Mentmore towers

Mentmore. Built by Baron Mayer de Rothschild in Buckinghamshire.

Film Locations for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, in London, Southeast England and New York: Luton Hoo, Hotel, Golf and Spa, Luton, Bedfordshire (New York party, interior); Polish Consulate, East 37th Street, New York (New York party, exterior); Madame JoJo's, Brewer Street, Soho (Club Sonata); Hatton Garden, London EC1 (Greenwich Village street); Worship Street, London EC2 (Greenwich Village Street); Royal Suite, Lanesborough Hotel, 1 Lanesborough Place, SW1 (pool game); Mentmore Towers…

For Amschel Mayer de Rothschild. Architect Joseph Paxton. The Builder, 1857. --- Mentmore Towers is a 19th century English country house in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. The house was designed by Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, in the composite English Renaissance revival style called Jacobethan, for the banker and collector of fine art, Baron Mayer de Rothschild as a country home, display case for his collection of fine art and as an assertion of status…

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