In Memoriam—Iconic English Designer Robert Kime (1946-2022)
This essay is dedicated to my dear wife of 32 years, EVELYN, who first introduced me to this Designer Colossus about 2 years ago in 2023, at that time it was one year after Robert had passed away. . . RIP
*Original Notes from Cabana Magazine Article on Designer Robert Kime:What is the connection between Harry Potter and Marie Antoinette? It is a hard, yellowish lump of matter, a concretion formed in the stomachs of camels and ruminants from indigestible vegetable fibre and hair, which is reputed to have magical properties as an antidote to any poison – a bezoar stone. Harry used one to heal Ron Weasley when he had drunk poison and Marie Antoinette’s spendthrift, playboy brother-in-law – the Comte d’Artois, later King Charles X of France – once owned the large bezoar stone that reposes with its silken cord on a table in the drawing room of this London flat.
Undeniably intriguing, the stone is the least beautiful of the many extraordinary treasures brought together here by owner Robert Kime, the antique dealer and interior decorator, whose clients include the Prince of Wales. The flat overlooks treetops and a church spire. ‘This is the first place I have had on my own since I was 23,’ he says. This was the age he married his late, much missed wife, Helen Nicoll, author of the Meg and Mog children’s stories.
The homes Robert has made for himself and for his discerning clients always have a strong sense of place, are supremely comfortable and full of objects he has found. This flat is the distillation of more than 50 years of looking at beautiful antiques and of a deep knowledge of architecture, history and the decorative arts.
Suggested listening music—
v Schumann, Kinderszenen, Op. 15 (Martha Argerich, piano);
v Brahms, 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major (Stephen Kovacevich, piano);
v Brahms, Intermezzo, op. 117, No. 2 in B flat minor (Rubinstein, piano);
v Elgar – Nimrod (from “Engima Variations”) Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra In Memoriam of CSO’s Iconic conductor, Sir George Solti (1912-1997);
v Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana-INTERMEZZO–Georges Prêtre-Chorégies d’Orange, Conductor (2009).
§ Regarding the last composition by Mascagni the sublime words cited below left nothing else to be said. . . RIP Robert KIME . . . @Dario_Salvi – 3 years ago
“This is not a performance. This is a connection between
humans, this is a marvelous example of art. This is one of
the meanings of life: reaching the infinite in a moment,
everywhere in one place, everyone in one person. This is
the sublime.”
*N.B.: Inside Robert Kime’s enchanting family house in Provence (southern France), called “La Gonette” (27 Sept. 2023).
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I’m not a decorator; I’m an assembler of objects.
~ Robert Kime
Please, move that table!
~ Robert Kime’s last words of angst to the host after attending a dinner party
It was just like breathing to him, putting a room together, finding objects, they just spoke to him. People would come to him and ask him, “What’s on trend?” or “What’s fashionable?” And Robert would say, “I don’t understand what you are asking.” He says, “I just put things together that I like. . .”
~ Christopher Payne, Colleague of Robert Kime
At home with legendary decorator Robert Kime by House & Garden (May 7, 2020)
Five minutes with Robert Kime
Your Signature style?
Starting with a rug. Finishing with paint.
The possession you treasure most?
An Oushak rug, 15th Century. Very rare.
Your greatest escape?
Escaping the day-to-day in beautiful objects and switching off by looking at something, and perhaps having a revelation. Thinking about something completely magical and foreign.
Ideal interiors in three words?
Peaceful. Comfortable. Quiet.
Distasteful interiors in three words?
There is no good or bad taste – there is just doing something that is wildly inappropriate. That is the only way I can think to describe bad taste.
*N.B.: {above} Kime was very fond of this bookshelf in his home that housed objects from his many travels through the years to the ancient land of Egypt. He especially loved the eyes of the Pharaoh (center of the second shelf).
