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The Museum of Arts and Design
LOOT
2016 Opening Benefit
Shopping Cocktails and Benefit Dinner
Joan Hornig & Kay Unger Honored
Angela Cummings was Honorary Chair
Monday, April 11, 2016
NYC
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) hosted 300 guests
at the LOOT 2016 Opening Benefit on Monday, April 11,
2016. The evening’s events included first access for patrons
to meet the LOOT 2016 artists and acquire their
designs, a cocktail hour and reception, as well as a dinner
who honored the LOOT 2016 Award recipients, jewelry
designer and arts patron Joan Hornig, and fashion
designer and philanthropist Kay Unger.
Internationally renowned fine jewelry designer Angela
Cummings was the Honorary Chair. The evening’s
Dinner Chairs were Michele Cohen and Marsy
Mittlemann and LOOT’s Curator is Bryna Pomp.
Guests wore their most fabulous jewelry.
Michele Cohen greeted dinner guests at Robert, MAD’s
award winner restaurant, and presented the first award to
Joan Hornig, who addressed the room saying, “I love that
jewelry has the ability to transcend time, culture, and
gender. I am honored to be associated with the only American
museum to have a permanent space committed to showcasing its
permanent jewelry collection along with contemporary
innovators."
Dinner Co-Chairman, Marsy Mittlemann then presented the
award to honoree Kay Unger.
Beth Rudin DeWoody, acting as the voice of honoree Kay Unger
who stood beside her stricken by bronchitis unable to speak,
said “I am thrilled to join Joan Hornig not only in
supporting the MAD Museum, but also in celebrating the
artists and the creative spirit inherent to LOOT.”
MAD Chairman Emerita, Barbara Tober presented Isabel
and Ruben Toledo with a birthday cake at their seats. The
Toledos’ designed the LOOT 2016 artwork for the invitation.
Benefit guests included: Mona Aboelnaga, Susan & Larry
Ach, Grace Ann Agostino, Noel Appel, Loreen Arbus, Corice
Arman, Maria & Mercedes Barba, Ariane Batterberry, Tony
Bechara, Barbara Bennett, Sandye Berger, Camilla Dietz
Bergeron Debra Berman, Gene Bernstein, CeCe Black, Franci
Blassberg, Dominique Bluhdorn, Geri Bondanza, Barbara Taylor
Bradford & Robert Bradford, Emily Brasher, Harlan Bratcher,
Millie & John Bratten, Joanne Brecker, Noreen Buckfire, Dr.
Joyce Brown, Sharon Bush, Hope Byer, Judith Byrd, Burak
Cakmak, Claire Callagy, MaryAnn Casati, Kathy Chazen,
Marcella Ciceri, Michele & Marty Cohen, Stacy Creamer, Emily
Cutler, Jennifer Daniels, Adria de Haume, Jane DeFlorio,
Lucine & Daris Delins, Beth Rubin DeWoody, Marilyn Diamond,
Jamie Drake, Anita Durst, Patti Dweck, John Eason, Lisa
Eatroff, Victoria Elenowitz, Patricia Falkenberg, Debbie
Farfel, John Favreau, Allison Fehrenbaker, Nancy Fisher,
Deban Flexner, Lisa Fuld, Grace, Marjorie Grossman, Audrey
Gruss, Maria Eugenia Maury Haseltine & William Haseltine,
Yaz Hernandez, Caroline Hirsch, Amy Hirschhorn, Kevin Hogan,
Joan & George Hornig, Mady Hornig, Lisa Huestis, Suzanne
Jaffe, Chiu-Ti Jansen, Nancy Jennings, Michele Gerber Klein,
Gigi Koch , Marlene Krauss, Laura and Lewis Kruger, Cindy
Kurtin, Maureen Laness, Eve Landau, Pat & Andy Langer,
Meriel Lari, Fran Laserson, Luisa LaViola, Barbara Lee,
Debra Lee, Francine LeFrak, Brenda Lehman, Sahra Lese,
Valerie Lettan, Janet & David B. Levine, Bonnie Levine, Pam
Levine, Gloria Levy, Rachel Lobovsky, NancyJane Loewy,
Katherine McCormick, Victoria Morris, Nan Morrison, Shirley
Mueller, Liz & Jeff Peek, Mike Peissis, Marty Pomp, Jane
Preiser, Encarnita V. Quinlan, Lacramioara & Laetitia
Raiciulescu, Barbara Regna, Kara & Steven, Ross, Will Roush,
David Rubin, Julia Ruch, Jill Ryan, Bette Saltzman, Fatima
Sanandaji, Jean Shafiroff, Susan & Fred Sanders, Sheri
Sandler, Susan Sard, Rowena Scherer, Malini Shah, Elizabeth
Sherman, Barbara Karp Shuster, Marcy Syms, Andre Leon Tally,
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Davia Temin, Barbara & Donald Tober,
Isabel & Rubin Toledo, Liz Topp, Kay Unger, Janet Winter,
Maria Vecchiotti, Rita Warner, Jan Wysocki, and Lynn
Yaeger.
