Visitors, both French and international: leading industrialists, financiers, and haute couture icons, as well as figures from the cultural, scientific, political, and of course artistic worlds. In earlier times, its renowned French clients included the Rothschild and Camondo families, Count Boni de Castellane, Jacques Doucet…
The Gallery was also frequented by international personalities such as J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, Calouste Gulbenkian, Henry E. Huntington, Madame Balsan – Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough-Churchill, Condé M. Nast, Stávros Niárchos, Lee Radziwill, Marjorie Merriweather Post, J. Paul Getty, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Duveen, Greta Garbo, the Hamilton Rices, the Sassoons, the Wideners, as well as numerous collectors and aristocratic families from Central Europe and pre-revolutionary Russia, who regularly came to admire and acquire furniture and works of art.
Photo : J. Paul Getty around 1930. Photographed here in 1965.
In the past, the Maison had the pleasure of welcoming emblematic figures
including: Henry Ford II, Arturo López, Marcel Boussac, Jayne Wrightsman, the Carven-Grog couple, Jackie Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis, Stávros Niárchos, Hubert de Givenchy, Fred Samuel, Christian Dior, Giovanni Agnelli, Pierre Cardin, Daniel Carasso, Audrey Hepburn, Pierre Bergé, Karl Lagerfeld, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, David-Weill, Mellon, Pigozzi, Guerlain, Dassault families, and many others.
Photo: Karl Lagerfeld beside the Paravent de Pâris by Montmartel, purchased at Galerie Kraemer.