Prologue—The Life and Times of Iconic Designer Robert Kime (1946-2022)—The Elegant English Man who had a great gift for Assembling the Souls of Objects together like they always belonged together. . . forever
I was introduced to Robert Kime about 2 years ago through watching YouTube videos with my wife, Evelyn, and was so transfixed by his utterly transcendent artistry I was moved after watching only one video to write this essay two years later. Although I didn’t realize at the time that it was about a year after his death, yet even if I had known that information it wouldn’t have made the least difference on the irrevocable impact this man has had on my life – particularly on a subconscious manner. What I mean here is that once you’ve had the honour of witnessing the artistry of Robert Kime you are never quite the same person because a little fleck or whimsy has fallen off of the Man and onto you, thus changing you forever.
If this has happen then congratulations for you have taken one step from the banal existence, one step away from conventional thinking, one step away from your comfort zone, and one step into a marvelous world of antiquarian interiors full of colour, texture, textiles, fabrics, smells and above all memory. . . Memories of frequent travels to faraway, even forbidden places of ancient lore—the pyramids and antique shops of Giza and Cairo, Egypt, little antique shops in places like Istanbul, Israel, Greece, and historic places and lands throughout Europe,
But most importantly of all you’ve heard the expression – “Life is a circle”, and “You always end up where you started.” If that aphorism is true, then I learned from studying the Life and Times of Robert Kime that as a very little boy growing up in the England countryside his mother had a little shed in the backyard full of furniture and other objects. Kime recalls how that one of his earliest memories was to go into that shed and organize it and to reorganize it. He then said something profound, almost Freudian or Jungian in the psychological profundity of his epiphany experiences that lead him to become a home designer. Here is the quote from Robert Kime—
Well, my mother was a great collector, and it sort of started like that. I mean, I just [started collecting] coins, and then what happened was that there was a shed in the garden which was full of furniture, and I loved that shed. And I used to go and rearrange it all. Well, I got the feeling that I was in control of something, that I wasn’t being told what to do. There was all this world that I could manipulate to my own advantage and pleasure, and that’s when I started what is called ‘interior decorating’ now.
He said that this occasional act of organizing that little furniture shed liberated him, made him feel free. Why? Because he did something that he wanted to do and not something that someone (e.g., a mother, a father, a stepfather, a grandmother, an aunt, an uncle, and elder sibling) told him to do. This little act of Liberty in that little shed in a cottage on the English countryside in the early 1950s birth the magisterial Man, a humble Soul the designer world called Robert Kime. . .
According to the Cabana magazine article, “Robert Kime, who died in August 2022 aged 76, was both a true English gentleman and a once-in-a-generation design talent. For more than 50 years, Robert curated and decorated the homes of some of the world’s most distinguished clients, notably King Charles III (then the Prince of Wales), with his characteristic flair, expertise, discretion and charm. His exquisitely elegant interiors reflect a life well lived and well-travelled, a life spent collecting, reading, researching and restoring; Robert was first and foremost an antique dealer, trading in fine antiques, art, tapestries and home furnishings from his shop on London’s distinguished Pimlico Road.
His impressive residential portfolio includes an 18th-century hunting lodge, multiple London apartments in salubrious locations and a beach retreat in the Bahamas. A glorious assemblage of different periods, patterns and styles, Robert’s interiors all share a quiet, subtle grandeur, sophisticated yet imbued with a sense of familiarity, warmth and ease. Each reflects his mantra that houses ‘are to be lived in, not just looked at’.”
After decorating England’s South Wraxall Manor (pictured below), Robert described the magnificent property – built by cloth merchants in the 15th-century – as a house that, “passes peace back to anyone who comes here”. This sense of calm can be credited to Robert, who, with Patrick Kinmonth, oversaw a complex renovation in 2007 before furnishing the venerable house with timeless objects and furniture. This included antique carpets, crystal chandeliers, a 17th-century Flemish tapestry and a 19th-century French Ebony and Boulle desk.
He likened the work at Wraxall to, “a case of forensics”, conceding the architecture had to be “studied and picked apart in order to be put back together”. “A house like this could look deathly – stiff and unyielding,” he said. “But we would fill the house with interesting things – very special things and quite ordinary, modest things too, and each would improve the other. Now the house has a layer of humanity to it. There is something very personal about it.”
