Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo

Peter Palumbo, 1974

Peter Garth Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born July 20, 1935 ) is a property developer , art collector and architecture connoisseur as well as a member of the House of Lords .

Life

schooldays

Palumbo is the son of Rudolph Palumbo and his wife Elsie . He went to Scaitcliffe Elementary School in Surrey and then to Eton College and Worcester College , Oxford , where he graduated with a Masters of Arts in law.

family

Palumbo married Denia Wigram in 1959 and had a son and two daughters with her. They divorced in 1977. After Denia Wigram died in 1986, he married Hayat Mroue , a daughter of the Lebanese newspaper publisher Kamel Mroue , with whom he had a son and two daughters.

His first marriage children estranged themselves from their father at an early age. In 1994, his son Jamie Palumbo, along with his sister Annabella Adams, launched a lawsuit alleging that his father embezzled the family fortune foundation set up by his grandfather Rudolph, a successful property developer. In 1997, Peter Palumbo resigned as trustee and new trustees were appointed to manage the family's assets. In 2010, a new trial began in connection with another family foundation , this time with Annabella Adams and her younger sister Laura Tikoo .

Art and architecture

In 1972 he bought the Farnsworth House designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , for which Palumbo also acquired furniture designed by Mies van der Rohe. He expanded the property of the house by buying adjacent land and hired well-known sculptors such as Anthony Caro and Richard Serra to create works of art for the site. Palumbo sold the property to a group of Mies van der Rohe enthusiasts in 2003. Palumbo also owns Kentuck Knob , Frank Lloyd Wright's private residence in the mountains east of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , and for a time owned Le Corbusier's Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris .

Palumbo was a trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1978 to 1985 and chairman of the Tate Foundation from 1986 to 1987. He previously served as a trustee for the Whitechapel Art Gallery and is a trustee of the Natural History Museum and chairman of the board of trustees of the Serpentine Gallery . Margaret Thatcher appointed him chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1988 to 1993 .

In 1994, Palumbo demolished the Mappin & Webb building in London and had No 1 Poultry built in its place , opened by Margaret Thatcher. He was also the former Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth and the chairman of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery . He was also on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation . Palumbo is the chairman of the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize .

Palumbo directed repairs to St. Stephen Walbrook Church in London, a Sir Christopher Wren building that had been damaged during the German air raids in World War II. The sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned by Palumbo to make a white stone altar for the church. Former Rector of St. Stephen Walbrook Church, Dr. Chad Varah , was also the family chaplain.

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  Farnsworth House

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  Kentuck Knob

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  No 1 poultry

politics

Queen Elizabeth II raised him on February 4, 1991 as Baron Palumbo , of Walbrook in the City of London, to the area around St. Stephen Walbrook to a Life Peer .

Social life

Palumbo was a polo team partner of Prince Charles , and the two were friends until in 1984 Charles publicly criticized Palumbo's plan to build an unrealized design by Mies van der Rohe near St Paul's Cathedral , which he called "a glass tube better suited to Chicago." would fit ", designated. He is also the godfather of Prince Andrew's daughter, Beatrice of York .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Palumbo courts fresh battle against Jamie. London Evening Standard, November 7, 1994.
2. ^ Kate Rankine: Business profile: Chairman with a passion for needlework. Daily Telegraph , September 13, 2003.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Seamark: Lord Palumbo in fresh court row with children over "missing art worth £ 2m." Daily Mail , July 28, 2010.
4. ^ Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy: He's a friend of the royals and the ultimate society insider but Lord Palumbo's children say he is looting their inheritance again. Daily Mail , July 28, 2010.
5. ↑ Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. August 10, 2004. 
6. ↑ St. Stephen Walbrook. ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Profile: Builder of dreams or monuments? Peter Palumbo, a visionary at the Arts Council. The Independent, December 4, 1993.