PRESENT
SAMSON DE BRIER TEA SALON
MARCH 20TH, 2019
5PM
(SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM)
$15 COVER PREPAY RESERVATION
$25 CASH DAY OF THE SALON
~ENJOY~
HAND-BLENDED TEA
CAKES & DAINTIES
VIEW EROTIC ART
RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA
DISCUSS THE LORE OF SAMSON DE BRIER
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO
TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
1421 LAVETA TERRACE
ECHO PARK, CA 90026
Samson De Brier
(March 18, 1909 – April 1, 1995)
best known for hosting a popular Hollywood salon during the fifties and sixties,
and for appearing in the 1954 underground film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and the 1923 silent film~ Salome.
De Brier moved to Los Angeles in 1941. In the fifties he began hosting a regular salon at his Barton Avenue home. It flourished for many years and was frequented by artists, writers, actors, filmmakers, and occultists.
Among those who attended De Brier's salon were author Anaïs Nin,
filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, actors Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, and occultists Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron and Anton LaVey.
He died in Los Angeles, California.
His papers are housed at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
at the University of Southern California Libraries.
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