“You often hear of people who are said to have ‘a good eye’, but Robert Kime’s must surely be one of the best,” said His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
In the foreword of the 2015 book about the interior designer, Prince Charles noted “Robert’s exceptional gifts as a maker of places and spaces, of rooms, corners and corridors that are, in turn, welcoming, interesting and, above all, comforting.
“How he achieves this is a process of genius, for it is all in the minute attention to detail and the subtle choice of colour and marvellously original materials. You invariably wonder how on earth he found such extraordinarily irresistible objects, pieces of furniture, fabrics and carpets.”
It was Kime who the Prince entrusted to transform Clarence House, the former…
