Sotheby’s says it will offer items from the homes of fashion designer and voracious art collector Karl Lagerfeld, who died two years ago at the age of 85, at an auction in Monaco in the second half of the year. The choice of Monaco as a venue was to “highlight the designer’s strong connection to the principality and the sovereign family,” Sotheby’s said in a statement.
Lagerfeld owned homes in Monaco as well as in several other places, both in France and abroad. The auction house was chosen by the executor of Lagerfeld’s property to auction his assets. The auction house has not given the exact list about the items to be sold, except to say that they would include furniture, design and art. The valuation takes two months.
“The auction will pay tribute to this unique and exceptionally creative designer, a leading figure in the world of fashion and art,” said Pierre Mothes, Vice President of Sotheby’s France.
Lagerfeld used lavishly to decorate his houses in a theatrical way, and had a special fondness for 18th-century decorative art and four-poster beds. He bought furniture, sculptures and paintings at auctions and galleries in Paris and London.
He sold much of his collection at Christie’s in 2000 and said he was tired of the Ancien Régime style. The sale included paintings, furniture, tapestries, sculpture and porcelain.