‘AMERICAN MASTERS’
The backstory from producer Michael Kantor
CAROLE RADZIWILL
The spirit of survival
OLGA SWEET
The heart of a portrait
Johnny Mathis
Chances are you know this legend
exploring the artistic spirit
MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART
With a contemporary accent
YELLOW MONKEY ANTIQUES
Setting an artistic table
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A sense of self in an age of narcissism
‘Master’-ing the arts
More Modigliani
A Sweet way with portraiture
China’s art on the world stage
Art, with an Italian accent
Gary Player gives back
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Carole Radziwill remains
A Renaissance man’s time to shine
‘Gossip’-ing about fall fashion
The upside of (quelling) anger
An artistic investment Customizing an automotive work of art
Maison’s art of chocolate
Tabling it
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A different kind of doubles act
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Serving a theatrical ace
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COVER STORY
JOHNNY MATHIS
This page Christian Stein tra le opere di Luciano Fabro e Michelangelo Pistoletto nella casa – galleria di piazza S. Carlo a Torino. Courtesy Magazzino Italian Art.
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WEAR Scent from the Garden
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WHERE’S EUROPE? The art of wine tasting
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WANDERS Exploring your inner artist on Monte Argentario
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WANDERS Gifts for those on the go
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WINE & DINE A winery on its way to greatness
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WHETTING THE APPETITE Jackie Ruby’s Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Love’s labors, never lost
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WATCH We’re out and about
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WIT What are you thankful for in the arts?
‘AMERICAN MASTERS’
The backstory from producer Michael Kantor
CAROLE RADZIWILL
The spirit of survival
OLGA SWEET
The heart of a portrait
Johnny Mathis
Chances are you know this legend
exploring the artistic spirit
MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART
With a contemporary accent
YELLOW MONKEY ANTIQUES
Setting an artistic table
+ FACES OF FINANCE Views from money managers
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These are challenging times for the arts, ArtsWestchester CEO Janet T. Langsam said at a recent press conference to announce a new fundraising campaign. But when you think about it, when are the times not challenging for the arts? Whenever Gucci belts need to be tightened, the arts are among the first “extras” to get the ax. And whenever politics needs a new metaphoric football, the arts become a convenient whipping boy along with their higher-profile cultural sibling, sports, as the United States’ withdrawal — yet again — from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) attests. Yet where would we be without our arts and entertainment to comfort and inspire, yes, but also to confound and force us to question? That’s why this month we present our annual arts issue and offer a healthy dollop of the arts every month. We need the arts to help us make sense of who we are as a society but also as individuals. It is the diverse expressivity of the arts, which gives voice to individuality, that this issue’s excellent Wits — culled by new intern Jack Lesch — homes in on. That persistent individualism is one thing that separates America from a country like China, where the emphasis is on the group — a subject that Audrey explores in her superb essay. That may, however, be changing, she writes, as contemporary Chinese artists, no longer wedded to the past, spark a hot market. But the individualistic aspect of the arts ultimately transcends borders, as we discuss in the opening essay, for there can be no art without the individual toiling away at some point by his lonesome. And yet, what is the purpose of that toiling if not to engage with his subjects, collaborators and audiences? Continuously, courageously, arts ask the questions: What do we owe others in this world and what do we owe ourselves? These are questions that serve Anna Ziegler’s new Off-Broadway play “The Last Match,” about tennis rivals at crossroads in their careers and private lives. Ziegler is one of our hardcore arts
stories in this issue, along with Michael Kantor, executive producer of PBS’ “American Masters” series, which ranges over culture with a capital “C;” Sarah Lawrence College professor Emily Anhalt, whose provocative new book “Enraged” will put you in mind not only of ancient Greek writings but of certain world leaders; George Nakashima, whose elegantly spare furnishings are the subject of Jennifer Pitman’s first collectibles column (welcome, Jenny); New Canaan portraitist Olga Sweet, profiled by Phil; and cover guy Johnny Mathis. I’m sure after reading Gregg’s interview, you’ll be filled with new admiration for the singer, a perfectionistic craftsman who is nonetheless humble and grounded. As usual, though, we play on the theme with the art of golf and philanthropy (Aleesia’s take on legend Gary Player); the art of tennis and coaching ( Jena’s story on the Anderson brothers, Kevin and Greg); and the art of customizing cars right down to the sound systems (Laura’s visit with Matthew Figliola of Ai Design in Tuckahoe). There’s also Marta’s column on the art of wine tasting, which is part of our fabulous subtheme, a salute to arts mecca Italy. At home, Mary explores Magazzino Italian Art, a new Cold Spring space bringing postwar and contemporary Italian art to the Hudson Valley, while Aleesia dines at Le Madri in Bethel and Doug considers Donnachiara wines. Abroad, Jeremy repairs to Monte Argentario on the coast of Italy’s Tuscan region for a different three Rs — repose, relaxation and ’riting. I think he should take us there, don’t you? Georgette Gouveia is the author of the new “The Penalty for Holding” (Less Than Three Press) and “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group). They’re part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” which is also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes at thegamesmenplay.com. Readers may find weekly installments of her book “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great” at wattpad.com.
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A SENSE OF SELF IN AN AGE OF NARCISSISM BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
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Paul Gauguin’s “The Seed of the Areoi” (1892), oil on burlap. The Museum of Modern Art.
Sometimes, it seems as if we’re all singers warming up — me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Indeed, in the spirit of the forthcoming season, I thought you’d enjoy the lyrics from a 2012 Target Black Friday commercial satirizing this effect, sung to “Deck the Halls”: “One for you and one for me. You, you, you, you and one for me. Check out the price of this new flat screen. I’ll buy it for Bill, but it’s also for me. Xbox for Jack. Sweaters for Nancy. I’m blown away. I’m freaking out. Deals, deals, deals. One for you and one for guess who. It’s on. It’s on. It’s on. It’s Black Friday. I’m so super-pumped for Target Black Friday.” Sound familiar? We live in an age of narcissism — or, at the very least, “targeted” selfishness. So what then does it mean to have a sense of self at such a moment in history? Oddly enough — or perhaps not so oddly — it’s a question that artists of every ilk have wrestled with at other times, not only in their works but in their own careers. The term narcissism, which psychoanalyst Otto Rank fi rst linked to self-admiration in 1911, comes from art, from narrative — the Greek myth about Narcissus, a proud, disdainful youth cursed by the gods to fall in love with his own beautiful, unattainable reflection. Today, the word is used to describe a particularly nettlesome personality disorder characterized by an excessive insecurity and need for attention and a lack of empathy and boundaries. Ironically, such self-absorption brings with it no self-awareness, because presumably, if you were self-aware you would realize you’re acting like a jerk and modify your behavior accordingly. The beauty of the arts, however, is that they let us have our cake and eat it, too. We can indulge, explore and exorcise our failings within the safe confi nes of great works organized in time and space. Some of the most memorable characters — Homer’s Achilles; (see related story); William Shakespeare’s Iago, Edmund and Coriolanus; John Milton’s Lucifer; Emily Brontë’s Cathy and Heathcliff; Herman Melville’s Ahab; and Margaret Mitchell’s Scarlett O’Hara, to name but a few — are creatures of monstrous ego who leave a path of
destruction in their wake. Still, literature would be poorer without them. We just wouldn’t want to live next door to them. You might argue that in some instances self-centeredness is healthy, necessary even, particularly when it benefits the common good. Certainly, Scarlett’s selfishness saves her ancestral home, Tara, and her family as well from the ravages of the Civil War in the American South. But you’d be hard-pressed to convince her put-upon sisters and long-suffering beaus of that — to say nothing of the slaves underpinning her antebellum ideal and many a reader. It’s tricky, isn’t it? Being self-possessed without being self-absorbed, knowing what belongs to you in this world, what belongs to others and what — and whom — you belong to. For the artist — working one or two jobs to support his passion, then spending long hours, often alone, to realize that passion — this is a particular challenge. For women — traditionally saddled with being the more giving sex — it’s a double bind, one that Hollywood loves. Remember Anne Bancroft’s single-minded ballerina in “The Turning Point.” Having manipulated rival Shirley MacLaine years earlier, she must face being upstaged and replaced by MacLaine’s daughter (Leslie Browne), with only a glamorous apartment and the requisite petite pooch for company. Ah, the price of art. Sometimes, though, it’s the family of the artist that pays the price. In “The Moon and Sixpence,” W. Somerset Maugham fictionalizes the life of Postimpressionist Paul Gauguin in his narrative of an artist who uses and discards others in pursuit of painting. Gauguin contributed to the myth of the self-absorbed artiste, with himself as a prime example. But it’s certainly true that he abandoned his wife, children and the bourgeois life of a Parisian banker for la vie bohème in Tahiti and he wasn’t kind to the admittedly difficult Vincent van Gogh. Yet he created great art. Was it worth the tradeoff ? Maybe to us, yes, but what about the family? It’s a tough balancing act — one that many artists navigate by being among the fi rst to donate money, time and talent when charity and crises call. Consider the recent “Hand in Hand” Hurricane Relief telethon, in which performing artists raised more than $55 million. They seem to understand that we are put on this earth to give joy to others and ourselves. And yet, if you are going to have any kind of creative life, there must be moments when those two are mutually exclusive. You have to go within to reach out, say “no” instead of “yes.” As long as there are those moments, in the end, when you do say “yes.”
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Michael Kantor at WNET/Thirteen in Manhattan.
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IF YOU LOVE THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT, THEN YOU’RE NO DOUBT A FAN OF “AMERICAN MASTERS.” For 31 seasons, the PBS series has been exploring culture with a capital “C,” in documentaries that have ranged beyond the arts to sports (pioneering tennis legends Althea Gibson and Billie Jean King) and the sciences (Albert Einstein). “I think ‘American Masters’ is one of the few series dedicated to biography,” executive producer Michael Kantor says from the sleek Manhattan offices of WNET/Thirteen. “There are lots of shows that do history, trends and current events. We use as our maxim, ‘All history is biography.’ We are trying to unpack our cultural heritage and we do so through stories of people, whether they be (composer-conductor) Leonard Bernstein, (country music legend) Willie Nelson or Bob Hope.” Comedian Hope — famed for his “Road” movies with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour; his self-deprecating hosting of the Academy Awards and entertaining American troops through multiple wars — will be featured on “American Masters” in early December, with a two-hour director’s cut airing Dec. 29. Also coming this season are profi les of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, once artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic; Hedy Lamarr, the brainy movie siren who helped develop a wartime radio guidance system now used in Wi-Fi and Bluetooths; groundbreaking playwright Lorraine Hansberry, whose “A Raisin in the Sun,” one of America’s greatest plays, plumbs the bramble path of an upwardly mobile black family in segregated Chicago; entertainer and civil rights crusader Sammy Davis Jr., an integral member of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack; and Boston Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, the last Major League Baseball player to bat .400 in a season. “Williams had a Mexican-American heritage, which not many people know,” Kantor says. Nor are they probably aware of Davis’ problems with the Internal Revenue Service. Without sensationalizing its subjects, “American Masters” is able to plumb their essence in programs that are in-house documentaries, collaborations or fi lms that documentarians bring to Kantor. Such is the series’ reputation that Kantor and his team are given unprecedented access to their subjects.
The Davis estate granted “American Masters” the rights to tell his story. “They said we could do it. They didn’t tell us how to do it.” For Kantor, “All documentaries are about trust. If there’s no trust, then it’s just reporting without the depth and the emotion. We’re…looking to move people, to engage them.” And that includes young people who may be reluctant to enter the “time machine” that is the series. “I have three kids,” Kantor says. “I want to reach them where they live, not on TV but on their phones.” That means streaming programs, doing podcasts — like the one related to the pre-Halloween broadcast of “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive,” with actor Denis O’Hare reading Poe’s “The Raven” — and such web-only content as the Inspiring Woman Campaign (#InspiringWomanPBS), in which viewers can write about women who have changed their lives. Kantor has loved the arts from a young age. He grew up in Orange, Connecticut, outside New Haven, the child of parents who were academically — and specifically scientifically — minded. His father, Dr. Fred Kantor, created a vaccine for Lyme disease. His mother, Linda, worked with the elderly. But their child believed with poet (and onetime Sarah Lawrence College teacher) Muriel Rukeyser that “the universe is made of stories, not atoms.” “We’re all storytellers,” he adds. “That’s what makes the world go around.” Kantor attended Cornell University and the University of California San Diego, where he earned a master’s degree in theater directing. (He’s a Tony Award nominator, which means he sees all the new Broadway shows.) But his theatrical talents took a documentarian turn and he worked under Ken Burns with Stephen Ives. His projects have included the sweeping series “The West,” Ric Burns’ moving “New York: A Documentary Film” and the riveting “The Donner Party.” Kantor joined “American Masters” in April 2014 and increased its scope with the establishment of American Masters Pictures in January 2016. That year, the new theatrical imprint was represented by three fi lms at the Sundance Film Festival — “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” “Richard Linklater — Dream is Destiny” and “Norman Lear:
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Just Another Version of You.” The last profi les the writer-producer who changed the face of TV with a group of 1970s comedies that featured prickly characters and equally thorny social issues. Kantor found the 95-year-old Lear a challenge — and a delight. “I spent enough time with him to realize he has way more energy than I do,” Kantor says. “As Phil Rosenthal, the creator of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ said, ‘There’s BN and AN — Before Norman and After Norman.’” Still, Kantor is a guy on the go. Between making documentaries, attending Broadway shows and seeing performances at Manhattan’s Symphony Space, where wife Kathy Landau is executive director, he has little time for the family home in the Edgemont section of Greenburgh. But he’s doing what he loves — engaging with new fi lmmakers, new stories and new ideas — and wouldn’t have it any other way. “We work in cubicles here but I say, ‘if I had an office door, it would always be open.’” “American Masters’” “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” has its theatrical release Nov. 24. For more, visit pbs.org/americanmasters.
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IT WAS BACK IN 2004 WHEN THE JEWISH MUSEUM MOUNTED ITS BLOCKBUSTER MODIGLIANI EXHIBITION, A SHOW THAT MEMORABLY HAD ART LOVERS WAITING IN LINES 100-STRONG AND THE MUSEUM EXTENDING ITS HOURS.
Clockwise, from opposite page, Amedeo Modigliani, “Lunia Czechowska,” 1919, oil on canvas, 31½ x 20½ in. (80 x 52 cm). Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Photograph © by João Musa; Amedeo Modigliani, “The Jewess,” 1908, oil on canvas, 21⅝ x 18⅛ in. (54.9 × 46 cm), Laure Denier Collection, Paul Alexandre Family, courtesy of Richard Nathanson, London; and Amedeo Modigliani, c. 1912. Image provided by PVDE / Bridgeman Images, New York. Courtesy the Jewish Museum.
Now, the Manhattan institution offers another component to its examination with “Modigliani Unmasked,” the first American exhibit devoted to the artist’s early work. A sweeping exploration filled with drawings, sculpture and, yes, a selection of his beloved paintings, “Modigliani Unmasked” focuses on the Italian-born artist’s work after he arrived in Paris in 1906, while simultaneously delving into the importance of his heritage as a Sephardic Jew to those creations. His beliefs, which Modigliani refused to hide, made him an outsider in a troubled culture. It was, we learn, a time when France was caught in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, an 1895 scandal that led to a surge in anti-Semitism, and was also struggling with accepting waves of foreign immigrants. As exhibition materials explain, “Modigliani’s art cannot be fully understood without acknowledging the ways the artist responded to the social realities that he confronted in the unprecedented artistic melting pot of Paris.” But Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), who had a French mother, embraced his identity and the early drawings here reflect an awareness of the role of ethnicity and race in society. He would develop his modern approach, his signature style of elongated figures that echoed the 16th century’s Mannerist movement, during this period that also found him living as the proverbial struggling artist. It was Paul Alexandre, a young French physician who became not only Modigliani’s friend but also a strong advocate of his work, who acted as his first patron. Alexandre would preserve some 400 Modigliani drawings created between 1906 and 1914, which serve not only to trace the evolution of his style but also reflect his society. “Modigliani Unmasked” features some 130 drawings, many from the Alexandre collection and shown for the first time in this country, joined by work from collections around the world. There are also 12 paintings and seven sculptures by Modigliani, rounded out by work representative of the multicultural art that inspired him during this period of life within the Parisian avant-garde.
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Installation view of the exhibition “Modigliani Unmasked,” which continues through Feb. 4, at the Jewish Museum, New York. Courtesy the Jewish Museum.
Throughout, visitors journey through Modigliani’s Paris, are introduced to the women in his life and explore his rare commission work. Modigliani reportedly was not interested in working to please a client. The often-protracted process is explored through the series of studies for 1909’s “L’Amazone,” a work that ultimately displeased its subject, the Baroness Marguerite de Hasse de Villers, and was, in the end, purchased by her soon-to-be-ex-lover’s brother, none other than Alexandre. It’s easy to get swept into the fabled history of Modigliani, a handsome man who long battled illness and would die at age 35 of tubercular meningitis. In one of art’s moments of great drama, his common-law wife, Jeanne Hébuterne, pregnant with Modigliani’s child, committed suicide the following day. As Mason Klein, senior curator who organized the exhibition and has written the accompanying “Modigliani Unmasked” (Yale University Press), said during the preview, he hopes the show proves a source of “new insights into one of the world’s most popular artists.” “Modigliani Unmasked” continues, with related programming, through Feb. 4 at the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan. For more, visit TheJewishMuseum.org.
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Amedeo Modigliani, Study for “The Amazon,” 1909. Black crayon on paper. 12⅛ x 9⅛ in. (30.8 × 23.2 cm). Private collection, courtesy of Richard Nathanson, London. Image provided by Richard Nathanson, photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates, London. Courtesy the Jewish Museum.
Amedeo Modigliani, “Table-Turning, or Portrait of a Medium,” 1905-6. Black crayon and watercolor on paper. 19¼ x 14¾ in. (49 × 37.5 cm). Paul Alexandre Family, courtesy of Richard Nathanson, London. Image provided by Richard Nathanson, photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates. Courtesy the Jewish Museum.
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IN TODAY’S AGE OF SELFIES, SNAPCHAT AND FACETIME, THE CONCEPT OF A PAINTED PORTRAIT MIGHT SEEM AS CUTTING-EDGE AS A HORSE AND BUGGY. FOR ARTIST OLGA SWEET, THE CHALLENGE IS TO BRING A CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE TO ONE OF THE OLDEST FORMS OF CAPTURING IMAGES.
Olga Sweet at home in New Canaan, opposite. Above, her portrait of Prince Harry.
“Not everyone understands that portraits do not have to be boring,” says Sweet, who has something of the ethereality of the butterflies she raises. “They can be exciting.” Consider Sweet’s portrait of Prince Harry. While the mention of the prince’s name might conjure tabloid-fueled tales of a fun-loving lad, Sweet depicts the royal as an elegant vision complete with top hat — balanced properly, not at a jaunty angle — and a smart rose pinned to his lapel. The sharpness of the prince’s blue eyes and the wryness of his ever-so-slight smile display a pensive maturity of a man who views the world with a certain curiosity, while Sweet’s decision to leave his topcoat unfinished wittily symbolizes Harry’s existential situation as a work in progress. Though Sweet has not met the prince — the portrait was commissioned for a charity auction — she has found herself in the company of a considerable lineup of notable personalities eager for her oilon-linen portraiture. Her subjects include former President Jimmy Carter, polo champion and Ralph Lauren model Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras, former PepsiCo vice chairman Karl von der Heyden, former Bear Stearns CEO Alan “Ace” Greenberg and Torquhil Campbell, the Duke of Argyll. One trait that Sweet’s A-list clientele shares is the ability to maintain the common touch, particularly the polo champ Figueras. “Nacho is so good to my boys,” she says, referring to her 18- and 11-year-old sons. “He is so good with children.” Even more enchanting was Carter. Her family joined her for the 2013 event in which she presented the former president with the portrait and her younger son, William, who was 7, stole the show when he volunteered information to the former commander in chief on ferreting out insincere people. “He said, ‘President Carter, do you know how to tell somebody’s lying to you?” she recalls. “And he said, ‘How?’ And William said that the giveaway is when somebody is not looking at you. And President Carter said, ‘William, I’ve learned a lot from you.’ All of the Secret Service guys were smiling over that. I think they never smiled since they were in elementary school.” William also expressed admiration for a small globe desk set on the president’s desk. Carter responded, “William I want you to have this.” And the globe desk set is on display in Sweet’s New Canaan home. Born in Russia, Sweet earned a bachelor's degree and two master’s degrees in art and philosophy from Moscow University. She arrived in the United States in 1990 to study at The Carter Center at Emory University in pursuit of a Ph.D. in sociology and philosophy. She studied for four years with portraitist Ronald Sherr at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., before setting out on her own. Sweet built her reputation and client base via word of mouth. While she prefers at least three sittings to capture the feel for the subject, time is not
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always her ally. “I often have to work from photographs, because people today are more busy than usual,” she laments. Nonetheless, the results of her work are striking. Her portrait of Figueras is a distinctive mix of the abstract and the intense, with the athlete looking directly at the observer with a take-no-prisoners intensity. Her interpretation of Frances Daly Fergusson, president emerita of Vassar College and former chairwoman of the board of overseers of Harvard University, offers a cerebral warrior in a power red dress, standing vibrantly against a hazy background. Perhaps her most striking portrait is not of a human figure: In “Parrot with Ring,” a mischievous Polly forsakes the cracker for an Elizabeth Taylor-worthy piece of jewelry. The bird almost seems to offer flippant glee in not wanting to surrender its prize, while the ring shines with a near-magical illumination. Sweet's paintings are in private collections, and she is exploring the idea of raising her public visibility through a gallery show in 2018. But she acknowledges increasing her visibility will be daunting in this digital age. “It is very hard,” she says. “There is no one way that you can be successful.” Although that may be a good thing. For more, visit OlgaSweet.com. Portrait of Zoya, my mother, 2002, graphite on watercolor paper (three life sittings).
