"New York will soon be as irrelevant as St. Tropez." This was the sentence I had put through a test-wash. It kept coming back to me in the form of, "but New York is so hip" or "You pay 5000 dollars to get a table at ..." No one was getting my point. I'm not sure that I was either after spending the last three weeks castle-hopping with my better-healed friends. Not Kassel, but castle, yes, though Kassel did make it on the agenda, after a weekend at Hubertus Jagd, the hunt, that is, in a castle just outside of Kassel. But the evening before the hunt was an exclusive Town and Country art extravaganza, thanks to Michelle Nicole Fine Arts of Zurich and the graciously charming hosts, Joachim and Elisabeth von Reden, whose castle park serves as an extension of several public art projects. In the Reden's vast park, somewhere in-between Tobias Rehberger's tree houses and Atelier von Lieshout's red capsule now stands Plamen Dejanoff's Golden Pavilion, fashioned in bronze and perfect for tea parties. 
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