Christian House is dazzled by an array of busts, statues, sculptures and architectural fragments in the museum-like London home of Peter Hone. His collection is offered as part of the Interiors sale on 26 October at Christie’s South Kensington
Peter Hone’s peripatetic career has afforded him many guises: chef, barman, museum guard, antiques dealer and celebrated plaster caster. Meanwhile, he has enjoyed a parallel life as a connoisseur collector, primarily of sculpture and antiquities but also of curios and idiosyncratic artworks — anything with an unusual story attached.
On 26 October, to mark his turning 75, Hone is selling his collection at Christie’s South Kensington, an event that he says is of a piece with his lifelong search for a grand narrative.