Peter Davis

2 weeks ago | avenuemagazine.com | Peter Davis

Matt Brown, the great-grandson of Henry Collins Brown, the Scottish immigrant and self-taught historian who founded the Museum of the City of New York in 1923, gathers a gilded group to the museum at 1220 Fifth Avenue. Matt’s always stylish wife Marisa is here as is his handsome financier brother Chris Brown. Matt thanks guests and toasts to the mission of the museum to celebrate and interpret the city’s history, art, popular culture, and civic life, highlighting New York’s influence worldwide.

3 weeks ago | avenuemagazine.com | Peter Davis

JEFF KLEIN has ruled Los Angeles’ social scene – with Tower Bar and two locations of his sexy member’s club San Vicente Bungalows – for years. PETER DAVIS speaks to the charismatic hotelier, who has taken over The Jane Hotel and created the city’s most lusted-after membership at SVB New York. PORTRAIT BY AARON STERNEveryone in New York wants to join San Vicente Bungalows!We’re seeing that with applications. There’s a lot of interesting people. We definitely have the rich bankers applying.

1 month ago | avenuemagazine.com | Landon Nordeman |Peter Davis

By PETER DAVIS / Portraits by LANDON NORDEMANBehind every hot spot is a larger-than-life personality. Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were the lifeblood of Studio 54. Glenn Bernbaum presided over Mortimer’s like his own social fiefdom. Nell Campbell’s eponymous supper club and Elaine Kaufman’s no-frills eatery, Elaine’s, on Second Avenue, were extensions of both women’s vivacious personas.

2 months ago | avenuemagazine.com | Peter Davis

The entire fashion industry and countless celebrities are obsessed with Indochine, the iconic Vietnamese eatery celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Artist and Avenue contributor Ruben Baghdasaryan first walked into Indochine a decade ago and has taken Instagram by storm with striking, colorful drawings starring the restaurant’s most famous faces, both past and present. “I was instantly drawn to the atmosphere,” Baghdasaryan remembers.

2 months ago | avenuemagazine.com | Peter Davis

NEST New York‘s newest candle in their Wellness Collection is a de-stressing blend of cucumber and white sage with hints of lavender. And with a strike of a match, this limited-edition 3-wick candle will instantly transport you to the star-studded, luxurious spa resort in Thailand in the third season of HBO’s cult-series The White Lotus. Naturally, the decorative glass vessel is totally on point with blooming white lotus flowers and frolicking Thai monkeys.