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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:30:31 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou[/glow]
see category : 1.THE GREEK SHIP OWNERS-part (B)
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:33:40 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Arnold_Constantine_Issigonis
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (18 November 1906–2 October 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959.Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna (now İzmir) in the Ottoman Empire. His grandfather Demosthenis Issigonis migrated to Smyrna from Paros in the 1830s and through the work he did for the British-built Smyrna-Aydın Railway, in the engineering works that he had established, had managed to acquire British nationality. Demosthenis's son (Alec's father) Constantine Issigonis (Êùíóôáíôßíïò Éóçãüíçò), was born, with British nationality, in Smyrna in 1872. Constantine studied in England, and later, passed his love of all things English on to his son. Alec's mother, Hulda Prokopp, could trace her origins back to Württemberg (now part of Germany). Issigonis (nicknamed "The Greek god" by his contemporaries) was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and was awarded a knighthood in 1969. Whilst he is most famous for his creation of the Mini, he was most proud of his participation in the design of the Morris Minor. He considered it to be a vehicle that combined many of the luxuries and conveniences of*good motor car with a price suitable for the working classes - in contrast to the Mini which was a spartan mode of conveyance with everything cut to the bone.  The machine factory (shown here in a company letter of 1910) founded by Demosthenis Issigonis, Alec's grandfather, was one of the thriving Greek businesses in Smyrna (now Izmir). Undoubtedly, it played a role in Alec's affection for Engineering
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:36:56 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Sir Basil Zaharoff, KBE a.k.a. Basileios Zacharias[/glow]  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_ZaharoffSir Basil Zaharoff, KBE a.k.a. Basileios Zacharias (October 6, 1849, Muðla, Ottoman Empire – November 27, 1936, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a Greek arms trader and financier, the director and chairman of the Vickers munitions firm during World War I. Basileios Zacharias was from a Greek family in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). The name Zaharoff was adopted when the family was in exile in Russia as a result of the anti-Greek Easter pogroms of 1821. The family returned to Turkey, in the 1840s, and lived in the Anatolian town of Muðla where Basil was born October 6, 1849. By 1855, the family was back in Constantinople where they lived in the poor quarter of Tatavla. .By a stroke of good fortune, another friend of Skouloudis, a Swedish captain, was leaving his job as representative of arms manufacturer Thorsten Nordenfelt’s company for a more important posting. Skouloudis meanwhile had risen in politics and was able to recommend Zaharoff to fill the vacancy. Zaharoff was hired on October 14, 1877, beginning a spectacular career. The prevailing political and military circumstances involving the Balkan states, Turkey and Russia provided an excellent opportunity for the young salesman. Each state was ready to spend to cope with the perceived aggressive intentions of its neighbours, even after the Treaty of Berlin of 1878. One of the most notable sales by Zaharoff was that of the Nordenfelt I, a steam-driven submarine based on a design by the Anglican Rev. George W. Garrett, and which U. S. Navy intelligence characterized as capable of "dangerous and eccentric movements." Thorsten Nordenfelt had already successfully demonstrated his vessel at an international gathering of the military elite, and the major powers would have none of it, but smaller nations interested by the prestige were a different matter. In the years immediately preceding World War I Zaharoff’s fortunes grew in other areas to support his arms business. By purchasing the Union Parisienne Bank (which was traditionally associated with heavy industry) he was better able to control financing arrangements. By gaining control of the daily newspaper, Excelsior, he could be assured of editorials favorable to the arms industry. To gain public recognition and honours he set up a retirement home for French sailors, while a chair in aerodynamics at the University of Paris gave him the rank of an officer. On July 31, 1914, coincidentally the same day that the noted antimilitarist Jean Jaurès was assassinated, Raymond Poincaré signed a decree making Zaharoff a commander of the Legion of Honour. In March 1914, Vickers announced the coming of a new era of prosperity. During the course of the war Vickers would produce 4 ships of the line, 3 cruisers, 53 submarines, 3 auxiliary vessels, 62 light vessels, 2,328 cannon, 8,000,000 tonnes of steel ordnance, 90,000 mines, 22,000 torpedoes, 5,500 airplanes and 100,000 machine guns. By 1915, Zaharoff had close ties with both Lloyd George and Aristide Briand. It is reported that, on