Interior Designer, Keith Irvine Passed Away at 82

The renowned interior designer, Keith Irvine who introduced volatility and wit in country-house English style and had the admiration from Rex and Lady Harrison, Jacqueline Onassis and Pat and William F. Buckley Jr., passed away at the age of 82 on May 31 in Carmel, N.Y.  As confirmed by Chippy, wife of Keith the reason of death was the cardiac arrest.

Mr. Irvine learned the skill of interior designing from John Fowler of Colefax & Fowler, the company responsible for the popularity of English country-house style post World War II.

In 1957, Irvine moved to United States and opened up his own interior designing company popular for making the conventional English style easy in amalgamation with French. Spontaneity and assortment were two unique qualities reflected in his work and a mix of furniture style and rich fabrics was used to create the ambience of warmth. Chintz, becoming the signature fabric in 1980s of Manhattan elite is also attributable to him.

In 1980, Architectural Digest described the farmhouse restored by Mr. Irvine in Patterson, N.Y. that “Similar to the work of Fowler, in Irvine’s work also is it always easy to discuss the ingredients forming the dish than the dish itself. Unbeatable French and English furniture along with excellently preserved and oiled leathered books, chintzes decorated with flowers, needlework carpets, and portraits of animals, quilts, sprinkle of tartan and touch of Gothic”.

Born on 14 October, 1928 in Aberdeen, Scotland, Keith Briscoe Irvine’s father was a history fan and insurance executive by profession. His father used to visit Scottish castles and houses, including Cawdor, the place which he mentioned to live in under his wish list.  

Keith Irvine: A Life in Decoration, written by Irvine with his wife in 2005 captures Irvine stating” I know precisely the place where every piece of furniture will fit, in my dreams”.

Mr. Irvine attended the boarding school situated in Ascot, when his family resided in Richmond. His roommate was Stephen Long, the antiques items dealer of future, and they together painted the walls with murals of medieval theme.

Post Seaforth Highlanders, Mr. Irvine studied painting aimlessly in Kingston Art School and entered in interior decorating school of Royal College of Art which he never found interesting. As per him” I was at the bottom rank of the class, disliked it every second of time and fought with the modernists.” 

He met Juliet Grime, the student of Fashion in College who became his wife after 13 years. He is survived by his wife, his two daughters and one granddaughter.

Elite personalities were the part of list of clients of Mr. Irvine including the Kennedy family, Jerome Robbins, Cary Grant, Felicia and Leonard Bernstein, Jean and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Diana Ross and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Chief Architect Writes Govt to Follow Haryana

Bipin Sankhe, State Chief Architect has written a letter to Ratnakar Gaikwad, President of Council of Architecture (India) and Chief Secretary that state ought to adopt the strategy of Chandigarh and Haryana for providing work to private architects and to promote the state officials.

According to the norms of Council of Architecture, only the government architectures can design the government buildings. Moreover, if the government takes a decision to outsource work to private architect for an important or special project, then the plans for the same have to be approved by the State Chief Architect. Nonetheless, this rule has been violated manifestly by regional offices of Maharashtra government and it has been awarding work to the private architecture firms without the prior approval of chief architect. As noted by Sankhe “the whole process of awarding the contract does not have any transparency”.

The officials hold view that the government structures are sensitive and structures like jails and residential complexes of high profile people remains to be confidential. As stated by the anonymous government official “ If private architecture firms prepares the design of such sensitive places, then what remains the guarantee of confidentiality of design of such building?. In case of any incident, who should be held responsible? The government employees are determined to maintain the secrecy of designs of such high profile buildings; however the same is not the case with private firms. This matter requires some serious action from the authorities”.

Sankhe has also mentioned in the letter that the priority is accorded to the officials with civil engineering rather than the ones with architectural degree. As per him “Council of Architecture (COA) guidelines have not been implemented by government successfully. We are better than others, in terms of experience and education, however are still not considered for the promotion by the government at the level of secretary. We have been the step-motherly treatment”.

In the meantime, causing further embarrassment for government-selected architectural community, PWD has put forth its decision to amend and modify the circular issued by it earlier pertaining to the private architect’s appointment. As added by Sankhe “This is the violation of norms of COA as the requirement to amend the earlier circular does not arise. It simply does not make any point to delegate the powers of architectural officials to the civic engineers”.

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