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Last Days of Rome

Marie-Hélène de Rothschild wearing her antlers at the start of her Surrealist Ball.

"In 1981 President Miterrand nationalised the 100 years old Rothschild family bank, provoking Guy de Rothschild to move to New York, come out of retirement and set up business there. His wife Marie-Hélène followed him and transfered her ancien régime socialising from the Hôtel Lambert to Lexington Avenue instead, leaving a vacuum in Paris high society. (...) Kim d'Estainville spoke for all the beau monde when he said, "The old order is now gone"".

- Alicia Drake

Home Sweet Home

Procrastination

A Look we Like

Procrastination

Chez le Baron et la Baronne de Rothschild

1972 Surrealiste Ball

The Dîner des Têtes Surréalistes reversed writing invitation after a Magritte sky Château de Ferrières. For the evening the château was floodlit with moving orange lights to give the impression that it was on fire. Le Baron et la Baronne Guy de RothschildPortuguese guests: Senhora Espírito Santo and the Duke and Duchess of Cadaval Charles de Croisset, Marisa Berenson, Paul-Louis Weiller Salvador Dalí and the italian princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia Audrey Hepburn Baron Alexis de Redé The two headed Baroness Thyssen-Bornemizza and Guy Baguenault de Puchesse Jacqueline Delubac Claude Lebon and Charlotte Aillaud Hugues Gall and Mrs. Rolf Libermann The Menu Table of the genius rhinoceros Table of the metaphysical perspectives Table of the insane shoes Table of the tenderized turtles Table of the swaying dolls Detail of a table with a fur dish, Mae West red lips and a blue bread A sugar made woman laying in a bed of roses desert

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Magister Dixit:

"I want to create beauty, I want to convince people, to open their eyes, to help people who don't know how to dress. I have got a good eye. And I was trained by Chanel. Coco was a friend of my mother and I went and sat on the floor and watched her work. 'Hide those armpits, they are hideous!' she would say. She had a wonderful sense of proportion."

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by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild

Dixit et Fecit:

"The most astounding result of my friendship with Marie-Hélène was the idea that the Rothschilds might buy the Hôtel Lambert.

In 1975 Marie-Hélène lunched with me and I told her that the Czartoryskis were attempting to evict me from my rooms. "I don't know why we don't buy it", she said as we reached the cheese.

Hardly had she had the idea and then she telephoned Guy at the bank:




"Do you feel young enough and romantic enough to change the course of your life in the space of two hours?" - she asked him.

"Why not?" - answered Guy a little nervously.

So they bought the Lambert..."

Alexis, Baron de Redé

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