Decorating dynamos will be talking lampshades and wallpaper at the annual President’s Dinner to kick off the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The black-tie dinner’s chairs are Architectural Digest editor Margaret Russell and decorator Bunny Williams, along with vice chairs Jamie Drake, Tony Ingrao, Randy Kemper and Richard Mishaan. Joining these interiors superstars will be Read More
Location: How’s business? Do uptown interior designers have their own recession?
Mr. Drake: I think the interior design industry, like every industry, has been affected—and affected majorly. … Projects that were in the middle, people have not stopped—but we’re all concerned about what will come down the road in six to Read More
Two years ago, in one of the most awesomely honest interviews ever given about a very, very expensive apartment, Seema Kalia, the wife of hedge fund manager Vedula Murti, told The Observer about her new $7,127,750 triplex in the 104-year-old mansion at 3 East 75th Street. "You know that sometimes people buy great houses and Read More
Godly-voiced newsman Tom Brokaw has bought the duplex apartment that belonged to the godly Barbara Epstein for over half a century. The apartment, at 33 West 67th Street, sold for $3,267,650.
At the apartment’s dinner table, back in 1962, Ms. Epstein invented The New York Review of Books with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick and then-husband Read More
Every year, when the mercury hits 90 degrees and the line for Nick and Toni’s backs up to Manhattan, the deep-pocketed donor set goes into full and giddy money-raising swing. (Never mind the McCain-Feingold Act—campaign-finance what?—with its talk of excising money from politics.) Merging conscience with that age-old desire for clout, they open their homes Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Director of Communications, William Cunningham, is not a guy who spends much time fretting over his boss’ taste in furniture.
“I hadn’t even thought about it until you asked,” he said over the phone. “It’s a house. It’s furnished …. I really don’t think that the President or the Governor or anybody Read More
There is no better place on earth to observe–and to mock–the privileged than at the annual Winter Antiques Show. And since P.C. culture has decreed that the rich are the only group we’re still allowed to take the piss out of, I say: “Go for it!” Through Jan. 27, you can observe firsthand the descendants Read More
