Italian Cultural Center presents “My

The Avon Theatre Film Center, located in downtown Stamford, presents a screening of the cult classic

“Singin’ in the Rain Jr.,” a musical comedy based

Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes,” a film that

on the classic film. The production captures the

tells the story of Italians, including cycling champi-

“Trainspotting” (1996) by director Danny Boyle. 8:30

waning days of the silent screen era as it gives way

on Gino Bartali, who defied the Nazis and Fascists by

p.m., 272 Bedford St., Stamford; 203-967-3660, avon-

to the new “talkies.” 7:30 p.m., Irvington Town Hall

hiding thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. 7 to

theater.org

Theater, 85 Main St., Irvington; 914-591-6602, clock-

9 p.m., One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe; 914-771-

towerplayers.com

8700, wiccny.org

JAN. 21 Ballet des Amériques, along with director and chore-

JAN. 27 AND 29

ographer Carole Alexis, presents “Evenings of Dance

Hudson Chorale presents “Variations on a Text,” a

in Port Chester.” 7 p.m., Ballet des Amériques School

concert that explores how specific musical verses

& Company Inc., 16 King St.; 646-753-0457, balletdes-

have been interpreted differently by composers from

ameriques.company

varying eras, cultures and countries. The program

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will include diverse and contrasting settings of “Ave

The Greenwich Choral Society will join the Green-

Maria,” “Te Deum” and more. Times vary, Queen of

wich Symphony Orchestra to perform Franz

the Apostles Chapel at Maryknoll, 55 Ryder Road,

Schubert’s “Mass in G Major,” with guest soloists

Ossining; 914-462-3212, hudsonchorale.org

soprano Halley Gilbert, tenor Elliott Deasy and baritone Jonathan Rohr. 8 p.m., Greenwich High School Performing Arts Center, 10 Hillside Road, Greenwich; 203-869-2664, greenwichsymphony.org

JAN. 28 The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College presents Paul Taylor Dance Company. The ensemble, established

JAN.25 Downtown Music at Grace presents pianist Anna Vin-

in 1954, brings Taylor’s breezy but complex repertoire to theaters and venues across the world. 8 p.m., 735 Ander-

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es all genres and styles, ranging from late Renaissance

Acclaimed for his bad-boy reputation and his flawless

to contemporary. The concert is part of the “Noonday

technique, Cameron Carpenter has been the subject

Getaway” concert series. 12:10 p.m., Grace Episcopal

of international acclaim and controversy, smashing ste-

Church, 33 Church St., White Plains; 914-949-0384,

reotypes of organists and organ music. 7 p.m., Quick

dtmusic.org

Center for the Arts, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield; 203254-4010, quickcenter.fairfield.edu

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PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

JAN. 28, THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT PURCHASE COLLEGE

son Hill Road; 914-251-6200, artscenter.org

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Presented by ArtsWestchester and the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.

For more, visit artswestchester.org and culturalalliancefc.org.

JAN 28 ALESSIO BAX

JAN 28 PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

EXPERIENCE. SOMETHING. REAL. JANUARY

FEBRUARY

28 CMS of Lincoln Center Brahms and Fauré, pianist Alessio Bax 28 Paul Taylor Dance Company A program of iconic Taylor works

1 Joanna Gleason 2&3 Into the Woods Fiasco Theatre production 5 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Vadim Gluzman, violin 11 Venice Baroque Orchestra Nicola Benedetti, violin 12 Kronos Quartet 18 Spectrum Dance Theatre 25 Jazz at The Center Ann Hampton Callaway 26 Matt Haimovitz, cello

FEB 1 JOANNA GLEASON

FEB 5 VADIM GLUZMAN

FEB 11 NICOLA BENEDETTI

FEB 12 KRONOS QUARTET

FEB 18 SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE

FEB 25 JAZZ: ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY

FEB 2 & 3 INTO THE WOODS

FEB 26 MATT HAIMOVITZ

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GALA NIGHT IN GREENWICH WATCH

