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Book Signing of The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place
The Consul General of Luxembourg
François Knaff and Mrs. Carine Knaff-Feipel
Request the pleasure of your company at a
Book Signing of
The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place
Three Portraits in Time
Honored Guests
Family members of
James Forrestal and Irving Berlin
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The Luxembourg House
17 Beekman Place
(50th Street & the East River)
New York, New York 10022
RSVP by July 11, 2011
Tel (1-212) 888-6664 Fax (1-212) 888-6116
laurence.pierron@mae.etat.lu
The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: Three Portraits in Time
a wonderful link between Luxembourg and the United States, the past, present and the future…
Published by
The Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York
Authored by
Debra Pickrel, Pamela Hanlon, and Marianne Matthews
In consideration of the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of the Luxembourg House in New York, the Consulate General published a unique book reflecting the colorful and untold history of the residence at 17 Beekman Place.
Designed by architect Harold Sterner and completed in 1932, the residence was commissioned by young Wall Street banker James V. Forrestal on the brink of the Great Depression. Forrestal lived there for eight years before moving to Washington, D.C., to begin a distinguished government career that would lead to his appointment as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense. In 1946, the celebrated songwriter Irving Berlin – whose all-time greatest hit, Annie Get Your Gun, was playing on Broadway at the time – purchased 17 Beekman Place. He lived there for more than four decades, until his death in 1989. In 1990 the Luxembourg government acquired the house, transforming it into a unique venue for diplomatic initiatives, economic endeavors, tourism promotion, and cultural events.
Each guest will be offered a copy of The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: Three Portraits in Time, which is also now available on Amazon.com
Purchase of the book "THE LUXEMBOURG HOUSE ON BEEKMAN PLACE - Three Portraits in Time" available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Luxembourg-House-Beekman-Place-Portraits/dp/0615353584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291390897&sr=8-1
Debra Pickrel, project manager and author of the Prologue and Chapter One: The Forrestal Years, is a communications and marketing executive and co-author of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959, recipient of the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Awards’ Gold Medal in Architecture. She has written for Architectural Record, House Beautiful, Metropolis, and Preservation, and also penned A Day in Turtle Bay, a walking tour of her Manhattan neighborhood. A journalism graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she received her MA in historic preservation from Goucher College.
Pamela Hanlon, author of Chapter Two: The Berlin Years, is a writer and communications consultant, and former vice president-public relations for American Express Company. During a more than thirty-five-year career in communications, she also held senior positions with United Airlines, ITT Corporation, and Pan American World Airways. A graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School, Hanlon began her career as a reporter for the Associated Press. She is author of Manhattan’s Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood, published in 2008.
Marianne Matthews, author of Chapter Three: The Luxembourg Years, is a business, editorial, and creative writer. Her marketing-communications experience spans twenty-five years, writing and producing projects for corporations such as Schering-Plough, Con Edison, and Oppenheimer Management. She has had over twenty-five articles published in trade magazines and is presently editor of Imaging Economics, a business journal for physicians. Marianne is also an actress and a produced playwright. She holds an MA in English from New York University and an MFA in acting from The Actors Studio Drama School at New School University.
Kathy McGilvery, art director of The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: Three Portraits in Time, is a New York City-based art director who has been designing award-winning magazines and books for the past 25 years.
Sam Roberts, writer at The New York Times did a short review on “The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: Three Portraits in Time”, published by the Consulate General of Luxembourg and authored by Debra Pickrel, Pamela Hanlon and Marianne Matthews. The article entitled “An Era When the City Roared” ran online and in print in the July 13, 2011 of The Sunday New York Times in his “Bookshelf”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/nyregion/a-portrait-of-new-york-city-when-it-roared.html