the occasion of one visit with Briand, Zaharoff quietly left an envelope on Aristide Briand’s desk; the envelope contained a million francs for war widows. One of Zaharoff’s tasks during the war was to ensure that Greece became involved in the war on the Allied side, helping to reinforce the eastern front. On the surface, this seemed impossible since King Constantine was himself a Hohenzollern and brother-in-law to the Kaiser. Setting up a press agency in Greece to spread news favorable to the allies led, within a few months, to Constantine’s being deposed in favour of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. With the end of World War I, The Times estimated that Zaharoff had sacrificed £50 million for the Allied cause; however this was but a small fraction of his commissions. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01EED61039E133A25754C2A96E9C946395D6CFNEW "RICHEST MAN IN WORLD"; Sir Basil Zaharoff, Man of Mystery, Power in European Politics, Munitions Maker, International Banker, Ship Owner, Monte Carlo Magnate and Philanthropist. (August 27, 1922, Sunday) |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:37:28 GMT -5
The Chiotic diaspora in the U.K
(see category : THE CHIOTIC DIASPORA).
[glow=red,2,300]Michel Emmanuel Rodocanachi [/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]George Rodocanachi[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]Ion Calvocoressi [/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]Ralli brothers[/glow]
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:38:03 GMT -5
The Greeks of the British universitiesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalypso_Nicola%C3%AFdis[glow=red,2,300]Kalypso Nicolaidis[/glow] Oxford University Kalypso Aude Nicolaidis is Professor of International Relations and Director of the European Studies Centre at Oxford University. She teaches in the areas of European integration, international relations, international political economy, negotiation and game theory and research methods as University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Before moving back to Europe, she taught European affairs and international relations at Harvard University where she was associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government. She has also held visiting professorships around Europe, including at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris, at the College of Europe in Bruges as the professorial chair on Visions of Europe and in Sciences-Po, Paris as Vincent Wright chair. At Harvard, she was the founder and chair of the Kokkalis Programme on Southeast Europe and is now Chair of the South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) which runs, inter alia, the Greek-Turkish Network. At Oxford, she also chairs the RENEW programme (Rethinking Europe in a Non European World), the Euro-Mediterranean network RAMSES , coordinated by the Maison Mediterranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme in Aix en Provence, and the EU-WTO Oxford programme in collaboration with the German Marshall Fund. Professor Nicolaïdis has been involved in policy for some time. She has been advising Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou on European affairs since 1996 and chaired the International Group of Expert Advisors on the Convention for the Future of Europe and the Greek Presidency. She was advisor to the Dutch presidency of the EU on the theme of "Europe: a Beautiful Idea", a policy-academia dialogue culminating in the December 2004 intellectual summit. Nicolaïdis has also worked with the European Commission on the White Paper on Governance (subsidiarity, global governance), on DG trade and DG communication consultations, as well as a trade and regulation expert for UNCTAD and the OECD. Most recently, she produced a report on the European Neighborhood Policy for the European Parliament. Much of Nicolaïdis' recent work focuses on "European demoi-cracy" and the challenge of building an EU of deep diversity through the mutual recognition of identities, polities, and socio-economic rules. She has published widely on EU institutional and constitutional debates, EU external relations including with Mediterranean countries and the United States, issues of identity, justice and cooperation in the international system, the sources of legitimacy in European and global governance, the relationship between trade and regulation, trade in services as well as preventive diplomacy and dispute resolution. She has published in numerous journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, International Organization as well as in French in Politique Etrangere, Politique Européenne and Raison Critique. Her latest books include: Whose Europe? National Models and the Constitution of the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2003) and The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the EU (Oxford University Press, 2001). Nicolaïdis holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, a Master in International Economics and a Diplome Service Public from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She also studied law and philosophy at the Paris I-Sorbonne. She is of French and Greek