[...] The character of the new Benaki Museum has now assumed its indented form as is, I believe, quite apparent in the pages of this volume. It is a publication that would have been among the residue of unfulfilled hopes had it been for certain dedicated friends of galvanic temperament who gave it its being. What I really want to say is that its materialization owes, much, if not everything, to the aesthetic genius, the heartfelt devotion and coercive perseverance of Dionissis Fotopoulos. Equally, it owes much to the spontaneous eagerness, enthusiastic response and unbounded generosity of Marianna and Spyros Latsis who included its budget in the cultural programmes of Eurobank and the Latsis Group. [...] Angelos Delivorrias