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 Night at the Museum
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Victoria Chin and Markian Sawczuk |
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Harriet Hunter |
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Vanessa Lawrence and Mark Gilbertson |
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| This past Tuesday night up at the Museum of the City of New York on 103rd and Fifth, the Director’s Council held their annual autumn fundraiser, their “New York After Dark” party. More than 500 attended and more than $300,000 was raised by the Museum. For additional pictures, see yesterday’s NYSD. |
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Evelyn Tompkins and Judith Guest |
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Anastasia Coleman |
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Bruce Colley and Teresa |
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Chrissie Erpf and Beth Amorosi |
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Anabelle Fowlkes |
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Gigi Tang and Philippe Bigar |
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Greg Calego and Thom Felicia |
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Robert Lindgren and friend |
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Nicole Snoep and Karen Duffy |
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Nina Griscom and Leonel Piraino with Martha Glass |
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Dana Hammond Stubgen, Muffie Potter Aston, and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos |
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/Randy Jones |
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Helen Lee Schifter |
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Mark Gilbertson and Hartley DuPont |
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Arthur and Kristina Stewart Ward |
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Chris and Grace Meigher and friends |
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Malcolm Cutner and Christian Leone |
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Maria and Jeroma Villalba with Rachel Hovnanian |
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/Kylie Case and Giles Mendel |
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Amy Fine Collins and Brad Collins |
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Newt Merrill |
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Alexis Clarke |
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Leslie Heaney |
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Alina Cho |
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Jamee Gregory |
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Debbie Bancroft |
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Nancy and Mitch Steir |
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Patty Raynes and Mark Gilbertson |
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Martha Glass, Geoffrey Broderick, Brenda van der Mije, and Lise Arliss |
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Roger Webster and Wendy Carduner |
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Patrick McMullan and Debbie Bancroft |
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Nicole Hanley |
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Amy Fine Collins, Debbei Bancroft, and Patty Raynes |
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Alexandra Lebenthal and Jay Diamond |
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Phoebe Gubelmann |
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Somers Farkas |
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Polly Onet |
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| Helena Christensen hosted a stellar auction for Food Bank for New York City and Chernobyl Children’s Project International. The actual auction was for a custom VIPP (The Danish design company) designed by Bono. It sold: for 30 grand. They raised $50,000 for the cause. |
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Bill Sofield |
Rachel Roy |
Helena Christensen and Julianne Moore |
| Kasper Egelund and Helena Christensen with Vipp family |
Colin Cowie and Kasper Egelund |
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Celerie Kemble |
Ivana Puric and Karim Rashid |
Last Friday noon at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and East 42nd Street, FMR Marilena Ferrari Foundation published a book honoring Luciano Pavarotti, Pavarotti and La Bohème. It was donated to NYPL in a small ceremony. Jacqueline Davis, executive Director of NYPL of Performing Arts, Marilena Ferrari, CEO FMR and Nicoletta Mantovani Pavarotti in attendence.
That evening a tribute concert at the Metropolitan Opera performed Verdi’s Requiem in the late tenor’s honor. A dinner followed at the home of Mercedes Bass. Pavarotti and La Bohème is a tribute to Pavarotti’s accomplishments, book retraces career beginning with opera debut in La Bohème in 1961.
The book, made in collaboration with Nicoletta Mantovani, embellished with rare, archived images from the Archive of Luciano Pavarotti, the Museo della Scala di Milano, and the Teatro Regio di Torino. It portrays both an artistic and personal representation of Pavarotti based on the testimonies of Maestro Claudio Abbado, soprano Renata Scotto, and director Franco Zeffirelli. It also references two essays written by Michele Girardi, professor of musicology at the University of Pavia.
