You'll need to brush up on your Quadrille talents - someone from Mrs. Astor's group has canceled.....
"The appropriation for a house should be divided into two equal parts, one-half for the house, the other for the gardens, pathways, court, approach, terrace and the rest of it, or, as it might be termed, one-half for the pudding, the other for the sauce." Architect Thomas Hastings
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon the chronicler of the Court of Louis XIV and my introduction to the concept of l'oeil du plan - one-half for the pudding, the other for the sauce.
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