wagmag February 2011

February 2011

We got you, Babe

(Rizzuto, that is)

Rings and things

Gifts fit for a queen

Royal Treatment

Location, location Hollywood comes knockin’

Majestic lives Past and present

Greenwich Hospital is not only the most highly recommended hospital by patients in all of Connecticut… but Westchester County, too.*

That’s just a winning start. Because, over the past few years, Greenwich Hospital has been awarded many prestigious awards and accolades. Some of which include:

The most “highly recommended” hospital in Connecticut and Westchester County, federal government HCAHPS data*

The Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates, the top national recognition for patient satisfaction

Accreditation with Outstanding Achievement from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer

Breast Center accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers

Accreditation by the College of American Pathology recognizing full compliance with its rigorous standards

Primary Stroke Center certification from the Joint Commission; State of Connecticut, Dept. of Public Health designation

American Academy of Sleep Medicine accreditation as a Sleep Center

“Most Wired” designation by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine

Beyond treating you like a patient at Greenwich Hospital, we treat you like a person.

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Love a little every day.

February 2011

Royal Treatments 12 Ultimate WAGger

Founding publisher Mary Ann Liebert talks about handing off her baby to Westfair Communications Inc.

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From George Washington to Bill Clinton, Westchester County has always had its flirtations with royalty.

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As vice president of public relations for her family’s $2-billion Conair Corp., Babe Rizzuto is business royalty.

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Greenwich interior designer Nancy Ozizmir opens her extraordinary home to America’s royalty, Hollywood.

44 Getting the Royal Treatment

Regional resources design wedding creations fit for Prince William and his soon-to-be princess bride, Kate Middleton.

50 In the Laps of Luxury

Fashionable blankets, eating at the table, showering with their masters, flying in the pilot’s cabin: Royal treatment goes to the dogs.

Nancy Ozizmir

time Charitable gambling

The Connecticut Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will host the “MS Casino Royale” benefit, Saturday, March 5, at the Hampshire Country Club in Mamaroneck. Funds raised by the chapter ensure ongoing scientific research to find better treatments and a cure, as well as to provide vital programs and services offered by the chapter.

The event kicks off at 7 p.m. and tickets start at $150.

For information, call (860) 913-2550, ext. 332.

Sipping for a purpose

The second annual “Evening of Fine Wines with Fine Friends,” benefiting Phelps Memorial Hospital 2

Center, will be held at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, Friday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m.

The event will feature wines produced by a major Napa Valley vineyard. Hearty hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Wines selected for tasting will be available for purchase to benefit the hospital.

Tickets are $125. For tickets or information, call 3663105.

The chameleon

Long before there was Lady Gaga, there was Cindy Sherman – a key player in the thought-provoking “Deconstructive Impulse” exhibit at Purchase Col-

lege’s Neuberger Museum of Art and subject of a show opening at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., Jan. 29.

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, the photographer and performance artist began taking images of herself as various female stereotypes for her “Untitled Film Still” series, which critiqued the idea of woman as object of male desire. Like Lady Gaga, you were never sure in what guise she might turn up.

The Neuberger Museum exhibit runs through April 3.

(914) 251-6100, neuberger.org.

“Cindy Sherman: Works From Friends of the Bruce Museum” runs to April 23. (203) 869-0376, brucemuseum.org.

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WAG Features

ueen in a Realm of Coins For Elizabeth Locke’s Q artistic coin jewelry, at Neiman Marcus in White Plains, no ugly Roman emperors need apply.

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The McCartney Factor A light on the spring collection of Stella McCartney, and Chappaqua jeweler Scott Mikolay’s Tudor-inspired collections.

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Face Time Without the Down Time The heat is on as plastic surgeon Michael Rosenberg explores Thermage, a less-invasive way to reawaken your looks.

Powering Up Erika Schwartz, chief medical officer of the Age Management Institute in Manhattan, reveals her age-defying formula.

Royal, With a French Accent La Lanterne, a Chappaqua estate, presented by Houlihan Lawrence, is our Home of the Month.

Hats Off to Kate Middleton Our own princess channels her inner Kate as she tries on trendy toppers at the Elephant’s Trunk in Mount Kisco.

Fashion Royalty Designer jeans bellwether and glorious icon Gloria Vanderbilt answers some questions.

Our Prince Cometh Our fashion stylist helps gents get ready for that special occasion.

Mixing It Up Find ways to hold on to your wedding china by mixing and matching patterns with new pieces.

Royalty Above the Hudson Baronial décor and commanding view make Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown a royal stop.

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My Big Fat Greek Bond Market Will New York state go the fiscal way of Greece? The Two Ians from Tortoise Investment Management weigh in.

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When It Comes to Royal Weddings Wine and food columnist Geoff Kalish, M.D. finds no shortage of advice from the “colonies.”

Eye on the fashionistas and the cognoscenti.

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PATRICIA ESPINOSA

WAG’s director of photography David Bravo of Fairfield, Conn., says, “I love shooting people” – in the nicest possible way, of course. For 25 years he has photographed heads of state, including U.S. presidents and Fortune 100 brands. His photo shoot for our cover was masterful. He also has a way with babies and animals. A man of many talents, David, a National Public Radio fan, likes to compose pop music, citing everything from Bach to The Beatles as influences. He plays in a band known informally as the Three Losers. Judging from his work in this issue, he’s anything but.

A believer in developing skilled aptitudes in everyday tasks, contributing writer and staff photographer Ryan Doran can argue with the best of them about the finest falafel in town or the best technique for parking-spot hunting in his native White Plains. With musical tastes that range from Brubeck to Badu, Ryan is an obsessive sketcher and aficionado of vintage venue posters and developing technology. He has a strong distaste for gyms and can be found after hours playing soccer with a rabble of Eastern Europeans and expatriates or attempting to recreate favorite restaurant meals.

SANDY HAPOIENU

GEOFF KALISH

TIM LEE

KELLY LIYAKASA

JENÉ LUCIANI

BARBARA NACHMAN

THE TWO IANS

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

ERIKA SCHWARTZ

DAVID BRAVO

Features editor Sandy Hapoienu is known for her sharp eye and sophisticated style. She covers all the major shows in New York City from Fashion Week to The New York Gift Show, which built the foundation for her freelance and fashion-stylist work. It doesn’t stop there. The Waccabuc resident is also a fashion professor at SUNY Westchester Community College. She has won awards for teaching and for her commitment to education. Visit Sandy at stylingsession.com or email her at sandy@stylingsession.com.

For contributing writer Barbara Nachman, it’s all about stories. She chased them for The Journal News, covering fashion like plaid on Burberry. Now, she plucks stories from her imagination for her Who-Done-It, Who-Wore-It Murder Mystery Series at fashionmystery.com.

And she celebrates them as the Movie Slut on themovieslutreviews.blogspot. com. A Rye Brook resident, Barbara shares her love for stories with students at Iona College in New Rochelle, where she is an adjunct professor.

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Contributing writer Geoff Kalish, MD, is a retired pediatrician and Bedford resident whose studies on the medicinal effects of wine – he actually made it in his laboratory – led to an aesthetic appreciation of his subject. He has written for The Wine Spectator and the Westchester section of The New York Times and authored three “Wining & Dining” books (on Westchester, New Jersey and New Orleans). Besides writing and lecturing, Geoff enjoys golf, the opera and his family.

“I’ve always been inspired by light and space,” says architectural photographer Tim Lee. For more than 25 years, the New Milford, Conn., resident has photographed subject matter as diverse as fashion showrooms on Madison Avenue and furniture lines in overseas locations.

Asked what fuels his passion for his work, Tim replies, “Each assignment brings me to a new location with unique challenges.

I welcome meeting the challenges and thrive on capturing the character of each location.” A river also runs through this husband and father of two – Tim loves fly-fishing and the great outdoors.

Our financial specialists, The Two Ians, believe that slow and steady win the financial race. Formerly an attorney, Ian J. Yankwitt founded Tortoise Investment Management in his hometown White Plains on the simple premise that top-quality investment management and financial advice were not readily available, even to those with significant net worth. Prior to joining Tortoise as vice president and portfolio manager, Ian A. Post founded Post Asset Management, an independent fee-only investment advice firm specializing in passive investment strategies. Over the past seven years, Tortoise’s assets have risen from $11 million to more than $270 million, leading to recognition in local and national financial publications.

Versatility is key to contributing writer Jane K. Dove. The South Salem resident, a former associate director of public affairs for New York Medical College in Valhalla, contributes weekly hard news and feature stories to the Lewisboro Ledger and its parent Hersam-Acorn newspapers’ supplements, including Health & Fitness and the Home Monthly. Real estate has always been a special passion, as fans of Jane’s local cable show, “Real Estate Realities,” know. In this issue, Jane also shares her expertise with four-legged critters: She used to be a breeder of show dogs.

Senior staff editor Kelly Liyakasa’s work as a business reporter has taken her from sitdowns with CEOs of major companies to pounding the pavement to document the commercial aftermath of the Great Recession. Since age 10, her passions have been people and getting to the story behind the story. She serves as the voice of the Hudson Valley business minute on WHUD 100.7FM. When she’s not busy chasing the news or her fiercely fabulous Boston Terrier, Winston Churchill, she stays fit with Zumba.

As chief of the plastic surgery division at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, Michael Rosenberg, MD, says he’s privileged to be writing a column on the latest trends in cosmetic plastic surgery.

After completing his residency at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, he moved into the Mount Kisco community to establish his practice and raise a family of four with his wife, Lee. In addition to serving as a colonel in the Army Reserve, he enjoys coaching his children and their friends in baseball, softball and basketball (Go Greeley!). Contact him at plasticsurgeryweb@msn.com.

Patricia Espinosa of Greenwich, Conn., a WAG features editor, is the kind of woman who’ll go to three different stores just to find the right truffles for a recipe.

Originally from San Francisco, she has also lived in Italy and Argentina. Her career in fashion started in Los Angeles and led her to New York City. Patricia is passionate about cooking, antiquing, tennis, reading and entertaining – with just the right china, as her column this month demonstrates.

Features editor Jené Luciani is a fashion force to be reckoned with. She’s known nationwide to the viewers of “The Today Show,” “CNN Money” and “ABC News,” where she is a regular style expert.

For Life & Style Weekly magazine, she’s an “Oops! What Were They Thinking?” commentator. Jené is the author of “The Bra Book: The Fashion Formula to Finding the Perfect Bra” (BenBella Books, 2009). You can find her at Jeneluciani. com, on Twitter @thebrabook and on Facebook, or home in White Plains with her husband, Bill, chasing after their toddler.

If Venus touched down in New York City in the 21st century, she might be medical specialist Erika T. Schwartz, MD, a woman who believes in being vibrant and beautiful at any age. As the 28-yearold head of emergency at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, she stood out in her short skirts and heels. Today, she helps people look and feel their best as chief medical officer of her Age Management Institute in Manhattan and as a frequent guest on cable and network TV prime programs. This I-can’t-believeshe’s-a-grandmother Yorktown resident also enjoys hiking with her trio of longhaired dachshunds.

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I don’t know about you, al Westchester. Castle on but I just love a wedding the Hudson in Tarrytown – especially if it’s not my – perhaps the ultimate getown. away a minute away – has A wedding is a kind of paneling from a house that social theater, and if it’s not Louis XIV gave to James II. yours, well, then, you have Meanwhile, La Lanterne in all the fun and none of the Chappaqua – our Home of responsibility. the Month from Houlihan The social drama is, of Georgette is wearing a grace- Lawrence – is modeled afcourse, raised to its zenith ful royal blue picture hat from ter a royal hunting lodge at Neiman Marcus, designed by when the wedding in ques- Marzi of Firenzi, Italy. Visit Nei- Versailles. Jane Dove, who tion is a royal one, and few man Marcus in The Westches- introduces us to the Chapter, White Plains, and select a families say “royal” better perfect hat for your own royal paqua version and the chic occasion. than the House of Windcouple who own it, does sor. So when we heard double duty, exploring Prince William – the adoring elder son of pooches that get the royal treatment. the late, much lamented Diana, Princess Westchester’s real royalty, however, reof Wales – was taking the equally winning mains its people – accomplished yet graKate Middleton as a wife April 29, well, we cious, like the woman who founded WAG, just had to weigh in for this the first issue medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, who’s of WAG under Westfair Communications’ moving on to concentrate on her other ownership. Hence our theme, Royal Treat- publications. Barbara Nachman captures ment. Kelly Liyakasa, Westfair’s retail god- her perfectly waggish style. dess, asked some of Westchester’s premier Our glamorous cover girl Babe Rizvendors a simple question: If you were do- zuto embodies the true virtues of royalty. ing the Royal Wedding, what would you Though she’s veep of PR for Conair Corp. do? And because Kelly’s the kind of gal who -- which her father, Leandro Peter Rizzuto, likes to hedge her bets, she talked to divorce started with his parents, Josephine and Julawyer Michele Katz, too. lian -- she’s sassy, down-to-earth and kindThe rest of our pantheon got in the act hearted, as you’ll see in our story, splendidly as well. Style princesses Patricia Espinoza, illustrated by photographer David Bravo.

