Town & Country articles from July 2004

Town & Country archives from July 2004

Silent no more.(This Month's Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Thank you very much for Diane Guernsey's "Health" column on ovarian cancer ["The Silent Killer," April]. It is of enormous importance that women be mindful of this terrible disease. The tragedy is that ovarian cancer can be cured if it's caught...

Putting on the dog.(This Month's Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Stephen Budiansky's essay "In Praise of Mutts" [May] was extremely disturbing. The pet industry knows that dog owners treat their pets as if they were children. Today's owners bathe with their dogs, eat with their dogs and sleep with their...

Native pride.(This Month's Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I was delighted to read "A New Age for Museums" [by Philip Herrera, May] because the architectural "box" of an institution is as important as the art inside it. However, I was disappointed that you did not mention the National Museum of the...

Clear vision.(This Month's Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Again and again I have read articles on beauty such as Pamela Fiori's editor's letter in the May issue ["Let's Make-up"], but not once have I read a reminder that after meticulously applying nail polish, lipstick, foundation and mascara, one...

Correction.(This Month's Mailbox)(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2004... In "A New Age for Museums" [May], a caption on page 185 misidentified a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth. The piece is actually called Squares With Two Circles (Monolith). We regret the error.

Totally deco.(Parties)
July 1, 2004... INAUGURAL EVENT San Francisco is one of the world's most vibrant cities, with charity galas that rank among the country's most memorable. But one thing had been missing: a winter fundraising fete for the under-forty set. Enter the newly...

An equine cause.(Parties)(Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... THE HORSE RESCUERS Since 1982 the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has been creating farms to provide for the golden years of former racehorses. To celebrate the opening of a new "old-horse home," at Montpelier, President James Madison's...

Le Vian.(scene & be seen)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Le Vian jewelry moves to the movie scene--the TV screen, too. Red carpet styles created by designer-to-the-stars Charlie Lapson and Eddie LeVian were chosen by NBC for the Emmys. Meet both designers at Rich's-Macy's, Atlanta, July 19-23, when...

Raffles Resort Canouan Island The Grenadines.(scene & be seen)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Experience new levels of luxury and personal service in the Caribbean. Introducing Raffles Resort Canouan Island... for the fortunate few. Enjoy the cliff-side Amrita spa, Jim Fazio-designed golf course, 156 luxury accommodations and European...

Aid to Artisans.(scene & be seen)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Aid to Artisans President Clare Brett Smith, Performance Artist Charles Hutson Trapolin and Joan Marcus, Honorary Co-Chairman, at the Aid to Artisans annual awards gala, New York City. The event honored leaders in the craft and design world for...

Seattle designer preview.(scene & be seen)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... On July 22, enjoy cocktails, dessert and a runway fashion show featuring American and European designer collections for Fall 2004. All proceeds benefit the Seattle Art Museum Supporters. For more information, ticket prices and reservations,...

Worth a lick.(On The Town)
July 1, 2004... This month, to mark the centennial of the ice-cream cone (which made its big debut at the 1904 World's Fair, in St. Louis), we take a look at a few of America's best places for a cool summer treat. Whether you like strawberry or mint chocolate...

Jackie redux.(Summer Reading)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... On the tenth anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's death, three new, meticulously researched biographies eschew both the soft-focus lens of Camelot hagiographies and the lurid glare of tabloid tell-alls in an effort to show the enigmatic...

Respected opinions.(Summer Reading)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Anna Quindlen tells it like it is in LOUD AND CLEAR (Random House; $24.95), the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's latest collection of essays and speeches. At once personal and political, individual and universal, her words on everything from...

Spy games.(Summer Reading)(Olivia Joules and the Overative Imagination)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Bridget Jones? So nineties, luv. Helen Fielding's 21st-century heroine is the self-anointed Olivia Joules ("joules" being a scientific term denoting a unit of energy). And Olivia is energetic, even hyper. At the opening of OLIVIA JOULES AND THE...

There's the shrub.(Summer Reading)(Privet Lives: An Imaginary Tale of Southampton's Ionic Shrub)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... What's a book essentially composed of watercolors doing in a reading roundup? The short captions in Perry Guillot's PRIVET LIVES: AN IMAGINARY TALE OF SOUTHAMPTON'S ICONIC SHRUB (Power-House Books; $95) are so funny and charming you'll want to...

Lives well lived.(Summer Reading)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ALL IN GOOD TIME (Random House; $24.95) is a lyrically written memoir by Jonathan Schwartz, the son of composer Arthur Schwartz ("Dancing in the Dark," "You and the Night and the Music"). Jonathan harks backs to his childhood years in Beverly...

