The
37th Annual Kips Bay 2009 Decorator Show House held its Opening Night
Gala Cocktail on April 16, 2009. The black tie President's Preview
and Dinner was held on April 14th at the Union Club and honored the
legendary work of interior decorator Albert Hadley. Mario Buatta and
Charlotte Moss were the Dinner chairs.
The 37th Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House is being held this year
in a majestic limestone mansion at 22 East 71st Street on New York's
Upper East Side. Designed by the renowned architect C.P.H.
Gilbert who designed homes for the leading families of New York, this
exceptional 45' wide townhouse built in 1922 for Julius Forstmann
is one of the largest and most important private residences in New York. It
was most recently used as the Salander Reilly art gallery. The
present owner, Mr. Aby Rosen, has generously donated the use of this
stately mansion for the Kips Bay show house.
The show house will be open to the public from Friday, April 17, 2009
through Sunday, May 17, 2009. This year's show house features
designers who studied with the legendary designer Albert Hadley and
whose careers he nurtured as well as those who have been greatly influenced
by his work. Mr. Hadley is considered one of America's
most influential interior designers, capable of working within a variety
of design vocabularies-from modern to Victorian to Georgian-he has
designed homes for a number of important design icons including Brooke
Astor, Babe Paley and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House raises over $1 million annually
for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, a non-profit organization that
provides essential after-school and enrichment programs for over 14,000
young people between the ages of 6 and 18 at ten locations in the Bronx.
The Show House receives as many as 20,000 visitors during its four-week
run and has raised over $16 million since its inception in 1973.
