Les Amoureux

Socializing

Lex Rex

“A good way of making people happy is to allow them to meet their opposites.”

- Marie Helene de Rothschild

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

Socializing

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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Party People

"Those who are small in spirit, who are mean, narrow-minded or timid, should leave entertaining to others."

by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild