Newport took center stage (and center table) at New York's Cipriani Restaurant, as Newport based designer Ally Coulter took the cake (quite literally) for her designer table with its centerpiece, a spun sugar replica of Rosecliff, architect McKim, Mead & White's masterpiece based on Versailles. Let them eat cake, anyone?
The event was "Spring Fever", the annual fundraiser for New York's Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, which serves 20,000 New Yorkers
annually.
The spun sugar cake was transported by van, and surrounded by life size topiaries, and lighted. Special guests at the Newport table were actor Kyle McLachlan, Senior Vice President of Ralph Lauren Home William, Li, and James Nuzzo, former financial advisor to President George H.W Bush
Full coverage coming up on Newport Seen......along with the "Neighborhoods of Newport House Tour" for St. Michael's Country Day School, a Stargazing Soiree benefiting Star Kids at the Carnegie Abbey Club, and more......
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