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CHINA’S ART ON THE WORLD STAGE BY AUDREY RONNING TOPPING
Chinese art, the oldest existing cultural tradition in the world, has been achieving distinction for some 5,000 years. Despite the Communist government ruthlessly stymieing creativity from 1950 to ’80 with imposed social realism and assigned propagandistic subjects for mass production, ancient and contemporary Chinese art are among the hottest and most dynamic sectors of the international market. In recent decades, Chinese contemporary art in particular has been raking in record prices at home and internationally. The Economist recently reported that China has become the “darling” of the world art market, overtaking France as the third market after the United States and Britain. At art auctions in 2007, five of the 10 best-selling living artists were Chinese. A 59-year old painter, Zhang Xiaogang, alone sold a total of $56.8 million. Zhang, one of China’s earliest contemporary painters, is a Symbolist and Surrealist known for his stylized portraits. The most striking difference between contemporary and traditional painters is that their “avant-garde art” is as much about themselves as individuals as it is about China, which has not always suited the government. Although many internationally acclaimed Chinese artists — including the controversial Ai Weiwei, Cai Jin and Zhu Yu — have successfully exhibited their works in New York, they are still restricted in China where some have even been arrested and had their exhibitions closed. It’s a reminder that free artistic expression, which is now springing up spontaneously all over
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Ai Weiwei’s “Trees” (2010) was installed at Downing College, Cambridge University last year.
China, has not come easy. The most difficult period for creative art was during the Cultural Revolution (1966 to ’76) when Mao Zedong ordered the destruction of “The Four Olds,” including ancient art. Anything other than social realism was under suspicion and true artists were forced underground. American-style individualism, fostering the freedom of self-exploration, has never been accepted in traditional Chinese culture. China, as a collective society, believes the needs of a group are far more important than individual needs. Actually, the Chinese term for individualism (gerenzhuyi) suggests an egotistical obsession with oneself in-
stead of holding the family and community first. These disparate attitudes toward individuality resulted from different philosophies of governance. In China, social order and harmony in the community are considered central political values achieved by obeying the ancient hierarchy in which everyone adheres to Confucius’ first imperative: “Know thy place.” Historically, China’s view was that the Chinese empire, known as “The Middle Kingdom,” was located in the center of the civilized universe. Whatever lay outside of the Chinese empire was considered “barbaric.” The Chinese take pride in their ancient civiliza-
THE ECONOMIST RECENTLY REPORTED THAT CHINA HAS BECOME THE ‘DARLING’ OF THE WORLD ART MARKET, OVERTAKING FRANCE AS THE THIRD MARKET AFTER THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN. AT ART AUCTIONS IN 2007, FIVE OF THE 10 BEST-SELLING LIVING ARTISTS WERE CHINESE.
tion. In his book “The Governance of China,” President Xi Jinping claimed that “China’s continuing civilization is not matched by anything on earth but is a unique achievement in world history.” The United States views itself as the vanguard of a democratic civilization. Perhaps the main difference is the passion for freedom of the individual, which is enshrined in The Declaration of Independence. The core of American political doctrine proclaims that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Chinese equivalent of
Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty or give me death” might be “give me a harmonious community or give me death.” This applies to both Chinese domestic society and world affairs. Americans and Chinese also view the past, present and future quite differently. On July 4, Americans proudly celebrated their 241st birthday. This passage of time is no more than the average time of one of China’s 11 major dynasties spanning a history of five millennia. Since World War II, the United States has spent nearly three decades as the world’s most powerful country but recently, especially since President
Donald J. Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, China has challenged this. Just as Americans realize they must improve their understanding of China, Chinese are endeavoring to improve their understanding not only of the United States and the outside world but of themselves as unique individuals. The forces of change may be reshaping the psyche of Chinese youth. China is not only challenging the West in the art market but is among the fastest growing economies and a leader in research and development. Creative artists are bored with conformity and are embracing individualism. “Slash youth,” or xiegang, has become a new term in China. It refers to young people who are breaking the mold, mainly motivated by more freedom and financial instability. They no longer have to “Know thy place” but think differently, compete with their peers and do multiple jobs at the same time. According to Hu Xiaowu, deputy director of the Institute of Urban Science at Nanking University (where I once studied), young Chinese believe “slash careers” are becoming a way to combine economic security with work that matches people’s passions. This refreshing attitude encourages modern artists to consider their individuality, explore their own minds and produce original art.
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THOSE WITH A QUICK EYE MIGHT SPOT THE SIGN ALONG ROUTE 9 IN COLD SPRING — MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART. THIS ARTISTIC VENTURE IN UNEXPECTED SURROUNDINGS — A PRIVATE WAREHOUSE SPACE — HAS BEEN SHOWCASING POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN ART TO VISITORS, BY APPOINTMENT, SINCE LATE JUNE.
Giorgio Spanu and Nancy Olnick, left, founders of Magazzino Italian Art. Above, the warehouse-turned-gallery space in Cold Spring. Photographs by Marco Anelli. Courtesy Magazzino Italian Art.
Magazzino, which happens to be the Italian word for “warehouse,” opened its doors with “Margherita Stein: Rebel With a Cause,” an ongoing exhibition spotlighting the pioneer of Arte Povera, an avant-garde movement that took hold in 1960s Europe. Designed to honor Stein’s legacy in America, the show is also set to renew the dialogue on postwar Italian art, reflecting the broader goal of the gallery itself. As gallery director Vittorio Calabrese said at the time of its opening, “‘Margherita Stein: Rebel With a Cause’ not only focuses on the core group of artists associated with the Arte Povera movement but also incorporates artists from the generation that followed. Almost all the works in the show have never been previously exhibited in the United States. We are not presenting the works chronologically, but rather want to highlight the individuality of each artist’s distinctive approach. What unifies them is the relationship to Stein, whose support of these artists was unflinching for over 40 years. Our goal is to support Italian art, as well as international contemporary artists with strong ties to Italian culture with the same vigor as Stein demonstrated during her lifetime.” Magazzino displays works from the Olnick Spanu Collection, a sweeping private initiative established by longtime art advocates Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, the gallery founders who have a home in Garrison. The building — its transformation the subject of a photographic study and now, an exhibition, “Marco Anelli: Building Magazzino,” that continues at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York in Manhattan through Nov. 2 — was once a farmers’ warehouse. It was then converted to a dairy distribution center and most recently served as a computer factory before this repurposing within a larger design conceived and led by Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo. In creating the more
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Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring is devoted to raising the profile of postwar and contemporary Italian art. Courtesy Magazzino Italian Art.
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than 18,000 square feet of exhibition space and a library, Quismondo doubled the square footage of the former space with an innovative design integrating the old with the new. The complex, with a contemplative center courtyard, is said to reflect the broader mission of Magazzino through both its on- and off-site programs and sponsorships, to present work from established and emerging artists that encourages conversations about both Italy and its cultural identity. For instance, Magazzino sponsored a project by Melissa McGill, an artist based in the Hudson Valley, whose last project, “The Campi,” was shown in various venues during the opening of the 2017 Venice Biennale. This sculptural sound
project reproduced the sounds of the Venetian squares, offering insight into these iconic elements of Italian life. With the gallery open free by appointment, Magazzino has announced it will give any donations received in lieu of admission to Urban Arts Partnership, with Olnick and Spanu matching the dollar amount of each donation. Magazzino Italian Art is at 2700 Route 9 in Cold Spring. The gallery has announced Michelangelo Pistoletto will offer the latest reenactment of his 1967 performance “Walking Sculpture,” Nov. 4 in Cold Spring. The performance will find the artist rolling his signature work, “Newspaper Sphere,” through the village’s streets. For more, visit magazzino.art/.
GARY PLAYER GIVES BACK BY ALEESIA FORNI
Gary Player takes a swing at The Berenberg Gary Player Invitational in Bedford.
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“IT IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE, IT’S WHAT YOU DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE,” SAID FORMER PROFESSIONAL GOLFER AND LONGTIME PHILANTHROPIST GARY PLAYER.
That’s a mantra that the legendary Player has spent his life following. From his humble upbringing in Johannesburg, South Africa, Player knows fi rsthand what it feels like to have nothing. His mother passed away when he was 8 years old, and the youngster was often left alone while his father spent long days working in the gold mines. “I’d lay in bed crying, wishing I was dead,” Player recalled, “but it was actually a great gift bestowed upon me and it led me to become a world champion.” Player’s love affair with the game of golf started when he was just 14 and his father took out a loan to purchase his first set of golf clubs. He would go on to have a decorated career as a professional golfer that included winning 167 professional tournaments worldwide and nine major championships on the PGA Tour — be-
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coming one of only five men to capture a career Grand Slam. Aside from his long list of achievements and contributions to the game, Player has also had a striking effect on the world away from the golf course. Through his nonprofit, The Gary Player Foundation, he has raised more than $64 million in the past three decades to support children’s charities, the advancement of impoverished communities and the expansion of educational opportunities. Though that fi gure is impressive by any standard, it’s still shy of the goal Player set for his foundation — raising $100 million by 2025. “My great thrill is giving,” he said. Player and his foundation moved even closer toward that goal during the 2017 Berenberg Gary Player Invitational at GlenArbor Golf Club in Bedford Oct. 2. Sponsored by German private and investment bank Berenberg, the Invitational raised more than $300,000 for The Player Foundation. For the event, Player recruited an all-star lineup of golf heavyweights, including eight-time Major winner Tom Watson, six-time Major winner Lee Trevino, Masters champion Bernhard
Langer and Cristie Kerr, a 19-time winner on the LPGA. Following a day on the greens, the golfers joined supporters for a black-tie dinner and gala auction, where a collection of autographed Masters badges from 1960 to 2017 sold for $160,000. “Each year I am humbled by the turnout of this event and the support we receive for The Player Foundation,” Player said. “I am grateful for the kindness of our colleagues and friends, who have given their time and generosity to helping us reach our goal of raising $100 million for those in need.” GlenArbor holds a special place in Player’s heart. Not only is it one of his favorite places to enjoy playing the sport he loves, it is a course he designed himself. “When I designed this course, I had such respect for the ground and the trees, making sure that the things that are important are maintained,” he said. This year marked the third time the U.S. leg of the global series was staged at GlenArbor. “I think this is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen,” Player said of Westchester County. “The beauty is something I enjoy — the trees, especially. I’m a fan of nature myself.” For more, visit garyplayer.com.
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CAROLE RADZIWILL REMAINS BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
HERS WAS THE FAIRY TALE WITHOUT THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER — A MARRIAGE TO A REALLIFE PRINCE CHARMING CUT SHORT BY HIS DEATH BUT NOT BEFORE THEIR COUSINS (BEST FRIENDS) PERISHED IN A PLANE CRASH DURING THEIR LAST SUMMER TOGETHER.
In “What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship & Love” (Scribner, 2005), Carole Radziwill wrote poignantly about her husband, ABC News producer Anthony Radziwill, and their close relationship with his cousin John F. Kennedy Jr., and Kennedy’s wife, the former Carolyn Bessette — who died within three weeks of each other in 1999. Now almost 20 years later, Radziwill has reinvented herself as the down-to-earth, humorous star of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” the proactive president of her apartment board and an aspiring marathoner who’ll be taking part in the New York City Marathon Nov. 5. She’s also a writer, although she hasn’t always seen herself that way. “I never thought of myself as a writer,” Radziwill says after co-hosting a fashion show at Bloomingdale’s White Plains. “I was a journalist. I didn’t think anyone would be interested in my story.” She’s not being disingenuous. Though a Polish princess and Kennedy in-law by marriage, the frank, bird-like Radziwill is nothing if not a mensch — whether commenting on the trend to high-waisted pants at the fashion show (“It’s all about the mom jeans — love it”), chatting afterward or recalling a life of bittersweet enchantment in “Remains.” She’s quick to stress that hers is a story of humble beginnings. She grew up with a sense of fate’s cruel caprice in Suffern, bussed tables on Sundays at her father’s restaurant, DiFalcos, in Yonkers and summered at her grandparents in Kingston. “But DiFalcos didn’t survive,” she writes, “and then there were years of unpaid bills, foreclosure notices and food stamps.” She worked in Caldor, the now-defunct discount department store, at the customer service desk. Across the Hudson, the woman who would
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become her generous, protective best friend and cousin by marriage was growing up in Greenburgh, the child of a divorced mother, and working in another Caldor, in the jewelry department. The ironic coincidence — and their later shared sense of being outsiders in a fabled world — threads “Remains.” It is not lost on Radziwill, still. “We used to joke, Carolyn and I,” she says, “that while John and Anthony were sailing on the Christina (Aristotle Onassis’ yacht), we were working in Caldor’s.” So, “How did a girl from Suffern meet a man with Polish royal lineage going back four centuries?” — a question she poses in “Remains.” A college job fair led her to ABC News, where her future husband would also work as a producer. They “met over a murder,” the 1990 murder of José and Mary Menéndez by their sons Lyle and Erik, which Carole and Anthony were assigned to cover. She would go on to cover the Persian Gulf and Afghan wars and win a Peabody and three Emmys, including one for a piece on Cambodian land mines. He would earn two Peabodys, including one posthumously for “Cancer: Evolution to Revolution.” Anthony Radziwill was already suffering from metastatic testicular cancer when he and Carole wed in 1994. Their marriage was a portrait of what it means to live intimately with death’s timetable, only to have the train first pull into the station for
WE USED TO JOKE, CAROLYN AND I, THAT WHILE JOHN AND ANTHONY WERE SAILING ON THE CHRISTINA (ARISTOTLE ONASSIS’ YACHT), WE WERE WORKING IN CALDOR’S. — Carole Radziwill
someone else. The book opens on the couple’s elegiac last summer at their cousins’ home on Martha’s Vinyard — an idyllic time of great books, long walks on the beach and margaritas at sunset — except that one member of the group was dying. And then came the night of July 16, 1999 when Kennedy piloted his plane, carrying his wife and her sister Lauren, up the coast for his cousin Rory’s wedding. And the midnight phone call that would be a harbinger of world headlines. Three weeks later, on Aug. 10, Anthony Radziwill died.
Still, reflecting after the fashion show at Bloomingdale’s, Carole Radziwill can say, “I am the American Dream come true.” Only in America — a country that still celebrates individual differences, she says — could a girl from Suffern have a storybook career and marriage. And create a second and third act. In 2012, she joined the cast of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” which sent “Remains” back to the best-seller list. Soon filming will resume for the 10th season, the prospect of which she calls “fun and scary.” In 2014, Henry Holt & Co. published Radziwill’s novel “The Widow’s Guide to Sex & Dating.” She’s now at work on a political book — “a humorous political book,” she says — and a script for a TV show about the president of an apartment board, something she knows a good deal about. (Seeing rose gold embellishments on the runway, she tells the Bloomie’s fashion show audience that as president of her apartment board, she was able to redo the elevator in rose gold.) And as if that weren’t enough, she’s been training for the New York City marathon. “I’m determined to finish no matter how long it takes me — if I have to run, walk or crawl.” No doubt. But then, we already know that Radziwill was meant to go the distance. For more, visit caroleradziwill.com.
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THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR TENNIS IN THE ARTS. THIS PAST SUMMER SAW NEIL LABUTE’S “BREAK POINT,” A PLAY ABOUT TWO RIVALS LOCKED IN A CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME OF MALE DOMINANCE — A FAVORITE LABUTE THEME — BEFORE A FRENCH OPEN SEMIFINAL. Early fall brought us “Battle of the Sexes,” an excellent dramedy based on the 1973 match between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) that became a media circus and feminist rallying cry. They join a pantheon that includes a gallery of artworks, Vaslav Nijinsky’s ballet “Jeux,” the writings of David Foster Wallace, Alvaro Enrigue’s novel “Sudden Death,” Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller “Strangers on a Train” and Woody Allen’s Hitchcock-inspired “Match Point.” “I think theatrical artists are drawn to sports, because sports are in themselves theatrical,” says playwright Anna Ziegler. “Tennis, even more than other sports, is so beautifully metaphorical.” Add Ziegler to the hall of fame of theatrical artists serving metaphorical aces. In the Roundabout Theatre Company production of her compelling play “The Last Match” (through Dec. 24 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre in Manhattan), she sets up a showdown between two male rivals on different career trajectories during a US Open semifinal. (Tim Mackabee’s set, which draws on the Open’s blue-green palette and logos, and Bradley King’s blue-white lighting combine to convey the long day’s journey into night that a taut match between top male players can be at the Queens tournament.) The aging Tim Porter (Wilson Bethel) may be the greatest player of all time — or at least to date. (Think an American Roger Federer.) Up-and-coming Russian star Sergei Sergeyev (Alex Mickiewicz) may one day be as good, if he can just channel his raw emotions. (Think early Novak Djokovic sprinkled with reigning bad boy Nick Kyrgios.) Over the course of a match that will either be a crowning achievement for Tim or a breakthrough for Sergei, they play alongside other rivals — work and family, the individual and others, life and death. Off the court, it’s strictly a doubles match. Tim’s wife, former pro Mallory Beth Sinclair (Zoë Winters), has the wry confidence to keep her hubby’s ego in check even as it masks her struggles to become a coach and mother and disappointment at never having been as good a player. Her opposite number is Sergei’s fiery girlfriend, Galina (Natalia Payne), a sometime model-actress who knows how to administer tough love to her guy. Any resemblance to actual players and WAGs (wives and girlfriends) is, well, complicated, reflecting the complexity of the creative process. “I had a lot of players in mind when I started to write,” Wilson Bethel and Alex Mickiewicz square off as rivals in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Anna Ziegler’s “The Last Match.” Photograph by Joan Marcus.
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Ziegler says after a Wednesday matinee. Along the way she thought of Kyrgios, probably better known for his on-court antics than he is for his occasionally searing play. “He’s very Sergei-like, amazing potential.” She thought about former American champions Jim Courier (“seems like a nice guy”) and Andy Roddick. But she began with Sergei. In 2011 — the year Djokovic made his move to No. 1 — Ziegler wrote a whole play about Sergei, his coach and his girlfriend. But she couldn’t get it off the ground. And then Andy Roddick, the former US Open champ and world No. 1, retired the following year. “I found it moving,” Ziegler remembers. “He was
30. I had already turned 30. It led to a breakthrough that got me through. It started me thinking about different themes, what it means to move on from the thing you worked so hard for. It’s a microcosm of the life cycle.” She recalls seeing a play in which a character says that “every athlete dies twice” — in the end, for real, of course, but before that when he leaves the sport to which he’s given his all. When Ziegler had a baby that added another layer to the play, as Tim and Mallory struggle to balance being a couple and then a family with his single-minded drive to be the best ever and her attempt to launch a coaching career.
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“He even says at one point, ‘I wouldn’t get on the court if I thought there was a chance that I would lose,’” Ziegler says. She adds that it’s harder for Mallory to be a partner than it is for Galina, because Mallory had “wanted to be a top player and had to move on.” For Galina and Sergei, the challenges lie in memories of past tragedies and past hurts. In either case, there’s no clichéd choice between love and fame. “These couples are very much in love,” Ziegler says. It’s part of what makes “The Last Match” unusual, along with monologues and conversations that are punctuated by choreographed court moves, minus the rackets and balls. “A friend described it to me as ‘a musical without songs, a ballet without tights,’” Ziegler says of the production, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. It helped, Ziegler says, that “Match” had its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, a theater in the round in which the movements had to be seen on all sides and that the actors had a “great day” of preparation at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center after this year’s US Open. Certainly, they look, move and act like tennis players. “Wilson was and is a very serious player,” Ziegler says. “And Alex did the role in San Diego.” But perhaps the most unusual aspect of “Match” is its ending, which underscores the play’s theme that win or lose, you always wind up back at deuce. Ziegler knows all about deuce (a score of 40-40 from which a player must win two points to win the game) and every other tennis term. “I was a serious recreational kid player,” she says of growing up in Brooklyn, “but I left it behind.” Though not entirely. “For a long time, I thought I’d use it.” Another childhood love was poetry. Still, her poems contained a lot of dialogue, and her experience as an English major at Yale University convinced her that she should try her hand at playwriting in graduate school at New York University. (But not before getting a master’s degree in poetry from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.) Her plays include “Photograph 51” — which starred Nicole Kidman as X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, often overlooked for her work in the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure. It won the 2016 WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play in London’s West End. Ziegler has another work in the offing. As with “Match,” “Actually” (bowing Nov. 14 at the Manhattan Theatre Club) takes us into the minds of its characters, this time to explore sexual misconduct involving two Princeton University students. She hopes one day to return to the theme of sports. Whatever she does, you can bet critics and audiences will be saying, “Advantage Ziegler.” For more, visit roundabouttheatre.org and annabziegler.net.
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A RENAISSANCE MAN’S TIME TO SHINE BY MARY SHUSTACK
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IN A HIDDEN GEM OF A GALLERY ON MANHATTAN’S UPPER WEST SIDE, VISITORS CAN TAKE A COLORFUL TOUR THROUGH NOT ONLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND INDIA — BUT ALSO THE HISTORY OF AN UNDERAPPRECIATED FIGURE OF THAT PERIOD.
Clockwise, from left, Joseph Nash. “The Great Exhibition: India No. 4,” ca. 1851. Watercolor and gouache over pencil on paper. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017, RCIN 919942; John Lockwood Kipling. “A Wood Carver, Simla,” 1870. Pencil and pen-and-ink on paper. Inscription on recto: “Simlah Oct: 24 /70. J. L. K.” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 0929:56/(IS); and John Lockwood Kipling. Menu for Rudyard Kipling’s twenty-fifth birthday, 1890. Pen-and-ink and wash on paper. The David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. All images courtesy Bard Graduate Center Gallery.
