FACET TIME: Guests at Baccarat’s dinner Monday night in honor of Philippe Starck sat in a pitch black room while waiters — dressed all in black like ninjas with tiny lamps on their foreheads — scurried back and forth, plucking placement cards, adding candles, wine glasses, vases and long-stemmed roses.
Before exiting the room, they rang a small crystal bell with a red pendant clapper to point that the meal was about to begin. When the lights got here up, the likes of Farida Khelfa, Emmanuel Perrotin, Elie Top, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Charles de Vilmorin gasped in wonder on the sparkling table setting and the ballroom’s Rococo splendor, its chandeliers duplicated to infinity within the mirrors.
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