One of the most eminent and well-respected figures in British design, Robert Kime is beloved, and remembered, for his gentle character and good humor, as well as his talent and influence. Although grand, refined and sophisticated, his interiors remain soulful, quiet and unpretentious.”
Collected treasures in Robert Kime’s apartment, photographed by Brett Wood for Cabana Issue 12.
Collected treasures in Robert Kime’s apartment, photographed by Brett Wood for Cabana Issue 12.
South Wraxall Manor; Antonio Monfreda and Giorgio Horn for Cabana Issue 8.
South Wraxall Manor; Antonio Monfreda and Giorgio Horn for Cabana Issue 8.
Epilogue—At Home with Legendary Decorator Robert Kime| House & Garden (7 May 2020)
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There are many YouTube videos paying homage to that great English designer Robert Kime, but I am particular to this one that I will transcribe and analyze below because it is only of Robert Kime and it only contains his thoughts, words and ideas about what make good design become transcendent design. Therefore, I will make a transcript below of the one YouTube video that was first introduced me 2 years ago in 2023 to the Man through my wife, Evelyn, who is a very good decorator and has a gift for putting objects together even if she thinks that I do not. (She may be correct in her assumption) but I will forever appreciate those like Evelyn and Robert Kime who undoubtedly possess this gift of putting the Souls of objects together like they have been there forever. . . .
{Video Transcript of Robert Kime Interview}
Robert Kime: I don’t have things because they are valuable or because of what they represent at the time. . . Nothing is very valuable anyway.
Well, my mother was a great collector, and it sort of started like that. I mean, I just [started collecting] coins, and then what happened was that there was a shed in the garden which was full of furniture, and I loved that shed. And I used to go and rearrange it all. Well, I got the feeling that I was in control of something, that I wasn’t being told what to do. There was all this world that I could manipulate to my own advantage and pleasure, and that’s when I started what is called ‘interior decorating’ now.
~ Robert Kime on Decorating ~
“Everything has to be liveable. No matter the style of house. So, in a grand space or a more modest one, one is comfortable and at ease and the rooms just work because they have all the equipment one needs available.”
“I have things around me that I have collected over the years or quite recently – and they say something to me, I suppose. Putting the rooms together and moving things about is done more by intuition than by plan.”
“I like to bring everything in and begin working; the rooms are not based on a system of perfection, but on livability and comfort.”
Robert Kime: I decided that the only way I could be happy was to leave school, and I went on a wonderful dig in Masada. It was a wonderful place in Israel. Well, Masada was advertised in The Observer, and they asked for volunteers, and I thought, well, why not? It was freedom, and there was nobody telling me what to do.
This is a Ming Chinese, it’s a brush holder. You store all your brushes in it. This is in crystal This is my horses’ tail. I did a wonderful trip across Asia on a horse; I adored it.
Oxford was okay, but after my first term, my mother arrived, and said, “You’ve got to leave, because your stepfather has left, and there’s no money.” So, I went to see my tutor (Professor James Campbell), and I told him this, and he said,
“It’s out of the question. You can’t possibly leave. You can leave for two terms, go and sort your mother out, and then you must come back.”
{animated} So, I did that, and I ended up pretty wealthy, actually, because I was allowed to deal, and I had wonderful clients. But in those days, you see, you could get on a bus in Oxford, which is what I used to do, and by the time I got to Burford I could have stopped at four or five different villages, all of which had junk shops and antique shops, all of which I bought things from. In one day, I could do 10 or 12 shops pretty easily.
Interlude I – I Remember my Old Best Friend from back in the day (1983-85) – Henry Ford II (died 1999)
Allow me here to recall a personal story from my life growing up in the early to mid-1980s which reminds me of the biography Kime detailed so exquisitely above. My best friend at the time was a marvelous fellow named Henry Ford II. He was a music teacher in the Detroit Public Schools and he and I would spend all day Saturday from early morning to evening going from record shop to record shop, antique shop to antique shop, and used book shops in Detroit and surrounding suburbs. We would then bring the albums (this was before CDs were invented) and play the most glorious classical music you could imagine on Henry’s Harmon Kardon stereo system.
