Kips Bay Decorator Show House chairwoman Bunny Williams explains this year's new-construction setting: "Many empty houses have been bought by people from other countries, she noted, who are immune to the blandishments of local charities like Kips Bay." As the Times points out, "the new blank spaces might reflect the architectural realities of more New Yorkers than, say, a Beaux Arts town house." [New York Times]
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