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Home › Gold Medal Awards › Gold Medal Award 2026 Recipients

Gold Medal Award 2026 Recipients

AIPC February 4, 2026     No Comment    


Victoria de Lempicka

Granddaughter of Tamara de Lempicka

for visionary promotion of Tamara de Lempicka’s art

Victoria de Lempicka, the granddaughter of Tamara de Lempicka – the Polish artists who spearheaded the art deco movement – is one of the closest living links to Tamara. She knew her grandmother as a second mother.

From an early age, Tamara personally shaped Victoria’s aesthetic education, taking her to the finest museums and grand hotels across Europe, teaching her how to see, understand, and appreciate great art–just as Tamara’s own grandmother had once done with her. 

In 2006, Victoria founded Tamara Art Heritage, now part of the Tamara de Lempicka Estate LLC. For more than forty years, she has traveled extensively to accompany and promote Lempicka’s retrospective exhibitions at major international venues. Over the years, she has secured important licensing partnerships, including collaborations with Van Cleef & Arpels and the renowned Taschen book Tamara de Lempicka.

nder her guidance, more than one hundred book covers have been licensed, including publications such as Flappers, Art Deco in the World’s Greatest Art series, 50 Art Deco Works of Art You Should Know, as well as editions of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeraldand works by Ayn Rand. She has also overseen merchandising programs for museum shops during Tamara’s exhibitions worldwide.

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Marisa de Lempicka

GREAT-Granddaughter of Tamara de Lempicka

for visionary promotion of Tamara de Lempicka’s art

Marisa de Lempicka, the great-granddaughter of Tamara de Lempicka – the Polish artist who spearheaded the art deco movement – dedicates her life to the legacy of her great-grandmother.  

She worked closely with the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to organize the first major Lempicka retrospective in the United States since the artist’s death in 1980. It ran from 2024 to 2025 and marked a major milestone in the renewed appreciation of Tamara’s legacy in America. 

Marisa also spearheaded the project to install a commemorative plaque in Paris at Tamara de Lempicka’s former apartment. She joined the Mayor of the 16th arrondissement at the inauguration ceremony, creating a meaningful and long awaited tribute to Tamara in the city where she lived and worked. Additionally, Marisa collaborated with the producers of the Broadway musical Lempicka. It received three Tony Award nominations in 2024 and is scheduled to premiere in Seoul, South Korea, in 2026. She has published several books about her great-grandmother in Poland and the United States. Marisa also negotiated and helped produce the documentary The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival. The film premiered to rave reviews at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California and has since been shown internationally at major venues including Lincoln Center in New York, the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Centre Pompidou in Málaga, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, the Polish Museum of America, and numerous theaters and film festivals worldwide. She is currently developing a feature length film, a mini-series, and a traveling immersive and interactive exhibition dedicated to Tamara’s life and work.  Marisa has also negotiated several meaningful licensing partnerships with fashion designers and continues to seek collaborations with leading international brands. Most recently, Marisa established the Tamara de Lempicka Foundation, created to extend Tamara’s legacy into the future while supporting young women artists and refugee children.

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Robert Dobrzycki

CEO & Co-Owner of Panattoni Europe, UK, India and the Middle East

for visionary achievements in real estate and philanthropy

Robert Dobrzycki is a graduate from the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and also holds the international title of FRICS – Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
 His involvement in the real estate industry began in 1999. His career started at the American developer Menard Doswell & Co. In 2005, he launched the Panattoni European business in Poland, which, after 20 years of rapid growth and international expansion, became a leader in the European warehouse real estate market. Today, Panattoni facilities operate in 17 European countries, as well as in India and Saudi Arabia. He is also the founder of Harden Construction, Blue Assets, and Newport Fund.
Robert Dobrzycki has received numerous prestigious awards. In 2020, he received the Prime Property Prize Person of the Decade for his contribution to the development of the warehouse market. In 2023, he was honored with the Wektor award – a distinction awarded by Employers of Poland for his exceptional contribution to entrepreneurship in Poland. In 2024, he received the Lifetime Achievement in Real Estate award at the CEE Quality Awards.
In 2024, he established the Robert Dobrzycki Foundation that has a mission of social development and the promotion of Poland and Polish entrepreneurship internationally.  In the spring of 2025, Robert Dobrzycki became the majority shareholder of the top-flight football club Widzew Łódź.f her great-grandmother.  

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