Sandy Hapoienu and Jené Luciani have Another lady who’s a queen of kindlent their areas of expertise. Patricia shows ness is Greenwich interior designer Nanus how to refresh our wedding china. Jené cy Ozizmir. Her shingle-style home on gamely samples the kind of chapeaux that the Long Island Sound is truly her castle illustrate Kate’s admirable ability to wear – the “quietly elegant” place of her dreams, what appears to be dinner plates and feath- though it wasn’t so quiet when Hollywood ery spouts on her head and then tracks came calling to shoot its upcoming comdown the exact earrings Kate wore for her edy “We the Peeples.” As you can see in the engagement announcement. Sandy shows luscious photos by Ryan Doran, Westfair’s us what the most formal and most casual guy about town, the lovely Nancy looks of gents can sport on the big day. none the worse for wear.

Meanwhile, Geoff Kalish, M.D., our My own interest in royalty stems from own Bacchus, offers a bit of the bubbly my passion for history. As a child, I read from the colonies. about the legendary pursuits of Alexander Our other doctors in the house – Erika the Great, the James Dean of conquerors. I Schwartz and Michael Rosenberg – con- was smitten. So I couldn’t resist the chance sider how we can rejuvenate our looks for to interview Elizabeth Locke, whose ancient a wedding or any special occasion. And Greek coin jewelry includes a famous Alexthough it may not matter to Wills and ander image. You’ll find her miniature works Kate, who look fixed for funds, The Two of art at Neiman Marcus in White Plains.

Ians – Post and Yankwitt, partners in TorFinally, a new feature, WAGwit, asks a toise Investment Management – consider question that is invariably on everyone’s mind: My Big Fat Greek Bond Market.

What gives you a royal pain? I’ll start: Winter.

Westchester, of course, has always had its The slipping, the sliding, the shoveling. flirtations with royalty. See our piece on RoyPhotograph by David Bravo

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The arrival of WAG has turned our normally hectic workday into a round-theclock marathon, because all of us at Westfair Communications are very committed to carrying on the tradition of presenting an ultra-chic magazine set by Mary Ann Liebert more than 10 years ago. Let me know what you think of this, our first issue, and whether you have any suggestions. Email dd@the wagonline.com.

— Dee DelBello

Ryan Doran

Ultimate WAGGER

WAG founder Mary Ann Liebert moves on in style

By Barbara Nachman “Mary Ann x 36” is the title of the Andy Warhol-style painting that greets visitors at the headquarters of Mary Ann Liebert Inc. in New Rochelle. Three dozen images of the publishing company’s founder, president and CEO line up like Campbell Soup cans – or maybe Marilyn faces is more accurate.

“This tells it all,” Liebert said of the colorful work of art. “My mind is a 36-cylinder mind. The ideas just keep coming.”

For the past 12 years, at least one of those cylinders buzzed around The WAG, the glamorous, gossipy, glossy magazine devoted to the “seen” and the “scene,” its pages alive with photos and features about the accomplished and affluent of Westchester and Fairfield counties.

“We were not all things to all people,” explains Liebert, looking chic in black. “We had to be different. I’m not a me-too publisher.”

On a frosty afternoon, as the wind whistles around her sunny, skylit corner office – all glass and class – and puffy Magritte clouds sail by, Liebert reminisces about The WAG, which she sold late last year to Westfair Communications Inc. “Nobody said ‘no’ to The WAG.” She ticks off the names – Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Marlo Thomas, Ann Coulter, Joan Rivers, Dominick Dunne, Joe Torre and Ralph Lauren. Actually, fashion powerhouse Lauren did say “no” before he said “yes.”

In fact, potential WAG cover gals and guys were not shy about requesting the prestigious placement. Liebert recalls the day Ari Fleischer phoned from the White House.

“I thought it was a joke,” she said. But it was no joke. George W. Bush’s former press secretary was lobbying for the cover of The WAG. “Waggy” is the highest compliment in Liebert’s vocabulary. The definition: Smart, sophisticated and social. That, she said, is the description of Westfair Publisher Dee DelBello.

It was Dee or nobody, she said. If DelBello didn’t purchase her magazine, she’d still own it. Liebert considered buying other publications to serve as “siblings” for The WAG. When that didn’t pan out, she approached DelBello. “This is a waggy lady,” she explains.

For her part, DelBello promises to continue the “tradition of ultra chic and panache” Liebert created.

For 30 years, many cylinders have been devoted to her core business. She publishes more than 70 peer-reviewed medical journals on subjects ranging from AIDS patient care to Zebrafish, which focus

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on aquarium species “as models for the study of vertebrate development.” Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News are the most widely read publications worldwide in those fields.

“She identifies untapped niches and gets there first,” Adam Shell wrote in USA Today.

She has also published 15 books, including the 2009 memoir, “Doctor of the Heart: My Life in Medicine,” by cardiologist Isadore Rosenfeld of Harrison.

Over the years, her empire has expanded to include publications on law, economics, environmental studies and mountain climbing.

“I am a mountain climber at heart,” she said.

Liebert, who lives in Westchester, was a city gal who grew up in Chicago and moved to Manhattan where she started her publishing business. She was not thrilled (an understatement) when her husband, Peter, a pediatric surgeon, suggested moving to the suburbs.

“I thought I was going to be bored up here,” she admits.

The idea for a magazine chronicling the upscale lives of residents in her new corner of the world quickly insinuated itself into her fertile mind.

“When an idea comes and sits on my shoulder, it will not leave.

The WAG made perfect sense.”

Her husband didn’t agree. Neither did her accountant. Her son, Lewis, advised her to “stay focused” on her core business. Despite his suggestion, Lewis went on to become the company’s vice president and COO before founding Performance Flight at the Westchester County Airport. His wife, Emily, was editor-in-chief of The WAG before going on to write “Facebook Fairytales,” published last year by Sky Horse.

Liebert, whom The Wall Street Journal has described as having a winning combination of “chutzpah, persistence, outrageousness, charm and prescience,” decided to forge ahead despite objections.

The WAG – to move the tongue, as in gossip – was born in October 1998. Soon, “Everyone was wagging about The WAG,” Liebert said.

“It’s a fun read, a fast read and a must read,” she said, describing the magazine as an antidote for stressful times.

Liebert filled her pages with galas, benefits, food, fashion, art, music, jewelry and provocative features. One February, “Femmes Fatales: Women Who Kill for Love” replaced the usual Valentine’s Day fluff.

“We’d be wicked,” she said with a mischievous grin. “But never evil. It’s been a terrific ride.”

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Royal Westchester Throughout its history, the county has flirted with monarchy

By Georgette Gouveia

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hen Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot at Westminster Abbey, Westchester County will no doubt be watching along with the rest of the world.

But Westchester may be more interested in the crown than most locales: During the American Revolution, many Westchester residents remained loyal to England.

And that, historians say, set them against fellow Westchesterites and even members of their own families.

“In many ways, it was a civil war within the larger Revolutionary War,” said David Osborn, site manager of St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site in Mount Vernon, which was often used as a hospital during the Revolu-

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tion. Osborn knows where all the bodies are buried – literally. The adjoining cemetery contains families torn apart by the Revolution, who, even in death, remain divided.

Families like the Wards, brothers Edmund and Stephen. Edmund was the loyalist, a prosperous owner of some 260 acres; Stephen, the risk-taking rebel. Edmund eventually lost his property and removed himself to Canada. But in the 1790s, he returned quietly to live on a smaller parcel. Today he and his brother lie in different sections of the cemetery.

The Fowlers were another house divided. Father Jonathan, a judge, sided with the British. Son Theodosius was a captain in the Continental Army.

While it would seem that those with property, money and power would’ve stayed loyal to the British – since they would have had the most to lose if the status quo were upset – Osborn said that wasn’t necessarily the case. In Westchester – where Revolutionary fervor was stoked or dampened depending on which army had the upper hand at any given moment – whether you were for or against the British crown depended on whom your boss favored. Tenants of loyalist landowners often went the other way and vice versa.

A dalliance with George

One of Westchester’s most prominent families was famously loyalist and the subject of one of the more intriguing might’ve-been tales in American history. Frederick Philipse, a onetime Dutch ship’s carpenter, owned 50,000 acres that stretched from the Croton River to Yonkers. He bequeathed the Upper Mills, now Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, to son Adolph and the Lower Mills, Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers, to son Frederick II. It was at Philipse Manor Hall in the 1750s that Frederick II’s daughter Mary encountered a young Virginia planter, surveyor and military officer named George Washington.

“According to some sources, he was taken with her,” said Thom Thacker, site director for Philipsburg Manor, along with two other Historic Hudson Valley properties – Kykuit, the landmark Rockefeller family estate, and the neighboring Union Church of Pocantico Hills.

Thacker said you can see why from her portrait, which shows a lively brunette, one who thought nothing of traveling from Yonkers to Sleepy Hollow on horseback.

Apparently, Washington, en route to Boston, was smitten enough to ask if he might call on his return trip. Nothing,

however, came from the look-see. Ultimately, nothing could have. Mary – sister of Frederick III, the last lord of Philipse Manor Hall, who was arrested for refusing to sign the oath of allegiance to the patriot cause – married British officer Roger Morris in 1779, and Washington went on to become the father of a country that Mary would never see again.

Royal real estate

George III may have been kicked out of Westchester metaphorically. But royalty and the tony county have never been able to resist each other for long. According to Charles W. Baird’s “History of Rye” (Anson D.F. Randolph and Co., 1871), Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother and the ex-king of Spain, came calling in 1815 or ’16, looking to make his home either on Theall’s Hill – now the site of The Osborn, a retirement community – or Hunter’s Island, now Orchard Beach. The plan fell through because Bonaparte couldn’t acquire enough land to satisfy his needs for an estate. Actually, Bonaparte might have purchased Hunter’s Island but feared the place would be vulnerable to a foreign power – a very real fear in 1815 since the United States had just kicked the British out, again, in the War of 1812.

In the 20th century, Westchester real estate remained a royal enticement. In 1983, King Hassan II of Morocco bought a house on Pondfield Road in Bronxville for his daughter, Princess Lala Merian. Three years later, it was back on the market, village historian Eloise L. Morgan said. The princess preferred New York City.

Géza von Habsburg, on the other hand, likes Bronxville just fine. Also known as Archduke Géza of Austria, prince imperial of Austria and prince royal of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, von Habsburg is the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and his wife, Princess Anna of Saxony and as such a direct descendant of the Empress Maria Theresa – the mother of Marie Antoinette. In Westchester, though, he is an expert and author on Fabergé, enjoys antiquing and volunteers at a soup kitchen.

Von Habsburg is in the midst of writing a book on a private art collection in Beijing.

But he has taken a break from his intellectual endeavors to email us his thoughts on the true, rigorous nature of princeliness.

“Being a prince used to mean a very Spartan upbringing. From their infancy, princes were taught obedience to parents and superiors, good manners, good posture, to dress neatly and to eat and drink frugally. They slept on hard mattresses, with only one blanket and with open win-

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A view of St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site in Mount Vernon. Photograph from St. Paul’s

dows, even in winter. They were woken at 5 a.m., washed in cold water, went to daily Mass. In addition to their extensive academic studies, to politics and military strategy, they learnt the art of riding, fencing, shooting, hunting, elegant dancing – all necessary prerequisites of the perfect gentleman.

“Today, a real prince should have an inbred sense of the importance of tradition and its legacy in the modern world, translating into a strongly developed sense of duty. In addition, a prince should be welleducated, well-read, speak languages, be widely traveled and constantly remember to give a good example through politeness, good manners, honesty and neat dress.”

Bronxville and its environs have had other brushes with royalty as well. Among the alumni of neighboring Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers is Hope Cooke, the former queen of Sikkim, which was ultimately annexed by India. Her journey from schoolgirl to queen to independent woman in America is told in her autobiography “Time Change” (Simon & Schuster, 1980).

While Cooke was publishing her memoirs, Bronxville resident Mary Robertson was in London with husband, Pat, who was on short-term assignment for Exxon.

