A £2000 dinner party at the Savoy, 1910
The winter garden of the Savoy Hotel converted into a realistic representation of the North Pole when Mr George A. Kessler, the New York millionaire (seen on the right, standing) gave a banquet to rival his much-talked-of gondola dinner of four years previously (see picture numbers 11017490 and 10469569). The cost of the banquet was stated to be over £2000 or nearly £60 a head. Picture shows guests seated amid the icebergs whereas the poor waiters were dressed as eskimos
Picture No
11045926
Media ID
46093095
Size
6961px x 3504px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 5 January 1910
Date
1910
