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Preservation
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Of Palm Beach
Executive Committee
F o u n dat i o n S ta f f
John D. Mashek, Jr.
Alexander C. Ives
CHAIRMAN
PRESIDENT
L. Frank Chopin, Esquire
SECRETARY
ARCHIVES AND PROGRAMMING
Scott Moses
Ambassador Edward E. Elson
DIRECTOR
TREASURER
BOOKKEEPING AND FINANCIAL
CONTROL
Mr. Larry B. “Ben” Alexander, Jr.
Mr. Rand V. Araskog
Susan Morin
DIRECTOR
Mrs. Robert M. Grace
Mrs. Howard J. Kessler
EDUCATION
Amanda Herrick Skier
Mrs. Talbott B. Maxey
DIRECTOR
Mr. David G. Ober
Lynne K. Charter
Mrs. William H. Pitt
ASSOCIATE EDUCATOR
Sharon Bouyoucas
Mr. Daniel E. Ponton
ASSOCIATE EDUCATOR
Mr. John H. Schuler
GARDENS
Daniele Garson
B oa r d o f T r u s t e e s
Mrs. John W. Annan
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Kessler
Mrs. Nathan Appleman
Mrs. Terry Allen Kramer
Mr. and Mrs. Rand V. Araskog
Mr. Leonard A. Lauder
Mr. Larry B. “Ben” Alexander, Jr.
Mrs. Joseph W. Luter III
Mr. James D. Berwind
Mrs. David J. Mahoney
Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Bleznak
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mann
Mrs. T. Dennie Boardman
Mr. John D. Mashek, Jr.
Mrs. Michael C. Bowen
Mrs. Talbott B. Maxey
Mrs. Edwin M. Burke
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley L. Moore, Jr.
L. Frank Chopin, Esquire
Mrs. Danielle Hickox Moore
Mrs. Edward W. Cook
Mr. David Ober
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Davidson
Mrs. William G. Pannill
Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.
Mrs. Sallie B. Phillips
Mrs. John J. Dowdle
Mrs. William H. Pitt
Mr. and Mrs. E. Llwyd Ecclestone
Mr. Daniel E. Ponton
Ambassador and Mrs. Edward E. Elson
Mr. Thomas C. Quick
Mrs. Max M. Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Rollnick
Mrs. Henry Ford II
Mrs. William D. Roosevelt
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Freitas
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Grace
Mr. Jorge A. Sanchez
Mrs. Martin D. Gruss
Mrs. Francis G. Scaife
Mrs. J. Ira Harris
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Schuler
Mr. James Held
Mr. Jeffery W. Smith
Dr. Peter N. Heydon
The Honorable Lesly S. Smith
Mrs. Philip Huiltar
Mr. Scott A. Snyder
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Johnson
Mrs. Robert L. Sterling, Jr.
Mr. And Mrs. Gerald R. Jordan, Jr.
Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer
Mr. Kenn Karakul
A dv i s o r y T r u s t e e
Mrs. Warrington Gillet, Jr.
DIRECTOR
OPERATIONS
Joan Brewer
DIRECTOR
SPECIAL EVENTS
Sharon Kearns
DIRECTOR
TEAM SUPPORT
Kristin Aiello
DIRECTOR
The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach is
a private, non-profit membership organization
dedicated to the preservation of the historic,
architectural and cultural heritage of Palm
Beach, Florida. As the advocate for maintaining the outstanding quality of life in Palm
Beach, the Foundation has created a community-wide perspective seeing the unique buildings of Palm Beach as integral to the Townís
character as well as its future. What once
would have been only issues of growth have
been reshaped as issues of quality of life. By
combining history, inventiveness and ingenuity the Preservation Foundation has helped
forge a contemporary Palm Beach informed
by its achievements in architecture, culture
and design, not dismissive of them.
Over 30 years, the Preservation Foundation of
Palm Beach has given millions of dollars for
the preservation and restoration of historic
properties; worked advocating for over 300
landmark properties; recognized numerous
architects, owners, and properties with
awards; educated hundreds of thousands of
children about the architectural, cultural and
environmental legacy of Palm Beach; and
saved thousands of archival documents in its
library, among many other accomplishments.
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Lecture Series ...........................................page 4
Exhibit Series ............................................page 46
Film Nights ...............................................page 52
Garden Classes .........................................page 92
Musicale Series ........................................page 98
Calendar of Events ................................page 102
Space is limited for all events, so please call 561.832.0731 to RSVP
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Friday, November 25, 2015
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BOOK SIGNING/COCKTAIL RECEPTION:
40 Years of Fabulous: The Kips Bay Decorator Show House
by Steven Stolman
311 Peruvian Avenue
Invitation Only
For more than four decades, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House has presented the
creations of a stellar roster of interior designers in what is regarded as one of the
finest decorator show houses in the world. A fixture on the New York City scene, this
glittering expression of high design continues to set the standard for the world of
decor. Forty Years of Fabulous provides an insider’s look at the history of this muchloved convention of society while revisiting the spectacular rooms by star decorators
past and present rooms that truly defined interior design while setting trends still evident in today’s homes.
Steven Stolman is the author of Scalamandré: Haute Décor. He divides his time
among homes in Palm Beach, New York and Milwaukee.
Cocktail attire is requested. Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
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LECTURE/BOOK SIGNING:
The Age of Empire - Britain’s Imperial Architecture From 1880
to 1930 by Clive Aslet
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to members - $20 non-members
Five years after discussing the matter with her private secretary, in 1877 Queen
Victoria became Empress of India. This symbolic event was followed by the transformation of Britain into the seat of self-consciously imperial power. Britain’s industrial
and imperial might financed an architectural golden age, which saw the Dickensian
rookeries replaced with model housing; civic life improved through new town halls,
bath houses and libraries; God glorified in new churches and cathedrals; Mammon
pursued in banks, exchanges and commercial buildings; and the Empire celebrated in
numerous sculptural projects around the globe.
Through stunning images this book reveals the national confidence and prosperity
that led to a new-found grandeur and scale in the architecture commissioned. The
Age of Empire is a lavishly illustrated celebration of the architectural legacy of the
British Empire and its ability to create buildings that remain as awe-inspiring as when
they were first built.
Clive Aslet is an award-winning writer and journalist, and an acknowledged authority
on British architecture. He is the author of many books, including An Exuberant
Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain,
The English House, Landmarks of Britain and Villages of Britain.
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LECTURE:
Tony Sabatino on ‘The Restoration of Mizner Memorial Fountain’
This past summer restoration of the Mizner Memorial Fountain was completed. The
project had long been supported by the Preservation Foundation. The Foundation
generated the initial interest to make restoring Mizner Memorial Fountain a priority,
then followed-up on that by facilitating over half a million dollars for its restoration
through our own fundraising and working for state grant money in Tallahassee.
Tony Sabatino, Burkhardt Construction’s project manager for the Memorial Fountain
restoration project, will explain how the fountain was restored.
The restoration removed heavily-damaged sections of the over 80 year-old Addison
Mizner Memorial Fountain and remolded them in clay. Cast molds of features as well
as repair to equipment and plumbing also were done.