There Mrs. Robertson set about the task of finding a nanny for baby son Patrick.

She found not Mary Poppins, but one Lady Diana Spencer.

It was the beginning of a relationship — captured in “The Diana I Knew” (Cliff Street Books, 1998) — that would take Mary Robertson from the Princess of Wales’ wedding to her funeral.

And now Westchester watches as her elder son prepares to take a bride.

Von Habsburg has some words of wisdom for the soon-to-be newlyweds: “Cherish your private time together (there will be less and less of it)! Enjoy your youth before kingship envelops you in its ironclad mantle.”

Are presidents really kings?

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. But maybe it’s the bloodlines that do.

According to Burke’s Peerage, the Londonbased bible of aristocratic genealogy, every American president is descended from English and French royalty. President Bill Clinton, a Chappaqua resident, is said to be related to the House of Windsor, the current British royal family, Henry III of England and Robert I of France. Through Henry III and the House of Windsor, President Clinton is also related to his predecessor and successor, Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. n

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QUEEN IN A REALM OF COINS Elizabeth Locke’s coin jewelry rules

By Georgette Gouveia The image of Caesar may have once struck fear in the heart of an empire. But jewelry designer Elizabeth Locke has a thought to strike fear in the

Photographs by Scott Del Amo and Matthew Klein

heart of Caesar: No homely emperors need apply.

“I never buy coins with ugly people,” Locke said matter of factly. “I usually like pretty goddesses or people like Alexander the Great. He’s popular, because he was handsome.”

Locke’s exquisite taste has made her pieces popular, too, at Neiman Marcus in The Westchester in White Plains.

“All of her jewelry is fabulous, with a classic look and a timeless, magical appeal,” said Mark Hartzman, department manager of the store’s Precious Jewels Salon and Cartier Boutique.

The royal-blue intaglios of dancing nymphs, made from 17th-century molds, capture the sculptural beauty of ancient Greek reliefs, while 19th-century Italian 17

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micromosaics of crenellated towers and stately palaces plunge prospective buyers into worlds we have lost.

Nothing, however, says “regal” like Locke’s jewelry made from ancient Greek and Roman coins.

“I’m just fascinated by the Greek coins,” she said. “I think the aesthetics and history are fascinating. I’ve always been attracted to anything mythological.”

Indeed, the cover of the catalog for Elizabeth Locke Jewels’ 2010-11 Collection is a silver coin pendant whose image is generally assumed to be that of Alexander the Great, the Greco-Macedonian conqueror of the Persian Empire.

Big Al (356-23 B.C.) sports a lion’s head – an attribute of the demigod Heracles (Hercules), one of his paternal ancestors.

Some scholars now believe the image to be that of Heracles himself, created by Alexander’s mints.

“Since Alexander considered himself a new Heracles (as well as a new Achilles), it may not be possible to draw a firm boundary line between Heracles and Alexander on coins,” said James Romm, the James H. Ottaway professor of classics at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson and editor of the new “The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander” (Pantheon Books). “The portrait really fuses the two.”

Romm – whose “Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire” will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in October – said it was Alexander’s general Ptolemy, 18

founder of an Egyptian dynasty that ended with Cleopatra, who first depicted rulers (Alexander, himself) on coins in the West. Today these kinds of coins might sell at auction for hundreds – or hundreds of thousands – of dollars. Locke – who said she loves tracking down items and learning their stories – scours auction houses around the world for coins.

Sometimes they’re beyond her budget.

But even the rarest and costliest of coins may not be up to her standards.

“I’m buying for the aesthetics,” she said. “I’m using very high-quality coins.”

Whether she’s using coins, micromosaics, Venetian glass or cabochon stones, Locke creates specific settings made of a 19-karat gold alloy selected for its warm hue. The designs are crafted by a team of 35 Thai goldsmiths, whom she supervises, traveling to Bangkok several times a year from her home in rural Virginia.

Contemporary settings are a must, she said.

“If you see a micromosaic in its original setting with all that Victorian filigree, it’s not going to look good on a Dolce & Gabbana sweater. Jewelry is always for the era in which it was created.”

Locke’s versatile pieces – brooches that do double-duty as pendants, earrings with fold-down posts and omega clips – range from $2,000 to $20,000, with the vast majority between $3,000 and $8,000. But Neiman Marcus’ Hartzman thinks her creations, particularly the coin jewelry, are priceless.

“You’re owning not only something of beauty but a piece of history.” n

The McCartney factor Who will design Kate Middleton’s wedding dress? While Brazilian-born Issa is the odds-on favorite, Stella McCartney is very much in the running – at least as far as the press and the public are concerned.

And who can blame them? The Titianhaired British designer – an English rose, if there ever was one – is known for her clean but sexy lines. Her clothing is also fur- and leather-free, which undoubtedly echoes the influence of her mother, the late photographer and animal-rights activist, Linda McCartney, who grew up in Scarsdale as Linda Eastman.

The pieces from McCartney’s spring collection at Neiman Marcus in White Plains are typical of her style. The bold “V” of the front-slit tropical halter dress mirrors that of the sleeveless trench, which is accompanied by a matching cream polo and wide-leg pants. Another creamy creation is her contrast shawl-collar jacket, body suit and flat-front cuffed pants. Nothing, however, says tantalizing and demure like her peekaboo, white tablecloth lace minidress – which proves you can have your home design and wear it, too.

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s we prepare for that special day in our lives – be it a wedding or silver anniversary – many of us think of various possibilities for selfimprovement. Although most plastic-surgery procedures require downtime for healing and recovery, we have seen an increasing trend to cosmetic procedures with minimal to no recovery time required.

From Botox and Dysport to the various fillers on the market, from skin care and peels to different laser treatments, there is a greater emphasis on less invasive cosmetic procedures. One of the more exciting of the newer procedures is a type of resurfacing treatment called Thermage. It uses radio-frequency energy to generate heat that smoothes and contours wrinkled skin, and because of its computerguided cooling of the outer layer of the skin, recovery is almost immediate.

Normal skin is composed of an The major outer epidermal layer, an inner dermal breakthrough with layer and then a deeper layer of tissue and fat. Collagen is a major structural the Thermage system component of the skin, residing in the deeper layers. Skin wrinkling and conis that it uses radio tour changes associated with aging and frequency rather than sun damage reflect changes in collagen with a loss of elasticity and structural light energy to heat integrity.

Laser treatments are designed to both the collagen. tighten the existing collagen and promote the production of new collagen, leading to healthier-looking skin. The major breakthrough with the Thermage system is that it uses radio frequency rather than light energy to heat the collagen.

The initial reaction is a tightening of the collagen that’s reflected in the appearance of the overlying skin. Thermage also initiates the process of regeneration of new collagen, which has its maximal effect after six months and can last for years. Most important, however, is the computer-guided chip in the tip of the device that fires a cooling spray simultaneous with the radio-frequency wave. This protects the outer surface of the skin from heat damage while not interfering with the effects on the deeper collagen. More practically, what this does is allow Thermage to improve the appearance of the skin without the peeling and redness associated with older, more traditional lasers. It also enables Thermage to be used on any skin type and multiple areas of the body. Besides the face, we commonly use Thermage for smoother, more contoured skin in the abdomen, thighs and upper arms.

Thermage – which can cost anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000 for any one area of the body – is designed as an interactive procedure between surgeon and patient and can be done comfortably without anesthesia, although often, patients will have some pre-medication orally. As the treatment is taking place, patients can give their surgeons feedback as to any discomfort they are feeling. At the conclusion of the procedure, patients have little to no pain and can put on their makeup, if they like, before going home.

Like any medical treatment, Thermage needs to be used under the direct supervision of a medical professional. In that situation, however, it is a safe, satisfying procedure.

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If you can maintain a strong energy system, you will feel great and look amazing your entire life!

All you really need is a continuous source of natural energy and you’ve got the ultimate form of preventive medicine. By bolstering the energy system, you help bring hormones into balance, limit the negative effects of inflammation and boost the immune system, thus fortifying the body against the breakdown and debility that allows disease to take hold.

The body has a finite amount of energy available at one time, sort of like a house’s electricity supply. If the system gets degraded as it ages, then it will work less efficiently. Whereas before you were able to do many things at once – just as your home could operate the air conditioner, hairdryer, microwave, sound system and three TV sets simultaneously – now you find yourself struggling with just a fraction of the workload.

In your house, a circuit breaker pops, preventing damage to the entire system. You then know you need to call in help to revamp the system or decrease the workload.

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And that’s what opens the door to diseases and disintegration to aging.

Anyone who has ever driven on New York City streets knows what happens when you defer routine maintenance.

In just a little while, all hell breaks loose – and it’s staggeringly expensive to make things right again.

I don’t want this to happen to you and I know exactly how to make sure it never does.

With a little help from you, I will make sure you personally own the entire “Royal Treatment” that makes it possible for you to go “from tired to terrific” every month as you follow the recommendations in this column.

No matter if you are 30 and just beginning to experience the energy decline or well into you later decades when you feel the energy crisis acutely, you can make significant improvements in how you feel and look by implementing the plan we are starting right now.

Research efforts from some of the most distinguished medical and scientific centers in the United States and abroad will help us restore and re-energize ourselves, eliminating many of the hallmarks of aging.

Scientists have seen these amazing results in their laboratories and I apply the information in my practice as chief medical officer for my Age Management Institute in Manhattan. I have seen transformations among my patients and myself that never fail to amaze.

Rejuvenating the body’s energy system can be accomplished through three simple steps: Step I Repair: To fix the overloaded system, slow down a bit. Take a day off, go to a spa and get pampered, sleep in and add 15 minutes of meditation to your day. Take L-carnitine and coenzyme Q10 (I call it the energy pack) every day.

Step II Recharge: Follow a gentle detoxification diet for three to five days;

Stylish, smart, sensational grandmother Dr. Erika Schwartz vows to make you look as good.

All you really need is a continuous source of natural energy and you’ve got the ultimate form of preventive medicine.

By bolstering the energy system, you bring hormones into balance.... cut out sugars, caffeine and alcohol for a month; and start moving by bringing exercise into your life five days a week (three days, 30 minutes of cardio, and two days, 30 minutes of weights and stretching) Step III Revive: Change your look.

Get a new hair color and do, a makeover at your favorite cosmetics counter and a bold red dress.

Next month we’ll explore hormones as we continue our “Royal Treatment.”

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With A French Accent

Couple bids adieu to La Lanterne, their French country estate in Chappaqua

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“La Lanterne is so comfortable, so peaceful and so like France there is no longer any need for us to go there, for we have created France right here in Chappaqua,” said Colin Offenhartz, who, with his wife, Barbara, owns the magnificent Valley Road home.

The 14-room La Lanterne, on 3.4 secluded acres, is one of the area’s most well-known estates, inspired by a historic pavilion of the same name located in the Parc de Versailles.

The governor of Versailles built the original La Lanterne in 1787 as a hunting lodge.

Over the centuries, La Lanterne hosted many royal residents and now serves as the weekend retreat for France’s first family, President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Filled with glowing natural light and decorated to perfection in the style of Provence, the Chappaqua La Lanterne is a warm and gracious family home that exudes an aura of tranquility throughout its 7,600 square feet of living space.

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Love at first sight

Mr. and Mrs. Offenhartz were living in a condominium in Tarrytown in 1982 when they first saw La Lanterne and quickly decided to buy it.

Mrs. Offenhartz is of French descent, and the couple had traveled to the country and loved its beauty and ambience.

“My grandparents emigrated from France to Brooklyn and raised four girls, one of them my mother,” said Mrs. Offenhartz. “I grew up hearing French spoken frequently and always had a strong sense of my heritage.”

Mrs. Offenhartz said that when she and her husband drove up to La Lanterne for the first time, she thought, “This is it.” Going inside, she was captivated by the home’s rich detail, which included beautiful fireplaces, carved boiserie paneling, friezes and wall murals depicting Provençal scenes.

“I told my husband that if we can afford it, we have to have it,” she said.

Barbara and Colin Offenhartz with their fourlegged friend, Hooligan, an American Cocker Spaniel.

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Fit for royalty Inspired by a historic French residence, La Lanterne’s classical architecture and glorious Provençal setting with spectacular gardens, embodies the distinctiveness of a grand manor.

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“And we did.”

The couple quickly swung into action renovating the home, while Mr. Offenhartz operated his Bronx-based bandage manufacturing company and Mrs. Offenhartz became a full-time homemaker and mother to their two children, Caitlin, now 27, and Ryan, now 24.

“Our goal was to create a pleasant and livable family home,” said Mr. Offenhartz.

