The kids are alright, and they’re uptown browsing antiques!
Last night, over 800 patrons made their way to the Park Avenue Armory for the Winter Show's annual Young Collectors Night, benefiting the East Side House Settlement, a community-based organization serving 14,000 people annually in the Bronx and northern Manhattan.
The night's honorees were acclaimed interior designer and Charlap Hyman & Herrero cofounder Adam Charlap Hyman and his fiancé Adam Eli, an author, queer community organizer, and writer-at-large for CULTURED.
Charlap Hyman, dubbed as one of his generation's leading “new antiquarians,” gathered a coterie of fellow young collectors at the Armory, including Peter Currie, Rachel Tashjian, Wes Gordon, Julia Arnhold, Lane Gerson, Will Palley, Michael Bullock, Camille Okhio, Sam Teller, James Hirschfeld, and James Green.
“The Winter Show is extraordinary because it acts as a survey of exquisite pieces from different times and places all over the world,” Charlap Hyman noted. “It is a real education to have all of these galleries showing under the same roof.”
Among the crowd were also New York cool kids like Julio Torres, Ryan McGinley, Jordan Tannahill, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Marcelo Gutierrez, Lio Mehiel, and Hunter Abrams.
As DJ Oscar Nñ finished his set, the crowd headed further uptown for an afterparty at E.A.T, the historic deli owned by Eli Zabar, recently renovated by Charlap Hyman.
There, artists Katie Stout, Eric N. Mack, Hugh Hayden, Joana Avillez, and Connor Holloway ate lox sandwiches alongside Sophie de Beistegui, Filippa Brandolini, Alison and Laurent Levasseur, Nathalie Farman-Farma, Robert Couturier, Lucy de Kooning Villeneuve, Stuart Vevers, Benjamin Seidler, Jean Prounis, and Coco Mellors.
Both Eli and Charlap Hyman wore brooches and cufflinks by Verdura. As a small group gathered to admire the pieces, made in 1962, someone yelled out from the crowd: “What's old is new again!”
