The Insider’s Guide to Palm Beach
CEOs, socialites, celebrities up their little black books on Florida’s toniest town.
A magnet for billionaires built by a billionaire (adjusting for inflation), Palm Beach is in full swing come springtime, when the weather is pitch-perfect and the social scene has given way to real R&R.
More than a century after Henry Flagler envisioned it as “a magnificent playground for the people of the nation,” and social arbiter Frank Crowninshield called it “merry, sumptuous, and expensive,” the Florida destination is welcoming a standard-raising clutch of cultural, hotel, and restaurant openings. At a gala celebrating the Norman Foster-led renovation of the Norton Museum of Art last month, Bill Koch went so far as to describe the new-and-improved Palm Beach as “Fantasy Island.”