Pontine Paus

Cecilie Alexandra Pontine Paus
Born	15 June 1973 Athens, Greece
Residence	London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Designer and businesswoman

Pontine Paus (born Cecilie Alexandra Pontine Paus, 15 June 1973 in Athens, Greece) is a London-based Norwegian designer, businesswoman and socialite. She is most widely noted for designing exclusive handbags sold under her own label House of Paus, and was considered by Vogue as the "hottest new name in handbags" in the early 2000s. She is also the founder of the natural beauty brand Dr.Lipp. She divides her time between London, Norway and Verbier in Switzerland.

Pontine Paus is a member of the Norwegian patrician Paus family and was born in Athens, Greece and raised in London to Norwegian parents. She is the daughter of the London-based investor Christopher Paus and Cecilie Paus (née Wilhelmsen). Her father is the son of the steel industrialist Per Paus and Countess Hedevig Wedel-Jarlsberg, whose father was Lord Chamberlain Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg. Her mother belongs to the Wilhelmsen shipping family and has owned Wilh. Wilhelmsen with her siblings since 1978. Pontine Paus' maternal grandfather was shipping magnate Tom Wilhelmsen. She is also a descendant of the business magnate Einar Westye Egeberg, Sr.

Pontine Paus' great-great-grandfather, the steel industrialist and chairman of Den norske Creditbank Ole Paus, was a first cousin of Henrik Ibsen. Pontine Paus' father is a second cousin of the singer Ole Paus.

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