Home design and interiors magazine Veranda partnered with the Trump Organization to promote the Trump Park Avenue luxury condominiums with a designer showcase in the building’s $30 million penthouse. To celebrate the opening of the show house—which also raises money for the Alzheimer’s Association—a gala evening (co-hosted by none other than the Donald himself and his bride, Melania) featured elegant white and gold decor and a menu that recalled the building’s origins: Trump Park Avenue is the restored residential reincarnation of the ritzy Delmonico Hotel.
Estrea Dworkin Janoson, Veranda’s marketing director, managed the project, which had a group of designers remaking each room of the luxe apartment. Lisa Lori Communications’ David Bowen produced the gala event.
For the dinner, Match Catering and Eventstyles created a menu inspired by the illustrious Delmonico’s Restaurant—the original hotel’s namesake—with signature dishes like lobster Newburg in an airy puff pastry shell, a Delmonico steak (the restaurant’s cachet extended to this fine cut of rib eye), baked potatoes with cheddar cheese, and artichoke hearts stuffed with mild mushrooms and peas (Delmonico’s is credited with introducing items like artichokes into American cuisine). Dessert included a savarin cake flavored with maraschino liqueur—a dish similar to one served to Charles Dickens at the restaurant in 1867.
A week later, Donald Trump Jr. and Amanda Hearst hosted a cocktail reception for a younger crowd. The show house is open through May 26; the $50 ticket price benefits the association.
—Mark Mavrigian
Photos: Jeff Thomas/ImageCapture (tables, lobster Newburg, placecards)
Estrea Dworkin Janoson, Veranda’s marketing director, managed the project, which had a group of designers remaking each room of the luxe apartment. Lisa Lori Communications’ David Bowen produced the gala event.
For the dinner, Match Catering and Eventstyles created a menu inspired by the illustrious Delmonico’s Restaurant—the original hotel’s namesake—with signature dishes like lobster Newburg in an airy puff pastry shell, a Delmonico steak (the restaurant’s cachet extended to this fine cut of rib eye), baked potatoes with cheddar cheese, and artichoke hearts stuffed with mild mushrooms and peas (Delmonico’s is credited with introducing items like artichokes into American cuisine). Dessert included a savarin cake flavored with maraschino liqueur—a dish similar to one served to Charles Dickens at the restaurant in 1867.
A week later, Donald Trump Jr. and Amanda Hearst hosted a cocktail reception for a younger crowd. The show house is open through May 26; the $50 ticket price benefits the association.
—Mark Mavrigian
Photos: Jeff Thomas/ImageCapture (tables, lobster Newburg, placecards)
For the opening night gala of Veranda magazine’s promotional show house at the Trump Park Avenue penthouse, Fiori Ltd. created stately constellation-shaped arrangements of white orchids.
A highlight of Match Catering and Eventstyles’ menu was lobster Newburg in a puff pastry shell.
Elegant place cards from B. Larimer were stamped with gold and finished with Margaret Williamson’s calligraphy.
The 7,000-square-foot penthouse was designed to serve as a show house to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.