Arguably one of the most beloved of Palm Beach’s structures and an important part
of Palm Beach’s history, the Addison Mizner Memorial Fountain sits in the center of
the Town of Palm Beach’s historic Town Hall Square district, just north of Town Hall.
The Preservation Foundation has long been involved in this square, financing the
1989 and 2009 renovations to Town Hall and working to landmark the square as a
district in 1989.
The fountain was originally a gift from winter residents and local businesses to the
Town of Palm Beach in honor of those who had helped make the town, specifically
Henry M. Flagler and Elisha N. Dimick. In 1929, Mizner donated his services free of
charge for the fountain project. It was dedicated to the town in 1930.
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World Monuments - 50 Irreplaceable Sites to Discover and
Champion by George H. McNeely
311 Peruvian Avenue
In commemoration of its golden anniversary, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has
commissioned this book to give voice to the organization’s work around the world
over the past 50 years in light of some of the most pressing issues in heritage preservation today. From Venice and Petra to New Orleans and Angkor, from Easter Island
and the Tempel Synagogue in Krakow, Poland, to the Mughal gardens of Agra, India,
and the Chancellerie d’Orléans in Paris, the book presents 50 of the world’s most
compelling destinations, cultural heritage sites, and significant architectural works
that must be seen and preserved. The striking photographs in the volume were selected by the International Center of Photography, and feature renowned photographers
including Edward Burtynsky, Tiina Itkonen, Erich Lessing, Gideon Mendel, and
Sebastião Salgado.
George H. McNeely joined the World Monuments Fund in 2013 as the Vice President
for Strategic & International Affairs. Previously, he had been with Christie’s for 15
years, most recently as a Senior Vice President in the Chairman’s Office. He managed
Christie’s regional offices in North and South America and was an active member of
the firm’s business and client development efforts.
Prior to joining Christie’s, he was the Director of Institutional Giving at the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum and also in management consulting. He has served as a
charity auctioneer for hundreds of charity events throughout the United States. He
received his B.A. in art history from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia
University.
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Friday, January 29, 2016
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The Other Paris by Luc Sante
311 Peruvian Avenue
Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual
hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the
bohemian, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In The
Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, which
has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself, and, by extension, throughout the world.
Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from Balzac and Hugo to
assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps - Sante, whose thorough research
is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour.
Luc Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium. His other books include Low Life, Evidence,
The Factory of Facts, and Kill All Your Darlings. He is the recipient of a Whiting
Writers’ Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award for Writing from the
International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships. He
has contributed to The New York Review of Books since 1981, and has written for
many other magazines.
“This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest book I have ever read about Paris.
Ever. Thank you, Luc Sante.” - Paul Auster
“All who love Paris will love this book.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Hanging over The Other Paris is the contemporary curse that perhaps hit Paris first,
of cities that have become bland transnational stopping places for the privileged.
Magisterial as ever, Sante returns us to the flavor, texture, savor, shouts, and clashes
of the bygone city.” - Rebecca Solnit
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
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City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
by Gerard Koeppel
311 Peruvian Avenue
You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of
Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong
Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues
crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. No
other grid in Western civilization was so large and uniform as the one ordained in
1811. The Manhattan grid has been called “a disaster” of urban planning and “the
most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” However one feels about
it, the most famous urban design of a living city defines its daily life. This is its story.
Gerard Koeppel is the author of Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the
American Empire and Water for Gotham: A History. He has contributed to numerous
other books, including the Encyclopedia of New York City, of which he was an associate editor. Before writing mostly about the past, he wrote, edited, and produced the
present at CBS News. He was born on the grid and has lived all over it since.
“For Manhattanites, surely, and for anyone who’s visited and been either charmed or
overwhelmed by the grid.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Readers curious about the growth of infrastructure in large city centers will definitely
be interested in Koeppel’s take.” - Library Journal
“Indispensable for anyone interested in the history of New York and cities generally,
and bound to fuel cocktail conversations up, down, and across the city for years to
come.” - David Duchovny
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The Walk to/from Elsie’s
by Hutton Wilkinson and Flynn Kuhnhert
311 Peruvian Avenue
“Interior design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe,” said The New Yorker.
Using the format of a pair of limited-edition historical novels, authors Hutton Wilkinson
and Flynn Kuhnert share for the first time inside knowledge of Elsie de Wolfe, who had
entrusted her life secrets to designer Tony Duquette. They tell of a woman who was
not born rich or beautiful but made herself both. Running from Europe and the Nazis
to Hollywood, she meets Tony Duquette who is fleeing from his father’s financial ruin
in the Midwest. Inevitably, the two stars collide to form their own galaxy. This Auntie
Mame tale carries the reader on a lavish adventure across the United States and
Europe, between the years 1932 and 1951, as young Tony becomes Elsie de Wolfe’s
last great protégé.
Hutton Wilkinson is a co-author of Tony Duquette and author of More is More, as well
as Tony Duquette*Hutton Wilkinson: Jewelry. He is Creative Director and CEO of
Tony Duquette, Inc., where he presides over the important jewelry and interior design
house begun by Tony Duquette in 1941. Mr. Wilkinson is also president of the
Anthony and Elizabeth Duquette Foundation for the Living Arts, and the president of
the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation, as well as having served as a director of the international board of Save Venice, Inc. for 25 years. Recently Hutton Wilkinson was recognized by His Majesty, King Juan Carlos of Spain as the hereditary Fourth Count of
Alastaya. Hutton and his wife Ruth live in Beverly Hills, California.
Flynn Kuhnert has taught 19th & 20th century dramatic literature at Harvard College
and served as a Visiting Professor at Duke. He has directed & designed 35 theatre &
opera productions in America and the Netherlands, as well as having served on the
international board of directors of Save Venice, Inc. for almost a decade. In 2013, he
created & presented The Kuhnert Chronicles for the Ovation Television Network: analyzing art, architecture, theatre and literature. He lives in Bel Air, California.
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LECTURE:
Tom Mayes on ‘Why Do Old Places Matter?’
Tom Mayes, deputy general counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
has specialized in both corporate and preservation law since he joined the organization in 1986. He is the principal lawyer for legal matters relating to historic property
real estate transactions and for the National Trust’s 29 historic sites.
Mayes has developed special expertise in architectural and technical preservation
issues, preservation easements, the Americans with Disabilities Act and historic shipwrecks. He is the author of several articles relating to, and has lectured widely on,
preservation easements, shipwreck protection, the Americans with Disabilities Act
and preservation public policy.
For several years, Mayes has taught historic preservation law at the University of
Maryland Graduate Program in Historic Preservation.
Mayes received his B.A. with honors in History in 1981 and his J.D. in 1985 from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mayes received an M.A. in Writing from
Johns Hopkins University.
When he is not working on legal complexities, Mayes has been considering the role
historic places play in everyday life. This sent Mayes to Rome on a six-month tour of
discovery where he sought to answer the question: Why Do Old Places Matter?
