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One of the highlights of the spring social soirees of NYC, The Winter Show, a benefit for East Side House, held its annual Opening Night Party on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 660 Madison Avenue, the former flagship location of Barneys New York. One of the year’s most highly anticipated events, the evening was attended by 1,000 guests from the worlds of art, antiques, design, business, and philanthropy, and kicked off the 68th edition of the fair. Proceeds from the Opening Night Party, and all net proceeds from The Winter Show ticket sales, support East Side House Settlement — a community-based organization serving the Bronx and northern Manhattan.
The venue carries its own story. The Madison Avenue building housed Barneys New York for decades until the retailer’s closure left the space empty, and a fair of this scale requires exactly the kind of column-free floor area that a former department store provides. Staging an antiques and design event inside a shell of recent retail history gives the evening an unexpected resonance, since both the objects on offer and the building itself are things that outlasted the commerce that produced them.
In attendance were East Side House Settlement Executive Director Daniel Diaz, President Thaddeus Gray, The Winter Show Co-Chairs Lucinda Ballard and Michael Lynch, Executive Director Helen Allen, Bank of America Market Executive Connie Verducci, The Winter Show Design Co-Chairs Mark Ferguson, Corey Damen Jenkins, and Andrew Oyen, The Winter Show Design Council Honorary Co-Chairs Wendy Goodman, Young Huh, and Keita Turner, East Side House Settlement Committee Members Lorri Ahl, Stephanie B. Clark, Michael Diaz-Griffith, Lucinda May, Thomas H. Remien, and Philip L. Yang, Jr, as well as Cece Black, Michael Bloomberg, Victor de Souza, Jamie Drake, Christopher Forbes, Alexander Hankin, Jerry Lauren, Andrew LaMar Hopkins, Peter Pennoyer & Katie Ridder, Polina Proshkina, Gil Schafer, Jane Seymour, Martha Stewart, Jonathan & Lizzie Tisch, Barbara Tober, and Bunny Williams.