“John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London,” which continues through Jan. 7 in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, is a sweeping look at the designer, architectural sculptor, curator, educator, illustrator and journalist whose pivotal work in the Arts and Crafts revival in 19th-century British India has, until now, been greatly overlooked. Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) may not have the name recognition of his son, the writer and poet Rudyard of “Jungle Book” fame, but he was, as Bard exhibition materials describe him, “a Renaissance man of the Arts and Crafts movement.” Kipling was born in Yorkshire and began his career as a designer and architectural sculptor. Upon visiting the The Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace in London, Kipling began a lifelong fascination with India and its craftsmanship traditions. The exhibition follows him through his training and eventual arrival in India in 1865, his work there as a teacher and champion of local skills and traditions and his return to England where his later efforts included illustrations for Rudyard’s books. The exhibition is a trove of nearly 300 objects that include ceramics and drawings, jewelry, furniture, decorative objects and more, all housed within evocative gallery spaces fi lled with architectural details, video elements and mood-creating music. It’s the result of a three-year international research project, curated by Susan Weber, director, Bard Graduate Center, and Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word & Image, Victoria and Albert Museum. It was, Weber says, “a giant treasure hunt that took us all over the world.” Organized by Bard Graduate Center and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition debuted at the V+A, where it ran earlier this year. On a recent morning, both Weber and Bryant led a press tour through the expansive exhibition, their knowledge adding a wonderful depth. They would, over the course of an interesting morning, share stories ranging from Lockwood
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Anklet (paizeb) made in Kangra, India, ca. 1850. Silver, gilt and enameled. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 121-1852.
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Kipling’s earliest influences (“What you get here is the romance of India,” Bryant said of the very pieces Lockwood Kipling would have seen at that pivotal 1851 Great Exhibition) to the progress of his training (“He is interested in the world beyond the potteries,” Weber added). In lighter moments, Bryant would share a few details of Lockwood Kipling’s courtship of Alice MacDonald, a writer and poet whom he met at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire and would go on to marry. Together, Weber later added, they shared a life that took them far, with decades spent in their beloved India. “The Kiplings loved Bombay. They called it
‘that great blazing city,’” she said. The exhibition, which fi lls three floors of galleries, offers countless entry points for those of varied interests. As Weber said at the start of the tour, “We hope that we do him justice in this fi rst retrospective of his work and career.” The catalog accompanying the exhibition is edited by Bryant and Weber and published with Yale University Press, billed as the first book to explore the full spectrum of Lockwood Kipling’s achievements. Clearly, Lockwood Kipling’s time in the spotlight has arrived. For more, visit bgc.bard.edu/gallery/.
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‘GOSSIP’-ING ABOUT FALL FASHION BY DANIELLE RENDA
Kelly Rutherford shares some of her favorite fall selections from Hobbs. Photographs courtesy Hobbs Westchester.
Cappucina, Rutherford’s pooch, joined in on the fashion fun.
FROM THE BROWNSTONES OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE TO THE SCENIC STREETS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY, ACTRESS KELLY RUTHERFORD HAS ALWAYS CUT A FASHIONABLE FIGURE. The soap opera star played Lily van der Woodsen — mother of Serena, Blake Lively’s character — on The CW’s “Gossip Girl,” a drama about the lives of privileged New York City teens based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s book series. For six glamorous seasons (200712), it was one of the most fashion-forward TV series. Rutherford’s Lily alone sashayed through high society wearing Dior, Van Cleef & Arpels, RM by Roland Mouret, Hermès, Vera Wang and Jimmy Choo, all while living in the New York Palace Hotel. Rutherford’s own style is not so different, which she revealed when she visited Hobbs at The Westchester in White Plains recently with her precious, pint-sized pooch, Cappuccina, in one hand, and her close friend, Caroline Legerfelt — who played CeCe Rhodes, Lily’s mother — by her side. “I think I used a lot of my own style for the show,” Rutherford said. “A lot of it was similar, so we’d always have to pump it up a little. Like, oh wait, we have to make this a little more Lily than Kelly.” Like Lily, Rutherford is poised and classic. Her look for The Westchester was simple — a white, sleeveless, ankle-length dress, featuring a subtle, black vertical and diagonal pattern that created an alluring shape. She wore black kitten heels that matched her chunky, black statement necklace, both of which were contrasted by a red manicure and a delicate red lip. “She’s my stylist, always,” Legerfelt said. “She’s classy and simple, with a youthful flair. A young Grace Kelly and maybe a touch of Audrey Hepburn.”
But when she’s out of the limelight, Rutherford describes her style as far more laidback. “I’m much more of a tomboy and casual in my everyday life, probably more so than the character, for sure,” she said. “I mean, I walk out of the house with no makeup and my hair wet, wearing jeans and a T-shirt. So when I get dressed up, there’s a similarity. But in everyday life, I’m just more casual.” Legerfelt agreed. “Oh, honey, I’m an old hippie,” she said with a smile. Giggling, she suddenly recalled a particularly funny moment on set. “Our designer (Eric Damon) was brilliant,” Legerfelt said. “I’ll never forget, he always kept a sense of humor about his high fashion. I remember there was a scene — an argument scene — where I was supposed to come in from jogging. So I thought he’d put me in a jogging outfit and he did. But it was hot pink cashmere. See what I’m saying?” Setting their “Gossip Girl” days aside, Rutherford and Lagerfelt both expressed enthusiasm for new fall coats. Rutherford gravitates toward the tweeds, while Lagerfelt prefers a layered look. “They’re getting some tweeds in,” Rutherford said about Hobbs. “I love tweed. It’s really in right now.” With boots, Rutherford is leaning toward sky high. “I discovered the high boots that come above the knee,” she said. “A high-heeled boot is so great, because you can still wear it at night when it’s cold. You don’t have to wear your heels and it’s still sexy. A highheeled boot with a bold sweater, a bag and a pair of jeans and you’re set.” For the easygoing Rutherford, it’s all about going with the fashion flow. “There’s no real theme. It’s just all what I like,” she said. “I tend to shop that way. I don’t really think about when I’m going to wear it. I just go home and figure it out.” For more, visit hobbs.com and kellyrutherford. com.
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“I’ve always been interested in the intersection of politics and literature,” says Emily Katz Anhalt, who teaches classical languages and literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers.
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mily Katz Anhalt, who teaches classical languages and literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, has written a timely new book. Not that that was necessarily her intention. “Sadly, yes,” is how she responds when you note how “Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths” (Yale University Press, $30, 268 pages) resonates. “But it’s been in the works a long time. I was hoping to have it come out before the (presidential) election.” Because it came out in September, it must be judged as a work of timeliness instead of one of prescience, though it is both. Anhalt can write passionately, eloquently of the ancient Mycenaean king Agamemnon — one of literature’s great bad leaders — who “epitomizes the most dangerous sort of demagogue, one who pan-
ders to the people he ought to lead. Like most 21st century political leaders, Agamemnon cares most about appearances and about his own susceptibility to blame. (The Trojan queen) Hecuba has his number: ‘Since you are afraid,’ she tells him (in Euripides’ play ‘Hecuba’), ‘you distribute more to the ochlos, mob.’ Instead of leading, Agamemnon subordinates himself to the mob. And we have already seen the mob twist wrong into right.” Yet lest any reader of a certain political persuasion think that she is out to thump Trump and his base, think again. Anhalt is too much of a discerning smart cookie for that and, judging from our conversation with her at Sarah Lawrence, too much of a moderate concerned that “the rational power in the middle is getting obliterated.” She is as worried about violence on the extreme left as
Sebald Beham’s “Achilles and Hector” (1518-30), engraving. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
on the extreme right, along with the role that all forms of media — not just social media — play in instigating it. “I worry that a lot of commercial films celebrate violence, equating it with justice,” she says. “That’s going back to tribalism.” The ancient Greeks and their myths and literature have a lot to say about tribalism; nationalism, which she sums up with the slogan “my country, right or wrong”; patriotism, “the critical assessment of what makes a country stronger”; and just about every other “ism” you can think of. But it’s been a long time since modern society thought the Greeks were relevant. “It’s an interesting phenomenon,” she says. “To be educated 150 years ago, you read Greek and Latin….” Today, she adds, not many are aware of the ancient Greeks and Romans. But Anhalt, a Guilford, Connecticut, resident, bucked the trend — switching her focus from philosophy to the ancient Greeks at Dartmouth College; earning a Ph.D. in classical philology at Yale University; and teaching Greek mythology, classical languages and history at Yale and Trinity College. Those experiences taught her that the ancient Greeks were a lot more than a bunch of dead white guys who had kept slaves and relegated women to second-class status. “The ancient Greeks didn’t live up to their ideals initially,” Anhalt acknowledges. “Their transition away from tribalism took centuries…. But one of the premises of the book is that the stories we tell shape our attitudes and priorities. You can make all the institutional changes in the world, but unless you address the propensity for violence, it won’t matter. For
me, the Greeks are central to what qualities we need to value.” Among those qualities is an understanding of the destructive power of anger and violence. Anhalt is not talking about righteous anger, the kind that might fuel a constructive fi ght against social injustice, or the violence in an act of self-defense, as in the Allies’ response to the Axis powers in World War II, but overweening anger and violence — the subjects of Homer’s “The Iliad,” which lie at the heart of her book. (She also addresses two related works — “Hecuba” and Sophocles’ “Ajax.”) “Rage” is the first word in “The Iliad,” an epic poem that may be as much as 3,000 years old, Anhalt writes. Rage drives its narrative and its protagonist — Achilles, the Greeks’ greatest warrior and one of literature’s most fascinating creations. When we meet him and his fellow Greeks, they have been on the beach for 10 years trying to lay siege to Troy in revenge for the Trojan prince Paris taking off with the beauteous Helen — wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, brother of the Greek high commander Agamemnon. Now the Greeks are suffering from a plague brought on by the god Apollo to avenge Agamemnon taking Chryseis — daughter of the god’s local priest — as a war prize. When Achilles, a king in his own right, demands Agamemnon respect Apollo and his earthly servant and so return the young woman and assuage the Greeks’ suffering, the high commander seizes Briseis, Achilles’ war prize, to be strong on him. “It’s tempting to sympathize with Achilles,” Anhalt says. “We have a tradition in America of the rebel hero.” (It helps that the Greeks and lat-
er artists portrayed him as one of the great male beauties. In the 2004 movie “Troy,” he was played by Brad Pitt.) Yet not so fast on the sympathy. Rather than man up, Achilles takes to sulking in his tent (although this being an ancient Greek myth, he does so beautifully, strumming his lyre and singing of heroic deeds). This leads his best bud Patroclus to don Achilles’ armor to get the Greeks back in fi ghting mode, which leads the Trojan prince Hector, the city’s champion, to kill Patroclus, thinking he’s Achilles; which leads Achilles to go berserk — slaying Trojans left and right and killing Hector, then dragging his body around the battlements in front of the horrified royal family before returning to the Greek camp with it. “When he succumbs to rage, he goes to the dark side,” Anhalt says. “For me,” she continues, “Homer introduces distancing between what the characters see and what the audience sees. The characters see honor and winning as primary. The audience sees the characters as honor-obsessed.” But Achilles transcends this at the end when, visited by the Trojan king Priam, who begs him to release the body of his son Hector for burial, he acquiesces — seeing his own father in Priam and, perhaps more important, Priam’s suffering in his own. Writes Anhalt: “…Achilles regains his humanity by recognizing human vulnerability to suffering and death and by discovering the value of empathy.” Emily Katz Anhalt is writing a sequel to “Enraged” based on Homer’s “The Odyssey.” For more, visit emilykatzanhalt.com. NOVEMBER 2017
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AN ARTISTIC INVESTMENT STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIELLE RENDA
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Kenny Ackerman, owner and curator of Ackerman’s Fine Arts LLC.
KENNY ACKERMAN IS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE ART WORLD AND THE ART OF FINANCE.
As the owner and curator of Ackerman’s Fine Art LLC in Purchase, he maintains a collection of 19th- and 20th-century works by international artists. As a 20-year veteran of Wall Street — formerly working as a trader — he also offers clients a seasoned perspective on art as an increasingly attractive investment that, like any investment, has its risks. For him, though, this is more than a business. It’s an opportunity to share the beauty of fine art with the world. Walking through the Westchester Avenue gallery, he speaks with enthusiasm, as if seeing the works for the first time. “This is the pinup room,” he says of a selection of six suggestive paintings created between 1940 and 1970 by American pinup artist Gillette Elvgren. “His editions are unbelievable, better than anyone else’s,” he says of Andy Warhol’s 1987 screen print, “Beethoven.” “And this is by Grandma Moses,” he says of “March,” a 1956 painting of a classic wintry New England scene, which the artist — otherwise known as Anna Robinson — finished at the age of 95. (Self-taught, she began painting at 78, Ackerman says.) He points to two iconic red and blue “LOVE” sculptures by American artist Robert Indiana — much smaller versions of the one at 1359 Sixth Ave. in Manhattan — and discusses the mesmerizing quality of “The Milkman,” Israeli artist Reuven Ru-
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bin’s 1928 painting of the region that would become Israel 20 years later. And we note our shared appreciation for photorealism while admiring the work of Bertrand Meniel, whose paintings can hardly be distinguished from enlarged photographs. “When I formed Ackerman’s (in 2010) and decided that I would try and build a business, it wasn’t just to make money,” he says, “but to introduce great art to people as investments and to protect people from the bad things that I was seeing in the industry.” Ackerman “got the bug” — as he refers to it — after visiting a French Impressionism exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s been collecting ever since. But with art being a hot commodity for criminals as well as collectors like himself, due diligence is required. “Over 50 percent of everything that people send to us is fake,” he says. “So there’s a lot of work that goes behind selling. Because if I sell something to you and, in a year, you learn that it’s not real, I have to give you your money back. We honor that. So I don’t ever want that happening. Thank God, it’s never happened to us.” To ensure authenticity, Ackerman works with a team of specialists. “For each artist, there’s usually an expert,” he
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s “The Candidate” (1920), oil on canvas.
says. “And when there’s an expert, they give you a certificate.” But even the certificates — which state the authenticity of the work — can be forged. And this is why Ackerman’s services are so valuable, especially for newer collectors. “Unless they’re shrewd — and there’s a lot of shrewd buyers out there — the novices need some-
one to protect them, to guide them and that’s what we do,” he says. Not only does he prevent clients from purchasing fakes, but from overpaying. “We have people calling here all the time saying, ‘I have this art and I want to sell it. I bought it for $250,000 from a gallery in the city 20 years ago.’ And I just have to say, ‘I’m sorry, but you overpaid and there’s nothing I can do.’ We get that a lot,” he says. In addition to buying and selling directly, Ackerman offers a consignment option for clients looking to sell. With this service, he showcases the work in his gallery — after ensuring authenticity — for a set period of time. If the item sells, it will likely be for a greater value. If it doesn’t, Ackerman purchases the work for a set price. “Let’s say that you have a $100,000 painting,” he says. “And I say that I’ll give you $60,000 for it. But if I put it on consignment and sell it for higher, I’ll give you, say, $80,000. If it doesn’t sell in six months, I’ll still buy it for $60,000. You really have nothing to lose.” And neither does the art lover. Ackerman’s Fine Art LLC is at 2900 Westchester Ave., Suite 107, in Purchase. For more, visit ackermansfineart.com
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READY TO HAVE YOUR DREAM CAR PERSONALIZED TO PERFECTION? THEN MATTHEW FIGLIOLA, FOUNDER AND CEO OF AI DESIGN, IS YOUR GO-TO GUY.
Ai Design in Tuckahoe.
You’ll find him by entering a nondescript door on an industrial side street in Tuckahoe. Inside is a hidden secret — an immaculate 10,000-square-foot facility where Figliola and his team of nine master craftsmen outfit luxury and sports cars with the latest and greatest in audio and video entertainment; plush upholstery; trim, cutting-edge security systems; and high-end performance tuning. The 25-year-old shop’s expertise in bespoke car interiors and exteriors spans the gamut, from recreating a stunning 1932 Ford Roadster from scratch to customizing a 2017 Ferrari 488 Spider convertible, complete with a hidden radar detector in its rearview mirror whose placement was created using Ai Design’s high-tech 3D printer. Discerning customers include sports and entertainment celebrities, leading record producers, famous fashion designers, tech billionaires, Wall Street tycoons and even the king of Morocco, Mohammed VI. Figliola, an Irvington resident who grew up in Hartsdale, says, “It all began when I helped a friend install speakers in the car he just bought. I caught the bug right there and then and pursued installing audio systems as a hobby, working on my own first car, a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu station wagon, and at small jobs at auto shops after school.” After graduating from high school in 1985, Figliola learned the ropes at several upscale car customization companies, always with an eye toward opening his own business. “I did all types of electronic work, not just sound systems, but big fancy radar detectors, auxiliary lighting and body changes, plus performance enhancements like augmenting the motor and suspension,” he says. Figliola brought his wealth of artistic and engineering knowledge to Ai Design, which he first opened in Yonkers in 1992, relocating to Eastchester a couple years later and then finally moving to Tuckahoe in 1998. When asked about what makes his shop unique, Figliola says, “We have competitors that do aspects of what we do, but I don’t know any that have our range of expertise in high-end automotive customization in all of the U.S. and Canada. “For a lot of ‘car places,’ their entry point is motors and making cars faster. For me, it all began with car audio and an understanding of how to navigate through a vehicle’s electronic system,” he adds. “Having grown that body of knowledge gives our shop a really big edge. A modern car has 40 or 50 computers in it, and, if you want to make big changes to it, you really have to know quite a few things.”
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Matthew Figliola, founding CEO of Ai Design.
He also points out that all those electronic changes often require major physical modifications to the car itself. “We’re known for our fabrication — the ability to make a part out of wood, metal, plastic, fiberglass or any other means,” Figliola says. “For example, for there to be excellent upholstery, there’s a panel underneath that has to be shaped and sculpted. The substrate is where the real work is. The upholstery is like a finishing step. The beauty is the changes don’t stand out but rather mesh and look like they’re part of the car’s original equipment,” he notes. In addition to electronic technicians and fabricators, Figliola also employs an array of seasoned mechanics and auto-body experts. “What’s so unusual is that the majority of our craftsmen can wear all hats if need be, but, of course, some excel in particular areas more than others,” he says. “When it comes to computer-aided design (CAD), we have one specialist, but there’s still a general understanding among the entire staff.” One example of how the team all worked together is the pair of identical 2015 Cadillac Escalades that Ai Design personalized for a prominent music entrepreneur. The owner wanted to enjoy the exact same luxury vehicle on both coasts and to be able to listen to his personal music collection, which includes thousands of CDs accessible through the server located at his Los Angeles home. Spending over a year and a half on the twin projects, the shop completely dismantled the cars inside and out in order to create an audio environment that rivals the finest world-class sound studios. “All of the circuitry, the miles of wiring, the modems and the 22 custom-designed speakers were completely integrated into the car and rendered invisible,” Figliola says of a hallmark of Ai Design’s work. “The music is 60
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entirely controlled through two iPads inserted into the back of the two front-seat headrests.” In addition, Figliola used a 3D printer to make 120 different parts in each Cadillac, ranging from a tiny switch bezel to an entire interior door panel. The upscale upholstery included custom-dyed saddle-brown leather seating, Ultrasuede ceiling paneling and luxurious Wilton wool carpeting (made famous by Rolls Royce). Rounding out the package, both vehicles were installed with a sophisticated radar detection system, added horsepower, improved braking, suspension changes, emergency lighting and even discretely placed fire extinguishers. While Ai Design works on dozens of sports cars a year, from Porches and Ferraris to McLarens and Vipers, perhaps one of the projects that most stands out is the customized Mercedes-Benz CLS55 for Ken Block (well-known within motorsport circles as well as for founding the Gen X phenom DC Shoes). Completed in 2005, the car’s signature touches include “a matte black exterior that was revolutionary at the time and still is in demand today, a Brabus K8 engine that can deliver 575 in horsepower and DC logos emblazoned onto the head rests and trunk lid,” Figliola says. He’s in the process of turning the interior of a music promoter’s 1977 General Motors RV into a mobile
home that the client can enjoy as a hotel suite while traveling to music festivals across the country. While the body and mechanical restorations have been completed over the past year, the next step is to focus on the 136-square-foot interior. When finished, the space will include a custom-designed kitchen, dinette, living room with couches, sleeping space that can accommodate a queen-size bed and bathroom suffused with a Zen-like atmosphere. Not only will there be a high-tech Sonos sound system, but Figliola is also installing a record player, because the client wants to be able to play his vinyl collection. “Plans also include a deployable awning, plus a grill and collapsible chairs that can be pulled out of built-in storage so the owner can enjoy the full camping experience. It’s going to be a very chill space,” he says. At any given time there may be about 20 cars in the shop, and Figliola enjoys solving the challenges that each one of them presents. “I’m passionate about the whole creation process and just being able to design whatever we need from scratch,” he says. “It’s very satisfying to get to know something as mundane as nuts, bolts and screws so well and also all the attributes of leather, plastic and wood that most people have no concepts of, plus in-depth details about an engine or a wheel,” he adds. “To me, it’s all on a palette, and you’re dabbling in here and there and assembling it all. I know all of the materials intimately and love being able to choose which ones would be the best fit for each car.” For more, visit aidesign.com.
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For Nicolas Cloiseau, chocolate is an art. Working alongside his chef-uncle on weekends from an early age, he discovered that the sweet, creamy stuff was an entrée to aesthetic expression. And that the best chocolate needn’t be a sweet, creamy cliché. Enter Robert Linxe, founder of La Maison du Chocolat. Cloiseau joined the company 20 years ago and is now its chef. “It’s about love, art and technical skill,” says Cloiseau, who was awarded the title Meilleur Ouvrier de France Chocolatier in 2007. WAG had the opportunity to visit the chocolatier’s Rockefeller Center location recently and was delighted to find busy New Yorkers taking time in the middle of the workweek to sip some hot chocolate on an unseasonably warm fall afternoon or to sample a milk chocolate hazelnut praline (heavenly). It’s part of what Cloiseau calls the French “artde-vivre,” as you’ll see in our interview:
I stopped in at your 49th Street shop in Manhattan recently and couldn’t resist buying some hazelnut praline squares — scrumptious. Without giving away any secrets, what is the essence of the art of chocolate for La Maison du Chocolat? “One of (founder) Robert Linxe’s secrets was to do what nobody else was doing, to invite clients of La Maison du Chocolat to discover another face of chocolate — less sweet, less snacky, more adult, liberated from an excess of sugar and cream. At La Maison du Chocolat, our motto has always been ‘the only limit is the taste.’ “I was very lucky to work with Robert Linxe early in my career and to share the same atelier
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Nicolas Cloiseau, chef of La Maison du Chocolat. Courtesy La Maison du Chocolat.
tle bit of gourmandizing. We don’t have any imminent plans to open a new boutique in New York, but we’re always on the lookout for new opportunities.”
for 10 years. During that time, I was continually enriched by his style of mixing flavors, a style which greatly influences my creations today. For me, Robert Linxe was a great master of chocolate and certainly the pillar of chocolate-making at the end of the 20th century. Today La Maison du Chocolat continues to perfect his techniques…and his philosophy of taste and the mixing and balancing of flavors.”
