"Dinner parties are a venue for sharing discoveries and ideas in a
warm personal and creative environment"
New
York: Lifestyle – Dinner At Home with Peter and Laurie. French born New York
based entrepreneur, Laurie Mallet and
artist, designer and a serious collector, Peter
Rittmaster graciously receive friends in their Chelsea loft. Their understated yet elegant lifestyle, which is
more European than American, reflects their interests in
the Arts. In fact the sophisticated
couple are both at home in social and artistic circles on both sides of the
“Pond”.
Above.
Ozone Socks president and CEO, Laurie Mallet sports an antique Peruvian Sterling cuff and Peter’s
latest necklace made from Tibetan beads.
Twisting vocabularies, Peter Rittmaster’s
wears the Classic Albert Slipper in
blue velvet with silver barbed wire embroidery.
Dinner
At Home with Peter and Laurie – Drinks
Spinach and Cheese Mousse - LesTrois
Petits Cochons
Salmon Rillettes - Lobster place
- Chelsea Market
Multicolor Biodynamic Carrots -
Hawthorne Valley Farm
Mionetto Prosecco D.o.c.
The Loft. Though the loft is full of curious and interesting
works of art it isn’t overcrowded. The
collections and works of art are beautifully displayed and render an elegant coziness and warmth to the room. And wherever
the eye rest one could spend hours. In fact, you
can easily spot the couple at the New
York Flea Market, or at the most glamorous auction houses and as this wasn’t enough, even on eBay, for Peter’s collecting vein is never saturated.
The Collections: Antique Edge Weapons. Peter as a long time collector of antique edge weapons has turned his eye
towards 1920 -1940 with these Sushi knives made by famous Japanese sword makers, artistically
replacing the older damaged handles with his updated designs.
The Collections: Antique Edge Weapons. Peter's
latest artworks are these Baby Blades,
a series of knives with miniature babies on the handles
composed entirely of hundreds of little plastic baby dolls.
They sit on a table together with and antique Fourteenth Century Japanese
Samurai helmet.
The Collections: Antique Edge Weapons. In the kitchen a collection of carbon steel chefs knives from 1890 Sabatier to modern Bob Kramer. Peter eschews stainless and all knives made after 1987 when
recycled steel was introduced.
In the Kitchen. Laurie
puts the finishing touches to an assortment of wild mushrooms from the Union Square Farmer’s Market. Her mushrooms
are lightly sauteed with organic red
shallots and extra virgin olive oil
and are served on an 1950’s black and
white designed plate. Laurie
sources the best and freshest ingredients and does hardly anything to them, the
flavors speak for themselves.
The Menu
Wild Stripped Bass
Mushroom Casserole - Braised Endives -
Nerone black Italian rice
American Artisanal Cheeses - Laurie's
salad
Sarabeth 's Creme Brulee
The Table. Their dinner services and chargers needed a new
twist, hence these amuzing Seletti Hybrid
plates, the Sterling candlesticks
are by Cartier and sit on the table
together with crystal goblets. John Masheroni designed the table in the 1960s, the surface is in English Burl Wood, which is like the
one used on the Rolls Royce dashboard.
The cane-work chairs are, French Louis XVI.
Wild Stripped Bass
Alaea - Sea Salt of Hawaii
Peter entertains
guests with amusing stories and anecdotes at the table
The All AmericanCheese Plater
Bent River by Alemar Cheese
soft cow 's milk cheese
in a Camembert style made in Minnesota
Rush creek Reserve by Upland Cheese Company
Rush creek Reserve by Upland Cheese Company
Raw milk Vacherin style
cheese made in Wisconsin
Pleasant Ridge Reserve by Upland Cheese Company
Pleasant Ridge Reserve by Upland Cheese Company
Raw milk Alpine style
cheese like Comte or Beaufort
To accompany Laurie's salad, all the American
Cheeses
are from "Lucy's Whey” in the Chelsea
Market and are served on a fifties ceramic painter’s palette.
Sarabeth 's Creme Brulee
Reptile Salad Plates - Anthropologie
