272 pages featuring 143 lots, lavishly illustrated in colour
A brilliant design, decorative and fine arts sale catalogue, a truly exceptional single owner estates sale, with a wonderful eclectic mix of very high quality items from the most sumptuous and refined Art Deco furniture and lighting to Ming dynasty sculptures to ethnic antiquities to Victorian and other textiles to surrealist, impressionist and modern conceptual art.
The lots adorned Robin Roberts' East-side New York apartment and modernist home Twin Ponds in Bedford Hills, NY state. The late interior designer founded the legendary Manhattan fabrics and wallpaper firm Clarence House in 1961, and had the sumptuous glass and concrete house designed and built by architect Milton Klein twenty years later.
Designers and manufacturers with lots featured in the sale include:
Asprey
Peter Blake
Cartier
Pierre Chareau
Jean Cocteau
Jean Crotti
Josef Csaky
Daum
Donald Deskey
Jean Dunand
Paul Follot
Alberto Giacometti
Legras
Maison Desny
Roberto Matta
Orfeverie Christofle
Pablo Picasso
Jean Puiforcat
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Pavel Tchelitchew
Jay Spectre
Ossip Zadkine to name a small selection of named lots. Many more are fascinating rarities where the designers are unknown.
Excellent used condition with only very minor signs of handling. Inside it's perfectly clean and bright with no inscriptions. There is a print-out detailing the prices realised on the day of the sale loosely inserted. Scarce.
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