John related, in part, the following:
"Two baronesses have been clients, Baroness De Nora, of Italy, and
Baroness Langen von Langendorff, of Belgium, or maybe France, or
Luxembourg. The latter, a Euro-famous courtesan, gained her title by
snatching the epynomic baron's heart and then his commercial empire
which was based on male perfume, warehouses of which still abound
in one of the New York boroughs. In those undecorated sheds are
also contraband caviar, perhaps centigrams of which are sold in
perfume bottles to gastronomic sneak thieves which abound in
Manhattan.
We dined in the Baroness's Long Island shoreline mansion, designed by
Edward Durell Stone who had inscribed a picture book of his work:
to my dear baroness, shared lover of architecture. I had seen a similar
inscription in several of Stone's gifts to his seduced female clients, and
each displayed the book prominently, and paged to the inscription with
adoration, perhaps faux but enchantingly played. . ."
Do you have a location, or photograph, of this mansion on Long Island?
Here are a few URLs for her, as follows:
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http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/swanson.index5.html
von Langendorff, W. Langer (Baroness)--60.20
Gloria Swanson Papers
The index includes references to authors of correspondence, titles of works, subjects [folder number is followed by "(s)"], photographs [folder number is followed by "(p)"], and photographers [folder number is followed by "(ph)"].
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Sanotex - Rund um die Gesundheit GmbH. Baroness von Langendorff Healthlite 425
East 63 Street Suite 1G New York, NY 10021. Certification-No. FDA 3003801411.
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The Lord's Place.
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Thank you for triggering off the Edward Durell Stone connection.
It has been a long time since I thought of his work with concrete screens.
And, it sounds as if this client could have used a few screens!
.H.
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"Two baronesses have been clients, Baroness De Nora, of Italy, and
Baroness Langen von Langendorff, of Belgium, or maybe France, or
Luxembourg. The latter, a Euro-famous courtesan, gained her title by
snatching the epynomic baron's heart and then his commercial empire
which was based on male perfume, warehouses of which still abound
in one of the New York boroughs. In those undecorated sheds are
also contraband caviar, perhaps centigrams of which are sold in
perfume bottles to gastronomic sneak thieves which abound in
Manhattan.
We dined in the Baroness's Long Island shoreline mansion, designed by
Edward Durell Stone who had inscribed a picture book of his work:
to my dear baroness, shared lover of architecture. I had seen a similar
inscription in several of Stone's gifts to his seduced female clients, and
each displayed the book prominently, and paged to the inscription with
adoration, perhaps faux but enchantingly played. . ."
Do you have a location, or photograph, of this mansion on Long Island?
Here are a few URLs for her, as follows:
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http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/swanson.index5.html
von Langendorff, W. Langer (Baroness)--60.20
Gloria Swanson Papers
The index includes references to authors of correspondence, titles of works, subjects [folder number is followed by "(s)"], photographs [folder number is followed by "(p)"], and photographers [folder number is followed by "(ph)"].
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http://www.therapysolutions.com/therapy/solution/testimonial/athceleb_test_clients.aspx
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http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.sanotex.ch/kontakt_usa.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBaroness%2BVon%2BLangendorff%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
SANOTEX - Rund um die Gesundheit GmbH - [ Translate this page ]
Sanotex - Rund um die Gesundheit GmbH. Baroness von Langendorff Healthlite 425
East 63 Street Suite 1G New York, NY 10021. Certification-No. FDA 3003801411.
www.sanotex.ch/kontakt_usa.htm - 4k - Cached - Similar pages
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http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:np961T2gBbUJ:www.thelordsplace.org/www/download/lp-02-spring.pdf+Baroness+Von+Langendorff&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
The Lord's Place.
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Thank you for triggering off the Edward Durell Stone connection.
It has been a long time since I thought of his work with concrete screens.
And, it sounds as if this client could have used a few screens!
.H.
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