6 of market share in Europe compared to 22The unsuccessful will be many including in the ranks of the French banks to increase the profitability of their investmentsTheir lifestyle is resolutely contemporaryOf course it is often that of a rise in verbalRed orange blue emerald green overseasThe subject will soon be on the agenda of the twentysevenWatches and accessories would stand betterFor ten years all the great choices were consensual despite appearancesSegmenting by income is no longer the panaceaThe market of art, fascinated by the art and its records, tends to think that the taste of the Kings Louis is. But there are still in the world of the defenders of the pomp to the French and the great game of decoration as found at Versailles. One of them is Dimitri Mavrommatis, born Greek, high culture living today and French between his various homes in New York, London, Geneva and Paris. He has also just received the insignia of chevalier in the order of Arts and letters for his passion for sèvres porcelain. This is an area of insiders may seem well sealed to the mortals. In this specialty, Dimitri Mavrommatis is a truly hooked. Moreover, the interview of the Manager of fortune is at the head of his own firm, MICM, Mavrommatis International Capital Management, Geneva is interrupted by a call of the House of Sotheby's sales. He would like to bid for a pair of vases of time Louis XVI. But the auction package. The collector abandoned. The two sèvres estimated 250,000 euros reached 572.000 euros.
One explanation of his attraction to this great French taste lies in education. His father who had made fortune in the cocoa and coffee was one of those "Greeks of France" as he said, a time installed in Marseille. To four years, he tells that he wanders with him on the Champs-Elysées. He is dressed up as a little guy in full and tie and suddenly by a sense of excitement for the site, said to his father: "Papa, Paris is the most beautiful city in the world.". What the father responds: "you know what's the world". Very early on, the small Dimitri attended safe values of French art. He recalled moreover specifically visited the Palace of Versailles to eight years. Twenty-three years, he discovered the Wallace Collection in London, reference of European decorative arts, and focuses clearly on objects exposed sèvres in a large number of colors, then that he knows that blue creations. "I'm self-taught." When I started, I didn't know the difference between the style Louis XV and Louis XVI style. And, of course, at the beginning, I have the shit. But it is much attending museums that I learned.
Dimitri Mavrommatis, the great French taste is obvious. And when, after his studies of management at Dauphine and at Insead, he bought an apartment in London, of course he thinks the decorated in this style. "I does not have a single English furniture." Louis XIV, his power, his refinement, Marie-Antoinette... All this has affected me much... This era of opulence fascinates me. "Director of its collection is the porcelain. Very quickly, it performs what is called "the eye" and that happens to detect the rare Pearl. He however advise, as a first step, by Adrien Sassoon, a former curator at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He designed the harmony of its interior with furnishings 18th precious they are signed big names like Carlin or Riesner , but obviously still overcome porcelain. "On a chest of drawers, we expect that either put a precious object." I like the sinuous forms of the Louis XV over the rigidity of German porcelain for example.
Prestigious sources
Number of its acquisitions have a connection with a prestigious provenance. There are two buckets to ice in the service of Catherine II, 606 parts had been delivered to the Empress in 1779, a said vase "Falconnet" fluted to Midnight blue and gold wreath completed around 1770, the other single copy is kept in the Louvre, or a Chinese vase "bachelier" green and gold decor of a representative scene "far-sighted physician." His twin is located at Waddesdon Manor, a castle English Renaissance style, designed for baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the 19th century, known for its classical collections françaises. And, about his pair of vases of sèvres black to set Chinese whose handles are golden dragons, he commented: "Only the Queen of England is the same." But he noted a bit forlorn: "the Germans argue Meissen porcelain, but the French argue more Sevres." These are museums and foreign collections which are its rating.
Contrary to what one might think, the taste of Dimitri Mavrommatis for the great 18th century French stops the decorative arts. For tables, its sensitivity the door to modern art. On the table of the show is put a small sculpture, a "Stabile" of the American Calder. "I must confess that, at the beginning, I could understand not well this work." But it has a presence, light, almost transparent. This simplicity is a good break with the decor of the 18th century. "He enjoys as Dubuffet and Picasso and even bought the very American pop artist in sight today, Ed Ruscha. "I made the acquisition of two of his canvases ten years ago and I have sold them recently for sixteen times more." It's nice to have been early identified the value of an artist.
If Dimitri Mavrommatis feels in his place in the splendour of the 18th century, however it is completely in line with the life of the 21st century.
