02nd Jan 2010
Rich man's playground
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Marbella and Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe
Until the 1940s, Marbella was nothing more than a village of 900 inhabitants on the Spanish coast. All that changed when, according to legend, a German prince, charcoal-powered Rolls-Royce, then broke. Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe love with the place and decided to stay.
Born in one of the oldest noble families in Europe (he was a godson of the King of Spain), Hohenlohe was running a successful business man and notorious playboy,five languages and skilled in sports like tennis and rallying. After his fateful stop in Marbella, he decided in 1947 to a large private house building – the Finca Santa Margarita, with the traditional white walls, red tile roofs, charming and beautiful patios and terraces, a large garden with fountains, trees and thousands of well-tended lawn. There he played host to a steady stream of visitors with glamorous names like Bismarck, Metternich and Thyssen, many of whomFinally, the adjacent land purchased to build their own houses.
But Hohenlohe had even bigger plans. In 1954 he sold his own house (and his friends used the Rothschilds) and in other parts of the estate, to build the famous Marbella Club, which quickly became synonymous with the mid-century Europe's elite "jet set" lifestyle . (In fact, Hohenlohe was often associated with having invented ", the Jet Set. Credited) Regular inspections by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Formula 1 driver James Hunt, PhotographerPatrick Litchfield, actor Sean Connery and Sophia Loren and many others.
Soon, the former Village Resort with a full international Hohenlohe is still a driving force. As head of the Costa del Sol, Co-operative project, he successfully lobbied for the improvement of roads, airports and water supply in the region. He was the Marbella Club and eventually run a different set-up properly, not far away in the hills near Ronda, where he has planted his own Bordeaux grapes and producesaward-winning wines under the "Principe Alfonso" label.
Made in the late 1970s, however, Hohenlohe was disappointed with the relocation of Marbella in the direction of mass tourism, and so he sold the club to a consortium of Arab businessmen. But he's still proud of his achievements and in 2003, just days before his death, he accepted a medal for merit in the field of tourism of the Spanish government.
One of the Quips Hohenlohe was famous: "I've lived in a castle in Venetian palaces and the best in the worldHotels. I saw the sun rise over the beaches of five continents, and I looked into the eyes of the most beautiful women in the universe. "
The latter group included Princess Ira von Furstenberg, a Fiat heiress, whom he married when she was 15, actresses Ava Gardner and Kim Novak, with whom it really matters, and actress Jackie Lane, whom he married in 1970. But his greatest love was probably Marbella.
Bel Air and Alphonzo Bell, Sr.
Los Angelenos describe the threeNeighborhoods of Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and Bel Air as the "golden triangle". Beverly Hills began as a dry oil well of the Amalgamated Oil Company, Holmby Hills was founded by wealthy merchants, Arthur Letts Sr., and Bel Air, on the west side of town, was the idea of Alphonzo E. Bell Sr.
Bell was born in 1875 into a family of entrepreneurs who made his father, Bell Ranch Station, now the city of Bell, in Santa Fe Springs, while his Uncle EdHollenbeck, founder of the First National Bank and a driving force behind the founding of the first LA public transportation. Alphonzo first found fame as a champion tennis player won bronze and silver medals at the Olympic Games in 1904, then a successful gentleman farmer in Santa Fe Springs.
But his life changed dramatically in the early 1920s after oil discovered on his land was. The profits could go to buy a 4500 acre ranch in LAArea that Danzinger Estate, complete with a Spanish-style mansion. Through the view from this house with a question, he realized he could use the land for a beautiful, luxurious community will be able to. And the idea was born in Bel Air.
