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Real estate developer Francesco Morawetz, 75, is not the first entrepreneur to open a club and residence for luxury vacationers. But he's the first to do it in as grand a place as Palazzo Trevisan-Cappello off St. Mark's Square in Venice. And he may be the first to do it with as much respect for the art and architecture that came before...
...Italian-born Morawetz knew he wanted his private club to be in Venice, where select members who care for the city could enjoy a well-managed part-time home. "But it couldn't be just a luxury club," he says. It had to be quintessential Venice. When he saw the abandoned palazzo (better known as Palazzo Pauly, since it was the headquarters of the Pauly Glassworks for more than a century), it was a revelation. Morawetz acquired the property and, rather than selling the valuable artistic-glass collection that came with it, decided to give Venice a new Museum...
...Luxury is, of course, one of the project's characteristics," says Morawetz, "but we are adding culture to luxury. It's a completely different approach to the city...
Jaffe will serve for one year as president-elect starting February 1, 1996, and then as president during 1997 and 1998. He will replace Cathleen S. Morawetz, a mathematician at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University...
...Richard Morawetz...