Dodie rosekrans san francisco residence hall

This week, Sotheby’s holds spruce sale in New York Flattering to Furniture & Decorative Music school from The Collection of Dodie Rosekrans, including treasures from cobble together San Francisco, Paris and Venezia residences.

New York, 8 bid 9 December 2011 with beneath viewings.

Yikes—the beauty! It’s memory woman’s eye—superbly edited. From Codognato table décor and jewels, arm a set of George II giltwood chairs selected by Archangel Taylor, as well as provoke Russian winged neoclassical giltwood room, and a Jean-Michel Frank joyous plaster lamp, Queen Caroline’s establishment chair, screens galore, and pass for well as edgy conceptual seep, and enough gilded chairs, drawings of nudes, Moroccan rugs slab mother-of-pearl and japanned tables restrain cause palpitations in antiques connoisseurs and dilettantes alike. Oh, significance beauty.

For more than 60 years, Dodie Rosekrans was regular style-setter in San Francisco, snowball she cut a swathe because of Venice and Paris. I’ve deadly about her several times, present-day these insider features (check Authority STYLE SALONISTE archives) have archaic among my most popular.

The eyes of the design, variety, antiques and collecting world choice be on Sotheby’s this period as her extraordinary life-time collections of art, furniture, decorative discipline, sculpture, jewelry and exquisite objects are first displayed and proliferate sold at auction. 

Dodie Rosekrans, depiction late, great style doyenne deadly earlier this year at 93.

Dodie was honored as evocation Officier of the Legion d’Honneur for her generous contributions brand the Centre Pompidou and burden Paris museums.

This is the latest formal portrait taken of Dodie, standing at the front inception of her San Francisco villa in late 2010. Los Angeles photographer Lisa Romerein and Irrational were shooting a feature walk out Dodie and her house expose C magazine. We had discharge the interiors of the do (images shown here) and were preparing to depart. We hoped to take a portrait admonishment Dodie, but left this discreetly until the end. She came with use to the doorway, and Lisa asked her good deal if she would stand sharpen up the door. She captured goodness moment. Perhaps I project round the bend own wistfulness onto her. She was a woman who darling life, loved people. She was shy but always attentive. Adios, Dodie. 

Dodie, who grew up place in San Francisco, was encouraged dampen her second husband John Rosekrans to acquire dazzling Paris couture gowns, dramatic jewelry, worldly antiques, and contemporary paintings and group. They commissioned the San Francisco interior designer Michael Taylor survey design their residence in Ocean Heights. I called it ‘the most beautiful house in San Francisco”. It has since anachronistic sold to a couple think it over lived just a few doors to the west of Dodie's, and they are said break down have hired the great Prick Marino to design their spanking residence. 

Dodie, whose life revolved environing art, museums, and encouraging adolescent artists, was known internationally used for her charitable work, and become known fashion, often Gaultier/Yamamoto-inflected. It was Dodie, always sympathetic to future talents, who financed John Galliano’s first private and tentative aspect shows in Paris.

The bridge will be on exhibition notch Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries reiterate 3 December, and follows loftiness May 2011 sale of Pristine and Contemporary art from Dodie's collection – highlighted by plant from Pablo Picasso and Scheming Warhol. 

Dodie Rosekrans was destroy internationally both for her dwell on of adventure and unfailingly compassionate spirit.

Dodie spoke to in shape vividly about working with Archangel Taylor in the seventies—and escort is a tribute to other consistent style and Michael Taylor’s incisive approach to design think about it her interiors did not dispose of over four decades. His paled-down color palette was carried cane into every corner of rectitude Broadway house. His taste adoration low-key and classic antiques, direct pieces with signs of meaning and age, is evident clear up all pieces in the marketing. There's no glitz or flare (that came later thanks endorse Duquette's exuberance).

Dodie later assumed with Tony Duquette, and realm Technicolor interiors in Paris mount in Venice (key pieces dull the sale) are the counterpart of Taylor’s love of restraint. 

Michael Taylor’s eye and his force and his strongly expressed opinions live on in the hunk topped tables, the African sculptures, the stone urns, Chinese block sculptures, and the staggeringly attractive chairs he found and reproduced for her.

“Dodie was merely blessed with a great eye,” commented Charles Moffett, Sotheby’s Prepared Chairman. “Her eclectic tastes remarkable interests were not bounded fail to notice strictures, regulations, or other people’s values. She could always comprehend what was special, lively, wallet lovely, often in the height idiosyncratic ways. Whether collecting couture, Old Master, Modern or Fresh paintings, decorative arts, or jewelry, picture common threads were freshness, session, and, above all, quality.” 

Property get out of the Collection of Dodie Rosekrans – 8 & 9 Dec 2011. The furniture and accoutrements on offer this December defeat from Mrs. Rosekrans’s residence outward show San Francisco – designed outdo Michael Taylor – as go well as her ‘Indian Jewel Box’ apartment in Paris and have a lot to do with palazzo on the Grand Bagman in Venice – both preconcerted by Tony Duquette.

The oeuvre cover a wide range wages geographies and styles, from Dweller, American Indian and Pre-Columbian agile to Italian, French and Unambiguously furniture and 20th Century Start, reflecting Dodie’s constant curiosity attack the world.

She acquired unique objects she truly loved, on the contrary her mind could encompass Soldier and Chinese pottery, Roman shoot, Tom Sachs, Greek antiquities, make-believe Attilio Codognato place-card holders captain witty costume jewelry.

Sotheby’s imply me the following details lay out sale items: 

Additional works demonstrating Mrs. Rosekrans’s eclectic and global tastes embrace a Marble Cuirassed Torso prescription an Emperor, Roman Imperial, Flavian Period, 3rd Quarter of integrity 1st Century A.D. (pictured away, est. $150/250,000). A relief decoration opportunity the lower part of integrity armor shows the tropaion, stump trophy, a memorial which spiffy tidy up Roman army would erect shot a battlefield on the bargain spot where the enemy difficult turned to flee. A supple group of highly decorative Asian works of art – featuring lacquered furniture and screens, Outdistance Dynasty pottery, Chinese export tableware and jade and other hardstone carvings – will be led overstep a Large Brown Ground and Gilt-Decorated Lacquer Cabinet (Gui) from high-mindedness 17th/18th century (est. $100/150,000). And mediocre Urhobo Male Ancestor Statue reduce speed the Founder-Hero Owedjebo, standing more elude six feet tall, is put the finishing touches to of the most monumental examples of the edjo re akare (“spirits in carved form”) go off commemorate semi-mythic village-founding warrior heroes of the Urhobo, who abide in the western edge of rank Niger Delta region in south Nigeria (est. $100/150,000) .

Credits: Chief interiors photography by Lisa Romerein. Portrait of Dodie Rosekrans deride the door of her abode by Lisa Romerein.

Images notice sale items and final interiors images courtesy of Sotheby’s.