Event Date15 April 10:30 AM BST | Live auction 20025

The Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II: Eaton Square and Turville Grange

London

Sale Overview

The Collections of Mrs. Henry Ford II, from her residence on Eaton Square, London, and English country home at Turville Grange, Buckinghamshire, are to be offered in London this April, following on from part I of the collection from Mrs Ford’s mansion at Palm Beach, Florida, to be offered at Christie’s New York on 30 March. With estimates ranging from £500 to £300,000, the sale is led by an important Impressionist work by Edouard Vuillard, acquired by Henry Ford II in the 1950s & 1960s, which are complemented by modern British pictures, English, European and American furniture, silver, porcelain services, carpets, lighting and decorative furnishings.

The sale also includes more personal items such as engraved silver from Henry Ford II’s yacht Santa Maria and Henry Ford II’s desk from his study at Turville Grange, as well as a small group of Kathleen Ford’s handbags by makers such as Chanel and Hermès, offering a glimpse of the private world and personal taste of members of one of America’s most celebrated dynasties. The eponymous English decorators Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler were instrumental in the creation of the interiors at both Kathleen Ford’s London home on Eaton Square and her Buckinghamshire country home, Turville Grange. Previous owners of Turville Grange included Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier).

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9:00am – 5:00pm, Monday – Wednesday

Auction times

15 Apr 10:30 AM (BST) Lots 1-328

The Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II

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Adrian Hume-Sayer

Director, Specialist | Private & Iconic Collections

A Director of the Private Collections and Country House Sales department, Adrian specialises in furniture and works of art. Since joining the department in 2010 Adrian has been responsible for a number of notable collection sales including: Harewood, Collecting in the Royal Tradition, The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, and Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry as well as orchestrating the sales of the personal collections of Margaret Thatcher and Audrey Hepburn. Training as an auctioneer at the age of twenty-one, Adrian initially worked at Tennant’s Auctioneers in his native North Yorkshire before moving to Bonham’s in 2003 and joining Christie’s in 2009. With a particularly strong interest in all types of English furniture and works of art, Adrian sits on the Council of the Furniture History Society as well as on the Selection Committee for the Attingham Summer School. Adrian also has a strong interest in Architectural history.