Picture No | 11045926 |
Date | 1910 |
Description | A £2000 dinner party at the Savoy, 1910 |
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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!
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 5 January 1910 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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