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Donald Tober,
Barbara
Tober, and
Michael Aram
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New York's
avant-garde
Museum of
Arts and
Design,
which once
was known as
the American
Crafts
Museum and
was formerly
housed on
West 55th
Street, now
anchors
Columbus
Circle in a
unique
building
erected as a
cultural
center by
the
eccentric
Huntington
Hartford,
whose
philanthropic
excesses
eventually
bankrupted
that
billionaire
heir to the
A&P grocery
fortune. |
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Specializing
in
cutting-edge
styles of
the
decorative
arts, MAD
hosts an
annual ball
celebrating
futuristic
concepts for
wearable art
and for the
bold artists
who conceive
of wild new
forms of
jewelry,
attire,
furniture,
and the
other
elements
festooning
our new ways
of
contemporary
living. |
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This year
their
charity benefit
was held at
Pier 60 in
far west
Chelsea,
where the
social
vanguard
gathered on
November 11
for a lively
Visionaries
Ball to
honor such
pioneers of
cultural
exploration
and
invention as
the interior
designer Michael
Aram, the
digital
artist
Richard
Dupont, the
gallerist
and
collector
Barry
Friedman,
and the
lifestyle
connoisseur
Ligne Roset. |
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Among the
luminous
personalities
assembled
for the
elegant
soiree were
MAD's new
Director
Glenn
Adamson,
Board
Chairman
Lewis
Kruger, and
Chairman
Emerita
Barbara
Tober, who
was joined
by her husband
Donald, her
great friend
Boo Grace,
Virginia
Fields, Lisa
Herbert,
Nanette Laitman,
Robert Lee
Morris,
Miles Young,
curator
Lowery Sims,
and former
curator
David
McFadden. |
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Mixing with
the
socialites
and
benefactors
during the
silent
auction
cocktail
hour and
staying for
the
glamorous
dinner party
were such
celebrated
folk as Reed
Krakoff,
Cybele
Maylone,
Luke Janklow,
Amy Lau,
Laura
Paulsen,
Sylvia
Gottwald,
Denise
Benmosche,
Layla Diba,
Heidi and
Allan
Roberts,
Georgia
Wright,
Megan
Skidmore,
and Larry
and Klara
Silverstein. |
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