1980s L.A. DINNER PARTIES: DAGNY CORCORAN, DAVID HOCKNEY, JOAN DIDION,…

1980s L.A. DINNER PARTIES: DAGNY CORCORAN, DAVID HOCKNEY, JOAN DIDION, CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, BARRY DILLER, RICHARD GERE, DIANE VON FURSTENBURG +++++ by Dagny Corcoran, et al. < >
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1980s L.A. DINNER PARTIES: DAGNY CORCORAN, DAVID HOCKNEY, JOAN DIDION, CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, BARRY DILLER, RICHARD GERE, DIANE VON FURSTENBURG +++++

GUEST DINNER PARTY PLANNER & ARRANGER BOOK owned by DAGNY CORCORAN, L.A. SOCIALITE, ART-BOOK MAVEN, BONNE VIVANTE, PHILANTHROPIST, and, perhaps most important, BEST DINNER PARTY HOST of the 1980s. The Planner provides handwritten details about Dagny's PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES and the leading Artists, Writers, Film Directors, Actors, Models, and others that attended from 1983 to 1987.

Faux leather covers titled in gilt with spiral bound inner pages. The Dinner Party Planner is in the form of a Date Book Planner. Published by At-A-Glance record books. Includes the following categories for each dinner party: Occasion, Time/Date, Guest List, Menu, Special Notes (China, Crystal, Centerpiece, Linen, etc.), and Seating Arrangement. There are 28 Dinner Parties recorded, each is detailed on one or both of two facing pages. Though the Hostess, and owner of this Dinner Party Planner, was clearly Dagny Corcoran, the details of the parties were written in various hands, some in Dagny's (she referred to herself as ME when noting the seating arrangements), while most are probably in the hands of her assistants. There are also unused pages. VERY GOOD condition, solid, clean, with writing that is bright and clear throughout.

TWENTY-EIGHT DINNER PARTIES held by DAGNY CORCORAN from 1983 to 1987 are recorded in this book. If you attended one of these dinner parties you were at the HEIGHT of the L.A. ART & LITERARY SCENE. This DINNER PARTY PLANNER gives an almost I WAS THERE look at each of the Dinner Parties.

Here are some of the guests (many, such as David Hockney, came repeatedly):

DAGNY CORCORAN (the Host), KIRSTIN "KIKI" KISER (Model, famous Architect), KATHRYN BIGELOW (Film Director, one time spouse of James Cameron), DAVID HOCKNEY (artist), FRANK GEHRY (architect), PAUL MORRISSEY (filmmaker, Andy Warhol associate), MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN (American actor and director, son of Roy Lichtenstein), HELMUT NEWTON (Photographer) DENNIS HOPPER (Actor, Artist), MARIN HOPPER (Filmmaker, daughter of Dennis Hopper), SAMANTHA EGGAR (Actor), LISA LYON (Model for Mappelthorpe, Bodybuilder), RICHARD SERRA (Artist), JOAN DIDION (Writer), JOHN DUNNE (Writer), BIANCA JAGGER (Actor, Activist), CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (Writer), DON BACHARDY (Isherwood's Life Partner), NINA CAMPBELL (Interior Designer), WILLIAM STYRON (Writer), PRINCE RUPERT LOEWENSTEIN (Aristocrat, Financial Manager of the Rolling Stones), RICHARD GERE (Actor), SYLVIA MARTINS (Artist - from 1978-1986 Gere and Martins were in an on and off again relationship), DIANE VON FURSTENBURG (Designer), BARRY DILLER (Media Honcho), BROOKE HAYWARD (Actress), PETER DUCHIN (Pianist), and others.

Here are the details of the book's first recorded dinner party:

The Occasion: KIKI'S RETURN.

Time/Date: 01.02.83 8ish.

Guest List: KIKI KISER, KATHRYN BIGELOW, MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN, DAGNY (DAGNY CORCORAN), and DENNIS (DENNIS HOPPERr).

Attire: Extremely Casual.

Menu: Port + Stilton, Cracked Dungeness Crab, Pasta Primavera, Radicchio & Arugula Salad, Raspberry Mousse, Beer, Vodka, Grape Juice, Wine, Soda. Special Notes: Metropolitan Dishes, Japanese Wine Glasses, Cluff Family Linen, Cluff Silverware, Janss Finger Bowls. Seating Arrangement: (as shown in the diagram).

THIS GUEST DINNER PARTY PLANNER IS INCREDIBLE READING, so much can be conjectured from these parties: Was Dagny trying to play matchmaker? Was she trying to set Kathryn Bigelow up? Who was Bianca Jagger's date which is written down in the Guest List as "Eurotrash #1"?

Truly a UNIQUE LOOK at what was happening in the 1980s gatherings of the high society Artists and Literati, and the wealthy that wanted to be seen among them.

Dagny Corcoran, and every one of the guests that attended her parties, is worth reading about on the Internet, together they formed an intimate part of the 80's L.A. scene.

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