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Friday, February 19, 2016
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LECTURE:
James Corner on ‘The High Line and Landscape Architecture’
James Corner is a landscape architect and theorist whose works exhibit a focus on
“developing innovative approaches toward landscape architectural design and urbanism.” His designs of note include Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island and the High Line
in Manhattan, both in New York City.
Corner is a professionally registered landscape architect and the principal of James
Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture and urban design practice based
in New York City.
Corner’s practice, Field Operations, was initially formed in collaboration with architect
Stan Allen, but the partners chose to focus on their individual practices in 2005. The
firm is at the forefront of the landscape urbanism movement, an interdisciplinary
approach that, in theory, amalgamates a wide range of disciplines including landscape
architecture, urban design, landscape ecology, and engineering, among other subjects. Corner argues that it is an approach that focuses on process rather than a style
and that it marks a productive attitude toward indeterminacy, open-endedness, intermixing, and cross-disciplinarity.
Corner’s designs bring back the open spaces of the natural wild with a rough, natural,
and ecologically sound approach; this could be compared to the works of Frederick
Law Olmsted, except more unbridled.
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LECTURE:
Toshiko Mori on ‘Saving Japanese Modern Architecture’
Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York-based
Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard
Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School
of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at
the GSD.
Mori is known for her “concern with material innovation and conceptual clarity.” Her
projects include the A.R.T. New York theater, the canopy at the Brooklyn Children’s
Museum, Pembroke Hall at Brown University, exhibit design at MoMA and the Cooper
Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and numerous residential projects in the United
States, Taiwan, China, and Austria.
Concerned with the destruction of modernist structures in Japan, Mori has teamed
with Tomas Maier of Bottega Veneta to help build awareness.
She recently told Architectural Digest, “the thing to keep in mind is this: Japan is a
really old place with a lot of respect for old buildings. At the same time, because of
the fast economic cycles, there is an obsession with novelty. Sixties buildings are fairly
new but not new enough, not fashionable enough. They’re victims of neglect because
they’re not traditional historic buildings but they’re not sufficiently new to claim continuous economic power.”
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
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A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650–1800
by Mark Laird
311 Peruvian Avenue
Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the
common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten historical data to reveal the complex visual cultures of early modern gardening. Ranging
from climate studies to the study of a butterfly’s life cycle, this original and fascinating
book examines the scientific quest for order in nature as an offshoot of ordering the
garden and field. Laird follows a broad series of chronological events - from the Little
Ice Age winter of 1683 to the drought summer of the volcanic 1783 - to probe the
nature of gardening and husbandry, the role of amateurs in scientific disciplines, and
the contribution of women as gardener-naturalists. Illustrated by a stunning wealth of
visual and literary materials - paintings, engravings, poetry, essays, and letters, as well
as prosaic household accounts and nursery bills - Laird fundamentally transforms our
understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.
Mark Laird is Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architectural History at Harvard
University’s Graduate School of Design. He teaches early modern landscape history
and a seminar on plants and animals in the history of landscape design. Based in
Toronto as a consultant in historic landscape preservation, he advises on sites in
Europe and North America.
“Filled with stunning visuals, from watercolors of wildflowers to the narcissus and thistles stitched on a satin petticoat worn to the Prince of Wales’s ball in 1741.” – Vogue
“Mark Laird, the great landscape historian, gives a superb narrative about the plants,
events, people and studies that form the backdrop of English gardening, from John
Evelyn to Gilbert White. Exquisite contemporary illustrations support his prose.” Financial Times
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Friday, March 11, 2016
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Open City by Teju Cole
311 Peruvian Avenue
Teju Cole is a writer, photographer, and art historian based in Lagos and Brooklyn.
His book Open City was named a Best Book on more than twenty end-of-the-year
lists by: The New Yorker • New York Times • The Atlantic • Time • The Economist •
Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The New Republic • New York Daily News • NPR •
Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Minneapolis Star
Tribune • GQ • Salon • Slate • New York magazine • The Week • The Kansas City
Star • Kirkus Reviews
Teju Cole will discuss his theory of the city as palimpsest; of the multiple histories,
identities and narratives that layer atop of each other in any single place.
Open City is a haunting tale about identity, dislocation, and history. Along the
streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius wanders, reflecting on
his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. He
encounters people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on
his journey - which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the
most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.
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Goldeneye - Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica by
Matthew Parker
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For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming
lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white
sand beach on Jamaica’s stunning north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories
were written here.
This book explores the huge influence of that house and Jamaica on the creation of
Fleming’s iconic post-war hero. The island was for Fleming part retreat from the world,
part tangible representation of his own values, and part exotic fantasy.
Goldeneye also compares the real Jamaica of the 1950s during the build-up to independence with the island’s portrayal in the Bond books, to shine a light on the attitude
of the likes of Fleming and Coward to the dramatic end of the British Empire.
Matthew Parker is the author of three previous non-fiction books, Monte Cassino: The
Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II; Panama Fever, which was one of the
Washington Post’s Best Books of the Year; and The Sugar Barons, which was an
Economist Book of the Year. He lives in England.
“The first book to explore the north-shore estate where the author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming spent two months each year and wrote all the Bond books.
The purchase of his tropical lair, the retreat from society, the way Fleming spent the
latter half of his life there - these are all apparently telltale signs of a man who just can’t
handle getting older. What Parker’’s new book shows is how much that crisis latched
itself onto James Bond, and how the defiant fantasy he provided against decline both
restored Fleming and gave life to an immortal franchise.” - The Atlantic
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Berlin - Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
by Rory MacLean
311 Peruvian Avenue
Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the
brightest and darkest designs of history’s most bloody century. The once arrogant
capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited
and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the
echo of lives lived, dreams realized and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly
been so powerful, and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and
defined by individual imaginations. Rory MacLean assembles a dazzlingly eclectic cast
of Berliners over five centuries, from the wild medieval balladeer to the ambitious prostitute who refashioned herself as a royal princess, from the Scottish mercenary who
fought for the Prussian Army to the fearful Communist Party functionary who helped
to build the Wall. Alongside them we encounter Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality in The Blue Angel, Goebbels concocting Nazi iconography, Hitler fantasizing about
the mega-city Germania and David Bowie recording ‘Heroes’. Through these vivid portraits, Rory MacLean masterfully evokes the seen and the unseen, in a richly varied,
unexpected tour of Berlin. The result is a unique biography of one of the world’s most
volatile and creative cities.
“Berlin is the most extraordinary work of history I’ve ever read. To call it history is, in
fact, reductive. There’s some historical analysis, quite a lot of fiction, some philosophizing, lashings of wit and a fair dose of invective. It’s a work of imagination, reflection, reverence, perplexity and criticism that reveals as much about the author’s precocious mind as it does about the city he adores.” - Washington Post
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GRUSS MASTER LECTURE:
Jacques Grange
The Colony Hotel
Jacques Grange is a world-renowned French interior designer.
