Pat Kennedy Lawford and
Jean Kennedy Smith |
LENOX
HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
Thousand Guests
Raise Million Bucks
By
Roger Webster
Photos by Jimi Celeste/PMc
 ENOX
HILL Neighborhood House’s gala preview of the International Fine
Art Fair,
sponsored by Rolex, raised more than $7 million. The institution
helps those in need who live, work or go to school on Manhattan’s
East Side and improves the quality of life for all those in the
neighborhood.
Chairs
Audrey Gruss, Diana Quasha, along with Rolex USA’s
president Walter Fischer, greeted 1,000 guests.
Each
table was designed by a different designer using one of the works
of art on display as inspiration. The highlights were the Rolex
table by Richard Mishaan, as well as tables by
Jackson/Aaron/Siegel, Mark Epstein, Scalamandré, Stark
Carpet, Harry Heissmann for Albert Hadley and Kitty
Hawks. Robert Rufino, the design chair of the evening
created one for Tiffany’s.
Harold and Nancy d’O. Baker |
The
art valued at over $850 million was amazing.
Such
artists as Picasso, Cézanne, Renoir, Rivera, Kahlo, Kandinsky,
Calder, Miro, Matisse, O’Keefe, Klimt, Braque, Degas and Van
Dongen were represented at the fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.
Among
those admiring it all were Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean
Kennedy Smith, Mica
Ertegun, Kenneth Jay Lane, Carroll Petrie
and Raul Suarez, John and Andrea
Stark, Jennifer Creel, Mark Gilbertson, Francis Hayward, Royce
Pinkwater.
Stephen Siegel, Lisa Jackson and
Catherine Aaron |
Also
Lisa Jackson, Stephen Siegel, Catherine Aaron, Harold and Nancy
d’O. Baker, David Patrick Columbia, Jeffrey Hirsch, Joe
Givern, Marilyn White, Virginia Pitman, Lucia DeRespinis and Warren
Scharf, LHNH executive director.
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