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From Antiques to Albany: Lucy Moore on Christopher Gibbs - 244 - Alain Elkann Interviews
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THE CHRISTOPHER GIBBS AESTHETIC. Lucy Moore is an author and historian, well-known for her engaging biographies, including of the dancer Nijinsky, the politician and rake Lord Hervey, and three generations of Indian princesses in Maharanis. She wrote Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties and the widely acclaimed In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology. As Editor of the book Christopher Gibbs: His World she sought to create an enduring memorial to Christopher Gibbs, the renowned British antiques dealer, decorator, and quintessential English gentleman-aesthete, who died in Morocco in 2018.
“The gentleman-aesthete is a great English tradition and he was part of that.”
“One of the great triumphs of his working life was discovering an unattributed Holbein”
“Extraordinary personal charm, which was reflected in the places that he created”
101 episodes
Manage episode 494140510 series 2898221
THE CHRISTOPHER GIBBS AESTHETIC. Lucy Moore is an author and historian, well-known for her engaging biographies, including of the dancer Nijinsky, the politician and rake Lord Hervey, and three generations of Indian princesses in Maharanis. She wrote Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties and the widely acclaimed In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology. As Editor of the book Christopher Gibbs: His World she sought to create an enduring memorial to Christopher Gibbs, the renowned British antiques dealer, decorator, and quintessential English gentleman-aesthete, who died in Morocco in 2018.
“The gentleman-aesthete is a great English tradition and he was part of that.”
“One of the great triumphs of his working life was discovering an unattributed Holbein”
“Extraordinary personal charm, which was reflected in the places that he created”
101 episodes
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