· Pierre Durand, a financier and director of Adair Capital, also "moonlights" as owner of The Chinese Porcelain Company, a gallery on Park Avenue. His 5th Avenue home was one of the most exquisite we have visited and the pictures, we hope, are an absolute treat for NYSD readers. He himself is, and we don't want to gush, a gentleman, Old WorldbywayoftheNew World for he was born in .