nationality with German and Spanish origins. Her husband, Simon Saunders is British and teaches Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. Her two children, Ari and Daphne, are trans-channel Europeans. www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/knicolaidisKalypso Aude Nicolaidis Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Director, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College University of Oxford Chair, South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Markesinis[glow=red,2,300]Basil Markesinis[/glow] Sir Basil Markesinis is a scholar of law and Jamail Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor of Common and Civil Law, University College London.Professor Markesinis was born July 10, 1944 in Athens, Greece. He is the son of Greek politician Spyros Markezinis. He holds a British-Greek citizenship. He started his education at the law school of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from where he graduated with a first class degree followed by a Doctor Iuris, Athens - "Summa Cum Laude". In 1972, he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, of which he is now a Bencher. He took silk, thus becoming a senior barrister, in 2001. He has held office as Assistant Professor of Roman and Byzantine Law at the University of Athens (1966–8), Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge (1974–86), Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (1978–86), Denning Professor of Comparative Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, Professor of European Private Law at University College London, Clifford Chance Professor of European Law and Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (1995–99) and Clifford Chance Professor of Comparative Law and Fellow of Brasenose College. Other positions have included Director and Founder of the Institute of Anglo-American Law, Leiden, member of the Council of Management of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, member of the Board of Management of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, member of the Board of Editors of European Review of Private Law, Revue de droit internationale et de droit comparé, and The Netherlands Journal of International Law. He has held visiting professorships at Cornell Law School, University of Paris I, University of Paris II, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Ghent, and the University of Siena. He has authored or co-authored thirty books and more than one hundred and twenty articles in languages including English, French, German, and Greek. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens, the Institut de France, the Royal Dutch Academy, and the Royal Belgian Academy. He is also a member of the American Law Institute, of the Commercial Bar Association, and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association. for more info www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=bsm66www.lse.ac.uk/collections/hellenicObservatory/whoswho/mouzelis.htm[glow=red,2,300]Nikos Mouzelis [/glow] Professor Nikos Mouzelis, (PhD London) is Professor of Sociology at the LSE (London school of economics) and member of the Hellenic Observatory's Advisory Board. His main area of interest includes sociology of development, historical sociology and sociological theory. He is the author of many publications on modern Greece and has also published on parliamentarism and industrialisation in the Balkans and Latin America. His most recent publications include Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Order (Macmillan, 1992) and Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies, Routledge, 1995. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrisanthi_Avgerou[glow=red,2,300]Chrisanthi Avgerou[/glow] London School of Economics and Political Science Chrisanthi Avgerou is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on Information Technology in developing countries. She is currently Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Avgerou is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), associate editor of The Information Society journal and Information Systems research Journal, and chairperson of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on the relationship between computers and society Among her published works are six books and about 200 peer-revewed journal articles. She has an MSc from Loughborough University and a PhD from the London School of Economics. personal.lse.ac.uk/avgerou/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Drossopoulou[glow=red,2,300]Sophia Drossopoulou[/glow] Imperial College London Sophia C. Drossopoulou is a computer scientist, currently working at Imperial College London, where she is Professor in Programming Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe. Her research interests are mainly in formal methods for programming languages; her work is notable for a proof of the soundness of the Java programming language.