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 from side to side, 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 start. 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.
Hoisting one in all Starck’s...
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