ENSEMBLE EN ARGENT ET METAL ARGENTE

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  • Exquisite craftsmanship and ‘perfectly beautiful objects’

    Highlights from a New York auction of exceptional pieces by the top Parisian ateliers of the 19th century

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  • A love affair with France: The Collection of Elizabeth Stafford

    Alexandra Stafford, the collector’s daughter, recalls her mother’s taste, connoisseurship, and sumptuous apartments

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  • Collecting guide: 18th-century French cabinet-makers

    Specialist Will Strafford looks at some of the key names of the period, from Boulle to Riesener, Carlin, Cressent and Vandercruse

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  • The A-Z of furniture: Terminology to know when buying at auction

    From applique and back splats to veneering and wingbacks, an essential glossary of furniture terms

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  • ‘Truth comes when one is totally involved in the act of painting’ — Red Square (1959) by Helen Frankenthaler

    Offered to benefit a new scholarship initiative from Bennington College, this work distils the unique form of abstraction for which the artist would become famous

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  • The women who loved — and were loved — by Picasso

    Ahead of the sale of portraits of four different muses, we focus on the women the artist came to depend on so passionately