WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Art and Collectibles

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Arader Galleries

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Peter Finer

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Appointments for the Home

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Maclowe Gallery

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Hyde Park Antiques, Ltd.

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Americana

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Old Hope Antiques

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Modern Collectibles

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Glass Past

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Lost City Arts

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Ancient and Non Western Art and Antiques

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc.

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Jewelry

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Didier Ltd.

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Wartski

THE INSPIRED HOME by Karen Lehrman Bloch - book signing at the Urban Zen Foundation

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On November 19th, art scholar Karen Lehrman Bloch had her second signing of The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty at Donna Karan's Urban Zen Foundation headquarters in the West Village. Her first book signing took place at Rizzoli Books on September 17th—click here to read the article. A fitting place it was, Ms. Karan being not only a client Karen's, but also having one of the interiors featured in the book.

Karen Lehrman Bloch and Donna Karan

KENNETH COLE Talks at The National Arts Club

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

To commemorate the publication of This Is A Kenneth Cole Production (2013, Rizzoli) written by Kenneth Cole and Lisa Birnbach, with contribution by Diane Von Furstenberg, Joe Zee and Bill Clinton, the National Arts Club Fashion Committee presented an evening with Kenneth Cole on January 24th.

This Is A Kenneth Cole Production is the first and definitive book on the fashion of Kenneth Cole and his thirty year career in fashion and social activism. His footwear and fashion design capture the New York style. Kenneth Cole jump started his fashion business in the most unorthodox of ways: he created a film set and pretended to make a film in order to gain access to New York Market Week. In two and a half days, Kenneth Cole Productions sold 40,000 pairs of shoes. Moments like this are par for the course when viewing Cole’s career, a truly original yet classic American success story.

HOLIDAY HOUSE: A Glimpse at the Rooms

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

From last November 21th through December 18th, at the Academy Mansion, one of the best holiday rounds to make was a visit to Holiday House NYC, a designer's show house benefitting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Design firms contributing to Holiday House NYC 2013 included Ally Coulter Designs, Campion Platt, Cullman and Kravis Inc., CW Design, Darrin Varden Design, Décor by Guillaume Gentet, Deb Landis Design, Deborah Martin Designs, Franklin Eighth, Gregory Allan Cramer, J. Cohler Mason Design, James Rixner, Joseph Parisi Interiors, J+G Design, Kelley Jackson, Mario Buatta, Michael McKinnon, Patrick J. Hamilton Designs, Patrik Lönn Design, Rachel Laxer Interiors, Scott Formby, Stephen Bastone, Studio Tim Campbell, Susanna Salk, Tinatin Kilaberidze Interior Design, Tony Ingrao And Randy Kemper, Weitzman-Halpern Interior Design.

Leonard Lauder as Honorary Chair, Iris Dankner and Christopher Hyland as Co-Chairs, and Alexa Hampton, Mario Buatta and Thom Filicia as Design Chairs formed the committee of Holiday House NYC 2013.

ART & SOLE by Jane Gershon Weitzman - book signing and presentation

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

A one-night fantasy shoe installation from the Stuart Weitzman Collection and a discussion and book signing with Jane Weitzman, the author of Art & Sole: A Spectacular Selection of More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes from the Stuart Weitzman Collection, was arranged by the National Arts Club Fashion Committee on January 10th at the National Arts Club.

With an introduction by Weitzman, Art & Sole highlights shoes from the collection, along with brief, identifying captions, in a beautifully designed art book featuring a cloth case with an elaborately embossed shoe on the front cover, gilded edges, and a silk ribbon marker. Thumbnail photographs of every shoe in the book, along with a brief biography on the artist who created it, are also included.

KINKY BOOTS at the National Arts Club

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Last November 25, costume designer Gregg Barnes, who designed the wardrobe for the 2012 revival of the Zeigfeld Follies, earning a Tony Award for his efforts, and who with a budget of over 2 million Dollars also did the costumes for the upcoming production of Disney's Aladin on Broadway, was invited by the Fashion and Theatre Arts Committees of the National Arts Club, to talk about his experiences in designing the costumes for Kinky Boots, which earned him his fifth Tony nomination, and also about his experiences in designing for the theatre. Throughout the discussion songs from the Cyndi Lauper score were performed by members of the Broadway cast: Tony Award® nominee Annaleigh Ashford and Tory Ross, with Will Van Dyke accompanying at the piano.

AVENUE Antiques Art & Design: Jewelry

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Emerald necklace and diamond bracelet below,
were exhibited by Richter's

AVENUE Magazine's Antiques, Art , and Design show, which opened on October 9th at the Armory on Park Avenue, was a showcase for the luxury goods trade, both personal, and for the home.

The Armory became such a treasure cave, I am doing multiple articles (Click BEST IN SHOW, to see article.) This one is all about the jewelry.

Click on the names of the exhibitors to go to their web site and see some more.

Enjoy!

SANDRA SIMONATO BLEI: M.A.D. preview sale

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

It was while covering the Suzanne Tucker book signing event earlier in November, that I met Elaine Taylor-Gordon, owner of Flashforce LLC. When I complemented her on the beautiful necklace she was wearing, she informed me it was designed by her Milanese friend Sandra Simonato Blei, who was coming to New york in order to introduce her new jewelry collection at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD).

