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Asian Laughter
 
The LongHouse Reserve Summer Benefit
 
Saturday, July, 18, 2009
 
Legendary American Weaver in Laos, Carol Cassidy
was honored
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stephanie Lewin, Patrick McMullan, Eve Suter photos
 
Elizabeth Lear, Bill Cunningham
 
 
 
Decor by Eve Suter
Marylyn Dintenfass
 
 
Jack Larsen, Carol Cassidy bottom
Angela Mariana Freyre, Dianne B. top
 
Patricia Durkan
 
Barbara Slifka, Lys Marigold, Ayse Kenmore, Brigitte Gambini
 
Tina Maria Birch, Yuta Powell
 
Matko Tomicic, Sue Felsher, Steve Felsher, Dianne Benson, Joseph La Piana
 
Barbara Slifka, Mark Levine
 
Cassandra Lozano, Liam Hackett, Laurie Lambrecht, Richard Sigmund, Mason Rader,
Pat Raporosso, Natasha Sigmund
 
 
Lou Gropp, Ayse Kenmore, Dorrie Freedman
 
 
Clara Reed, Gordon Bowling, Amanda Bowling
 
Petals, gouache on paper, by Maria Terese Barbaccia
 
 
Cliff Nordmeier, Richard Eagan
 

 

Joanne Sohn, Rosemarie DeSantis
 

Jim Zajac, Chirstin Martahus
 
Jill Smith, Iris Marden
Jack Lenor Larsen, Jan Cowles
 
 
Marylyn Dintenfass, Elizabeth Levine
 
Eve Suter Decor
 

Beatrice Dupont, Fred Dhallawin

 

Rob and Karen Norrby
Laura Gunderson, Skye Marigold, Lys Marigold
 

 

Michelle Pesner, Ed Roberts, Elaine Krauss
Rick Prins, Connie Steensma
Barbara Slifka, Mark Levine, Angela Mariana Freyre
 
Ennius Bergsma, Charles Roos, Anne Roos, Jane Gropp
Brigitte Gambini , Rob Wussler, Amy Schichtel
Carol Rattray, Sharon Peterson
 
Vongku Pak's traditional Korean Drum and Dance Troupe
 
 
 
 
Ed Roberts, Elaine Krauss
 
Masako Dempo
Liam Hackett
Edward Albee
 
Maximillion Schmidbauer, Magdalena von Behr
 
Jessica Joffe, Darius Yektai
 


David Landgraf, Brian O'Reilly
 
Dianne B.
 
Angela Mariana Freyre, Dianne B.
 
Eileen Kornreich, Billy Kornreich
 
Madeline Bennett, Grasiella Chajon, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Joanna Steichen
 
Grant Haffner, Francesca Esmay, Taylor Van Deusen,
Elliot Wandel
 
Jan Fletcher, Randy Slifka
 
Joseph La Piana, Juan Granados
 
Anne Roos, Charles Roos
 
 
 

The Angkor Dance Troupe
 
 
 
Lisa Bass, Joel Bass
 
Antoinette Botarelli, Marco Botarelli,
Beatrice DuPont
 
Alexandra Munroe, Carol Mandel
 
Barbara Slifka, Mark Levine
 
Maximillion Schmidbauer, Rob Wussler, Lisa de Kooning, Amy Schichtel
 
Matt Murphy Event Lighting
 
Baroness Sheri de Borchgrave
 
Steve Davis, Alice Aycock, James Salomon
 
Skye Marigold, Laura Gundersen
 
Joanna Steichen, Edward Albee
 
 
 
 
Will Trinkle, Juan Granados
 

Peter Olsen, Helen Drutt English, H. Peter Stern
 

 


Nico Lowry, Jim Zajac
Matko Tomicic, Tim Thou, Carol Cassidy
The Angkor Dance Troupe
Kimberly Geller, Michael Weisman, Stacy Geller
Jessica James, Mia Certic
 
Eve Suter
Xiao Di Yang
Xiao Di Yang
 
 

Selena Rothwell, Sarah Rothwell
 
Terrie Sultan, Mae Mougin, Manana Freyre, Dianne Benson
 
Sue Felsher, Carol Cassidy
The Angkor Dance Troupe
Keith Leaf, Fire Juggler
 
 
Maria Terese Barbaccia
 
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

 
Catered by Taste
 
LHR Award created by Marc Leuthold
 
 
 

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