the posh list

“ When you paint a canvas, there’s a luminous quality to the paint when it’s wet, and when it dries it darkens and loses any of that iridescence and that life. And so Klein scientifically created this color, IKB, in which the pigment retains that vibrancy. It sounds pretentious and ridiculous when I talk about it, but when I put someone in front of one of his canvases, they go, “Oh, I get it” because it has such an overwhelming impact. ”

“ It was the eve of the annual six-meter yacht races, and as had been traditional on Long Island for the past thirty years, the Larrabees were giving a party. It never rained on the night of a Larrabee party. The Larrabees wouldn’t have stood for it. There were four Larrabees in all - father, mother, and two sons. Maude and Oliver Larrabee were married in nineteen hundred and six, and among their many wedding presents was the town house in New York and this estate for weekends. The town house has since been converted into Saks Fifth Avenue. Linus Larrabee, the elder son, graduated from Yale, where his classmates voted him The Man Most Likely To Leave His Alma Mater Fifty Million Dollars. His brother, David, went through several of the best eastern colleges for short periods of time, and through several marriages for even shorter periods of time. He is now a successful six-goal polo player and is listed on Linus’s tax return as a six hundred dollar deduction. Life was pleasant among the Larrabees, for this was as close to heaven as one could get on Long Island. ”