People and "Stuff": Carey Maloney Book Signing

Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. “Tout Warren Street is here,” said the lovely couple at the book signing for  interior designer Carey Maloney’s Stuff,  held Saturday, January 26, at Stair Galleries. The auction house was all set up for an appropriately eclectic sale of  Deco, Art Nouveau and mid-century furniture, combined with Phillipe Stark and lots of hiply deshabille contemporary photography. (Modern & Contemporary Exposition Auction, February 2 @ 11 a.m.)  “And un peu de Union as well,” someone added. But that really only described a part of the gathering, filled with M (Group) friends and well wishers from as far as across the river and, all the other way around, to the eastern edges of Columbia County and beyond (Salisbury, CT). Maloney (pictured at left with Joan Davidson) proved to be quite the ambulatory book signer, and only occasionally used the large-scale desk provided to him for the purpose, autographing on ledges, cocktail tables, and what have you, but preferring most of all just to mingle right backatcha.

Pilates Hudson's Nichole Meadors and Gary Keegan; Windle Davis and Kathy Packay of Relics Antiques in Hudson.

Joe Chang and Edmond Franco; Cynthia Lambert and Jovan Goff of Lotus Energy.

Craig Fitt, Hermes Mallea, and Bruce Shostak; Bob Gilles and Carey Maloney.

"Columbia County weekenders" Marty Salerno, Jim Finch, Tim Legg, and John Sare.

Ed Tivnan, RI's Marilyn Bethany, and Patrick Terenchin; Katrina Stair and John Dunn.

Designer Julia Hilbrandt and Cynthia Lathrop; interior designers Paul Siskin and Paul Mathieu.

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Jeanniezl Herstrand and Sioux Harris; Dorothy Heyl and writer, Bennington College professor Brooke Allen.

Photographer Peter Aaron and Stair Gallerie's Jessanna Britton; antiques dealer David Petrovsky and realtor Mary Mullane.

Hermes Mallea, Colin Stair, and Carey Maloney; Jim Frederikson and Lisa Ford of Salisbury.