Engineer Wilkie Woodward planned houses and streets, while landscape architect Aurele Vermeulen matched co planting. Bel Air officially opened on more than 600 acres in October 1922 and was a success from the beginning, through the growth of Hollywood.Large iron gate marking the entrance of the new community and uniformed guards checked visitors, a novelty in those days. Bell had a sales and development center in Stone Canyon and worked in an office that now a large suite at the Hotel Bel Air, he also built the elegant Bel Air Beach Club in Santa Monica and Bel Air Country Club in 1924. Country customers in Bel Air was a minimum of $ 20,000 to spend on housing and to build on early residentsSpanish-Mediterranean style. Today the community is architecture ranges from classical to California mid-century modern and contemporary. The neighborhood has become one of the most exclusive in LA, with remarkable people, including the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Belgravia and Richard Grosvenor
The British Grosvenor family, currently of the 6th Has led Duke of Westminster, comes from the Middle Ages. But it owes its first title of Richard Grosvenor – an Oxford graduate andMember of Parliament, from Cheshire, who in 1617 made a knight and a baronet in 1621 – and her immense fortune to Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Bart – in 1677 he married Mary Davies, heiress of 300 hectares on the outskirts of London. As the city grew, the country quickly became prime real estate, the basis for even more prosperity and more titles. Today, 500 streets, squares and buildings bear the names of titles, people and places associated with the family and the Grosvenor Grouphas managed billions of pounds worth of assets.
The first quarter of Grosvenor developed during the 17th and 18 Century was Mayfair. But the time Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, the head of the family work has been largely completed. So he turned to another area, he had: a rural swamp southwest of Buckingham Palace, as the "five boxes known" and the "lagoon of the Thames."
In 1826 a special act of Parliament was passed, Lord EmpowermentGrosvenor flow on the site. He commissioned architect Thomas Cubitt, which would be at a later date for the east front of Buckingham Palace, the layout of the new district of Belgravia responsible. Cubitt was chosen for the quality of his work – in contrast to other builders at the time, the use of subcontractors that he uses his excellent staff – and the classic white stucco houses around Belgrave Square and Eaton Square, which he built are still sought after .
Grosvenor life itselfin Mayfair, in the old part of Grosvenor House, on the Upper Grosvenor Street, overlooking Hyde Park, which was finally demolished in 1927. But there is no doubt that his legacy was the development of Belgravia.
Monaco and Aristotle Onassis
Monaco is a constitutional monarchy ruled by the Grimaldi family – originally from Genoa in Italy – since 1297, disguised as François Grimaldi himself as a monk and took it with him. By the mid-19th Century, the 495-acre state had a micro -renowned seaside resort with a casino, but after the Second World War, was in crisis. The upper classes were attended emigrated clubs and beaches for the war or lost their money. Beautiful Belle Epoque buildings of the village began to crumble. The pool had no water, and it was rumored that the revenue of the casino little value on the electricity bill for the chandeliers. Of course, there are still people who live there, including former aristocrats andinternational business people to the tax-free scheme, but it was far from his heydey. That changed, arrived as "Ari" Onassis in the early 1950s.
Born in 1906, a poor member of the Greek minority in Smyrna, Turkey, Onassis and his family had fled to Greece during the Turkish war. He emigrated at the age of 16 to Argentina, where he was the cornerstone of his fortune through the sale of Turkish tobacco, and invest the proceeds in a number of old tankersimplement rapidly the Allied war materiel across the Atlantic. After the war, Onassis began to build the first super tankers and was soon nicknamed "Tank-king." His power grew to become a then almost unimaginable amount of 1 billion U.S. dollars.
In 1954 he moved to Monaco for tax advantages and fell in love in spite of discomfort in the postwar period. In fact, he saw an investment opportunity and had a 52-percent stake in the Société des Bains de Mer, Monaco is one of the great parts, like the Hotel deParis, the Hermitage Hotel, the Casino, the Opera, restaurants, bars and floor, the amazingly ridiculous sum of $ 1.5. He then put more money into the renovation and restoration of objects and encourages the construction of high rise apartment buildings that dominate the landscape. Monaco fortunes began to turn and following the story of the marriage, was the Prince Rainier to Grace Kelly, is a hotspot for the international rich and famous.
Onassis isnormally lived and held court at the Hôtel de Paris and stayed at the legendary Chateau de la Croé, now by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, held in Cap d'Antibes. But his real home was Christina, a tall, 325ft, glistening white yacht named after his daughter.
Rainier Onassis and later had a more dramatic loss not agree on their visions for the future of Monaco and in a bitter legal battle that finally won Rainier. Due Onassis heir in Monacois now only a distant memory. But his influence is undeniable.
