Auction paddles at the ready!
Christie’s will be hosting a series of sales net month highlighting the furniture and
objets d’art
which once decorated Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund s New York apartment on Fifth Avenue. Design lovers are invited to discover the cherished dinner services, storied jewels from the House of Chanel, and fine English furniture through
in-person
January 14–29.
VERANDA.
Gutfreund s impeccable taste and decorative eye
. Alexandre Bailhache
After Louis XIV moved the French royal court to Versailles in 1682, the noblesse of Paris deserted the Marais district and built glorious mansions in the Faubourg Saint-Germain on what was then the western edge of the city. In one of these eighteenth-century architectural gems, the Left Bank landmark Hôtel de Bauffremont, American financier John Gutfreund and his wife, Susan, transformed a wing into the ultimate Parisian pied-à-terre in what is now the Seventh Arrondissement, still the city’s mos