After completing his training at the École Boulle and the École Camondo, Grange
made a career as a decorator in France and abroad from the 1970s. His main customers included Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, for whom he decorated the
Château Gabriel, in Benerville-sur-Mer, in the style of Proust’s Á la Recherche du
Temps Perdu. His usual customers include Isabelle Adjani, Princess Caroline of
Monaco, Alain Ducasse, François Pinault, Robert Agostinelli, Valentino, and Karl
Lagerfeld.
In New York, he provided the decoration of Paloma Picasso’s jewelry shop, of the
Mark Hotel on Madison Avenue, and of the Barbizon Hotel.
In 2014 he received Trophee des Arts from the French Institute Alliance Francaise.
The award distinguishes an artist who exemplifies FIAF’s mission of French-American
friendship and cross-cultural exchange. It has been bestowed upon French and
American artists and cultural icons, including Alain Ducasse, Marc Jacobs, Christian
Lacroix or Francois Cluzet.
This lecture would not happen where it not for the vision and support of Audrey and
Martin Gruss.
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Building Art – The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
by Paul Goldberger
311 Peruvian Avenue
From Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging,
nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous
architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates
the work of a man who has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture in his innovative use of materials, design, and form, and who is among the very
few architects in history to be both respected by critics as a creative, cutting-edge
force and embraced by the general public as a popular figure.
Building Art shows the full range of Gehry’s work, from early houses constructed of
plywood and chain-link fencing to lamps made in the shape of fish to the triumphant
success of such late projects as the spectacular art museum of glass in Paris. It tells
the story behind Gehry’s own house, which upset his neighbors and excited the world
with its mix of the traditional and the extraordinary, and recounts how Gehry came to
design the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, his remarkable structure of swirling
titanium that changed a declining city into a destination spot. Building Art also
explains Gehry’s sixteen-year quest to complete Walt Disney Concert Hall, the beautiful, acoustically brilliant home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
At once a sweeping view of a great architect and an intimate look at creative genius,
Building Art is in many ways the saga of the architectural milieu of the twenty-first century. But most of all it is the compelling story of the man who first comes to mind when
we think of the lasting possibilities of buildings as art.
“An enthralling story . . . more gripping than any novel . . . Gives a deep insight into
the life of a revolutionary architect and modern architecture.” - The Washington Post
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Friday, April 8, 2016
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LECTURE:
Rosamund Bartlett on ‘Psychology of a City - The Architecture
of St. Petersburg’
St. Petersburg’s dignity and grandeur is everywhere apparent. Peter the Great had
before him a vast tabula rasa when planning his future capital at the beginning of the
18th century. The city he built was truly sumptuous but it came at a price. This lecture
tells the story of the buildings of St. Petersburg, but also the life that went on inside
the buildings, focusing particularly on the city’s writers, musicians and artists, for
whom St. Petersburg had a personality – sometimes enigmatic, sometimes tragic which they immortalized in their paintings, music and literary works.
Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, scholar and translator who has lectured on Russian and
European cultural history at universities, museums, and public institutions around the
world. She has held senior university posts in Russian, Music and History, and was
most recently a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow in the Department of History and
Civilization at the European University Institute in Fiesole.
She is a Fellow of the
European Humanities Research Centre at the University of Oxford, Visiting Professor
at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, and Honorary Associate in the
School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney.
Her latest book, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, was published in 2010, and was longlisted
for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In addition to contributing to the authoritative New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The Cambridge History of Russia, she
has written articles for leading scholarly journals and worked extensively as a translator: her Chekhov anthology About Love and Other Stories was shortlisted for the
Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She also edited and translated the first unexpurgated
edition of Chekhov’s letters for Penguin Classics.
Her new translation of Anna
Karenina for Oxford World’s Classics was published in autumn 2014.
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LECTURE:
Monica Ponce de Leon, the new dean of Princeton’s School
of Architecture
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Monica Ponce de Leon, a pioneering educator and award-winning architect, has
recently been named the new dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture.
A recipient of the prestigious National Design Award in Architecture from the Cooper
Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum, Ponce de Leon co-founded Office dA,
in 1991, and in 2011 started her own design practice, MPdL Studio, with offices in
New York, Boston and Ann Arbor.
Ponce de Leon has served as dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor since 2008, where she is also the
Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning. Before her
appointment at the University of Michigan, Ponce de Leon was a professor at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she served on the faculty for 12 years.
Among her many prestigious honors, Ponce de Leon has received the Academic
Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the USA
Target Fellow in Architecture and Design from United States Artists; and the Young
Architects and Emerging Voices awards from the Architectural League of New York.
She is widely recognized as a leader in the application of robotic technology to building fabrication. Building upon her work as director of the Digital Lab at Harvard, at the
University of Michigan she developed a state of the art student-run digital fabrication
lab, integrating digital fabrication into the curriculum of the school. In large part
because of her pioneering work, the use of digital tools is now commonplace in architecture schools across the country.
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Michael Hoffman on Joseph Roth’s The Hotel Years
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Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through his work he preserved in word a world lost. He published several books and articles before his
untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee,
Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.
The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four of his feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures;
personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before
translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World
War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War.
Acclaimed poet Michael Hofmann is considered one of the greatest living experts on
Joseph Roth. For his translations he has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,
the Dublin International IMPAC Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times). He is the highly acclaimed translator of, among
others, Kafka, Brecht, and Joseph Roth.
“Reading the 64 essays by Joseph Roth anthologized in The Hotel Years - dazzling,
elegiac, mordant and harrowingly oracular by turn - is like roaming through the Grand
Budapest Hotel.” - New York Times
“Roth spent so much time living in hotels that he declared himself “a hotel citizen, a
hotel patriot”. Highlights include his portraits of the staff of an unnamed European
hotel in 1929, transporting the reader to a now vanished world.” - The Independent
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The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Marc Kushner
311 Peruvian Avenue
Marc Kushner, the founder of Architizer.com and co-founder of the architectural firm
HWKN draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social
media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture.
We are asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our
future.
A pavilion made from paper. A building that eats smog. An inflatable concert hall. A
research lab that can walk through snow. We’re entering a new age in architecture one where we expect our buildings to deliver far more than just shelter. We want
buildings that inspire us while helping the environment; buildings that delight our
senses while serving the needs of a community; buildings made possible both by new
technology and repurposed materials.
Like an architectural cabinet of wonders, this book collects the most innovative buildings of today and tomorrow. The buildings hail from all seven continents (to say nothing of other planets), offering a truly global perspective on what lies ahead. Each page
captures the soaring confidence, the thoughtful intelligence, the space-age wonder,
and at times the sheer whimsy of the world’s most inspired buildings—and the questions they provoke: Can a building breathe? Can a skyscraper be built in a day? Can
we 3D-print a house? Can we live on the moon?
Filled with gorgeous imagery and witty insight, this book is an essential and delightful
guide to the future being built around us—a future that matters more, and to more of
us, than ever.
