Frivolity Before the Storm
by
Charlie Scheips
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The American decorator Elsie de Wolfe (1858–1950) was the international set’s preeminent hostess in Paris during the interwar years. She had a legendary villa in Versailles, where in the late 1930s she held two fabulous parties—her Circus Balls—that marked the end of the social scene that...