D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A DANIEL BOULUD HOSTED A BENEFIT FOR CIT YMEALS-ON-WHEELS
Daniel Boulud and Alix Boulud
Al Roker and Deborah Roberts
Krakoff, Tommy and Dee Hilfiger, Bibhu Mohapatra, Claire Courtin-Clarins, Shirin von Wulffen, Alina Cho, Kalliope Karella, Michel Ouellet, Jennifer Creel, Edmond and Marielle Safra, John Demsey, Lola Rykiel, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Zani Gugelmann, Maggie Betts, David and Lesley Schulhof, Paul and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Steve and Christine Schwarzman, Vanessa von Bismarck, Deborah Roberts, Martin and Jean Shafiroff, Alex and Eliza Bolen, Annelise Peterson, Muffie Potter Aston, Martin and Perry Granoff, Claudia Lebenthal and Bettina Zilkha. That same night, 10 blocks north at the Frick Collection, they were hosting the Young Fellows Ball. More than 600 supporters of the Frick and their friends filled the Garden Court and Music Room for cocktails, hors d’oeuvre, and dancing. The black-tie evening ran from 8:30 p.m. to midnight. 34 QUEST
Laura and Brent Nicklas
The following night, Friday, John and Joan Jakobson hosted a dinner dance at the Harmonie Club for about 200 of their friends and their son’s and daughter’s friends. The Jakobsons are one of the most charming and popular couples in New York. Together and separately, they have a lot of friends with whom they keep up and entertain two or three times a year. This was such a big crowd. Someone told me it might be their 25th anniversary, though I asked Joan and she said it was just a chance to get a lot of people together and have a good time. So there was a DJ and the spin was disco with a lot of people on the Harmonie’s accommodating and shiny dance floor. I left the Harmonie about 10:30 p.m. and stopped by The Pierre where Save Venice was holding its annual “Un Ballo in Maschera” with a “Black and White Masquerade” theme. The Pierre’s ballroom was transformed into
Patrick Stubgen with Dana Hammond and Miles Hammond
Donald Tober and Talila O’Higgins
a black-and-white world of whimsy, with the creations of Nicky Balestrieri of EXTRAEXTRA. There was a special performance by ELEW, the “Rockjazz” virtuoso pianist, and Daniel Chetrit deejayed the evening. Chairs for the evening were Laurie Adorno, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Cecile Andrau Martel, Mary Kathryn Navab, and Lauren Santo Domingo. International chairs were Francesca Bortolotto Possati and Nadja Swarovski. On a very warm (mid-80s) Wednesday, at noontime, I went down to Brasserie 8 1/2, the restaurant in the subterranean level of the Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street, to lunch with Allison Rockefeller and Missy Falchi. Rockefeller and Falchi are involved with the Women in Conservation program of the National Audubon Society. This year, they are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their Women in Conservation Lun-
Gail Simmons and Gael Greene
cheon and the 2013 Audubon Rachel Carson Awards, which will be held on May 29 in the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza. This year, the honorees are Marian Heiskell, the philanthropist and conservationist, and the late Lady Bird Johnson, former first lady and environmentalist. Mrs. Heiskell will receive the inaugural Rachel Carson Lifetime Achievement Award and Lady Bird Johnson’s award will be accepted by her daughter, Lynda Johnson Robb. So what was the conversation? Missy Falchi, who grew up in a little town in Texas, told me about how during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, Lady Bird made it her project to clean up the roadways and highways across America. Missy recalled how, when she was a very young girl, the highways in Texas were barren, unkempt, and often littered with all kinds of detritus. Today, they are cleaned, groomed, and planted and landscaped
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Adam Levin