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Lot Essay
Anne Bigelow Rosen Stern (1917-2009) was the daughter of the iconic collectors and patrons Walter Rosen and Lucie Bigelow Rosen. The great legacy of her parents is the museum and music festival on their magnificent estate Caramoor in Katonah, New York.
Built at the tail end of the Gilded Age, between 1929 and 1939, the main house at Caramoor was, as a slight concession to the world-wide depression, adapted from the original farm buildings on the estate. However, the final result couldn't be further from the rustic 18th century farmhouses of the area. Caramoor is a spectacular Renaissance Palazzo incorporating period rooms and architectural elements from castles and cathedrals of dozens of Italian buildings -- many supplied by the great Venetian dealer Adolf Loewi -- and furnished with a dazzling display of pictures, sculpture and decorative arts collected by the Rosens. After her mother's death in 1968, Ms. Stern was instrumental in converting their home to a public museum and served as president and board member for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts for twenty years.
Built at the tail end of the Gilded Age, between 1929 and 1939, the main house at Caramoor was, as a slight concession to the world-wide depression, adapted from the original farm buildings on the estate. However, the final result couldn't be further from the rustic 18th century farmhouses of the area. Caramoor is a spectacular Renaissance Palazzo incorporating period rooms and architectural elements from castles and cathedrals of dozens of Italian buildings -- many supplied by the great Venetian dealer Adolf Loewi -- and furnished with a dazzling display of pictures, sculpture and decorative arts collected by the Rosens. After her mother's death in 1968, Ms. Stern was instrumental in converting their home to a public museum and served as president and board member for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts for twenty years.