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The Invention of Nature - Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
by Andrea Wulf
311 Peruvian Avenue
The Invention of Nature reveals the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand
horticulture and nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with
adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world, paddling down the Orinoco or racing through anthrax–infested Siberia. Perceiving nature
as an interconnected global force, Humboldt discovered similarities between climate
zones across the world. He turned scientific observation into poetic narrative, and his
writings inspired naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth and Goethe but
also politicians such as Jefferson. In The Invention of Nature author Wulf traces
Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution,
ecology, conservation, art and literature and brings this forgotten father of environmentalism back to life.
The Invention of Nature has been named one of Publisher Weekly’s Best Books of
2015, is a finalist of the Kirkus Book Prize 2015 and longlisted for the Andrew
Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction.
Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in Britain
where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author
of The Brother Gardeners which was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008,
the most prestigious non-fiction award in the UK and won the American Horticultural
Society 2010 Book Award as well as the CBHL 2010 Annual Literature Award. She
is a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
and the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013.
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Wednesday, January 6 to Friday, January 29, 2016
10am to 4pm
EXHIBIT:
Palm Beach Interiors of Theodore Colebrook
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to public
This exhibition will present a collection of rarely-seen paintings of the interiors of some
of Palm Beach’s most famous houses. They are commissions of the well-known private painter Theodore Colebrook.
Colebrook was a painter very early in his life. He was born in 1950 and by age six he
had presented a self-portrait to his mother. This charming little picture, along with
many more childhood paintings survive, thanks to her, and they attest to what has
always been a driving force in his life.
As a child, he told grown-ups that he wanted to be a painter and a sculptor when he
grew up. Then, amazingly, through all of the opportunities and distractions of the
1960’s and ‘70’s, Colebrook actually became what he wanted to be. Now, the growing number of those who admire and collect his work are thrilled that he did.
Knowledge of the subject is clearly evident throughout Colebrook’s work. Close
examination of his paintings reveals subtle, wonderful detail. From stirrup leathers to
stone walls and rigging to the rising tide, the serious viewer understands that the
objects of his gaze are part of his life experience. Viewers can feel what he paints in
the changing terrain of the landscape and can smell the smoke in the humid air.
Clients of commissioned works have described how they actually see more in their
own interiors or their own gardens after having studied Colebrooks’s fluent depictions. But then, of course, that is what good painters have always done.
There are many who have described the wonderful affect achieved by his combination
of free paint application and precise perspective, but his teacher and mentor, Bill
Draper, probably expressed it best as he introduced Colebrook so many times by saying, “he is a good painter, a Good Painter!”
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Wednesday, February 10 to Friday, February 26, 2016
10am to 4pm
EXHIBIT:
Palm Beach Through the Lens of Bert Morgan
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to public
A friend of the Rockefellers, Kennedys, Hearsts and Harrimans, Bert Morgan became
the photographer of choice for high society starting in the 1930’s. By promising never
to publish an unflattering picture, he gained unlimited access to this rarefied post-gilded-age world, which he followed seasonally from New York and Long Island to Palm
Beach, Newport, Saratoga, and the Hamptons.
This exhibit will showcase some of his greatest Palm Beach photographs.
Bert Morgan was born in England in 1904, came to America at age seven and was
raised in Brooklyn. He began his career at fifteen syndicating photographs for the
Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. By 1930, he began taking his own
photographs with a camera he bought for a quarter. For five decades he would chronicle High Society events and it’s luminaries, as well as becoming the official track photographer of the New York Racing Association. His work was regularly published in
magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Town & Country.
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Monday, December 14, 2015
6pm
FILM NIGHT:
Youth (2015)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
How do we achieve permanence and success in art, design and even life? Youth is
about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps. Oscar winning actor
Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along
his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and best friend Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his
last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. The two men
reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can
come later in life. It is a story of the eternal struggle between age and youth, the past
and the future, life and death, commitment and betrayal. The cast also includes Paul
Dano and Jane Fonda.
“Youth is a voluptuary’s feast, a full-body immersion in the sensory pleasures of the
cinema.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“The film is often remarkable, gorgeous even - many of the shots in Youth would make
excellent closing shots, including the opening shot - and funny. It’s a work of wonderful moments.” - CineVue
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Sunday, January 3, 2016
6pm
FILM NIGHT:
Downton Abbey Season 6 Premiere
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
The award-winning and popular British period drama returns for its sixth and final season. The sixth series takes place in the 1920s and continues to detail the trials and
tribulations of the Crawleys, a family of nobility living on an estate called Downton
Abbey. It also follows the lives of the servants on the estate.
The preservation of the family estate continues to be the focus of the series. The
series picks up six months after the end of Series 5, in 1925. Lord Grantham has
begun to wonder whether it is time to further reduce the household staff, in line with
the times - with virtually no one running a household with lots of staff as they currently
do. A former housemaid at the Grand Hotel attempts to blackmail Mary Crawley. Mrs.
Hughes is reluctant to set a date for her wedding with Mr. Carson, as she feels she
is not as good looking as she was in her youth.
“There is no mystery about the potency of this series, slathered in wit, powered by storytelling of a high order.” – The Wall Street Journal
“From virtually any angle, though, Downton Abbey is an almost peerless piece of real
estate.” - Variety
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Monday, January 4, 2016
6pm
FILM NIGHT:
Jalsaghar – The Music Room (1958)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Filmed at the famous palace of Roy Chowdhurys in Nimtita, known as the Nimtita
Rajbari, Jalsaghar - The Music Room brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the
world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to
a fading way of life which he fails to preserve. His greatest joy is the music room in
which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years - now a shadow of its former vivid
self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a
showcase for some of India’s most popular musicians of the day, famed Indian director Satyajit Ray’s Jalsaghar - The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali
filmmaker.
“A nuanced psychological portrait of an aristocrat in decline.” – Q Network Film Desk
“It’s a fascinating snapshot of Indian culture in the 1930s, and a cautionary tale about
the dangers of an inflated opinion of self-worth.” – ReelViews
“This production is an extraordinary mixture of distinctive Bengali culture and universal
themes of emotional loss.” – Film Threat
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FILM NIGHT:
A Little Chaos (2014)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
A romantic drama following Sabine, a talented landscape designer, who is building a
garden at Versailles for King Louis XIV. Sabine struggles with class barriers as she
becomes romantically entangled with the court’s renowned landscape artist.
“True French historians should simply relax and enjoy a film that takes us on a beautifully photographed cinematic romp into a past as it likely should have been.” - Chicago
Sun-Times
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FILM NIGHT:
Enjo – Conflagration (1958)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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Enjo - Conflagration is a 1958 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa and adapted
from the Yukio Mishima novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
It dramatizes the true story of Goichi, a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional
family who is sent to a temple in the northern hills of Kyoto - the Golden Pavilion - for
further study. The original pavilion was a villa constructed by the Shogun Yoshimitsu
(1358-1409) as a place for leisurely relaxation. After he died, the gold-leafed building
was given over for religious use as a temple.
Shy and idealistic - and hindered by a stuttering problem - Goichi arrives at the temple
haunted by his dying father’s sentiment that the Golden Pavilion of the Shukaku
Temple is the most beautiful thing in the world.