“Everything around us is a pleasure to the eye and we live in every room, because they are all on a human scale. It is a warm and welcoming place that reflects our love of Paris.”

Renovations lead to results

Although the symmetrical stucco home, originally built on spec in 1972 by European builder Fels Hecht, possessed most of the qualities the couple wanted, they set out to make a host of renovations, completed over the course of the past 25 years.

“When we purchased the home, you could see it from the road,” Mrs. Offenhartz said. “Our vision was to remove it from sight, which we did by reconfiguring the driveway and the formal gravel entry courtyard, which is surrounded by topiary pear trees.”

The couple added other outdoor amenities including a sparkling lap pool, a honeysuckle-bordered Har-Tru tennis court, a potting shed, a fountain and a host of perennial plantings, including lavender. The property is sheltered from the view of neighbors and includes beautiful mature trees, Provence-inspired flower gardens, old stone walls and garden benches.

“We just took things in stages and worked our way through the list,” Mr. Offenhartz said. “The exterior work coincided with work on the interior, which included the addition of a two-bedroom guest wing and a new garden-level room we call the Atrium that opens out onto the patio, pool and tennis court in the rear. Throughout the projects, 26

Barbara and I worked as a team. Our tastes really jibe.”

European flair

La Lanterne is well-named, for the warmth of natural light streams through the home’s wrought-iron balconies and many windows. The rooms and the interiors – decorated in a soft and soothing palette with harmonizing rugs – have been enhanced with gleaming teak and tile floors.

Magnificent embellished fireplaces serve as the focal point for major living areas, which are introduced by a classic oval entrance hall floored in black and white tile.

Visitors are offered a front-to-back view of the home out onto its beautifully landscaped rear gardens.

The first floor contains a living room with French doors leading to a terrace, a family room and a fully renovated luxury kitchen, where textures abound with beams from Vermont accenting the ceiling and reclaimed wood frames for windows and doors. An adjacent walkway overlooks the two-story atrium and leads to a two-bedroom guest suite with a private bath, and an apartment with its own entrance.

The home’s second floor contains a generous and comfortable master suite, with a large bedroom, renovated spa bath and dressing room. An office adjoins a gentleman’s bath with all the amenities. Three spacious bedrooms, two full baths, a family sittingcomputer area and a skylit exercise room complete the upstairs quarters.

On the garden level, the atrium offers indoor-outdoor entertaining and recreation space with direct access to the pool. There’s also a serving kitchen, full bath, changing area, playroom and workshop. La Lanterne is completed by an elevator that unifies the space and a three-car garage.

Moving on

Mr. and Mrs. Offenhartz said they have both enjoyed their home to the fullest over the years, entertaining frequently and opening it up to family and friends.

“We used to travel a lot, but we are now pretty much homebodies,” said Mrs. Offenhartz. “Chappaqua is a very child-centered, friendly and welcoming community, and we both became active in local organizations, including the library, First Congregational Church, and volunteer ambulance corps.

“We now have a large social network and entertain fairly frequently, everything from luncheons to small and large dinners, to piano recitals. We are also active in local politics and have hosted some fundraisers. Every Christmas we have a caroling event that is centered at La Lanterne.”

Now that Caitlin and Ryan have grown up and moved away, however, the couple have put their lovely home on the market.

“I am a perfectionist and am very happy with the results of our efforts over the years. But it is now time for less space,” said Mrs. Offenhartz. “I will miss La Lanterne and its sense of sanctuary, of being able to sit outside in the summer and listen to the fountain, smell the roses and watch the birds fly from feeder to feeder.

Our home is very sensory and is a truly special place.

Sometimes I marvel at what we have created.”

For information on La Lanterne, contact Joanne Georgiou, Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate, (914) 238-4766. n

Hair apparent

By GeorGette Gouveia PhotoGraPhs By DaviD Bravo

Babe Rizzuto

“True beauty comes from within,” she says, adding playfully, “but gorgeous hair can’t hurt.”

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here are social BaBes (Paley) and aThleTic ones (ruTh, didrikson).

There are even cinematic “Babes.”

But it’s fair to say that there is no Babe quite like Westchester’s Babe Rizzuto.

You would think with a name like hers that Babe Rizzuto would be sportif – and you’d be right. A believer in regular exercise, she loves to go horsebackriding on her family’s 5,000-acre spread in Sheridan, Wyo., and took gold in an adult national figure skating championship in Lake Placid.

And you would think that there must be some connection to legendary New York Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto.

“My father and Phil were like blood-brothers,” Babe says. “He was a dear family friend,” one whose broadcast exclamation – “Holy Cow!” – became the name of the Wyoming ranch.

But what you might not surmise is that Babe comes by her first name honestly. Not for her the nickname that hides some old-fashioned moniker – an Ethel perhaps, or a Hildegarde.

“I was the baby of the family. Babe is my legal name. So I’m a legal Babe.”

She is like that – quick with a quip, as befits the vice president of public relations for Conair Corp., the family’s $2-billion-plus, Stamford, Conn.-based company, which makes everything from health and beauty products to Cuisinart kitchen appliances.

But you get the sense that Babe would be fast on the draw, PR job or not. She has a joie de vivre that envelops you the moment she greets you at the door of her striking stone house and graciously compliments you on your ensemble: “Oh, my God, look at you. You’re beautiful in purple.”

She herself sports an equestrian look – black, dolman-sleeved sweater and form-fitting tan slacks tucked into high-heeled black suede boots.

This black and tan fantasy, to borrow from Duke Ellington, underscores a tawny, Conair-ed mane and

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Cleopatra eyes – flashing, caramel-colored and exquisitely kohl-rimmed.

Babe likes a muted, monochromatic palette, which is reflected in the décor of her home as well. Both the commanding hallway, with its sweeping staircase, and the generous kitchen, ringed by a deck and sentinels of spruces, are white with black and blond accents. White is the predominant color in other rooms. But elsewhere there are flashes of bold color – lime green and royal blue – and arresting details.

Round, peacock-feathered placemats ring the kitchen table. Leopard prints turn up on coffee cups and the fabric of the dining-room chairs. A black-and-white photograph of Marilyn Monroe in a bowler, playfully biting her lip, beckons you to a sofa. And everywhere graceful Buddhas in the classic lotus position invite you to stop and contemplate.

They suggest that there’s more to Babe than meets the eye.

There is, unquestionably, the glamour girl who studied French at the Swiss school Prealpina – she’s also fluent in Italian – and who spends time horseback riding and skiing in Wyoming.

“It’s breathtaking,” she says of the family spread, which butts up against the Big Horn Mountains. “It’s so vast and open, not a streetlight in sight.”

Babe prefers Wyoming in summer and the family’s Mykonos-inspired CuisinArt Resort & Spa in Anguilla anytime. The 100-room boutique hotel boasts

a menu put together by chef Paul Bocuse and a hydroponic farm for produce.

There are also business trips to Paris and outings to the family’s native Sicily – all aboard a Gulf Stream that is one of several owned by Leandro Peter Rizzuto, Babe’s father and the wind beneath Conair’s wings.

“A couple of jets he loans out. My father is not going to do something that he won’t make a profit on.”

When he bought Cuisinart 25 years ago, she says, it was one product, the iconic food processor. Today, there is an array of Cuisinart appliances, including blenders and toasters. They, along with Conair hair dryers, styling irons, hot rollers and sundry other products are sold in some 100 countries.

Babe, who majored in business and advertising at the University of Bridgeport, has inherited her father’s entrepreneurial spirit. At age 18, she created the High Energy line of neon-colored hair tools, which were snapped up during a product launch at Macy’s in Herald Square.

For that she earned a red Porsche. Clearly, Babe had come a long way from those childhood days when her father gave her $1 for picking up paper clips around the office.

Beyond the glamour girl and the creative businesswoman, though, is the single, working mother whose conversation is threaded by the word “humble.” She uses it to describe her adored father – first among

equals in a tight-knit family. And she uses it to describe their background.

“We always say our roots are in the salon,” pun entirely intended. Josephine, Babe’s paternal grandmother, owned a hair salon in Manhattan. (Perhaps it was with her in mind that Conair created a new hair dryer for professional stylists – a collaboration with auto icon Ferrari, no less – that is manufactured in Italy.)

“What a strong, dynamic woman,” Babe says. “She cooked, she worked.”

As Babe talks, she fingers the jewelry on her arm, a group of gold bangle bracelets that belonged to her grandmother.

“Her character has imprinted me.”

So much so that Babe – who describes herself as an “hairess” rather than an heiress – was determined to raise her two daughters, now college age, to be confident, independent women.

“It’s so important to teach my daughters to be the best they can be.”

To that end, they accompany their mother to events supporting her various causes, which range from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to the National Dance Institute.

This beauty businesswoman knows beauty’s true worth.

“True beauty comes from within,” she says, adding playfully, “but gorgeous hair can’t hurt.” n

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Kate MIDDLetOn And hats on to our own princess as she goes in search for the perfect topper

By Jené Luciani

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art of what has already made Kate Middleton a fashion icon is her ability to put a fresh spin on a venerable British tradition.

Like the hat. From berets to boaters, flyingsaucer picture hats to barely there, feathery sprouts, Kate carries off head gear with aplomb. No doubt tiaras will hold no terrors.

Once Kate becomes a royal, she’ll have her every whim fulfilled, so this month, WAGwhims offers a few of our own that echo her trendy toppers. I tried a few on for size at the Elephant’s Trunk in Mount Kisco: 1. White feather-covered hat adorned with flower brooch: It takes a confident woman to wear a bold hat. It takes an even more confident woman to wear feathers. Put the two together and you have this heavenly white confection. Having a feather in one’s cap has long been a symbol of honor and achievement, so imagine the statement an entire “cap” covered with the plumage would make.

2. Woven straw hat with roses: A straw hat is a summer staple. But add a little floral detailing, and you have a creation that’s captivating enough for a queen.

3. Jacobean-style hat with turquoise velvet bow and butterfly pin: Put this on, and you’ll instantly feel more festive. It’s the turquoise plush velvet trim, coupled with the Monarch brooch.

4. Pillbox with tulle and fabric roses: In the early ’60s, Jacqueline Kennedy made the pillbox hat a wardrobe staple. Kate is sure to love this classic with touches of tulle and flora.

5. Square hat with velvet bow and feather – Kate has already shown herself to be a past master of millinery minimalism. Nothing says “sleekly elegant” quite like this trim chapeau with its simple velvet band and single, rising plume.

Vintage hats with custom detailing are $150 and up. From Elephant’s Trunk, 111 E. Main St., Mount Kisco, 666-2612, elephantstrunk.com.

Here are some other WAGwhims I think would be appealing for Kate or the princess within each of us.

EARRINGS • Forget something inspired by Kate. For those who want something truly authentic, I tracked down the actual earrings she wore in her engagement photos. The

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Robert Brache and his brother, Rafael Brache, in Elephant’s Trunk, their trendy Mount Kisco boutique. Photograph by Bill Fallon

Georgette Gouveia is wearing a black with silver regal chapeau by Louise Green Millinery Co. of Los Angeles, Calif. The hat can be purchased at Elephant’s Trunk in Mount Kisco, (914) 666-7666 or visit www.louisegreen.com or call (800)-321-HATS.

egg-shaped ear candy by Links of London is said to symbolize hope. Best of all, you won’t have to go across the pond to get the earrings yourself. Links of London White Topaz Hope Earrings, $425. Available at Links of London, Bloomingdale’s, 175 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, 6846300, bloomingdales.com.

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BROOCH • What’s more British than a regal-looking brooch? Tiffany’s bow brooch matches Kate’s sapphire sparkler and is surely something she can pass down to her future little princesses. Tiffany bow brooch with emerald-cut tanzanite in platinum and bow of round diamonds in 18-karat yellow gold, $105,000. Available at Tiffany & Co., The Westchester, 125 Westchester Ave., White Plains, 686-5100, tiffany.com.

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BAG • We think Kate would covet Ferragamo’s elegant leather bag in – what else – royal blue. It would surely show she’s taking her new status seriously. Salvatore Ferragamo calf-leather structured tote with Gancio detail, $1,350. Available at Salvatore Ferragamo, The Westchester, 125 Westchester Ave., White Plains, 9460604, ferragamo.com.

SHOES • Every bride needs something blue … and Blahnik. Manolo Blahnik’s bejeweled satin pumps may be best-known for their cameo in the popular “Sex and the City”

movie. But we think they are perfect for Kate’s Big Day as she marches into wedded bliss. Manolo Blahnik Something Blue Satin Pump, $945. Available at Neiman Marcus, Maple Avenue, White Plains, 428-2000, neimanmarcus.com. n

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Gloria Vanderbilt

FaSHIOn rOyaLty

By Jene Luciani

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hile the English have their royals, we have our own here in the states: They’re just maybe not

so official.