Yes, Henry was also a great audiophile and had a wonderful stereo system to listen to the great music (from the Renaissance Period (1450-1600), Baroque Period (1600-1750), Classical Era (1750-1820), but most importantly German Romanticism (1820-1900) and into the early 20th century music like – Palestrina, Lully, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Mascagni, Wagner, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Delius (one of Henry’s favorite composers because of his complex and innovative harmonies), Debussy, Ravel, among many others.
We then would go to listen to the Detroit Symphony concerts (1983-85), dozens upon dozens of concerts where we got drunk on Classic music; where since I was a member of the Detroit Civic Orchestra I could get us free tickets. Those times with Henry were some of the fondest memories of my Life. I still remember those transcendent times with tears in my eyes. I so miss my good friend and traveling companion, Henry Ford who passed away prematurely in 1998 or 1999.
Interlude II – The Murder of Iconic Grosse Pointe Designer – Daniel Clancy (1946-2016)
There is a tragic irony to this story that involves Henry Ford, Robert Kime’s profession. Every day, I would walk my daughter Eden home from school and 4 months before we moved from Grosse Pointe to Atlanta we would pass by a magisterial home owned by a famous Grosse Pointe designer named Daniel Clancy {pictured below}.
*N.B.: The home of Daniel Clancy is pictured at 270 Voltaire Place, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., about 3 blocks from my daughter Eden’s Middle School (Kirby Middle School) she was attending at that time. His estate sale was conducted by the famous Detroit antiques dealer, DuMouchelles – Nov. 18-20, 2016.
Tragically on April 27, 2016 Clancy died from the injuries inflicted by a handyman who worked for him. The article sadly states the gruesome details surrounding his untimely demise,
“Clancy, 69, who had been resuscitated nine times since getting stabbed in the neck multiple times, died of a stroke on Tuesday, shocking at least one police official who had expected him to recover.”
Another irony is that literally a few feet from this house (which was on the way to my daughter’s Eden’s Kirby Elementary School was a historical marker noting that this was the street back in the late 1800s where an unknown amateur carmaker named Henry Ford I. He built a car and, in an unlikely effort to gain notoriety to his fledgling car manufacturing shop he wanted to build, challenged a famous professional race car driver. And what do you know? – Henry Ford won the race and eventually got funding from several venture capitalist to start his fledging car factory first in downtown Detroit (at the site where my long-time History teacher, concert pianist, Musicologist, Professor Arthur R. LaBrew (1930-2015) taught piano students.
Also, it was Henry who, after begging him for over a year, finally introduced me to Professor LaBrew, an uber intellectual who would forever change my life for the better over the next 30 years [1985-2015]).
Professor Arthur R. LaBrew (1930-2015) was a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellow. I wrote his application for him which ironically failed to get me selected as a Fellow in 2015 when I wrote my own application. I published my first essay on Professor LaBrew the day he died which I had to ask the Editor to revise this essay to sadly become his Eulogy titled – Ellis Washington, Professor Arthur R. LaBrew and the Myth of the American Dream (17 Feb. 2015).
Henry Ford would later move his enterprise to a suburb of Detroit called Highland, Park, MI before literally taking over a city west of Detroit called Dearborn, MI where his world headquarters still resides.
This day on Oct. 10, 1901, Henry Ford wins his first and only automobile race giving Ford national recognition and venture capital funding to start Ford Motor Co. on 16 June 1903 (Grosse Pointe, Twp., MI). The location of this famous race was literally on the same street as designer Daniel Clancy’s home (pictured above).
{Showing the interviewer a scripture mounted on a gold crest which he bought years ago}
Robert Kime: These I bought from Robin Eden, who was a great dealer in the old days in Corsham, and they are from Longleat, 1580, probably.
