The Salonniere Names America’sThe Salonniere Names America’s100 Best Party Hosts100 Best Party HostsMeet the nation's best party hosts.Meet the nation's best party hosts.

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By Leigh Nordstrom on March 20, 2018

The country’s best party hosts have been crowned.

Entertaining web site The Salonniere has named the 100 best

party hosts in the U.S., with names like Oprah Winfrey, Reese

Witherspoon, Solange Knowles, Lela Rose and more earning

honors. Witherspoon and Knowles are among the new class of

honorees, joining Heidi Klum, Cindy Crawford and Rande

Gerber, Amy Virginia Buchanan, Patrick Janelle and Kiyomi

Buker, social secretary to the Ambassador of Japan, on the first

timers list.

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The annual list highlights 100 honorees from 34 cities and 28

states who “share one common trait: an exceptional ability to

leverage the power of parties to enhance the lives of others,” the

site says.

“We love putting together the Salonniere 100 list every year,”

says Carla McDonald, the site’s founder and editor in chief. “It’s

a time-intensive, nationwide selection process, but it represents

our collective sense of purpose and passion. For 2018, we spent

six months talking to more than 1,000 local contacts and

authorities whom we’ve come to know as in-the-know experts,

including journalists, philanthropists, not-for-profit fundraisers,

social luminaries, as well as cultural and business leaders.”

“The Salonniere 100 honors those who really enjoy getting

people together and harnessing the power of parties to enhance

other people’s lives — and to add value to the community while

they’re doing it,” McDonald continues. “That doesn’t mean

we’re looking for people who throw the most parties or the

biggest or most expensive parties — although some on the list

do host grand events that raise a lot of money for important

local and national charities. But the list also celebrates honorees

who throw intimate, informal dinner parties to encourage

meaningful conversation and gather people together to meet

outside their usual social circles. At the end of the day, it’s all

about the 100 best party-givers in America, the 100 men and

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women who have an unparalleled ability to use social gatherings

to support causes, advance ideas, and bring fun and joy to

others.”

The full list is as below, by city:

Aspen, Colo.Aspen, Colo.

Melissa and Marc Ganzi, Amy Phelan

AtlantaAtlanta

James Farmer, Annette Joseph, Danielle Rollins

Austin, Tex.Austin, Tex.

Mónica Peraza, Nina Seely

BostonBoston

Alli Achtmeyer, Jean and Christopher Egan

Charleston, S.C.Charleston, S.C.

Patricia Altschul, Lee Manigault, Ann Merck, Carolyne Roehm

Charlotte, N.C.Charlotte, N.C.

Felicia and Herb Gray, Danialle and Pete Karmanos

ChicagoChicago

Alessandra Branca, Ikram Goldman

CincinnatiCincinnati

Ryan Messer and Jimmy Musuraca

DallasDallas

Brooke and Blake Davenport, Cindy Rachofsky, Nancy and

Richard Rogers, Kimberly Schlegel Whitman

DenverDenver

Tammy Abramovitz, Christie Isenberg, Christine Vazquez

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Great Falls, Minn.Great Falls, Minn.

Sydne George

Hartford, Conn.Hartford, Conn.

Bunny Williams

HoustonHouston

Paige Fertitta, Lucinda Loya, Becca Cason Thrash, Phoebe

Tudor, Sheridan Williams, Lynn Wyatt

Lexington, Ky.Lexington, Ky.

Jon Carloftis and Dale Fisher

Little Rock, Ark.Little Rock, Ark.

Tobi Wells Fairley

Louisville, Ky.Louisville, Ky.

Priscilla Barnstable and Patricia Barnstable- Brown, Tammy

York Day and Tonya York Dees

Los AngelesLos Angeles

Barbara Broccoli, Christine Chiu, Eva Chow, Timothy Corrigan,

Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber ,Crystal Lourd, Lisa McRee,

Irena and Mike Medavoy, Reese Witherspoon

Macon, Ga.Macon, Ga.

Carey Pickard and Christopher Howard

MiamiMiami

Trudy Cejas, Sarah Harrelson, Craig Robbins

NashvilleNashville

Janet and Jim Ayers, Fletcher Foster and Dennis Johnson

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Contemporary Art Museum. “Spanning more

than five decades, the work of Helmut Newton

defies categorization,” said curator Matthias

Harder, director of the German foundation.

“Newton transcended genres, bringing elegance,

style and voyeurism to fashion, beauty and

glamour photography for an oeuvre that remains

as inimitable as it is unrivaled.” Harder selected

68 works starting from the Seventies onward,

which range from Newton’s advertising

campaigns for Thierry Mugler (seen here) and

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Mary Clare and Danny Conwill, Sara Ruffin Costello, Dawn

DeDeaux, Jane Scott Hodges, Allison Kendrick, Solange

Knowles, Julia Reed

New YorkNew York

Dennis Basso, Daniel Benedict and Andrew Saffir, Deeda Blair,

Amy Virginia Buchanan and Patrick Janelle, Michael Devine,

Cathy Graham, Dayssi de Kanavos, Heidi Klum, Ashley

McDermott, Stephanie Nass, Lela Rose

Newport, R.I.Newport, R.I.

Bettie Bearden Pardee

Orlando, Fla.Orlando, Fla.

Dana Marie Roquemore

Palm Beach, Fla.Palm Beach, Fla.

Annie Falk, Terry Allen, Kramer Kit Pannill, Pauline Pitt, Steven

Stolman, Kathryn Vecellio

PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia

Natanya DiBona

PhoenixPhoenix

Renee and Bob Parsons, Jordan and Jason Rose

San DiegoSan Diego

Joan and Irwin Jacobs

San FranciscoSan Francisco

Susan MacTavish Best, Ken Fulk, Vanessa Getty, Monelle Totah

and Gary McNatton, Alexis and Trevor Traina

Santa Barbara, Calif.Santa Barbara, Calif.

Oprah Winfrey

Savannah, Ga.Savannah, Ga.

Alexandra Trujillo de Taylor

Tampa, Fla.Tampa, Fla.

Carmen and Harry Barkett, Sara and David Scher

Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.

Katherine and David Bradley, Kiyomi Buker, Buffy Cafritz,

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