Elsie de Wolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm

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The American decorator Elsie de Wolfe (1858–1950) was once the international set’s preeminent hostess in Paris all the way through the interwar years. She had a legendary villa in Versailles, where within the overdue 1930s she held two fabulous parties—her Circus Balls—that marked the top of the social scene that her friend Cole Porter perfectly captured in his songs, as the clouds of war swept through Europe. Charlie Scheips tells the tale of these glamorous parties the use of a wealth of up to now unpublished photographs and introducing a big cast of aristocrats, beauties, politicians, fashion designers, movie stars, moguls, artists, caterers, florists, party planners, and decorators. A landmark work of social history and a poignant vision of a vanished world, Scheips’s book belongs at the shelf with Abrams’ classics such as Slim Aarons: Once Upon A Time and Tony Duquette.

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