[1] Her first Ph.D. student was Diomidis Spinellis. She is the daughter of the author Athena Cacouris. www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~scd/Quite impressive!Three of the professors of this department are Greeks! www.orc.soton.ac.uk/phdprojects.htmlUniversity of Southampton Optoelectronics research center [glow=red,2,300]Dr Sakellaris Mailis[/glow] www.orc.soton.ac.uk/people.html?person=smDr Mailis received his PhD from the University of Crete - Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) in 1996 on "Optical signal processing with photorefractive materials", and stayed as a research fellow at FORTH until the end of 1997 investigating the photosensitivity of semiconducting oxides and the use of laser-induced-forward-transfer (LIFT) for the fabrication of computer generated diffractive optical elements. From January 1998 onwards he has been with the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) being involved in the investigation of the photosensitivity of Laser deposited lead germanate glass films for optical waveguides and the development of a continuous wave Nd:YVO4 holographic laser resonators. He is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the ORC and he is leading a research activity that aims to develop a comprehensive material-processing toolbox for the fabrication of complex multifunctional devices based on ferroelectric lithium niobate substrates www.orc.soton.ac.uk/phdprojects.htmlUniversity of Southampton Optoelectronics research center [glow=red,2,300]Dr Periklis Petropoulos[/glow] Dr. Periklis Petropoulos was born in Patras, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Patras, Greece in 1995. He received the MSc degree in Communications Engineering from UMIST, UK in 1996 and the PhD degree in Optical Telecommunications from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK in 2000. Dr. Petropoulos is currently appointed a Reader at the ORC. His particular areas of interests and expertise lie in the fields of optical communications and nonlinear fibre technology. Within the Optical Fibre Communications group at the ORC he is working on such areas as all-optical processing and switching in optical fibres; ultrashort pulse generation and characterisation; pulse shaping for optical communications, including applications in optical correlation systems for the implementation of optical code-division multiple access and optical packet switched systems; silica and compound glass holey fibres and their nonlinear applications. Dr. Petropoulos has published more than 200 papers in technical journals and conferences and holds 4 patents. He is a member of the optical society of America. University of Southampton Optoelectronics research center [glow=red,2,300]Prof M N Zervas[/glow] www.orc.soton.ac.uk/479.htmlMikhail N. Zervas received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1983, his M.Sc Degree in Applied and Modern Optics from the University of Reading, UK in 1985 (with distinction) and his Ph.D in Fibre Optics from the University College London in 1989. In 1990, he was appointed Lecturer in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Thessaloniki. In 1991, he joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton as a Research Fellow. In 1995, he was appointed Research Lecturer at the Optoelectronics Research Centre and Electronics and Computer Science Department, University of Southampton. His main research interests are in the areas of erbium-doped fibre amplifiers, dispersion compensation, fibre gratings, surface-plasmon-polaritons and distributed feedback fibre lasers. In 1996 he shared a prize on "Metrology for world class manufacturing awards" for his contribution on the development of a high accuracy fibre grating characterisation system. He is the author and co-author of over 90 technical publications and 10 patents. He has served as a member of program committees of various international conferences. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hellasgreece&action=display&thread=2577&page=1#ixzz1KfFzEebY
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:39:17 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Panayis Athanase Vagliano [/glow]
see category : 1.THE GREEK SHIP OWNERS-part(A)
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:39:45 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Yiannis (John) Latsis[/glow]
see category : 1.THE GREEK SHIP OWNERS-part(A)
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:40:35 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]John Chandris[/glow]
see category : 1.THE GREEK SHIP OWNERS-part (C)
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:41:09 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis[/glow] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_AdonisAndrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born 22 February 1963)[1] is a United Kingdom Minister of State in the Department for Transport, a role he has held since 3 October 2008. Andrew (originally named Andreas) is the son of an immigrant Greek Cypriot father and an English mother.[He was first appointed to government following the 2005 general election as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Children, Schools and Families (formerly the Department for Education and Skills). He previously served as education and constitution policy advisor on the Number 10 Policy Unit from 1998 to 2005, heading it from 2001-2003.[1][2] Before joining the government, Adonis was an academic at Oxford university, then a journalist at the Financial Times and the Observer |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:46:04 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Marina Sirtis[/glow]
