HYLAND
T he word "club" carries diverse connotations, from
venerable, somber-paneled gentlemen's home-away-from-
home—enclave of statesmanship and intellectual pursuits—
to venue of raging hedonism for the very young or otherwise.
The Magnises Club, on Greenwich Avenue in New York, on
the edge, at once, of Greenwich Village, the paradoxically
elegant Meatpacking District and New York's own Silicon
Alley, is an insider's spot of a different sort, the interior designed
by Inson Dubois Wood's very contemporary eye for what it
means, visually, to be well-to-do and still relatively young. If
the watchword of today's interior design is eclecticism—the
harmonious, sometimes startling juxtaposition of furniture
and artifacts from different eras and styles—Wood achieves it
here while sustaining a backbone of the ultra-contemporary.