Splendorland

Saturday night I went to the best dinner party at my friend Anne-Francoise's place, which takes up a whole floor in a gorgeous brownstone in Cobble Hill and it was all very chic and everyone sat on the floor around a huge multi-purpose low-slung table that A.F.'s dad, an antiques dealer in her native Lausanne, built for her, surrounded by her gorgeous paintings and sculptures, and it was all very Paul & Talitha except, you know, with a vegetarian dinner and no overdoses. Anne-Francoise has the coolest friends, many of whom, like her, have to-die-for impossibly mysterious and hard-to-place Euro accents. After I left I practiced r-r-r-r-rolling my r-r-r-r-'R's the whole way down the block. The conversations were like, "You totally have to stay at this design hotel/spa in Germany on the side of a hill and it's brilliant and brightly colored and all of the rooms are round because the architect believes hexagons are the perfect shape. We're going tomorrow." I was in love. One guest owns a boutique in Williamsburg that I didn't catch the name of but must visit (I admired her exquisite handbag, which she said was a limited edition by a Parisian stylist; "It's at Colette, Bergdorf's and me."). During the meal I had the pleasure of sitting between curator and art dealer Renee Ricardo and her husband, Art Asia Pacific critic and Artkrush editor Paul Laster, who were both ultra-charming. Also, Renee was working that perfect '60s look with magenta tights, a black babydoll minidress and a black glossy pendant. I did that thing where you stare at someone admiringly thinking about how later you will copy their outfit head-to-toe and not tell anyone, but well, now you know. At one point, I hijacked A.F.'s laptop to show Paul the Buddha Machine, because I want one desperately and am thus obsessed. And when Tracey Emin came up (the new issue of Artkrush is devoted to feminist art) of course you know I couldn't stop talking about Strangeland. Save the date for May 8, when you can see Infinite Bliss, an exhibition of Anne-Francoise's paintings at my home away from home, #1 neighborhood nymphet, Lolita! We're having a party and Maxx Klaxon is going to DJ from 6-8. I have only one request: Cut Copy, Time Stands Still. And you?