"The Lotos Club New York Member's Blue Silk Tie" (SOLD)

"The Lotos Club New York Member's Blue Silk Tie" (SOLD)Sz: 55" x 3" *BB pink OCBD shirt sold separately* The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". The Club took its name from the poem "The Lotos Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of

Sz: 55" x 3"

*BB pink OCBD shirt sold separately*

The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". The Club took its name from the poem "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. Two lines from the poem were selected for the Club motto:

In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon

The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent, with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its "State Dinners" (1893 menu at right below) are legendary fetes for scholars, artists and sculptors, collectors and connoisseurs, writers and journalists, and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners.

Notable members:

Brooke Astor

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Kathleen Battle

Andrew Carnegie

Walter P. Chrysler

Mary Higgins Clark

William A. Clark, whose portrait hangs in the club

Samuel Clemens

George M. Cohan

Hume Cronyn

Mario Cuomo

David Dinkins

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Renee Fleming

Gilbert and Sullivan

Alan Gilbert

Solomon R. Guggenheim

William Randolph Hearst

David M. Heyman

Marilyn Horne

Leslie Howard

Alleyne Ireland

Sir Henry Irving

Joseph Koch

Angela Lansbury

Leonard Liebling

Wynton Marsalis

Margaret Mead

Burgess Meredith

Peter O'Toole

William S. Paley

Christopher Plummer

Julian Rix

Charles M. Schwab

Cyrus Ingerson Scofield

Bobby Short

Beverly Sills

Stephen Sondheim

Isaac Stern

Elaine Stritch

Susan Stroman

Moses J. Stroock

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Jessica Tandy

J. Walter Thompson

Orson Welles

P. G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

James Wolfensohn

Frank Winfield Woolworth

Andrew Wyeth

Yo-Yo Ma

James D. Watson