David Hicks Scrapbook

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Description

British designer David Hicks (1929–1998) wowed the English decorating world with his bold geometric prints, electrifying color combinations, and quirky mix of antique and up to date furniture. Thanks to his prodigious talents, his gift for publicity, and his connection to the royal circle of relatives through his wife, Lady Pamela Mountbatten (cousin of Prince Philip), Hicks attracted an A-list clientele. For decades, Hicks documented each and every salient moment of his life in scrapbooks, amassing 24 volumes filled with press clippings, invitations, swatches of his signature textiles, sketches of interiors, magazine articles on his projects, and hundreds of photographs, principally circle of relatives snapshots but also his own photos of people like Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and Andy Warhol. Most of the pages, now thumbed and foxed, are specified by a collage style, and several are embellished with drawings and notes, revealing Hicks’s thoughts and sense of whimsy. Here, his son, Ashley Hicks, has chosen more than 325 of the most productive pages—providing not only a window into the peculiar world of David Hicks but also an enchanting time capsule.
 


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