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Marbella and Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe
Until the 1940s, Marbella was nothing more than a village of 900 inhabitants on the Spanish coast. All that changed when, according to legend, a German prince, charcoal-powered Rolls-Royce, then broke. Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe love with the place and decided to stay.
Born in one of the oldest noble families in Europe (he was a godson of the King of Spain), Hohenlohe was running a successful business man and notorious playboy,five languages and skilled in sports like tennis and rallying. After his fateful stop in Marbella, he decided in 1947 to a large private house building – the Finca Santa Margarita, with the traditional white walls, red tile roofs, charming and beautiful patios and terraces, a large garden with fountains, trees and thousands of well-tended lawn. There he played host to a steady stream of visitors with glamorous names like Bismarck, Metternich and Thyssen, many of whomFinally, the adjacent land purchased to build their own houses.
But Hohenlohe had even bigger plans. In 1954 he sold his own house (and his friends used the Rothschilds) and in other parts of the estate, to build the famous Marbella Club, which quickly became synonymous with the mid-century Europe's elite "jet set" lifestyle . (In fact, Hohenlohe was often associated with having invented ", the Jet Set. Credited) Regular inspections by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Formula 1 driver James Hunt, PhotographerPatrick Litchfield, actor Sean Connery and Sophia Loren and many others.
Soon, the former Village Resort with a full international Hohenlohe is still a driving force. As head of the Costa del Sol, Co-operative project, he successfully lobbied for the improvement of roads, airports and water supply in the region. He was the Marbella Club and eventually run a different set-up properly, not far away in the hills near Ronda, where he has planted his own Bordeaux grapes and producesaward-winning wines under the "Principe Alfonso" label.
Made in the late 1970s, however, Hohenlohe was disappointed with the relocation of Marbella in the direction of mass tourism, and so he sold the club to a consortium of Arab businessmen. But he's still proud of his achievements and in 2003, just days before his death, he accepted a medal for merit in the field of tourism of the Spanish government.
One of the Quips Hohenlohe was famous: "I've lived in a castle in Venetian palaces and the best in the worldHotels. I saw the sun rise over the beaches of five continents, and I looked into the eyes of the most beautiful women in the universe. "
The latter group included Princess Ira von Furstenberg, a Fiat heiress, whom he married when she was 15, actresses Ava Gardner and Kim Novak, with whom it really matters, and actress Jackie Lane, whom he married in 1970. But his greatest love was probably Marbella.
Bel Air and Alphonzo Bell, Sr.
Los Angelenos describe the threeNeighborhoods of Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and Bel Air as the "golden triangle". Beverly Hills began as a dry oil well of the Amalgamated Oil Company, Holmby Hills was founded by wealthy merchants, Arthur Letts Sr., and Bel Air, on the west side of town, was the idea of Alphonzo E. Bell Sr.
Bell was born in 1875 into a family of entrepreneurs who made his father, Bell Ranch Station, now the city of Bell, in Santa Fe Springs, while his Uncle EdHollenbeck, founder of the First National Bank and a driving force behind the founding of the first LA public transportation. Alphonzo first found fame as a champion tennis player won bronze and silver medals at the Olympic Games in 1904, then a successful gentleman farmer in Santa Fe Springs.
But his life changed dramatically in the early 1920s after oil discovered on his land was. The profits could go to buy a 4500 acre ranch in LAArea that Danzinger Estate, complete with a Spanish-style mansion. Through the view from this house with a question, he realized he could use the land for a beautiful, luxurious community will be able to. And the idea was born in Bel Air.
