Sotheby’s Design Auction: My Wishlist
- Studio Augustine
- Apr 22
- 2 min read
Inside the Jean & Terry de Gunzburg Collection — and the landmark Sotheby's auction that brings four decades of visionary luxury interior design to light.
Today at Sotheby’s a very rare collection that has been carefully crafted, assembled and lived opens to bid. The Jean & Terry de Gunzburg Collection: Design Masters, an event unlike any other on the calendar this season. The de Gunzburg collection is a body of work curated over four decades not from auction catalogues or dealer lists alone, but through what Jean and Terry de Gunzburg describe simply as instinct. "Objects were not merely acquired," the couple have said, "but discovered."
The collection took shape largely within their New York home and captures something essential about sensibility. Designed by Jacques Grange, each room was dynamic between artists and designers whose works introduced new visual languages of line, colour, texture, and objet.
What I really admire the collection is how it traces the arc from the refinement of Art Deco to the expressive freedom of postwar modernism. Spending alot of time in Paris, it is a delight to see French masters like Jean Royère whose furniture is poetic of the postwar period , love seeing it at WoW House, Jean-Michel Frank, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, and Pierre Chareau, who was a member of Société des Artistes Décorateurs. I admire his work and how it blurs the boundaries.
Although the work is not simply French, all pieces sit beautifully with one another. Here are some of are my top 5 favorite pieces from the sale.
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