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, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire (masked party, exterior); Elveden Hall, Thetford, Suffolk (masked party, interior); Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road, Chelsea (Tom Cruise visits the mortuary); Hamley’s Toy Store, Regent Street, London W1 (final reconciliation)

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. The mansion has been described as one of the greatest houses of the Victorian era. In keeping with the contents intended to be displayed within, the interiors take their inspiration principally from the Italian Renaissance, although the house also contains drawing rooms and cabinets decorated in the gilded styles of late 18th century France. Historically it was first known simply as 'Mentmore'. The design is closely based on that of Robert Smythson's Wollaton Hall. Mentmore was the first of what was to become a virtual Rothschild enclave in the Vale of Aylesbury, as later, other members of the family built houses at Tring in Hertfordshire, Ascott, Aston Clinton, Waddesdon and Halton.Since 1846 Baron Mayer de Rothschild had been slowly buying land in the area. The Grand Hall at Mentmore. Aged just six months, Hannah de Rothschild laid the foundation stone for the great mansion on 31 December 1851. Mentmore, the ground floor; many of the rooms named for the collections they once contained. 1:Grand Hall; 2:White Drawing Room; 3:Dining Room; 4:Library; 5:Amber Room; 6:limoges Room; 7:Imperial staircase; 8:Study; 9:Vestibule; 10:Green drawing Room; 11:South Enrance Hall; 12:Blarenberghe Room; 13:du Barry Room; 14:Billiards Room; 15:Smoking Room/Armoury; 33: Italian garden; 34:Servants' courtyard; 35:Cour d'honneur; 36:South Terrace; ST:minor service staircases. For other rooms, please see Servants' quarters The house was built between 1852 and 1854 for Baron Mayer de Rothschild, who required a house close to London. Paxton, who had previously designed the Crystal Palace, was responsible for the ridge and furrow glass roof which covered the central hall, designed to imitate the arcaded courtyard of a Renaissance palazzo, while Stokes was co-architect and clerk of works. The builder was the London based firm George Myers, frequently employed by members of the Rothschild family. (Wikipedia) --- BEDOIRE, Fredric (2004). The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture. 1830 - 1930. KTAV Publishing House, Jersey City. ISBN 0-88125-808-3

Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00879 Title: Mentmore Towers (Rothschild Mansion), Great Hall Photographer: Henry Bedford Lemere (English, 1840-ca. 1911) Architects: Paxton & Stokes Building Date: 1855 Photograph date: ca. 1878-ca. 1890 Location: Europe: United Kingdom; Buckinghamshire Materials: albumen print Image: 8 5/8 x 11 in.; 21.9075 x 27.94 cm Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5szr There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. We had some help with the geocoding from Web Services by Yahoo!