There used to be a great shop on Worth Ave called ' Johnny Brown', it is probably still there.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Monkey Bar at Boca Raton Resort
There used to be a great shop on Worth Ave called ' Johnny Brown', it is probably still there.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Mizner's Boca Raton Resort
Mizner really did put Boca Raton on the map when he put The Boca Raton Resort on the map !
Take a drive and see how the other half lives, from Donald Trump’s fabulous Mar-a-Lago (1100 South Ocean), once the palatial estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, past John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s former house (720 North Ocean ) and the Estee Lauder estate (126 South Ocean) to lovely Worth Avenue, one of the most famous shopping streets in the world. While you are there. make sure you pop into Via Mizner and visit the grave of Johnnie Brown, the pet monkey of Palm Beach/Boca Raton society architect Addison Mizner. It was eccentric Mizner, complete with a monkey on his shoulder, who, in the 1920s, brought the “Old World Mediterranean” look to Palm Beach and points south. If you decide to explore the north end of the island, you can find the former Kennedy compound at 1095 North Ocean, the family’s winter estate until 1995 and site of where William Kennedy Smith was infamously accused of rape in 1991 ( Boca Raton Mag. )
Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Raleigh Hotel in MIAMI BEACH
When I first moved to Miami Beach as a small child we spent our summers at
Since it is NO FUN walking on the sand barefoot, you can will me here, ( please DON'T)
more useless info : Chanel ( Karl Lagerfield ) just introduced their new collection at The Raleigh Swimming Pool www.RalieighHotel.com
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Hooverville or Bushville
Central Park has always been a very special place to me. It is so very beautiful all year !!
I love to be in it, walk through it , or just walk by it along 5th Ave ( I am an EastSider).
Monday, September 22, 2008
San Simeon's BEAUTIFUL EXCESS - William Randolph Hearst, Millicent Hearst and Marion Davies
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, ….
This post started while researching swimming pools, one thing led to another and I was at San Simeon. This pool room must have been a magical place to experience. Upon further investigation I was reminded of the Stock Market Crash of 1929....
THE PLAYERS
The Hearst news empire reached a circulation and revenue peak about 1928, but the economic collapse of the Great Depression (triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929) and the vast over-extension of his empire cost him control of his holdings. It is unlikely that the newspapers ever paid their own way; mining, ranching and forestry provided whatever dividends the Hearst Corporation paid out. When the collapse came, all Hearst properties were hit hard, but none more so than the papers; adding to the burden were the Chief's now-conservative politics, increasingly at odds with those of his readers. the. Unable to service its existing debts, Hearst Corporation faced a court-mandated reorganization in 1937.
From this point, Hearst was just another employee, subject to the directives of an outside manager. Newspapers and other properties were liquidated, the film company ( guess who starred in movies there ? )shut down; there was even a well-publicized sale of art and antiquities.
The Hearst Corporation continues to this day as a large, privately held media conglomerate based in New York City.
THE WOMEN
I mean since the whole theory is "it is a trickle down economy", if it stinks at the bottom, won't that TRICKLE RIGHT BACK UP ?
About Renée Finberg
I have been in this business since the age of 22.
I love what I do and cannot imagine my life without Design.
Design Challenges are great.
And because of those challenges
I have imported fine antique pieces from Paris,
Designed and Manufactured Furniture,
Created Fantastic Window Treatments,
And solved all kinds of spatial & architectural issues
With my unique style.
If I can't find it, I create it.
My rooms would make excellent movie sets.
I am a visual, tactile and audio sensitive individual.
Creating is what I live for, not math, not spelling, not science.
Just Great Design.
Just imagine how it would be if each of us,
If only for a few hours of everyday,We could be in a space that is our very own.A place that is exactly the way we want it to be
Surrounded by all the things we wanted to see,
The atmosphere we wanted feel, smell and the sound we wanted to listen to.
Private Paradise
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