The Eight-Day Week

Jamie Drake.

To Do Tuesday: Superior Interiors

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

Color-Coordinating the Recession

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

Tom Brokaw Buys Barbara Epstein’s Artist Haven for $3.26 M.

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

$26,700 Chuck Roast

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

Chez Mike Open for Business

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