{Beneath the scripture-crest to the left} This is a Nottingham alabaster, Medieval, and it’s Christ rising from the tomb with the sleeping soldiers, so they’re all asleep.
After Oxford, I went to work for Miriam Rothschild (1908-2005), and I loved it. She was selling all the furniture from her house, and she’d fallen out with Christie’s and fallen out with Sotheby’s and she got me to do it, and I loved it. I made one condition, which was that I didn’t do the pricing, and it worked fine, and I enjoyed that. Well, the one person in my life who I really admire and was a wonderful man was Geoffrey Bennison (1921-84), and he was a dealer. He used to come to my shop every week and always bought things, and he used to come and he
used to come and sit in one of the rooms of our house, and I’d say, “What are you doing, Georffrey?” He said, “I am just learning.” And he would sit there and absorb all the colors and stuff that were in the room, and he was a very, very clever man and terrifically good dealer. I learned so much in those days.
Egypt, of course, is the great travel spot that I go to all the time. I still go twice a year to Egypt. I Absolutely adore it. It’s really incredible, and I had a house in Faiyum, which is about 80 miles southwest of Cairo. {Apologizing to the interviewer about the clutter in his home} I mean, they tend to be full of junk. Is it a bit of a mess to you? {Picking up an innocuous item off his bookshelf full of very interesting “objects”} I bought this for 38 pounds. It’s a flint dagger; it was found in Avebury.
And these are rather beautiful too. These are the eyes that, the eyes of a pharaoh. I just found it absolutely fascinating, Egypt. I love this, you see, this is a sarcophagus for the cats. This is an onl chair leg, useless thing. I mean, well, he says it’s 2000 B.C. This is quite nice, this is a beard. You know that all… Rather nice, isn’t it? This is rather beautiful. It’s a bezoard, so it would be medieval, and they are very, very rare. And they were incredibly valuable in the Middle Ages. They’re not… I mean I don’t think I paid very much for this, but they are incredibly interesting.
The screen, I like very much. In fact, it cost 8 pounds. And I like this picture, too, which is… Do you see, it’s got half a sun in it. So, the man is a half son, the man is a bastard. He’s bearing the arms of his father who was a peasant, but his mother was grand, but he can’t inherit any title or land, because he’s his wife’s bastard, but if he was the father’s bastard, he would have a bar sinister, and would be fine. So, he’s rather disaffected, and I rather like him, because he’s beautifully painted, but he’s just a bit sad.
Interlude III – I Remember Polymath, Dr. Cloyzelle “Cal” K.D. Jones, University of Michigan Professor of Sociology, Psychology, Law and Medicine
The only person I’ve ever met in my life whose home rivaled the world travels and exquisite, evocative collections of Robert Kime was my Godfather, Dr. Cloyzelle “Cal” Jones (1930-2000). He was one of the first people my mother met when after she graduated from high school in West Helena, Arkansas she and her elder sister (Mattie) caught the Greyhound bus first to Cleveland, Ohio and after a year my aunt moved to Los Angeles, California (about 10 years later their mother moved in a flat with them). And in 1951, my mother went to Detroit where she soon met Cal Jones who was working on completing his doctorate degree in Sociology.
*N.B.: My dearly departed Godfather, Dr. Cloyzelle “Cal” K.D. Jones wrote one of the Forewords to my first book in 1999. He would pass away the next year in Oct. 2000.
This man was truly a polymath who was an expert in several disciplines including—Sociology, Psychology, Law, Art, and Medicine. Dr. Jones taught law and psychology classes at the University of Michigan (Dearborn). One day I took my son, Stone, who was a toddler about 2 years old to meet Dr. Jones who ushered us into his large grand living room in the famous University District, Detroit neighborhood (I believed he lived at the corner of Oak Dr. & Curtis St. on the northwest side of Detroit near the historic University of Detroit neighborhood).