Dinner Co-Chairs were: Corice Arman, Noreen Buckfire,
Marian C. Burke, Patti Dweck, Leslie Fielden, Ann Kaplan,
Laura Taft Paulsen, Barbara Regna, Patricia Hearst Shaw,
Barbara Tober, and Ruben and Isabel Toledo.
Benefit Committee were: Susan and Larry Ach, Loreen Arbus,
Franci Blassberg, Geri Bondanza, Barbara Taylor Bradford and
Robert Bradford, Joanne Brecker, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, Kathy
Chazen, Simona and Jerome A. Chazen, Betsy Z. Cohen, Michele
and Marty Cohen, Emily Cutler, Arlene Dahl, Adria de Haume,
Jacqueline Weld Drake, Jamie Drake, Anita Durst, Nancy
Fisher, Deban Flexner, Linda R. Gelfond, Lori Golden, Paul
and Diane Guenther, Susan Gutfreund, Christie Hansen,
Phyllis Hollis, Janet and Howard Kagan, Mona Aboelnaga
Kanaan, Laureen S. Knutsen, Day Kornbluth, Jane Koryn,
Laura and Lewis Kruger, Nanette L. Laitman, Sheila Lambert,
Patricia and Andrew Langer, Meriel Lari, Luisa LaViola,
Debra L. Lee, Valerie A. Lettan,
Stacey Mayrock, Evelyn Musher, Maureen M. Nash, Liz and Jeff
Peek, Mike Walsh Peissis, Linda Plattus, Jane Preiser,
Deborah Roberts, Sara L. Schupf, Bobbie Seril, Malini Shah,
Holly Shapiro, Barbara Karp Shuster, Maria Vecchiotti,
Adrienne Vittadini, Barbara Waldman, Eunice Ward, Janet
Winter,
and Jan Alane Wysocki and Steven Wilson.
LOOT is the
Museum of Arts and Design’s annual exhibition and sale of
one-of-a-kind contemporary jewelry created by more than 40
of the world’s most innovative jewelry artists working in a
range of materials including silver, pearls, and
semiprecious stones, as well as more unconventional
materials like glass, wood, hand-painted canvas, porcelain,
papier mache, concrete, zinc, sequins, and feathers. For
most of these artists this is their New York debut; all will
be at the Museum to meet you and discuss their work.
The MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (MAD) champions
contemporary makers across creative fields, presenting
artists, designers, and artisans who apply the highest level
of ingenuity and skill to their work. Founded in 1956 by
philanthropist and visionary Aileen Osborn Webb, MAD
celebrates the creative processes by which materials are
transformed, from traditional techniques to cutting-edge
technologies. MAD emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach
to art and design and reveals the workmanship behind the
objects and environments that shape our everyday lives. MAD
provides an international platform for practitioners who are
driving 21st-century innovation. |