Dreweatts is auctioning the personal collection of Robert Kime, King Charles’ favorite interior designer, who scoured the world for interesting objects and treasured them for a lifetime.
Collectors from around the world are polishing their pallets for what is set to be the art, antiques — and curiosities — auction of the year when Robert Kime’s eclectic, millennia-spanning collection goes under the hammer at Dreweatts starting Wednesday.
Kime, whose other clients included Daphne Guinness and the late Duke of Beaufort, honed his aesthetic over a lifetime, exploring the world with the eyes of an historian and archaeologist, and the heart of an artist. He began collecting objects at the age of five, and was selling antiques to professors while studying medieval history as an Oxford undergraduate.
Joe Robinson, head of house sales and private collections at Dreweatts, spent months working from Kime’s homes, examining and cataloguing items. He described the sale as “a distillment” of Kime’s life passions. They were objects he could not live without, and they’d move with him to various homes over the years.
Robinson added that Kime’s interiors were never fixed, and he would arrange and rearrange objects to be “in conversation” with one other. He’d cluster various works by members of the Bloomsbury Group, or gather objects together by theme or time period, regardless of their value, or rarity.
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