T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Author
1905 – 1976
Who was T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings?
Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings was a British-born architect and furniture designer.
Robsjohn-Gibbings studied architecture at London University. He afterwards worked briefly as a naval architect, designing ocean liner interiors, and then as art director for a motion picture studio. In 1926, he became a salesman for an antiques dealer who specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture, and Robsjohn-Gibbings was assigned prominent accounts such as Elizabeth Arden and Neiman Marcus.
In the late 1930s and 1940s he was the most important decorator in America. After opening a shop on New York's Madison Avenue in 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings proceeded to design houses from coast to coast for such scions as tobacco heiress Doris Duke, Alfred A. Knopf, and Thelma Chrysler Foy.
The design work of T. H. Robsjohn Gibbings is hallmarked as a modern mixture of the classical elements of Ancient Grecian design, and Art Deco design. It features mosaic floor reproductions, sculptural fragments, and sparse furnishings, all combining to achieve his trademark brand of modern historicism.
He disliked the prevailing tastes of the day, describing them as "an indigestible mixture of Queen Anne, Georgian and Spanish styles." He likewise considered Bauhaus-style modernism a fraud; he expressed his views in his writings such as Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale, a spoof of modern interior design, Mona Lisa's Mustache: A dissection of Modern Art, and Homes of the Brave.
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- Born
- 1905
- Also known as
- Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- University of Liverpool
- Died
- 1976
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on July 23, 2013
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