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There’s no better time than the off-season to find great deals on Worth Avenue. The Worth Avenue Association recently launched its “Worth the Drive” campaign with discounts for dining, shopping, sleeping and pampering starting Thursday. Promotions run June 15 to Aug. 15 and are meant to drum up foot traffic on the street during the slower off-season and summer months. Select...
At least two Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings have sold in Palm Beach since the recordbreaking $110.5 million sale of a Basquiat painting in New York recently stirred interest in the artist. DTR Modern Galleries on Worth Avenue has sold two Basquiats, “Flexible” and “Rinso,” since “Untitled” surpassed the $100 million mark at the Sotheby’s contemporary...
Florida, and Palm Beach in particular, is quickly becoming a world leader in the wellness market. The beautiful weather, calming beaches and serene landscape are no longer the only reasons people visit the island to recoup. They also choose Palm Beach for its spas, health facilities, hospitality and general attention to physical and mental well-being, tourism officials say. The Global Wellness...
Editor’s note: This article was adapted from on originally published in the Spring 2017 issue of Palm Beach Life. * Purple calla lilies fashioned into an Art Deco-style lamp? An upside-down ballerina with legs made out of out of bark? Not your average table centerpieces. But that’s precisely the point. The floral arrangements at The Garden Club of Palm Beach’s flower...
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Conservative political commentator George Will is passionate about baseball. But he chooses to live next to one of the country’s premier golf courses — the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. Perhaps it’s a new love of golf, but more probably it’s the ocean view and the many amenities of one of the country’s great golf resorts....
Keith Beaty has lived in Palm Beach County, “pretty close to forever,” he says. He was born and raised in South Georgia, which is where he met his wife, Linda, who’s originally from West Palm Beach. They moved to Tallahassee for work, and then Cocoa Beach, before making their way back to West Palm Beach. They lived in Jupiter, before coming to Palm Beach in the early 2000s. Keith...
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Paulette Cooper Noble, Special to the Daily News
There are so many dangers here that we pet lovers have to watch out for — like coyotes (reported through Palm Beach County), and hawks (who swoop down and pick up small dogs) to name a few. There are also stationary dangers on the ground to avoid, like poisonous mushrooms, and lawn pesticides, which may lead to cancer. When Jeff Cloninger’s dog, Remy, contracted a rare form of oral cancer...
Gary Lickle first came to South Florida for holidays with his family in the early 1970s. “And I’ve had sand in my shoes from then on, loving the weather, diving, fishing, water sports and then flying,” he says. In 1980, he moved to Palm Beach from New York as a trust and estates lawyer in order to serve clients from the northeast who had also moved here. Lickle is president of Chilton...
PINEHURST, N.C. — Pinehurst Resort is all about golf. My first clue was the guy in reservations who said, “You live in West Palm Beach. My friends and I caddy here, but go there sometimes in the winter.” A fellow diner at a Pinehurst restaurant inquired about my game, assuming I had played that day. And late one afternoon on a walk down a quiet lane shaded with moss-draped oaks...
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Paulette Cooper Noble, Special to the Daily News
One would have expected a Pulitzer to become important in town because of her late mother, Lilly, but who Liza Pulitzer became important to was unexpected. And this heart-warming story all started because Liza played in a golf tournament – in the Bahamas. At a cocktail party there with an artist friend, Patricia Vazquez, Liza shared the sad fact that she had recently lost all...
For Mel Spencer, it would have been a cinch to snap images of Palm Beach’s hardscrabble and desolate 19th-century pioneer life if he had a smartphone. He could click a selfie with neighbors waving desperately needed shipwreck timber, or perhaps of weathered Seminole Indians he characterized as dignified. Instead, Spencer, who eventually settled on what’s now Palm Beach&rsquo...;
Architect Patrick Segraves, of SKA Architect+Planner, has lived in Palm Beach since 1984. His wife, Denise Segraves, an agent with Sotheby’s International Realty, has been on the island even longer. Patrick visited Florida often in his teens and early 20s, mostly for vacations. “My mother lived on the west coast of Florida for many years,” he says. “I also have a cousin who...
WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y. — I had to laugh at the great irony that kept Brotherhood Winery alive during Prohibition, helping to make it the oldest continuously operating winery in the country. Wine production came to a screeching halt when a constitutional ban on alcohol production went into effect in 1920. Prohibition was brought on by the righteous indignation of the Woman’s Christian Temperance...
At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a local theater featured “moving pictures” of high-society goings-on at the private Everglades Club. As advertised, what was “shown on screen for the first time” of “people of prominence” amounted to nothing more than innocent fun in the sun. That included couples zipping around in newfangled motorized vehicles. The four-wheeled...
Baseball great Ted Williams was once asked why he left the Florida Keys where he had lived for many years. It was time to go, he said, when you couldn’t make a left-hand turn. He was referring to the traffic on U.S. Highway 1. I know what he means. And that’s one of the reasons I like St. Marys, a backwater Georgia town on the north bank of the St. Marys River, where you can still make...
For Kane Baker, it was his father, George F. Baker Jr., who instilled in him a love for sports, as well as for the town of Palm Beach. “Every spring, I’d join my father when he came to Palm Beach (from Locust Valley, N.Y.). He’d tie up his yacht at his friend, Michael Phipps’ boat house, and they’d play golf at the Seminole Golf Club,” Kane Baker says. “Also...
HUDSON, N.Y. — The Rip Van Winkle Bridge, or The Rip as it is referred to with great affection, spans the Hudson River between Catskill on the west side and Hudson on the east. These two small towns were the setting for Washington Irving’s short story Rip Van Winkle. Published in 1819, this is the tale of a henpecked husband named Rip, who went to sleep for 20 years after meeting up with...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — A country divided. North against South, brother against brother, Americans against Americans. Officers who were once West Point classmates and friends killed each other on these green fields. I had always avoided Gettysburg even when I was nearby. There has never been a day when I thought, “I’d like to visit the battlefield of Gettysburg.” It was just too...
Snowbirds Carole and Jay Weitzman from Haverford, Pa., bought their home near Mar-a-Lago 19 years ago. And they plan to stay forever, Jay says. “Very few places are like Palm Beach.” The Palm Beach lifestyle suits them. Carole loves the casual atmosphere during the day, and, in the evenings, Jay likes the coat-and-tie formality at their favorite restaurants. They love walking along Worth...
Veuve Clicquot and craft cocktails may be all the rage on the island, but another social lubricant — an abstemious one at that — once whetted gaiety in Palm Beach. For one thing, the Vanderbilts, Astors and their moneyed brethren broke bread — er, coconut cake — with it because five o’clock wasn’t cocktail time, it was tea time amid the palms, the dancing and the...
Stephen Haymes doesn’t feel he needs to explain why he collects the cars he does. “You tell me,” Haymes said as he buttoned up the cover for the drophead on his 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. “I don’t need to tell you.” It’s the only Rolls-Royce he has in Palm Beach, but he has three others in his collection at his place in the Hamptons. How many cars does...
Never mind that the boldest headlines in the early 1960s pertained to, among other things, President John F. Kennedy’s visits to Palm Beach, thanks to his family’s island compound. The opening of a Palm Beach Schrafft’s restaurant was news. After all, anyone of the monogrammed handkerchief set who favored creamed cauliflower, say, was familiar with the restaurant chain famous for...
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — History was on the agenda as I ducked into the little two-story Alexander Dickson House, a humble Quaker farmhouse built around 1790. I had read that Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston stayed here during negotiations with Union Gen. William T. Sherman in April 1865 before Johnston went to Durham to surrender 89,000 troops to the Union. But my history tour of the little 18th-century...
Digging around to find something in a bag can be frustrating and time consuming. Amie Swan’s new line, OTG|247 (On the Go Twenty Four Seven), offers a stylish organizational solution. Swan, of West Palm Beach, said she'd been using several different bags to organize the inside of her handbag and suitcase for years. However, she saw the need for a collection of coordinating bags that are fashionable...
