On Thursday, May 24, 2012 Mover and Shaker Geoffrey Bradfield (click his name to read his interview!) hosted an amazing soiree to celebrate the publication of his book: A 21st Century Palace at The Waldorf=Astoria.
As we've said in the past, there are events in New York, lovely parties, gorgeous soirees, and then there is another category in a class by itself and that would be anything hosted by Geoffrey Bradfield. If you do not know him, he is a modern day Gatsby in his boundless creativity, taste and style and is in no way a bootlegger...you know The Great Gatsby is Peachy's favorite book and she has read it more times than any other. And Geoffrey may have even one upped Gatsby as The Basildon Room of The Waldorf=Astoria trumps most white tents.
That's Dominique Claire X in the middle, who has already befriended Peachy Deegan on Facebook today. She is flanked on each side by men in painted-on costumes that they told us took 4 hours to do. We have never seen this level of detail before in this discipline but after all, it did make sense as we were of course celebrating a book on a Palace, and we all certainly felt we were in one!
Our friend Dr. Penny Grant dressed to match the book, unplanned!
Joy Marks
Robert Caravaggi and Peachy Deegan
Montgomery Frazier and Ben Mindich
Ninotchka Manus, Najwa Stone and Donna Soloway
Catherine Saxton
Peachy!
Mitch Douglas and Tom Gates
Gigi Fisdenl and Tom Gates
Jean Shafiroff and Gail Karr
Evelyn Tompkins and Elizabeth Guest
Angela Chen and Roy Kean
Tom Gates and Ninotchka Manus
Julio our favorite bartender
Gigi and Najwa
Peachy and Najwa
Dominique!
Peachy and Muna Rihani
You know we loved Ex-Arte:
so we will get started on this new work soon! We were tempted to start reading it last night at the soriee once we got it, but as you see the party was quite tempting too.
More about Geoffrey:
