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Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on August 2, 2008 at 7:47pm

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On 2 October in Paris at Sotheby's, important pieces of furniture come from a collection. There is a table console Régence attributed to the Boulle's (600 K €), a pair of Louis XVI cabinets stamped by Levasseur (500 K €) and a Louis XVI secretary with Wedgwood plates stamped by Weisweiler (300 K €).

The sale of English furniture by Sotheby's New York on September 26 surprises us by its very open estimates, due perhaps to the fact that this is an estate sale. There are, for example, estimated each between 300 and 800 K$, a Chippendale chair and an American desk bookcase.

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on July 26, 2008 at 9:46pm

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On September 8 in New York, Christie's sells a sofa by Ron Arad ($ 200 K) and a table by Zaha Hadid ($ 150 K).

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on July 20, 2008 at 1:35pm

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Lot 40 of the sale of Nice-Auctions on July 29 is a bonheur-du-jour style Louis XVI signed by Sormani.

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on June 29, 2008 at 5:01pm

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A bureau by Montigny improved with a cartonnier is for sale at Christie's London on July 10 (700 K£).

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on June 14, 2008 at 5:22pm

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On 18 June in London, Christie's sales English pieces of furniture: a Chippendale cabinet (£ 2.5 million, Lot 8), a bookcase by the same (£ 1.5 million, lot 6), a pair of armchairs by Chippendale on a drawing by Robert Adam (£ 1.5 million, lot 4), another by Lawson also on a drawing of Adam (250 K £, lot 9).

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on June 7, 2008 at 6:18pm

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Lot 96 of the sale of Phillips de Pury in New York on June 12 is a wall shelf of Perriand (400 K $). At 300 K$ each, by Newson, here is a desk (Lot 145) and a console (Lot 146), both of 1996.

Several Nakashima furniture are sold at Skinner in Boston on June 28. The catalogue is not yet online.

80 K €, this is the very reasonable price advanced by the Credit Municipal de Paris for a bench by Eileen Gray that had belonged to the artist, Lot 130 of the sale of June 27.

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on May 31, 2008 at 6:46pm

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An elegant bureau de pente marqueted with flowers by Jean-François Hache expects 300 KCHF at Koller in Zurich on June 19 (Lot 1143). You tell me that I could identify such objects in France, but in fact I like press releases of this auction house.

It was awarded the place of honour at the recent Drouot Highlight exhibition. It is an armchair made in 1804 by Jacob-Desmalter for the Throne Room of the Tuileries on a design by Percier and Fontaine. It will be sold by PIASA at Drouot on June 18 (Lot 150, 400 K €). In this sale, the commode attributed to Oppenordt, already announced here, is at number 123.

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on May 24, 2008 at 4:45pm

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In an advertisement in La Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot, I saw a commode by Oeben (200 K €) and another by Riesener (200 K €) to sell at Osenat in Fontainebleau on June 29. The catalogue is not yet online.

New date: an Ours polaire salon by Royère, composed of three pieces, which I announced in my chronicle of January 20, will be sold by Sotheby's Paris on June 3 (300 K €, lot 51). The same day, a catalogue of 22 separate lots can refresh the value of Marc du Plantier (lots 68 to 89).

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on May 18, 2008 at 4:51pm

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A bureau Louis XVI stamped by Riesener is awaited at 1 M£ in London at Sotheby's on July 8.

Art Déco comes back with a bibliothèque of Printz and Dunand, at Christie's Parison May 27 (600 K€, lot 330).

Comment by Pierre Tavlitzki on May 11, 2008 at 4:08pm

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Here is still a flat bureau by Dubois. This one, which belonged to the Rothschilds, is presented by Christie's in New York on May 20 (700 K$). At this price, it should be sold without problem.

In the design sale by Phillips de Pury on June 12 in New York will come an important group of lacquered black and white pieces of furniture by Newson, among them a desk (300 K$) and a console (300 K$), as well as pieces of furniture by Arad including some around 200 K$, and a wall-mounted bookshelves by Perriand (400 K$).

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