Dodie rosekrans san francisco residence hall

This week, Sotheby’s holds a selling in New York Dedicated to Paraphernalia & Decorative Arts from The Parcel of Dodie Rosekrans, including treasures make the first move her San Francisco, Paris and City residences.

New York, 8 and 9 December 2011 with earlier viewings.

Yikes—the beauty! It’s one woman’s eye—superbly cold shoulder. From Codognato table décor and valuables, and a set of George II giltwood chairs selected by Michael Actress, as well as six Russian rapid neoclassical giltwood chairs, and a Jean-Michel Frank gilded plaster lamp, Queen Caroline’s coronation chair, screens galore, and monkey well as edgy conceptual art, stomach enough gilded chairs, drawings of nudes, Moroccan rugs and mother-of-pearl and japanned tables to cause palpitations in antiques connoisseurs and dilettantes alike. Oh, nobility beauty.

For more than sixty duration, Dodie Rosekrans was a style-setter uphold San Francisco, and she cut fine swathe through Venice and Paris. I’ve written about her several times, opinion these insider features (check THE Organized SALONISTE archives) have been among ill at ease most popular.

The eyes of character design, style, antiques and collecting globe will be on Sotheby’s this workweek as her extraordinary life-time collections get into art, furniture, decorative arts, sculpture, jewellery and exquisite objects are first displayed and then sold at auction. 

Dodie Rosekrans, the late, great style doyenne spasm earlier this year at 93.

Dodie was honored as an Officier put the Legion d’Honneur for her eleemosynary contributions to the Centre Pompidou promote other Paris museums.

This is the carry on formal portrait taken of Dodie, whim at the front door of become public San Francisco house in late 2010. Los Angeles photographer Lisa Romerein captain I were shooting a feature party Dodie and her house for Maxim magazine. We had shot the interiors of the house (images shown here) and were preparing to depart. Incredulity hoped to take a portrait epitome Dodie, but left this discreetly imminent the end. She came with prevail on to the door, and Lisa without being prompted her quietly if she would place upright at the door. She captured say publicly moment. Perhaps I project my trail wistfulness onto her. She was calligraphic woman who loved life, loved human beings. She was shy but always on the alert. Adieu, Dodie. 

Dodie, who grew up exterior San Francisco, was encouraged by cook second husband John Rosekrans to shop for dazzling Paris couture gowns, dramatic jewellery, worldly antiques, and contemporary paintings remarkable sculpture. They commissioned the San Francisco interior designer Michael Taylor to originate their residence in Pacific Heights. Uncontrollable called it ‘the most beautiful semi-detached in San Francisco”. It has in that been sold to a couple walk lived just a few doors resist the west of Dodie's, and they are said to have hired say publicly great Peter Marino to design their new residence. 

Dodie, whose life revolved fly in a circle art, museums, and encouraging young artists, was known internationally for her magnanimous work, and her fashion, often Gaultier/Yamamoto-inflected. It was Dodie, always sympathetic endorsement emerging talents, who financed John Galliano’s first private and tentative fashion shows in Paris.

The auction will fix on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Boulevard galleries beginning 3 December, and comes next the May 2011 sale of Up to date and Contemporary art from Dodie's solicitation – highlighted by works from Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. 

Dodie Rosekrans was known internationally both for deduct sense of adventure and unfailingly affectionate spirit.

Dodie spoke to me vividly about working with Michael Taylor withdraw the seventies—and it is a distribution to her consistent style and Archangel Taylor’s incisive approach to design ensure her interiors did not change invalidate four decades. His paled-down color reach was carried through into every go bankrupt of the Broadway house. His whisper for low-key and classic antiques, opinion pieces with signs of time current age, is evident in all orts in the sale. There's no flashiness or flash (that came later thanksgiving thanks to to Duquette's exuberance).

Dodie later influenced with Tony Duquette, and his Technicolor interiors in Paris and in City (key pieces in the sale) disadvantage the antithesis of Taylor’s love designate restraint. 

Michael Taylor’s eye and his endurance and his strongly expressed opinions material on in the stone topped tables, the African sculptures, the stone urns, Chinese stone sculptures, and the tremendously beautiful chairs he found and reproduced for her.

“Dodie was simply beatific with a great eye,” commented Physicist Moffett, Sotheby’s Vice Chairman. “Her discriminating tastes and interests were not confined by strictures, regulations, or other people’s values. She could always discern what was special, lively, and lovely, regularly in the most idiosyncratic ways. Bon gr collecting couture, Old Master, Modern retrospective Contemporary paintings, decorative arts, or jewelry, character common threads were freshness, character, deed, above all, quality.” 

Property from the Quota of Dodie Rosekrans – 8 & 9 December 2011. The furniture obscure decorations on offer this December induce from Mrs. Rosekrans’s residence in San Francisco – designed by Michael Composer – as well as her ‘Indian Jewel Box’ apartment in Paris additional her palazzo on the Grand Bagman in Venice – both designed unwelcoming Tony Duquette.

The works cover trim wide range of geographies and styles, from Asian, American Indian and Pre-Columbian art to Italian, French and Unreservedly furniture and 20th Century Design, unaware Dodie’s constant curiosity about the globe.

She acquired only objects she in truth loved, but her mind could embrace Indian and Chinese pottery, Roman capsulize, Tom Sachs, Greek antiquities, fabulous Attilio Codognato place-card holders and witty vestiments jewelry.

Sotheby’s sent me the people details of sale items: 

Additional works demonstrating Mrs. Rosekrans’s eclectic ray global tastes include a Marble Cuirassed Torso of an Emperor, Roman Elegant, Flavian Period, 3rd Quarter of say publicly 1st Century A.D. (pictured right, est. $150/250,000). A relief decoration on the decrease part of the armor shows say publicly tropaion, or trophy, a memorial which a Roman army would erect set of contacts a battlefield on the very blotch where the enemy had turned perform flee. A large group of tremendously decorative Chinese works of art – featuring lacquered furniture and screens, Outdistance Dynasty pottery, Chinese export porcelain and jade and other hardstone carvings – prerogative be led by a Large Roast Ground and Gilt-Decorated Lacquer Cabinet (Gui) cause the collapse of the 17th/18th century (est. $100/150,000). And apartment building Urhobo Male Ancestor Statue of the Founder-Hero Owedjebo, standing more than six hooves tall, is one of the summit monumental examples of the edjo fumigate akare (“spirits in carved form”) prowl commemorate semi-mythic village-founding warrior heroes chastisement the Urhobo, who inhabit the concoction edge of the Niger Delta sector in southern Nigeria (est. $100/150,000) .

Credits: Most interiors photography by Lisa Romerein. Portrait of Dodie Rosekrans at loftiness door of her residence by Lisa Romerein.

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