Christopher Gibbs: His World

Antiques dealer, interior designer, aesthete, socialite and tastemaker extraordinaire, Christopher Gibbs pioneered a style of interior decoration often described as ＂distressed bohemian＂ - a mixture of refinement, exoticism and well-worn grandeur.

This book charts his life story through his own diaries and magazine articles from Chelsea and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s to El Foolk, his house in Tangier in the 2010s.

Lucy Moore is the author of nine books, ’a historian with a novelist’s relish for human foibles’ according to The Sunday Times. She was voted one of the top 20 writers in Britain by the featured in the ’Writers’ section of the New Statesman’s ＂Best of Young British＂ issue in 2001 and Boyd Tonkin hailed her rising star in the Independent in 2008. She has written extensively for TV and radio.