I pondered the bumper sticker over the bar at the Oceanview Pub: “Rayburn for Sheriff. Loyalty. Honesty. Respect.” In no way is John Rayburn honest. Respect? Not even a little. Loyal? He’s loyal to a very few. Deb the bartender pointed to the other side of the bar where Deputy Sheriff Rayburn’s creepy brother Danny was almost beaten to death by a sailor. John Rayburn probably...
At Trillion, luxury can be found in the details. Owners David Neff and Tatiana Van Zandt said they search out the finest fabrics and best manufacturers for their colorful, classic men’s and women’s clothing collections. They design many of the garments themselves, and they source factories in Italy, Scotland and France and manufacturers such as Kiton, Fedeli and Fray. In-house tailors...
On a brisk Monday morning in February, I walked down King Street past Charleston’s designer shops — Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Kate Spade, Brooks Brothers — art galleries, antique stores and historic homes, where pink and red azaleas spilled out of diminutive front yards. “It’s too early for azaleas!” locals fretted. Why, the winter camellias were still blooming, for...
More than a century before Major League Baseball’s current spring-training season, Gilded Age Palm Beach, cultured by tea dances and fortnightly recitals, was home to a diamond where ace ballplayers shone. In between toting luggage and waiting tables, they thwacked home runs and caught line drives bare-handed on a field flanked by two elegant hotels where orchestras entertained and dining involved...
After getting a huge dose of wanderlust at the Palm Beach International Boat Show, you think you might like a boat, but you want to start with something a little smaller than, say, 250 feet. So, what’s a good boat to buy to get your feet wet? Roger Moore, chief executive officer of Nautical Ventures, suggests looking at Axopar, which received a lot of attention on his exhibition pontoon at the...
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — On my way to the old-moneyed enclave of Jekyll Island or the deep-South glamour of Sea Island, I always stop at lovely, down-home St. Simons Island, the largest of the three islands grouped on Georgia’s southeast coast. I have a gourmet lunch or breakfast depending on when I arrive, at Palmer’s Village Cafe, an atmospheric diner on Mallery Street in the Pier...
The four-day Palm Beach International Boat Show would have floored a 19th-century Palm Beacher known as “The Commodore.’’ Charles John Clarke, for whom Clarke Avenue is named, loved boats and owned several, keeping some along his 10-acre lakefront estate. For Clarke, boating wasn’t just an essential way to get around, as it was for many late-1800s area pioneers. He enjoyed...
Especially fitting for Floridians who have a taste for Italian, or the other way around, for Italians who love Florida, Riva’s Florida 88 has made its way to the Palm Beach International Boat Show. A thing of beauty, it features a unique, fully integrated convertible system designed by Riva’s parent company, Ferretti Group. Using a single control, the panel rotates and slides, giving its...
All Brand Vacuums, a shop that sells and services vacuums, stands out in a town where repair shops are a rarity. But, it’s a perfect fit for customers. Owner James Sim said people drop by to tell him they’re glad he’s so close. Sim decided to move his business to Palm Beach six years ago, after 28 years in West Palm Beach. He already had many customers here and wanted to provide...
While the word, “Sherpa,” denotes an ethnic group from the mountainous Nepal region in the Himalayas, the word also refers to almost any guide, climbing supporter or porter hired for mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas. But Arcadia Yachts, headquartered in Italy, has given the term a seaworthy connotation, calling its new model, Sherpa, because of its flexibility and load capacity...
There are only a few objects of universal desire. In the automotive world, that object is a sleek and seductive dream. Walk into a goat herder’s hut in the farthest corner of Timbuktu and ask him what kind of car he would buy if he had all the money in the world and he will answer “Ferrari.” Not that our test car, the all-new 2016 Ferrari California T, costs all the money in the...
Since childhood, when her mother made her one-of-a-kind clothes, Jocelyne Dunn possessed a certain passion. And when she first came to Palm Beach years ago, she pursued that passion even though it meant leaving behind a travel-industry career in her native Canada. Today, fashion remains at the forefront for Dunn. And that’s not about to change anytime soon. For 20-plus years, she has been manager...
