Arriana zu Hohelohe Boardman,
Pamela Fiori, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos,
and Grace Hightower. |
SOCIAL GRACES
Town
& Country
Book
Essential
to Our Times
Story by Roger Webster
Photos
by DMI
 OME
of New York’s most well-mannered and well-heeled citizens filled
the classic and classy gray and white salon of the House of Harry
Winston on Fifth Avenue for Ronald Winston’s
cocktail party to launch Town & Country’s new book, Social
Graces, edited by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Pamela
Fiori.
The
swells included Grace Hightower, Lisa Jackson and Catherine
Aaron, decorators to the rich and famous; Muffie Potter Aston
and Ashley Schiff, co-chairs of the Penguins and Pearls Gala
in the Central Park Zoo; Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos and her
husband Paul Kanavos, Helen Gurley Brown and David
Brown, who both have essays in the book.
Anne
Slater, Mike Cannon, Gigi
and Adrienne Vittadini, CeCe Cord, Joy Marks, Arriana zu Hohelohe
Boardman, Susan Fales Hill, Joanne de Guardiola, Helen and Tim
Schifter, Jill Kargman, Vera Wang, NBC’s Felicia Taylor,
Jamee and Peter Gregory, Dylan Brown were also
there, as well as Winston’s president, Patricia Hambrecht.
Helen Gurley Brown and
David Brown |
When
he was a boy, Ronald Winston’s family lived in a townhouse
opposite St. Patrick’s Cathedral that had a grand sweeping
staircase.
One
day, his father Harry greeted John D. Rockefeller, Jr. at the
front door and proceeded to walk with him up the staircase to the
drawing room where he showed jewels to his elite clientele.
He
was particularly excited and distracted this day as he was going to
unveil a fabulous newly acquired blue sapphire. The stone was later
known as the Rockefeller, and sold at auction.
The
townhouse also had an elevator, and as the gentlemen reached the top
of the staircase, Ronald’s mother stepped out of the elevator.
“Harry,”
she said. There was no reply. She called his name two more times and
got no response. Finally, she stepped right into a position so that
they could not ignore her and said, “Harry, aren’t you going to
introduce me, I’m the woman you slept with last
night?”
Catherine Oliver and
Lisa Jackson
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Mr.
Winston went on to tell how the extraordinarily well-mannered Duke
of Windsor went so far as to not only to keep his shoes shined
but his soles polished as well.
Guest
of honor Pamela Fiori piqued interest with the mention of her book,
which deals with new rules of social grace pertaining to email and
cell phone etiquette.
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