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FB Roundup: Sir Leonard Blavatnik, Mitchell Rales, Thomas Lee

March 2, 2023

In this week’s FB Roundup, Sir Leonard Blavatnik helps London’s V&A Museum to secure David Bowie archive; Mitchell Rales gifts $1.9 Billion to his own art museum; and tributes are paid to billionaire financier Thomas Lee.

Sir Leonard Blavatnik helps London’s V&A Museum to secure David Bowie archive
The extensive archive of the late singer-songwriter David Bowie will be made available to the public from 2025, thanks to a donation of £10 million from the Ukrainian-born businessman and philanthropist Sir Leonard Blavatnik through his Blavatnik Family Foundation.

Howard Lewis on the art of The Schorr Collection and passion investments in the coronavirus age

May 29, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has prompted many families to re-evaluate what is important in life and portfolios, and with lockdowns restricting world views to the immediate four walls, is art collecting due for a renaissance?

Stylish legacies of fashion founders Hubert de Givenchy and Sonja Bata

March 15, 2018

Fashion founders Hubert de Givenchy and Sonja Bata are being remembered by their families and foundations for their influence, elegance and philanthropy.

Fashion founders Hubert de Givenchy and Sonja Bata are being remembered by their families and foundations for their influence, elegance and philanthropy.

French couturier Givenchy, who designed for Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman and Jackie Kennedy, died in his sleep near Paris on 10 March at the age of 91.

Royal jeweller Wartski celebrates 150 years with sponsorship and book

November 24, 2015

A family business that has served as a jeweller to six generations of British royalty are sponsoring an exhibition at one of London’s top museums to celebrate their 150th anniversary.

A family business that has served as a jeweller to six generations of British royalty are sponsoring an exhibition at one of London’s top museums to celebrate their 150th anniversary.

Luxury antique dealer Wartski was founded by a Polish refugee, Morris Wartski, in 1865 in the Welsh town of Bangor. Its clients have included everyone from Bing Crosby to Kate Middleton and Prince William, who exchanged wedding bands made by the company when they married in 2011.

One location and 21 iconic Ferraris – museum honours the cars of Italian family business

March 15, 2012

Sports car fans in Italy are perhaps riding high – it isn’t often that some of the most famous Ferrari cars in the world are found in one place. But that’s what has happened at the Enzo Ferrari Birthplace Museum.

Based in Modena in Italy, the museum honours Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the eponymous sports car, which is today part of family business automobile giant Fiat.

Founding families attend opening of Porsche museum

January 28, 2009

Members of the Porsche and Piëch families gathered in Stuttgart on Wednesday to celebrate the opening of the new Porsche museum.

It will open to the public on 31st January, and has been called anything from Porsche’s new business card to a cathedral celebrating the iconic luxury sports car brand.

Designed by Roman Delugan it is entirely white in colour and has an exhibition area that appears to hover in space. Inside, 80 historic vehicles and more than 200 carefully arranged small exhibits from the company’s past are displayed over 5,600 square meters.