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José Emilio Terry y Sánchez (1890–1969), known as Emilio Terry was a Cuban-born French architect, artist, interior decorator and landscape designer. Creating furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, he was influenced by the château de Chenonceau, acquired by his family, and he created a style that was at once classical and baroque, which he called the "Louis XIX style". ==Life== Terry was the son of Francisco Terry y Dorticós, scion of a prominent Cuban family, Hispano-Irish in origin, that made its fortune in the sugar plantations. His mother, a great beauty, was the former Antonia Sánchez.〔Paul Estrade, ''Solidaridad con Cuba Libre, 1895-1898'' (La Editorial, UPR, 2001), page 205〕 His paternal grandfather was sugar baron Tomás Terry, a Venezuelan-born Irishman known as the "Cuban Croesus", and his paternal grandmother was Teresa Dorticós y Gómez de Leys, a daughter of Andrés Dorticós y Casson, the millionaire Governor of Cienfuegos, Cuba.〔Hugh Thomas, ''The slave trade: the story of the Atlantic slave trade, 1440-1870'' (Simon and Schuster, 1997), page 648〕〔Ben Macintyre, ''The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief'' (Random House Digital, Inc., Apr 5, 2011), page 130〕 One of his uncles, Antonio Terry, married the American soprano Sybil Sanderson. After 1897 Francisco Terry moved his family to New York City, where Antonia and her daughter, Natividad (later Countess Stanislas de Castellane), were painted in 1897 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury. The family later moved to France, where Francisco Terry's brother José-Emilio—his son's namesake—had purchased Château de Chenonceaux in 1891.〔Clara Crawford Perkins, ''French cathedrals and chateaux'', Volume 1 (Knight and Millet, 1903), page 123〕〔"Blois, Amboise, Chambord and Chenonceaux", ''American architect and architecture'', Volume 37 (Hearst Magazines, Inc., 1892), page 39〕 The château was sold in 1896 to Francisco Terry.〔Shari Beck, ''A Portrait in Black and White: Diane de Poitiers in Her Own Words'' (iUniverse, Aug 26, 2011), page 454〕 Emilio Terry owned a villa on the Côte d'Azur and a Paris apartment at 2, place du Palais-Bourbon.〔Christopher Hemphill, ''House and Garden'', October 1983〕 He bought the Paris residence from Boni de Castellane in 1914.〔Emilio's sister, Natalia Terry y Sánchez, had married Count Stanislas de Castellane (1876-1959), younger brother of "Boni" (1867-1932), Marquis de Castellane, a famous dandy.〕 Boni records in his ''Mémoires'' : "I didn't have much money. () M. Terry, brother of my sister in law Stanislas (), fell in love with my apartment, and () and asked me to give over the lease to him. () I sold my furniture to this noble Cuban. » 〔Cf. Boni de Castellane, ''Mémoires'', Perrin, 1986, p. 343〕 On 24 June 1934, Terry bought from his brother-in-law Stanislas de Castellane the historic château de Rochecotte, near Langeais (Indre-et-Loire), famous for having belonged to Dorothée de Courlande, duchesse of Dino and received Talleyrand on frequent visits. For 35 years, Emilio Terry restored this château and decorated it in the right period style.〔(Château de Rochecotte )〕 He bequeathed Rochecotte to his great-nephew Count Henri de Castellane, but the family sold the estate in the early 1980s. It is now a country house hotel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emilio Terry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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