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Art Director / Concept, Set Design & Props, Styling : Lauri King.
Photography / Food Styling / Retouching : Mark Wildsmith.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are recorded as being famous fans of Fortnum & Mason. Our scene imagines their suite at the Ritz Paris, where they reportedly had pork sausages flown in from Fortnum & Mason in London. It is also reported that “…a weekly order (quite probably crammed with aphrodisiacs) was sent to Rome while Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were filming Cleopatra in 1961.”.

The setting represents a room service order on the bed in their hotel room at the Ritz. We see the Fortnum’s pork sausages and tomato ketchup humorously paired with an elegant violet-adorned cocktail and the ultimate aphrodisiac – the oyster.