Designer Bios
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905-1976)
b. London, UK
Studied architecture at London University
After spending a period of time designing ocean liners as a naval architect, Robsjohn-Gibbings took a job at motion picture studio working as an art director. In the mid-twenties he was employed as a dealer of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture, maintaining prominent accounts of the likes of Neiman Marcus, Elizabeth Arden.
He opened shop in the mid-thirties on New York’s Madison Avenue. His designs are described as an amalgam of Art Deco and Ancient Grecian design. He was widely thought of as America’s most important decorator in the late thirties and forties, designing homes internationally for names like Doris Duke, Alfred A. Knopf and Thelma Chrysler Foy.
He collaborated on the popular Klismos line after meeting Susan and Eleftherios Saridis in in 1960. He eventually moved to Athens where he worked as a designer for Aristotle Onassis.
