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Apart from a few floral throw pillows, everything is white: walls, floor, ceiling, coffee table, garden seats, the canvas upholstery on the rattan seating, even the coral chandelier. The decor is pristine and calming. On the coffee table she has proudly arranged some of her products: faux-shagreen boxes, fragrance candles, flower vases, and an elegant woven raffia tray from a line that she has fabricated in Italy.
They are, like her, traditional, chic, and well-mannered, not trendy nor cutting edge. This year, despite the pandemic, Aerin plans to participate in another beloved Hamptons family ritual she details in Entertaining Beautifully : a casual lunch the day after Thanksgiving with her mother, Jo Carole Lauder, and father. Her mother hosts the lunch in a rustic, centuries-old log cabin that was moved to their property from Virginia.
Her father served as U. A small antique Austrian trestle table is surrounded by simple Tyrolean country chairs with heart cutouts in their backs. The table is set with folkloric dishes, monogrammed red-and-white gingham napkins, horn-handled flatware, and pots of red geraniums.
The whimsical, green-and-white-striped and looped dizzy patterns, as well as the leaping green deer, are my favorites. As president of the World Jewish Congress , a position that's very like being the leader of the Jews of the diaspora, he says he lives on a plane. He campaigns against anti-Semitism, having visited, to date, 60 of the countries where the organization represents the Jewish community.
Thanks in part to his experience as ambassador to Austria, he has no problem speaking his mind to world leaders. I'm anti-Israel. When Ronald was 12 he hired himself tutors to teach him German and French, having learned that it was hard to learn a language after the age of He thinks he was only student in his class at the Bronx High School of Science to spend his junior year abroad, in the South of France. I said I understand you're an anti-Semite.
He laughed and said, I'm not an anti-Semite. I said, Who do you think lives in Israel? Along the way he has collected art, eventually establishing the Neue Galerie in He walked me through the "Munch and Expressionism" show before it opened, pointing out one painting, by German Expressionist Erich Heckel, that his parents had given him for his 20th birthday. A few days before that, nearly all the main elements of his professional life—business acumen, a passion for art, advocacy for Jewish causes—came together in a scathing speech he gave in Zurich condemning the Bern Museum for accepting the Hildebrand Gurlitt Collection.
After concisely outlining the money trail that exposed the Swiss dealer Theodor Fischer as a middleman for sales of artworks looted by the Nazis, he painted the controversy in the clearest terms. Leonard and Ronald have each pursued art with great passion, and both have donated vast amounts to education, together founding the Joseph H. Ronald, on his own, has created a series of Jewish schools in Eastern Europe, the aim being to recreate the vitality of Jewish life there.
The brothers are a hard act to follow. Certainly their children will find it difficult to match them in collecting. But, number two, that's not my passion. Education and philanthropy are something else, however.
Gary and his wife have started a venture philanthropy fund. Aerin is committed to the First Book , an initiative that has donated more than million books to children in need, and Jane is on the board of the Friends of the High Line.
All of them actively contribute to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation , the cause Evelyn, William and Gary's mother, famously led for so many years. Leonard says he walks the halls listening for laughter, a token of the ease that he counts as a sign of corporate vigor. Everywhere I went in the offices, I met people who had been with the company for 25, 35, or 45 years, and that commitment seems to be extending to newly acquired companies. As of , she is around 51 years old.
See below for details. She has one younger sister, Jane Lauder Walsh. Education : She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. In , Aerin married the man she calls her first love, Eric Zinterhoffen.
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