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Inside the Most Valuable Single-Owner Design Sale in Sotheby’s History
With Lalanne mirrors, Royère sofas and more, the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg reflects four decades of choices made by two people with truly inimitable taste.
Is the demand for Art Deco and later 20th-century design still running high? We’ll know definitively on April 22, when the contents of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg’s Upper East Side apartment—designed by acclaimed decorator jacques grange, renowned for transforming the homes of Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé, François Pinault, Aerin Lauder, Francis Ford Coppola’s Palazzo Margherita and even the Mark Hotel on Madison Avenue— goes on the block at Sotheby's. The most valuable single-owner design sale in the auction house’s history, Design Masters will feature 123 works by such revered talents as Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Alberto Giacometti, Jean-Michel Frank, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Jean Royère.
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Sotheby’s preview of the collection (on through April 21 at the Breuer building on Madison Avenue) tells of the unrivaled stature of the couple’s holdings, which together have a high estimate of $42.5 million. The de Gunzburgs are heads and shoulders above legions of sophisticated collectors, each having carved out a career marked by creative instincts wed to intellectual rigor. Terry worked closely........