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Nov 15, 2010 · Inside Quentin Crisp’s apartment. Photo of Quentin Crisp by Martin Fishman. Wise. witty and wonderful, England’s “stately homo,” Quentin Crisp was a familiar—and always delightful—figure seen frequently around New York’s East Village during the latter part of the author’s life (1981-1999).
Sep 1, 2022 · The late dandy Quentin Crisp dropped by antique dealer Lithgow Osborne’s apartment back in 1994.
Nov 12, 2010 · At this year's Mix Festival, Quentin Crisp's East Village apartment has been recreated, brought back to life by Crisp's great-nephew Adrian Goycoolea and Crisperanto curator Phillip Ward. The installation, entitled "Personal Effects," is open until November 14 .
Nov 27, 2017 · Of all the homes in New York City, perhaps there's only one inspired by the late Quentin Crisp. That home belongs to bicoastal interior designer Tim Campbell, who had the great raconteur in...
In 1940, he moved into a first-floor flat at 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, a bed-sitting room that he occupied until he emigrated to the United States in 1981. In the intervening years, he never attempted any housework, writing famously in his memoir The Naked Civil Servant: "After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse." [9]
Jun 12, 1997 · Alex Witchel interviews 88-year-old British writer and part-time actor Quentin Crisp, who has lived his whole life as an uncloseted homosexual; Crisp, who lives in filthy room in Manhattan's...
Dec 3, 1999 · One of its central tenets enshrined domestic slovenliness: Crisp maintained that after four years without being cleaned, a room could get no dirtier, and he prided himself on the absolute squalor...
