Anthology of Design: Masterworks from a French-American Collection

Daphné Riou is Global Co-Head of Design at Christie’s New York, where she has led the department since 2018. She brings a transatlantic perspective to the field of 20th century design, with particular expertise in French design and Tiffany Studios, and works closely with an international collector base across both auction and private sale channels.

At Christie’s, Daphné has been instrumental in bringing major Tiffany collections to market, including Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private Collection (2022) and The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection (2022). She has overseen landmark results for Tiffany Studios, notably the Pond Lily lamp, which achieved $3.4 million. She has played a key role in a number of important sales dedicated to the sculptures of François Xavier and Claude Lalanne in New York, including Sculpting Paradise: The Collection of Marie Lalanne (2022) and François Xavier Lalanne, Sculpteur | Collection Dorothée Lalanne (2024). Alongside public auctions, she advises collectors on private sales, providing tailored access to exceptional works.

Prior to her current role, Daphné held specialist positions at another international auction house in Paris, London, and New York, where she contributed to the sale of major works and private collections of 20th century design.

Daphné began her career at Christie’s Paris, where she was involved in the landmark 2011 sale of the Château de Gourdon Art Deco collections, which achieved €42 million. She holds a Master’s degree from HEC Paris Business School and studied art history at the École du Louvre, complemented by early professional experience at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Christina Haselerhansen joined the Design department at Christie’s New York as a Cataloguer in 2021. Prior to this, she earned her Master’s degree from Christie’s Education in London, graduating in 2017 from the History of Art and Art-World Practice: Fine and Decorative Art from Renaissance to Modernism program accredited through the University of Glasgow. Since 2019, Christina has established a career within the auction world. During her time at Christie’s, she has contributed to several high profile sales, including Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private Collection (June 2022), Sculpting Paradise: The Collection of Marie Lalanne (December 2022), The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection (October 2022 and June 2023), ADAM: Works from the Collection of Adam Lindemann (March 2023), and, most recently, François-Xavier Lalanne, Sculpteur | Collection Dorothée Lalanne (October 2024).

Throughout her tenure, Christina has developed a specialization in works by Tiffany Studios and Les Lalanne (Claude and Franҫois-Xavier Lalanne), and she continues to refine this expertise in her current role as Head of Sale.

Victoria Tudor began her career with christie’s in 2008 based in New York. As a Specialist with the Decorative Arts department and a contributing member of the Private and Iconic Collections team, Victoria participated in important sales The Private Collection of President & Mrs. Ronald Reagan (2016); the landmark sale of The Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection (2018); and oversale the single owner sale of affable art and antiques dealer Mr. Joel Chen of JF Chen, Los Angeles, Ca. (2018). The opportunity to celebrate the marriage of antique and 20th century design appeared again as Victoria acted as the head of sale for The Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio (2020), the concurrent single owner online sales of renowned French interior designer Henri Samuel interiors; and contributed as head of Design in the Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (2020). In 2021, Victoria joined the Design department as Head of Sale to spearhead the New York calendar of sales for the dedicated department.

In Design, Victoria has lead the team to increased marketshare and exponential growth for the category – through a combination of various owner and single owner sale opportunities. As head of sale for Design and Tiffany sales annually, in addition to key roles in unique opportunities such as Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private Collection (2022), Victoria has also implemented the first mid-season online auction series Modern Collector beginning in Spring 2022. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Victoria received her Bachelor’s from Bowdoin College in Maine with a focus in Latin American Literature, Spanish Language and International Relations. She has her Colored Stones certification from the Gemological Institute of America and is serving as an auctioneer for Christie’s since 2021.

Alex Heminway is a Senior Vice President and International Head of Design at Christie’s, New York. In his current role, Mr. Heminway is responsible for the global management of the department, which focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century decoratitive arts and design. The department holds multiple annual auctions in its various sale sites including New York, London, and Paris. He oversees business strategy with other sale departments, including Post-War and Contemporary Art. In 2019, after nine years at another international auction house, Mr. Heminway returned to Christie’s, where he began his career in 1993. Prior to this most recent auction experience, Mr. Heminway worked at Cove Landing, Manhattan-based dealers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English and Continental furniture, fine art, and sculpture. Prior to that he worked in sales for post-war and contemporary art dealer Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, where he also worked on painter Ed Ruscha’s catalogue raisonné. Mr. Heminway has worked in the auction and gallery business in both fine and decorative arts for more than sixteen years between 1993 and the present