If you want to take up paddleboarding, drop by p.b. Boys Club and talk to owner and longtime surfer Rick Wentley, who added paddleboards to his surfboard stock in 2009. “I do a good all-around paddleboard for the beginner-to-intermediate person at a reasonable price,” he says. The brand he carries is Totora. “You can ride waves on it, you can cruise on flat water; if you want to...
If you’re looking for big, bold and fun costume jewelry, Mariko is the place to go. Mariko is filled with high-end costume jewelry, from collectibles in semiprecious stones to faux pearls to cubic zirconia reproductions. The shop has a large selection of designer pieces by Ciner, Kenneth Jay Lane, Iradj Moini and Patricia von Musulin. Peter Kiyokawa, who owns the shop with his mother, Mariko...
A cold wind sent whitecaps across Calibogue Sound to the docks of South Beach Marina Village, a collection of clapboard, tin-roofed buildings that hug the shore. Fishing boats tugged at dock lines and blue-and-white striped awnings flapped in the wind. Outside the Salty Dog Cafe, a half-dozen people warmed up with Buds and SweetWater 420s next to a blazing fire pit. Inside, the cafe’s menu offered...
Going from sailboats to powerboats, J-Boat co-founder Bob Johnstone started up MJM Yachts LLC in 2002. Since then, his company has produced five “z” models. The latest and largest, the 50z, was introduced in summer 2014 in partnership with Boston Boatworks and Zurn Yacht Design (Doug Zurn, by the way, designed two “commuter” speedboats for Billy Joel). The 40z was a real winner...
Despite the fact that Robert Riva enjoys reading nonfiction books about the future, he’s apt to tell you there’s no time like the present, whether it’s to engage in gutsy wakeboard moves or in discussion with a monk at a Bhutan monastery. He has done both of those things, the former quite often and the latter just once. And that’s only to date. Riva, 27, is back in his old...
Bob Vila never expected to return to Cuba. His parents’ nation was, for him, a brief slice of memory from his childhood, a place and time he had never planned to revisit. Not while his father was alive. Not while the Castro regime remained in power. Not without a mission. But then the sum of his life’s work — as a television host of home-renovation shows, a Peace Corps volunteer...
A few months before Laetitia and Dr. Ben Han bought Tre Fontane, its interiors looked remarkably different, decorated in a traditional style by former owner Jon Stryker, who owned the house for 16 years. Tre Fontane was the focal point of Stryker’s 2.6-acre estate, which he sold in May 2014 after listing it for sale with real estate agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group. The...
Laetitia Han knows a treasure when she sees it. And she knew she had found one the moment she first stepped inside Tre Fontane, a landmarked Italian-style villa in the Estate Section with an unusual courtyard entrance and a distinguished provenance. Hidden behind an unassuming facade on an Estate Section street, the house was built in 1924 and designed by first-generation architect Marion Sims Wyeth...
Pauline Pitt’s Palm Beach pedigree is impeccable: Her grandfather was Charles A. Munn, whose Amado estate on the ocean in the early 1920s helped anchor the family’s extensive land holdings. The house still stands, as do two other Munn family homes next door. So Pitt entered her volunteer job as the new chairwoman of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach with what could be an innate...
Finca Vigia, outside Havana, Cuba, was Ernest Hemingway’s home for the last 21 years of his life — longer than he lived anywhere else. It’s where the writer, sometimes referred to as “Papa” Hemingway, stored his most prized collections and wrote some of his most important works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and The Sea. Hemingway was born in 1899...
Through the lens of Lannis Waters, sunrise over Palm Beach becomes the visual equivalent of an aubade — a song or poem to greet the dawn. Waters, who for 28 years has been a visual journalist at The Palm Beach Post, regularly drives east in the moonlight from his home in West Palm Beach, crossing the bridge and heading to the seashore. Camera in hand, awaiting the dawn, he truly is a man in...
Looking to add a little drama to your table? Mix gold-rimmed china with pieces in other colors. At the rear is Alencon’s scalloped-edge dinner plate, hand-gilded in 14k gold and made in Portugal for L’Objet ($158); in the center is a Perlée Blue salad plate, made in Paris for L’Objet ($64); and in the front is an Aegean 24k hand-gilded saucer ($104). At Neiman Marcus, 151...
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