The Rothschild Surrealist Ball
If your family owned the largest private fortune in history, you’d also throw a party in a French castle with costumes designed by Salvador Dalí, invite Audrey Hepburn, and set up an interactive maze filled with butlers wearing cat masks, wouldn’t you?
That’s exactly what the Rothschild family did in 1972 in the Chateau de Ferrieres, a 19th-century castle. The Surrealist Ball had tables decorated with taxidermy tortoises and food served on mannequin corpses. Hepburn wore a bird’s cage hat, in case you were wondering.