About the book: 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.

About the author: Lucy Moore was born in London and educated in England and the US before reading History and History of Art at Edinburgh University. She was voted one of the ‘top twenty young writers in Britain’ by the Independent on Sunday in 2001 and featured in the ‘Writers’ section of the New Statesman’s “Best of Young British” issue the same year; Boyd Tonkin hailed her rising star in the Independent in 2008.