Invoices of Mrs. VON STOHRER
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Inventory number
2023.5.11.9am.BM.OT.1943.FRAuthor:
House of Schiaparelli (French, founded 1927)Description
Set of 13 invoices from Schiaparelli fashion house to Mrs von STOHRER issued between March 5, 1942 and May 24, 1943. The lot includes 6 invoices, 1 duplicate invoice, 4 purchase orders and 2 order receipts. The documents show that the customer used to be served by Claude HB, sometimes by Mady or Claude PR, about receipts, they indicate that the cashier was Mr. Paul REMY. The series of documents shows that Maria Ursula von STOHRER was an important client of the Schiaparelli house during the World War II period. Residing in Spain, where her husband was ambassador at that time, she regularly visited Paris where she stayed at the Ritz hotel (place Vendôme opposite to the Schiaparelli boutique). She very regularly buys different pieces at each of these visits: Day dress, evening dress, suit, hat, turban, evening negligee in pink shocking colored silk.Maria Ursula von STOHRER was born in Wannsee (Berlin) on March 8, 1902, in the family of Franz von GUNTHER, cavalry officer and Lise von KOCH. She spent her childhood between Berlin and the countryside of her maternal grandfather Rudolph von KOCH, a founding member of the Deutsche Bank of which he was president and managing director until his death in 1921. In 1925 she married Eberhard von STOHRER, then director general at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Germany and Chief of Staff. In 1936, the couple bought the Castiglione property on the Island of Ischia near Naples in Italy, as Ambassador von STOHRER was a fan of thermal waters. In 1940 the construction of the second residence on the island of Ischia began, in Casamicciola, which will be completed in 1942. The first to occupy the villa will be Admiral Cunningham, head of the British armed forces, after the landing in Salerno in 1944. After the war, Baroness von Stohrer returned to Ischia in 1946. In the following years, after the death of her husband in 1953, Baroness Maria Ursula took care of the property in Ischia and the desire arose to give new life to the ancient baths fed by the Castiglione spring, famous over the centuries and already mentioned by Pliny the Young in his "Geography of the Roman Empire". In the 1970s she opened the Castiglione Thermal Park, with the help of Dr. Gernot Walde, creator and first owner of the Poseidon Thermal Park and her son Berthold. She died there in 1988.
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PaperOrigin
1943 Paris, FranceDimensions
Length : 20.5 cmHeight : 26.5 cm