TESSA TRAEGER is one of the outstanding photographers of her
generation and is widely acknowledged as having raised the subject
of photographic, food still-life to the status of art. Trained at
Guildford School of Photography and Fine Art, Tessa Traeger has
worked at Rossetti Studios in Chelsea, London since the 1960s. She
has exhibited regularly since 1978 and her work is represented in
the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris and The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
A former teacher, and longtime friend of Robert Kime, ALASTAIR
LANGLANDS has worked closely with Robert and his friends and
clients to offer a rich and nuanced picture of his achievements as
a designer.
Over the years his projects have ranged from a tumbledown house in
France to a new build in the Bahamas, but all have this common
thread. 'I'm more comfortable with old things,' he says. 'I like
objects that have had a life.' And perhaps it's this attitude that
enables him to create rooms that are so supremely suited for
living: a combination that his long-term royal client [HRH the
Prince of Wales] summed up as 'welcoming, interesting and, above
all, comforting.'
Reflecting on a lifetime’s work in antiques and interiors, a new
book draws attention to one of the most respected and influential
English designers of our time, Robert Kime. Shying away from a
heavy-handed co-ordination of texture and colour in an untouchable
interior scheme, and, instead, adopting a considered arrangement of
the elements that make home life good, in effortless adaptation of
that Country House ethic forged in the previous century – where
some interiors might smell of antibacterial spray, one imagines
that Kime’s might carry the faintest hint of beeswax polish and
wood smoke.
Interior decorator to the great and the good, Robert Kime’ s taste
is changeless, timeless and unlike anything else. Away from the
hubbub, at the farthest edge from the braying crowd, the careful
observer will for 30 years have found one quiet, gentle man, Robert
Kime — the creator of an extraordinary world of dreams, that is
subtly different to anything else that we see in English decoration
today. Kime shuns the limelight but is revered as perhaps the
grandest figure of English decoration. Reflecting on a lifetime’ s
work in antiques and interiors, a new book draws attention to one
of the most respected and influential English designers of our
time, Robert Kime. Shying away from a heavy-handed co-ordination of
texture and colour in an untouchable interior scheme, and, instead,
adopting a considered arrangement of the elements that make home
life good, in effortless adaptation of that Country House ethic
forged in the previous century – where some interiors might smell
of antibacterial spray, one imagines that Kime’ s might carry the
faintest hint of beeswax polish and wood smoke. Over the years his
projects have ranged from a tumbledown house in France to a new
build in the Bahamas, but all have this common thread. 'I'm more
comfortable with old things,' he says. 'I like objects that have
had a life.' And perhaps it's this attitude that enables him to
create rooms that are so supremely suited for living: a combination
that his long-term royal client [HRH the Prince of Wales] summed up
as 'welcoming, interesting and, above all, comforting.' "Interior
design tomes abound, but one recent publication stands out: a book
about Robert Kime's work..."
"Interior decorator to the great and the good, Robert Kime's taste
is changeless, timeless and unlike anything else. Kime shuns the
limelight but is revered as perhaps the grandest figure of English
decoration."
*Financial Times*
"Over the years his projects have ranged from a tumbledown house in
France to a new build in the Bahamas, but all have this common
thread. 'I'm more comfortable with old things', he says. 'I like
objects that have had a life.' And perhaps it's this attitude that
enables him to create rooms that are so supremely suited for
living: a combination that his long-term royal client [HRH the
Prince of Wales] summed up as 'welcoming, interesting and, above
all, comforting."
*Daily Telegraph*
Reflecting on a lifetime's work in antiques and interiors, a new
book draws attention to one of the most respected and influential
English designers of our time, Robert Kime.
Shying away from a heavy-handed co-ordination of texture and colour
in an untouchable interior scheme, and, instead, adopting a
considered arrangement of the elements that make home life good, in
effortless adaptation of that Country House ethic forged in the
previous century where some interiors might smell of antibacterial
spray, one imagines that Kime's might carry the faintest hint of
beeswax polish and wood smoke.
*The English Home*
"A new collection of the decorator's work reveals his passion for
antique textiles and a mastery for rearranging existing rooms."
*ArchitecturalDigest.com*
"A definitive book on 'England's most revered interior
designer'"
*New York Times*
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