“This dignified, purposeful film is often touching as a case history of doomed innocence at bay. But its coils of compromise and corruption are even more credible and
haunting.” – New York Times
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FILM NIGHT:
Casque d’or (1952)
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Casque d’or lovingly evokes the Paris demimonde of 1900 in this classic tale of
doomed romance.
When gangster’s moll Marie (Simone Signoret) falls for reformed criminal Manda
(Serge Reggiani), their passion incites an underworld rivalry that leads inexorably to
treachery and tragedy.
With poignant, nuanced performances and sensuous black-and-white photography,
Casque d’or is director Jacques Becker at the height of his cinematic powers – a perfect cultural recreation of a time and place now lost to us.
“An excellent recreation of a colorful French period.” - Variety
“An insular underworld drama of love and revenge vibrates authentically against a
vividly etched background of early century Paris.” - New York Times
“One of the great movie romances.” - Time Out
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Monday, February 1, 2016
6pm
FILM NIGHT:
The Cruise (1998)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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The Cruise is director Bennett Miller’s documentary portrait of New York City tour bus
guide/street philosopher Timothy “Speed” Levitch. It is an unsummarizable comedy,
tragedy, love letter to the city and the anatomy of innocence. It was the debut film of
Bennett Miller, who became prominent after directing Capote (2005).
“Levitch (who has now retired and gives private tours) became a legend in the New
York bus tour universe in the mid-1990s; customers, far from being confused by his
curious rants, recommended his tours to one another. That makes a kind of sense. You
can see buildings anywhere, but Levitch is the kind of sight perhaps only New York
could engender.” – Roger Ebert
“Timothy ”Speed” Levitch, the singular subject of Bennett Miller’s inspired, inspiring
documentary The Cruise, is the kind of New York City character for whom New York
City was invented. . . . A man on life’s margins with a philosophy that margins can’t
contain, he sees New York existence as a cruise for enlightenment; everything that
gets in the way (cops, Mom, streets laid out in a grid) is the ‘anti-cruise.’” –
Entertainment Weekly
“Perhaps most expressive of [Levitch’s] conflicted view of New York, and civilization
as a whole, is a bitter rant about how the grid system of Manhattan’s street plan reinforces and perpetuates people’s tendency to live lives of mediocrity and failure, generation after generation.” - Variety
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FILM NIGHT:
Around the World with Orson Welles (1955)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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The renowned Orson Welles, who wrote and directed this 1955 British television
series for Associated Rediffusion, lends his inimitable style to this tour through
Europe, meeting up with celebrities and ordinary people, discussing everything. He
visits the Basque Country region between Spain and France. Then he goes to Vienna,
where he takes viewers to some of the locations of his famous film The Third Man and
explains Viennese coffeehouse culture. Finally, it is off to St-Germain-des-Pres where
Welles meets with Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco. Somewhere between a home
movie and a cinematic essay, these short films have been described by French critics
as the missing link in Welles’ work.
“It remains an incredibly addictive proposition, partly because the sight of Welles
cadging cherries off children or responding to hecklers is so bizarre, and partly
because he proves, like an eccentric uncle, remarkably entertaining company. . . He’s
just as likely to worry over the declining popularity of Viennese coffee houses as he is
to regale the camera with jokes about Romanian cooking and aborted adolescent flirtation at the opera.” – Pop Matters
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FILM NIGHT:
People (2013)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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Britain’s most celebrated comic playwright, Alan Bennett (The History Boys, Habit of
Art), deals with the travails of a crumbling stately home and its ageing owner in this
recent work.
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them
traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard
table, what is one to do? Dorothy (Frances de la Tour) wonders if an attic sale could
be a solution.
“Wonderfully funny.” - The Times
“Provocative fun... entertaining, funny and touching.” - Daily Telegraph
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FILM NIGHT:
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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Set in 1963 Yokohama, Japan, the film tells the story of Umi Matsuzaki, a high school
girl living in a boarding house, Coquelicot Manor. When Umi meets Shun Kazama, a
member of the school’s newspaper club, they decide to clean up the school’s clubhouse, Quartier Latin. However, Tokumaru, the chairman of the local high school and
a businessman, intends to demolish the building for redevelopment and Umi and
Shun, along with Shir Mizunuma, must persuade him to reconsider.
“From Up on Poppy Hill is frankly stunning, as beautiful a hand-drawn animated feature as you are likely to see. It’s a time-machine dream of a not-so-distant past, a
sweet and honestly sentimental story.” – Los Angeles Times
“Goro Miyazaki’s film is about the point at which we decide not what we want to be
when we grow up, but who, and the way the tiniest moments in our lives often have
the most far-reaching effect.” – The Telegraph
“Its visual magic lies in painterly compositions of foliage, clouds, architecture and
water, and its emotional impact comes from the way everyday life is washed in the colors of memory.” – New York Times
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Monday, March 7, 2016
6pm
FILM NIGHT:
La Sapienza (2015)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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Named for the famous seventeenth-century Roman church Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza,
which was designed by the legendary architect (and Bernini rival) Francesco
Borromini, La Sapienza echoes Rossellini’s Viaggio in Italia in its tale of Alexandre
Schmid (Fabrizio Rongione), a brilliant architect who, plagued by doubts and loss of
inspiration, embarks on a quest of artistic and spiritual renewal guided by his study of
Borromini. His wife Aliénor (Christelle Prot), similarly troubled by the crassness of
contemporary society - as well as the couple’s lack of communication and passion decides to accompany him. In Stresa, a chance encounter with adolescent siblings
Goffredo (who is about to commence his own architectural studies) and his fragile sister Lavinia upends the couple’s plans. As Borromini’s spirit and the vertiginous splendor of his structures spin a mysterious web among them, within the course of a few
days the foursome experiences a series of life-altering revelations.
“Juxtaposes insights on how people are emotionally connected with ruminations on
the buildings and spaces through which they move, in which they live and, in
Alexandre’s case, which they also create.” - Hollywood Reporter
“Layered with reels of swirling shots of Rome’s most beautiful buildings - all crucially
shot from the ground upwards, staring at the heavens - La Sapienza is visually stunning.” - The National
“While Green’s film is dense with historical fact and theory, it’s not averse to plumbing life’s mysteries. Suffused with warmth, it expresses a potent admiration for human
striving and accomplishment.” - Film Comment
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FILM NIGHT:
Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt/Symphony of a Great City
(1927)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest
morning and ends in the deepest night.
The film is an example of the city symphony film genre. As a city symphony film, it portrays the life of a city, mainly through visual impressions in a semi-documentary style,
without the narrative content of more mainstream films, though the sequencing of
events can imply a kind of loose theme or impression of the city’s daily life.
What is critically interesting about this particular film shot in Berlin, Germany is the
timeframe in which it was made. It is very significant that in watching this film today
that it is watched not just for its onetime artistic or style value but as a type of filmed
“time-capsule” an invaluable historical filmed record of the great city of Berlin in the
mid to late 1920’s which no longer exists today. Over 30% of central Berlin was leveled during the Allied bombing campaigns at the end of World War II changing the
face of old Berlin forever
The film offers viewers a chance to open up their understanding of the communities
around them and the way people interact with the character of their surroundings.
