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The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, also called Villa Île-de-France, is a French seaside villa located at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. Designed by the French architect Aaron Messiah , it was built between 1907 and 1912 by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934).
The Rothschild style, known as le goût Rothschild (French for 'the Rothschild taste'), describes a detailed, elaborate style of interior decoration during the nineteenth century. The Rothschild aesthetic and life-style later influenced other rich and powerful families, including the Astors , Vanderbilts and Rockefellers , and became hallmarks ...
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild Cap-Ferrat harbour. The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild (or Musée Île-de-France) is an Italian-style villa built between 1905 and 1912 on the request of Baronness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild. It contains a large art collection and fine furnishing.
In 1934, Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild died at the age of 69 at the Hôtel d'Angleterre in Davos, Switzerland. She was buried in Paris in the Père Lachaise cemetery. In her will, the Baroness bequeathed Villa Ephrussi and its art collections to the Académie des Beaux Arts division of the Institut de France for use as a museum. The property ...
Messiah was court architect to Leopold II of Belgium, [1] but his most famous work was the Villa Ephrussi, completed in 1912.At this southern French villa, Messiah successfully synthesized the eclectic collections and ideas of Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild into a coherent neoclassical whole.
Born in Frankfurt, she was the eighth and youngest child of Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874) and Charlotte Rothschild (1807–1859) and younger sister of the British politician, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. She was quite young when her family moved to Vienna, where her father took over the management of the family-owned S M von Rothschild bank
Baroness Marie-Helene de Rothschild, the hostess of the evening, dressed as a fallen stag with a mask adorned with tears made out of glistening diamonds. Among the 150 guests in attendance ...
Hôtel Michel Ephrussi, 81 rue de Monceau , Paris (built for Michel Ephrussi, c. 1871) Hôtel Jules Ephrussi, 2 place des États-Unis, Paris (built for Jules Ephrussi, 1886) Hôtel Charles Ephrussi, 11 avenue d'Iéna, Paris (home of Charles Ephrussi; later demolished) Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Côte d'Azur [5]