2008
- 4th Annual Gilda’s Club Worldwide Young Leadership Council Benefit
- 2008 Harvest in the Square
- Junior Council of American Ballet Theatre Hosted A Magical Evening Aboard the Forbes Yacht
- AMIT’s Young Leadership Black & White Gala
- 3rd Annual Strides for Life 3-mile fun run/walk around Lake Agawam in Southampton
- Laugh Out Loud for Project Sunshine
- 2nd Annual “A Night and Smile to Remember” to benefit The Nicole Schiffman Foundation
- The Big Apple Bash
- Young Philanthropists “A New Force for Good” To Benefit Cancer Research Institute
- ARTWALK NY JUNIOR COMMITTEE HOSTS BENEFIT PARTY
- The 19th Annual Wild Wild West Carnival to benefit Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva U
- Splashlight- Ruprecht gallery opening benefiting Charity: Water
- Ultimate Summertime Party presented by News Corporation benefiting MS
- Young Wall Street to benefit Chess in the Schools
- Young Patrons of Lincoln Center Host Tango on the Rocks
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Young Members Party
- The Young New Yorkers for the Philharmonic, Summer Soirée
- 5th Annual Party At The Piers
- 2nd Annual Stupid Cancer Gala
- Whitney Art Party
- JICNY 4th Annual Passport to the World Gala
- Tory Burch and Girls Quest Private Shopping Event
- Charity: Water at Saks Fifth Avenue
- Lucky Magazine and Land Rover celebrated the annual spring benefit for Children's Rights
- The Maurer Foundation's 5th Annual “Pink Diamond Ball”
- One Million Strong Cocktail Party
- ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION “FORGET-ME-NOT” GALA
- 30th Annual AAFA American Image Awards
- The Brighter Futures Society "Le Grande Spectacle"
- The Rainforest Alliance 2008 Gala
- Safari at Sunset - Associates Committee of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hope for Vision’s Party With A Purpose NYC
- Special Olympics Cocktail Soiree
- Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Second Annual Connoisseur’s Dinner
- The New York Historical Society spring gala: A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Paris
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned Costume Institute Gala
- Fifth Annual Project Sunshine Gala
- Girls Quest's April in Paris Benefit
- The Black Slipper Ball, Ballet Hispanico’s annual gala benefit
- The St. George's Society’s 2008 English Ball of the Roses
- Design Cares presents A Night of a Thousand Lights to benefit the St. Jude Childrens Hospital
- New York Junior League: "2008 Spring Auction, The Future is Green'"
- Le Reve: Indulge the Dream, Play 4 Parkinson’s Casino Gala
- The Catalog for Giving® 3rd Annual Games of Chance Casino Night.
- Champion Awards Luncheon Kick Off Party at the Calvin Klein Collection Store
- Migdal Ohr Young Leadership cocktail party at Mosaic
- 2008 Women in Need Annual Dinner
- Fifth Annual National Love our Children Day
- NASDAQ Closing Bell Ceremony
- 2008 Skating With The Stars
- Annual Black Tie & Black Jack Casino Night benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
- Heard it Through the Grapevine: An Evening of Wine Tasting
2007
- See the Desert Bloom: JNFuture in the Garden of Eden
- 2007 HARVEST IN THE SQUARE
- The Brighter Futures Society presents...Chiaroscuro
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Second Annual Connoisseur’s Dinner
05/07/2008 - By Sotheby’s
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Second Annual Connoisseur’s Dinner:
An Evening of Wine and Art Raises over $1 million
NEW YORK CITY, NY (May 7, 2008) – The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), in partnership with Sotheby’s, hostedAlzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Second Annual Connoisseur’s Dinner:
An Evening of Wine and Art Raises over $1 million
NEW YORK CITY, NY (May 7, 2008) – The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), in partnership with Sotheby’s, hosted it’s second annual Connoisseur’s Dinner: An Evening of Wine and Art on Thursday, May 1, 2008. The event attracted 228 guests who mingled for 6:30 pm cocktails in the entry to Sotheby’s 10th floor galleries and previewed some of the most extraordinary Contemporary Art by names such as Bacon, Calder, Koons, Richter and Warhol.
At 7:30 pm guests proceeded into the main galleries for the dinner and auction portion of the evening where they dined amidst a stellar array of Impressionist and Modern Art. Tables were arranged adjacent to the Cézannes, Chagalls, Giacomettis, Legers, Matisses Picassos, Rodins, Schieles, and more, which were hung in preview of the upcoming Sotheby’s auction.
Leonard Lauder (ADDF Chairman) and Nancy Corzine (ADDF President of the Board) served as dinner chairs. Honorary Chairs included Cece Cord and Dr. John Baldwin, James and Lee Niven, Thomas Quick, and Bill and Betsey Ruprecht. Guests included Dennis Basso and Michael Cominotto, Christine Keuhbeck and Carl Bernstein, Cornelia and Martin Bregman, Tory Burch, John Cooney and daughter Victoria, Roberto and Joanne de Guardiola, Lisa Dennison, Danielle and David Ganek, Marjorie Gubelmann, Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, Mark Locks, Eliza Osborne, Kate Furman Pasik and Timothy Pasik, Connie Anne Phillips, Hilary Geary and Wilbur Ross, Sir and Lady Evelyn de Rothschild, Ophelia and Bill Rudin, Liz and Randal Sandler, Amy Treitel, Peggy and Cyrus Vance Jr., Harriet and Ronald Weintraub, and ADDF’s Executive Director Dr. Howard Fillit and his wife Dr. Janet Werkmeister.
A special spring menu, created by Great Performances, included a first course of poached Maine lobster, accompanied by Jean Noel Gagnard, Chassagne-Montrachet, Les Masures, 2005. The main course featured a Southern-style rack of lamb, accompanied by a delightful pairing of red wines selected by Leonard Lauder that included Cos d’Estournel, (Saint–Estèphe), 2001 versus Trotanoy, (Pomerol), 2001. Dessert was an alternating presentation of a white chocolate passion fruit treasure box and a chocolate blaze, served with Graham Beck Brut Rosé, 2006, generously provided by Graham Beck.
Jamie Niven, Sotheby’s Chairman, North and South America, led the auction that included rare wines such as 1970 Pétrus (closing bid $28,000), 2001-2004 Ornellaia Vertical Tasting Case (closing bid $6,000), and 1990 and 2000 Château Lafite Rothschild Double Magnum Pair (closing bid $22,000); plus a Ten-Day South African Safari with deluxe accommodations, airfare provided by Delta (closing bid $40,000), a Parisian Couture Adventure for four with six nights at the Hôtel de Crillon and tickets to the Chanel, Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix haute couture fashion shows (closing bid $28,000). ADDF also debuted the Fund a Scientist program, where guests bid to support a specially-chosen research project aimed at drug discovery with immediate impact; this program grossed over $200,000. With ticket sales, auction and Fund a Scientist, as well as generous donations, ADDF raised over $1 million dollars (up from over $700,000 in 2007). Ninety percent of all money raised by ADDF goes directly toward accelerating drug discovery for scientific research.
The next annual Connoisseur’s Dinner will be scheduled for spring 2009.
For more information about ADDF, please contact David DiVincenzo at 212-901-8011 or ddivincenzo@alzdiscovery.org.
Photos courtesy of Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
ALL PHOTO CREDITED TO: PATRICK MCMULLAN
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