“It remains a unique and sometimes inspired exercise in style for its own sake.” –
Chicago Reader
“More of a montage of images than an actual movie, this is a deeply fascinating documentary.” – Film4
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FILM NIGHT:
The Rise and Fall of Penn Station (2014)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City’s Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and eventually to New England, knitting together the
entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the
greatest architectural achievements of its time, Pennsylvania Station. Inspired by
Paris’ Gare d’Orsay and the Roman baths of Caracalla, Pennsylvania Station covered
nearly eight acres, extended two city blocks, and housed one of the largest public
spaces in the world; many of the 100,000 attendees of Penn Station’s grand opening
proclaimed it to be one of the wonders of the world.
But just 53 years after the station’s opening, what was supposed to last forever, to
herald and represent the American Empire, was slated to be destroyed. The financially-strapped Pennsylvania Railroad announced it had sold the air rights above Penn
Station, and would tear down what had once been the company’s crowning jewel to
build Madison Square Garden, a high-rise office building and sports complex.
On the rainy morning of October 28, 1963, the demolition began; it took three years
to dismantle the monumental station. The monumental edifice was gone, but the tunnels and the trains remain, serving millions of people every year.
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FILM NIGHT:
Louis Sullivan - The Struggle for American Architecture (2010)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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The first feature-length documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago
architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924). Known by historians as the ‘father of the skyscraper’ and creator of the iconic phrase ‘form follows function,’ Sullivan was on top
of his profession in 1890. Then a series of setbacks plunged him into destitute obscurity from which he never fully recovered. Yet his persistent belief in the power of his
ideas created some of America’s most beautiful buildings ever created, and inspired
Sullivan’s protégé, Frank Lloyd Wright, to fulfill his own dream of a truly American style
of architecture. Magnificent footage of surviving Sullivan buildings combined with
thoughtful insight by Sullivan scholars and great storytelling, this award-winning film
has won approval from architects, educators and critics.
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FILM NIGHT:
Russkij Kovcheg - Russian Ark (2002)
311 Peruvian Avenue
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As successful as it is ambitious, Russkij Kovcheg - Russian Ark condenses three centuries of Russian culture into a single, uninterrupted, take. It was filmed entirely in the
Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum.
It is shot from the point-of-view of an unseen narrator, as he explores the museum and
travels through Russian history. The audience sees through his eyes as he witnesses
Peter the Great (Maksim Sergeyev) abusing one of his generals; Catherine the Great
(Maria Kuznetsova) desperately searching for a bathroom; and, in the grand finale, the
sumptuous Great Royal Ball of 1913. The narrator is eventually joined by a sarcastic
and eccentric 19th century French Marquis (Sergey Dreiden), who travels with him
throughout the huge grounds, encountering various historical figures and viewing the
legendary artworks on display. While the narrator only interacts with the Marquis (he
seems to be invisible to all the other inhabitants), the Marquis occasionally interacts
with visitors and former residents of the museum. The film was obviously shot in one
day, but the cast and crew rehearsed for months to time their movements precisely
with the flow of the camera while capturing the complex narrative, with elaborate costumes from different periods, and several trips out to the exterior of the museum.
“The result is a magnificent feast for the eyes and brain.” - New York Post
“Dazzling dance to the music of time.” - Village Voice
“Might well be the first real masterpiece of the 21st Century.” - Denver Rocky
Mountain News
“It’s a rich, complex, and mystery-filled journey through Russian art and history.” Looking Closer
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The Price of Desire (2015)
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Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in
the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later life and work in
France focusses on the triangle of tension between Gray (Orla Brady), her lover
Badovici (Francesco Scianna) and architect Le Corbusier (Vincent Perez). Alanis
Morrissette also features as chanteuse Marisa Damia, Gray’s other lover, with
Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen, Amélie) as artist Fernand Léger.
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Philip Johnson - Diary of an Eccentric Architect (1997)
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In this documentary, ninety-year-old architect Philip Johnson takes viewers on a personal tour of his 40-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, and provides insight
into the structures he designed for this carefully constructed environment.
“My place in New Canaan is...a diary of an eccentric architect.” Thus begins a fascinating look into the mind of one of our most creative and significant architects.
Philip Johnson was always on the forefront of stylistic change, and his property in New
Canaan, Connecticut, is a kind of laboratory where Johnson was his own best client.
It was there that he built the famous ‘Glass House’ that he resided in for so many
years.
This building has no walls; (the landscape became “expensive wallpaper”) an accompanying guest house, by contrast, has no windows, though it is light and sensuous
inside. The film visits these, as well as the gallery which houses Johnson’s extensive
collection of contemporary art on its revolving walls.
“My latest folly,” says Johnson, “is to build buildings without straight lines...It’s the first
time I’ve had a building I can’t draw and have to design partially as it goes up.” This
new structure is at the core of the film, and we are able to see the sculptural building
progress from its initial stages to completion.
This documentary depicts Johnson at work and the importance of the architectural
act, the actual construction, and how the buildings interact with their environment - in
this case, the autumn leaves or snow of New Canaan.
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6pm
FILM NIGHT:
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden (Christopher Plummer)
who arrives in Florida in the hopes of enforcing conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers. The poachers are after certain endangered birds because their tail feathers look
nice in women’s hats. The film was loosely based upon the life and death of Guy
Bradley, an early game warden.
“Nicholas Ray magnificently directs, catching the adventurous vibes of the period, the
hypnotic mood behind the area folklore and the flavor of the outlaw poachers as protesters against civilized society (showing them as closer to nature than the civilized
business folks in Miami or even the appointed nature loving Audubon warden).
Through cinematographer Joseph Brun’s fine camera work, the ravishing array of location colors makes for an arresting watch. . . it’s an unusually powerful pic that shows
Ray as the rebel with a cause - someone who always manages to make provocative
and intelligent films even when dealing with tough circumstances.” - Ozus’ World
Movie Reviews
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Monday, May 2, 2016
6:00 pm
FILM NIGHT:
The Lego Movie (2014)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
In this tale, an ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary
Master Builder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the
universe together into eternal stasis.
“Like the toy it’s based on, it’s goofy and colorful and something adults and children
can enjoy together.” - Portland Oregonian
“The LEGO Movie is the kind of animated free-for-all that comes around very rarely,
if ever: A kids’ movie that matches shameless fun with razor-sharp wit, that offers
up a spectacle of pure, freewheeling joy even as it tackles the thorniest of issues.”
- New York Magazine
“This is truly a movie that children and their parents can both enjoy for different reasons.” - ReelViews
“The funniest, cleverest, most exhaustingly exhilarating animated feature in ages.”
- Time
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Garden
Classes
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GARDEN CLASS:
Beneficial Insects
Pan’s Garden
Members only – $50 equipment fee
Preservation Foundation Director of Gardens Daniele Garson will lead participants
through a class about nature’s best garden pest control, beneficial insects in Pan’s
Garden.