see category : 7.ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS-part (B)
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:48:19 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Theo Paphitis[/glow] wikipedia Theo Paphitis (born 24 September 1959) is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur based in England. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2007, he was ranked 557th (down from 444th) with an estimated wealth of £125 million. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, he had dropped further in ranking to 581st although his estimated worth had increased to £135 million[1]. This figure is conservative when taking into account the £100 million he gained from the sale of La Senza Paphitis took a job as a tea boy and filing clerk at a City of London insurance broker. Wanting more money, he discovered his passion for retailing and sales, working as a sales assistant for Watches of Switzerland in Bond Street.[2] Aged 21, he joined Legal & General selling commercial mortgages, which taught him to read other businesses' balance sheets: “ (Finance) meant getting stuck into other people's business - and I'm a nosy bugger. You had to go through the business, you had to go through all the bits and pieces. My curiosity was enough to get me to ask the right questions. ” Aged 23, he set up a property finance company with close friend and business associate Mark Moran, and kept going when the friend left in partnership with Hanover Druce, making his first money on the rise of the 1980s commercial property markets.[2] Spotting the rise in mobile telephones, he bought into NAG Telecom, becoming chairman alongside fellow director Tony Kleanthous (now chairman of Barnet FC). Paphitis gained massive market share for NAG by negotiating concessionary positions in Ryman stationery stores. When Ryman went into receivership, Paphitis approached the accountants and bought the company. He turned it around by paying suppliers, and enthusing the management team and store managers,[2] cementing his reputation for turning failing companies into highly successful and profitable businesses. His ventures now include Ryman, Contessa, and Partners. He co-owns Red Letter Days with fellow Dragons' Den businessman Peter Jones. In 2006, he sold his equity stake in the UK and EU segment of the global lingerie brand, La Senza, for a reported £100m.[3] At the end of 2008 Paphitis was one of several interested parties in bidding for failed retail chain Woolworths. [4] www.theopaphitis.com/ |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:50:55 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Alki David [/glow] The wealthiest greek of U.Ken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alki_DavidHe is a philanthropist and explorer and was born in West Africa to a Greek trading and shipping family in 1968. He was educated at Stowe School in the UK as well as Le Rosey in Switzerland. Alki is also a graduate of the world famous Royal College of Art film programme. David's career has been long, distinguished and diverse, after a short and covert stint in the British Army he has worked as a laboratory analyst for Coca Cola, a fish-farm labourer, a commodities broker on world markets, a water skiing instructor, advertising salesman, scuba instructor and radio jock. David has homes in London, Los Angeles and on the Greek Island of Spetses. David runs a media company, Full On Entertainment, which holds film and television production companies in Los Angeles and London, a record label, modelling agency and internet content development. He has also found time to act in and direct a number of award winning films for screen and television. In 1995 David founded the not-for-profit organisation, BIOS (Ancient Greek for 'Life') which works on marine conservation in Greece, regularly performing massive underwater clean-ups. Members of the organisation lecture at high-school level about the importance of marine conservation worldwide. 'BIOS' also sponsors world record free-diving attempt on Alki's Greek-island home of Spetses. |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:52:07 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Chris Lazari[/glow] www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,33665,00.html The Sunday Times rich list 2004 Lazari Investments' profits should hit £15.4m in 2003-04, while the value of its portfolio has risen to £520m. This follows a spending spree by Lazari, 57, on London West End properties. A Greek Cypriot, he arrived in the 1970s and went into property. We add £31m for personal property and cash. |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 18:54:14 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]George Michael[/glow]
see category : 6.MUSICIANS-part (C)