How did your own love affair with chocolate begin? “I chose to become a chocolatier very early in my life and the decision seemed very natural and evident even at the time. From a young age, I spent every weekend in the kitchen of my uncle, who was a chef, and so my orientation towards the sweet side of cooking was formed very early. I discovered in chocolate an astounding outlet to express and develop my artistic side.”
With the holidays fast approaching, what confections have you created to celebrate this year? “This year for Christmas I wanted to explore fruit and citrus flavors. Our Christmas gift box collection ‘Starlit Night’ includes a chocolate whose flavors of strawberry are imbued with orange blossom water, a citrus duo of kumquat/ kalamansi paired side by side with candied zest, a chocolate almond paste, a classic crunchy French mendiant (chocolate discs dotted with fruits or nuts) and a dark Brazilian chocolate ganache that unveils a chocolate side ripe with passionfruit. “We are also unveiling an advent calendar garnished with our chocolates, rochers and chocolate-coated hazelnuts and almonds. The exceptional Grand Star piece (right) completes the collection. I’m really proud of it. It’s a large decorative piece made entirely of dark chocolate, combining 12 perforated stars with chocolate beads and gold leaf.”
What is your favorite chocolate creation? “A creation that is close to my heart is the noir de cassis — dark chocolate and blackcurrant. I’m especially proud of this chocolate because for many years, Mr. Linxe attempted to marry the flavors of chocolate and blackcurrant and I was able to take up where he left off, incorporating the blackcurrant buds as well as the pulp itself — which has the effect of making the taste last much longer. “I especially love the taste of pure chocolate that you find in our natural ganaches for all the typical tastes they can express. My favorites are the Quito, the Caracas, the Extreme and the Akosombo and, in milk chocolate, the Boheme and the Sylvia.” For more, visit lamaisonduchocolat.us.
Maison’s Manhattan shops bustle, even in the middle of the workweek. What do you think accounts for that and are you opening more in New York? “We’re privileged to have many loyal clients in New York. I think that people are really looking for a little bit of Paris, of the French art de vivre. They’re happy to be in the boutique, to speak a few words of French with the vendors and to enjoy a lit-
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Owner Heidi Johnston, opposite, sources many of her goods from England and Europe for Yellow Monkey Antiques in Cross River.
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THE DINING TABLE IS OFTEN THE HEART OF THE HOME, SERVING NOT ONLY AS A PLACE TO EAT BUT TO CELEBRATE, DISCUSS THORNY ISSUES, OR SIMPLY BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED TIME.
Now, with the holiday season fast approaching, the table becomes more important than ever in the home and there is no better place to view an assortment and get advice on making the best selection than from Heidi Johnston, owner of Yellow Monkey Antiques in Cross River. Johnston, an interior designer and former vice president in charge of product and design for Scalamandré, has a special love of tables. She imports many of them from England and Europe and has made them integral to decorating projects from Maine to Florida, with second and country homes among her favorites.
FAVORITE STYLES “My specialty is mostly English and European country antiques and I have done many large decorating projects in Bedford, Nantucket and Charleston, South Carolina. Here in Cross River, many people come to me to purchase dining tables and the chairs that are so important to complementing them to perfection." Johnston says long, rectangular farmhouse tables — the classic harvest tables — are in high demand and she carries a large number of sideboards and buffets as complements. “My favorite tables have a hand-rubbed finish using plenty of quality wax. I like to see the wood grain and lots of distressing. I don’t think the finish of a table should be so precious that you can’t set down a drink.”
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Johnston says her favorite — and most popular — table woods are walnut, chestnut and oak. And, as to color, she says, “I still like brown furniture but don’t like pine. I do not sell American tables or any other American furniture.” In terms of size, she says her tables are mostly large. “The smallest is about 72 inches long. My clients want to sit at a 10- to 12-foot table, often with a leaf that can be drawn out for additional seating. These days, everyone seems to want big tables.” Johnston says the chairs should be perfect foils for the table. “Most of my chairs are reproductions but they fit my antique tables perfectly. People must realize that good chairs, even reproductions, are not cheap. They are complicated to make properly. My chairs are beautiful and really set my tables off. In many cases, the chairs around the table make all the difference.” When it comes to style, she adds that the chestnut, drop-leaf table is the most in demand. “The wood is beautiful and it’s versatile. The distressing can be exquisite. Second in demand is the large, long farm, or harvest, table. And, finally, I am seeing an increased demand for wine-tasting tables, which are often oval in shape and smaller in size than their grander counterparts.” Johnston says that although her clients mostly
MY FAVORITE TABLES HAVE A HAND-RUBBED FINISH USING PLENTY OF QUALITY WAX. I LIKE TO SEE THE WOOD GRAIN AND LOTS OF DISTRESSING. I DON’T THINK THE FINISH OF A TABLE SHOULD BE SO PRECIOUS THAT YOU CAN’T SET DOWN A DRINK. — Heidi Johnston
want a long rectangular table, she enjoys an oval table. “But most people are focused on seating up to 12, which is easier with a rectangular shape and draw leaves if needed.” Most of the tables at Yellow Monkey range in period from 1846 to 1910, and Johnston travels across the Pond at least once a year to make her selections in England and on the Continent, sending them back here by container ship. “I used to go looking
several times a year, but have cut back. I try to squeeze my buying into one extended trip,”
FILLING CLIENT NEEDS Johnston also looks for tables on the East Coast antiques trail and goes shopping for customers who want specific features in their tables. “After 40 years in this business, I know how to satisfy my customers,” she says. “After I see their space I know what will and what won't work out for them. I also have no hesitation in purchasing a good reproduction as long as it has the right finish.” The Yellow Monkey is a large shop, filled with hundreds of antique and reproduction selections. “I span the gamut of European and English pieces and sell many smaller decorative items such as lamps, mirrors, tabletop statuary and beautifully framed art. Upholstered pieces are also available.” Johnston says she is confident in her ability to answer her clients’ needs, whether it’s redecorating a country home or finding the perfect ice bucket. “Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to pull things together for them,” she says. Working right here in the Westchester-Fairfield region is a treat after her forays up and down the East Coast and abroad. “I live nearby in Cross River with my family and am happy to call this region my home,” she says. For more, visit yellowmonkey.com.
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‘A CERTAIN SMILE,’ A CERTAIN VOICE BY GREGG SHAPIRO PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFF DUNAS
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THERE IS ONLY ONE JOHNNY MATHIS. WITH A CAREER THAT IS NOW IN ITS SEVENTH DECADE, HE HAS TOUCHED MANY GENERATIONS WITH HIS VELVETY VOCALS AND A RADIANT PERSONA PUNCTUATED BY — WE CAN’T HELP BUT SAY IT — “A CERTAIN SMILE.”
Known for such hits as “When Sunny Gets Blue,” “It’s Not For Me To Say,” “Chances Are,” “The Twelfth of Never,” “Misty,” “Wonderful! Wonderful!,” “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” and, of course, “A Certain Smile,” which he performed in the 1958 film of the same title, Mathis has always had a way with standards and, especially, those that festoon the holiday season. Born in Gilmer, Texas, and raised in San Francisco — the fourth of seven children — John Royce Mathis learned music and performance early from his musician-father, Clem Mathis. At George Washington High School and San Francisco State College (now University), he distinguished himself as much for his athletics as for his singing, once besting NBA legend Bill Russell in a high-jump meet.
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He was invited to the 1956 Olympic trials in Melbourne, Australia. But around that time Mathis also had an opportunity to go to New York to cut his first record. With his father’s guidance, he chose music over sport, which led to impresario Mitch Miller, TV host Ed Sullivan and the Mathis we enjoy today. Recently, we caught up with this performer for all seasons — who’ll be at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island with his Christmas concert Dec. 9 — and began by asking about his “Wonderful, Wonderful” life. In your 2006 PBS special, “Johnny Mathis Live — Wonderful, Wonderful,” you talked about having “a lot of good memories” in spite of times in your career when you had to do 101 one-night concerts. How do you think that the experience affected you artistically and personally? “Television is very demanding. You not only have to sing, but you have to look like you’ve got it all together (laughs). That oftentimes gives you a little leg up on your physical activities, like trying to stay in shape, so that you look as good as you sing. You do get absolutely affected by what you do, for instance ‘101 one-nighters in a row’ and things of that nature. You realize that your capabilities are quite extensive if you continue your routine, which is remembering that you’re going to have to perform, so that all your extracurricular activities have to be minimized. “Not so much that you’re restricted in too many ways, but you do have to get a lot of rest, concentrate and remember it’s a job, a wonderful job. But it does require a lot of attention and concentration and you’re dealing with your vocal chords, which are very, very sensitive and also require a lot of rest. So, many things of that nature go into affecting performance.” Speaking of exhaustion, I was worn out just watching that vintage clip in which you and Andy Williams were doing gymnastics. How do you stay fit these days? “My lifestyle has been honed and nurtured by two very extraordinary people. My exercise routine started years ago when I met a man by the name of Mike Abrahams at the MountainGate (Country Club). We just happened to get in the same foursome and, along the way, he told me about what he did, that he exercised a lot of the people in motion pictures, and asked me what I did to keep in shape (laughs). “Unfortunately, I had a negative answer like, ‘I don’t really do anything.’ He kind of gave me a disapproving look. So I called him later on, and we got together and spent the better part of 20 years working out together. He got me into the routine of remembering that I was not always going to be young and fit, and I was going to have to work at it. It was Mike who told me that it would not only enhance my performance to look fit onstage, but it would probably give me a great boost as far as my energy
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level was concerned when singing and doing my day-to-day activities. “Also, my voice teacher Connie Cox. When I was 13 years old, we worked together for about five years, and got the ‘ground floor’ as far as protecting my vocal chords over the years and how strenuous my workload was going to be. I understood that as a young man, and it has stood me in great stead over the years. I would say she was the only voice teacher I’ve ever had. Along the way, I’ve met some wonderful people who have helped me when I had problems vocally, but through her training she was the instigator and the foundation of my singing.” You have a long history of performing duets, with partners ranging from Deniece Williams, with whom you had a chart-topping hit single, to Jane Olivor and Dionne Warwick, among others. Is there a current artist with whom you’d like to sing a duet? “Jennifer Warnes. I just love the quality of her voice. You can’t buy that. You can’t learn it. I heard her for the first time singing ‘Up Where We Belong’ and would be honored to sing with her if she is ever available. As far as my other duet partners are concerned, of course, I love my ladies very much. They are dear, wonderful and truly great artists.” When I interviewed Don McLean a couple of months ago, we talked about your rendition of “And I Love You So.” He cited it as one of his favorites and said, “It’s always amazing
I’VE BEEN VERY LUCKY OVER THE YEARS, MEETING GREAT SONGWRITERS AND MUSICIANS WHO HAVE PERFORMED MUSIC THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH, AND I HAVE RECORDED. — Johnny Mathis
to hear Johnny Mathis…do ‘And I Love You So,’ because he has such a unique style. He has that echo chamber in his mouth and he does that song and it knocks you out.” What do you think about that? “Don McLean, yeah, wonderful, good songwriter. I loved the way I sang it, but I had sort of a misconstrued idea about waiting before I sang a certain phrase. He liked it a lot and I was very, very happy because he wrote it. But I thought on my second listening, I thought I could’ve done a better job, but, of course, that is the way careers go. I’m always thinking I can do a better job on most of the things I’ve recorded. Evidently, Don wasn’t bothered by my lack of confidence in my singing of that song.”
You are once again going out on a concert tour. When you look out in the audience and see the faces of your fans, especially those of a certain age, do you feel as if you’ve grown up together? “Yes, many of us have grown up together. And it’s a wonderful thing. It helps me in that I don’t feel obligated just to sing the same songs over and over again. They’re familiar enough with them that if I sing a little bit of one or two, then I can actually do what I think is more interesting for the audience by singing some of the songs that perhaps they aren’t familiar with, but that I feel deserve to be performed. “I’ve been very lucky over the years, meeting great songwriters and musicians who have performed music that I fell in love with, and I have recorded. But there are wonderful moments when I feel like really getting involved with some music that perhaps I’ve sung in the past, or that I’ve always wanted to sing. Fortunately, the audience is attentive enough to let me do it. I’ve learned my lessons not to go too far out, but you do want to experiment a little bit because we do a lot of the same stuff over and over and over again. The fans don’t hear it that way, but we (the performers) do. “I was very nervous in the beginning of my career and unfortunately on a lot of occasions it showed through my performances — not so much that it ruined the performance, but it certainly was a learning process on my part to learn to control my emotions while I’m onstage. When you know that the people are familiar with you, they like your music, it gives you a certain amount of relaxation, which, of course, has helped me over the years. I don’t really know how I came to feel as relaxed as I do now onstage. Maybe it’s just that you do it so often. It’s all I know how to do.” GS: If there was one song that you could retire and never have to sing again, what would it be? “I’ve been very lucky over the years. Most of the music that I’ve sung has been good music. There are songs that are more difficult than others to sing. For instance, the high note in ‘Misty.’ We did lower the key, which helps a great deal, but I still have to sing kind of a note in the middle of the song that is a bit (laughs) ‘iffy’ and way out there. But I’ve just learned to do it vocally night after night. I love that song. I love the fact that it was written by the great artist Erroll Garner and the wonderful lyrics by Johnny Burke. “As far as retiring any of the songs, mostly, I have a hard time with songs that are vocally difficult but over the years, I’ve learned that it’s better in the long run that I sing songs that I can vocally manage without too much trouble.” Johnny Mathis performs, Dec. 9 at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts LIU Post in Greenvale, N.Y. For more, visit tillescenter.org. NOVEMBER 2017
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF DOUBLES ACT BY JENA BUTTERFIELD
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DOWN A LEAFY DRIVE IN ARMONK, HIDDEN FROM PASSERSBY ON BUSINESS PARK DRIVE, LIES A SMALL, BROWNSHINGLED HUT THAT LOOKS OUT OF PLACE WEDGED BETWEEN TWO INFLATABLE DOMES. INSIDE, THE STACCATO POP OF TENNIS BALLS BETRAYS THE WHEREABOUTS OF GREG ANDERSON, DIRECTOR OF ARMONK INTERNATIONAL TENNIS ACADEMY (AITA).
It’s a quiet location that suits Greg’s unassuming nature. His low-key profile, steady work ethic and love for the game have been compared with that of his childhood training partner — U.S. Open finalist Kevin Anderson, who is also his brother. Kevin is the 6-foot-8 South African with a powerhouse serve who faced off against Rafael Nadal in his first Grand Slam final this past September. It was a surprising comeback from an injury-plagued year that came on the heels of a career high ranking of No. 10 in the world. “I see Kevin potentially taking it further,” says Greg, who trained with his brother before the first match of the tournament, then joined the Anderson entourage in the stands. “It was obviously a great two weeks for me with a lot of special memories,” Kevin says. “It’s always great having (Greg) on the court again. Obviously, we’ve spent so much time together (there). It’s very familiar practicing with him.” The brothers’ busy schedules (Kevin on the tour, Greg directing the academy) mean those times are less frequent. “Nowadays, it just usually happens during New York,” Kevin says. “(Greg) gets time off work. It’s always nice. He has a great eye for the sport and he knows me well ....” AITA is a high-performance program for junior players in northern Westchester. So, it’s no wonder that word of Greg’s connection with Kevin spread quickly there. His attendance in Queens meant the kids in Armonk got to experience a closeness to the tennis world Greg and Kevin never had growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa. “It’s tough coming from a country where you don’t have the same sort of resources and you’re a little further from the tennis scene,” Kevin says. That’s why Armonk was a draw for Greg. “There aren’t many areas in the country where it’s this desirable to teach,” he says. “I feel like I’m really blessed with kids that are polite and have goals. Plus, I get to wear tennis clothes for a living.” The Anderson brothers’ story is a lesson in the art of living a successful life in sports. Whether that means standing in front of a cheering stadium crowd at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows or instructing a new generation of talented players, Greg and Kevin have learned that living the lessons behind the sport is what counts. “There are lots of life lessons to be learned from tennis,” Greg says, citing discipline, overcoming defeat, handling pressure and physical health among them. It’s a lifelong sport that kids will play and benefit from long after college, he believes. “The lessons and morals is what I’m trying to pass on. It’s priceless.”
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That impetus to coach seems to come naturally to the Andersons. “I’ve always felt (Greg) had a great eye for helping people learn and develop,” Kevin says. “When I can, I definitely enjoy that aspect of sharing some of the stuff I’ve acquired over the years.” Coached by their father, the brothers’ game is stylistically similar. Both were good juniors, often in the top two or three for their respective ages. (Kevin is 18 months older than Greg.) “Definitely having my brother to practice with all the time was a huge benefit for me and for him,” Kevin says. They started attending national tournaments, traveling with each other along the southern coast of Africa on “beautiful, long road trips,” playing finals on adjacent courts. “It was a four-year period of experience we can both draw from,” Greg says. Eventually, they were recruited to play for college in the United States (Kevin at the University of Illinois and Greg at the University of Kentucky and later Morehead State University). “A free U.S. education is a massive accomplishment,” Greg says. Their goal was to play tournaments in the summer then take stock of their choices and possibly give the tour a shot. “The biggest reason I went to college was to continue developing my game,” Kevin says. “My aspiration was always to turn pro.”
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Brothers Greg and Kevin Anderson.
The decision rested on the success they had during those summers. Players can’t accept prize money in college. Once they do, they’ve turned from amateur to professional. Kevin decided to make that leap and left school after junior year. “I didn’t do quite as well,” Greg says. “So I decided to stay and finish school.” “I think it was tough for (Greg) when he decided that professional tennis wasn’t going to be his destiny,” Kevin says. “It was all about practicality,” adds Greg, who
decided to finish college and not follow what he deemed a pipe dream. “My parents taught us to make smart choices and smart decisions.” They also taught him the true meaning of success. “Being the best at what you’re best at was the message.” So back to the brothers at the US Open and the hint of irony that Greg based his program in Armonk around Nadal’s tennis — the intensity of his work ethic, the mental toughness, fortitude and simplicity. “Behind Kevin,” Greg confesses, “Nadal’s been my idol. Our dad was big into the mental part of the game. (It) applies to any profession… to school. You won’t be successful if you’re mentally weak. Kevin has drawn a lot on his mental game.” That’s evident in the emotion Kevin started to express on court, outwardly celebrating his successes. At 31, he’s focusing on the positives. “Just getting all the way to the finals this year…it’s a great achievement for me,” Kevin says. “Nadal’s one of the best players that’s ever played our sport. But I think I’ve learned a lot from those two weeks… I’m definitely very motivated to hopefully be back in that position and give myself another shot.” For more on Armonk International Tennis Academy, visit armonkindoor.com. And for more on Kevin Anderson, visit reallifetennis.com.
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PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER BY JANE MORGAN
This is the year of black — black wallpaper, black painted rooms, black kitchen cabinets. Louise Nevelson would have been ecstatic. It’s dramatic, of course, but can a trend be artistic? Trends, by definition, follow in the wake of something created two steps ahead of them so we are co-opting someone else’s creative statement by chasing them. Some of the coolest interiors I’ve ever seen were imagined by fine artists and not interior designers, because artists govern themselves and so they are not bound by conventional aesthetic rules. The important idea is the intention and a careful consideration of effective expression. I just read about a “sculpture” that was shown at MoMA PSI that is as literal as it is conceptual. It is a French horn (the instrument) stuffed with guacamole. Yes, you heard that right. Some brave/foolish art collector bought it and displayed it in his living room, carefully tending to the guac before it rotted. That’s commitment. On the flip side, I went to someone’s house for dinner awhile back and noticed that the artworks on the walls were hung way above eye level, seemingly creeping toward the ceiling. These were not tall people. They told me they had used the previous owner’s already installed picture hooks to hang their own treasures (regardless of proportion and scale). It was visually odd and not in a fun way. I smiled and nodded. Really, most of us fall somewhere in between the extremes of hyper-curatorial and laissez-faire modes. Before attending design school, I grew up with more of an art education than most, because my
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This stark architectural image is reminiscent of the work of photographer Dan Billet, the author’s father.
father, Dan Billet, is a landscape and architectural photographer. As a kid, I waited on the side of the road for the sun to appear at just the right intensity before he would consider snapping a single shot of the grass-covered dunes on the New England coast. I had to “wipe that look” off my face and sit stock-still while “looking natural” so that he could immortalize me in portraiture. The buildings he captured were stark and Edward Hopper-esque, giving the impression that the area was deserted. The finished frame never belied how much patience and calculation it took to stab at the subject in between groups of people walking by in either direction. Many of these images graced the walls of my parents’ home as well as those of extended family, friends and a few galleries. They were important not just because they were beautiful. Symbolically, they were portraits of my father, his soul as seen through a window with no curtains. That view of him was not easy to come by as he
toiled to support us, stoic and purposeful in all that he did. Here was his opportunity to take risks — creative risks substituted for the kind of literal risks that were not available for him to take in the real world — not if he was going to put us first, which he always did. He rendered scenes abundant in dignity and an order of the mind that depicted his character and deepest held beliefs. He risked public greatness, as a man who took no accolades, making space for a monumental vision of life made action by action in the everyday. His credo, “I wish for you what you wish for yourselves” is evident every time I look at his work, which radiates a poetry of stillness and simplicity of being, imposing in itself but never imposing on the viewer. Don’t be afraid of displaying artwork in your home whether it’s yours or someone else’s. Take risks — express yourself, go all-in. And please hire a professional picture hanger. For more, visit janemorganinteriordesign.com.