Then Elaine invited me to come and cover her event honoring Sandra in a few days hence, November 14th to be precise, when she would be arranging a private, women only, networking get together, that would be offering for sale some Sandra's pieces from her extensive collection.

Elaine Taylor Gordon and Sandra Simonato Blei discuss a beautiful embroidered art piece from Elaine's collection

AN INVITATION TO CHATEAU DU GRAND LUCE by Timothy Corrigan - lecture and book signing

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

November 5th at Bonhams, was the date and place where Interior Designer Timothy Corrigan had a book signing and lecture about the restoration of a neglected, but important French chateau he decided to buy and make his home, cheerfully supported by members of the French Heritage Society, who were in the midst of celebrating their 30th Anniversary by conducting diverse chateau tours following in the footsteps of King Louis XIV through the southwest of France.

Timothy Corrigan's first book, An Invitation to Chateau du Grand-Lucé was published by Rizzoli.

AVENUE Antiques Art & Design: BEST IN SHOW

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On October 12th at the Armory on Park Avenue, four days after the grand opening of AVENUE Magazine's Antiques, Art , and Design show, a panel of five illustrious experts in the Decor industry had a discussion on the exhibited items they considered to be the best offerings of the show.

Panelists Ellie Cullman, Darren Heanult, Amanda Nisbet, and David Scott with moderator Susanna Salk standing

HYLAND MAGAZINE Awards

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

The trophies being quite sizable and beautiful, Christopher Hyland told the
anecdote in his opening speech of Bad Boy Mario Buatta, who promptly turned
the one he got from a past award into a lamp base, to the hilarity of all present.

Exactly one week before the opening of Holiday House, on November 13, Hyland Magazine, whose Editor-in-Chief is Christopher Hyland, also President of Hyland Textiles, and also co-chair of Holiday House NYC had its annual awards ceremony which recognizes prominent talent in the Architecture/Interior Design industries.

The event took place at the most exquisitely put together Bar Room, a rather atmospheric and intimate American Bistro in New York's favorite area for the "Ladies Who Lunch", around the corner from Bloomingdale.

Christopher Hyland Commences the presentation

HOLIDAY HOUSE Kick Off Party

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On October 22nd, the Holiday House NYC benefit for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation had its kick off party at the Academy Mansion, where the show house takes place every year. It's a nice gathering for the people and companies from all the architecture and interior decor related industries involved, before they start the hard, exhausting work of putting each of the rooms together.

Holiday House will run from November 21st to December 18th, with their Gala Opening on November 20th, which I already covered and will be posting in the near future with a link to this article as well.

Holiday House Co-chair Christopher Hyland with Founder/Chair Iris Dankner  flank Sara Gore.
To see article of Hyland Magazine's awards event, click here

THE INSPIRED HOME: INTERIORS OF DEEP BEAUTY by Karen Lehrman Bloch - Book Signing

reporter: Miguel Dominguez
text: Harper Collins Publishers

On September 17th, art scholar Karen Lehrman Bloch had a signing of her most recent book The Inspired Home: Interiors of deep beauty at Rizzoli New York.

The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty opens the door to twenty-five of the most beautiful homes in the world—ones owned by top interior designers, fashion designers, artists, and stylists—to reveal how simple principles borrowed from nature can inspire gorgeous, innovative interiors that both calm and embolden us.

CHRISTIE'S: POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART On Line Auction

reporter: Miguel Dominguez
text: Christie's

On November 10, Chrisite's New York had a veritable mob scene in their premises on Rockefeller Center with their preview of the kind of art even the MoMA would find difficult putting together in a special exhibit. I literally had to wait till the last half hour, when the event was winding down, in order to take a few shots of the extraordinary amount of art being auctioned off. A few of the works being sold were Warhols, Basquiats, Harrings, a Lichtenstein, Indianas, a Stella, a Cindy Sherman and a Koons Balloon Dog, displayed on the sidewalk, and chosen by Christie's as the logo for the up coming auction, with canvas bags and t-shirts featuring the sculpture, and real ballon dogs, being given away to a very delighted public.

On 12 November 2013 this painting, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" set the record
as the most expensive piece of art ever auctioned, selling for $142,405,000

Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014: PISTOLETTE

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On September 28th, designer Elissa French of Pistolette New York, showed her sexy, comfortable fashions to a very ardent following of twenty somethings.

Elissa French

Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014: BAKYT BESHBAEV

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

During Fashion Week on September 8th, Bakyt Beshbaev showed his beautifully ethnic, incredibly elegant wear at the Couture Fashion Week 4 day Fashion extravaganza taking place at the New Yorker Hotel.

Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014: MARCIA GANEM

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

During Fashion Week on September 7th at the New Yorker Hotel, Brazilian designer Marcia Ganem presented her mostly diaphanous garments to New York fashion followers. Her show was arranged by Couture Fashion Week.

THE REAPING: KLAUS ENRIQUE Art Exhibit

reporter: Miguel Dominguez
text and archival images: Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

On October 16th, Rebecca Hossack Gallery presented Klaus Enrique: The Reaping, a solo show featuring works by New York based artist Klaus Enrique.

Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014: VOZ Collaborative Artisan Fashions

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Voz—“voice” in Spanish—brought its Chilean, artisan designed collection to New York Fashion Week with its show on September 12th.