Lee Fryd

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Reaching for Celestial Heights and Celebrating Cultural Icons

Nov 25, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

“Notre-Dame will rise again,” year after year French Heritage Chairman Elizabeth Stribling proclaimed. How, I wondered, could they replace a one-of-a-kind Medieval knave? Yet, this December, Stribling, FHS President Denis de Kergorlay, Executive Director Jennifer Herlein, and other luminaries from the Society will be at the reopening of Notre-Dame. Well that they should.
Traveling in grand style in Scotland

Nov 14, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

Travel? Been there, done that? Exhausted the Paris apartment? Take it up a notch. What is luxury travel for the those whose homes are grander than the Ritz? Who feel the 1% are just getting by? That question fills Teresa Chope’s waking hours. She helms Gallivant, the high end concierge travel service that, until this story, has thrived without publicity, solely through word of mouth. “We design for people who think they’ve seen everything,” Chope told me. “But, there’s a whole world out there.
The Pomp, palais, and du-Pape around the French Heritage Society

Nov 6, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

French nobility opened their doors to historic palais. Luxury hotels, Michelin-starred restaurants, private tours, attentive personal care. All fueled by Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It’s the incomparable experience only the French Heritage Society can provide. After all, they fund French architectural restoration. Their connections run deep. “Often, we visit people who have received our grants,” FHS Executive Director Jennifer Herlein told me. “They recommend their friends.
Win, Place or Showing (off) at the Season-Ending Hampton Classic Horse Show

Sep 6, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

I recognized a lot of familiar faces this summer. That’s because their “work” had finally settled. The trend: Gained weight in quarantine. Fixed that with Ozempic. Fixed the haggard look with surgery. I had to ask a pro. “Losing that characteristic youthful fullness in your face is endemic to these drugs because of the rapidity of the weight loss,” said Robert Jetter, Senior Lenox Hill Attending Plastic Surgeon (and teacher), who has his own office operating room on 75th and Park.
Mar, the Master, and (Wo)man's Best Friend

Aug 29, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

Art historian Mar Morosse is recreating the 18th-century salon for the Hamptons. “In the Louis XVI Rococo era,” she told me, “women would invite their friends to evenings filled with art, music and poetry. There would be discussion, food, drinks and in general, fun. It’s something I always wanted to build.”Finally she and husband William did — literally. They renovated the barn on their property, created an art gallery type space and began throwing dinner parties for friends tied to art and culture.
Holiday House, Ellen Hermanson: Breast Cancer and the pesticides that cause it

Aug 23, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

It’s no secret there’s a higher percentage of breast cancer in the Hamptons. Pesticides in the soil? PCPs in the water? Whatever the cause, out here, women have been stepping up for each other and the men who face the diagnosis. Julie Ratner continues to build an all-encompassing system of support in the name of the sister she lost to the disease. That includes state of the art Ellen Hermanson Breast Centers in Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Hampton Bays and East Hampton.
Less is More at The Watermill Center’s Annual Summer Benefit

Aug 9, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

Robert Wilson got up to speak. Then, was silent. We heard the clinking of silverware. Then, did not. Bob remained still. There was more rustling in the room. Then less. Finally, finally, Bob’s voice rang out:“Thank you. And thank you for being. And thank you more for this glorious evening. Thank you for the light. Thank you for this food on our tables. Thank you for the rock and the clock, the river and the trees. Tonight we’re gonna honor my friend Lucinda Childs. “I’ll tell you a little secret.
Imagination runs wild at LongHouse Reserve's 2024 Summer Benefit

Aug 2, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

Where do you go after running the Metropolitan Museum of Art? A magic garden. Carrie Rebora Barratt capped her third year as director of East Hamptons’ LongHouse Reserve at their “Imagination” gala. And demonstrated: by reimagining the Hamptons home of the late Jack Lenor Larsen she created a new professional home for herself. Visiting that home at the gala, we saw Barratt knows how to throw a party.
A night at the Parrish evokes memories of SoHo in the old days

Jul 26, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

Susan and Louis Meisel — honored at the Parrish Art Museum’s Midsummer Gala Dinner — are icons of my youth. As a teenager majoring in Art History at NYU, I lived one block east from the Louis K. Meisel Gallery. Walking home from class, when I crossed Houston Street, I shed my student self and entered a world where people threw down their keys in a sock. Where artists renovated their lofts by day and congregated in bars by night. They disparaged each other’s work, then went home together.
Celebrating Quality Healthcare and Fresh Air Out East

Jul 19, 2024 | newyorksocialdiary.com | Lee Fryd

Mothers never likes to admit to favorites. Nor does a humanitarians. But, Jean Shafiroff has been an extremely devoted and record breaking fundraiser for Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. As a chair, an honoree — with husband Martin — and SHF trustee, she has raised more than seven million dollars. Jean also loves to throw a party. Ever since they rebuilt their estate section home, the Shafiroffs have been hosting a pre-Hospital gala bash to get the summer fundraising going.