Song for My Father.(Summer Reading)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... In SONG FOR MY FATHER (Atria; $25.95), former Essence editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver chronicles the life of her father, Charles Stokes, an African American attorney who rose from poverty in the Midwest to become a star in Republican political...

All we want for July is.(News)
July 1, 2004... All We Want for JULY Is... absolutely anything from Jean Paul Gaultier's first collection for HERMES, debuting this fall. Faille trench coat ($4,650), wool tricotine jodhpurs ($2,375) and crocodile boots ($3,100), at Hermes boutiques,...

We'll take Manhattan.(News)
July 1, 2004... BOTTEGA VENETA, the Italian maker of luxury leather goods, has introduced five New York City-inspired, limited-edition handbags to commemorate the opening this month of its flagship at 699 Fifth Avenue, the largest Bottega boutique in the...

Strap happy.(Fashion & Style)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Step into fall with soft-toed Mary Janes in autumn's chic tones. Clockwise from top right: CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN FOR J. MENDEL pumps in suede and metallic leather ($595). COACH'S Lauryn pumps in metallic...

Waist management.(Fashion & Style)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: When it comes to belts this season, skinny is out and wide is in. Worn with a fitted suit or jeans, the bold belt gets you noticed. Clockwise from top left: PROENZA SCHOULER crocodile belt ($1,150). DONNA...

All fired up.(Fashion & Style)
July 1, 2004... The cookout has come a long way from the imperfect science of charcoal briquettes, lighter fluid, matches and a dream. Today nothing heats up a man's summer quite like a VIELUXE ($6,000; 866-VIELUXE; www.vieluxe.com), the Rolls-Royce of gas...

Go-go gadgets.(Fashion & Style)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: What man can resist the latest in shiny grown-up toys? No one we know. Out favorites, from front to back: Technological advancement meets design savvy in the superthin and lightweight fifteen-inch...

10 rings we love: the results of our search for our favorites.(Jewelry)
July 1, 2004... 1 CHRISTIAN DIOR 60-carat amethyst Plongeuse Incroyable ring ($58,100), at Dior Fine Jewelry, NYC, 212-921-2986. 2 JOHN HARDY tsavorite-garnet and yellow-diamond Cinta shell ring ($6,000), at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC, 800-558-1855. 3...

Orange crush.(Watches)
July 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: This bright, unisex hue is just right for fun summer watches. Clockwise from top left: LEONARD stainless-steel and diamond Screen watch ($1,800), at Tourneau, NYC, 212-823-9425, and selected Saks Fifth...

An owner's guide.(Art Alfresco)(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... Perennial beds and sweeping lawns are fine, but for die-hard collectors, nothing enhances the view from the terrace like a robust bronze torso by Rodin, a playful Calder stabile or a giant steel arc by Richard Serra. Len Riggio, the chairman of...

Noguchi's garden.(Art Alfresco)(Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... All too often outdoor sculptures seem to compete with nature. But recently I saw a twenty-year-old sculpture garden in Houston where the art is in perfect harmony with its surroundings. By creating a wall of varying heights that wanders through...

The mighty Maeght.(Art Alfresco)(La Fondation Maeght)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Opened in 1964 by renowned art collectors Aime and Marguerite Maeght, LA FONDATION MAEGHT (pronounced "Mag") does away with all preconceptions of what a gallery should look like. Perched on a breezy hilltop just northwest of the village of...

Inside the beltway.(Art Alfresco)(NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In a peaceful enclave within sight of the Capitol dome, in Washington, D.C., the NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN deploys seventeen major, mostly postwar works by leading artists. Among my favorites: Louise Bourgeois's spindly,...

Soaring achievement.(Art Alfresco)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... What is the greatest outdoor sculpture in the Western world? It's impossible to answer without being a stickler. Michelangelo's heroic David (1501-04), displayed outdoors for more than 300 years, might have won my vote had it net been...

Pasadena pastorale.(Art Alfresco)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Described by some as the Frick Collection of California, the NORTON SIMON MUSEUM OF ART, in Pasadena, is, like its New York City counterpart, a small, hidden jewel with an incomparable array of masterpieces and an intriguing exhibition...

Luxury search engine.(Town & Country Promotion)(Advertisement)(Buyers Guide)
July 1, 2004... The Aaron Basha 18k gold Baby Shoe Charm and Love Bug Collections are the most appropriate and emotionally expressive gifts for mothers, and represent the ultimate personal tribute. Please visit us at www.babyshoes.com. With 270-HP,...