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 19:00:08 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Basil Ionides[/glow] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_IonidesBasil Ionides (20 June 1884 – 23 September 1950) was a British architect who was a bright architectural star in his designs and published two best-selling books, Colour and Interior Decoration (1926) and Colour in Everyday Rooms (1934). He is best known for his 1929 interior design of the rebuilt Savoy Theatre in London.[1] Ionides was born in Scotland, the fourth son of Luke Ionides and grandson of the Greek ambassador to London.[2] He studied at Tonbridge School and Glasgow School of Art 1900–1903. While there, he wrote architecture articles. He served his apprenticeship with Alexander Nisbet Paterson, during which he designed his first building, the double villa in Winton Drive, when he was only 18.[3] Upon the completion of his apprenticeship in 1904 or 1905, he moved to London and joined the office first of Leonard Stokes and then of Harold Ainsworth Peto.[4] Ionides entered independent practice in 1908 and designed a number of English Houses. During World War I, he served in the Naval Reserve and was commissioned. He relinquished the commission, however, preferring to serve as an ordinary seaman, as he did not like giving orders to more experienced men. He was injured in 1917 and returned to private practice, particularly performing interior work.[4] Ionides married the Honourable Nellie Samuel (1883–1962),[5] the widow of Walter Henry Levy, daughter of the 1st Viscount Bearsted, in 1930 after meeting her while he was decorating her residence in Berkeley Square.[1] She was an expert in Oriental porcelain and collected art works, many of which were donated to Richmond Council.[6] Basil and Nellie had one child, Adam, who died at the age of nine. The Ionides acquired Buxted Park in 1931.[7] With a combination of Basil's discerning eye and Nellie's fortune as the Shell Oil heiress, they restored the Park and became important art collectors. But fire destroyed much of the house in 1940, and the top story was lost entirely, with much of their collection.[4] Ionides scavenged architectural pieces from bombed-out buildings around the country with which to rebuild his stately home (now a hotel).[8][7] Ionides was an important Art Deco designer. He was best known as the architect (with Frank A. Tugwell) for the rebuilding of the Savoy Theatre in London in 1929 and for Claridge's Restaurant.[9] For the Savoy Hotel's restaurant, he famously sculpted Kaspar, the Black Cat, who acts as a good-luck guest at tables if thirteen would otherwise be present.[10] He published the important books Colour and Interior Decoration in 1926[11] and Colour in Everyday Rooms in 1934.[12] He was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1931 and was elevated to Fellow in 1938.[4] Ionides died in Brighton at the age of 66 and is buried in St Margaret's Church in Buxted Park. |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 19:09:09 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Phillipe Niarchos[/glow]
wikipedia
Philippe Niarchos (or Philippos Niarchos) is a Greek shipping heir, best known as a son and heir of the Greek shipowner Stavros Niarchos and as an art collector. He is a member of the Niarchos family, founded by his father the late Stavros Niarchos.
Niarchos was educated at Atlantic College and the London School of Economics.
Niarchos as art collector
Niarchos is an avid art collector. He was the anonymous buyer of Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Self-Portrait, which he paid $3.3 million at Christie's November 12 contemporary auction. The astonishing price is about five-and-a-half times what any Basquiat painting has previously brought at a public sale.
Philippe owns his late father's art collection. Among its trophies are Pablo Picasso's self-portrait Yo, Picasso, which Niarchos pere bought in 1989 for $47,850,000, and Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, probably worth around $90 million. It also includes Andy Warhol's Shot Red Marilyn, which he bought in 1994 at Christie's New York for $3.63 million. Andy Warhol's skull portraits are from Philippe's CAT scan. Warhol completed these works in 1985, using silkscreens made from CAT-scan films of the skull of Philip Niarchos, who commissioned the artist to paint his portrait.
Philippe is mentioned throughout Andy Warhol's Diaries. Andy shares details of Philippe's relationship with socialite, Barbara Allen and their dysfunctional relationship.
Family
He is the eldest son of Stavros Niarchos by his third wife Eugenia Livanos (d. 1970), daughter of shipowner Stavros Livanos,[1] and has been thrice married.
He married thirdly 1984 (divorced) Victoria Christina Guinness (b. 30 January 1960), daughter of Patrick Benjamin Guinness (of the non-aristocratic younger branch of that well-known family and granddaughter of the socialite Gloria Guinness. Her half-uncle was the Aga Khan IV. They have had two sons and two daughters.
Stavros Niarchos III (b. 1985).
Eugenie Niarchos (b. 1986), also listed as Evgueni Niarchos.[2]
Theodorakis (b. 1991)
Electra (b. 1995)
Niarchos was a first cousin of the late heiress Christina Onassis whose mother Athina Livanos (d. 1974) was a younger sister of his mother and later became his father's last wife.