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THE UNDENIABLE APPEAL OF NAKASHIMA BY JENNIFER PITMAN
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WHILE THE VALUE OF MUCH TRADITIONAL “BROWN FURNITURE” HAS SEEN A PRECIPITOUS DECLINE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, THAT’S NOT THE CASE FOR AMERICAN CRAFT FURNITURE AND THE WORKS OF GEORGE NAKASHIMA IN PARTICULAR. CURRENT AUCTION VALUES CAN EXCEED $50,000 FOR A COFFEE TABLE OR HANGING WALL CASE.
George Nakashima (1905-1990), left, circa 1950. Courtesy Nakashima Woodworker; his Minguren English oak coffee table, below, 1966, sold in 2017 for $53,125 (estimate $15,000-25,000). Courtesy Rago Arts and Auction.
Nakashima’s furniture is known for high quality craftsmanship and his synthesis of Japanese design and manufacturing technique with Modernism. His selection of wood was of paramount importance, as Nakashima believed that the spirit of the tree informed the design of the resulting piece of furniture. The board’s free edges, knots and burls were celebrated, with fissures emphasized and stabilized with exquisite joinery. Nakashima (1905-1990) was born in Spokane, Washington, and trained as an architect. He worked in Japan and India for Antonin Raymond before returning to the United States. During
World War II, Nakashima and his family were interned at Minidoka, Idaho, where he learned traditional Japanese carpentry from another skilled woodworker. With Antonin Raymond’s sponsorship, Nakashima was released in 1943 and came to work at Raymond’s farm in New Hope, Pennsylvania. There in the Delaware Valley, Nakashima established his workshop. In addition to working on private commissions, he also designed for Knoll and the Widdicomb Furniture Co. While much of Nakashima’s furniture found a devoted local following in the Delaware Valley, it’s also often found in mid-century houses of Westchester County and Connecticut and beyond. Nakashima’s most prestigious private commission was former Vice President and New York state Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Japanese House. Built on the grounds of Kykuit, the Rockefeller family’s historic estate in Pocantico Hills, it contains some 150 Nakashima pieces. Today, Nakashima’s daughter Mira continues to design for and run the firm. The workshop has been designated a national historic landmark and the Nakashima Foundation has put in place plans to ensure the preservation, protection and perpetuation of the Nakashima legacy. Nakashima rarely signed his work. Sometimes his signature or the client’s name is found in marker on the underside of a piece. Yet the firm's meticulous record keeping ensures that unsigned pieces can be authenticated. What makes one Nakashima piece so much more valuable than one of his other works? An object produced for private commission will always be more desirable than a factory-production piece by Knoll or Widdicomb. A signed piece and a notable provenance also certainly add value. Rarity of form is another factor. According to David Rago, founder of Rago Arts and Auction, Nakashima mainly designed dining tables, chairs, sideboards and coffee tables. Prices start to rise once you move beyond these basic four forms. For example, a rare Nakashima table lamp can bring $16,000 at auction. But it is Nakashima’s choice of wood, his embrace of free edges and fissures and the degree to which he applied his exceptional joinery that makes all the difference between a $20,000 and a $50,000 coffee table. Rago says that the more elaborate the wood, the greater the value. A freeedge burl dining table is more valuable than a straight-edged table, while a set of dining chairs
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made of rosewood or exotic wood can also enhance the price. The bases used on Nakashima dining and coffee tables also matter greatly — the more complex, the better. A simple, Shaker-style base is less valuable than an architecturally resplendent Conoid on Minguren base. So who is buying these pieces? According to Rago, the market was once mainly domestic but has become increasingly international. Higher prices at auction have been driven more recently by European buyers, especially the French. Rago notes that approximately 250 pieces a year are being exported to England, Italy, Belgium and France. And it’s not just collectors like Michael Kors who are passionate about Nakashima’s work. Interior designers and their clients are fans of Nakashima. William Cullum of Jayne Design Studio notes the pieces act as an overt foil to the architecture. He explains that while there have been many imitators of Nakashima’s work, when you see the free-form edge of an original Nakashima piece, you immediately understand its appeal. Jennifer Pitman, a Westchester resident, writes about the antiques, jewelry and fine art she encounters as Rago Arts and Auction’s senior account manager for Westchester and Connecticut. She can be reached at Jenny@ragoarts.com or 917 745 2730.
Jennifer Pitman. Photograph by Jamie Kilgore Photography.
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A selection of suits available at The Man’s Store, Neiman Marcus Westchester. Pricing of tailoring varies according to modifications. From left: Trofeo Wool Textured Two-Piece Suit in Navy by Ermenegildo Zegna, $2,995; Sanita Solid Wood Two-Piece Suit in High Blue by Isaia, $3,595; and Shelton Base Pinstripe Flannel Wool-Silk Two Piece Suit by Tom Ford, $4,680. Courtesy Neiman Marcus Westchester.
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How do you surprise a man who has it all? With something that’ll underscore his self-confidence time and time again — like the made-to-measure service at The Man’s Store, Neiman Marcus Westchester in White Plains. This stress-free offering allows clients to personalize their suits — and trousers, topcoats and sport jackets — according to taste and fit. (Because every good man needs a good fit, right?) And since it’s a one-stop shop for clothes and
customizations, it eliminates the runaround. “It’s the gift-giving item for the guy who has everything,” says Hannie Sio-Stellakis, the luxe retailer’s public relations manager. According to Peter Ebner, the store’s Ermenegildo Zegna specialist, there are two types of clients who seek the made-to-measure service — clients who simply want a suit made to their specifications, and clients with proportions that do not “suit” standard sizes. “When we suggest that we can make a suit for you,” Ebner says, speaking of the latter, “all of a sudden, their eyes light up, because they’ve had this problem with getting suits to fit them and, now, here’s a solution.” Arriving at the store, the client fi rst tries on suits in standard sizes to determine his preferred style and needs. Not all styles will work for every client as the structure of the suit cannot be modified in a way that alters the designer’s vision. That, however, shouldn’t be a problem with sleek creations by brands like Canali, Tom Ford, Hickey Freeman, Isaia and Zegna, which, Ebner says, is the most popular label — and truly one of a kind. “Zegna is what’s known as a ‘vertical opera-
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or many designers, the New York Botanical Garden has been a treasure trove of inspiration. In recent years, we’ve seen collaborations between NYBG and jeweler Erwin Pearl, luxe home retailer Frontgate, Oscar de la Renta home design and Chesapeake Bay Candle. Now the Garden has teamed with Caswell-Massey, a 300-year-old apothecary and perfumery based in Edison, New Jersey — for a selection of scented bath products that draw attention to art and nature. The sets, which include three bars of 3.25-ounce soap, are available in lilac, gardenia and honeysuckle ($24). Hand creams are also offered in the same fragrances ($18). For variety, the Trio of Florals Three Bar Soap Set features a bar of soap in each fragrance. Each product features NYBG-branded packaging and botanical illustrations from the Rare Book and Folio Collection of the Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library. And each is an eco-friendly
purchase, as the products, made domestically, are said to be paraben free, sulfate free and phthalate free and not tested on animals. A new scent is also in the works, with expertise from Manhattan-based International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), a global producer of scents and savors. “We are proud to collaborate with these two iconic brands and institutions — Caswell-Massey and NYBG — to create something fresh and relevant for a new generation,” said Nicolas Mirzayantz, group president, fragrances for IFF. “We each bring our unique heritage, expertise and creativity to this project, as we share our love and respect for nature and all it inspires.” A portion of the proceeds from these products will support NYBG’s research, conservation and horticultural and educational efforts. Because it’s all about giving back, right? Especially to Mother Nature. For more, visit nybgshop.org or caswellmassey.com.
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“Our Stamford and Greenwich advisory boards,” continued Gaudio, “provide a strong foundation for the bank and in turn the bank strongly supports them. Our motto is Together We Grow Our Businesses. We have fun at our advisory board meetings where successful partnerships are built. They provide interesting networking opportunities for our diverse group of business owners/professionals, who share tips and current trends. We encourage the members to look to one another first for fulfilling their personal and business needs.” With the help of advisory board members the bank has built its B2B (Business to Business) Network up to a robust membership of 2,500 and growing. Each year the bank hosts a B2B event with 1,800-plus attendees and 45-plus exhibitors. An exciting venue with live bands and a delicious sampling of food and drink create a spirited fun environment for businesses to showcase what they do best. Everyone comes together to exchange ideas and get to know one another better. The First Bank of Greenwich has become part of the fabric of the GreenwichStamford communities and hopes to expand its territory soon. Stop by one of its locations where an expert member of the team will meet your banking needs with a smile. Don’t miss an opportunity to experience true community banking at its finest. For more information, please visit: GreenwichFIrst.com.
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THE ART OF WINE TASTING BY MARTA BASSO
ell pepper — definitely”: This is the answer you will probably get when asking a sommelier or oenologist, what is the typical tasting note of Cabernet Sauvignon — even in the first days of studying in the wine business. I remember perfectly the moment, at the sommelier school in Italy. We blind-tasted — as it is usually done in order to avoid bias — our first Cab Sauv, and the teacher pronounced this magic word. I instantly looked at my neighbor in order to find a hint of confirmation in his body language. Despite my deep and prolonged inhales, I found nothing similar to bell pepper in the wine, I also found nothing in his eyes but the same confusion that reigned inside me. And, as it happens in cases of extreme embarrassment, the class burst out laughing in all awkwardness, and, to my surprise, the teacher smiled, saying: “Don’t worry, guys. You’ll get there, too.” (So was it OK then not to smell tobacco, ripe red fruit and the damned bell pepper and nothing but — wine?) “Think about it,” he added afterwards, “Have you ever smelled a bell pepper before?” I did not. Neither did my neighbor. Nor anyone in the room, except for one of the pupils, who happened to be a chef. I immediately understood that in his words lay the whole point of the wine-tasting technique. How are you supposed to recognize notes in wine if you did not smell the scents in their original form? I have always considered smell the most underrated sense among all five, and studying as a somm has only strengthened that idea. We as human beings tend to give more importance to the two senses that require less attention — sight and hearing. It’s the opposite of what we do as kids, when the other three senses are privileged in the hierarchy, especially taste, and we use the mouth to discover and categorize basically everything.
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Of course, the abrupt change in the sense ladder is probably caused by the attitude we are required to keep if we want to live in society, where we can hear and see anything freely and without being noticed if we are sneaky enough. Whereas we cannot randomly taste or smell stuff — and let’s not even talk about touching it. As a passionate wine-taster, I feel compelled to disrupt this hierarchy, which we create unknowingly, and I do this thanks to wine-tasting technique, the fundamentals of which I started to apply when smelling everything, especially food. When I try this with people they are impressed at what their nose can do if employed correctly. If it is true that some of the tasting process is left to personal interpretation, thanks to what a teacher of mine used to call “little drawers in one’s memory,” a big part of it is the mastering of a defined technique. This same technique, which, for example, lets somms recognize a vegetal from a fruity scent, has its roots in that irrational curiosity human beings have in the first years of their lives. In some sense, the tasting technique is a return to the inner kid in oneself. The truth is the more
memory drawers you possess, the easier it is to master the technique. I am not advising anyone to attend a wine-tasting crash course, even though I am convinced it would help drinking awareness and enhance responsibility in alcohol consumers, especially really young ones, who embrace booze as a social aggregator and a status symbol with little conscience if any. Surely, though, using our sense of smell more would help us in daily life, a little at first and more and more as we open and create more memory drawers. It would help us with food, analyzing freshness and ripeness, for example, and could inevitably lead to a better diet. We desperately need to close the gap between what we eat and where it comes from, and through which processes, if we want to live long, healthy and happy lives. To do so, giving more importance to this neglected sense might just be a key. I am sure you never smelled a bell pepper, unless you are a chef, a somm or probably a vegan. Now go — go to your local grocery store or better, a local farmer’s market. Go and smell. And most important, bring your kids, too.
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ROAD ODYSSEY STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIELLE RENDA
Ever since reading Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” I’ve been captivated by the idea of exploring the country. Or a least the Eastern interior for starters, with no fixed plan, my mind an open highway, albeit one with Pittsburgh, Ashville, North Carolina, Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans as stops along the way. So when the opportunity presented itself, I packed an oversize bag — because I haven’t yet perfected the art of traveling light — and prepared for a weeklong escapade with a friend.
THE STEEL CITY Parting ways with New York at around 4 a.m. on a Sunday, we headed for Pittsburgh. The drive was my first taste of the great outdoors, with barns more commonplace than houses and cows speckling the countryside more often than people. Cornfields grew to wild heights, far surpassing my five-foot stature, while other crops formed parallel designs in green fields. From the window of the passenger’s seat, life looked simple for a while. The sights changed as we entered the city, which is home to some 300,000. Known as the “City of Bridges,” Pittsburgh welcomed us with three golden bridges, or “The Three Sisters.” The yellow structures — the Rachel Carlson Bridge, the Andy Warhol Bridge and the Roberto Clemente Bridge — honor the environmentalist and artist, who were Pittsburgh natives, as well as the Pirates’ legendary right fielder and humanitarian. There was a lot of congestion, as crowds gathered for a baseball game between the Pirates and 92
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St. Louis Cardinals at PNC Park. This was my first baseball game since childhood, and I sat in the bleachers and ate peanuts like a true fan. I couldn’t tell you what the final score was, but the $262 million, 38,362-seat stadium was worth the visit. With an intimate mix of baseball tradition and Pittsburgh progressiveness — not to mention more than 40 eateries to choose from — this limestone temple to Clemente, Willie Stargell, Bill Mazeroski and other Pirate greats was half the experience. Afterward, we strolled across the Schenley Bridge, another golden passageway. The left walkway was adorned with padlocks, known as “love locks,” which visitors use to leave their mark on the Steel City for years to come, just as they do in other cities. Unprepared, I made a mental note to bring a love lock next time.
THE CALL OF THE WILD A Holiday Inn Express served as our Pittsburgh home, but in Asheville, North Carolina, a mini yurt was our two-night abode. We were “glamping,” a term used to describe “glamorous camping.” The yurt was complete with a queen-size mattress, electricity, a mini fridge, a grille and an outdoor shower. It was my fi rst camping experience in some 10 years. And it proved the most carefree part of the trip. Both nights ended with clear views of the stars and their constellations, which dotted the deep indigo blanket of the sky. When it came time for shuteye, I listened to nature’s playlist — the sounds of crickets and bullfrogs amid a delicate breeze. A full day in Asheville commenced with a
THE KING’S QUARTERS Memphis was a short, afternoon visit, devoted to a pilgrimage to Elvis Presley’s estate, Graceland. The interior design and décor were reminiscent of the 1970s — “the King” died at Graceland on Aug. 16, 1977, at age 42 — with shag carpet lining the ceiling, primary colors coating the walls and wood paneling lining the kitchen. The Jungle Room was certainly one to note, apparently the animal-themed result of a lavish shopping spree. And for antique car lovers, Elvis’ collection was nothing short of jaw-dropping, with “steeds” from the likes of Cadillac and Ferrari, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz. Before we left, we made sure to eat some peanut butter and banana sandwiches, coated in bacon grease, the King’s lunchtime favorite.
TAKING IT EASY IN THE ‘BIG EASY’
Left, Pittsburgh, “City of Bridges.” Top, the Johnny Cash Museum, Nashville. Bottom, the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis, New Orleans.
morning hike by the French Broad River, a 218 mile-long river that f lows from North Carolina to Tennessee. Later that day, we embarked on a two-hour tube ride down that river, which dropped us off — wet but relaxed — in the city’s downtown art district. The rest of the day was spent meandering in and out of galleries and antiques shops, where artists and collectors took time to talk with us. The shops sat adjacent to a large, abandoned building that was marked by intricate graffiti, part of a nonprofit initiative to preserve urban art, known as Foundation Walls.
THE MUSIC CITY With one day in Nashville, we had a lot of ground to cover, though it wasn’t difficult to find the starting point.
At noon, the entire city was filled with the smooth sounds of country music, with performers in every bar that lined the city’s Honky Tonk Highway. Curious to hear all that we could, we wandered in and out of the most popular spots, enticed by the music. But we also dove into some of the history of the Music City and visited the Johnny Cash Museum. Beginning with Cash’s early childhood, the walkthrough showcased moments from the singer’s life, from his handwritten songs and journal entries to professional documents from his time in the Air Force and photographs taken with his wife, June Carter. After treating ourselves to some scrumptiously sweet Southern barbecue, we threw ourselves into the country music scene again and danced until the wee morning hours.
My road trip experience came to a close in the culturally eclectic, aesthetically colorful city of New Orleans. And though we spent two nights there, my only regret was not having more time to explore this enchantingly mysterious city. Of course, we began by venturing down the legendary Bourbon Street, where we were instantly sucked into the jazz scene. A far different style from Nashville, the music was soulful, the performers were sassy and everyone who was anyone was dancing. In the morning, we stopped by the noted Café du Monde — which first opened in 1862 — on Decatur Street and indulged in its famous doughy, fried, sugary beignets. The Place d’Armes Hotel, our home away from home, was certainly no yurt but a registered landmark, built in 1725 and serving originally as a school. Despite the city’s deep-rooted association with voodoo and vampires (courtesy of onetime resident Anne Rice), we didn’t personally encounter any spirits, though we did take a two-hour “haunted history” walking tour through the city’s French Quarter, which highlighted an intriguing mix of past crimes and unsolved mysteries that have given rise to many urban legends. Unable to resist, I brought parts of the city home with me in the form of Mardi Gras masks, one-ofa-kind artists’ prints and a life-size, hand-painted, turquoise sugar skull, associated with the Day of the Dead and All Saints’ Day (Oct 31 through Nov. 2). Perhaps these mementoes will one day bring me back to the city for more adventures.
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Porto Ercole view. Photograph by Dimitry Yakovlov.
“P-O-R-T-O E-R-C-O-L-E, NEAR ROME, ITALY,” I ENUNCIATED SLOWLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, WHO DERIVES VICARIOUS PLEASURE FROM MY TRAVELS, OFTEN TRACKING MY PROGRESS ON A MAP. THERE WAS A PAUSE AT THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE. THEN CAME THE RETORT. “YOU’RE GOING TO A PLACE CALLED E. COLI? TELL ME THIS IS SOME SORT OF JOKE.” Porto Ercole is one of two towns on Monte Argentario, a hilly, roughly circular promontory about five miles across, 90 miles north of Rome. An hour and a half after you leave Fiumicino Airport, you swing off the autostrada and find yourself driving through the small town of Orbetello. A jolly place packed with gelaterie and buzzing with Vespas, Orbetello ends without warning as quickly as it began and suddenly you’re heading out along a causeway, washed on both sides by a whispering, vermillion tide. And at the end of it stands Monte Argentario — verdant, curvaceous, beckoning. The ancient Romans, like the modern ones, knew a good thing when they found it. Argentario, the “silver place,” apparently took its name
from a family of wealthy Roman bankers who had grabbed it for their weekend retreat. One of their scions, Domitius Aenobarba, had the dubious fortune to marry Agrippina the Younger. In time they were “blessed” with a son — Nero. I’m sure every sensible Roman packed an overnight bag and headed straight for Argentario when Rome burned under his watch (in the year 64). It’s certainly what I try to do after a few days in the Eternal City. Because magnificent as Rome is (and incidentally, if you have not had an opportunity to visit Rome’s recently reopened Hotel Eden, part of the Dorchester Collection, all I can say is, go), it is also a bit too enervating. Eternal City, OK, but how Keats ever managed to write a line there, to me is an eternal mystery. No, when I need to rest or repair frazzled nerves — or find some artistic solitude — it’s to Argentario that I head. Porto Ercole, on the south side of the promontory, has jet-set connotations, but you could come here for a month (pocketbook permitting), go to the minimart in sweatpants and shades and never see a soul if you didn’t want to. On the other hand, it’s hard to resist the siren call of Il Pellicano. A few miles out of town, in what must be one of Europe’s dreamiest locations, “the Pelican” has been tempting sybarites since it opened in the 1960s. A russet-hued Tuscan villa on a hill above the limpid sea, Il Pellicano brims with flowers and class. Over the years it has grown, subtly and with restraint, and a handful of pretty cottages now dot the hillside. The private beach, with sun loungers so luxurious that you want to curl up and spend the night on them, is served by a lift that slices vertically through sheer
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rock from the hotel’s swimming pool above down to the water’s edge. Real celebs, ones who genuinely don’t care about celebrity, adore Il Pellicano. And though it helps, it’s not just money that counts here. An English royal, a very gracious lady, comes to stay for a week each spring. On arrival, she tells the staff (the ones she doesn’t already know) to call her please by her first name. She may be a close relation of the queen, but that doesn’t mean she has money to throw around. “I’d rather come to Il Pellicano for just a week than spend three anywhere else,” she has been quoted as saying and that says it all. For the freelance writer, any exploration of the artistic self usually involves work, not to put too fine a point on it. Last summer, with a budget to trim and a book to finish, we said no to Porto Ercole and rented a very modest apartment, on the other, less expensive side of the promontory instead — near the grittier, more “real” town of Porto Santo Stefano. We quickly fell in love with this part of Argentario, finding rocky beaches where we could swim in the morning, returning home for a lunch of figs and stracchino cheese on our terrace. In the late afternoon, we would drive into Porto Santo Stefano to shop for fruit and fish and take a gelato at
one of the cafés at the water’s edge. At the butcher, the butcher’s boy wore shorts, an apron and a baseball cap, a cigarette stuck laddishly in the corner of his mouth as he sharpened his cleaver. But goodness he knew how to cut a fiorentina, that peculiarly Tuscan T-bone that you fling on white hot coals and traditionally adorn with nothing more than a drop of olive oil and a couple of twists of the pepper mill. One day, we took the local ferry for the hour-long crossing over to Giglio, a very beautiful, unspoiled small island, which was virtually unheard of by non-Italians until the cruise ship, Costa Concordia, struck an underwater rock offshore in 2012 and capsized, with considerable loss of life. With that tragedy behind it, the island has now returned to gentle oblivion, its pint-sized semicircular harbor lined with restaurants serving spaghetti alle vongole or scampi risotto. There were other excursions too, undertaken late in the day, when the shadows were long and the heat had gone, at least somewhat, from the sun — the medieval hill town of Pitigliano, deep in the ravishing countryside of southern Tuscany an hour from Argentario, for instance; or Capalbio, only 20 minutes from Porto Ercole, where you can join the smart Roman weekend set for pappardelle
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with wild boar and Technicolor sunsets straight out of the movies. But the siren call of Argentario always lured us back. After braving the “mainland,” there was a palpable sense of relief as we left “Italy” behind us and headed back over the causeway to Porto Santo Stefano. The town, with picture-perfect twin harbors (one working, one pleasure) has all the charm — the harmony of water, light and color — of a Portofino or a Capri, only it is a living, year-round community, and you feel its vibrancy. Our last night, when the moon was full and the air was heavy with tuberose, we went to an end-ofsummer festa at Le Canelle, a beach club half a mile down the road. Tina Charles belted out “I Love to Love” and Baccara cooed “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie,” those expendable minor hits of the 1970s which we might disdain but which the romantic, bopping Italians still hold dear to their hearts. What a night. My mother-in-law, it turned out, was prescient. No E. coli, I’ll grant you, but there is a bug on Monte Argentario and it’s highly contagious. The moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie and, that’s it: It’s got you — the Love Bug, which, as it turns out, is a great fillip for the artistic self. Early the next morning, I was eager to start work again. Refreshed, inspired anew and without a trace of a hangover.
