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Diane
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Melanie
Waumbold, Marcia Precoda, and Bettina Zilkha
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Kay
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It
was a luncheon last Friday at Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola's beautiful
Southampton estate which was built many moons ago by an Andrew
Carnegie daughter. Or was
it a niece?
Or was it a brother?
The purpose of the luncheon was to honor all the past and present
chairwomen of the Southampton Hospital Summer Party.
The Hospital party is one of the top charitable events of the summertime
Hamptons. It was put on the map many moons ago by the Old Guard
who used their sway and checkbooks to get out the troops and raise
what
now has become millions for the hospital. It is a very rare occurrence
that a local hospital, a hundred miles from the metropolis gets
the kind of attention and backing that the Southampton Hospital
gets.
But it is a rare occurrence that so many of the rich and powerful
of today’s world reside in summertime (and now even year
round on weekends) near a local hospital.
So there they
were. The tables were set up in the old Carnegie stable which
the de Guardiolas turned into a brilliant party
house quite
a few years ago. It’s very open and sits right next to
the pool, so there’s lots of light and it’s very
cool. And if it rains, which it used to do occasionally, everyone’s
protected and even enchanted by the sound of the rain on the
roof.
Before lunch the guests served cocktails on the terrace while
the pretty young daughters of the Southampton set modeled Harry
Winston
jewels- including an 81-karat D-flawless pendant for $6.5 million.
A couple of those’ll get you a house in the de Guardiolas’ neighborhood – maybe – so
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At
the de Guardiolas'
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The
luncheon models bedecked in Harry Winston were dressed by Southampton
and Palm Beach designer/retailer Steven Stolman in a variety of
leopard print designs. The theme of this year’s party will
be "Safari Summer,” in case you’re wondering.
Meanwhile, in the playhouse/barn, the décor was beige and white with
round tables covered in burlap, dark wood ballroom chairs, centerpieces of
white orchids, seashells and starfish- and a Robbins Wolfe deconstructed Cobb
salad lunch. What exactly is a deconstructed Cobb salad? Well, a constructed Cobb salad, the invention of the lady named Mrs. Cobb whose husband owned the
Brown Derby restaurant back in the old days of Hollywood, is made of bacon,
lettuce, tomato, chopped egg, sliced avocado, chopped chicken, blue cheese
(or Swiss, or cheddar), all mixed together, chopped up and doused in a dressing
of your liking. Now of course, a Cobb salad is on many restaurant menus and
it’s generally the same as the original, with, of course, improvisations
that render it Not Exactly, like many other things these days.
The Southampton Hospital Summertime party organizers, however, make a Big Difference,
year after year after year. This year’s honored ones were Sheila
O'Malley Fuchs and Cindy Willis, hostess Joanne
de Guardiola, Jamee Gregory, Hilary Geary Ross, Karen LeFrak, Pat Wood, Cathy
DiMontezemolo (who are sisters, members
of the enormous Murray clan of old Southampton, and lifelong
summer residents of the town) and Jean Remmel Little FitzSimmons (THE
grande dame of Southampton Hospital and it's biggest drum beater). Also in
attendance: Barbara
Smith, Judy Taubman, Kay Gilman, Brunie McKnight, Kitty McKnight, Jennifer
Fisher (of Detroit and Palm Beach — their yacht Rendezvous is
in Sag Harbor) Jessie Araskog, Melanie Wambold, Catesby Kilmer and Diane
Holmes.
Have
I left
anyone out? I’m sure I have. |
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Julie
Kamerer and Brunie McNight
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Maura
Weissman, Taylor Schiffman, Nicole Fay, Caroline McConaughey,
Kate Larsen, and Zoe Bibb
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Barbara
Smith, Joanne de Guardiola, Karen LeFrak, and Hilary Geary
Ross
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Betsy
Larsen, Alex Alexander, Jim Haag, and Fran
D'Allesandro
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Joanne
de Guardiola and Judy Taubman
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Joanne
de Guardiola, Hilary Geary Ross, Steven Stolman, and Jamee
Gregory
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Catesby
Kilmer, Jesse Araskog, Nancy O'Sullivan, and Barbara Smith
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| Clockwise
from above: Cathy DiMontezemolo; Shelia O'Malley Fuchs,
Steven Stollman, and Cindy Willis; Shelia O'Malley Fuchs
and Maura O'Malley Weissman; Joanne de Guardiola, Hilary
Geary Ross, and Jamee Gregory; Jenifer Lobo Buhl; Andrea
Greeven Douzet and Cindy Willis. |
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Lisa
Arnold and Lisa Cowell
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Hilary
Geary Ross and Pat Wood
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Bettina
Zilkha, Joanne de Guardiola, and Jesse Araskog
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Caroline
McConnaughey
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Diane
Burke, Nancy Leahy, and Ann Grimm
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Joanne
de Guardiola, Jean
Remmel Little FitzSimmons,
and Cindy Willis
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Clockwise
from above: Joanne
de Guardiola; Maura Weissman, Taylor Schiffman, Nicole
Fay, Steven Stolman, Caroline McConaughey, Kate Larsen,
and Zoe Bibb; Pat Wood; Melanie Waumbold and Christine
Gray; Jim Haag.
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| Photographs
by Patrick McMullan/PMc |
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