Saint Laurent, Loulou de la Falaise, Betty Catroux Great creatives, who are so unique, tend to feel the need to create a close-knit circle around them. This is true of Yves Saint Laurent, whose two best friends became legendary muses: Loulou de...
La Maison de verre: the myth of one of the great landmarks of 20th-century architecture at auction
https://youtu.be/AT9mQcrSZRE A landmark of 20th-century architecture The Maison de Verre is nothing less than one of the great landmarks of 20th-century architecture. Located in Saint Germain des Près in the courtyard of an 18th-century...
Les Lalanne in Versailles and Williamstown. The prodigious rise of their ostriches, cabbages and sheep at auction
Stephan Zweig “It was a doll’s house, this Little Trianon (…) This ‘Anglo-Chinese garden’ was to represent, not merely nature, but the whole of nature. In the microcosm of a few square kilometers, there was to be a quasi-microscopic...
Lalanne madness: sheep, cabbages with legs and other ostriches sell for millions of euros once to Yves Saint Laurent and today to Roman Abramovich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIJbqjc3GxM 91,3 million euros It’s one of the most breathtaking results of 2019: 4100 bidders from 43 countries. 100% of the 244 lots were sold for a total of 91.3 million euros. Global wave A success that took the form...
KAWS mania: the designer selling for 14.8 million dollars is supported by the Arte Povera theoretician Germano Celant
Emmanuel Perrotin “The first time someone stole a piece of art from me it was a work by Kaws, two small paintings from my gallery in Miami ten years ago,” says Emmanuel Perrotin, the French gallerist with branches in Paris, New York and Asia. “I like...
Jacques Grange: The interior design star talks Diego Giacometti, Yves Saint Laurent and his collection being auctioned at Sotheby’s in Paris
Jacques Grange is the french superstar of interior design. He has worked for the joint heir to the cosmetics empire and prolific art collector Ronald Lauder, the businessman Leon Black who is just as famous in New York for his elitist taste in art (he is the owner of...
The Diego Giacometti bronzes owned by Hubert de Givenchy’s: when the metal turns into gold
Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), the brother and close collaborator of the illustrious sculptor Alberto Giacometti, has a seat in the pantheon of 20th century decorative arts. Hubert de Givenchy (born 1926), whose creations were made famous by the actor Audrey Hepburn...
Chart Art Fair: Copenhagen is the place to be in late August
When you travel around the world attending contemporary art fairs as I often do, you come to the realisation that these commercial events multiplying across the world are not unlike hotels. If luxury travellers are drawn to those grand, imposing palaces fitted out to...