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Hilary and Wilbur Ross
and friends celebrated the Louvre in Palm Beach with
American Friends of the Louvre. On
Sunday, February 23, Hilary and Wilbur Ross hosted an
elegant dinner at their beautiful Palm Beach home in
support of American Friends of the Louvre. Sixty guests
enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the main
residence surrounded by the Rosses’ impressive art
collection, followed by a seated dinner in the
flower-filled guest house. The evening featured a silent
auction for the conservation treatment of three
exquisite pastels from the Louvre’s 18th century
French drawings collection. Their conservation was
generously underwritten by several guests. After
dessert, Palm Beach philanthropist and AFL member Tom
Quick was the evening’s auctioneer, helping AFL raise
$18,000 for an “Eighteenth Century Luxe” trip to Paris
including business class tickets courtesy of Air France,
three nights in a deluxe room at the Prince de Galles
hotel, a private tour of the Louvre’s resplendent
decorative arts galleries, a bespoke tour of the City of
Lights and dinner at the landmark restaurant Lapérouse.
American Friends of the Louvre thanks the Rosses for a
truly memorable evening in support of AFL and its
fundraising initiatives on behalf of the Louvre Museum.
Guests at the event included AFL Chairman, Christopher
Forbes and board members Patrick Gerschel with his wife
Elizabeth, Max Blumberg and Victoria Cummock, along with
Ina Giscard d’Estaing from the Louvre. AFL members in
attendance, were Cynthia Friedman, Mickey and Larry
Beyer, Don Burns, David Aldea, Paul Yaworsky, Dr. Greg
Holt, Bobbo Jetmundsen, David Sadroff, Manuel Camelo,
Stanley and Elizabeth DeForest Scott, Karin Reza and
Greg and Lysa Rohan. Other guests attending included
SallyMoon Benz, Alan Bentz and Diane Lokey Farb from
Houston, Naoma Tate from Wyoming and Valerie and Harry
Cooper from San Diego. In addition to Tom Quick, Palm
Beach guests included E. Llwyd and Diana Ecclestone,
Kate Gubelmann, The Honorable Earl I. Mack, Mandell
Ourisman, San Lee and Aeyung Park de Melo.
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