- 2010
- 03/05/2010 - Starlight Children's Foundation 25th Annual GalaNEW
- 03/02/2010 - American Ballet Theatre’s Junior Council and Quest MagazineNEW
- 03/02/2010 - Hanley Center Foundation's 15th Annual LuncheonNEW
- 03/01/2010 - The School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball NEW
- 03/01/2010 - Literacy Partners 26th Annual Evening of Readings Gala Kick-off NEW
- 02/27/2010 - New York Junior League 58th Annual Winter Ball
- 02/27/2010 - 2010 GOTOs Annual Black-tie GalaNEW
- 02/27/2010 - Society Ties' Black Tie & Black Jack Casino Night
- 02/25/2010 - Bailey House 22nd Annual Auction and PartyNEW
- 02/25/2010 - Hedge Funds Care 12th Annual New York Open Your Heart to the Children BenefitNEW
- 02/25/2010 - Toast to "Justice is Served" Dinner Benefit
- 02/25/2010 - 2010 Frick Museum Young Fellows Ball
- 02/25/2010 - Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl's Third Annual Purim BallNEW
- 02/24/2010 - Kick Off Party to Benefit The East Side House Settlement Gala Preview of the 2010 Auto Show
- 02/24/2010 - C-CAP 20th Anniversary CelebrationNEW
- 02/24/2010 - POSH Palm Beach 2010 Gala Dinner
- 02/23/2010 - ForEverglades Benefit
- 02/20/2010 - 5th Annual Childhelp Fashion Show and Luncheon
- 02/19/2010 - MacDella Cooper Foundation Fashion Week Finale Party
- 02/17/2010 - Friends of the South Florida Science Museum Toast
- 02/14/2010 - Action Against Hunger Help Heart Haiti Valentine's Day Benefit
- 02/13/2010 - 55th Annual Palm Beach Heart Ball
- 02/09/2010 - Museum of Design Patron Preview event
- 02/09/2010 - Animal Fair and Wendy Diamond’s Yappy Hour
- 02/06/2010 - Lighthouse Center for the Arts’ 46th Annual Beaux Arts Ball
- 02/06/2010 - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Gem of an Evening Gala
- 02/06/2010 - Norton Museum of Art Bal des Arts 2010
- 02/05/2010 - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's annual Light The Night Awards Party
- 02/05/2010 - The Princes Ball Mardi Gras Masquerade Gala
- 02/04/2010 - City Chicks 4 Charity & Young Wall Street benefit Chess in Schools
- 02/03/2010 - International Women's Health Coalition 2010 Gala
- 02/02/2010 - The Associates Council Lunch at The Oak Room
- 02/02/2010 - Parsons Dance Opening Night Gala
- 01/31/2010 - KIDs Strikes Back Bowling Party at Chelsea Piers
- 01/30/2010 - 53rd Annual International Red Cross Ball
- 01/30/2010 - Epilepsy Foundation’s Taste of Love Gala 2010
- 01/29/2010 - Partnership for the Homeless’ Auction at the Gagosian Gallery
- 01/28/2010 - Hearts 4 Haiti
- 01/26/2010 - Peggy Adams Unveils Much-anticipated Grace Pavilion
- 01/26/2010 - Art Battles
- 01/25/2010 - Fashionable opening night for Red Cross Show House
- 01/25/2010 - MICHAEL KORS and GRAFF Fashion Show Honors Heart Ball
- 01/24/2010 - National Dance Institute's Benefit Performance of Imagine: A Celebration of John Lennon
- 01/22/2010 - LADACIN Polar Bear Plunge
- 01/21/2010 - Help Haiti Now
- 01/21/2010 - Hospice Evening 2010 with Oscar de la Renta
- 01/21/2010 - UJA-Federation of New York's Generosity Event
- 01/20/2010 - Citymeals-on-Wheels Winter Cocktail Benefit
- 01/20/2010 - The American Antiques Show (TAAS) Benefit Preview Celebrating Texas
- 01/19/2010 - Cocktails for Vital Voices Global Partnership
- 01/14/2010 - Winter Antiques Show Preview Party
- 01/14/2010 - CCE Honors Over the Big Top Chairs at Saks Fifth Avenue
- 01/12/2010 - Zac Posen Fashion Show Featuring Cartier
- 01/12/2010 - Hope For Haiti With The Red Cross
- 01/11/2010 - Young Friends Red Cross Beach Bash
- 01/10/2010 - AICF-American-Israel Cultural Foundation 70th Anniversary Gala and Concer
- 01/07/2010 - Autism Speaks to Young Professionals
- 01/07/2010 - CHIC @ the Ames hotel
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
The Nature Conservancy Premiere of “Design for a Living World”
05/13/2009 - By Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Some 500 guests filled the elegant galleries and the garden patio of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - once the home of Andrew Carnegie - for a special preview of The Nature Conservancy’s ground breaking exhibition, Design for
a Living World this week.
A traveling exhibition, Design for a Living World features objects created by ten visionary designers made from sustainable, natural materials. The Nature Conservancy collaborated with prominent designers from the worlds of fashion, industrial and furniture design. Each designer focused on a natural material from a specific place where the Conservancy works to create beautiful, sustainable objects of art and design.
The exhibition features designs by Yves Béhar, Stephen Burks, Hella Jongerius, Maya Lin, Christien Meindertsma, Abbott Miller, Isaac Mizrahi, Ted Muehling, Paulina Reyes for Kate Spade and Ezri Tarazi. Miller and Ellen Upton co-curated the exhibition.
Bill Uhlfelder, the new director of The New York Nature Conservancy, Joe Gleberman, Board Chairman New York and Mark Tercek, President of The Nature Conservancy welcomed the guests. Gleberman a longtime major supporter of The Nature Conservancy summed up the organization’s mission as “Quite simply, we want to save the planet”. But there were no dire warnings or messages of gloom and doom. Mark Tercek, Sara Elliot, the project director and Dr. M. Sanjayan the organization’s lead scientist clearly saw the exhibition as a celebration of what is possible and a chance to make the public aware of the origins of everyday items from tools to jewels.
Among the creations featured in the exhibition are fashions by Mizrahi – a cocktail dress with matching floor length coat and a vampy pair of high heels made of Alaskan Salmon skin; precious jewels by Ted Muehling made with farmed black pearls and vegetable “ivory” and Paulina Reyes for Kate Spade’s innovative handbags made with sustainable woods, cotton and jipijapa, a fiber made of palm leaves. Maya Lin whose work tends to lean towards large scale works like Viet Nam Veterans Memorial which graces Washington fashioned a small table from a single tree cutting lateral strips.
Mizrahi sporting his usual head-covering bandana was busy accepting congratulations on the critic’s reception of his new reality series The Fashion Show. Like the other designers, he signed 100 copies of the gorgeous coffee table book Design for a Living World. The book features specially commissioned photographs from award-winning photojournalist Ami Vitale, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek and National Geographic.
Among the chic crowd of conservationists and design fans were real estate magnate and art collector Lawrence Benenson whose Benenson Capital Partners was one of the preview’s sponsors, Bravo TV Real Housewives’ hunk Maximiliano Palacio a former polo player and now actor/model; Sara Herbert-Galloway, Nanci Schallman, Errol Rappaport with Cindy Marinangel, Katherine & Gary Andreassen, Miriam Klipper, Melissa Brown, Joy LaSalle, Cristin Gates, Julie Lasky, David Noh and designer Michael Love.
The exhibition is now open to the public at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and will continue through Jan. 4, 2010.
Photos: Ann Watt
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