Rives also built a house on the Champs-Elysées for the store's founder, Georges Dufayel. After the death of Dufayel in 1916, this house was used as a press club during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919“Oil Giants Buy French Palaces,“ New York Times, December 8, 1920, p. 9. (it was demolished in the 1920s to make way for a shopping arcade).
