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Tessa Georgina Kennedy (born 6 December 1938) is a British interior designer, whose clients include multi-national corporations, royalty, celebrities, and European hotels, restaurants, and clubs. Her elopement with society portrait painter Dominick Elwes made headlines in 1957.
- 1940–present
- Interior designer
- 6 December 1938 (age 84), Guildford, England
17 de mar. de 2016 · Learn about Tessa Kennedy's life and work, from her elopement with a painter to her award-winning projects for celebrities and royalty. Discover her signature style of grandeur and theatre in her own homes and commissions, such as the Rivoli Bar at the Ritz.
6 de nov. de 2017 · From being serenaded by Frank Sinatra at her wedding (when she eloped to Cuba at age 18) to working with some of the richest and most demanding clients in the world - meet Tessa Kennedy and get a tour of her incredible home.
26 de mai. de 2021 · Tessa Kennedy, sister of Caroline Kennedy, married Dominick Elwes, a young artist, in 1957 against her parents' wishes. They fled to Havana, Cuba, where they met Hemingway and Meyer Lansky, and had a quickie wedding.
Tessa Kennedy is an international award- winning decorator to the stars who for the last 50 years has created interiors with a sense of grandeur and a hint of theatre for an impressive list of elite clients including Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, George Harrison, Pierce
At age 26, Dominick Elwes met and wished to marry 19-year-old shipping heiress Tessa Kennedy, daughter of Geoffrey Ferrar Kennedy and Daška Ivanović. Kennedy's parents, however, disapproved of the relationship and instituted wardship proceedings.
19 de mar. de 2014 · A Most Glamorous Life Takes 'More Than' Double At Auction. The collection of interiors items belonging to decorator Tessa Kennedy, whose clients included George Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor, took 'more than' double the original estimate at auction yesterday, confirmed Christie's.
