We celebrated the opening of the new Davis & Warshow showroom in SoHo with the first in their series of interviews conducted by the charismatic Ms. Rima Suqi. The room was filled with architects, designers, intriguing visionaries and talents, not to mention some of the best cocktail hors d’oeuvres that I can recall! Rima led Jamie Drake in a discussion that included a series of slides highlighting his impressive projects and expressive couture. Thank you Veeder + Perman… We cant wait to see the next edition of Dialogue on Design!

A packed house!

Laura Kirar, Jamie Drake, Margaret Russell – editor in chief Elle Decor

Jamie with Caroline Huddleston and Carolyn Sollis of House & Garden

Novita’s Molly Greene and Chris Abbate and the talented Robin Wilson

Susan Victoria of Metropolitan Home w/ Jamie.

The delightful Rima Suqi

David Finkel, EVP of Davis & Warshow; Laura Kirar, Jamie Drake and Sheldon Malc director of showrooms for Davis & Warshow

What a treat! Western Interiors & Design Magazine hosted a private tour of the renovated Guggenheim Museum followed by summer cocktails at Centolire. We were whisked through the spiraling Frank Lloyd Wright restored masterpiece in groups of 5 (give or take). It was sensory overload as the barrage of interpretations that made up the ‘Shapes of Space’ exhibit unfolded around every bend. Some highlights included: Alyson Shotz, The Shape of Space, 2004 and Piotr Uklański, Untitled (Dance Floor), 1996.

Designer Colin Kappler and Western Interior’s charming publisher Jennifer Matthews

Jean-Laurent Thierry and Pierre Frey of Pierre Frey pose with Western Interior’s
Founder & CEO Carol Decker and Home Furnishings Director Lizz Quain

Veeder + Perman’ s lovely Carol Vanderkloot

Jeffery Bershad from Phillip Jeffries Ltd

The Design-Calendar girls kicked-off the weekend with last week’s pick-of-the-week: The Summer Sessions at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Like a mid-summer’s night dream, the fairytale backyard sunset party is the perfect urban oasis for those Manhattanites stuck in the city for the weekend! We sipped white wine and danced as the darkness fell and the lights of the castle-like museum twinkled on…