tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post1596695348554685781..comments2024-03-25T14:54:55.289-04:00Comments on little augury: Henri & EmilyP.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-56459089567855055922018-04-26T16:43:37.250-04:002018-04-26T16:43:37.250-04:00WHAT A HISTORY....................THE SWAN gives H...WHAT A HISTORY....................THE SWAN gives HERE!<br />Where is PENELOPE's TWO CENTS!!!!!!???<br />XXLa Contessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01682902106545680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-54246670956713816262018-04-25T11:22:35.918-04:002018-04-25T11:22:35.918-04:00I have it already...ordered months ago, finished d...I have it already...ordered months ago, finished drooling, the Porthault embroidered voile’ handkerchief is spent. I remember seeing Lalanne snails climbing walls of a Salon years ago...wasn’t it the Ornano’s?The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-58305704927999942612018-04-25T10:48:07.874-04:002018-04-25T10:48:07.874-04:00It sounds Idyllic. The Samuel book is a must have ...It sounds Idyllic. The Samuel book is a must have for you. xx pgtlittleauguryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04783090762421518044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-68112103982796544472018-04-23T22:29:45.627-04:002018-04-23T22:29:45.627-04:00Love the beautiful Perenchio home, its the origina...Love the beautiful Perenchio home, its the original home from the Beverly Hillbillies tv show, built as a gift for a wife who never lived in it for its grandiose manner, lost in a card game so the legend goes by the very husband who built it as the gift...then became a nuisance much too the consternation of the Kirkeby family who allowed the facade to used for the tv show...resurrection into the 18thC came via the Perenchio’s. The latter has removed all view from the street we had as children and teens on Bellagio years ago, when Bel Air was serene and birds chirped in the hedges, a Paradise Lost - now replaced daily with the tinnitus inducing buzz of out of scale construction sites buzz and the rumbling of massive land removal trucks trundling down too Sunset incessantly. There is a sublime Wallace Neff that is now the guest house, then another - a Midcentury home - across the street and lastly, an empty lot used for parking. The original driveway was moved and is now a meandering tree lined winding road far far far away from the original entrance gates and motor court. Henri gutted the interior, and installed period Boiserie throughout, even needing the removal of the roof for installation, the building was taken down too the shell. Several years later, all was as if dropped from the town of Versailles...and final culmination of Elegance was a beautiful privately published book for friends and the contractors which was given out as a rarified chronicle and insight into this domaine par excellence. David Jones, THE florist to the Reagan White House and their Bel Air home, the Bloomingdale, the Deutsch, Jorgensen, Perenchio families and every other Blue Book Member...passed away and I am the happy caretaker of his book. Knew the contractor, a grand gentleman indeed!The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.com