What Kenzo Left Behind
An auction of the estate of Kenzo Takada, who died last year, was a lot more popular than anyone expected.
The fashion designer Kenzo Takada, who succumbed to the coronavirus, in the garden of his loft in Paris in 2009.Credit.Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
By Tina Isaac-Goizé
May 13, 2021, 7:51 a.m. ET
This week, the vestiges of a colorful life went under the hammer in Paris. Just over six months after his death at the age of 81, the designer Kenzo Takada’s estate was auctioned, and it turned out the fashion pioneer the first Japanese designer to achieve success in the French capital was still a major draw.
Historic letter signed by Nelson Mandela and other Rivonia trialists on auction by UK education trust The historic letter is on auction for R34,000. Image: Canon Collins Trust
A letter signed by the late former statesman Nelson Mandela and 23 other Rivonia trialists appealing for funds to cover legal costs for their treason trial is on auction by a UK-based education trust to support young South Africans to develop solutions to the climate change crisis.
The Canon Collins Trust is hosting the online auction which also includes sports memorabilia signed by Springbok greats, cricketer Gary Kirsten, Manchester United s David de Gea, Protea cricket players and tennis player Alexander Zverev.
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A block of good Wexford land is for sale and going for auction this month.
The 24ac is at Deerpark, Foulksmills, and it’s being sold by Sherry Fitzgerald Radford.
The guide price is €240,000 - equivalent to €10,000/ac.
The location is midway between Wexford town and New Ross, not far from Taghmon.
There is very good, free-draining land in this area and, according to auctioneer John Radford, the land for sale is right up there with the best of it.
Good land all the way to the ditch
“It’s good land all the way to the ditch,” he said. “The area is known to be good tillage land.”