Good Taste

Forstmann auction

Ted Forstmann’s Discerning Eye: Tonight at Sotheby’s

One moment please, to admire the late-buyout king’s impeccable taste. Forstmann, “Teddy” to the tabloids, who passed away in November, was known as a disdainer of junk bonds, adopter of orphans, squire to Princess Diana and Padma Lakshmi, Giving Pledge signatory, possessor of high-class tennis game, a man who, late in life, counted Roger Federer as a friend and Michael Ovitz as an adversary. Read More