An afternoon at the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Baroness Beatrice Ephrussi née Rothschild or as we came to call her “B.B.”
B.B. purchased and started building her shack in 1905. She had 11 architects working on the villa. She wanted full-sized mockups on most of the features on the house. Train cars of art and antiques would pull into the train station and she would go shopping. The house and gardens were all designed in pink, her favorite color.  When she received guests she would dress up like Marie Antoinette (whose whist table she had bought…because if you are going to have a whist table, it should have royal lineage). But what I love the most, she had 34 gardeners on the compound and each their little berets had large pom poms on the top.

Now if you have an imagination, it’s not to difficult to close your eyes and envision this tiny, entitled woman dressed up as Marie Antoinette (with wig properly askew), stomping through her house screeching, “B.B. wants pom poms!”.

What luxuries money will bring.

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