Beloved for his theatrical, over the top and always beautiful celebrations, Bronson van Wyck has played party planner to some of the world’s most glittering grandees and important institutions — from Beyoncé and Queen Noor of Jordan to the White House and the Whitney Museum.
Today his empire includes a 15-year-old event-production company (Van Wyck & Van Wyck), a gourmet food and tabletop company (Arrowhead Farms) and his recently launched Workshop — an experience-focused marketing, events and brand-building agency whose clients include Chanel, Coach and Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop.
Van Wyck, 43, shares with Alexa a few of the luxe items that define his fêted life.
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Michael Mcgurk/Rex Features/ZUMAPRESS.com Market value of the 1965 silver Aston Martin DB5 from “Skyfall” that van Wyck borrowed for a James Bond-themed party in Ohio a few years back.
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GETTY IMAGES Carrots he dangled over guests’ heads at Edible Schoolyard’s New York benefit dinner in May at Moynihan Station.
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Photo Courtesy of the Library of Congress Years the van Wyck family has called New York — then New Amsterdam — home. Cornelius Barentse van Wyck (above) arrived first, to a farm in Flushing, Queens.
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Handout Books in his NYC home. “I’m a nerd; I read about 100 pages a day,” says the Yale graduate, who recently finished a biography of Nero and Peter Wilson’s new history of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Yards of construct-ion plastic van Wyck used to decorate last month’s High Line benefit at the former Tunnel nighclub; the material will be reused for the elevated park’s third phase.
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Photo Courtesy of Bronson Van Wyck Costumed mermaids who greeted guests at a deserted-beach birthday-party picnic he planned in St. Barts last summer.
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Handout Hot-air balloon stored in his 38,000-square-foot New Jersey warehouse-slash- workshop, along with 123 chandeliers and two vintage horse-drawn Christmas sleighs.