One woman who comes from American “royalty” is Gloria Vanderbilt. Though she is from one of the most prominent families in American history, Vanderbilt has made a name for herself in her own right and is perhaps best known as the woman who invented designer blue jeans.

It’s not often a person gets to chat with a veritable fashion icon. As an aspiring icon myself (One can dream, right?) I jumped at the chance to speak with the incomparable heiress-turned-artist-turned-actressturned designer and pick her brain on everything from blue jeans to books (and even her favorite indulgent dessert). The 86-year-old stopped by the Ralph Lauren store in Greenwich, Conn., recently (she has a home nearby overlooking the Mianus River), to fete the launch of a new biography about her life as an heiress, actress and designer. With a career that spans more than five decades, she’s proving to be as timeless as a pair of blue jeans.

Tell me about this new biography, “The World of Gloria Vanderbilt” (Abrams, November 2010). What does it reveal about you that we wouldn’t already know?

“All I can say is that the reader will be surprised with its contents.”

With all of the ways you’ve reinvented yourself and your career, what “title” do you most identify with today?

“I consider myself an artist.”

How does it make you feel when people credit you as the “inventor” of designer blue jeans?

“Fascinated.”

How would you best describe your own personal style?

“Ralph Lauren describes (my style) perfectly. He said I’m ‘a woman who has a bohemian spirit, romantic at heart, bold and artistic with a beauty that is timeless, enduring and always personal.’”

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I’m a fan of life’s little luxuries, like a nice glass of Champagne, a massage or a fabulous pair of shoes. What’s your little luxury?

“Chocolate soufflé with a dollop of whipped cream.”

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If you want to look and feel your best, I’ll give you a tip that all the ladies use, and now it’s available for you guys – Man Spanx, pictured at right. That’s right, now you can expect more from your undershirt. Spanx redefines the classic styles, improving your physique to help you look and feel powerful. $58. Available at Bloomingdale’s, 175 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, 684-6300, bloomingdales.com.

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ven if you weren’t born royal, you can still dress like a prince. The good news is there are both formal and more casual suits to choose from, for traditional types like Prince William or rakish rebels like Prince Harry.

The morning coat is the most formal daytime suit a gentleman can wear to a wedding or special occasion. As a rule, the morning coat is worn over a vest with striped trousers. This refined look dates back to the 19th century when gentlemen wore these coats on morning horsebackriding excursions. The signature cutaway front allowed for more comfort and ease while riding. The perfect choice for elegant daytime functions, the morning coat is sure to create a handsome impression. Brooks Brothers Golden Fleece Morning Coat, $1,600, comes with coat, trousers, vest and tie. Available at Brooks Brothers retail stores nationwide, (800) 274-1815, brooksbrothers.com.

The Stetson derby is a fashionable companion to the morning coat. It was introduced in the 1850s and became so popular, it replaced the top hat and took a prominent place in pop culture. Now we are starting to see it resurface again on celebrities and the runway. $235, hartfordyork.com.

For the men who love a more relaxed feeling in a suit

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Salvatore Ferragamo dedicated a good part of his life to designing comfortable shoes that support your arch.

You’ll be ready to dance the night away in these brownleather and beige-canvas wingtip lace-ups, a fashionable alternative that can go from day to night. They are a tasteful option for the must-have neutral-colored suit or jeans. $650. Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques, (800) 628-8916, ferragamo.com.

A little man-bling always brings it to the next level.

Shown here are stainless-steel rectangular cufflinks with diamonds, .46 carats per pair. $2,255, Montblanc, The Westchester, 125 Westchester Ave., White Plains, 9461254, montblanc.com.

Every day a man should treat himself like a prince.

Pamper yourself with a collection of products that are not only results-oriented, but also healthy for your skin.

Westchester-based Lucky Tiger has just celebrated its 75th birthday. To stay with the times, Lucky Tiger relaunched

its products with organic ingredients and modern technology. Liquid cream shave $18.50, aftershave and face tonic $19.50 and organic lip balm $6, are available at Tommy Hilfiger, The Westchester, 428-4888, tommy. com.

A visit to the salon is also a must. Paulo’s Atelier Hair Salon caters to men just as much as women. Paulo’s manager, Natalie Ciullo, says its male clientele has increased, thanks to men wanting to feel more than the barber’s buzz. Paulo’s also has a Kerastase line specifically for men.

Paulo’s Atelier Hair Salon, 725 Bedford Road, Bedford Hills, 666-2800, paulosatelier.com.

We know it’s a lot, guys. But think of all the time women spend looking like princesses for you.

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A gorgeous hostess A perfect setting A hollywood production GeorGeTTe GouVeIA reporTs

greenwich interior designer nancy ozizmir steals the scene with a reel-life shoot When Dan and Nancy Ozizmir were casting about for the kind of house they wanted to replace their deteriorating Victorian in Greenwich, Conn., they decided to create a shingle-style home similar to the imposing yet comfortable houses on their street – a long and winding road that hugs the Long Island Sound and looks out to Manhattan in the distance.

“We like a more relaxed style,” she said. “I’m not that glitzy a person. What we wanted was quiet elegance.”

The house is elegant, to be sure. But quiet?

Not when Hollywood moved in recently as the house became the setting for Lionsgate’s upcoming comedy, “We the Peeples.”

Cables snaked over boards that seemed to cover every square inch of the floors and some of the walls. Soccer balls and sweaters, belonging to the movie family, filled cubbyholes off a side entrance, giving the house a different lived-in feel. Signs pointed to restrooms, while disembodied voices admonished visitors to remain silent, less their comments be picked up by sensitive sound equipment.

Ryan Doran: hostess photographs; Tim Lee: architectural photographs

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Hair by Mariella Licari of Warren-Tricomi Salon in Greenwich.

18-karat gold flower earrings with diamonds and pink tourmalines, $6,500

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Stainless steel ring with 20-carat Burmese yellow sapphire, $23,000

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In the living room, actress Kerry Washington – playing a young woman whose boyfriend (Craig Robinson) turns up at her family’s Sag Harbor home during an end-of-summer party – looked pretty and pretty intense as she perched on a white sofa. In a window seat, a smiling David Alan Grier chatted with S. Epatha Merkerson, doing a 180-degree turn from her former “Law & Order”-ly persona, Lt. Van Buren, in stylish turquoise and black.

Outside, a hospitality tent offered the crew and visitors alike hot coffee, chow and a respite from an early New England winter.

For all its glamour, it was a scene to chill neatniks everywhere, even though the film company was committed to returning the house to its previous condition. Nancy took it all in her stride.

“It’s a little more than I expected,” she said and laughed. “But at the end of the day, what are you going to do?”

Stephanie Allain Bray, a producer on “Peeples,” appreciated this good-natured poise: “Nancy was there almost every day, talking with the cast and crew and handling her personal business, while 100 people turned her house into a sound stage. The entire family was curious and friendly and

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gracious with their home.”

“Quiet elegance” might also be a good way to describe Nancy herself, an interior designer whose exquisite bone structure can frame the high glamour of these photographs or her family’s love of the outdoors. She and Dan, who’s in finance, enjoy water sports, as do their three children. She’s also a fine tennis player, reaching the finals of the championship held at a nearby club.

Even on a recent windy, snowy day, Nancy – a competitive runner – was dressed for a run. Still, she downplayed her athletic accomplishments with the modesty and self-deprecating charm that lace all of her conversations.

“I’m OK,” she said. “I’m getting there.”

The 10,000-square-foot, six-bedroom house – designed by Bernard M. Wharton and Arthur C. Hanlon of Shope Reno Wharton Associates in South Norwalk, Conn. – is possessed of a similar understated loveliness that sneaks up on you as

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you study the way it communes with water. A pool, a cabana – converted from a four-car garage – a renovated boathouse and a dock jut out at sharp angles. Inside, the slate blue and white living room offers a panoramic view of the Sound.

This is not the first time that the fiveyear-old house has been scouted. The producers of the John Travolta/Robin Williams-starrer “Old Dogs” considered the Ozizmir residence before settling on another property.

For producer Bray, the house was just right.

“We were looking for a stately, beautiful house on the water that reeked of classy wealth but was also warm and comfortable. The fact that the rooms were large enough to shoot in but small enough to feel lived in was also a plus.”

For Nancy and her family, the experience has brought new meaning to the phrase “home movie.”

“It’s a fun legacy,” she said. “To me, it’s going to be a hoot.” n

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MIxIng It up

By Patricia Espinosa

Photos by David Bravo

When was the last time you dusted off your wedding china and actually used it? Or maybe you’ve walked through a department store’s fine china section and seen something spectacular and wished you had it instead of your own pattern?

For many of us, we’re either too bored with the china we selected as new brides, when we hadn’t yet settled on a personal style, or we now find ourselves with china that’s too formal and stuffy to use. Take my china for instance — made in France, Raynaud Limoges “Diplomate.” At the time, I thought I played it safe by choosing a simple design made of fine quality. But 15 years later, it seems staid and dull. Solution? Refresh your wedding china by mixing and matching patterns and color schemes to give your dinner table new life.

Nowadays, when it comes to china, almost anything goes. It is considered completely acceptable to mix colors, patterns, fine china or porcelain with ceramics and even glass.

The trick is to stay with the same background color –– most fine china comes in either a white- or ivory-based color. Also, don’t mix metals. If you have a gold band, don’t combine it with platinum-banded plates. Choosing accents like chargers and salad plates is the easiest way to create a new look and as an added bonus, chargers and service plates can double as buffet plates.

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Here are the different looks I was able to create by adding only a couple of new pieces.

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1. Add drama to your table by marrying two bold and colorful pieces to your china.

Featured with my own dinner, dessert, bread plate and cup and saucer are William Yeoward’s “Crystal Avington” orange and gold charger, $395, and Rosenthal’s “Versace Marco Polo” 8 ¼-square salad plate landscape with birds of paradise, camels and peacocks colored in orange and jade green, $110.

2. Pair a striking design with a simple pattern like Philippe Deshoulieres “Danielle Matte Gold” charger, $150, and Haviland & Co. “Brandebourg Gold” embroidered interlay design salad plate, $74. Notice how the color gold is carried throughout each piece, tying it all together.

3. Celebrate spring by introducing the lively colors of William Yeoward’s ”Crystal Avington” magenta and gold charger, $396.

It’s first layered with my dinner plate, then topped with a pansy print salad plate by Bernardaud, “Pensees Coupe,” $65.

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4. Let the festivities begin by adding sparkle. Dishwasher-safe Annie Glass “Roman Antique” gold ruffled buffet plate, $99, is used as a charger to give my china more pop for holiday entertaining.

Adding one new piece can dress up your entire table.

5. Create sophistication by mixing soft femininity with unique designs. Here I’ve selected a Bernardaud “Frivole” service plate leaf design in amethyst and sage with gold trim, $168. On top is a Bernardaud “Frivole” dinner plate, $95, layered with my darker green salad plate, which blends beautifully with the lighter shades of green and amethyst.

6. Set a casual table for lunch on the patio with ceramics like Juliska “Classic bamboo” charger, $89, and mug, $29, layered with my white/green and gold china, topped with Vera Wang’s “Floral Leaf” salad plate, $20. Who says you can’t blend ceramics, bone china and fine china to create a casual table setting?

So don’t hide your china away in a cabinet you barely ever open, get it out, add to it, have fun with it — mix it up. n patricia espinosa pse322@aol.com All china and tabletop ware provided by Bloomingdale’s, 175 Bloomingdale road, white plains, (914) 684-6300.

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By Georgette Gouveia

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’ve always thought the Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown the perfect place to have an elegant nervous breakdown.

That setting atop a long, winding road high above the Hudson. That crenellated roof. Those Gothic flourishes. The intime window seats where you can pen a tell-all memoir or read Emily Brontë. The voluptuous, canopied beds that invite you to luxuriate with a cup of Earl Grey, a box of Godiva and a DVD of Bette Davis in “Now, Voyager” – a movie about the ultimate elegant nervous breakdown.

Has seclusion ever been more seductive?

Gilbert Baeriswil, the gallant, Gallicflavored Swiss general manager of the hotel, understands the compliment. But with the nuanced diplomacy that characterizes many French-speaking peoples, he amends it slightly.

“We prefer to think that people come here to celebrate,” he says with a smile over a cup of coffee in The General’s Bar. “(The Castle) is perfect for a wedding or a weekend getaway. As we like to say, ‘a world away only minutes away.’”

