Party Pictures 9/26/05 - The Institute of International Education held its Annual Benefit Dinner at the Pierre; Ward, Judith, and Nico Landrigan held a cocktail reception to celebrate the centennial of Greta Garbo; Lenox Hill Neighborhood House celebrated the 40th anniversary of the D&D Building

The Institute of International Education held its Annual Benefit Dinner at the Pierre

Henry Kaufman, Henry Paulson, John C. Whitehead, and Maria Bartiromo

Alexandra Loria and Scott Freidheim

Last Monday night, the Institute of International Education held its Annual Benefit Dinner at the Pierre. The IIE honored Goldman Sachs with its Opening Minds Corporate Leadership Award for the company’s exemplary leadership and outstanding commitment to education and corporate social responsibiility around the world. Chairman and CEO Henry M. Paulson Jr. accepted the award for his firm.

Renee Fleming and Alberto Vitale served as Fulbright co-chairs for the Gala. More than 400 leaders in business, education, public policy, media, philanthropy and the arts attended, including Maria Bartiromo, Peter Gottsegen (Partner CAI Partners), Thomas Johnson (Former President and CEO, GreenPoint Bank), Henry Kaufman, John C. Whitehead.

Peter M. Gottsegen, Henry Kaufman, Thomas S. Johnson, John C. Whitehead, and Henry Paulson

They also presented the Fritz Redlich Alumni Award to four dynamic young social entrepreneurs from the US and China who are alumni of the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program. The four have developed a groundbreaking program, Technology Education Connecting Cultures (TECC) to combat poverty and advance education in China through technology.

L. to r.: Alex Lari and Maryam Ansary; Colette Goodman, Allan E. Goodman, and Daniel Obst with two international students.

L. to r.: Alberto Vitale, Gioietta Vitale, Michel and Heide Kruse, Christa Schutz, and David Janes; Marianne Reifenheiser and Gioietta Vitale.

Tom Russo, Andrew Jarecki, Nancy Jarecki, Ted Janulis, and Henry Jarecki

Julian Johnson, Cynthia Tsai, and Tom Russo

Tom Russo with two scholars

Dina Powell and Maria Bartiromo

Julian Johnson, Thomas S. Johnson, Robert L. Dilenschneider, and John Brademas

Stephanie Bell-Rose and Josh Weston

Henry Jarecki with Ted and Barbara Janulis

Robert H. Benmosche, George Soros, Thomas Russo, and Jennifer Chun

Layla Diba, Alex Lari, Maryam Ansary, and Daniela Kaisth

Larry Hite, Sybil Hite, Tom Russo, and Mary Mattson Kenworthy

L. to r.: Lois Gelernt; Alumni of the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Program; Thomas S. Johnson and Maria Bartiromo.

Ward, Judith, and Nico Landrigan held a cocktail reception to celebrate the centennial of Greta Garbo

Robert Dance, Derek Reisfield, and Gray and Don Reisfield

John Anthony, Jeannette Chang, and Ward Landrigan

Last Tuesday, at Verdura’s newly renovated salon at 745 Fifth Avenue, Ward and Judith Landrigan and their son Nico, held a cocktail reception to celebrate the centennial of Greta Garbo, along with the launch of the latest book GARBO: Portraits from her Private Collection, published by Rizzoli about the legendary actress, co-authored by Robert Dance and Garbo’s grand-nephew Scott Reisfield.

Co-authors Robert Dance and Scott Reisfield. Click image to order Garbo: Portraits from her Private Collection.

Several members of Garbo’s family including the co-author and Don and Gray Reisfeld and Derek Reisfeld were on hand along with Kenneth Jay Lane, John Anthony, Emilia Fanjul, Carolyne Roehm, Reed and Delphine Krakoff, Katherine Bryan, Aja Mangum, Topsy Taylor, Laura Yaggy, Isabelle Kellogg, Ki Hackney, R. Keith Langham — who designed the newly renovated Verdura headquarters; Kimberley Rosenburg, Don and Bourne Welsh, Jen Field, Kate Schroeder, Gerald and Mita Bland, Peter and Maria Worth, Joep, Dixie and Daria DeKoning, Merrill Stubbs, Amanda Todd, Elizabeth Pyne, Laurel Worth, Amanda Stetson.

Verdura also unveiled the limited edition silver curb-link bracelet, which was made famous by the screen legend. The bracelet, made for her by her friend Fulco Verdura, was in gold, and she wore it all her life. The limited edition (and first Verdura jewelry to be made in sterling silver) will be available through Verdura in New York, and at Bergdorf Goodman and Wynn & Company for $1950. The original 18-karat gold curb-link bracelet retails for $7500 and is available at the same locations.

