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Asian Laughter
The LongHouse Reserve Summer Benefit
Saturday, July, 18, 2009
Legendary American Weaver in Laos, Carol Cassidy
was honored
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Stephanie Lewin, Patrick McMullan, Eve Suter photos
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Elizabeth Lear, Bill Cunningham
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Decor by Eve Suter
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Marylyn Dintenfass
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Jack Larsen, Carol Cassidy bottom
Angela Mariana Freyre, Dianne B. top
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Patricia Durkan
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Barbara Slifka, Lys Marigold, Ayse Kenmore, Brigitte Gambini
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Tina Maria Birch, Yuta Powell
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Matko Tomicic, Sue Felsher, Steve Felsher, Dianne Benson, Joseph La Piana
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Barbara Slifka, Mark Levine
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Cassandra Lozano, Liam Hackett, Laurie Lambrecht, Richard Sigmund, Mason Rader,
Pat Raporosso, Natasha Sigmund
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Lou Gropp, Ayse Kenmore, Dorrie Freedman
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Clara Reed, Gordon Bowling, Amanda Bowling
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Petals, gouache on paper, by Maria Terese Barbaccia
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Cliff Nordmeier, Richard Eagan
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Joanne Sohn, Rosemarie DeSantis
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 Jim Zajac, Chirstin Martahus
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Jill Smith, Iris Marden
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Jack Lenor Larsen, Jan Cowles
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Marylyn Dintenfass, Elizabeth Levine
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Beatrice Dupont, Fred Dhallawin
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Rob and Karen Norrby
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Laura Gunderson, Skye Marigold, Lys Marigold
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Michelle Pesner, Ed Roberts, Elaine Krauss
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Rick Prins, Connie Steensma
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Barbara Slifka, Mark Levine, Angela Mariana Freyre
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Ennius Bergsma, Charles Roos, Anne Roos, Jane Gropp
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Brigitte Gambini , Rob Wussler, Amy Schichtel
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Carol Rattray, Sharon Peterson
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Vongku Pak's traditional Korean Drum and Dance Troupe
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Ed Roberts, Elaine Krauss
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Maximillion Schmidbauer, Magdalena von Behr
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Jessica Joffe, Darius Yektai
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David Landgraf, Brian O'Reilly
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Dianne B.
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Angela Mariana Freyre, Dianne B.
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Eileen Kornreich, Billy Kornreich
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Madeline Bennett, Grasiella Chajon, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Joanna Steichen
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Grant Haffner, Francesca Esmay, Taylor Van Deusen,
Elliot Wandel
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Jan Fletcher, Randy Slifka
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Joseph La Piana, Juan Granados
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 The Angkor Dance Troupe |
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Antoinette Botarelli, Marco Botarelli,
Beatrice DuPont
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Alexandra Munroe, Carol Mandel
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Barbara Slifka, Mark Levine
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Maximillion Schmidbauer, Rob Wussler, Lisa de Kooning, Amy Schichtel
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Matt Murphy Event Lighting
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Baroness Sheri de Borchgrave
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Steve Davis, Alice Aycock, James Salomon
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Skye Marigold, Laura Gundersen
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Joanna Steichen, Edward Albee
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Will Trinkle, Juan Granados
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 Peter Olsen, Helen Drutt English, H. Peter Stern
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Nico Lowry, Jim Zajac
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Matko Tomicic, Tim Thou, Carol Cassidy
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The Angkor Dance Troupe
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Kimberly Geller, Michael Weisman, Stacy Geller
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Jessica James, Mia Certic
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Eve Suter
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Xiao Di Yang
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Xiao Di Yang
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Selena Rothwell, Sarah Rothwell
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Terrie Sultan, Mae Mougin, Manana Freyre, Dianne Benson
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Sue Felsher, Carol Cassidy
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The Angkor Dance Troupe
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Keith Leaf, Fire Juggler
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2009 Benefit Supporters
Azzaro, Bacardi, USA, Inc., Judy & Ennius Bergsma, Gandia Blasco, taylor creative inc., Most Holy Trinity Church, East Hampton, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, Lao Textiles, Laurent-Perrier Champagne, The Ocean Group, East Hampton, Ray Smith & Assoc., Wine Spectator, and Zen Green Tea Liqueur.