No doubt that was what Gen. Howard Carroll had in mind when he built the Castle – then known as Carrollcliffe – between 1897 and 1910 as a place to entertain his burgeoning brood as well as the crème de la crème of Westchester and New York society.

The son of a Civil War general, Carroll was actually a Washington, D.C. correspondent for The New York Times who flirted with post-Civil War politics and wrote several plays and books, including the Broadway hit “The American Countess.”

“He was a prince of Wall Street,” Baeriswil says, adding with more than a soupçon of irony, “and as you can see, there was no ego.”

Working with New York architect Henry Kilburn, Carroll created a 45-

room mansion reminiscent of Norman fortresses in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Indeed, there is a Scottish air to the place and a royal one as well: The Oak Room – once the family dining room – is said to contain paneling that was part of the house Louis XIV gave to James II after the latter was forced to relinquish his British crown and flee to France. Carroll later bought this house, which is outside Paris. (It was there in 1745 that James II’s grandson, Prince Charles Edward – the “Bonnie Prince Charlie” of legend – and Angus MacDonald, representing the Scottish highlanders, plotted unsuccessfully to overthrow the Germanic George II and restore the Scottish Stuart lineage of James II to the British throne.)

The Oak Room is one of three dining rooms that make up the acclaimed Equus restaurant helmed by executive chef David Haviland. The other two are The Garden Room, for breakfast, and The Tapestry Room, for special functions. The Tapestry and Oak rooms have richly carved cabinetry and paneling that are part of the original house, along with reproductions that survey the history of art. (The Tapestry Room’s ceiling evokes a Tiepolo apotheosis, with the chandeliers both concealing and revealing the nude figures.) The Tapestry and Garden rooms share a splendid view of a terraced landscape that gently cascades to the generous embrace of the river.

Other public rooms include The Arthur Litt Library and The Marble Hall, which leads to The Great Hall, a Gothicaccented reception area for up to 150 people that features a private entrance, a 40-foot ceiling, Tiffany-style windows and a musicians’ balcony. It’s perfect for weddings.

For those who prefer to revel privately, there are 31 guest rooms and suites – seven in the Castle and 24 in the seamless addition that was created between 1994 and 1997. Prices range from $205 to $800 a night.

The Contessa Suite in the Castle itself

is the quintessential Castle accommodation – golden in palette, with bed curtains that you just long to pull closed, a spacious bath and sitting area and upto-date electronic accoutrements. Shall we move in now?

Tempting though it is, guests don’t spend all their time in such suites, Baeriswil says.

There’s a 24-hour health and fitness center, a jogging trail with exercise stations, a bocce and tennis court, a pool and outdoor Jacuzzi, with a poolside grotto bar and grill for those days when the weather turns mercifully warmer.

“It’s more like a resort,” Baeriswil says.

The Castle also maintains a strong relationship with its cultural neighbors, including the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, the Historic Hudson Valley properties and neighboring Lyndhurst.

During my visit, a guest was planning a trip to that Gothic Revival mansion, a national landmark.

Observes Baeriswil: “The richness of the Hudson Valley with all its history: There’s so much to do in the area.”

Castle on the Hudson is at 400 Benedict Ave. in Tarrytown. (800) 6164487, castleonthehudson.com.

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gettIng tHe rOyaL treatMent

Lazaro dress. Photograph by JLM Couture

By Kelly Liyakasa

W

hat’s a fairytale wedding without a little make believe?

Here at WAG, I decided to plan Prince William and Kate Middleton’s big day myself and challenged some of Westchester’s finest to supply the basic essentials.

And, in case things don’t work out for the Royal Couple – call me cautiously optimistic with a slightly twisted sense of humor – I sought the expert advice of a top matrimonial attorney for the 411 on what you need to know before the nuptials take place.

Kate’s wedding band, Robert Woodrow – co-owner of the family gem emporium – selected the Pizzo Venzi

by Buccellati, an 18-karat-gold-and-diamond stunner. Retailing at $18,600, Woodrow said that “one of the great things about Buccellati is that everything is hand-done, and the styles are consistent.”

For Prince William, Woodrow picked out a more “conservative” piece called the Mark Kay Weave. Retailing at $5,250, the platinum piece shows “character,” Woodrow said.

The design genius and craftsmanship transcend time – perfect for our royal couple.

royal rings

selected by R&M Woodrow Jewelers, rye

When it came to selecting some regal hardware to fit the fingers of our prince and princess, it was only natural I go to Rye mainstay R&M Woodrow Jewelers. For

Buccellati, left, and Scott Kay rings. Photograph by Kelly Liyakasa

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eleganT aPParel

chosen by Fontana Bridal Salon, eastchester

For Kate’s dress, I found Fontana Bridal Salon in Eastchester, a family-operated business since 1945.

Fontana’s retail queen Paula Piccirillo knew just the dress for our princess, an ivory-oyster Lazaro knockout.

“It’s Old World but still new and beautiful,” she said. “Custom changes can be made to the neckline and the top is formfitting with a dramatic, full skirt.

You also have the regal motif with the jeweled belt (which can be customized with Kate’s own royal jewels).”

Piccirillo predicted Kate would leave the Princess Diana look in the past. Gone are the days of Diana’s puffed-sleeve gown. Piccirillo said strapless is all the rage now.

“She will be modern and up to date, and it will be all about texture,” which the frothy Lazaro skirt would afford any bride.

imPerial arrangemenT

designed by Diana Gould Ltd., elmsford, new york city

It’s universal knowledge that every bride needs a fabulous floral arrangement. Diana Gould rose to my challenge and set a 12-foot table in The Great Hall at the glorious Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown. She saturated it with rich brocade cloths, elegant dishes, gorgeous glassware, flowers and candles to capture an air of royal romance.

“The English are known to be extraordinary gardeners and lovers of gorgeous flowers,” Gould said. “We used English boxwood, which gives it a very royal and Old World sort of feeling… hydrangea, which also gives that very Diana Gould abundant, full, luxurious look and big garden roses. The idea of very lush flowers was what I wanted to see from the very beginning.”

Gould incorporated silver accents because “when I think of royalty and I think of England, I think of silver and the old handmade lace-over-satin cloth… It’s what I was thinking and dreaming of.”

sweeTly sumPTuous

Baked by Jay Muse, LuLu Cake Boutique, scarsdale, and La Tulipe Desserts, Mount Kisco

Cake by LuLu Cake Boutique Photographs by Bob Rozycki

Jay Muse, the artistic mastermind behind LuLu Cake Boutique in Scarsdale and Chelsea, went for a more contemporary, “accessible” confection for the royal couple. The cream color and gold-leaf accents were inspired by the royal crest of the House of Windsor. Muse told me that he embellished the design with acorns, regal shrubbery and white flowers drawn from the stephanotis found in Princess Diana’s bridal bouquet.

La Tulipe Desserts in Mount Kisco designed the cake for American royalty Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, so it would be a king-size crime if I didn’t ask them to do the same for Kate and Wills. Owners Frances and Maarten Steenman went for an elegant and simple look for the young, upbeat couple. They played up whimsical romance with roses and gardenias and toyed with navy crystals representing the royal ring. As for flavor, the designers would opt for a vanilla sponge with fruit.

kingly cuisine

prepared by Abigail Kirsch Culinary Productions, tarrytown, new york city

I just had to go to Westchester catering legend Abigail Kirsch for our royal menu. Alison Awerbuch, Kirsch’s partner and culinary connoisseur, said, “In the past, we have been lucky enough Cake by La Tulipe to have catered events honoring presidents, kings and queens.

“Ironically, we even catered a lunch prior to a polo match in Palm Beach that honored Prince Charles. So by coupling my past experience in designing menus for royalty, along with adding some contemporary twists that are more in keeping with the high-profile young royal couple, I have designed (a royal tea reception menu) that would best showcase the most iconic wedding to take place in 2011, if not the next decade.”

Photographs by David Bravo

The Royal Cocktails Pimms Cup Sparkler infused with English breakfast tea, pomegranate juice and ginger soda, and the Kir Royale-Tini, consisting of Champagne, vodka and raspberry liqueur. Rumored to be one of the couple’s favorite cocktails.

Tea Sandwiches (served from the buffet) Including bacon and egg sandwiches, nitrate-free bacon and organic egg salad on brioche rounds; PBJ Sandwich, house-ground pistachio butter and spring rhubarb mint gelée on tiny scones; Royal Greenmarket Vegetable Sandwich, micro cucumbers, breakfast radishes and peppercress on seven-grain croustades; Free-Range Curried Chicken Salad, fresh currants and frizzled ginger on miniature kumquat sage muffins; Lobster Clubs, open-face lobster, pork belly, avocado and heirloom tomato sandwiches; Venison Sliders, on homemade English muffins with Balmoral red currant ketchup; and Smoked Salmon Croque Monsieur, griddled on stone wheat bread, with truffled green-herb clabber cream.

Butlered to Guests Fish, Chips and Ale 2011, individual newsprint scones filled Alison Awerbuch with crisp battered lobster, shrimp, scallops and crab legs, with colorful herb-dusted root vegetable chips, malt vinegar tartar sauce for dipping and sips of house-infused ale scented with blood orange, lavender and pink peppercorns; Tiny Lobster Shepherd’s Pies, lobster pea mash and lobster pea stew served in individual tart shells; Savory Stilton Cheese Custard, with a brûléed burnt-sugar spice crust, topped with caramelized figs and herb-almond nougatine.

A Sweet Finale Earl Grey Tea Granitee served in gold teaspoons, dusted with candied ginger; Warm Lemon Curd Fritters, with blueberry compote for dipping; Strawberry Shortcake Scones, layered with vanilla bean panna cotta and strawberry gelée; Miniature Colorful Ice Cream Coronets, filled with the royal couple’s favorite flavors; English trifle parfait, with sherried pastry cream, jelly roll and fruit layers, served in miniature cordial glasses.

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Photograph by The Wakaya Club and Spa, Fiji

grand geTaway

planned by Cappy’s Travel, Mount Kisco

“Now that the pomp and circumstance of the royal wedding is over,” travel agent Cappy Devlin said, “Prince William and his bride are eager for their fairy-tale honeymoon. We chose for them The Wakaya Club and Spa, a 2,200-acre luxury private island resort on Wakaya Island, Fiji. Prince William’s Royal Suite, Villa Vale O or ‘House in the Clouds,’ is the ultimate tropical hideaway and superbly melds Western comfort with Eastern serenity. The 12,000-square-foot villa sits on a 16-acre hilltop estate with stunning panoramic views of the South Pacific.

“The property features a cliff-side swimming pool with a waterfall and Jacuzzi, a night-lit tennis court, a boule

court and its own gymnasium. There is a nine-hole golf course and the ultimate Breeze Spa on the grounds of the Wakaya Club – plus some of the world’s best scubadiving and deep-sea fishing in tranquil turquoise waters.

With a dedicated household staff and personal chef, the royal villa offers pure pleasure and privacy…perfect for a prince and princess.”

Planning The PrenuP

Advice by Michele A. Katz, Cohen Lans L.L.P. new york city

Bedford resident Michele A. Katz, a matrimonial attorney in Manhattan and business partner of Robert Cohen’s (the divorce icon behind Christie Brinkley’s, Uma

Thurman’s and Lorraine Bracco’s freedom), revealed what we should know about being regal and legal.

“Is it a coincidence that the announcement of Prince William’s engagement to Kate Middleton came just after England’s highest court decided that prenuptial agreements are now enforceable?” Katz mused. “We don’t know if the royal family is pushing for a prenuptial agreement. But now that the English court has ruled, what might we expect from the prince and his lady? The notion of a binding prenuptial agreement is new in England (unlike New York state, where properly drafted prenuptial agreements are airtight).

“Perhaps as valuable as the royal fortune, Prince William, the heir to the throne, may want a confidentiality clause to shield his privacy from the ever-popular tabloids.

His family is, after all, a public institution. Will he ask Kate to assure him that if their marriage fails, she won’t conduct a tell-all interview, or publish a biography disclosing the royal family’s inner secrets? Prince William might also want a promise that Kate will return her engagement ring – a breathtaking sapphire encircled by fourteen diamonds, truly a crown jewel – given by his father, Prince Charles, to his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

“Kate may seek a hefty financial settlement. Princess Diana, without a prenuptial agreement, received £17 million, the majority of Prince Charles’ fortune … Kate will become Queen Catherine when Prince William is King.

What might she be called until then? Will she be a duchess?