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Celebrating Honorary Design Chair Richard Keith Langham Friday, December 1, 2017 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Eastern Greenwich Civic Center 90 Harding Road, Old Greenwich, CT
The Greenwich Winter Antiques Show:
Fine Art, Jewelry and Antiques
Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Eastern Greenwich Civic Center 90 Harding Road, Old Greenwich, CT Produced by Frank Gaglio, Inc.
Rago Appraisal Day
Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:00 am to 11:00 am Lecture 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Appraisals Appraisals by appointment only. Please contact Stephanie Wilson at stephanie@ragoarts.com or 609-397-9374 x150.
Holiday House Tour
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Reservations required (rain or shine) Generously sponsored by David Ogilvy & Associates
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GIFTS FOR THOSE ON THE GO BY DEBBI K. KICKHAM
A ROUNDUP OF SOME FAVORITE HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR THE SOPHISTICATED TRAVELER: 1. FOR THE “FIRST-CLASS” PASSENGER
Every flight is first-class (even in coach) with Casana’s luxurious cashmere set, including sleep mask, gloves, socks, hat and an oversized scarf that doubles as a blanket. You’ll be oh-so-cradled in comfort, especially on the red-eye. $850. casanadesigns.com/scarves/casana-travel-essentials
2. FOR KIDS
Your mini Monet will be content on that flight to Paris — or anywhere — with a reusable coloring book filled with iconic paintings that lets him or her color like an Impressionist. Inspired by art museums around the globe. $26. jaqjaqbird.com/collections/best-sellers/products/ new-artist-series-chalk-color-it-book
3. FOR THE GROOMED TRAVELER (FEMALE EDITION)
Ecru New York acacia protein hair masque is infused with African acacia seyal-tree collagen, a powerful anti-aging ingredient that repairs and restores. The more damaged the hair, the greater the transformation. Just apply, blow (dry) and go. $30. Complement your gift with an Ecru New York Simply Suede lipstick, the ultimate pink-nude to sensationalize your smackers in any city. $24. ecrunewyork.com
4. FOR THE TIME-TESTED
If you saw the movie “Atomic Blonde,” you saw Charlize Theron in a scene in the Carl F. Bucherer boutique in Switzerland. Now you can follow in her footsteps, with the exclusive Bucherer Patravi ScubaTec stainless steel watch with blue dial and rubber strap. The luxe brand has been crafting fine watches for men and women since 1888. $6,400. carl-f-bucherer.com/en/watches/patravi-scubatec-00-10632-23-53-01
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5. FOR THOSE WHO THINK SPICE IS NICE
The St. Regis Deer Valley resort in Park City, Utah, launched three signature spice blends developed in partnership with chef Lior Lev Sercarz of La Boîte, a high-end biscuit-and-spice shop in Manhattan. Special blends include lavender, sage, honey and pepper. Three-pack sets are $25 to $45, depending on jar size. To order, call the gift shop at (435) 940-5700. stregisdeervalley.com/
6. FOR THE CHOCOLATE LOVER
From Belgium comes silken chocolates by Neuhaus — the inventor of the praline. Give a gift of this mouthwatering European treat to someone with a sweet tooth (28 pieces for $57). neuhauschocolate.com/en/history-collection.htm
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FOR THE HOTEL GUEST
Sleep on a plain old cotton hotel pillowcase? Heck, no! Elevate your sleep experience with a Celestial Silk pillowcase that easily slips into your Samsonite. Sleeping on silk obviates wrinkles, protects your hairstyle and reduces the signs of facial aging. $33.99. Don’t forget the silk sleep mask for superior slumber in your guest room. SleepinginSilk.com
FOR YOUR INNER SKINNY MINNIE
Now everyone can look 10 pounds thinner, thanks to Slimsation’s comfort pants with flexible cotton tummy panel to hold you in. Wear them to look chic everywhere from Cape Cod to Capri. $69. slimsation.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/ solid-ankle-pant-w-slant-pockets
FOR THE WELL-GROOMED TRAVELER (MALE EDITION)
Bluffworks clothing for men is designed to provide style for business meetings and luxury travel as well as hiking and real-life adventures. Washable and wrinkle-resistant. Pants and blazer all feature security pockets. Gramercy Blazer, $295 shop.bluffworks.com/products/gramercy-blazerclassic-fit-blue-hour
FOR THE FOODIE
Now you can have a one-on-one Skype personal cooking class — kitchen-to-kitchen — from a master chef anywhere in the world, including New Orleans, Italy, Spain and Japan. Why should only Kim Kardashian have access to the world’s best? $299. thechefandthedish.com
FOR THE ICE-CREAM LOVER
Send someone special his or her very own custom-made flavor of ice cream, sorbet or gelato from Omaha, including a specially designed and personalized label on each pint. Or choose from more than 40 holiday flavors and 30 mix-ins. Or opt for an ice-cream-of-the-month subscription (four-pint minimum or 24 mini cups, $69.99). One Kentucky Derby fan created a rosewater flavor for the “Run for the Roses,” but how about good old Nutella too? Warren Buffet lives nearby and loves it. It’s an instant party when it’s delivered. ecreamery.com/create-your-own-flavor
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7. FOR THE BEAUTY-BOUND
Carry it off — beautifully — with this gorgeous crocodile travel weekend bag, top, from W.H. Petronila. $3,000. whpetronela.com. But don’t stop there. Pack it up with some of these over-the-top world’s best products that all ladies will love: Mirenesse 24-Hour Secret Weapon mascara. An insider secret, wink, wink. $49.95. mirenesse.com/best-sellers-/1942-secret-weapon-supreme-24hr-mascara-10g-m.html Rodin + Fields Lash Boost for out-to-there long, natural lashes, $150. rodanandfields.com/Shop/ Product/ENHLSH01 Giving has never smelled so sweet with a personalized fragrance from the Waft Lab (at a fraction of the price of other custom-made scents). $79 for a full-sized bottle with bespoke name and label that you (or the giftee) create. waft.com/app/giftnew/start Complexion perfection on your next trip begins with new Dermalogica Phyto Replenish Oil. This feather-light facial oil strengthens and restores the skin’s natural protective barrier, shields against environmental stressors and locks in critical moisture for in-flight dewiness. $75. dermalogica.com/ Kalumi Beauty Food collagen protein bars, center, are a favorite of top models and sure to give you stunning skin. Take a bite to be beautiful anywhere in the world. $18.99 for a three-pack. kalumihealth.com/ Try on a tasseled ponytail clip from hair stylist-to-the-stars Jen Atkin for Chloe + Isabel. You’ll make the best-tressed list and look like an A-lister at the airport. $58. chloeandisabel.com/products/H073BHWG/seedbead-+-tassel-ponytail-clip Bottom, here’s a cosmetic brush with greatness — make that, an entire set — that comes personalized and customized with your own stylish monogram. Jennifer Hudson owns a set. $95. shop.mymakeupbrushes.com/collections/shop-fora-cause/products/pink-full-brush-set Debbi K. Kickham is the author of “The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide” (gorgeousglobetrotter.com) and can also be reached through MarketingAuthor.com.
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DIRECTORY 5th Street Advisors
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Charter Oak Insurance and Financial Services Co.
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Clarfeld Financial Advisors WESTCHESTER
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NEW YORK CITY 1185 Avenue of Americas Third Floor New York, N.Y. 10036 212-956-9494 clarfeld.com
LoB Planning Group
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Pell Wealth Partners,
a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. 800 Westchester Avenue, Suite 300 Rye Brook, N.Y. 10573 914-253-8800 THE CHURCHILL 300 East 40th St., Suite 28R New York, N.Y. 10016 pellwealthpartners.com
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Strategies for Wealth
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ITH OVER 35 YEARS of industry experience and 100 wealth management professionals, Clarfeld is one of the industry’s premier advisory firms and multifamily offices, providing client-driven expertise to a variety of domestic and global clients. The firm manages over $6 billion of assets on behalf of:
HIGH NET WORTH INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES • Senior corporate executives • Professionals • Business owners • Related entities including trusts and family foundations NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS • Endowments • Foundations • Charitable organizations The firm has built continued success through an unrivaled business model rooted in its key tenets that guide and shape the firm’s dynamic culture: • Providing client-driven service with an attentive boutique mentality • Offering a multi-faceted and comprehensive approach to wealth management • Serving clients in the U.S. and worldwide Within a crowded industry, the firm has solidified its niche by establishing a fully integrated, multi-disciplined approach to managing the financial affairs of affluent families. This Family Office approach supports the ability to: Grow, Protect, Administer and Transfer family wealth. The ultimate success of a financial legacy lies in the seamless, careful and thoughtful incorporation of all of aspects of a family’s complex financial
universe. To meet this objective, Clarfeld implements its established and distinct approach through a full breadth of wealth management services: CORE SERVICES • Investment Management • Financial Planning • Estate and Trust Planning
• Tax Planning and Preparation • Insurance and Asset Protection • Personal Financial Management
SPECIALTY SERVICES • Nonprofit Organizations • Divorce Planning and Support • LifeSlate Estate Plan Management Clarfeld stands out for its multi-disciplined team, cutting-edge technical expertise and commitment to client service. These accomplishments are recognized each year with highly competitive third-party rankings. In 2017: BARRON’S “Top 100 Independent Wealth Advisors” list named Rob Clarfeld the #2 advisor in the U.S. and the #1 advisor in New York for the ninth consecutive year. FORBES’ “America’s Top Wealth Advisors” list ranked Rob Clarfeld the #1 independent advisor in New York and #12 overall in the U.S. In 2017, the firm also received notable rankings from the Financial Times, Bloomberg and Financial Advisor magazine.
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Your finances in balance, your life in harmony.
Katherine McGinn, CFA – Financial advisor; Anthony Rizzuto, CFP®, APMA®, CLU® - Financial Advisor & COO; Geri Eisenman Pell, CFP®, MBA, CDFA™ - Private Wealth Advisor & CEO; Sheila Spicehandler, CRPS®, APMA®, MBA – Financial Advisor & Senior Vice President; Douglas Messina, CFP®, CRPC®, APMA®- Financial Advisor; Ziyah Esbenshade, CFP®, CRPC® - Financial Advisor
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T PELL WEALTH PARTNERS we take pride in our commitment to creating a life-changing personalized experience for every client. Our knowledge, passion, and desire to see others achieve financial wellness has driven our ability to listen intently and become not only your advisors, but your advocates. As leaders in the industry we believe in the power of Impact Investing and the profound effect it can have on the world and your life. Our team is committed to offering tailored investment solutions with an eye towards environmental, social, and corporate governance opportunities through deep investment research and a broadly diversified portfolio. Our enthusiastic, highly talented team can help steer you forward more confidently in your finances, encouraging you to take actions that reflect each of your most coveted family and investment values.
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The Strategies Team at our Habitat for Humanity Build Day - 6.28.17
SHIFTING THE WORLD’S UNDERSTANDING OF WEALTH
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WE EMPOWER THE GENERATIONS we will never meet through the conversations we have today. Our organization is committed to building relationships that shift the world’s understanding of wealth. We deliver — with integrity and unparalleled service — protection and prosperity that help transform the lives of our clients, their families and communities.
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One Size Does Not Fit All
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FAMILIES, INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESS-OWNERS, sports figures, executives, large companies, small companies, and so much in between: They’re all our clients, and their planning and protection goals are as unique as they are. That’s why we continue to challenge the assumption that technical knowledge alone is enough to serve their needs. We’ve built a team of insurance experts and financial advisors whose broad-ranging real-life experiences are as integral to their work as their business expertise. Their diverse backgrounds and skills lend themselves to more authentic guidance for the spectrum of clients we serve. By looking at things a little differently, we’re able to offer (and gain) the insights we feel are necessary to build relationships rooted in understanding and trust. And speaking of trust, we believe that connecting to our past—to
the days when business was done on a handshake and people looked out for one another—is just as important as breaking the mold. Our work has always been about helping people achieve their goals, protect their families and set a path for financial security. That’s a worthy pursuit we’re proud to take on every day.
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The Peloso-Barnes Group at Morgan Stanley Julia A. Peloso-Barnes, CFP®, ADPA®, CPM®, CRPC® , Wealth Advisor Erik W. Hayden, Financial Advisor Erik W. Hayden and Julia A. Peloso-Barnes, CFP®, ADPA®, CPM®, CRPC®
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OU DESERVE A FINANCIAL TEAM THAT MAKES YOU FEEL WELL CARED FOR, informed and secure. Advisors who understand the critical importance of your hopes and fears. Allies who celebrate your life choices and help you plan so that your dreams can come true. If you are following a unique path, be it what you do, where you live or who you love, you’re likely to encounter complex circumstances. We understand those challenges. We are dedicated to simplifying the financial intricacies of your life. We get you and we’ve got your back. As our client, you are smart, talented, and dedicated to forging your own way in the world. You may even have created a new path that wasn't expected, anticipated, desired or understood by the people around you. You may not have planned your path, but have discovered along the way that it's the most authentic choice available to you.
We are intimately familiar with what it’s like to take courageous risks in life. That’s who we are and those are the people we work with. We support you in following your heart because that’s what we do, too. We know it’s aligned to your deepest truth.
The Peloso-Barnes Group at Morgan Stanley
2000 Westchester Avenue 1NC, Purchase, NY 10577 914-225-6391 http://fa.morganstanley.com/pelosobarnesgroup
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Invest with Purpose. Invest with a Plan.
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F YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT RETIREMENT, PURCHASING A HOME, FUNDING A CHILD’S EDUCATION, CREATING A CHARITABLE LEGACY OR PROTECTING YOUR FAMILY, it’s a challenge to ensure that your investments are aligned with your goals. Lob Planning Group can help you chart a course and adapt to changing conditions to work toward your ultimate goals. We use sophisticated tools to help take advantage of strong markets and reduce exposure in adverse conditions. We strive to find the strongest areas of the market so you are not simply “in the market” but invested wisely. Our philosophy is simple: we prize growth, but believe it should be pursued at reasonable prices. We believe keeping costs low is essential to longterm success. And we believe that it’s critical to watch for the development of conditions that can harm a portfolio — and the transitions to and from them.
Gayle S. Lob, CFP®
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AT LE MADRI, ‘MOTHERS’ KNOW BEST STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEESIA FORNI
A Fairfield County restaurateur is hoping to duplicate the success he’s had with a popular eatery in Westport with his new restaurant in Bethel. Chef Vinicio Llanos opened Le Madri, an Italian eatery in Bethel, earlier this year. Though Llanos grew up in Ecuador, his roots in Italy and his connection to the country’s cuisine are strong. His grandmother was born and raised in Sicily and met his grandfather during a missionary trip to Ecuador. Her family’s cooking traditions were passed down through the generations and ultimately to Llanos and his sister, Patricia. The two now work side by side in the kitchen at Le Madri, along with their mother, Maria. The restaurant’s name, which translates to “mothers,” pays homage to the matriarchs of the family. Though Le Madri may only be a few months old, Llanos is not a novice in the Fairfield County restaurant scene. Along with spending a decade working at Italian restaurants in New York City, including Centolire and Coco Pazzo, he also helms Arezzo Ristorante & Wine Bar, an upscale Italian eatery along the Saugatuck River in nearby Westport.
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Clockwise from top, a standout caprese pizza; scallops served over a bed of veggies and a balsamic drizzle; a warm apple tart with vanilla bean olive oil gelato; and the 130-seat main dining room.
I head to a late lunch in Bethel on a quiet Sunday afternoon with a friend, snagging a booth by the windows that offer panoramic views of downtown. The contemporary space features a generous bar area with booth seating and a separate, private dining room that can seat 30. The 130-seat main dining room is filled with dark-wood furnishings, leather booths and, aside from simple, single-rose centerpieces, minimal décor. Instead, Le Madri seems to let the food speak for itself. We start with an appetizer of crispy fried calamari and zucchini, paired with a sweet, creamy marinara. In a second starter plate, scallops are served over a bed of sweet corn, chopped asparagus, tomatoes and a balsamic drizzle. The scallops
are perfectly seared — crisp yet buttery — though the vegetables are lacking in flavor. The highlight of our afternoon was undoubtedly, and somewhat unexpectedly, the wood-fired pizza. Options range from a traditional margherita to slices topped with prosciutto and fig. We opt for a caprese, which features fresh tomato, chopped basil and thick slices of melted mozzarella atop a crisp, flaky crust. Entrées include an array of Italian favorites, from fettuccine to linguine, with seasonal sauces and homemade noodles. An entrée of gnocchi Bolognese featured handmade potato dumplings with a delicious, slowcooked beef ragout. Filet mignon was paired with wild mushrooms, truffle oil and risotto in a second entrée that proved too heavy to finish in one sitting. The eatery’s extensive wine list features a host of wineries that span the globe, while a craft cocktail menu includes Llanos’ takes on Italian recipes. An Antico Negroni is made with Campari, St. George gin, cherry balsamic and an orange garnish, while a Limoncello Pop mixes homemade limoncello and a Prosecco float. Our meal comes to a close with a warm apple tart, perfectly flaky and topped with a vanilla bean olive oil gelato. Llanos says that many of the dishes served at Le Madri are inspired by meals that were staples of his childhood, versions of the dishes created by both his mother and his grandmother. It seems at Le Madri, the “mothers” really do know best. For more, visit lemadribethel.com.
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WINE & DINE
A WINERY ON ITS WAY TO GREATNESS BY DOUG PAULDING
Ilaria Petitto, managing director of Donnachiara winery, is from the Campania region of southern Italy, an area in the lower shin of Italy’s boot adjacent to the Amalfi coast. The Petitto family has been growing indigenous grapes in the town of Montefalcione for many generations, high in the hills above the Atlantic Ocean. Despite its southern Italian locale, Montefalcione benefits from significant mountainous elevations and cooling ocean breezes, which create hot days and cool nights. This increases the grape’s “hang time,” or time spent evolving on the vine, which helps to increase layers and nuance in the wine. I recently had a lovely luncheon with Ilaria at Il Gattopardo restaurant in Manhattan, where she began by telling me a couple of things many know. First, she said, “Campania is a region of Italy not as well-known as other wine regions of Italy.” Next, she added, “Campania is a region of Italy that celebrates its food and wine culture. lnspired and local food is very important to us. We make several pastas, cheeses and fish and other regional dishes that are unique to Campania.” I thought, Well that sounds like just about every region in Italy. Who doesn’t think food and wine when Italy comes up? But here’s the difference in the wines. Campania — and, certainly, the Donnachiara family — grow, nurture and celebrate Campania’s indigenous grapes, not relying on the well-known grapes of the world. The Campania region grows more than 100 varietals of grapes, many of which are completely unknown outside the area. “Some of the very best white wines of Italy are grown in Campania and are capable of significant aging,” she said. Lesser whites from other regions are made and bought to be consumed that day or that week. Ilaria’s grandfather and great-grandfather planted and grew grapes that they sold off to a local winemaker. But in 2005, Ilaria’s mom, Chiara Petitto, decided it was time to take their product from vine to winery to cellar to table. They hired a winemaker, and then they hired a respected wine oenologist consultant named Riccardo Cotarella, who came in to help create the big 112
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Ilaria Petitto, managing director of Donnachiara winery, which her father owns in Campania, Italy.
picture and direction. Ilaria is a lawyer and when production stepped into gear at Donnachiara, her mom asked her to come home and support the family endeavor. We started off with a 2016 Beneventano Falanghina IGT Resilienza, made from 100 percent Falanghina grapes. It is a limited production white wine with only 3,000 bottles made. This wine is made in stainless steel tanks and then left for several months in a bottle for self-realization. The Resilienza showed pleasant citrus acidity, a clean and dry fruitiness with good balance. The second white wine was Donnachiara’s 2016 Greco di Tufo DOCG, made from 100 percent Greco grapes. Elegant and smooth, sporting good citrusy flavors held together with a solid backbone of structure, this is a perfect wine for any time of day or to pair with any seafood dish or pasta with a light sauce. The third white we tasted was 2016 Fiano di Avellino DOCG, made from 100 percent Fiano grapes and known for its smoky character and dried fruit flavors. There was a nutty quality to the wine, along with a lemony zest. As we moved to her red wines, Ilaria told us, “To make beautiful wines, you must have beautiful grapes. Despite the age of the winery, our vines are wonderfully mature and are putting out very expressive fruit.” Red wine number one was the Irpinia Aglianico DOC from 2014, made from 100 percent Aglianico grapes. Aglianico is a difficult grape to grow and can be overly tannic but no, not this one. Showing dark cherry and soft prune flavors with an aromatic spiciness, the wine had a perfect balance
between elegance and acidity. Small oak barriques contribute the spice flavors. Next, we tasted the 2013 Taurasi DOCG, also 100 percent Aglianico. This wine spends one year in the barrel and one year in the bottle prior to release. It shows lovely redolent aromas and flavors of dark fruit, especially plums with a hint of tobacco. Our final wine, the Taurasi Riserva DOCG from 2012, is only crafted when all the growing conditions are perfect for Donnachiara’s top red wine. Again, this wine is 100 percent Aglianico, showing an intensity of lovely flavors. After a year and a half in oak, it rests for two years in the bottle, as its finishing school. Big, dark fruit flavors with spicy aromatics of coffee, dark pepper and new leather jump out of the glass. It has a gripping but pleasant tannic appeal for the full and lasting mouthfeel. I asked Ilaria what was it that made Campania wines so special. “Most places of Italy are either clay or volcanic soils,” she said. “In Campania, we have a combination of both, which is rather unique to Italy.” Donnachiara is a smaller family operation, currently making 150,000 bottles a year. It feels like it’s on a path to greatness. The winery is only 12 years old and seems to be doing everything right. Look for some Donnachiara wine or ask for it. (Don’t be afraid of pronouncing the grape names.) Get in on the ground floor. Satisfaction is guaranteed. Write me at doug@dougpaulding.com.