Donors to the 2009 Benefit Auction
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Air France, Edward Albee, Lara Alcantara, Antique Rug Galleria, Jun-ichi Arai, Dianne B, Bob Bachler, Gretl Bauer, Tina-Maria Birch, Amanda Bowling, Blumarts, Inc., Dale & Leslie Chihuly, Michael Combs, Charles Cowles, Jennifer Cross, John Danzer, Lisa de Kooning, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Niels Diffrient, Richard Eagan, Douglas Dawson Gallery, Jamie Drake, Drake Design Associates, Roberto Dutesco, Aileen Florell, Pamela Collins Focarino, Ron Focarino, Caio Fonseca, Edward Fornieles, gallery gen, Gandia Blasco, Elena Prohaska Glinn, April Gornik, Grant Haffner, Hampton Road Gallery, Susan Harder, Robert Harms, Joan Hastings, Glen Horowitz Booksellers, Palwasha Iqbal, Ichibe Iwano, Ron Kuchta, Hotel Lutetia, Mark Humphrey Gallery, Jane Johnson, Jun Kaneko, Emma Katz, James Kennedy, Roseline Koener, Rex Lau, Audrey Lee,
Jack Lenor Larsen, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Hilda Longinotti, Dawn MacNutt, Marders, Steve Miller, Miyamoto Antiques, Munder-Skiles NYC, George Nakashima Woodworker, S.A., OK Harris Gallery, Open Skies, Yoko Ono, Jean Patiky, Barbara Press, Martin Puryear, Marc and Nancy Roberts, Robin Rice Gallery, Michael Rosch, Carole & Alex Rosenberg, Alex Rosenberg Fine Art, Gail Rothwell Ltd., RW Work, Ltd., Salomon Contemporary, Dick Sauer, Barbara Slifka, Ned Smyth, Craig James Socia, Socia Garden Design, Takashi Soga, Melvin Sokolsky, Spielberg Nursery, Surface Library Gallery, Eve Suter, Toshiko Takaezu, The Drawing Room, Wendy Van Deusen, Mark Wilson, Lucy Winton, Xawery Wolski, Yoshiaki Yuki, Marie Zazzi
Benefit Committee
Edward Albee | Eleanor Alper | Dianne Benson & Lys Marigold | Alice Bell | Madelaine Bennett |
Judy & Ennius Bergsma | Abby Jane Brody | Adelaide De Menil & Edmund Carpenter | Anthony Coron | Charles Cowles | Gardner Cowles III | Jan Cowles | Laurel & Theodore Cutler | Lisa de Kooning | Patricia Durkan | Helen Drutt English & Peter Stern | Eileen & Richard Ekstract | Nina Gillman | Jane & Louis Gropp | Susan Gullia | Barbara Hoffman | Bruce Horten | Jane Johnson | Roseline Koener | Jack Lenor Larsen | Elizabeth Lear | Elizabeth & Mark Levine | Dorothy Lichtenstein | Hilda Longinotti | Jonathan McCann | Scott McDonald | Alexandra Munroe & Robert Rosenkranz | Stephanie Odegard | Nancy Olnick & Giorgio Spanu | Michele & Steven Pesner | Barbara & Michael Press | Edward Roberts & Elaine Krauss | Alan Rogers | Anne & Charles Roos | June Rosner & Russ Bilgore | Charles C. Savage | Barbara Slifka | Annaliese Soros | Joanna Steichen| Lenard & Fern Tessler | Edwina Von Gal | Robert Wilson | Jane & Michael Wind | Neda Young
Special Thanks to
Bacardi, U.S.A., Inc. | Judy & Ennius Bergsma | Gandia Blasco
Thanks to
LHR Award created by Marc Leuthold
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We gathered to honor Carol Cassidy, an American weaver and great friend of mine who has spent more than a decade in Vientiane, Laos. Carol Cassidy is today the most prominent of the Good Americans continuously working with artisans of the Developing World. She lived and worked with rural artisans in many parts of the world. For decades now she has lived in Laos to design and direct weavers and dyers revitalizing ancient craft traditions. She has helped increase local pride in these ancient arts and, in doing so, earned recognition and international exchange for a small, remote land.
In recent years she has frequently left Laos to direct a Cambodian weave workshop set up to train amputees who are victims of the hundred thousand land mines still bedeviling this war torn land. Because these physically challenged people are also discriminated in employment because of their disabilities, their long-term, gainful employment with “Weaves of Cambodia” creating Carol’s beautifully colored silks is particularly meaningful. Like Jim Thompson in Bangkok before her, Carol Cassidy in Laos is now legendary to visitors and expatriates alike as the local toastmaster.Global travellers find their way to her Studio in Vientiane and are charmed by her passion for weaving. Best of all, she is a fine designer sympathetic to the people she works with. Year in, year out, she brightens the world with her colors,creativity and compassion.
Jack Lenor Larsen
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