The Dining Room Where Buckley Reigned

The tables are still set at the Park Ave home of William F. Buckley Jr.

He is said to have hosted 1,200 formal events here

It was understood that one would take a cocktail in the Red Room before the servants came with the summons to dinner. So it went for more than 40 years in William F. Buckley Jr.’s dining room on Park Avenue and 73rd Street, the centerpiece of the grand conservative thinker’s Manhattan pied-à-terre. It is said that Mr. Buckley hosted 1,200 formal events there — extravagant evenings to complement the green silk walls and the chartreuse sateen leopard-print chairs.

from NYT