From the Austin Metro to royal bracelets: how Prince Philip championed elegant design
The Duke of Edinburgh leaves behind a legacy via his designers prize – as well as more personal indications of his artistic passion
14 April 2021 • 5:00am
This bracelet, made by Boucheron to Prince Philip s design, was a gift for the Queen on their fifth wedding anniversary in 1952
Credit: The Royal Collection / PA
The Duke of Edinburgh, so often caricatured as abrupt and no-nonsense, isn’t your first thought when you consider the supposed whims and fancies of creativity. Yet he had a passion for art and design, both as patron and creator. Indeed, if many obituaries are calling the Duke a renaissance man for his wide portfolio of interests, it’s worth noting he could also be a classicist, a modernist, even - whisper it softly - a romantic.
it s not make her pretty. make her not pretty. paul emslie. is he getting a lot of bad publicity on this. all of this deserved. this is an offense not just kate middleton but aesthetics i saw it. the minute i saw it? less interest than the mona lisa. it is interesting in that her expression is one that i have never seen her make in real life. you have noticed the similarity between him and the portrait of her? it was clearly a self-portrait. you don t need to be freud to get. this this guy is all about him. there is this thing called the british art journal and the head of it is a woman named robin simon. her job is to judge art through the england and she said sadly this is one rotten portrait. this guy is just getting ripped. it s funny, because i think is he going for a mona lisa