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Christopher Gibbs (Christopher Henry Gibbs) was born on 29 July, 1938, is a British antiques dealer and collector (1938–2018). Discover Christopher Gibbs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Christopher Henry Gibbs
Occupation Antiques dealer and collector
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July, 1938
Birthday 29 July
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Date of death 28 July, 2018
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Parents Hon. Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs KCMG and Helen Margaret Leslie CBE
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1938

Christopher Henry Gibbs (29 July 1938 – 28 July 2018) was a British antiques dealer and collector who was also an influential figure in men's fashion and interior design in 1960s London.

He has been credited with inventing Swinging London, and has been called the "King of Chelsea" and "London's most famous antiques dealer".

The New York Times described him as a "man of infinite taste, judgment and experience, the one who introduced a whole generation to the distressed bohemian style of interior design."

Gibbs was the fifth son of Hon. Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs KCMG and his wife Helen Margaret Leslie CBE, and the grandson of Herbert Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon.

His elder brother is the financier Sir Roger Gibbs.

He was educated at Eton College, from which he was expelled "for being generally totally impossible", Stanbridge Earls School in Hampshire and the University of Poitiers.

1958

At the same time, Gibbs was running his own antiques business, which he had started in 1958, making regular trips to Morocco to acquire stock.

He brought back Moroccan brass lamps, carpets, soft furnishings and other things that came to characterise the "hippie look".

Gibbs was a friend of the Rolling Stones and his upper-class background was of interest to Mick Jagger, whose origins were more modest.

It was at one of Gibbs' Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, dinner parties that Jagger whispered to the fashion designer Michael Fish, "I'm here to learn how to be a gentleman".

1960

A style leader in 1960s London, Gibbs is credited with fellow Old Etonian Robert Fraser with inventing "Swinging London".

1961

He has been said to be the first man to wear flared trousers in 1961, and was ordering flower print shirts by 1964.

1965

He was an editor of the shopping guide in the quarterly Men in Vogue, the first male edition of the magazine produced between 1965 and 1970, which was closely associated with the peacock revolution in English men's fashion in the 1960s.

His style has been described as a kind of "louche dandyism", while others have described him as a latter-day Beau Brummell.

1967

In 1967, Gibbs was at Keith Richards's country house, Redlands, in West Wittering, when Richards, Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were all arrested (and Jagger subsequently imprisoned) for possession of illegal drugs.

1968

And in 1968, Gibbs introduced Prince Rupert Loewenstein, then working in London as a merchant banker, to Jagger.

1970

Gibbs was the set designer on the 1970 film Performance, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg and starring James Fox and Mick Jagger.

He is godfather to one of Jagger's children.

1972

In 1972, Gibbs bought Davington Priory, a former Benedictine nunnery in Davington, Kent, built in 1153.

It was there that David Litvinoff lived from 1972 until 1975 when he committed suicide through an overdose of pills.

1982

Gibbs sold Davington Priory in 1982.

It is now owned by Bob Geldof.

2000

In 2000, Gibbs reluctantly sold Clifton Hampden Manor in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, a house that had been built for his family in the 1840s.

Christie's auctioned off the contents over two days.

2003

After Getty's death in 2003, Gibbs became chairman of the J. Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust, set up to manage Getty's estate.

He was also a trustee of the American Friends of the National Gallery.

2006

In 2006, a painting Gibbs had bought in 1974 for £2,800 was put up for sale by Sotheby's with an estimate of £2–3 million.

It had taken experts, led by Gibbs' friend Sir Roy Strong, 30 years to complete the authentication of the work as "a long lost masterpiece" by Hans Holbein of Thomas Wyatt the Younger.

The painting failed to sell after it was leaked that Tate Britain doubted its authenticity.

In 2006, he moved to Tangier, where he had bought a large property on the Old Mountain that had previously been owned by James and Marguerite McBey.

According to a friend, "He has a house on 14 acres in Tangier next door to the king" and "Christopher has built four other houses there but says he doesn't rent them out as he likes to live in them all, moving from one to the other as the mood takes him."

2007

Loewenstein went on to become the Stones' business manager until 2007.

In 2007 it appeared for sale at $10 million on a dealer's stand at the Maastricht Art Fair after the attribution to Holbein was accepted by the TEFAF vetting committee.

Gibbs played a key role in persuading his friend John Paul Getty, Jr. to donate £40 million to the British National Gallery.

2017

The sale showed his eclectic tastes: lots included a dining table supposedly made from one of the first pieces of mahogany brought to England from the New World in the 17th century, and a portrait of Cornish eccentric John Nichols Thom.

2018

Gibbs died at his home in Tangier, Morocco, on 28 July 2018, one day before his 80th birthday.

He was buried on 1 August at the cemetery of the Church of Saint Andrew, Tangier.

When not in Morrocco, Gibbs was a longtime resident of the Albany in London.

His "life and business partner" was Peter Hinwood, the actor turned antique dealer and designer.