This page, clockwise from left: Luigi Tadini; Allison Landholt and Martin Dawson; Amanda Kahn and Eric Atlas; Timo Weiland; and Nina Haydock, Alexandra Porter, and Liza Ketcham at the “Winter Wonderland Ball” at the New York Botanical Garden on December 11.
WINTER WONDERLAND BALL AT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ON DECEMBER 11, the chairmen of the “Winter Wonderland
Ball” (Byrdie Bell, Georgina Bloomberg, Peter Davis, Martin Dawson, Lindsay Ellingson, Julia Erdmann, Dalia Oberlander, Ariana Rockefeller, Gillian Hearst Simonds, and Andrew Warren) were dreaming of a white Christmas at the New York Botanical Garden. The event—a spectacle, Christmas season after Christmas season—was swirling with revelers who bussed
(OK, Ubered) to the Bronx for dinner and dancing. The pièce de résistance was, of course, the Holiday Train Show: a 3,000-square-foot exhibition of the city, as depicted with natural materials like bark and leaves, in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Guests savored the opportunity to mix and mingle (in the jingling beat) as the trains circled the room, humming from New York landmark to New York landmark... u J A N U A RY 2 0 1 6 1 5 1