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Edmund de Waal: Objects of Desire

There’s a house on the Rue de Monceau in Paris that’s home to a museum of lavish art and objects, all collected in the name of young Count Nissim de Camondo. This belle epoque treasure is a few doors down from the home of Edmund de Waal’s ancestors, whose collection of carved ivory figures he wrote about in his memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. During lockdown, De Waal – a ceramicist first and foremost – has been planning an exhibition in the Camondo museum. In thinking about the collection and the…