He designs for Louis Vuitton, Ferrari, Apple, Riva, Jaeger Le-Coultre and Montblanc, to name but a handful of his top-shelf clients. There’s virtually no box outside which the celebrity industrial designer cannot think.
But when it came to acquiring a plot of paradise on the north-western flank of the island of Ithaca, even Marc Newson had to play by the rules. Punishing, opaque, centuries-old Greek property ownership rules, that is. Rules that could reduce Odysseus to tears.
Fiona CarruthersTravel editorFiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
