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Post Awards Dinner

Public relations domino, Susan Becher’s annual post Alpha Awards meatloaf and macaroni and cheese dinner, is a very coveted invitation for those in the know. Each year she assembles a roster of media types, designers and other fascinating people for a fun night of chatting and good food. This year proved no different, among the guests were Domino Magazine Publisher Beth Brenner, designers Thomas Jayne, Thomas Burak, Carolyn Sollis, editors Carolyn Englefield of Veranda, Katherine Scully of Architectural Digest, Sabine Rothman of Traditional Home and Orli Ben-Dor of House Beautiful (who at 9:30 was dashing off for a late dinner with some friends who were visiting) to name a few.

Susan Becher overseeing the kitchen.

Man of the hour Ken Wampler of Alpha Workshops

Freddy Victoria's Mother Susan Victoria of Metropolitan Home Magazine.

Cheryl Buskin of Haviland Limoges

David Harris of ducduc and Elizabeth Blitzer

Jenny Bradley of Traditional Home Magazine

Writer Sophie Donelson

The Alpha Awards

The Annual Alpha Awards, honored a group who has helped to make Alpha Workshops the outstanding organization that it is, were held Monday night at the St. George Hotel in New York. This years honorees were Koroseal, Larson Juhl / Artaissance and ZeZe & Peggy.

Jamie Drake was there talking about his upcoming two week trip to South Africa, while House Beautiful's Orli Ben-Dor was very excited about her trip with her family to Hawaii. It all sounds like too much fun.

The silent auction was a big hit- with too many wonderful to things to choose from, it was hard to decide what to bid on first. There were several bidding wars going on which was exciting and all the better for Alpha.

Bernadette Fertel

Deborah Needleman of Domino Magazine

Alix Lerman of the New Design Center

Orli Ben-Dor of House Beautiful

Doty Horn, the color director for Benjamin Moore

Dennis Scully of Twill Textiles

This Nancy E. Stone illustration now has a new home in Kinderhook.

Alpha Workshops Texture Collection

Alpha Workshops just launched a new collection of textured wallpapers in the Dennis Miller showroom in the New York Design Center. The organization was founded to teach people with HIV/Aids the skills to be decorative painters. The work they do is really too beautiful.

Man about town, uber designer Jamie Drake was one of the many guests that evening. He had just come in from a client's apartment where he was double checking everything before the client hosted a cocktail party - for which he had to leave the Alpha event to attend. That's dedication.