A 1,000-year-old Chinese bowl that was initally purchased for a few dollars at a garage sale in New York state sold for more than $2.2 million at auction. Accorded to Sotheby’s, an unammed family bought the “Ding” bowl, which is from the Northern Song Dynasty, for $3 in 2007. After displaying the bowl on their […]

Sean Largotta, one of New York City’s most respected restauranteurs, shares a few of his favorite things with Haute Living.

After ten years of working at some of Wall Street’s top institutions, Sean Largotta went out on his own to form Crown Group Hospitality in 2007. Largotta relies on his financial background to manage risk in the hospitality industry, but his story started in the kitchen long before he was running some of New York […]

Like most women, Alicia Keys loves shopping for shoes. But instead of traipsing around the city in sky-high stilettos, the Grammy award winning musician prefers to wear comfortable sneakers. Keys recently teamed up with Reebok for a second collaboration, updating classic model the Reebok Freestyle. “I want to wear them every day, not just because […]

There’s no need to wait until “The Great Gatsby” hits theaters this May to experience life in the Roaring ’20s. The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan is offering period-inspired affairs throughout the spring in honor of its role in Baz Luhrmann‘s new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic novel. In tribute to the great American […]

The Tony Awards, the star-studded award show that honors the best of Broadway, will once again take place at the famed Radio City Music Hall. The show had been hosted at Radio City from 1997-2010, but was forced to move to the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side after Cirque du Soleil moved into […]

Val DiFebo is the New York CEO of Deutsch Inc., a full service advertising agency (creative, interactive, media buying and planning, CRM, account planning, design, public relations and production) with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Since 1992, DiFebo has been the cornerstone of Deutsch’s unprecedented growth by building a company filled with spirited, […]

The New York CEO of Kate Spade, Craig Leavitt, is ready for the New-York based company to enter the billionaires club. According to Fashion Week Daily, Leavitt recently attended an investment meeting where he told analysts that he expects brand sales to hit the $2 billion mark over the next four years and eventually reach […]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking a unique approach in the war against smoking. The 71-year-old Mayor of New York has proposed two new bills that would require cigarettes to be hidden from plain view in retail stores in an attempt to reduce smoking. This would be the first law of its kind in the United […]