Grand stand.(Music Alfresco)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In Chicago, the old bandshell ain't what it used to be. On July 16 the peripatetic Frank Gehry makes his mark on the Windy City with the christening of the JAY PRITZKER PAVILION in Millennium Park, a new twenty-four-and-a-half-acre greensward...

Jazzing it up in Newport.(Music Alfresco)
July 1, 2004... Cutting-edge jazz is as much a part of summer in Newport, Rhode Island, as seafood and sailing. The open-air JVC NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL was the first of its kind in the U.S. when it was launched in 1954. Elaine and Louis Lorillard, prominent...

Bowled over.(Music Alfresco)
July 1, 2004... As if the L.A. Philharmonic didn't have enough to celebrate with the recent opening of its dynamic downtown venue, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the orchestra will also be hitting some high summer notes under the Hollywood Bowl's newly expanded and...

The hills are alive.(Music Alfresco)
July 1, 2004... In 1949 Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke founded the Aspen Music Festival and School in the belief that art and nature together foster the human spirit. It was a lofty principle, but it also brought summer business to what had been exclusively a...

Relatively speaking.(Wine)
July 1, 2004... From the folks who brought you Sassicaia, the superb Super Tuscan, comes GUIDALBERTO (40 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 40 percent Merlot and 20 percent Sangiovese), another ravishing rosso. Like many things Italian, the wine is a family affair,...

Summer's Yves.(Fashion)(YVES SAINT LAURENT: DIALOGUE WITH ART)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge have launched their new cultural foundation in Paris with YVES SAINT LAURENT: DIALOGUE WITH ART, which runs until July 18 (more exhibitions are planned for the fall). Forty-two of Saint Laurent's most...

Points well taken.(On Exhibit)
July 1, 2004... In 1958 Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884 was on loan to New York's Museum of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago when a fire broke out in MoMA's galleries. The painting survived and hasn't left Chicago since. But...

Provence, one star at a time: three ambitious restaurants that are well worth the journey.(Traveler's Notebook)
July 1, 2004... I brake for Michelin one-stars--that's my gastronomic rule of thumb when traveling in France. Experience has taught me that one-stars usually have the ingredients that whet my appetite: culinary brio (the chef has got his eye on a second...

The Chateau's cookin'.(Traveler's Notebook)
July 1, 2004... When my family and I recently visited L.A., we stayed at the storied and stylish CHATEAU MARMONT. "Oh, the Chateau," said a television executive we know. He then waxed poetic about the roasted Maine lobster. "The New York strip steak with...

The latest straw.(Traveler's Notebook)
July 1, 2004... YVES DELORME, a Paris-based firm known for it's fine linens for the home, produces a small line of fashion accessories. New this season are the Colony beach bag (above left; $144) and large clutch (above right; $77). Made of woven straw and...

Magic mountain.(Traveler's Notebook)(VIGILIUS MOUNTAIN RESORT)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Cradled between the Alps and the Dolomites, in Italy's picturesque South Tirol region, lies the VIGILIUS MOUNTAIN RESORT, the area's first modern property for nature lovers. Matteo Thun, the renowned Italian architect who designed the hotel,...

Aman does Angkor.(Traveler's Notebook)(Amanresorts)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Words like "hotel" or "resort" really don't capture the spirit of AMANSARA, Amanresorts' only venture in Cambodia, which opened in late 2002. Instead, imagine a sophisticated guesthouse that just happens to be a few miles from the great temple...

Hip handbooks.(Traveler's Notebook)
July 1, 2004... For the traveler who has a discerning eye for art exhibits, interior design and the latest chic stilettos, STYLECITY guides (Thames & Hudson; $24.95 each) are indispensable. Covering Barcelona, London, Paris, New York and now Amsterdam and San...

Lip service.(Beauty Mark)
July 1, 2004... No other cosmetic has the power to transform like lipstick. That sweep of color instantly brightens your face and makes you feel dressed and ready to take on the world. But how do you choose your lipstick from among the legions at the counter?...

What's new? Bamboo.(Design)
July 1, 2004... Bamboo patterns are the decorating equivalent of pearls and ballet flats: summer classics back on the hot list. Clockwise from top left: Baby Bamboo lamp, NANCY CORZINE, 212-223-8340. Lacquer vases ($75 each), SAIGONISTE, 212-925-4610. Custom...

True values: in his new book, More Money Than God, the rabbi of one of America's richest congregations urges parents to teach their children well.(Wealth)
July 1, 2004... A father and son are walking down the street when they come across the town drunk and his son lying in the gutter. "Look," says the boy to his father, "both the father and son are drunkards. What shame!" "I only hope," says the father,...

