Word: rezzonico
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Palazzo Rezzonico, which the Porters leased from 1925 to 1929, was the scene of parties that would have done the Medici proud. At one affair, 50 gondoliers stood like statues along a winding stairway, 600 guests frolicked in fancy-dress costumes provided by Porter, and floodlights played on tightrope walkers overhead. Once Sergei Diaghilev brought his ballet company to dance Les Sylphides at a Porter garden party. Diaghilev insisted on a few props: fireworks, a 50-foot statue of Venus (which was hauled through the canals by two barges and set up in the garden), and 20,000 candles...
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