tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post8430439880911801247..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: MaecenasBluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-35139939002325771222015-02-09T07:20:49.367-05:002015-02-09T07:20:49.367-05:00After reading this article I went online in search...After reading this article I went online in search of a copy of House and Garden April 1986 which I ordered and paid for priority mail which was very expensive to have it delivered. Received my copy of House and Garden today and was shocked to find that there is no reference what so ever to Henry McIlhenny or the article above!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-87357386803112548752012-04-25T16:49:19.624-04:002012-04-25T16:49:19.624-04:00When I was a student at Temple University, I had t...When I was a student at Temple University, I had the privilege of meeting Henry through a mutual friend. I was a starving student at the time and lived in a tiny apartment around the corner on Locust St. Henry befriended me and I became one of his dog walkers; a job that he paid me extravagantly for. I also got to attend a few of his private parties and met the likes of Douglas Cooper, Billie, Bill Blass and other celebrities of the day. I knew Henry was extremely rich but he never acted snobbish or condescending to me or any other individuals, grand or humble, who made it through the doors of Little Monticello. One little thing about Henry that I always loved was that, despite his great wealth, his car (at least when I was living in Philadelphia) was a Buick. I happened to be Googling Rittenhouse Square the other day (a trip down memory lane) and saw pictures of the house; shutters gone and looking derelict. What a sad condition for a home that knew so much love and laughter. Henry would scream if he saw the condition those front steps are in!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-48115732644346463312012-03-16T12:54:21.867-04:002012-03-16T12:54:21.867-04:00Anonymous, thank you and my apologies for a late r...Anonymous, thank you and my apologies for a late reply to your comment. I think I would like to have met Mr McIlhenny. Sometimes, nostalgia is good - when we remember good times and absent friends.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-89007951849629619102012-03-08T16:31:13.064-05:002012-03-08T16:31:13.064-05:00Hi, thanks for this. I spent many an evening in ...Hi, thanks for this. I spent many an evening in that house and you have brought back a nostalgia for a time that is no longer. Henry was lovely and fun and charming. His generosity was legend and his wit and welcome equally large. I can still hear his "my dear" in the photos that you've shown. thanks again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-31315131344714793092010-11-13T09:23:10.988-05:002010-11-13T09:23:10.988-05:00The works of art he lived with are staggering. I r...The works of art he lived with are staggering. I remember these rooms too and I agree-as we have in past about Gropp. When Diana Vreeland was a Vogue, her idea of photographing celebrity at home was an innovation and some of the most wonderful rooms in memory come from those Horst/ Valentine Lawford collaborations. I think what is lacking is content in rooms. Now it is enough to just have celebrity. That is far removed from the original concept. For the most part and of course there are exceptions the celebrity interiors are like their owner's own fame fleeting and content minimal. The means to collect for joy and future endowments adds another layer to the quality of the rooms here. Fantastic post blue .P.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-90308358952213272152010-11-12T11:29:12.628-05:002010-11-12T11:29:12.628-05:00JT, thank you. I increasingly prefer workmanlike r...JT, thank you. I increasingly prefer workmanlike records of rooms rather than vignetted atmosphere. I have more but they are perhaps for another day.<br /><br />Flo, thank you. I agree about Mr Gropp and coincidentally I mention him in the post for Friday. <br /><br />Dilettante, thank you. Unfortunately, I do not have every issue but at least have some back issues obtained, as I mentioned a while back, when a local university ridded itself of its library. I shall look for McIlhenny's sister's house.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-15476352314476019212010-11-11T16:15:44.281-05:002010-11-11T16:15:44.281-05:00I second Flo's vote for H&G in the Gropp y...I second Flo's vote for H&G in the Gropp years. I have held onto every issue (only to lose the first in the exploding car. I have been luckless finding a replacement).<br /><br />McIlhenny was a friend of friends, speaking of circles within circles, and they always had delightful things to say of him, and of the house, ballroom excepted. His sister's house, by Billy Baldwin, displayed some equally jaw dropping art. Quite the eye those two siblings hadThe Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-58453839524803090392010-11-11T10:51:24.290-05:002010-11-11T10:51:24.290-05:00GREAT post, I vividly remember when this article a...GREAT post, I vividly remember when this article appeared, I absolutely loved H&G under Louis Gropp, he presided over 5 or 6 wonderful years with articles like this, serious connoisseurship and sumptuous photography. Good thread going re Connections, too. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-29430557828898052992010-11-10T23:18:49.778-05:002010-11-10T23:18:49.778-05:00I am glad to see these McIlhenny rooms, as I had o...I am glad to see these McIlhenny rooms, as I had only seen earlier, more sparse shots that were hardly convincing of the owner's reported great style, not counting the art.John J Tackettnoreply@blogger.com