Ladies who Lunch: Palm Beach Panache
Palm Beach. These two little words conjure images of the “veritable paradise” described by Henry Flagler, and of the official destination point for the world’s wealthiest. What few realize is that Palm Beach and its surrounding neighborhoods hold more material goods in more high-quality dealers, consignment and thrift shops than any other defined geographic area in the country per capita. Not only is the sheer volume palpable; the astounding quality begs further exploration of how, exactly, Palm Beachers design and decorate their homes. A tectonic shift in aesthetic has swept the island, enlivening the atmosphere with new-found electricity. Fernandez examines this new design landscape and distills it into easily digestible bites. Helping homeowners understand how to infuse Palm Beach style by mixing treasured inherited objects with serendipitous and re-imagined finds in creating their own unique design calculus meets her anthropological mission head-on.
Carolina Fernandez bought and renovated eleven homes, with a five-year stretch finding her and her family in five different homes in three different states. Lessons learned are shared in her first book and in more than two hundred original published articles, stories and anthologies, which have been syndicated by more than 60,000 unique online sites, blogs and newsletters. Quoted in Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Nickelodeon, NewsDay, BottomLine Personal and Advertising Age, she has appeared on the FOX News program Your World with Neil Cavuto, and interviewed on Martha Stewart Living Radio and NPR, among others. She is the Founder of “Ladies Who Lunch” at New York City’s Cornell Club. Fernandez left a career on Wall Street to work full-time in the arts. Her second book, Country French Kitchens, rendered her own French kitchen on the cover of Connecticut Home & Garden. She holds a B.A. in Religion from Wake Forest University, the M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky, and a Certification in Art Business from New York University. She and her family divide their time between Connecticut and Palm Beach. For more information, visit her at: www.carolinafernandez.com
12:00noon-1:30pm. $20 for Members, $30 for guests; includes lunch buffet. Advance reservations required by Friday, January 8th, at which time they are considered final sale.
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