Beneficial insects provide an environmentally sound biological method for controlling
pests that damage garden plants. During this class particpants will learn to identify
common garden pests and the insects that prey on them.
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GARDEN CLASS:
Avian Planting
Pan’s Garden
Preservation Foundation Director of Gardens Daniele Garson will lead participants
through a class on avian gardening in Pan’s Garden.
With their many colors, intricate calls, and splendid displays birds offer garden enthusiasts hours of enjoyment and relaxation. Participants will decorate their own bird
houses and discuss tips for attracting avian friends to gardens.
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Musicale
Series
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MUSICALE:
Yale Whiffenpoofs
Pan’s Garden
Free to public
Every year, fourteen senior Yale men are selected to be the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s
oldest and most famous collegiate a cappella group. Founded in 1909, the “Whiffs”
began as a senior quintet that met for weekly concerts at Mory’s Temple Bar, the
renowned Yale tavern and club. Today, the group has become one of Yale’s most celebrated and hallowed traditions, carrying on almost a century of musical excellence
and professional showmanship at Yale, across America, and around the world. Each
Whiffenpoof group maintains a busy performance schedule throughout the year,
records an album, and circles the globe on a six-continent world tour. Audiences have
included such notable figures as Presidents Obama and Bush, the Dalai Lama,
Mother Theresa, and fans at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, the Rose Bowl, the
World Series, Saturday Night Live, and Glee.
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Calendar
of events
All events subject to change
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November | 2015
Friday, November 25, 2015
6pm
Book Signing/Cocktail Reception:
40 Years of Fabulous: The Kips
Bay Decorator Show House by
Steven Stolman
311 Peruvian Avenue
Invitation Only
December | 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Noon
Membership Luncheon and Ballinger
and Volunteer Awards
The Breakers
Invitation only
J a n u a r y | 2 0 1 6 | continued
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
6pm
Cocktail Reception: Palm Beach
Interiors of Theodore Colebrook
Exhibit Preview
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Wednesday, January 6 to Friday,
January 29, 2016
10am to 4pm
Exhibit: Palm Beach Interiors of
Theodore Colebrook
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to public
Monday, December 14, 2015
6pm
Film Night: Youth (2015)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: The Age
of Empire - Britain’s Imperial
Architecture From 1880 to 1930
by Clive Aslet
311 Peruvian Avenue
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
6pm
Members’ Christmas Party
311 Peruvian Avenue
Invitation only
6pm
Film Night: A Little Chaos (2014)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
January | 2016
Sunday, January 3, 2016
6pm
Film Night: Downton Abbey Season
6 Premiere
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
6pm
Film Night: Jalsaghar –
The Music Room (1958)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Noon
Trustees Meeting and Polly
Earl Award
311 Peruvian Avenue
Invitation only
2pm
Lecture: Tony Sabatino on
‘The Restoration of Mizner
Memorial Fountain’
6pm
Film Night: Enjo –
Conflagration (1958)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: World
Monuments - 50 Irreplaceable Sites
to Discover and Champion by
George H. McNeely
311 Peruvian Avenue
6pm
Film Night: Casque d’or (1952)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
9am to Noon
Historic Properties Workshop
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to Public
Friday, January 29, 2016
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: The Other
Paris by Luc Sante
311 Peruvian Avenue
Fe b r u a r y | 2 0 1 6
6pm
Film Night: The Cruise (1998)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
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Fe b r u a r y | 2 0 1 6
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: City on a
Grid: How New York Became New
York by Gerard Koeppel
311 Peruvian Avenue
6pm
Film Night: Around the World with
Orson Welles (1955)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
6pm
Cocktail Reception: Palm Beach
Through the Lens of Bert Morgan
Exhibit Preview
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Wednesday, February 10 to Friday,
February 26, 2016
10am to 4pm
Exhibit: Palm Beach Through the
Lens of Bert Morgan
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to public
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: The Walk
to/from Elsie’s by Hutton Wilkinson
and Flynn Kuhnert
311 Peruvian Avenue
6pm
Film Night: People (2013)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture: Tom Mayes on ‘Why Do Old
Places Matter?’
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2pm
Lecture: James Corner on ‘The High
Line and Landscape Architecture’
6pm
Film Night: From Up on Poppy Hill
(2011)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture: Toshiko Mori on ‘Saving
Japanese Modern Architecture’
2pm
Walking Tour
311 Peruvian Avenue
Free to Sponsor and above members $50 Patron and below members
M a rch | 2 0 1 6
7:30pm
Annual Gala Dinner Dance Benefit
The Breakers
Invitation only
6pm
Film Night: La Sapienza (2015)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: A Natural
History of English Gardening:
1650–1800 by Mark Laird
311 Peruvian Avenue
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: Open City
by Teju Cole
311 Peruvian Avenue
6pm
Film Night: Berlin - Die Sinfonie der
Grosstadt/Symphony of a Great
City (1927)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: Goldeneye Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s
Jamaica by Matthew Parker
311 Peruvian Avenue
11am
Garden Class: Beneficial Insects
Pan’s Garden
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: Berlin Portrait of a City Through the
Centuries by Rory MacLean
311 Peruvian Avenue
6pm
Film Night: The Rise and Fall of Penn
Station (2014)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Gruss Master Lecture:
Jacques Grange
The Colony Hotel
M a rch | 2 0 1 6
6pm
Film Night: Louis Sullivan The Struggle for American
Architecture (2010)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: Building Art –
The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
by Paul Goldberger
311 Peruvian Avenue
April | 2016
4pm
Musicale: Yale Whiffenpoofs
Pan’s Garden
Free to public
6pm
Film Night: Russkij Kovcheg Russian Ark (2002)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
Noon
Elizabeth L. and John H. Schuler
Award Presentation/Lecture and
Buffet Lunch
311 Peruvian Avenue
2pm
Lecture: Rosamund Bartlett on
‘Psychology of a City - The
Architecture of St. Petersburg’
April | 2016
6pm
Film Night: The Price of
Desire (2015)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture: Monica Ponce de Leon,
the new dean of Princeton’s School
of Architecture
The Colony Hotel
7pm
Preservationist Club Dinner and
the Lesly S. Smith Landscape
Award Presentation
311 Peruvian Avenue
Invitation only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: Michael
Hoffman on Joseph Roth’s
The Hotel Years
311 Peruvian Avenue
6pm
Film Night: Philip Johnson - Diary of
an Eccentric Architect (1997)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
11am
Garden Class: Avian Planting
Pan’s Garden
6pm
Film Night: Wind Across the
Everglades (1958)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing:
The Invention of Nature Alexander von Humboldt’s
New World by Andrea Wulf
311 Peruvian Avenue
7:30pm
Modern Friends Garden Party
Pan’s Garden
Invitation only
May | 2016
Monday, May 2, 2016
6:00 pm
Film Night: The Lego Movie (2014)
311 Peruvian Avenue
Members only
2pm
Lecture/Book Signing: The Future of
Architecture in 100 Buildings by
Marc Kushner
311 Peruvian Avenue
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