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Todd Lattimore and Candice Kelly show off MacKenzie-Childs' brand new "Parchment Collection"
The weekend before last, the weather was perfect for the trio of shopping events celebrating the American Cancer Society’s inaugural summer bash Festive in Flip Flops, presented by Horizon Media and Discovery Communications. The Society created the dinner dance as a way to call attention to their initiatives on Long Island, including the North and South Fork. One shop each in Southampton, East Hampton and Sag Harbor in a display of community spirit hosted twilight parties.
First at bat, Thursday night in Southampton, a party was hosted by the recently opened MacKenzie-Childs, famed handmade ceramics, glass and home furnishings store, 31 Main Street. The shop is a gorgeous cornucopia of visual treats. The guests were the first to see the new “Parchment Check,” a chic collection white and off-white patterns with turquoise and gold trim and accents.
Staff members Todd Lattimore, John Coscia and Candice Kelly regaled guests with the fascinating history of MacKenzie-Childs, which was started in 1983 by a husband and wife team of British artists in a former dairy in Aurora, NY. The company’s headquarters is still there; a pastoral image of it is painted across the store’s ceiling. Another thing: everything is made in America.
Browsing through the store and shopping while sipping white wine and nibbling from the cheese platters were the event's Co-Chairmen Sherri Abruzzese and Gopa Dobson. The store offered a nice discount and a percentage of sales went to ACS but mostly it was the quality and whimsical beauty of the merchandise that caused almost every guest to buy. Among them were television and radio sportscaster Ann Liguori, Jean Shafiroff, Peggy Heller, Casey Cole, Steve and Cathy Rossetti, Jill and Rich Cohen, Christina and Christine Monastero, Myrna Bell, Christina Schmohl, Lee Schmohl, Ruthe Ponturo and ACS’s Tedd Smith and Mady Schuman.
Next at the plate was Friday night at Christopher Fischer, the high-fashion cashmere shop, 67 Main Street in East Hampton. Duck Walk Vineyards donated the Chardonnay and Southampton’s Village Gourmet Cheese Shoppe donated the hors d’oeuvres. Joni Fischer (Mrs. Christopher Fischer) said the American Cancer Society was especially dear to the whole company. Last year, Alison Bennett, one of their designers who was young, pretty and beloved, died from cancer.
In addition to the Co Chairmen, the store was filled with supporters including Eleanora Kennedy with her daughter Anna Safir, Jessica and Bill Koenigsberg, Sylvia Diaz, Joe Abruzzese, Jay Dobson, Denise and Brian Cobb, Martha and Jim Fligg, Jodie Berro, Christie Birnbaum, Christine Brooks, Kristina Scanlo, Michael and Lee Kusher Lewittes, George and Nancy Doering, Devan Dobson, Anita Jovanchova, Amy Hammond, Delia Rudolph, Juliana Cukaj, Erma Lohman and Lauren Trell. They all were serious shoppers. Everything they bought supported ACS as Christopher Fischer also gave a generous percentage of all sales to the charity.
Batting third, Saturday night, was an opening at the Gail Schoentag Gallery in Sag Harbor. The show was called “Limits and Desperate” featuring artists Eric Decastro, Florian Heineke, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Bjoern Melhus, Anke Roehrscheid, Josef Schoeffmann and Yves Nethammer. Again the Chairmen and their husbands made the trip to celebrate with art lovers. Other guests included Sharon Bush; B. Smith and Dan Gasby; Alexa, Petra, Chantal, andNicolas Bufe; Ashley Vickers; Reina and Rich Sinni; Gregory Dellacarpini Jr.; High Voltage; Montgomery Frazier; Pat Field; R. Couri Hay and Zarah Burstein.
First at bat, Thursday night in Southampton, a party was hosted by the recently opened MacKenzie-Childs, famed handmade ceramics, glass and home furnishings store, 31 Main Street. The shop is a gorgeous cornucopia of visual treats. The guests were the first to see the new “Parchment Check,” a chic collection white and off-white patterns with turquoise and gold trim and accents.
Staff members Todd Lattimore, John Coscia and Candice Kelly regaled guests with the fascinating history of MacKenzie-Childs, which was started in 1983 by a husband and wife team of British artists in a former dairy in Aurora, NY. The company’s headquarters is still there; a pastoral image of it is painted across the store’s ceiling. Another thing: everything is made in America.
Browsing through the store and shopping while sipping white wine and nibbling from the cheese platters were the event's Co-Chairmen Sherri Abruzzese and Gopa Dobson. The store offered a nice discount and a percentage of sales went to ACS but mostly it was the quality and whimsical beauty of the merchandise that caused almost every guest to buy. Among them were television and radio sportscaster Ann Liguori, Jean Shafiroff, Peggy Heller, Casey Cole, Steve and Cathy Rossetti, Jill and Rich Cohen, Christina and Christine Monastero, Myrna Bell, Christina Schmohl, Lee Schmohl, Ruthe Ponturo and ACS’s Tedd Smith and Mady Schuman.
Next at the plate was Friday night at Christopher Fischer, the high-fashion cashmere shop, 67 Main Street in East Hampton. Duck Walk Vineyards donated the Chardonnay and Southampton’s Village Gourmet Cheese Shoppe donated the hors d’oeuvres. Joni Fischer (Mrs. Christopher Fischer) said the American Cancer Society was especially dear to the whole company. Last year, Alison Bennett, one of their designers who was young, pretty and beloved, died from cancer.
In addition to the Co Chairmen, the store was filled with supporters including Eleanora Kennedy with her daughter Anna Safir, Jessica and Bill Koenigsberg, Sylvia Diaz, Joe Abruzzese, Jay Dobson, Denise and Brian Cobb, Martha and Jim Fligg, Jodie Berro, Christie Birnbaum, Christine Brooks, Kristina Scanlo, Michael and Lee Kusher Lewittes, George and Nancy Doering, Devan Dobson, Anita Jovanchova, Amy Hammond, Delia Rudolph, Juliana Cukaj, Erma Lohman and Lauren Trell. They all were serious shoppers. Everything they bought supported ACS as Christopher Fischer also gave a generous percentage of all sales to the charity.
Batting third, Saturday night, was an opening at the Gail Schoentag Gallery in Sag Harbor. The show was called “Limits and Desperate” featuring artists Eric Decastro, Florian Heineke, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Bjoern Melhus, Anke Roehrscheid, Josef Schoeffmann and Yves Nethammer. Again the Chairmen and their husbands made the trip to celebrate with art lovers. Other guests included Sharon Bush; B. Smith and Dan Gasby; Alexa, Petra, Chantal, andNicolas Bufe; Ashley Vickers; Reina and Rich Sinni; Gregory Dellacarpini Jr.; High Voltage; Montgomery Frazier; Pat Field; R. Couri Hay and Zarah Burstein.
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