Roland Auctions – Upcoming April Auction
April 6 10 AM
www.rolandauctions.com 212-260-2000
150 School St., Glen Cove, NY 11542

GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Roland Auctions NY will offer the highly anticipated collection from the estate of renowned New York architect/designer Thierry Despont on April 6 at 10 am. Previews for the auction will take place on Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, 10 am to 6 pm.

French architect/designer Thierry Despont, whose 10,000-square-foot Tribeca townhouse at 182 Franklin Street just recently sold for $25 million, passed away at age 75 last summer.

Despont rose to fame when he worked on the 1986 renovation of the Statue of Liberty’s torch, crown and stairways, converted the Battery Maritime Building, did the interior design of 220 Central Park South and restored the historic Woolworth Building. Other projects of his included a renovated $75 million mansion on London’s Kensington Palace Gardens, an East Hampton mansion previously owned by Calvin Klein and building houses for Bill Gates, Conrad Black, Ralph Lauren and Michael Douglas

Despont’s accolades include becoming a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, a Knight of the Arts and Letters and a member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame. In 1996, he was entrusted with the interior renovation of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, as well as some of London’s top hotels, such as Claridge’s and the Dorchester, Paris’ Crillon, Peninsula and Ritz Hotels.

In 2016, he was ranked by Vanity Fair magazine as the 43rd most influential French entrepreneur in the world. Despite all this praise, Despont was a passionate aesthete, happily doing his life’s work without much fanfare.

All the items in his personal collection up for auction April 6 are from his Tribeca mansion, which has been described as a family home, not a bachelor’s pad, as some might believe, with the clubby Edwardian-style paneled rooms, iconic modern furniture, Constructivist art and architectural renderings. The home featured many old prints, along with Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century drawings alongside Despont’s own artwork. Furnishings included a pair of facing George Smith sofas, an Anglo-Indian cane campaign bed as coffee table and Marcel Breuer armchairs facing a pair of Dakota Jackson club chairs, a pair of French modern armchairs and a pair of Donghia side tables.

Items from his collection include a Benoit Luyckx (Belgian/French, b 1955) contemporary abstract “Lady Liberty” sculpture, circa 1983, of carved and polished Belgian black marble, signed and dated verso ($1,5/2,500), a Modern Art Deco-style vanity suite (four pieces) of sycamore wood, comprising a pair of night stands, a vanity console table and a vanity stool. ($600-$1,000) and a pair of Thierry Despont Art Deco-style club armchairs and ottoman with red Loro Piana mohair velvet and custom detachable swiveling cocktail tables, with orb-form reading lights ($800-$1,200).

Additional pieces from the Tribeca residence are a Chinese bronze rhinoceros model in the Zhou dynasty taste with textured relief details and hinged lid ($500/800); a B.C. Mobler Danish teak coffee table, circa 1960, possibly designed by Kurt Ostervig, of classic midcentury Scandinavian outline, having a rounded triangle top with dished edge, raised on pierce-carved tripod legs ($300/500); and a Liberty flame gilt bronze sculpture, “Flamme de la Liberte” commemorative copy of the Liberty Flame in gilt bronze by Les Metalliers Champenois, bearing inscribed plaque and numbered, mounted on a wood plinth base ($300/500)

Rare pieces created by Despont himself include a mixed metal sculpture, moon-form disc on a vise and stand, exhibited at Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y., October 16-November 15, 2008 ($1/1,500).

The auction will include more than 200 lots of rare pieces from Despont’s own personal collection, including artwork, furniture, rare books and sculptures that have never come up at auction before, in addition to Roland’s monthly mix of fine art, decorative art, Twentieth Century Modern, antique and vintage furniture, textiles, silver, gold and silver jewelry, rugs, collectibles, Asian art and decorative arts, and lighting pieces from other estates.

Roland NY is at 150 School Street. For additional information, www.rolandantiques.com or 212-260-2000.

Preview: Thursday, April 4th & Friday, April 5th, 10am – 6pm
Our April Estates sale features over 200 lots from the Personal Collection of Thierry Despont, renowned artist, architect, and designer.
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178: Thierry Despont Chaise Longue
101: Juan Manuel GOMEZ-QUIROZ Still Life – Painting
173: Dunbar Mid-Century Walnut Coffee Table
66: Lalique French Glass Toiletry Powder Box Cover
425: Antiquity Carved Marble Bust of a Woman
103: Roberta CROWN Modern Abstract Still Life Painting
166: Modern Chrome and Frosted Glass Bar Cart
72: Large Modern Art Glass Vase
175: Brutalist Modern Patinated Bronze Fireplace Screen
601: Chinese Patinated Metal Ice Bucket Cooler
161: Set of 10 Modern Upholstered Chairs
401: Thierry Despont Mixed Sculpture
2: 19th C. Fruitwood Jardiniere Commode Chair
183: Modern Art Deco-Style Vanity Suite (4-Pc.)
164: Pair of Chrome and Wood Bar Stools
104: Roberta CROWN Modern Abstract Cityscape Painting
177: Thierry Despont Club Chair and Ottoman

92: Limoges French Dinner Service Items (15)
174: B.C. Mobler Danish Teak Coffee Table
159: Set of 10 Modern Tubular Chromed Metal Armchairs
219: Liberty Flame Gilt Bronze Sculpture
192: Thierry Despont Large Walnut Floor Lamp
226: Buccellati Sterling Silver Picture Frame
222: Chinese Bronze Model of a Rhinoceros
420: Attrib, to Joseph HIGHMORE Portrait, Oil Painting
401: Thierry Despont Mixed Sculpture
158: Thierry Despont Breastplate Vest on Stand
220: Pair of Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus Speaker Towers
51: Rare and Unusual Victorian Davenport Desk
281: Thierry Despont Custom Designed Iron & Wood Masks
154: Thierry Despont Art Deco-Style Torchiere Lamps
211: Benoit LUYCKX Lady Liberty -Sculpture
207: Thierry Despont Art Deco-Style Chairs & Ottoman
194: Iver Bertelsen for Steelcraft Bentwood Side Chair
406: Minas AVETISYAN Landscape – Oil Painting

440: 3-Pc. Italian Sterling SilverTea Set
754: Bronze Sculpture Of A Couple On A Bench
417: 19th C. Chinese Bronze and Porcelain Centerpiece
731: Modern Teak Wood and Stone Console Table
307: Pair Laro Piana Upholstered Club Chairs
302: Mark BEARD Boxer… – Oil Painting
726: Janus & Cie. Woven Side Chairs (8)
418: V. SZC-ZEBLEWSKI Whistling Boy- Bronze Sculpture
399: Eileen Gray Aixia Chair for Villa E-1027

212-260-2000
www.rolandauctions.com
150 School Street, Glen Cove, NY 11542
(2 Dosoris Way – for GPS)