House Sales and Private Collections
OverviewSotheby's experience in orchestrating successful auctions of important private European collections and staging country house sales is outstanding. Our international team of experts is led by Mario Tavella, Deputy Chairman, Sotheby's Europe, who manages our sales of important European single-owner collections in our salerooms, and Harry Dalmeny, Deputy Chairman, Sotheby's UK, who is responsible for overseeing Sotheby's UK on-site country house sales. Between them they possess 38 years experience in these fields. In our European salerooms we have witnessed extraordinary results for major single-owner collections. In the past year alone Sotheby's sold five major collections in our London and Paris salerooms, totalling in excess of £42 million. Our country house sales have seen similar growth. It was a Sotheby's team that created the concept of the modern house sale in 1929 with a sale at Kinmel Park in Wales. Since then, we have played a central role in the development of... |
 The Collection of Patricia Kluge & Albemarle House: A Unique Joint OfferingJoin Patricia Kluge and Sotheby’s experts for an intimate tour of Albemarle House in Charlottesville, Virginia. The contents of this estate, decorated under Mrs. Kluge’s discerning eye, will be auctioned this June through Sotheby’s first on-premises House Sale in over twenty years. |
 Private Collections by Mario TavellaThe Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi Collection The Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi Collection, formed by the famed industrialist and composer, comprised furniture, paintings and works of art, predominantly Italian and French in taste.... |