The limited edition book contains both English and Italian texts. It will not be for sale but will be donated to institutions, opera houses, and some of the most prestigious libraries across the country and the world, including the New York Public Library of Performing Arts, Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the National Diet Library in Tokyo, the library of the Musée de l’Opéra and the Centre Pompidou of Beauburg in Paris, La Musiksammlung der Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, la Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, La Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, and the library of the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. |
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FMR guests on a tour of the New York Public Library of The Performing Arts |
On the same day, the Metropolitan Opera performed Verdi’s Requiem in commemoration of the first anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti’s passing on September 6th, 2007. James Levine directed the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and chorus with soprano soloist Barbara Frittoli, mezzo soprano Olga Borodina, tenor Marcello Giordani, and base James Morris.
Founded in 2008, the FMR Marilena Ferrari Foundation promotes the values that inspire the work of FMR Group -- the development of the numerous activities initiated by Group in the cultural, social, and educational spheres. The Foundation carries out research, general and specialized educational activities, promotional initiatives, and preservation of Italian and European cultural and artistic heritage, especially pertaining to the excellence of Italian craftsmanship and of the art of the book. To discover more about FMR please visit www.fmronline.com. |
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| David S. Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries; Jaqueline Z. Davis, Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Marilena Ferrari, Founder and chairman of FMR; and Nicoletta Mantovani Pavarotti, wife of Luciano Pavarotti |
Antonio Monda, Professor at New York University and Fabio Lazzari, Co-founder of FMR |
Last Tuesday a week, Movado and Derek Jeter hosted a luncheon at The Four Seasons Restaurant to introduce a collection of Limited and Special Edition Movado Series 800™ Derek Jeter Chronographs.
The collection was designed with input from Mr. Jeter. In his honor Movado is donated $100,000 to Mr. Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation (www.turn2foundation.org).
There were only ten pieces of the Limited Edition Movado Series 800™ Derek Jeter Automatic Chronograph of worldwide edition of this collectible new Series 800 model. Certified to chronometer accuracy by the Swiss COSC, it is powered by a fine ETA 37-jewel self-winding chronograph movement. The substantial 47mm case crafted of solid 18K rose gold features a sapphire crystal exhibition case-back, its outer ring engraved with Derek's name and number, 2. His number also decorates the rotor in 18K rose gold.
The dramatic black dial with silvertone 30-minute counter, 12-hour counter and small seconds subdials, and rose goldtone accents, is complemented by a black genuine alligator strap with 18K rose gold deployment buckle. Water resistant to 20 ATM, this timepiece is presented in an elegant custom-designed automatic watch winder box with numbered certificate of authenticity.
If this were a car, I think you’d have to say the word is “loaded.”This piece retails for $25,000.
I know nothing about watches except whether or not they are running. When they stop I take them in for a new battery. Someone gave me a beautiful watch (a Breitling), and when it stopped I took it in for a new battery. The woman looked at me like I was crazy. Or stupid. “You have to wind this,” she said in a very snippy way, while winding it.
A couple of years ago I was in Palm Beach and the watch band of the above mentioned needed replacing, so I went into a very find watch store. While waiting for the band to be replaced I looked around and asked to see the most expensive watch. The salesperson showed me a little number for $69,000. I asked if he’d sold anyway. Yes, he had. I asked what kind of people buy a watch for $69,000, and he said collectors. One of the buyers of the aforementioned 69 G jobbie is a collector and has more than 3000 watches, of which cost even more than this one.
I could be wrong but it seems that Movado has produced something along those lines. There are 100 timepieces in the Limited Edition Movado Series 800 Derek Jeter Automatic Chronograph. This limited edition chronograph with stripe-textured black dial comes on a rugged black XTremeResin™ strap reinforced with KEVLAR®. It is presented with a numbered certificate of authenticity and retails for $7,700.
Anyway it was a great luncheon at the chic Four Seasons where more than a few of their luncheon guests own these watches, and where the power elite meet to discuss other things besides chronographs. Derek Jeter’s yearly salary maybe. |
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| The Jeter family |
Derek Jeter with President and CEO of Movado Efraim Grinberg and Julian Niccolini |
| Derek Jeter with World Wide President of Movado Jeff Cohen |
Four Season’s Table |
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