Tessa Georgina Kennedy was born on 6 December 1938 and is a British interior designer, whose clients include multi-national corporations, royalty, celebrities, and European hotels, restaurants, and clubs.
10 Facts About Tessa Kennedy
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Tessa Kennedy is a niece of diplomat and former Yugoslav shipping magnate Vane Ivanovic and great-great-niece of Dusan Popovic, one of the founders of Yugoslavia.
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Tessa Kennedy is a great-granddaughter of the British engineer, Sir Alexander Blackie Kennedy and granddaughter of Sir John MacFarlane Kennedy, as well as of industrialist Ivan Rikard Ivanovic.
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Tessa Kennedy's mother was of Croatian Jewish and Serbian descent.
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Tessa Kennedy attended The Downs School from 1949 to 1952, then completed her grade school studies at the Oak Hall in Haslemere from 1952 to 1957.
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Tessa Kennedy studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts sometime in 1957.
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At age 18, Tessa Kennedy became a cause celebre after she eloped with the painter Dominick Elwes.
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On 27 November 1957, Geoffrey Tessa Kennedy obtained a restraining order against Elwes.
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Elwes was eventually released from custody, but Tessa Kennedy was ordered to remain a ward of court.
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Tessa Kennedy's clients have included De Beers, Stanley Kubrick, George Harrison, King Hussein of Jordan and London hotels Claridge's, The Berkeley, and The Ritz for which she was voted Designer of the Year.