Robert Kime
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.41 (557 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0711236631 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-04-15 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kime shuns the limelight but is revered as perhaps the grandest figure of English decoration." - Ben Pentreath, Financial Times. "Interior decorator to the great and the good, Robert Kime's taste is changeless, timeless and unlike anything else
The business developed through the 1970s, alongside friendships with designer Christopher Gibbs, Tom Parr of Colefax and Fowler, and veteran antique dealer Geoffrey Bennison.Christopher Gibbs speaks of Robert's complete vision of how the world should look. He persuaded the Bursar to let him keep his rooms on staircase 7 so that his clients would know where to find him. "It is this sense of history and sense of place that give Robert a way of anchoring a house to its setting; it's historicist, subtle, comfortable, beautiful and never vulgar. Magnificent, specially-commissioned pho
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