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LENOX
HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
Bigger, Better Holiday Bazaar
Helps Children on East Side
By Roger Webster
 HE
14th Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Holiday Bazaar Preview Party, at
Sotheby’s, was bigger and more fun than ever. This was partly due
to the new location and partly the traditions and benevolence, which
are more important to New Yorkers than ever.
Most
of the sponsors, chairs, board and committee members, including Annette
de la Renta, Julia Wallace, Martha McLanahan, Diana Quasha,
Sydney Shuman, John Rosselli, Gracious Home’s Nancy and
Natan Wekselbaum, Nancy Wackstein, Renée Landegger, Albert
Hadley, Bunny Williams, Tobie Roosevelt, Nancy and Harold
d’O. Baker, Guy Regal and Julie Dannenberg, Martin and Audrey
Gruss, Marjorie Gubelmann, Jonathon Gargiulo, Craig Natiello and
Martha Dorn were there.
Many
donned red aprons to help the dozens of volunteers set up, guide,
sell and serve their glamorous shoppers such as Muffie Potter
Aston, George Trescher, Grace Hightower, Patricia Duff, Duane
Hampton, Ellen and Mark Gilbertson, Debbie Bancroft, Richard
Torrenzano, Dr. Suzanne Levine, dress designer Kim Hicks,
Elite model Heidi Elbertson, Cynthia Frank, Lady Henrietta
Spencer Churchill, the State Department’s Kimberly Nisbet,
Costa Rican model Mauricio Amuy, jewelry designer Anne
Ellington, David Patrick Columbia, Jeffrey Hirsch, Linda
Mansfield, Tom Gates
and R. Couri Hay shopped earnestly.
They
bought items with such stylish names as Vera Wang, Nicole Miller,
Bulgari, Chanel, Carolina Herrera, Prada, Tiffany, Asprey &
Garrard, Kenneth Jay Lane, Halston and Oscar de la Renta.
They
combed for bargains and one-of-a-kind items in the famous flea
market and bid at the silent auction on the exclusive and gorgeous
pairs of pillows donated by Scalamandré, created by top designers
such as Millie de Cabrol, Jamie Drake, Greg Jordan, Sheila Camera
Kotur, Noelle Newell, and Stephanie Stokes.
Glorious
Foods provided a delicious meal and, best of all, the two-day bazaar
and its preview raised over $350,000, which will go to help the
children who receive benefits daily at the 107-year-old East Side
institution.
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