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Christie s Sells 100 Pieces from Karl Lagerfeld s Chanel Collection December 23, 20 by John Jeffay (IDEX Online) - Christie s is to auction 106 pieces of runway jewelry designed by the late Karl Lagerfeld during his 36-year tenure as the brand s creative director. The statement brooches, necklaces, earrings a nd other items, many of them oversize, are made of rhinestone, faux pearl, gripoix glass and other non-precious materials. High estimates are up to $6,000 for the most valuable pieces. They are from a collection that belonged to Susan Gutfreund, a close friend of the iconic German fashion designer. She was wife of the late John Gutfreund, so-called King of Wall Street and chairman and chief executive of Salomon Brothers until a Treasury Bonds scandal in 1991 forced his resignation. ....
Karl Lagerfeld s rare Chanel jewellery reveals the gloriously extravagant life of a 1980s socialite Over 100 Chanel jewels gifted to Susan Gutfreund, dubbed the ‘King of Wall Street s Marie Antoinette’, are up for auction at Christie’s 23 December 2020 • 11:03am Claudia Schiffer, Karl Lagerfeld, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista at the Chanel Haute Couture autumn/winter 1992-1993 show Credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images ‘Susan Gutfreund behaved as if she was born to conquer, and pursued her fantasy of life at the top over the top - with total abandon,’ wrote American journalist Maureen Orth in a 1991 Vanity Fair article titled ‘Educating Susan’. ....
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 Arron ....
Auction paddles at the ready! Christie’s will be hosting a series of sales next month highlighting the furniture and objets d’art that 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, 2021. into her New York apartment for an intimate dinner party filled with vintage English plates, early-20th-century engraved stemware, and French Champagne flutes, all of which are up for auction by Christie s. Read on to learn Susan s lessons on gracious entertaining. ....