Chateau Gourdon Christies (Book)

Here we have two items relating to the late Sir Cecil Beaton, a multi talented man who was a celebrated photographer, author, diarist and set designer, to name but a few of his accomplishments. Firstly there is a Christie's sale catalogue which was produced in 1980 for the disposal of the contents of Reddish House in Wiltshire, held over two days with 725 lots which included works of art, furniture, silver, pictures, porcelain and garden effects. The catalogue has 142 illustrations including 14 in colour, the catalogue must have belonged to someone who attended the second day of the sale as there is a price noted in hand against all lots that day. The second book is a Bigraphy of Cecil Beaton by Hugo...

A sale catalogue produced in 1998 for the sale of various items of James Bond 007 props, ephemera and memorabilia, 272 lots all described and illustrated. Ranging from a shell of the...

This is a four volume boxed set of the sales catalogues produced by Sotheby's for the contents of this famed collection. The sale took place over 4 days in June 1999 and realized a total of $26.5 million. Many of the contents on the day of the sale had come from another famous home of this renowned collector Carlos de Beistegui...

This book is a monograph on the work of this very individual and very stylized goldsmith/silversmith whose main body of work (so far), has spanned the last third of the 20th century and just into the 21st century. He uses precious metals, mainly silver and gold but he also uses vermeil, which is the gilding of sterling silver with gold by electrolysis, together with precious and semi precious stones, his favorites seem to be lapis lazuli, ivory and rock crystal. His creations are mainly jewellery, Precious objects (Objets de Vertu...

A Monograph on this most important Brazilian furniture designer and maker from the mid-20th century. He opened his factory in 1943 and one of his main clients was the architect Oscar Niemeyer, for whose designs a number of original pieces were commissioned. He was well-known for making use of indigenous...

Introduction by Major-General Sir Randle Feilden, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E. (Senior Steward of the Jockey Club) A pictorial dictionary of racing colours; as much a work of graphic art as a reference book. Each page contains a grid of 30 line drawings of a jockey shirt and cap with the colours and names of the owners. The whole makes a stunning graphic design book. Here is the perfect book of reference for all those racing people interested not only in contemporary racing colours but also in their history. In these 364 pages of superb colour are depicted nearly 10,000 registered owners' racing colours, each one carefully drawn by hand and beautifully reproduced. As a work of art and as a reference book, The Benson and Hedges...

This family crest is from a chateau in France and is made from oakwood and gilt poly-chrome, circa 18th century.

Christie's: New York, European Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art and Tapestries Including Property from Turbuence Antiques, March 2007. 456 lots in color on 365 pages, with results. The owner Moe (Maurice Margules) is a well known and colorful NY dealer...

Christies New York: Roger Prigent's Malmaison, November 2002. After the diagnosis of macular degeneration, Mr. Prigent reinvented himself as a dealer in ...

Christies 2004 Chirk Castle Wales. 1st Ed auction catalog. 656 lots on 296pp. color photos and fully described, with results. The construction of Chirk Castle began around 1295 durin...

Christies, April 2002 French furniture and decorative arts, A & C fink collections, Sydney. 172 lots all in color, on 139 pages. With results. NPT Books a division of N.P. Trent Anti...

Christies 2000 The di Portanova Collection. Softcover copy. Fabergé, Russian Works of Art and Objects of Vertu from The di Portanova Collection. 100 p...