Reggie Is Having Fun Over At Privilege
Reggie is thrilled (and tickled pink) to have collaborated with LPC, the writer of the marvelous blog Privilege, on a post analyzing and discussing the sartorial style of the East Coast Grande Dame....
View ArticleAntiques Week At Last! The 2014 New York Ceramics Fair
Tuesday evening marked the official beginning of the 2014 New York Antiques Week with the opening party of the New York Ceramics Fair and the arrival of a massive snowstorm that brought the city to a...
View ArticleAntiques Week At Last! The 2014 Winter Antiques Show Opening Party
This past Thursday Boy and I attended the opening party for the Winter Antiques Show ("WAS"), held at New York's Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side.A spectacular...
View ArticleDuncan Phyfe Games Tables at the Sotheby's and Christie's Important Americana...
There are very few known pieces of furniture that carry a label from the workshop of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), one of the leading cabinet makers in America during the early part of the nineteenth...
View ArticleWinning Bid: Reggie Buys a (School of) Duncan Phyfe Games Table
In today's post I reveal which of the five school of Duncan Phyfe games tables I bought during the Important Americana auctions held in New York this January. Of the forty-three Dear Readers who...
View ArticleElla Fitzgerald Saved My Life
In my early teens I spent a lot of time by myself, alone.As I have written before, as the youngest of four children I was the only one living at home with my parents during the several years leading up...
View ArticleReggie Out & About: Glenda Ruby Book Signing Party at Olana
Not long before the Holiday Season Madness descended upon us, Boy and I were invited to and attended a book signing party held at Olana, the celebrated, exotic fantasy of a stately home built by...
View ArticleRemembrances of Things Past
Have you ever found yourself in a place, far, far away from home, that reminds you, quite vividly, of another time and place in your life?A chartered plane at one's disposal is a most addicting...
View ArticleThe Old Gray Barn Is Getting a Facelift
One of the joys (and responsibilities) of Darlington is that it has a number of buildings on the property. Four, to be specific. In addition to the brick and clapboard main house there are two wooden...
View ArticleMore Barrels of Darlington
Several years ago I wrote a post about my affection for barrel-shaped objects. I'm drawn to them, Dear Reader, and have collected them for as long as I can remember. I find objects made in the shape...
View ArticleWatch Your Language, Please!
I've got to get something off my chest, Dear Reader. I am supremely weary of hearing people drop the F-bomb. It seems that almost every place I go these days I hear someone using it over and over in...
View ArticleReggie Out & About: Maureen Footer's George Stacey Book Signing Party at...
As many readers of this blog well know, Reggie has a penchant for attending book signing parties, particularly ones that celebrate the authors of beautiful design books.Last night he attended one in...
View ArticleThe Great Marmalade Exchange
I grew up in a house where marmalade was a staple of the table. My mother, MD, was mad for marmalade, and she would heap it on hot buttered toast at breakfast or at afternoon tea, or on crackers...
View ArticleReggie Out & About: Cocktail Preview Party at Cove Landing
Well, Dear Reader, it has been rather a long time since I've posted an "Out & About" story here on Reggie Darling. While I've most decidedly been running around Manhattan and its environs these...
View ArticleReggie's Return
Hello Dear Reader. After a one year and one month absence, I am pleased to return to the Blogosphere, and to pick up with you where I left off. It has been an event-filled period in my life, with...
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