Molly Krause & Henri Neuendorf's Idyllic Mallorca Wedding
“We always knew we’d be married here,” Henri Neuendorf says of the striking pink modernist Mallorca estate where he exchanged vows with Molly Krause over a sunny weekend this past summer. In 1986 his parents Hans and Caroline commissioned architects John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin to create a vacation retreat for the family. (Hans, a German art dealer, once exclusively represented David Hockney, Cy Twombly, and Lucio Fontana; he is also the founder of Artnet.) The wall of one room is still etched with the heights of the Neuendorf children. “I’ve been going there every summer since I was born. I grew up moving around a lot, and this house is a consistent home for me,” Henri says.
It was more than childhood nostalgia that made this house the perfect wedding venue. Art is what bound Molly and Henri in the first place (they met during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2016), and it informs their careers. She is an arts and lifestyle publicist, and he is an art dealer. So it made sense for a couple whose relationship revolves around visual splendor to say “I do” at a place where sentiment and aesthetics are one and the same.
Plus, it was an opportunity to employ a plethora of Spanish elements throughout the weekend. “The food was the main incorporation,” Molly says. “The first night, we had a big paella dinner.”
For the big event the following day, for which the bride wore a custom dress that matched what she “drew in her journal as a kid” and the groom a bespoke navy suit, the guests were treated to raw fish canapés and caviar, as a nod to the home’s proximity to the ocean, and an almond wedding cake made by Lluís Perez Pastisser, a well-known bakery in Palma. Two traditional handheld fans crafted by a company in Valencia were offered to each guest, the first atop the handmade paper program, which explained the ceremony’s Jewish customs, and the second on the place setting at dinner, where the menu included jamón ibérico boards and braised sea bass. Then came copious dancing. While the hora was exhilarating for the newlyweds, Molly was especially delighted seeing her friends attempt to line-dance to Israeli techno.
In among all the revelry, guests were entertained by what the home had to offer, lounging by the pool and exploring the flora. As the couple’s longtime friend Ian Malone puts it, “The arresting architecture provided the perfect canvas for a bride and groom for whom art is so important.”
This story appears in the October 2023 issue of Town & Country. SUBSCRIBE NOW
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