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This summer at Waddesdon.(Report from Europe)
In 1874 Baron Ferdinand Rothschild purchased the Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, from George Charles Spencer-Churchill, eighth duke of Marlborough. At the time it was an agricultural property, but the baron planned to build a house and make a garden to create a retreat where he could entertain in grand style. To furnish the house, he drew upon what he believed to be the best and most sophisticated period of art and design, namely eighteenth-century France. The result is a French Renaissance style chateau atop an artificially created hill with formal gardens attached, surrounded by a landscaped wilderness, and furnished with some of the best furniture, paintings, porcelain, and other works of art produced in France in the eighteenth century.
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The baron played host on a lavish scale to the rich and powerful of his time, including many crowned heads of Europe. Among the American visitors were Henry James, Consuela Vanderbilt, William Waldorf Astor, and Lady Jennie Churchill.
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At Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire...Merciers in Eighteenth-century Paris * Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire * to October 26 * www.waddesdon.org.uk [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Leben, Ulrich October 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) May 25, 2002 700+ words
...better than visit the great rooms of Waddesdon Manor (organised under the auspices...you sit comfortably in your armchair. Waddesdon Manor - The Heritage of a Rothschild...this month at a time when the garden at Waddesdon will be looking at its best, is a tribute...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam April 1, 2002 700+ words
...the throne, the drawings exhibition at Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire...ironwork. The designs, all from the Waddesdon collection, are for a range of objects...Royalty: 18th Century French Drawings at Waddesdon Manor. The themes of the exhibition...
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- Magazine article from: WWD Fallon, James June 19, 2001 700+ words
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- Research at Waddesdon. (Report from Europe).
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...research facilities have been created at Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild property in Buckinghamshire...the Rothschild family connected with Waddesdon. Access to the library is by appointment...sites of both the Rothschild Archive and Waddesdon Manor, which are, respectively, www...