Like designer, Robert Kime, Dr. Jones home was full of the most evocative and amazing objects he had amassed from his travels around the world including many places that Robert Kime had also visited and collected objects from, like Egypt, Africa, Turkey and countries throughout Europe). When Stone would reach out to grab an object I yelled out to Stone to stop, but Dr. Jones (also a PhD. in Psychology and virtually a MD in medicine who was carefully studying Stone, expertly observing his habits, his movements, his predilections, his mannerisms and I’m sure other conscious and unconscious statements and actions that are way above my paygrade. At 2 years old, Dr. Jones predicted that Stone would become a great scholar and intellectual. Dr. Jones was certainly 100% correct about Stone’s mind and his future vocation.
I don’t know how you’d describe romance, actually, but some objects have it. They just have something that is more than themselves. If you’re interested in them, you can communicate it, and they can communicate it too, and it’s just magic, it’s just how life is. My jumble, it’s such a mess everywhere. This is Indian, 18th century. These are all Lear. I think he’s such a genius. These are my pots. I bought those all 20, 40 years ago, that sort of date. These candle sconces are rather beautiful. They’re by Ernest Gimson. I like that … stumpwork. This is Solomon and [the Queen of] Sheba and this is all, you see, it’s in incredible relief. In a funny way, I’d never thought of myself as…I still don’t, actually, as a decorator. I don’t see it as anything different from what I do all the time anyway, so it doesn’t seem to be a job, it’s just something that I can do and have always done.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Robert Kime to me was a force of Nature, a Man of rare character and abilities all combined in Humility. If you were ever blessed enough to ever met him or work with him his transcendent personality would forever change you for the better for Robert loved Humanity and demonstrated that eternal love in the way he so magisterially assemble objects together in ways that no one else has ever done before him and after him. . .
{lower right} The staircase of Kime’s family house (‘La Gonette’) in Provence, France, painstakingly reconstructed by Mary-Lou, with a simple iron hand rail. A Mughal printed panel hangs to the left above a Romanesque capital, while a 17th-century Caucasian dragon rug hangs to the right Tessa Traeger
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References & Notes:
* Paying tribute to the late Robert Kime, listen to Nina Campbell, Annabel Elliot, Liz Elliot, Will Fisher, Robin Birley, Rupert Thomas, and Michael S. Smith reminisce about their fondest moments spent with their great industry hero, mentor, peer, and above all, friend.
2. Robert Kime | The Personal Collection – An Appreciation – Part 2.
1. In this second part of the film Robert Kime | The Personal Collection – An Appreciation, we hear from five of Robert’s closest collaborators and colleagues as each recollects fond times spent with the man himself, and how working with Robert could puzzle, intrigue, and frustrate and delight… but above all, enrich their lives with the forging of an unforgettable and much-valued friendship.
Featuring interviews with Mary-Lou Arscott, architect and collaborator on many of Robert’s projects since the first in 1972; Gela-Nash Taylor, Fashion Designer, former client, and current owner/ custodian of South Wraxall Manor; Orlando Atty, Managing Director of Robert Kime Ltd; Christopher Payne, Head of Antique Sales at Robert Kime Ltd; and Gisella Milne-Watson, Fabric Designer and long-standing collaborator of Robert’s for many years.
Known the world over as a titan of design and the ‘great assembler’ of beautiful things, Robert Kime’s unique eye and aesthetic sensibility led him to become one of the leading design figures of his generation.
The culmination of Robert’s lifetime of collecting will form a three-day auction, charting his passion, curiosity, and delight in beautiful things through the contents of his homes in London and Provence.
Robert’s family hope that this sale will give the opportunity for all collectors, young and old, to enjoy the objects Robert chose to call ‘old friends.’ The auction will take place at Donnington Priory 4-6 October 2023 Follow the link below to keep up to date about the sale, our series of events, and highlights: https://www.dreweatts.com/auctions/ro… With warmest thanks to contributors Mary-Lou Arscott, Gela Nash-Taylor, Orlando Atty, Gisella Milne-Watson, Christopher Payne, and the Kime Family.
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