About 200 people came through the doors of Pergola Home in New Preston, CT on Sunday afternoon, August 26, to attend a reception for and signing of acclaimed gardener, designer, and architect Peter Wooster's new, limited edition art book, Collage. Wooster (in photo, left, with screenwriter and Huffington Post blogger Jane Howard Hammerstein) has designed properties for legends such as James Taylor and Stephen Sondheim. After a 2006 stroke left him partially paralyzed, with limited vocabulary, he channeled his creative impulses into the creation of vivid, expressive collages, which have been the subject of gallery shows before being collected into this lavish, coffee-table-sized book.
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Pergola staff Kelby Lawson and Nicholas Clark; garden manager Rob Girard, with gardening author Tovah Martin, who is holding a workshop and signing event for her new book, The Unexpected Houseplant, on September 15 at Pergola Home.
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Pergola staff Nicholas Clark and Sara Handelman; composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and antiques dealer Barry Strom.
Sculptor Elizabeth MacDonald; cookbook author and restaurateur Carol Peck with Rob Girard, Peter Wooster, and Stacey Perachi.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
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Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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