The answer is up to the Queen, her grandmother-in-law, and may not be negotiable. As I say to all of my high-networth clients after they sign their prenups – borrowing from Shakespeare – may they be ‘eternally knit’ and never have to read their prenuptial agreement again.” n

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wise

My bIg Fat greeK bOnD MarKet?

By Ian Yanwitt and Ian Post, aka “The Two Ians”

a

re New York and other states going the way of Greece when it comes to municipal bonds?

It’s not as outrageous a question as you might think, in part because it seems to be on everyone’s – OK, the media’s – mind, in the aftermath of Europe’s economic crisis. But while the perilous state of municipal finance in the United States and high-quality state bonds are clearly related, they are not the same thing. And the reasons for that are entwined in the very nature of the municipal bond market and its role in our history.

Rarely has so much hoopla surrounded something that has traditionally been, well, boring. Indeed, munis have been steady and dependable.

That doesn’t mean there haven’t been oopses. About once a decade a cataclysmic event – Orange County, California’s bankruptcy in 1994 and the Washington (State) Public Supply System’s default in 1983 – would grab the spotlight, and then things would return to normal. But there’s no denying that the actual financial situation of states and municipalities is in fact quite bad. According to a Dec. 16 report from the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, state budgets are $140 billion in the red, while Standard and Poor’s estimates that state pensions are underfunded by $1 trillion. Still, it’s our view that recent declines in the municipal bond market overstate the probability of significant ultimate losses to bondholders, as opposed to municipal employees, pensioners and others.

First, some historical context: No state has defaulted since Arkansas in 1933.

Other municipal defaults totaled about $8.2 billion in 2008, about $7.3 billion in 2009 and about $2.5 billion through

November 2010. Although those numbers seem large, they pale in comparison to the overall $2.7 trillion municipal bond market. The cumulative total of three bad years is well below 1 percent of the market. And even when there is a default, bondholders generally have recovered something.

Second, states have the power to dramatically improve their finances through cuts to services and levying taxes.

Third, it seems to us extremely unlikely that any government, but especially one that has recently bailed out a range of companies, would seriously consider letting a state default. Put it another way: The $140 billion current budget gap of all the states combined is $40 billion less than the AIG bailout.

Of course, the fact that sizeable municipal defaults have been extremely rare does not mean that they cannot occur. A calamity in the municipal bond market is possible and could result from a selffulfilling prophecy, driven by a fear of a bond-market collapse.

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Because default is possible, investors receive a higher yield for owning municipal bonds. The yield reflects the “odds” that the investors receive. We believe that the odds have been inflated by the widespread negative media attention to municipal bonds and state finances. Our view that the “odds” are inflated is supported by the fact that some tax-free municipal bonds pay as much or more than similarly rated corporate bonds, which are taxable and default at a much higher frequency. Further, looking at both yield and the prices of credit default swaps, the market is pricing the risk of default of Illinois, California, Michigan and Nevada at about the same as Lebanon, Romania and Croatia, and greater than Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan. We believe that these countries are riskier than these states.

So, no, New York state won’t be going the way of Greece. But before investing in state munis, you’ll need to discuss this or any changes to your portfolio with your investment counselor.

Mary Louise and Ogden Reid with Curry.

Sarah and Stan Freimuth with Elliott. Photographs by Bob Rozycki

In tHe LapS OF Luxury some lucky four-legged friends are enjoying pampered lives

By Jane K. Dove When it comes to leading “a dog’s life,” some Westchester canines have gone upscale.

Living with loving owners in beautiful homes and enjoying all the amenities of life – the finest food, clever playthings, plenty of quality time with their families and cushy bedding – they are truly pampered pooches.

Waccabuc’s Mary Louise and Ogden Reid absolutely love their Rhodesian Ridgeback, Curry.

“Curry is two years old, full of mischief and is sweet, kind and loving,” said Mr. Reid, who served as American ambassador to Israel from 1958 to 1961 and a Congressman from 1963 to 1975. “He was named after Currituck Sound on the Virginia-North Carolina border, where we have a home.”

Mr. Reid said Curry is his and his wife’s constant companion: “We take him out into the back fields to run, and he sleeps upstairs in a special bed with his own leopard-design blanket that he pulls up over his head. His breed was developed to hunt lions in Africa, so he needs to go outside a lot and run.”

While inside,

Curry “stays close” to the Reids.

“He follows us from room to room and gets his ‘lick lick’ at night – either ice cream or yogurt – before we go to bed,” Mr. Reid said. “He’s something of a food hound and likes to lie under the dining room table while we eat, waiting for his chance.”

Curry is sociable and well-traveled, preferring to sit in the front passenger seat of the car when the spot is available.

“He loves people and literally bounces up and down when visitors come by,” Mr. Reid said. “He’s just a very lovable dog, a real part of our family.”

a shelTer from The sTorm

Unlike Curry, Elliott took the hard road to luxury. Rescued from the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the 4-year-old mixed breed has found a safe and happy haven with the Freimuth family of Harrison.

“My son, Alex, found her through a rescue program on the Internet,” said Sarah Freimuth, a homemaker.

“We always had English Setters before, but decided to adopt Elliott, and we just love her. She pulls at our heartstrings.”

Noting that Elliott had been left to have a litter of puppies when she was less than a year, Mrs. Freimuth said, “It was really (a) rotten start in life and we have tried to make up for it.”

Today, Elliott has a big bucket of special toys – including a hedgehog, a lizard and a poodle – that she carries around the house. She sleeps in the bedroom with Mrs. Freimuth and her husband, Stan, enjoying a cushy L.L. Bean dog bed embroidered with her name.

“We give her lots of exercise, along with hugs and kisses,” Mrs. Freimuth said. “She gets the finest diet, with a bit of bedtime chicken every night. She adores us and we adore her.”

oh, goddess!

Sheila Siderow with Roxy.

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Magnificent Rottweiller Athena is “the best friend” of Lia Grasso, a Realtor in Waccabuc.

“She is three years old and beyond brilliant, named after the Greek goddess of wisdom,” said her owner. “She is also a great watchdog and my constant companion, going to work with me every day from our home in Waccabuc and sitting in on meetings. If we are having bagels and

cream cheese, Athena gets her share.”

Grasso spares no expense or trouble when it comes to feeding Athena.

“I cook for her, things like stewed chicken and beef.

When it’s time to eat, we sit down together at the dining room table, with Athena on her chair, wearing a special bib.”

Grasso and Athena also shower together, something Athena loves.

“She has a special sixth sense and anticipates my feelings and needs. She is a just fabulous.”

all creaTures greaT and small

For dog owners, gifts come in small packages as well.

Seven year-old Roxy, a white teacup Maltese weighing in at four pounds, is “a very special girl” to her owner, Realtor Sheila Siderow of Chappaqua.

Roxy has traveled the country and the world, visiting many places, including France, Monte Carlo, Israel and Puerto Rico, where Siderow has a home. She even once sat next to the airplane captain when first-class space could not accommodate her pet carrier in the cabin.

“Roxy goes everywhere with me, including our apartment in New York City, where she is well-known in Central Park, and to my real estate office,” Siderow said. “She has a special wardrobe, including a bunny coat and several dresses and always looks great.”

Ms. Siderow buys Roxy’s wardrobe at Wags & Whiskers in Chappaqua, where she also takes her for a once-a -week grooming to keep her long silky fur in perfect condition and to get a new hair bow. The bow is part of the classic show cut that Siderow prefers for her pet.

On a more serious note, she said Roxy has fully recovered from major spinal surgery to repair a disc. “The surgery cost $10,000 and I am grateful we could afford to have it done. Roxy is now fine and we are thrilled that she is back to her old self.”

a PerfecT 10

Pooch pamperers are so enraptured with their canine companions that they’re happy to share the love with other species.

With seven cats and two dogs – soon to be three – Bronxville’s Ann Tighe lives her life immersed in the love and affection of her feline and canine friends.

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“My husband and I have two dogs – Maya, a Boykin Spaniel, and Minnie, a Yorkshire Terrier,” Ann said. “I work from home as an interior designer, so I spend plenty of time with everyone.”

Ann said the seven cats keep the two dogs busy. “Fortunately, everyone gets along beautifully,” she said. “The cats have an occasional hissy fit, but nothing really comes of it.”

The Tighes have a second home in Watch Hill, R.I., and Mrs. Tighe said the dogs enjoy going there: “They both get

to spend lots of time on the beach. Maya loves to swim, while Minnie is more cautious, tending to spend her time running along the sand instead of venturing in.”

Both dogs sleep in bed with their owners at night, with Minnie snuggling down for keeps while Maya goes off and on.

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wiTh your PeT’s figure in mind

When it comes to providing the best possible diet, many of today’s informed pet owners put nutrition at the top of their list of things they can do to ensure a happy pet with a long life span.

“The pet food industry has followed new retail trends in human nutrition over the past decade or two,” said Joshua Roth, vice president of the Pet Pantry Warehouse, with locations in Rye, Larchmont and Greenwich, Conn.

“Like Whole Foods for humans, there has been a clear and strong trend to providing pets with the finest diet through the use of holistic and healthy foods.

Supermarket pet foods have fallen in favor and more and more pet owners seek out the kind of high-quality specialty foods we offer.”

Roth said the Pet Pantry Warehouses sell a tremendous amount of raw frozen diets to pet owners, something he describes as “a major trend.”

“These combine high-quality meat, ground bone, vitamins and minerals and are sold as a complete diet. This is becoming a really big movement. It can be used alone or as a supplement to dry food. There is a huge difference in bioavailability between the raw diet and a low-quality kibble diet, and it mimics what canines would eat in the wild.”

For those who do not want to go the raw route, the Pet Pantry also carries a full range of the highest quality dry dog foods, all based on meat products, not grains.

“These are the ‘best of the best’ and are produced by small companies and not available in supermarkets. Grains, carbs, filler and chemicals are not present in these products. We carry about a dozen brands to suit many dietary needs.”

Pet owners, Roth said, “want the best for their pets because they consider them members of their families. Our staff is very knowledgeable and will give good advice and guidance. The results owners get from using our foods speak for themselves. They can change an animal’s life and even help save it.” for information on the pet pantry’s complete line of products, which also includes a full array of pet supplies, visit ppwpet.com.

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wine

WHen It cOMeS tO rOyaL WeDDIngS, there’s no shortage of sommeliers from the “colonies”

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By Geoff Kalish, MD British royal wedding bespeaks special wine!

Queen Victoria reputedly drank Bollinger Champagne at her union with Prince Albert, and guests at the nuptials of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles sipped bubbly from Veuve Clicquot. What their son, Prince William, and Kate Middleton will choose remains unknown. Some have suggested that these down-to-earth royals may even serve beer at their big event. Will wine notables from Westchester, which boasts award-winning shops and restaurant lists, be called upon to offer advice? Doubtful, but who knows? And just to prepare, we asked a number of area mavens what they would recommend.

“Because it’s elegant and easy-drinking, I’d steer the royal couple to Louis Roederer nonvintage Brut Premier Champagne,” said Jeff Zacharia, a proprietor of Zachys Wine & Liquor in Scarsdale. “Another possibility in bubbly would be Lallier Champagne, with a rich, powerful profile that is preferred by the British palate. In whites, I feel that a Chablis, like the 2009 from

William Fevre, is the best way to go. Clear, crisp, refreshing and full of fruit, this Chardonnay-based wine typically works well for festivities like this. In reds, my choice would be something young and delicious like the 2008 La Difese from Tenuta San Guido, a fruity Cabernet Sauvignon blend from Italy.”

High-end and low-end sparkling wine recommendations come from Paige Donahoo, a wine specialist at Stew Leonard’s wine store in Yonkers. At the top, she suggests the ultra-premium, rich, elegant 1996 Krug Clos du Mesnil.

“They can afford it,” she said. “But given that they are not having servants (at home), maybe they should pick a sparkling wine that is more democratic like Barefoot Bubbly.”

Nancy Selzer, a co-owner and wine director for Tarry Lodge in Port Chester, suggests that the royal couple and their guests enjoy a traditional Rioja with their wedding feast and touts the 1982 Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia (from the birth year of both William and Kate and the best Rioja vintage in the last half-century). She notes that “Rioja as a wine-producing region came into its own, because Englishmen were frustrated that they couldn’t get their red Bordeaux wines during the phyl-

loxera plant louse plague in the mid-19th century and bought these incredible Spanish wines from phylloxera-free vineyards by the boatload.”