Well suited: forget power dressing. The jacket and skirt ensembles for fall--worn here by actress Thandie Newton--are as feminine as they are fashionable.(Fall Fashion Preview)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... Apart from its good looks, what's the best reason to wear a suit this season? Not unlike uniforms, they are strangely empowering." says Thandie (pronounced TAN-dee). Brown wool herringbone jacket and skirt by Oscar de la Renta ($4,300)....

Sirio's business: Sirio Maccioni, the famous owner of Le Cirque, polished his act as American dining's leading impresario at another exclusive institution: New York's Colony restaurant.(Excerpt)
July 1, 2004... "IT WAS INCREDIBLE." So says Sirio Maccioni in his just-published biography, Sirio (John Wiley & Sons), of the early years of Le Cirque, his legendary New York restaurant. But the same can also be said of the larger story he and writer Peter...

Fun house: a stylish young London family makes do-it-yourself decorating look like child's play in a town house on the fringes of Notting Hill.
July 1, 2004... Can a house have too much personality? It's a question that doesn't really come up these days--maybe because we'd all secretly rather live with someone else's personality (hello, reality TV home makeover) or with no personality at all (i.e., in...

Outshining nature: in a forthcoming book on Seaman Schepps, his granddaughter Amanda Vaill explores the jewelry designer's remarkable ingenuity and fascinating life.
July 1, 2004... The cuff links got my attention first. I was only about three years old, and my grandfather Seaman Schepps was part of that undifferentiated familial blur of adults who milled from room to room in my grandparents' spacious Long Island house at...

San Francisco eats: and, my, does it ever eat well. This great restaurant town keeps getting better.
July 1, 2004... Saturday morning at San Francisco's Ferry Plaza, the Bay Bridge angling east overhead, the water below glittering silver in the sun. From the foot of Market Street, throngs cross the palm-lined, trolley-tracked Embarcadero and surge into the...

What you should know.
July 1, 2004... YOU'VE TRIED all the positions, had sex at lunchtime and eliminated toxins from your diet. You're desperate to have a baby, but nothing has worked. The intense longing and the willingness to do whatever it takes are so all-encompassing that you...

How technology helps: all else has failed, and you're on the way to the doctor. Here's what medicine can do for you.
July 1, 2004... INFERTILITY treatment is a physically and emotionally exhausting process that can be time-consuming and expensive. Whether you have been trying to have a baby for six months or six years, you must understand the causes of infertility and know...

Till infertility do us part? Treatment puts a tremendous strain on even the best of relationships; here are key coping strategies.(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... INFERTILITY can be a real test of a couple's relationship," says Linda D. Applegarth, the director of psychological services at Weill Cornell's Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Manhattan. She and other experts offer guidelines for...

Speak sensitively: let compassion be your guide in conversation, and be sure to do more listening than talking.
July 1, 2004... ONE OF the side effects of infertility treatment--as sure a symptom as bloating and mood swings--is awkward conversation. The discomfort starts in the intimate circle of a woman and her partner. Talking about grief and feelings of loss is...

America's top infertility clinics.(Directory)
July 1, 2004... To help you or someone you know choose a center, we present this list of some of the best hospital-affiliated clinics around the country (and noted doctors who work there), produced by Castle Connolly Medical, a trusted of consumer health-care...

Better than Botox[R] *?[TM] "Who would have thought a stretch mark reducer would turn out to be the anti-wrinkle breakthrough of the decade!".(Anti-Aging Breakthrough)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... In a remarkable turn of events, arguably one of the strangest in the history of cosmetics, women across the country are putting a stretch-mark reducing emulsion called StriVectin-SD[R] on their face to diminish fine lines, wrinkles and crows'...

Weddings.
July 1, 2004... Mr. Robert Hurst and Ms. Soledad DeLeon Turks and Caicos Island Ms. Antonia Zee Ming and Mr. Henry Yun Chung Glen Ellen, California Mr. and Mrs. John Brooks Harris (Stephanie Caroline Field) Lake Forest, Illinois Mr. and Mrs. Kurt...

Horoscopes.
July 1, 2004... JULY Cancer June 22-July 22 As you pass another milestone, a brand-new chapter is about to unfold. With tough-minded Saturn working its way through your sign, you're saying goodbye to fuzzy dreams and wishful thinking and looking...

The Queen of Creams: Estee Lauder.(Brief Article)(Biography)
July 1, 2004... SHE WAS every bit as powerful as her famous Youth-Dew fragrance. Her reputation, and her fragrance, preceded her. Diminutive as she was, she walked tall and confidently--and moreover knew exactly where she was going, even as a young girl. She...