An Event of Elegance

Social gridlock reigned at the charming Provençal-style Montecito estate of international interior designer Penny Bianchi when more than 200 guests attended a sunset soirée for Santa Barbara-based designer Wade Weissmann’s new 260-page plus coffee table tome Homes of Quiet Elegance: A Collection of Recent Works.

Wade, who splits himself between our Eden by the Beach and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – where I was a regular guest on KDKA’s afternoon talk show Pittsburgh 2 Day talking on the Royal Family – says he aims to create a certain quality capturing romance, beauty, and history, no matter where the project is located.

The book includes a stunning range, from farmhouses and waterfront retreats to high rise units, and even a new greenhouse for an avid horticulturist from Southern California, Florida, Wisconsin, and Tennessee.

Among the aesthetic throng were Marc Appleton, John Margolis, Nancy Howes, Harry and Sari Ehrenreich, Jackie Taliaferro, Geoff and Kim Crane, and former Olympic diver Greg Louganis, clearly making a splash.