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 19:09:37 GMT -5
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 19:14:24 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]John Christodoulou[/glow]
wikipedia
Wool House is a grade II listed Victorian wool warehouse at 74 Backchurch Lane, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was originally five storeys tall, and spanned a total of 137,455 square feet (12,770.0 m2). An additional floor was constructed on the roof in the early 2000s, creating an additional 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) of floorspace. The warehouse is one of two that were constructed on Backchurch lane in the late 1880s for Browne & Eagle, a wool storage firm.[1]
Wool House underwent a series of redevelopments in the early 21st century. The first of these took place between 1998 and 2003, when the building was refurbished and converted into office space.[2] An extra floor constructed from lightweight materials was also added. In 2005 the offices closed down and the building was redesigned for residential usage.[3] The residential conversion was completed in October 2006. The Wool House is now owned by Octagon Investments which is part of the Yianis Group owned by property magnate John Christodoulou who according to the Times Rich List 2007 is the 82nd wealthiest person in Britain with an estimated personal fortune of £835m.
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 26, 2008 19:20:33 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Maria Cassavetti Zambaco[/glow]  A sculptress of Greek descent.Maria Theresa Zambaco, née Cassavetti, a cousin of Constantine Alexander Ionides, one of Burne-Jones' important patrons, began her affair with Burne-Jones in 1867. www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7371/mary_casavetti.htmlA greek heiress, she was as beautiful and willful as she was wealthy. Not backward at coming forward, she shocked society and frightened off her first suitor, George du Maurier, so she set off to the continent in search of a husband and amazed her friends and family by marrying the very dull Dr Zambacco. Eventually the marriage failed and Maria Zambacco, wealthy enough not to worry about the scandal, returned to London to live with her mother, a great patron of the arts, where she started up a career as a sculptress. Her mother employed Burne Jones to paint a portrait of the lovely Maria, and the two began an ill-fated affair. Burne-Jones could not handle the guilt so broke off the affair but he could not escape her spell and spent the rest of his life trying to exorcise her ghost, painting her in the guise of sorceress and temptress, time and time again. |
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Post by leandros nikon on Nov 30, 2008 17:35:41 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Maria Spartali Stillman[/glow]  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Spartali_StillmanMarie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman (March 10, 1844 – March 6, 1927), was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement. During a sixty-year career she produced over one hundred works, contributing regularly to galleries in Great Britain and the United States.Maria Spartali was the youngest daughter of Michael Spartali, a wealthy merchant and Greek consul-general based in London, and his wife Euphrosyne. She and her cousins Maria Zambaco and Aglaia Coronio were known collectively among friends as "the Three Graces", after the Charites of Greek mythology (Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia), as all three were noted beauties of Greek heritage. Swinburne said of Spartali: "She is so beautiful that I want to sit down and cry". Spartali studied under Ford Madox Brown for several years from 1864, with his children Lucy, Catherine and Oliver. She modelled for: Brown; Burne-Jones (The Mill); Julia Margaret Cameron; Rossetti (A Vision of Fiammetta, Dante's Dream, The Bower Meadow); Spencer Stanhope; and Whistler (La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine). 1871, against her parents' wishes, she married American journalist and painter William J. Stillman. She was his second wife, his first having committed suicide two years before. His job as a foreign correspondent resulted in the couple dividing their time between London and Florence from 1878 to 1883, and then Rome from 1889 to 1896. She also travelled to America, and was the only Britain-based Pre-Raphaelite artist to work in the United States. Spartali's daughter Euphrosyne "Effie" and her stepdaughter Lisa both became artists. Her son Michael became an architect. Marie Spartali died in London in 1927. She was cremated at Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey and interred in her father's tomb at West Norwood Cemetery Art The subjects of her paintings were typical of the Pre-Raphaelites: female figures; scenes from Shakespeare, Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio; also Italian landscapes. She exhibited at the Dudley Gallery, then at the Grosvenor Gallery and its successor, the New Gallery; at the Royal Academy; and at various galleries in the eastern USA, including the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. A retrospective show of her work took place in the United States in 1982.David Elliott lists more than 170 works in his book. www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p012271.htm |
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