Bryan Batt signing books at Doris Leslie Blau (Image by Charity De Meer)
By Marcy Clark
Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for “An Evening at The Interior Design Building with Bryan Batt,” with the charming, witty and dashing author, designer, actor and star of Mad Men, Bryan Batt. The evening was presented by the dealers at New York’s venerable Interior Design Building at 306 East 61st Street, an amazing resource for museum-quality, highly collectible antiques, art and original home furnishings and accessories. We were thrilled to be joined by New York’s top Interior Designers, Architects, Editors, Publishing Executives and so many other special guests. Guests secured their very own copy of Bryan Batt’s poignant and humor-saturated memoir “She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother” and got to get their book signed. Design aficionados took the opportunity to shop and explore the 7 floors of the Interior Design Building, open for “Evening Hours” in partnership with our media partner for the event: 1st Dibs. Participating Showrooms included: Lucca & Co, Lee Calicchio, Sentimento, Liz O’Brien, John Rosselli, Doris Leslie Blau, Atlantic Gallery, C.J. Peters, Suzanne Golden Antiques, Amy Perlin Antiques and Niall Smith.
Batt with Ron Wagner and Timothy Van Dam of Wagner Van Dam Design and Decor (Charity De Meer)
Bryan Batt meeting Lee Calicchio of Lee Calicchio Ltd.
Joan and Jayne Michaels of 2 Michaels Design Being Interviewed by French Film Crew StoryBox Press
Catherine Aaron, Bryan Batt, Lance Thompson at Lucca & Co.
Lisa Blecker, Barbara Kirshbaum at Sentimento Antiques
Brandon Vargas and Muffie Cunningham of Amy Perlin Antiques
Suzanne Golden of Suzanne Golden Antiques and Rubens Penna of Atlantic Gallery Ltd.
Nader Bolour of Doris Leslie Blau and designer Scott Guthrie
Brian Kish with LisaBeth Bastone of Doris Leslie Blau
Trudi Romero, Rhonda Cole of The New York Times, Gail Ahye of Vincente Wolf Home
Gail Karr of New York Social Diary, Bryan Batt
Lee Calicchio, Babette Cohen
Maureen Howard, Bryan Batt, Darrin Varden of Drake Design Associates
Jayne Michaels, Marcy Clark, Joan Michaels
Maria Rignack, Javier Maymi
Kelly Porter, Holly Orsburn
Elise Morrissey, Helen Hookway, Elizabeth Brush Saypol, Lisa Blecker
Jerome Whitehurst Jr., Teran Evans
Judith Powers, Peggy Schofield
Carolyn Sollis, Jonathan Preece, Audrey Margarite of Bunny Williams
Uberti Bona, Christina Vescovo, Eduardo Grigione
Ron Wagner, Timothy Van Dam
Frances Fontaine
Bryan Batt being interviewed by French Documentary Crew Storybox Press
Images here by Charity De Meer and Amber Des Vos / Patrick McMullen. For Full event images visit PatrickMcMullen.com.
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