Engineer Wilkie Woodward planned houses and streets, while landscape architect Aurele Vermeulen matched co planting. Bel Air officially opened on more than 600 acres in October 1922 and was a success from the beginning, through the growth of Hollywood.Large iron gate marking the entrance of the new community and uniformed guards checked visitors, a novelty in those days. Bell had a sales and development center in Stone Canyon and worked in an office that now a large suite at the Hotel Bel Air, he also built the elegant Bel Air Beach Club in Santa Monica and Bel Air Country Club in 1924. Country customers in Bel Air was a minimum of $ 20,000 to spend on housing and to build on early residentsSpanish-Mediterranean style. Today the community is architecture ranges from classical to California mid-century modern and contemporary. The neighborhood has become one of the most exclusive in LA, with remarkable people, including the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Belgravia and Richard Grosvenor
The British Grosvenor family, currently of the 6th Has led Duke of Westminster, comes from the Middle Ages. But it owes its first title of Richard Grosvenor – an Oxford graduate andMember of Parliament, from Cheshire, who in 1617 made a knight and a baronet in 1621 – and her immense fortune to Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Bart – in 1677 he married Mary Davies, heiress of 300 hectares on the outskirts of London. As the city grew, the country quickly became prime real estate, the basis for even more prosperity and more titles. Today, 500 streets, squares and buildings bear the names of titles, people and places associated with the family and the Grosvenor Grouphas managed billions of pounds worth of assets.
The first quarter of Grosvenor developed during the 17th and 18 Century was Mayfair. But the time Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, the head of the family work has been largely completed. So he turned to another area, he had: a rural swamp southwest of Buckingham Palace, as the "five boxes known" and the "lagoon of the Thames."
In 1826 a special act of Parliament was passed, Lord EmpowermentGrosvenor flow on the site. He commissioned architect Thomas Cubitt, which would be at a later date for the east front of Buckingham Palace, the layout of the new district of Belgravia responsible. Cubitt was chosen for the quality of his work – in contrast to other builders at the time, the use of subcontractors that he uses his excellent staff – and the classic white stucco houses around Belgrave Square and Eaton Square, which he built are still sought after .
Grosvenor life itselfin Mayfair, in the old part of Grosvenor House, on the Upper Grosvenor Street, overlooking Hyde Park, which was finally demolished in 1927. But there is no doubt that his legacy was the development of Belgravia.
Monaco and Aristotle Onassis
Monaco is a constitutional monarchy ruled by the Grimaldi family – originally from Genoa in Italy – since 1297, disguised as François Grimaldi himself as a monk and took it with him. By the mid-19th Century, the 495-acre state had a micro -renowned seaside resort with a casino, but after the Second World War, was in crisis. The upper classes were attended emigrated clubs and beaches for the war or lost their money. Beautiful Belle Epoque buildings of the village began to crumble. The pool had no water, and it was rumored that the revenue of the casino little value on the electricity bill for the chandeliers. Of course, there are still people who live there, including former aristocrats andinternational business people to the tax-free scheme, but it was far from his heydey. That changed, arrived as "Ari" Onassis in the early 1950s.
Born in 1906, a poor member of the Greek minority in Smyrna, Turkey, Onassis and his family had fled to Greece during the Turkish war. He emigrated at the age of 16 to Argentina, where he was the cornerstone of his fortune through the sale of Turkish tobacco, and invest the proceeds in a number of old tankersimplement rapidly the Allied war materiel across the Atlantic. After the war, Onassis began to build the first super tankers and was soon nicknamed "Tank-king." His power grew to become a then almost unimaginable amount of 1 billion U.S. dollars.
In 1954 he moved to Monaco for tax advantages and fell in love in spite of discomfort in the postwar period. In fact, he saw an investment opportunity and had a 52-percent stake in the Société des Bains de Mer, Monaco is one of the great parts, like the Hotel deParis, the Hermitage Hotel, the Casino, the Opera, restaurants, bars and floor, the amazingly ridiculous sum of $ 1.5. He then put more money into the renovation and restoration of objects and encourages the construction of high rise apartment buildings that dominate the landscape. Monaco fortunes began to turn and following the story of the marriage, was the Prince Rainier to Grace Kelly, is a hotspot for the international rich and famous.
Onassis isnormally lived and held court at the Hôtel de Paris and stayed at the legendary Chateau de la Croé, now by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, held in Cap d'Antibes. But his real home was Christina, a tall, 325ft, glistening white yacht named after his daughter.
Rainier Onassis and later had a more dramatic loss not agree on their visions for the future of Monaco and in a bitter legal battle that finally won Rainier. Due Onassis heir in Monacois now only a distant memory. But his influence is undeniable.
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