1972 Surrealiste Ball invite Château de Ferrières Le Baron et la Baronne Guy de Rothschild
On 12 December 1972, Marie-Helene de Rothschild and husband Baron Guy de Rothschild hoisted a soiree at Ferrières, their Paris mansion. It’s our good fortune that guest Baron Alexis de Redé recorded what went on. He writes:
“This time the guests were asked to come in black tie and long dresses with Surrealist heads. The invitation was printed with reversed writing on a blue and cloudy sky, inspired by a painting by Magritte. To decipher the card, it had to be held to a mirror.”
Château de Ferrières in 1972
1972 Surrealiste Ball invite
“Marie Hélène proved that she had the flare and imagination to create something unique and worthwhile. None of this was created by charm alone. It needed a degree of ruthless determination. She attended to every minute detail of style in her life and also in her entertaining. She was a great hostess with all the qualities. She loved parties and people. She was forever in quest of new talent and new figures to entertain from the world of the arts, literature, dance and haute couture. She mixed them with the more established set of Paris society. everyone was intrigued. Marie-Hélène’s parties took on such importance that one social figure threatened to commit suicide unless she was invited…”
Charles de Croisset, Marisa Berenson, Paul-Louis Weiller
Salvador Dalí and the italian princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia
Audrey Hepburn
Baron Alexis de Redé
“It is not possible to repeat such things now for many reasons. But it is fascinating to look back and to remember these occasions, which dominated our thoughts and plans to such an extent for so many months. I am happy that I took part in so many, and happy that I gave some myself.”
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
1972
Table of the metaphysical perspectives
Table of the insane shoes
Table of the tenderized turtles
Table of the swaying dolls
1972 Surrealiste Ball 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
Baron Alexis de Redé in a Dalí designed Hat and Mrs. Espírito Santo
Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild (her headdress is ‘crying’ diamond tears) and Baron Alexis de Redé
Via: Scalaregia
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