Victoria Lam, Christina Payne, and Patricia Kayne

Eileen Eckstract and Isabelle Kellogg

Mita Bland, Judith Landrigan, and Maria Worth

Don and Bourne Welsh

David Wellington and Topsy Taylor

Brooke Magnaghi and Jamie Rosen

Kimberley Rosenburg anbd Laura Yaggy

Jen Field and Kate Schroeder

Emilia Saint-Amand and Connie Clapp

Alastair Clark, Daria DeKoning, and Nico Landrigan

Emilia Fanjul, Katherine Bryan, and Carolyne Roehm

Reed and Delphine Krakoff

Katherine Bryan and Kenny Lane

Amanda Todd and Elizabeth Pyne

Garbo display

Ward, Judith, and Nico Landrigan

Merrill Stubbs and friends

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House celebrated the 40th anniversary of the D&D Building

Linda Ornstein, Alex Donner, and Reneé Landegger

Dennis Roland, Bunny Williams, and Albert Hadley

Tom and Ingrid Edelman

Mayor Bloomberg’s officially proclaimed last September 12th Decoration & Design Day to honor the 40th anniversary of the legendary D&D Building at 979 Third Avenue.

Clo and Charles Cohen with Audrey Gruss

To mark the occasion, the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, represented by board members Diana Quasha, Audrey Gruss, Eva Dillon, Tom Edelman, and Sydney Shuman, threw a rousing birthday party for the Building and its owners Charles and Clo Cohen, who gave The House a generous donation to mark the occasion.

Interior designers who lent their names to the invitation, many of whom attended were: Albert Hadley, John Rosselli, Robert Rufino, Bunny Williams, Catherine Aaron, Alice Baldridge, Sara Bengur, Bruce Bierman, Debra Blair, Geoffrey Bradfield, Bill Brockschmidt, Mario Buatta, Libby Cameron, Sherrill Canet, Albert Capraro, Jose Carlino, John Christiansen, Eric Cohler, Courtney Coleman, Stiles Colwill, Elissa Cullman, Gaël de Brousse, Milly de Cabrol, Joanne de Guardiola, Mary Elliott, Mark Epstein, Michael Formica, Jennifer Garrigues, Constantin Gorges, Philip Gorrivan, Susan Zises Green, Kitty Hawks, Harry Heissmann, Tony Ingrao, Lisa Jackson, Noel Jeffrey, Randy Kemper, Sheila Camera Kotur, Michael Maher, Stewart Manger, Richard Mishaan, Juan Pablo Molyneux, Juan Montoya, Charlotte Moss, Sandra Nunnerly, Miles Redd, Randall Ridless, Dennis Rolland, Todd Romano, Jonathan Rosen, David Scott, Stephen Siegel, Matthew Patrick Smyth, Scott Snyder, Christopher Spitzmiller, Stephen Stempler, Stephanie Stokes, Michael Valente, Michael Whaley, Rod Winterrowd, and Vicente Wolfe.

Jamie Drake on his table

The party was held on the 14th floor in the newly refurbished Astra Café, which had been transformed for the evening by the mayor’s own designer Jamie Drake, who thought “ruby,” which is the traditional 40th anniversary gift. He adorned the reception tables with red and gold silk, satin and velvet fabrics from the building’s vendors, heart, star and diamond shaped rubies and dark porcelain vases filled with large sprays of crab apple tree branches, provided by florist extraordinaire Zezé. Jamie looked outstanding himself in a pink with lavender pin striped suit and matching silk tie.

The hors d’oeuvres were prepared by Charlie Palmer. Alex Donner and his band put everyone in the mood for a good time. The night was balmy with a warm September breeze as guests ventured out on the balcony that overlooking the magical Manhattan skyline.

Mr. and Mrs. Cohen greeted Nina Griscom, LHNH Executive Director Warren Scharf, Sharon Bush, Roric Tobin, Janna Bullock, lighting master Bentley Meeker, Andrea and Ashley Stark, Brendan Dillon, Melissa Berkelhammer, Salvatore Strazzullo, Julia Wallace, Jonathan Gargiulo, Jill Roosevelt, Mark Gilbertson, Kristina Stewart, Larry Laslo, Ann Pyne, Amy Hoadley, William Secord, Joanna Mastroianni and Gideon Lewin, Jill Brooke, Ingrid Edelman, Mallory and Roy Kean, Julie Dannenberg, Jay Snyder, Marilyn White, Evelyn Tompkins, Michael Devine, Janice Langrall, Nancy Sambuco, Reneé Landegger, House & Garden’s Susan Egan, Melissa Feldman and Lana LoRusso, Pilar Viladas, Arthur Wayne, Palm Beach Society’s Diane Millner, Georgina and Marcia Schaeffer, Alison Mazzola, Lisa Gorrivan, Lorie Adams, and Wendy Cebula, who are co-chairing LHNH’s next big event: the 18th annual Holiday Bazaar, previewing on November 17th at Sotheby’s.

Others stopping by included: Bill Cunningham, David Scott, Anne Ellington, Wolfgang Thom, Tom Gates and Mitch Douglas, Joan Jedell, Marcy Macdonald, Randall Stempler, Danielle Roberts, Bobby Gianos, Barbara and Peter Regna, Joe Cheng, Lisa Arlisa, Jennifer Powers, Barbara Hawkins Yung Hee Kim, KT and Michael Whaley, Gina Rogak, Mark Langrish, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Linda Ornstein, Lisa Bytner, Thomas Knapp.