Billy Rattner, wine director for X2O Xaviars on the Hudson restaurant in Yonkers, proposes a different tack. “As the young royals fit in the generation that is leading the charge for the sustainable and organic aspects of life, I would suggest some so-called ‘natural’ wines to pair well with their generational bent. A fitting white wine for the nuptials might be the elegant and powerful Savagnin Les Terrasses from the Jura region of France. For a royal red as thick as velvet, I would offer Babiole, a blend of Syrah, Carignan and Grenache, from the Ardeche (west of the Rhone Valley, between Lyon and Avignon.) A true ‘vin naturel,’ this wine smells and tastes of wild berries, spicy earth, and speaks the language of love.”

Christopher Gambelli, wine director at the Moderne Barn restaurant in Armonk, also favors organic wines, “particularly those brands that respect tradition,” since he feels those would fit in with the personalities of William and Kate. His top pick in bubbly would be the nonvintage Cedric Bouchard Inflorescence Val Vilaine Blanc de Noirs. In reds, he recommends the 2001 Clos Plince.

“Organically farmed, from grapes grown

on a 110-year-old Pomerol vineyard, and made with only one-fourth new oak, this wine has a purity that is rarely seen in bottles from this region,” he said.

Another vote for natural wines, especially those produced by biodynamic methods (from grapes grown on sustainable vineyards without the use of chemicals or unnatural pesticides) comes from Glenn Vogt, co-owner and wine director at Crabtree’s Kittle House restaurant in Chappaqua. He suggests Champagne from small producers like Jacques Selosse or Jerome Prevost, white Burgundys from Domaine Leflaive or Domaine des Comtes Lafon.

“And a very rich and powerful Syrah from Cayuse in Washington state would be a perfect red for this free-spirited couple – and serve as a great gift from America to the royal newlyweds,” he notes.

My personal choices would be the dry, fruity reds and whites from Chateau Bauduc, owned by British businessman Gavin Quinney. Well-priced, these wines are the house quaffs at most of Londoner Gordon Ramsay’s establishments.

And, if they’re good enough for persnickety chef Ramsay – who bewitches, bothers and bewilders would-be chefs on the Fox reality series “Hell’s Kitchen” – they ought to please the most royal of palates.

worthy (Just a smattering of the region’s wonderful wine shops.)

WINE SHOPS Amity Wines 95 Amity Road New Haven, CT 06515 (203) 397-9463 www.amitywines.com Ancona’s Wines & Liquors 720 Branchville Road Ridgefield, CT 06877 (203) 544-8958 www.anconaswine.com AOC Fine Wines 195 Sound Beach Ave. Old Greenwich, CT 06870 (203) 637-4541 www.aocfinewines.com Aries Wine & Spirits 128 W. Post Road White Plains, NY 10606 (914) 946-3382 www.aries-wine.com

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Armonk Wines & Spirits 383 Main St. Armonk, NY 10504 (914) 273-3044 www.armonkwines.com

Stew Leonard’s Wines 55 Westport Ave. Norwalk, CT 06851 Cellar XV Wine Market Melange Fine Wines Spirits (203) 750-6162 88 Danbury Road 21A Governor St. www.stewswines.com Ridgefield, CT 06877 Ridgefield, CT 06877 Barnum Wines & Spirits (203) 894-8690 Grapes The Wine Company (203)438-9100 Suburban Wines & Spirits 1340 Barnum Ave. www.cellarxv.com 731 N. Broadway www.melangewines.com 383 Downing Drive Stratford, CT 06614 White Plains, NY 10603 Yorktown Heights (203) 375-1077 Chappaqua Wine & Spirit Co. (914) 397-9463 Purple Feet Wines & Spirits NY 10598 barnumwinesonline.com 65 King St. www.grapesthewineco.com 1088 Post Road East (914) 962-3100 Chappaqua, NY 10514 Westport, CT 06880 www.suburbanwines.com Bedford Wine Merchants (914) 238-3114 International Wine Shop (203) 227-1070 24 Main St. www.chappaquawine.com 732 Post Road East purplefeetspirits.com Twisted Vine Bedford Village, NY 10506 Westport, CT 06880 1490 Post Road (914) 234-6021 Continental Fine Wines (203) 227-4486 Rochambeau Wines Fairfield, CT 06824 www.bedfordwines.com 58 Williams St. www.internationalwineshop.com 389 Broadway (203) 319 9463 Greenwich, CT 06830 Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 twistedvinefairfield.com Black Bear Wines & Spirits (203) 869-0865 La Cave (914) 693-0034 221 Post Road West www.continentalfinewines.com 410 Mamaroneck Ave. www.rochambeauwines.com Vintology Wine & Spirits Westport, CT 06880 Mamaroneck, NY 10543 10 Palmer Ave. (203) 227-2468 Dodd’s Wine Shop (914) 698-3802 Rockwood & Perry Scarsdale, NY 10583 blackbearwines.com Routes 100 and 133 www.lacavemaurice.com Fine Wine and Spirits (914) 723-2040 Millwood, NY 10546 525 Warburton Ave. www.vintology.com Bottles Fine Wine and Spirits (914) 762-5511 Le Wine Shop Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 1753 Post Road East www.Doddswineshop.com 1934 Palmer Ave. (914) 478-1028 The Wine Connection Westport, CT 06880 Larchmont, NY 10538 www.rockwoodandperry.com 32 Westchester Ave. (203) 259-3939 bottlesofwestport.com

Francos Wine Merchants 30 Elm St. New Canaan, CT 06840 (203) 966-9571 www.francoswine.com

(914) 833-9666 www.lewineshop.com

Pound Ridge, NY 10576 (914) 764-9463 www.wineconn.com The Wine & Spirit Emporium of Bronxville Ltd. 98 Pondfield Road Bronxville, NY 10708 (914) 337-5090 www.thewineemporium.com Wine Geeks Armonk 559 Main St., Armonk, NY 10504 (914) 273-9463 www.winegeeksarmonk.com Winewise 122 E. Putnam Ave. Greenwich, CT. (203) 340-2440 www.winewiseshop.com Zachys Wine and Liquor Inc. 16 E. Parkway Scarsdale, NY 10583 (866)922-4971 www.zachys.com

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watch look who came visiTing

Vincent Pastore of “The Sopranos” was among the celebrities attending the Visiting Nurse Services in Westchester’s (VNSW) benefit reception and concert at the C.V. Rich Mansion in White Plains, honoring Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, women’s and civil rights activist.

Mary Gadomski, VNSW director of community education, with Vincent Pastore.

Dr. Olivia J. Hooker receives a proclamation from New York state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins.

Event chairpersons Tara Sloane-Goldstein, left. of Mamaroneck and Polina Erlikh of Chappaqua.

From left, executive committee member Laura Kleinhandler of Rye Brook, event chairperson Tina Price and honoree Anita Greenwald.

From left, Debra Linden of Chappaqua, Mindy Unger of Mount Kisco, Sue Motola of Chappaqua and Susan Katz Truitt of Chappaqua.

connecTing and caring

Anita Greenwald, community leader and program coordinator at UJA-Federation of New York’s Connect to Care center in White Plains, was honored at UJA-Federation Westchester Women’s Philanthropy Community Luncheon at Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains. photographs by uJA-federation of new york Lisa Rodman, left, of Scarsdale and Michele Kraushaar of Chappaqua.

for young TalenT

Spotted at a benefit for Youth Theatre Interactions (YTI) in Yonkers, from left, Suzanne Newman, honoree; Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick; and YTI Executive and Artistic Director Mamie Duncan-Gibbs.

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From left, Angelo Martinelli, a bank director, and wife, Carol, Tim and June Rooney and Bob and Margaret Galterio of Yonkers Raceway/ Empire City Casino.

Bank soiree

James J. Landy, bank president and CEO, and wife, Nancy.

Hudson Valley Bank in Yonkers celebrated the recent past holidays at a black-tie dinner-dance at the Abigail Kirsch Mansion at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown. photographs by Joe Vericker, photoBureau inc.

winning season aT david yurman

Was New York Jets’ wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery Jr. contemplating bling during a recent bash at The Westchester in White Plains? Or was he dreaming of another Jets’ run at the championship? One thing we do know was on his mind –– the future of underprivileged youth. That’s why he and his wife, Mercedes, hosted a stylish shopping party at the David Yurman store to benefit The Cotchery Foundation.

WAG caught up with Mercedes, who said that although this was not her foundation’s first shopping event, it “is our first time hosting an event at a jewelry store.”

And what better choice for the Cotchery couple than Yurman – the master of the classic cable?

Gerald Gisondi

Julia Pandolfo, Yurman store manager.

Jerricho Cotchery

Ladies’ Classic Collection by Yurman.

Mercedes Cotchery

Jean Connolly and Mark Iannucci, both of Croton-on-Hudson.

Photographs by Ryan Doran

sTar Time

Sundance came to the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville recently as Robert Redford joined director and Rockland resident Jonathan Demme, right, and Steve Apkon, left, Jacob Burns’ executive director, to kick off the center’s 10th anniversary. photograph by ed cody

JusTice for all

Cabrini Immigrant Services of Dobbs Ferry recently held its first Liberty & Justice Awards reception at neighboring Estherwood Mansion in Dobbs Ferry. From left, Donald Amoruso, chairman of Cabrini of Westchester Board of Trustees; Sister Arlene Van Dusen; Sister Catherine Garry; and Marie Amoruso. photograph by Joe Vericker, photoBureau inc.

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wit wonders:What gives you a royal pain?

“Paying for royal service, when it’s best at home, that calories weigh more the older I get, knowing all the answers to The New York Times’ crossword puzzle—I just cannot retrieve them. My birthday arriving monthly instead of yearly.”

— Seema Boesky, entrepreneur, Mount Kisco resident “Just about anything to do with airports and air travel. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.”

— Elizabeth BrackenThompson, partner, thompson & Bender, croton-on-hudson resident “Remembering user IDs and passwords on the countless business and personal sites I frequent from LinkedIn to multiple bank accounts to my children’s school portal. Who can manage to recall usernames/passwords for the overwhelming number of sites that require passwords? Not I…and often click on “Don’t Remember Your Password?” website link and dutifully check my email for the forgotten info.”

— Stacey Cohen, president, stacey cohen inc., Mount Kisco resident

“Flossing, losing a filling on soft ice cream or overcooked pasta, getting up to brush your teeth when you’re dead tired and just wanna pass out.”

—George Drapeau, public affairs, fundraising and strategic development, george drapeau co., Armonk resident

“Heading to what I believe to be the best shopping sale of the season, only to get to the register and everything I picked up is still at FULL price” — Paula Kelliher, director of mall marketing, simon property group, ridgefield, conn., resident

“The winter, because I can’t play golf.”

— Mike Edelman, news 12 commentator, partner, worby groner edelman, hastings-onhudson resident

“What gives me a royal pain is when people expect to be treated like royalty, but treat others as servants.”

— Howard P. Klein, managing partner, eisman, Zucker, Klein & ruttenberg l.l.p., rye Brook resident

“I find whining to be a royal pain. It’s up to each one of us to pull on our big-boy and big-girl boots, stop with the excuses and go make things happen.”

— Andi Gray, owner, strategy leaders, chappaqua resident

“What gives me a royal pain is excessive interest in anachronistic goings on like royal (read expensive) weddings well into the 21st century. I suspect that this young couple, if not the victims, than the inheritors of a tradition that should have been squelched years ago, would prefer to anonymously sneak off to Vegas and be married in an Elvis chapel, thus saving British taxpayers millions of precious pounds. …But I can’t wait to see her gown, and I hope his ceremonial sword does not poke the Archbishop of Canterbury in the balls. THAT would be a royal pain.”

— Robert Klein, comedian, Briarcliff Manor resident

“The thought that William and Kate might have to wait for 30 years before acceding to the throne and might have frittered away the best years of their lives. King Edward VII was 60 when he began his short rule. Charles might be 70 before his turn comes.”

— Géza von Habsburg, art historian and fabergé expert, Bronxville resident

“Taste this: I’m gaining weight and everyone is always putting great food and wine in front of me!”

— Stew Leonard Jr., president and ceo, stew leonard’s, westport, conn., resident “Maybe it was the first time I had a prostate exam. Bang! Zoom! Now, that was a royal pain. Or perhaps it was when I had to get a shot in the gluteus maximus as a preventative measure because a food handler at my college cafeteria was diagnosed with hepatitis. Am I taking this too literally? … The truth is I really don’t have a royal pain, either figuratively or proctologically. Except the White Plains Parking Violations Bureau. I have no affection for this agency of evil. Their ticket-writing mania is a double-royal pain – in the ass and the neck.”

— Phil Reisman, columnist, the Journal news and lohud. com, yonkers resident

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