It was an evening to remember as Greenwich Hospital held its annual gala fundraiser, which raised nearly $1 million for the hospital’s cardiovascular services. More than 350 supporters, including special guests Jill and Harry Connick Jr., joined in the Parisian cabaret-themed festivities at Greenwich Country Club. The party began with cocktails and silent and wine auctions in the club’s ballroom. Guests were led to dinner in a transformed tent boasting red, hot-pink and gold fabric panels, a whimsical backdrop of the Paris skyline, images of can-can dancers projected along the perimeter and candelabra centerpieces accented with feathers and flora. Following the live auction, guests flooded the dance floor, inspired by the music of the Starlight Orchestra. At the end of the night, partygoers were given a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts as they made their way to their waiting vehicles.

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EMPTY NO LONGER

Chappaqua Cares hosted its second annual Empty Bowls Westchester fundraiser to fight food insecurity in northern Westchester at the Whippoorwill Club in Armonk. The event raised more than $87,000 on behalf of the Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, the Community Center of Northern Westchester and the Pleasantville Interfaith Emergency Food Pantry.

News 12 Westchester’s Lisa Salvadorini emceed the event, which auctioned off bowls by Hillary Clinton, Lin-Manuel Miranda and others.

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I FEEL SO POWERLESS. WE HAVE TO WATCH HER EVERY MINUTE. FAMILY AND FRIENDS STOPPED COMING AROUND. HE KEEPS SAYING: “THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.” IT’S DESTROYING OUR FAMILY. I FEEL SO GUILTY WE HAVE TO MOVE HER INTO A HOME. IT’S SO HARD TO CARE FOR SOMEONE WHO’S MEAN TO YOU. HE HIDES THINGS ALL THE TIME. I’M GRIEVING THE LOSS OF SOMEONE WHO’S STILL ALIVE. WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START.

LIVING WITH FTD IS HARD. LIVING WITHOUT HELP IS HARDER. THERE’S COMFORT IN FINDING OTHERS WHO UNDERSTAND. WE FINALLY FOUND A DOCTOR WHO GETS IT. I GOT SO MUCH ADVICE FROM OTHER CAREGIVERS. UNDERSTANDING MORE HELPS ME DEAL WITH HER SYMPTOMS. SEEING THAT OTHERS MADE IT THROUGH, I KNEW I COULD TOO. WE HONOR HIM BY ADVOCATING FOR A CURE. NOW I’M BETTER AT ASKING FOR HELP. NO MATTER HOW BAD IT GETS, WE KNOW WE’RE NOT ALONE. It can feel so isolating and confusing from the start: Just getting a diagnosis of FTD takes 3.6 years on average. But no family facing FTD should ever have to face it alone, and with your help, we’re working to make sure that no one does.

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CHAMPAGNE AND FIREWORKS More than 400 guests attended Phelps Hospital’s 29th annual Champagne Ball, held at Sleepy Hollow Country Club. The evening raised more than $450,000 to support the hospital, thanks to ball co-chairmen Dr. Paul and Pamela Terracciano, Dr. Franklin and Laurie Zimmerman and Dr. Jack and Ingrid Hershman. The Fund-A-Cause auction raised $200,000, including a $100,000 matching gift from Alice Marie and Tom Hales, benefitting patient care through a new system integration known as “Vocera Nurse Call.” A highlight of the evening was a surprise fireworks display.

Guests enjoyed dancing the night away to the Michael Dell Orchestra and bidding on silent auction items.

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ArtsWestchester honored five Wonder Women during its annual gala at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester in White Plains. These women have demonstrated exceptional leadership and support of the arts. The honorees were Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, chair of the New York State Council on the Arts; Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York state senator, Democratic conference leader; Maria Ferreira, area president for Wells Fargo; Emily Grant, lifetime arts patron; and Mary Calvi, CBS 2 News anchor. Pho5. Robert and Sheila Astorino 6. Michel and Marie Smith, Jean Marie Connolly and Mark Iannucci 7. Maria Ferreira, Bob Roth, Emily Grant, Elizabeth Bracken-Thompson, Mary Calvi, New York Sen. Andrea StewartCousins, Geoff Thompson and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

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Hospital for Special Surgery hosted its annual benefit at Guastavino’s in Manhattan, raising more than $900,000 in support of the award-winning medical education program at HSS. The event, attended by more than 400 guests, honored three physicians. Elan Gold, received the Richard S. Laskin, MD Young Attending Award; Anne Kelly, the Nancy Kane Bischoff Mentor Award; and Joseph Lane, the Philip D. Wilson, Jr., MD Teaching Award. Photographs by Don Pollard.

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Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (LSHV), the only provider of comprehensive civil (noncriminal) legal services to those who cannot afford them in the seven counties of Lower and Mid-Hudson Valley, held a Pro Bono Celebration as part of National Pro Bono Week.

The event, which welcomed more than 70 people to LSHV’s White Plains headquarters, honored eight attorneys and one paralegal for their pro bono assistance to clients filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Those honored at the Pro Bono Celebration included Julie Cvek Curley, Deyanira Gonzalez, Nathan Horowitz, Dawn Kirby, Natasha Meruela, Susan Mills Richmond, Hugh Rothbaum, Wendy Marie Weathers and Ted Zink Jr. National Pro Bono Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about the ever-growing unmet legal needs of vulnerable and economically disadvantaged individuals and families and to encourage more attorneys and paralegals to volunteer through nonprofits to help meet these needs.

6. Front row: Ted Zink Jr., Susan Mills Richmond, Wendy Marie Weathers and Nathan Horowitz Back row: Natasha Meruela, Deyanira Gonzalez, Marian Genio, Dawn Kirby and Hugh Rothbaum

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The Woman’s Club of White Plains raised more than $100,000 with its Gala of the Century — the culmination of a yearlong celebration of the club’s century of commitment to the community. Emceed by Lisa LaRocca of News 12 Westchester, the event drew 180 guests, including many local officials who congratulated club members on their centennial campaign, 100 Acts of Kindness, which included collecting coats, books, cell phones, toys, eyeglasses and more to benefit various organizations; hosting a pancake breakfast for Lifting Up Westchester; and baking for the Salvation Army.

1. Christine Roithmayr and Mary Jane Goldman 2. Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Lisa LaRocca 3. Nadine Hunt-Robinson, Susan Doherty and Cathy Schauber 4. Mary Ann Martin and Ruth H. Mahoney 5. Maria Imperial and Kitley Covill

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Three members of the Westchester area’s real estate community — Joe Apicella, Seth Pinsky and Martin Ginsburg — were honored at the 29th annual Real Estate Awards Breakfast held at the Hilton Westchester.

More than 600 real estate professionals from the tristate area celebrated urban evolution and the progressive projects and visionaries that are changing our landscape. Tara Rosenblum, News 12 anchor/ reporter, was the event’s emcee.

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The Mental Health Association of Westchester shined a spotlight on mental health and suicide awareness during an evening of conversation and song with legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins.

Known for her ethereal vocals on songs like “Both Sides Now” and “Send in the Clowns,” the Grammy Award-winning artist captivated nearly 200 guests at the Emelin Theatre. The evening raised nearly $90,000 for the organization, which provides vital mental health services and programs throughout the region.

1. Nyna Giles and Doris Schwartz 2. Matt Ruffalo, Patrice Ingrassia, Christine Broda, Nicholas Perrotta and Adrian Venuto 3.Melissa Dominguez, Anita Boyapati and Jeanette Fairhurst 4. Karol Mayer, Donna Renella and Sean and Randi Mayer 5. Michael Lombardi, Judy Collins and Amy Kohn, MD

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The Sherry B Dessert Studio and WAG hosted cookbook author Dorie Greenspan as part of “sb studio sessions,” a series that welcomes artists in the food world and beyond to the dessert studio in Chappaqua. Owner Sherrie Blockinger moderated a Q&A with Greenspan about her latest release, “Dorie’s Cookies.”

