Designer Ashley Hicks puts his own provocative stamp on the high-style London apartment that was his famous father’s pride and joy
Being the child of one of the decorating world’s undisputed gods surely makes it a challenge to carve out one’s own creative niche. Just imagine the shadow cast as well as the whispered comparisons. But Ashley Hicks, only son of David the great and powerful—a jet-setting style dictator who shook up the 1960s with his electrifying geometric patterns, impudent colour combinations, and spectacular dandyism—has done just that. In some ways, though, the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. The younger Hicks even inhabits his father’s two-room apartment in Albany, the red-brick residential complex that has been London’s most coveted address since 1802, when Henry Holland, the Prince Regent’s favourite architect, retrofitted and expanded the Duke of Albany’s neoclassical mansion into lodgings for upper-crust bachelors.
SETTING THE SCENE
“My parents moved there in 1979, but we kids were at boarding school or at home in Oxford shire,” Ashley says. The so-called “set” (Albany parlance from Georgian times, back when “apartment” meant a single room and a set of apartments designated a suite for living) had been decorated, twice, in the uncompromising taste of his father, who died in 1998. Ashley took up residence three years ago, after his mother, Lady Pamela, a cousin of Prince Philip’s, decided that she could no longer manage the steep stone stairway that leads to the front door. The set’s furnishings—including the Empire-style chairs that Maison Jansen made for Lady Pamela’s glamorously racy mother, Countess Mount batten of Burma—were given to Ashley’s sisters, leaving a tabula rasa ripe for improvement. Little more than the living room’s Van Dyke-brown walls remained.
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE
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