Maria’s Birthday — An Evening at a Country House

A birthday built around a theme: 1950s dress, an English country house, an evening that moved from champagne in the library to dinner by candlelight.

Ten guests, one house — portraits by the staircase, two friends caught mid-turn in the last of the daylight, the quiet details of a table laid for the evening. The costumes gave the night its shape; the photographs are simply what remained of it.