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One British banking family with the largest private fortune in history put on a bizarre and haunting surrealist ball, said to have inspired Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
The enormous Château de Ferrières was home to a lavish and opulent ball masterminded by Salvador Dali. A broken headless baby doll, nude mannequins and real life animal masks encrusted with diamonds were made for one of the most unsettling themes of all time.
Audrey Hepburn attended in a birdcage hat and there was an interactive maze filled with butlers pretending to be cats, according to The Rake.
The front of the house was lit up in red to make it look as if it was on fire. Servants were dressed as cats, pawing and playing with each other, or pretended to sleep. At the entrance guests were submerged into a maze of cobwebs where you could call a cat servant to “help” you.
It became a famous night of hedonism with, Yves Saint Laurent, Brigitte Bardot and Grace Kelly all in attendance. Cryptic invitations were sent out asking people to wear “black tie, long dresses & surrealist heads”. However, the instructions were typed backwards so invitees had to read them in the mirror.
Eventually your cat-butler would show you through to dinner, where plates were covered in fur, tables decorated with taxidermied tortoises and food served on a mannequin corpse on a bed of roses.The menu included “sir-loin” here, “extra-lucid” soup and goat’s cheese roasted in “post-coital sadness”.
Marie-Hélène herself wore a giant stag’s head studded with tears of diamonds. Baron Alexis de Redé wore a quadruple-decker four-masks-in-one number freckled with scarab beetles, an Egyptian twist on Titian’s Allegory of Prudence. Salvador Dalí designed several of the costumes, but didn’t wear one himself. Perfumer Hélène Rochas wore a gramophone on her head.
In 1957, after a brief first marriage, the elaborately named Baroness Marie-Hélène Naila Stephanie Josina van Zuylen van Nyevelt van de Haar, married her third cousin Guy de Rothschild.
Guy was making a departure from family tradition by not marrying a Jewish woman and was forced to resign his presidency of the Jewish community in France and Catholic Marie-Hélène had to receive special dispensation from the pope.
Their home, Chateau de Ferrières, is named the most luxurious nineteenth century chateau in France. On seeing his cousin’s impressive Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, Guy’s ancestor Baron James de Rothschild told its architect Joseph Paxton: “Build me a Mentmore, but twice the size”. It has a whopping 80 bedrooms, miles of forest and a 120-foot main hall with ornate columns and sculptures made by Charles Cordier, as well as a library of over eight thousand volumes and a neo-Renaissance Italian garden.
Three years after their unrepeatable Surrealist Ball, the Rothschilds donated the chateau to the chancellery of the universities of Paris.