Guests enjoyed cookies from the book and studio favorites, including Blockinger’s Blondie-Ate-ABrownies.

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“Take A Walk in Her Shoes” was the theme of the fourth annual breakfast that the United Way of Westchester and Putnam Women’s Leadership Council held recently at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown. Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino thanked the organization for its tireless efforts to improve the lives of others. Astorino also congratulated this year’s honoree and recipient of the “Woman of Distinction” award, Marsha Gordon, CEO of The Business Council of Westchester. The keynote speaker was Lee Woodruff (wife of ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff), who offered an inspirational speech about her family’s odyssey in dealing with her husband’s traumatic brain injury and long road to recovery after being hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq. She also spoke about how their work has morphed into advocacy for veterans and their families. Photographs by

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Dr. Sabrina Magid-Katz of Advanced Dentistry of Westchester and Adam S. Katz co-chaired the YWCA’s third annual Movers and Shakers Fundraiser recently in White Plains. More than 270 attendees gathered to mingle with innovative female chefs from Westchester County who cooked to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice and freedom. The YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester celebrated and applauded the achievements of the honorees that best exemplified the mission of the YWCA – making the movement stronger every day. Those honorees included the Bellantoni Family; Ben Himmelfarb; Barbara Lerman; Bill Mooney III; and Sekai Ndemanga.

1. Adam S. Katz and Sabrina Magid-Katz 2. Maria Imperial and Bill Mooney III 3. Eileen Simon 4. Kenneth Magid 5. Leslie Lampert 6. Patricia Mulqueen and Bernadette Kenny 7. Barbara Lerman, Ben Himmelfarb, Kitley Covill and Stephanie and Michael Bellantoni

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You’ll be seeing the disarming Carson Kressley on “The New Celebrity Apprentice” this month, as Arnold Schwarzenegger takes over for President-elect Donald Trump as host. But don’t blame us in WAG country if we feel a bit possessive of Carson. He and Billy Baldwin rocked the Breast Cancer Alliance’s Luncheon & Fashion Show. And then he wowed an early morning crowd at Bloomingdale’s White Plains for “The Makeup Date,” teasing one brand representative with, “I can’t believe we’re back onstage after we held each other like newborn babies last night.”

Here he is at Bloomie’s White Plains with his latest tome, “Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big?” What will Ah-nold say?

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Sleepy Hollow Country Club was the setting for The Ossining Children’s Center’s annual “Season of Lights.” The successful luncheon and tabletop silent auction raised more than $160,000 that will go directly to the center’s tuition assistance program for moderate income working families. Photographs by Mary Ann VanHengel.

1. Madelyn Ricciardi, Noreen Celeste and Lisa Rosenbloom 2. Anita Hegarty and Mary Jo Bramson 3. Pam Bringsjord 4. Michelle Dhanda 5. Meg Curry 6. Amanda Carcaterra and Laura Warnier 7. Joanne Tobin and Stephanie Ricciardi 8. Marilyn Wishnie, Susan Komosa and Jinx Chapman 9. Joan McGinty 10. Betsy Block and Kim Woody

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It was a chilly December evening, but the Jonathan Adler store on Greenwich Avenue was abuzz with the designer in residence to host a “Shop for a Cause” cocktail party. As guests mingled among Adler’s works of “modern American glamour,” they also raised funds for the Breast Cancer Alliance, which received 20 percent of the evening’s sales. Photographs by Sebastian Flores.

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RESIDENTS WITH ‘IMPACT”

Three Westchester residents — Tom Grace, Rye; Kirsten Carillo, Somers; Joanne Welty, White Plains — were honored at the Westchester Country Club with IMPACT Awards from San Miguel Academy of Newburgh. This was the first year of the IMPACT Awards, which recognize contributions of time or monetary to the school for at-risk boys. The dinner was attended by 330 guests and raised more than $400,000 to help the privately funded school.

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