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04/29/2013 - NY Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s Spring Luncheon “Get Smart” Elizabeth Smart
04/25/2013 - 2013 New England Society Book Awards at the historic Grolier Club
04/25/2013 - Strokes of Genius 3rd Annual International Savant Art Exhibition
04/23/2013 - New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) celebrates their annual Hall of Fame Benefit
04/13/2013 - Culture Lovers Attend Roosevelt Island Cherry Blossom Festival
04/02/2013 - French Heritage Society Dinner and Exclusive Preview, at the BGC Gallery April 2, 2013
03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
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02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
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The Nature Conservancy Premiere of “Design for a Living World”
05/13/2009 - By Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The Nature Conservancy Premiere of “Design for a Living World”

Some 500 guests filled the elegant galleries and the garden patio of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - once the home of Andrew Carnegie - for a special preview of The Nature Conservancy’s ground breaking exhibition, Design for

a Living World this week.

A traveling exhibition, Design for a Living World features objects created by ten visionary designers made from sustainable, natural materials. The Nature Conservancy collaborated with prominent designers from the worlds of fashion, industrial and furniture design. Each designer focused on a natural material from a specific place where the Conservancy works to create beautiful, sustainable objects of art and design.

The exhibition features designs by Yves Béhar, Stephen Burks, Hella Jongerius, Maya Lin, Christien Meindertsma, Abbott Miller, Isaac Mizrahi, Ted Muehling, Paulina Reyes for Kate Spade and Ezri Tarazi. Miller and Ellen Upton co-curated the exhibition.

Bill Uhlfelder, the new director of The New York Nature Conservancy, Joe Gleberman, Board Chairman New York and Mark Tercek, President of The Nature Conservancy welcomed the guests. Gleberman a longtime major supporter of The Nature Conservancy summed up the organization’s mission as “Quite simply, we want to save the planet”. But there were no dire warnings or messages of gloom and doom. Mark Tercek, Sara Elliot, the project director and Dr. M. Sanjayan the organization’s lead scientist clearly saw the exhibition as a celebration of what is possible and a chance to make the public aware of the origins of everyday items from tools to jewels.

Among the creations featured in the exhibition are fashions by Mizrahi – a cocktail dress with matching floor length coat and a vampy pair of high heels made of Alaskan Salmon skin; precious jewels by Ted Muehling made with farmed black pearls and vegetable “ivory” and Paulina Reyes for Kate Spade’s innovative handbags made with sustainable woods, cotton and jipijapa, a fiber made of palm leaves. Maya Lin whose work tends to lean towards large scale works like Viet Nam Veterans Memorial which graces Washington fashioned a small table from a single tree cutting lateral strips.

Mizrahi sporting his usual head-covering bandana was busy accepting congratulations on the critic’s reception of his new reality series The Fashion Show. Like the other designers, he signed 100 copies of the gorgeous coffee table book Design for a Living World. The book features specially commissioned photographs from award-winning photojournalist Ami Vitale, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek and National Geographic.

Among the chic crowd of conservationists and design fans were real estate magnate and art collector Lawrence Benenson whose Benenson Capital Partners was one of the preview’s sponsors, Bravo TV Real Housewives’ hunk Maximiliano Palacio a former polo player and now actor/model; Sara Herbert-Galloway, Nanci Schallman, Errol Rappaport with Cindy Marinangel, Katherine & Gary Andreassen, Miriam Klipper, Melissa Brown, Joy LaSalle, Cristin Gates, Julie Lasky, David Noh and designer Michael Love.

The exhibition is now open to the public at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and will continue through Jan. 4, 2010.

Photos: Ann Watt


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