Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo
| Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo | |
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Peter Palumbo, 1974
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| Born |
Peter Garth Palumbo 20 July 1935 |
| Education |
Scaitcliffe Eton College |
| Alma mater | Worcester College, Oxford |
| Occupation | property developer |
| Known for | former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain |
| Spouse(s) | Denia Wigram (m.1959, div.1977) Hayat Morowa |
| Children | 6, including James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark |
| Parent(s) |
Rudolph Palumbo Elsie Gregory |
| Relatives |
Lionel Wigram (former father-in-law) Kamel Morowa (father-in-law) |
Peter Garth Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 20 July 1935) is a property developer, art collector, former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, architecture connoisseur and Conservative life peer.
Lord Palumbo is the son of Rudolph Palumbo, himself a major property developer, and his first wife Elsie Gregory. He was educated at Scaitcliffe in Englefield Green, Surrey then Eton College and studied law and jurisprudence at Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated with a third class degree.
In the 1960s Palumbo commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to build a tower in London; although it was designed, it was never built.
In 1972 Palumbo bought Farnsworth House in the US, designed by Mies van der Rohe, to which Palumbo added the designer's furniture. He also expanded the grounds of the house by purchasing adjacent properties and placed in them the work of sculptors including Anthony Caro and Richard Serra. Palumbo sold the property at auction to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2003. Palumbo also owns Kentuck Knob, a private house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Allegheny Mountains south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; owned a unit in the 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago; and for a time owned Le Corbusier's Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris.
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