The 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe including carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art sale realized $7,328,713/£4,441,644/ €4,918,599 and was sold 75% by lot and 82% by value. Stefan Kist, Christie’s New York, Director of European Decorative Arts said: “Today’s inaugural sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, which combined European and English furniture, ceramics,

Nearly 750 lots – most of them quality, fresh to the market items from prominent local estates – will be sold at a Fine & Decorative Arts Cataloged Auction scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m., by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The auction will be conducted in the firm’s new state-of-the-art

A PAIR OF CARVED BEECHWOOD ARMCHAIRS BY LUCIEN LEVY-DHURMER AND EDOUARD COLLET, CIRCA 1910-1912. 'GIRAFE, LE COU TENDU', A PATINATED BRONZE SCULPTURE BY REMBRANDT BUGATTI, CIRCA 1907 AN ASH VENEERED AND ALUMINUM BOOKCASE BY CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, CIRCA 1960. UNIQUE PIECE. Sotheby's 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design Auction

A recent auction of European decorative arts held in New York saw buyers put in high bids for a number of gold pieces. The sale - which was held by Christie's yesterday (November 24th) at the Rockefeller Plaza - brought a $37,500 (£22,470) final bid for a pair of gold vases crafted in Paris in 1820. The news feeds on this site are independently provided ...

It's been a while since i shared some photos of projects from this semester's graduate seminar in costume crafts topics. For the unit on jewelry, we discuss specifically how to deal with jewelry effects for the stage--stage jewelry often has very particular requirements (such as quick-release clasps, fabric support structures underneath, and so forth) and can require a craftsperson to ...

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Christie’s announced the sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe on November 24, which will include over 450 treasures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. With a range of estimates, the sale offers superb private and institutional collections such as carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art and one-of-a-kind examples of European and English

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