Modern Collector: Design and Tiffany Studios Totals $2M
New York – Christie’s Modern Collector: Design and Tiffany Studios online sale totaled $2,000,628. The inaugural series of online sales was 93% sold by lot and 177% hammer above low estimate, and achieved the highest total of any online Design sale at Christie’s. The sale attracted global participation with bidders from 21 countries.
The sale achieved strong results for Tiffany Studios, including the top lot of the sale, the ‘Laburnum’ Table Lamp, circa 1918, which achieved $214,200, and ‘Daffodil’ Table Lamp, circa 1903, which sold for $81,900.
Additional exceptional prices were achieved for Claude Lalanne’s ‘Dahlia’ necklace, which realized $113,400, over 18 times its high estimate and set a new record for a necklace by the artist, and a Galle Monumental ‘Glycines’ Vase, circa 1920, which sold for $47,880, more than five times its high estimate.
Headlining the sale were two private collections, including Property from the Former Collection of Marcello Mastroianni, which was 100% sold by lot and 378% sold against low estimate, and Property from the Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua, which was 100% sold by lot and 224% sold against low estimate.
Victoria Tudor, Head of Sale, Design, Christie’s, commented: “The market is clearly robust with these results, with competitive bidding for private collections including prolonged duals for lots such as the Claude Lalanne 'Dahlia' necklace and the Olaf Hult fire screen.”
