Celebrity shutterbug Patrick McMullan has chronicled the social scene’s most fashionable and fabulous since the decadent days of Studio 54 leading some to comment, “It’s not a party if Patrick isn’t here!” While it might be tough to get the world’s most famous society and nightlife photographer to attend your…
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Inspired by Victorian Cabinets of Curiosity, the ceramic dinnerware collection by artist Laura Zindel Lauterbach and her husband features exquisitely hand drawn images of spiders, snakes, ladybugs, butterflies and beetles that adorn everything from serving platters to water pitchers. Each piece of earthenware is made by hand with non-toxic low…
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As Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney said, during the Great Depression upon the founding of the now iconic Whitney Museum, “It is especially in times like these that we need to look to the spiritual. In art we find it.” And now with the country facing a similar challenging period, Whitney’s statement…
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What do you get when you combine a big box store with an out-of-the-box designer and a lot of discarded boxes?  Fabulous, inspired, sustainable designs, of course!  And, so it was for the launch of West Elm’s new Upper West Side store last week, featuring the reliably cool and thoughtful…
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It’s Thank-God-Art Basel’s-Over Sunday at the Raleigh in South Beach, and Food, Beverage & Nightlife guru Omar Hernandez looks damn good for a guy who just threw 22 parties in four days. Must be his Gucci glasses. Or, the natural telegenicity of a Plum TV host. “I don’t know how…
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Want your face on the cover of a magazine? Guests at the Vanity Fair and Free Arts NYC party during Art Basel Miami happily settled for a brief moment in the spotlight as a large-scale image of their best strike-a-pose was projected on a wall at the Raleigh Hotel. Sponsored…
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For party-goers at Art Basel that identified more with graffiti art than the Gagosian, the Opening Party for the Gen Art Vanguard New Contemporary Art Fair was the place to be on Friday night. Presented by Fage Total, the cutting edge fair, held at Charcoal Studios in Miami’s Wynwood Arts…
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Fashion Week started with a big bang on Thursday night at the MINI Rooftop NYC, an event space in Hell’s Kitchen that has been transformed for an exclusive 10-day cultural event series. Hosted by international style publication, Dazed and Confused, the opening party featured a headline musical set by the…
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“If I knew there would be this kind of turn out, we would have written better plays,” joked Israel Horovitz, the internationally acclaimed playwright, as he addressed the full house on Wednesday night for the premiere of the Red Rope Playhouse at the Westside Theater. Hosted by Chopin Vodka with…
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At first glance, this earthenware apple by Tatsuya Okazaki ($55) resembles a charming tabletop accessory. But, take off the top and it becomes a sugar pot with a wooden spoon which cleverly rests inside as the apple’s core. For more original gift ideas, visit Destination: Japan, a collection of lifestyle…
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It’s hard to get out of the hot seat when you have Simon de Pury around. That’s the lesson that actress Michelle Monaghan got last week at the Portraits and Polaroids art auction to benefit Free Arts NYC, an organization that provides underprivileged children and their families with art and…
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Your favorite couple is getting married. As you scroll through their wedding registry filled with the requisite china, silverware and perhaps even a blender, you wonder if any of these gifts are meaningful enough. If tradition dictates that you give something for the home, why not something for its walls?…
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