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STUFFED PORTOBELLO MUSHROOMS INGREDIENTS: • 4 jumbo Portobello mushrooms • 1 pint cherry tomatoes • 1 container small mozzarella balls • 2 tablespoons thinly sliced basil • 2 tablespoons chopped parsley • 2 tablespoons olive oil • ¼ cup chopped green or red peppers • 1 clove garlic, chopped • ½ teaspoon salt • ¼ teaspoon pepper • ½ teaspoon oregano
DIRECTIONS: 1. Clean the mushrooms gently and pat dry. 2. Chop mozzarella balls into bite-size pieces. 3. Chop the tomatoes and peppers into small pieces. 4. Heat a fry pan to medium. Add oil. 5. Sauté tomatoes and peppers until soft. 6. Add basil, parsley, garlic, salt and pepper and oregano. 7. Toss evenly and add tomato mixture to mushrooms. 8. Place mozzarella pieces on top of mushrooms. 9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 10. Put mushrooms in a pan with ½ inch of water. 11. Bake at least 20 minutes or until mushrooms are fork-tender. 12. Serve with Italian bread.
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LOVE’S LABORS, NEVER LOST BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
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FOR VAL MORANO SAGLIOCCO, WHO COMBINES A PASSION FOR GARDENING WITH A LOVE OF FOOD, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY LABORS OF LOVE IN RECENT YEARS THAT WE HAVE COVERED IN WAG.
The patio that Val Morano Sagliocco installed at an estate on Premium Point. Courtesy Val Morano Sagliocco.
We met him for lunch recently at Lago, the restaurant in Harrison’s Silver Lake section where he is managing partner. There he told us that he has recently finished installing an Indian sandstone patio at an estate on Mamaroneck’s Premium Point. The estate once belonged to John Kluge, who founded Metromedia, which later became the basis for the Fox TV network. At one time, Kluge was the richest man in the United States and Sagliocco’s grandfather, Angelo Morano — who founded Morano Landscape Garden Design in Mamaroneck, which Sagliocco now directs — was his landscaper. “My grandfather built (Kluge’s) patio 35 years ago, and he did all the maintenance on the property,” Sagliocco said. “He saw all the celebrities who came and went. One year during a party, there was a surprise thunderstorm and the tent collapsed. At 9 p.m., Kluge called my grandfather to come up to fi x the problem. He was very grateful to my grandfather and connected him to Sinatra and other celebrities.” When Kluge moved to Virginia, he wanted Morano to come down on a regular basis to care for his new grounds. However, Morano’s wife (Sagliocco’s grandmother), Benita, thought that was a bit much, and the family lost touch with the Kluges. But not with his former Westchester estate. Morano Landscape Garden Design is not Sagliocco’s only gardening business. He is president
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of Ridgeway Garden Center in White Plains and next spring will open Morano Gardens on Weaver and Palmer streets in Larchmont. As he talked about these plans, we sampled some tweaks to the Lago menu — light, luscious seafood-stuffed prawns, a chicken and mushroom lasagna — to go with such hearty staples as eggplant parmigiana and rigatoni Bolognese. Sagliocco, never at a loss for a venture, is also president of Oliveto Morano and by the end of this year plans to have extra virgin olive oil — made from some 2,000 olive trees on his family’s ancestral estate in Italy’s Calabria region — for purchase at Lago. Meanwhile, Sagliocco’s Café la Fondita will have its grand opening on Nov. 2 just in time for the Day of the Dead festival, as it offers tastes of Latin American cultures from Mexico to Colombia. WAG fi rst introduced you to La Fondita — whose name means “Hole in the Wall,” after the original takeout eatery on a corner of Central Avenue in Mamaroneck — a year ago. At that time, we told you not only about the flavors of Latin America that it embraces but the sights as well
— an entrance mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, by artist Suzanne Bellehumeur; a Frida Kahlo-like mural of Old Mexico and Sagliocco’s photographs of Central and South America. As we polish off another lovely Lago lunch, he
mentions what is perhaps his biggest news of all: He and wife Francisca Ferreira will welcome a baby girl in December. Clearly, Sagliocco’s creative in every way. For more, visit lagoristorante.com, cafelafondita.com and moranolandscape.com.
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GREYSTONE'S PROGRESS BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
The house at 6 Carriage Trail puts the “Greystone” in Greystone on Hudson, a 100-acre luxury real estate development in Tarrytown. Pillowed (faceted) Manhattan schist gives the 22,000-square-foot manse a richly textured exterior, offset by cream-painted mahogany and Doric columns. Belgian bluestone lines the semicircular front steps and the 5,751-square-foot veranda, with its commanding view of the new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. Pieces of slate, weighing 50 pounds each, make up the roof. The overall impression is one of weight, stateliness and solidity but not stolidity – as the curvilinear, light, airy interiors attest. And to think when Greystone President Andy Todd invited us to tour the site, not quite a year ago, it was still a jungle gym of planks, pipes, wires and piles of stone. Back then, we learned that Todd not only was planning 20 homes on the site of the former estate of Josiah H. Macy Jr., a partner of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, but that he had made a thrilling archaeological find in excavating the site for No. 6, which sits off sinuous, soaring Carriage Trail amid boxwood, dogwoods and mature specimen trees such as maples and sycamores. That find was the funerary pillar of Tiberius Claudius Saturninus, a former slave who collected inheritance taxes for the Roman Emperor Claudius in Greece. It was purchased in 1893 by Macy’s widow, the former Caroline Louisa Everit, at an auction at Rome’s Villa Borghese. In time, Macy’s estate went the way of all flesh. But not the pillar. Today this funerary cippus is ensconced in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leon Levy and Shelby White Court in the Greek and Roman galleries. And No. 6 awaits an owner. May we suggest someone with a love of family, guests, pets, entertainment and sports? This place has space to burn. The grand entry sweeps you through a gallery and a view of the veranda and the Hudson River beyond. 120
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The house at 6 Carriage Trail blends Gilded Age grandeur with modern living and commanding Hudson River views. Courtesy Greystone on Hudson.
To the right is an elliptical staircase. Beyond it on the main, or ground level, is a powder room — there are 12 full and three half bathrooms in all — and our favorite room, a two-story mahogany-paneled library with a 25-foot ceiling and a balcony. It’s next to a grand room or parlor, perfect for billiards, that opens onto a covered loggia that’s designed for outdoor seating and TV viewing. The dark-wood grand room is complemented by the light grand salon with its riparian views — a balancing act carried throughout the interiors. On the other side of the gallery, the airy dining room is offset by the more masculine butler’s pantry. Beyond them is a state-of-the-art kitchen, with Carrera marble counters, which flows into a great room and a breakfast room. These are adjacent to a section of the house that contains a powder room, a laundry — there are three in all — a maid’s suite and a mudroom. Beyond is a three-car garage. Here you realize that the house is really comprised of two wings — the left for children and/or guests, the right for the owners. To the left of the gallery on the second level is a series of suites suitable for the junior family members. To the right is the master suite with a bedroom, sitting room, terrace, office, library balcony and two baths. Needless to say, the larger, light-filled bathroom — with its standalone tub and views of the balcony — is many a woman’s dream, as
is the adjacent closet that is more sit-in than walk-in, with a vanity and oodles of accessories space and shelving. The garden level is what sets the house apart, though. There’s a basketball half-court with a rock-climbing wall and women’s and men’s locker rooms, a wine cellar and wine-tasting room, a cabana complex for the outdoor pool, a lounge area, a gym/yoga room, an arcade, a 14-seat movie theater and an attached three-bedroom guesthouse in the style of a country barn. Public areas and private ones and light and dark spaces are but two of the house’s balancing acts. The other is Old World and New. A touch of a button will turn on the lights and pipe music throughout the 48-room dwelling. A 47-zone sprinkler system waters the almost-three-acre site, including a back lawn that is the size, but not the shape, of a football field. Geothermal heating and cooling make the house energy-efficient. But the copper-covered gables, Palladian windows and faceted stonework give No. 6 an Old World feel. Adds Todd: “The lighting and the depth create a warmth that make a house a home.” Two other houses at Greystone on Hudson are already occupied. A third, in the Dutch Colonial style, will be ready early next year. For more, visit greystone-on-hudson.com.
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Masako Takahashi, Marjorie Madfis and Akie Abe at Girl Again.
THE ART OF THE SALE – AND DIPLOMACY STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
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he most unusual doll shop in White Plains had a most unusual visitor recently — Akie Abe, the fi rst lady of Japan. Abe (AH bay), wife of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, was accompanied by Masako Takahashi — wife of Reiichiro Takahashi, the consul general of Japan in New York — along with members of the consulate and a security detail, as she toured Girl Again, a cozy, pastel-colored 750-square-foot space that sells donated, slightly used, reconditioned American Girl dolls. But, as WAG discovered when we fi rst wrote about the shop in March of last year, sales are not really the point. The shop — an arm of the nonprofit Yes We Can, founded by former IBMer Marjorie Madfi s — is really an opportunity for young women on the autism spectrum to
acquire job skills as they learn how to rehabilitate, price, display, inventory and sell the dolls. Among the staffers whom Abe and Takahashi met were Maki, an American of Japanese descent who earned a degree from Manhattanville College in Purchase and Madfi s’ daughter, Isabelle, who said, “What girl doesn’t dream of growing up to be a (doll) hairdresser at American Girl?” (The doll manufacturer is not affi liated with Yes We Can.) The convent-school-educated Abe, who worked in advertising and as a disc jockey in Japan, has earned a reputation as an outspoken champion of minorities, including the LGBTQ community and those on the autism spectrum. (She appeared at a 2016 benefit for Autism Speaks, a leading advocacy organization.) “One of our customers is an attaché at the Japanese consulate in Manhattan and knew Mrs. Abe had an interest in disabilities and autism,” Madfi s said. Soon Masako Takahashi was visiting with members of the consulate to prepare for Abe’s visit. On the big day, Abe leaned in, listening intently as Girl Again staffers described their duties. This was important as those on the autism spectrum, hyper-focused on routine, often have trouble interacting with others or adjusting to change. “It’s this whole challenge of understanding the perspective of another,” Madfi s said. “They can commit — and are afraid of committing — faux pas as they miss (social) cues.” But there was no need to worry on this particular day. Abe and a beaming Takahashi were all graciousness as they had a private chat with Madfi s about the intensity of training people on the autism spectrum and the challenge of integrating them more fully into the workplace. Abe even purchased one of the dolls, which, along with companion books, are designed to teach 8- to 11-year-olds history and civics. The story arc of Abe’s purchase — Jess, the Girl of the Year doll in 2006 — is that of a girl of Japanese-Scottish descent who learns about environmental issues. What Madfi s hopes the world will learn from this diplomatic visit and the organization is that while not all with autism are Temple Grandin, who became a professor of animal science, they’re not necessarily Rain Man either. “It’s a spectrum,” she said, one that includes people capable of work. For more, visit yesshecaninc.org.
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VOICING A NEW APPROACH TO ACID REFLUX BY JANE K. DOVE
Swallowing is something we take for granted. The average healthy person swallows hundreds of times a day, or more, and never gives it a single thought. But for those with a form of acid reflux disease that affects the throat, called laryngopharyngeal reflux, or LPR, swallowing becomes an uncomfortable and annoying experience. Dr. Craig Zalvan — chief of otolaryngology and medical director at the Institute for Voice and Swallowing Disorders at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow and an associate professor of otolaryngology at New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla — says he has become “a specialist within a subspecialty.” He and his colleagues at New York Medical College recently released a new study, published in September in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA), which indicates this particular type of acid reflux may respond better to diet than drugs. Reflux is a common health complaint among Americans today and the drugs prescribed to relieve it, known as proton pump inhibitors or PPIs, both prescription and over the counter, are in wide use, fueled in part by ubiquitous advertising on television. (In addition to LPR, reflux can be triggered by too much acid in the stomach and lower esophagus, causing a burning pain the chest and discomfort in the gut. This is known as GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease.) LPR is triggered by pepsin, a digestive enzyme from the stomach that affects the tissues in the throat. The excess pepsin can damage tissue and cause symptoms like constant throat clearing, hoarseness, a feeling that something is stuck in the throat and trouble swallowing. According to Zalvan, the delicate tissues in this area have poor protection against stomach acid and pepsin.
INSPIRATION STRIKES Dr. Craig Zalvan. Courtesy New York Medical College.
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“I decided to do the study, because I was frustrated with getting a stream of referrals from colleagues who sent me people they were treating with PPIs who were just not getting any better,” Zalvan says. “These people were not suffering from standard GERD and had symptoms concentrated in the throat, voice box and pharynx.” Zalvan had an intuition that maybe diet was a causative factor in LPR. “I looked into the literature and found a huge amount of information about the benefits of consuming a plant-based diet.” After having treated his LPR patients in the past with the standard drugs, Zalvan decided to switch them to his version of what is called the Mediterranean Diet, low in red meat and animal fat and high in grains, vegetables, olive oil and a moderate amount of fish. “I realize that this type of diet is hard for meat-loving Americans to sustain, so I recommend
that they take a break from it with three or four meals a week where they can have three to four ounces of chicken, lean meat or fish,” he says. “The important thing to remember is you can get all the protein you need from a plant-based diet. For example, most of my meals are vegetarian.” Another component of the regimen is drinking only alkaline water, which can neutralize excess stomach acid. Patients are also told to avoid the traditional reflux triggers, such as coffee, tea, chocolate, soda, fatty foods, spicy foods and alcohol.
REWARDING RESULTS “Many of my patients are initially very resistant to all of this, saying they just can’t give up their meat, But most of them are willing to give it a try. When they begin to see their symptoms decrease, lose weight and have a rebound in energy, they come around. The effort needed to eat a plantbased diet is not that much greater than a meatbased diet and I provide them with plenty of tips, recipes and information.” Zalvan says if you incorporate the small amount of nonplant protein he recommends on a weekly basis, the diet is not that strict. “And if people cheat, they see their symptoms come back and are motivated to try harder.” Zalvan says he believes it is important for patients using PPIs to get off the drugs as they can be damaging over time. “No one needs a lifetime on Prilosec or Nexium.” he says of the drugs, which have not always proven to be effective in treating LPR. “Studies have shown an increased risk of heart attack if these drugs are used longterm. And it’s important to remember that no one needs to be eating all that meat. Excess protein goes into the colon and can create inflammation with long-term consequences.” The alkaline water recommended by Zalvan is readily available and is an important part of the diet. “Alkaline water is natural and reduces the stomach acids that are creating the symptom my patients are experiencing.” In the study, published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Zalvan and his colleagues compared 85 people with LPR who were treated with PPIs and 99 people with LPR who were told to switch to a Mediterranean Diet and drink alkaline water. After six weeks, the patients who changed their diet reported similar declines in their symptoms. Zalvan says the results show you can treat people for LPR using the Mediterranean Diet-based approach. “When put on a plant-based diet along with drinking alkaline water, the majority gets better and they stop using drugs that lead to dangerous side effects in the future.” Now Zalvan plans to study the effect of the Mediterranean Diet on people with GERD to see if the diet can help relieve their set of related reflux symptoms as well. For more, visit westchestervoicedoc.com.
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A DIFFERENT TYPE OF YOGI STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIELLE RENDA f someone had told me that I was to spend a Sunday afternoon performing yoga alongside rambunctious baby goats, I wouldn’t have believed him. But, then again, maybe I would have. Once I saw the internet trend of “goat yoga” — yoga classes that incorporate goats, which climb atop and cuddle with the yogis — I became intrigued, and, admittedly, a bit puzzled. So there I was at Nadeau Farm in Hamden, Connecticut, breathing deeply in the child’s pose position (Balasana), with a small hoof rubbing my arm, seeking attention. I looked up to see Princess Diana, one of the many goats that grazed the yoga pen, born between April and May. Princess Diana had taken a liking to me — and I to her — and she repeatedly returned to my mat for more hugs, cuddles and petting, which I offered willingly. (We both share a similar hair color, so maybe she felt comfort in the resemblance.) Unfortunately, goat yoga isn’t a common experience in the immediate area. So, I traveled an hour up the Merritt Parkway to find the farm, which is situated on 20 acres. Tucked away in the countryside, it was surrounded by first-rate views of autumn’s glorious arrival, which were utterly serene. Home to a variety of animals — from goats and chickens, to ducks, roosters, cows, sheep, donkeys and even an energetic dog that serves as the unofficial security guard — the farm has a soundtrack of mating calls and, yes, food requests, heard from all directions. “We’re Hamden’s best-kept secret,” said Leah Hilton, who runs the farm with her family. “The animals have their own personalities.” Nadeau Farm first opened in 1939 and is one of only four remaining farms in the area. Since May, goat yoga has been added to its roster, which also includes specialty products such as chicken and duck eggs. When the farm began taking in rescue goats, Hilton explained, expenses accrued. The costs of food, shelter, care and all other necessities for the goats have reached $45,000 annually, which comes out of Nadeau’s pockets. To help with fees, Hilton began offering a yoga class where attendees could interact with the baby goats in an idyllic environment. 126
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And, I must admit, I’ve never experienced anything like it. The class started off with some giggling as my friend and I joined in on a teenager’s birthday party. Eventually, the laughter subsided. As we began a series of yoga stretches and poses, the goats roamed the pen, playing with each other, sitting on attendees’ mats and, ultimately, finding places to rest. At one point, three were seated around my mat. After attending the class, I understand the hype. Psychologically, petting an animal helps lower stress and elicits feelings of relaxation. How could you not smile while petting a baby goat? Coupled with the actual yoga — a mind-body journey — the class is designed to offer a peaceful, feel-good experience for its attendees. And that it did. Nadeau Farm is at 74 Calamus Meadow Road in Hamden. Classes are $25 and are held Saturdays and Sundays, with the exception of the winter months. For more, visit nadeaufarm.com or call 203-671-5690.
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HAVE A HEALTHY HOLIDAY BY GIOVANNI ROSELLI
The holidays are approaching once again. Here are some tips to keep your health and wellness at the forefront: Work out with a partner. With a buddy by your side, you will be much more likely to get to the gym. It’s easier to bail on your own. In addition, having someone that you have a good relationship with will make going to the gym an enjoyable experience. Speaking of fun, you have to find things that you like to do, especially if you are a newbie who needs to get into a routine. There are way too many stories of people "forcing" themselves to the gym and/ or to exercise. How great would it be if you could find some ways to exercise where you would actually be excited about exercising. If you don't like to work out with weights on your own, try a class with weights if that’s something you would enjoy. If you don’t want to trudge around on a treadmill, go for a nice walk/run outside. Strength train with weights. As we age naturally, our bodies have a tendency to lose muscle. If you diet without exercise or just do cardio as your only means of exercise, you will not be affecting your metabolism in a beneficial way. The old expression is if you are shaped like a pear and manage to lose a few pounds with diet and just cardio, what you will end up looking like is a smaller pear. Performing weight training will increase lean muscle tissue and increase EPOC (exercise post 128
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oxygen consumption) so your body will be burning more calories even when not exercising. It will change your body composition to be leaner and tighter. Ask yourself: Do you want to lose weight or do you want to lose fat and inches? Don't go to any party hungry. One of the worst mistakes people can make is eating too little the day they have a party or event. Eat throughout the day, so when you arrive you aren't jumping on the hors d’oeuvres and overeating because you are starving. If anything, fill up before the party so when you get there you aren't tempted to pick, pick, pick. In addition, do your absolute best to get in a workout on that day. Not only will it help with your metabolism and your energy, but it will spur you to eat well as people generally do not want to cancel out a great workout by eating poorly. Also, concentrate on your portions. Yes, unhealthy food options will inevitably be at your fingertips. If you are at a buffet, a good strategy is to choose a smaller plate. Studies have shown that you will ultimately end up eating less. Learn from your past holiday experiences. What situations did you find yourself in where you felt you did a poor job in managing your eating? Think
about what you can do to anticipate making that outcome different. Remember, the biggest mistake you can make is repeating the same mistake. Don't get thrown off by the "healthy" moniker on food labels. For example, a lot of "low-fat" or "nonfat" products are usually loaded with sugar and/ or other unhealthy processed products. However, people will have a tendency to buy something that says "low-fat," "only 300 calories," "light," "low carb," and things of that sort when a lot of these foods are still unhealthy options. One final tip: There are many ways to achieve success. Be suspicious of people who tell you that "this is the best way" or "you have to do this because it's the best thing that works." What may work for some people may not necessarily work for you, and you may not even have a lot of interest in it. Be especially cautious if additional costs are involved and you "have to do it my way because it’s the best way." Truth is, there are a lot of good ways. You just need to find the best way for you and your current lifestyle. Reach Giovanni on Twitter @GiovanniRoselli and at his website, GiovanniRoselli.com.
