Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith | LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE Thousand Guests Raise Million Bucks By Roger Webster Photos by Jimi Celeste/PMc ENOX HILL Neighborhood House’s gala preview of the International Fine Art Fair, sponsored by Rolex, raised more than $7 million. The institution helps those in need who live, work or go to school on Manhattan’s East Side and improves the quality of life for all those in the neighborhood. Chairs Audrey Gruss, Diana Quasha, along with Rolex USA’s president Walter Fischer, greeted 1,000 guests. Each table was designed by a different designer using one of the works of art on display as inspiration. The highlights were the Rolex table by Richard Mishaan, as well as tables by Jackson/Aaron/Siegel, Mark Epstein, Scalamandré, Stark Carpet, Harry Heissmann for Albert Hadley and Kitty Hawks. Robert Rufino, the design chair of the evening created one for Tiffany’s. Harold and Nancy d’O. Baker | The art valued at over $850 million was amazing. Such artists as Picasso, Cézanne, Renoir, Rivera, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Calder, Miro, Matisse, O’Keefe, Klimt, Braque, Degas and Van Dongen were represented at the fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue. Among those admiring it all were Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith, Mica Ertegun, Kenneth Jay Lane, Carroll Petrie and Raul Suarez, John and Andrea Stark, Jennifer Creel, Mark Gilbertson, Francis Hayward, Royce Pinkwater. Stephen Siegel, Lisa Jackson and Catherine Aaron | Also Lisa Jackson, Stephen Siegel, Catherine Aaron, Harold and Nancy d’O. Baker, David Patrick Columbia, Jeffrey Hirsch, Joe Givern, Marilyn White, Virginia Pitman, Lucia DeRespinis and Warren Scharf, LHNH executive director. |