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The Symphony of Westchester will open its 21st concert season with an all-Beethoven program that features the “Egmont” Overture and Symphony No. 4 in B major. The program will also include a performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major by pianist Alon Goldstein. 8 p.m., Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium, Iona College, 715 North Ave., New Rochelle; 914-654-4926, thesymphonyofwestchester.org
Through Nov. 19 Shakespeare’s star-crossed “Romeo & Juliet” comes to the Westport Country Playhouse. Show times vary, 25 Powers Court; 203-227-4177, westportplayhouse.org
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Steve Purtee’s “Thea,” at Harrison Public Library
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SpreadMusicNow and Band Together CT join forces to offset statewide budget cuts in the arts with “CT Rocks! A Rock ’N’ Roll Benefit Party for Music Education.” Band Together CT and special guests will play arena rock hits from the 1970s and ’80s. All proceeds go to rebuilding music education programs in Connecticut. Doors at 6 p.m., with show at 7:45, Fairfield Theatre Company, Stage One, 70 Sanford St.; 203-259-1036, fairfieldtheatre.org
“The Really Big Show” – An evening of music, entertainment and fun benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Westchester, hosted by Tiki Barber, former New York Giants running back, and featuring headliner comedian (and onetime New Rochelle resident) Jay Leno. The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, 914-251-6200, artscenter.org
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Iona College Council on the Arts presents “Peter Paul Rubens and the Flemish 17th Century,” an exhibit featuring 26 paintings and drawings by Rubens and other artists of the Northern Baroque. Noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Iona College Arts Center, 715 North Ave., New Rochelle; 914-637-7796, iona.edu
Through Dec. 1 “Collective Perspectives,” an exhibit of mixed-media paintings by Outside the Line Collective, explores how differing points of view can contribute to, or conflict with, shaping an overall image. Times vary, Harrison Public Library Halperin Building, 2 Bruce Ave., 914-8350324, harrisonpl.org
Through Jan. 7 “Object Out Loud: Arman and Nick Cave,” features more than 20 works of art by two pioneering artists who absorb and reassemble everyday objects. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays, Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay St.; 914232-9555, katonahmuseum.org
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“Walks With Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond” examines the key role played by artists in bringing views of nature indoors – in a domestic or gallery setting. The exhibit will feature 40 paintings and prints from the Hudson River Museum’s permanent collection from the 19th century to today. Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers; 914963-4550, hrm.org
Nov. 2 ArtsWestchester presents “Give Us the Ballot: An Evening with Voting Rights Journalist and Historian Ari Berman.” Berman will discuss the Voting Rights Act before answering audience questions and signing copies of his book. 7 p.m., 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains; 914-428-4220, artsw.org
Daniel Hege is the guest conductor with the Stamford Symphony for “Beethoven, Ravel & Stravinsky,” playing Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance No. 5,” Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin” and Stravinsky’s “Firebird: Suite.” 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 3 p.m. Nov. 5, The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford; 203-325-4466, stamfordsymphony.org
CraftWestport brings some 175 fine contemporary craftsmen and artists from across the country to exhibit at Connecticut’s longest-running indoor fine crafts event. Net proceeds from admission fees will be distributed to local charitable organizations in lower Fairfield County by the Westport Young Woman’s League, a nonprofit dedicated to building community. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 4 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 5, Fieldhouse at Staples High School, 70 North Ave.; 845-331-7900, craftwestport.com
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Phelps Hospital’s 30th anniversary Champagne Ball – Phelps’ signature fundraiser, the Champagne Ball, is celebrating its 30th year with an extended cocktail hour, Viennese dessert tables, a photo booth and a diamond auction. 6 p.m., Sleepy Hollow Country Club, 777 Albany Post Road, Briarcliff Manor; phelpsevents.org/ champagne-ball/event-information, 914-366-3104
Susan Eisen, Norma Minkowitz and Ellen Schiffman discuss their work and creative process in an Artists Talk related to the exhibit “Of Art and Craft.” 2 p.m. The exhibition, which features works in glass, clay and fiber, continues through Dec. 6, The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 2nd Floor; 203-622-7947, flinngallery.com
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The Chamber Players of the Greenwich Symphony present “Russian Idyll,” with works by Gliere, Medtner, Hummel, Schnittke, Weinberg, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. 4 p.m. Nov. 5, Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6, Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich; 203-637-4725, greenwichsymphony.org
Cerebral Palsy of Westchester presents “A Taste of Westchester: A Food and Wine Tasting Event” that features more than 30 of the area’s finest restaurants and top chefs. All of the proceeds will benefit CPW programs. 6:15 p.m., Renaissance Westchester Hotel, 80 W. Red Oak Lane, West Harrison; 914-937-3800, cpwestchester.org
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Visual artist Christine Aaron presents “The Memory Project,” a mixed-media project that invited members of the Larchmont/Mamaroneck community to share a memory of their choosing. These memories have been incorporated into an audio and sculptural installation exhibited at the Mamaroneck Artists Guild. Hours vary, with reception 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 11. 126 Larchmont Ave., Larchmont; thememoryproject.space
Brooke Maples and Katie Ré Scheidt will give an artists’ talk as part of “Punch & Sizzle: New Artists/New Work,” an exhibit through Nov. 18 that features work by Maples, Scheidt, Monique Lazard, Janice Mehlman and Beth Munro unified by lush colors, seductive shapes and deceptively simple compositions. Light refreshments served. 11:30 a.m., SM Home Gallery, Sandra Morgan Interiors, 70 Arch St., Greenwich; 203-629-8121, sandramorganinteriors.com
Nov. 9 through 12 Bridgeport Art Trail – Explore the work of more than 200 artists in their studios; an opening party at Read’s ArtSpace; “BOOBs: Personal Stories of Breast Cancer Patients” at City Lights Gallery; a Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County video-recorded artist talk at The NEST Arts Factory and much more. 203-334-7748, bridgeport-art-trail.org
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Nov. 15 through April 15 The Greenwich Historical Society’s exhibit “An American Odyssey: The Jewish Experience in Greenwich” explores the contributions the Jewish community has made to Greenwich’s cultural and economic vitality through photographs, artifacts, archival documents, ephemera and first-person accounts. Greenwich Historical Society, 39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob; 203-8696899, greenwichhistory.org
Ellen Schiffman's “A rift is just a chance,” at The Flinn Gallery White Plains Performing Arts Center presents “The Langston Hughes Project,” a multimedia concert performance of “Ask Your Mama,” the jazz poem suite created in homage to the struggle for social freedom at home and abroad in the beginning of the 1960s. 8 p.m., 11 City Place, Third Floor; 914-328-1600, wppac.com
Nov. 18 through 26 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as the Yorktown Stage presents “Miracle on 34th Street.” Show times vary, 1974 Commerce St., Yorktown Heights; 914962-0606, yorktownstage.org
Artist Vinnie Bagwell presents an opening reception for “Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden,” a series of life-size bronze sculptures which will be developed into an urban-heritage sculpture garden in Yonkers to pay homage to the first enslaved Africans to be freed by law in the United States. Bagwell will unveil the first two sculptures, “I’Satta” and “Themba the Boatman,” during the reception. 5 p.m., Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Plaza; 914-965-0231, enslavedafricansraingarden.org
Music on the Hill presents “Autumn Leaves,” a fall concert of its professional Chamber Chorus, a 16-voice ensemble known for its a cappella repertoire. 8 p.m., Wilton Presbyterian Church, 48 New Canaan Road; 203-529-3133, musiconthehillct.org
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Habib Koité & Bamada, a modern troubadour hailing from the musically prolific West African nation of Mali, performs. 8 p.m., Fairfield University’s Quick Center For The Arts, 1073 N. Benson Road; 203-254-4010, quickcenter.fairfield.edu
The Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery offers Vincent Serbin’s second solo exhibition, “Shaped and Shrouded,” following his sold-out first show earlier this year. 6 p.m. reception, 96 Bedford St., Stamford; 888-8616791, alvarezgallery.com
The ninth annual Greenwich Reindeer Festival & Santa’s Village. The cherished town tradition continues at Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, where visitors can have their photo taken with Santa, meet the reindeer and also ride on the Winter Wonderland Carousel and the North Pole Polar Express Train. Times vary, 437 North St.; greenwichreindeerfestival.com
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ArtsWestchester Gala - Can a bridge be a work of art? ArtsWestchester believes it can. Join in celebrating the new Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and the men and women who have built it. Enjoy a night of cocktails, dinner and auctions – all to keep the arts alive in Westchester. 6 p.m., The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester, 3 Renaissance Square, White Plains; 914-428-4220, artsw.org/gala
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Nov. 19 Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras holds its fall concert at the Klein Auditorium in Bridgeport. All ensembles will perform. 2 p.m., 910 Fairfield Ave.; 203293-8447, gbyo.org
Nov. 26 Cap the Thanksgiving weekend on an artistic note at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art with a tour led by exhibitions director Richard Klein. Discover an international collection of contemporary photography, get an insider’s look at a 23-foot-high architectural environment occupied by artists and immerse yourself in a mixed-media exhibition inspired by the craft categories of Connecticut’s Durham Fair. 2 p.m., 258 Main St., Ridgefield; 203-438-4519, aldrichart.org
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November Black Violin Classical Boom Tour November 3, 8pm
A Triumph of Trumpets Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie Featuring Jon Faddis & special guests November 4, 8pm Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello Wagner, Schumann, and Sibelius November 11, 8pm
Coming up in December 3 The Suzanne Farrell Ballet 9 Brentano Quartet 12 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical 15 The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert 16 The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert 17 Westchester Philharmonic: Winter Pops!
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ometimes our spotlighted pooch has a fairy-tale quality. Meet Sasha, a Yellow Lab mix who came into the SPCA as a stray with facial wounds inflicted by some type of animal. Now, however, they are fully healed and the 2-year-old has been transformed back into the sweet beauty she always was, ready to find her forever family. Children age 10 and older would have a great time with this fun, friendly girl as she loves to play. (She does not, however, want to be with
another large dog.) A fine travel companion, Sasha is good in the car and enjoys long walks and hikes in the woods. Now all she needs is a happy ending. To meet Sasha, 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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United Hebrew of New Rochelle’s annual Autumn Celebration drew more than 200 friends, donors and health-care partners to Glen Island Harbour Club to celebrate the comprehensive senior care facility's 98th anniversary. The event honored leaders and businesses that support the organization’s mission — Rosemary McLaughlin, senior vice president and group director at Signature Bank; the public relations firm Harrison Edwards Inc.; and Sigma Care, a health-care technology company. Proceeds from the event directly support United Hebrew’s efforts to provide high-quality health-care services to more than 1,000 clients daily. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Executive Director Susan Gilgore traveled to Austin, Texas, to receive a Leadership in History award from the American Association of State and Local History on behalf of the museum. The AASLH’s national Award of Merit, presented at a special banquet, recognized the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum as among “the best in state and local history” for the exhibit "The Stairs Below: The Mansion’s Domestic Servants, 1868-1938." Photograph by aaslh.
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The Penny Lane Dance Academy teams recently performed at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla. The dance company’s Tiny Troupe, All Stars and Elite’s teams each offered a special dance routine to entertain the hospital’s patients. In addition, they donated children’s books and Halloween decorations to the hospital. The dance academy, located in Somers, has a long history of giving back to the local community by hosting a number of fundraisers and charitable dance events throughout the year. 11. The Penny Lane Dance Troupe
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BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION The New York School for the Deaf and its board of trustees celebrated their 200th anniversary with The Black and White Gala held at the Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown. Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, honorary chair of the event, welcomed more than 300 guests. The special honorees for the evening were Andrew S. Roffe and Tina Jo Breindel. Linda Bove, affectionately known by many as Linda the Librarian on “Sesame Street” for 30 years and a longtime board member, served as emcee and auctioneer for vacations, plane tickets, portraits, and artwork from a well-known deaf artist. Under the direction of the new superintendent, Bradley Porche’, and with the community’s continued support, the school remains dedicated to ensuring that its students are prepared for the 21st Century. Photographs by George Potanovic Jr. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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CHICAGO PLAYS THE PALACE
The Palace Theatre in Stamford recently welcomed Chicago, one of the longest-running and most successful rock ’n’ roll groups in history, for the nonprofit’s eighth annual “Spotlight Soirée” gala. The event, which is the Palace’s largest annual fundraiser, also marked the venue's 90th anniversary. Attendees raised more than $300,000 to support The Palace Theatre and its education programs. Photographs by happyhaha at wahstudio.
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Westchester Parks Foundation (WPF) honored five individuals during its gala recently at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, WPF continues to encourage investment in Westchester County’s 18,000 acres of parks, trails and open spaces. Photographs by John Vecchiolla. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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The Hudson Gateway REALTOR Foundation recently presented Helping Hands for the Homeless and Hungry Inc. in Rye with a check for $1,500. Founded in 1987, Helping Hands is an all-volunteer nonprofit that purchases and donates food, clothing and school supplies, as well as making cash grants, to organizations for those in need. HGAR also recently presented a check for $1,000 to Gilda’s Club Westchester. Created in fulfillment of the late actress Gilda Radner’s dream, Gilda’s Club offers a community of free support for everyone living with cancer, along with their families and friends.
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For the second year in a row, the New York Self-Storage Association (NYSSA) held its annual member conference at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown. The event kicked off with a cocktail reception, at which CEO Peter Ferraro, owner of Westchester County-based Gold Key Properties, thanked the 20 sponsors. He also presented Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital with a donation from the association. 1. David McCormack and Steven Babcock 2. Pete Gioiello, Jack Giannola, Frank Relf and Jim Gillis 3. Paul Ferraro, Tim Malsbury, Philip Ferraro, Peter Ferraro Sr., Michael Mingione and Michael Murphy 4. Lianne Dugan, and Kelley Redi-Hardisty 5. Daniel Crellin, Garo Derian and Tom Garden 6. Diane Vizzo, Brett LaRocque and Lisa Walden 7. Kelley Redi-Hardisly, Debbie Pellegrino and Linda Cinelli 8. Guy Middlebrooks and Peter Ferraro Jr. 9. Jennifer Amerling, Tim Szablewski and Jenn Hoeffner
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INAUGURAL SEASON Recently, the town of New Castle’s arts community came together to celebrate an evening filled with entertainment, friends, fellowship and new beginnings, as the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center — or ChappPAC for short — officially opened its doors for its inaugural season. The group witnessed a ceremonial ribbon cutting and opening comments from ChappPAC manager and veteran theater professional John Fanelli, who extended his welcome to those in attendance. Photograph by Doug DeMarco. 10. Jeffrey Kuduk, David Restivo, Robert Greenstein, Lisa Katz, John Fanelli, Michele Gregson, Frank Shiner, Jonathan Leibner and Scott Campbell
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NEUBERGER’S NEWEST
Recently, art lovers gathered at Purchase College’s Neuberger Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of two exhibits — “Romare Bearden: Abstraction” and “Janet Biggs: A Step On the Sun.” The Bearden exhibition focuses on abstract watercolors, oil paintings and mixed-media collages. “A Step On the Sun” is a video installation that documents unprotected sulfur workers on Indonesia’s fiery Ijen volcano. Photographs by Tim Grajek. 1. Paul and Barbara Elliot and Ted and Gail Roman 2. Johanne Bryant Reid, Keith Alexander and Tracy Fitzpatrickr 3. Ava Zukowsky, Helaine Posner, Janet Biggs and David Dorsky 4. Harriet Rader, Jacqueline Adler and Renee Werner 5. Judith and David Fields 6. Debbie Kass and Paul Zukowsky 7. Helen Stambler Neuberger and Jim Neuberger
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More than 150 leaders in the Westchester Jewish community joined the Westchester Jewish Council in kicking off a new Jewish year by welcoming Ambassador Dani Dayan, the Consul General of Israel in New York. The event took place at the Westchester Reformed Temple in Scarsdale. The program included a report by County Executive Rob Astorino and served as an update on community matters for the leadership of the Westchester Jewish Council’s 160-member organizations and local elected officials. Dayan spoke about the latest news from Israel, including an update on matters relating to Diaspora Jewry. Photographs by Tim Grajek.
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The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center recently celebrated the grand opening of its new 32-bed expansion in Yonkers. Named Oakland Beach, the addition makes the Pediatric Center the largest provider of children’s subacute care in the country. 10. Vito Verni, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, John Verni, Robert Flower, Michael Sabatino and Shelley Mayer 11. Mike Spano 12. Mike Welling, Marc Rosa, Sr. Miriam Kevin Phillips, Sr. Mary Ann Daly, Benny Caiola, Sr. Dorothy Metz, Sr. Carol Barnes, Stephanie, Catherine Franzetti, Sr. Margaret O’Brien, Rachel Amar, Pat Tursi, Francis Gasparik, Lisa Alteri, Sr. Karen Helfenstein, Sr. Jane Iannucelli, Michael Van De Loo, Dr. Sherlita Amler, Mike Hegarty and Dennis Kenny
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The American Yacht Club in Rye recently hosted an action-packed day of sailing on the Sound. The Leukemia Cup Regatta is part of a series of nationwide sailing events that combine the joy of boating with the important task of raising money to cure cancer. After a day on the water, participants enjoyed a buffet, dancing to the Chad Hollister Band and live and silent auctions. They raised more than $200,000 to fund the LLS mission, which is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma; and improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Photographs by Robert Moss.
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At the third annual “Women of Power and Style Summit” at The Mansion at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt Manor, guests had the chance to sip, taste, listen, learn and mingle with their professional peers over a Champagne brunch and fashion show. The event, which included a panel of experts on challenges facing professional women today, in part benefited the Women’s Enterprise Development Center in White Plains. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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More than 300 people poured into Xaviars X2O on the Hudson in Yonkers for Groundwork Hudson Valley’s “Urban River Party,” celebrating four people whose contributions have helped to transform Yonkers into a greener, more commercially robust urban center. Honorees included Wilson Kimball, Robert Baron, Peter Kareiva and The Xaviars Restaurant Group’s Peter Kelly. Among the guests were prominent community, government and business leaders, including several real estate developers embarking on major projects in the downtown area. Photographs by Donna Davis. 9. Wendy Zimmermann, Wilson Kimball, Mike Spano and Brigitte Griswold 10. Peter Kelly and Andrea Stewart-Cousins 11. Martin and Irene Ginsburg 12. Shelley Mayer and Terry Joshi 13. Peter Kareiva
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Recently, New York Medical College (NYMC) held its annual Founder’s Dinner at the DoubleTree Hilton in Tarrytown. Attended by college administrators, trustees, faculty, alumni and staff, this black-tie, gala raised crucial operating revenue. This year, four distinguished guests were recognized for their commitment to NYMC and the larger medical community, including Dr. Mark Hasten, who was presented with the Alfred DelBello Distinguished Service Award. This is bestowed upon an individual who has helped advance NYMC’s mission of education and research though service, commitment and expert ability. Earlier, Mount Pleasant Town Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi had proclaimed the day “New York Medical College Day.” 1. Edward and Sharon Halperin 2. Salomon Amar, Michal Schwartzman and Abraham Nader 3. William and Esther Frishman 4. Ira Schwartz, Mark Hasten, and Robert Lerner 5. Randi and Leonard Newman 6. Marty and Esther Greenfield, Howard Baruch, Menachem Genack, Martin Katzenstein, Doniel Lander and Edward Lebovics 7. Jay Goldsmith and Ronnie Myers 8. Roger Chirurgi and John and Marie Pellicone 9. Back: Aisha Wood, Joseph English, Sabra Brock, Vincent Vigorita, Dana D’Amato and Steven Paulus; Front: Walter Grattidge, Grace Jorgensen and Janis Konkle 10. Robert Lerner and the Lerner family 11. Jason Jacobson, Sei Iwai and Michael Gewitz 12. Mark and Anna Ruth Hasten (5th & 6th from left) and the Hasten family 13. Kimberly Blanchette, Sonia Velez and Howard Blanchette 14. Sherlita and Rob Amler 15. acapella singers – The Chromatic Scalers 16. John and Gae Savino, Carol Karmen and Lawrence McIntyre 17. Adam Gordon 18. Connie and Alan Kadish 19. Ellen and Mitchell Cairo 20. Dana Mordue, Vilma Bordonaro, Gladys Ayala and Jennifer Riekert 21. Dr. Ira Schwartz (third from right) and the Schwartz family 22. Back: Rebecca Newman, Shruti Kore, Michael Rogovin, Philippe Harousseau, Lori Iurato Barazani and Dr. Lance Barazani; Front: Monica Mitchell, Dr. Anne Negrin, Marilyn Scharbach and Kendall Harousseau
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Bryant Cassie
John Cunningham
Valerie English nurse, Bronx resident
bartender, Mount Vernon resident
Associate producer/musical director, White Plains resident
Stephen Ferri
Dimitrius Graham
“I’m thankful that art allows individuals to be themselves without labels or judgment.”
“I am thankful for the community theater group I’ve joined in Elmsford. Through them, I’ve learned so much about teamwork and contributing to a common goal.”
“I’m thankful for reggae music. Jamaica is a small island, but its reputation really grew thanks to those artists.”
“I’m thankful that art is so accommodating. No matter what you want to say, there is a perfect medium to express that message.”
“I am thankful for community performing arts centers like ours in White Plains. People tend to think you need to go all the way into the city for a high-quality arts experience, but actually it’s here in our own backyard.”
“I’m thankful for the incredible purity of personal expression.”
Brian Hung
Lara Sapelsa
Alex Slomka
David Soto
waiter, White Plains resident
bookseller, Barnes & Noble, Elmsford resident
John Farrel
singer, White Plains resident
student, Cortlandt Manor resident
Kristin Morris
surgical technician, Rockland County resident
Emily Santos student/musician, Hartsdale resident
store manager, Free People, Westchester County resident
trombonist, New York City resident
Bartender, White Plains resident
“I’m thankful that art keeps life from being dull.”
“I am thankful for any art that is true and genuine. Art allows us to say what we can’t put into words.”
“I’m thankful for all the friendships that I’ve forged through art and music.”
“I’m thankful that art brings beauty to the world and keeps us aware, especially when it’s so easy to get lost in our screens today.”
“As a musician, I am thankful to be reminded that even though we all use the same notes, there are endless outcomes when it comes to expressing ourselves.”
“I’m thankful for so many things in art! Colors, nature, clothing, tattoos… I love how the right combinations of colors and styles can put me in the perfect mood.”
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