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"Christie's South Kensington Interiors Auction\nAD's The Aesthete, Mitchell Owens, identifies a dozen must-have antique and vintage furnishings and accessories at the auction house's \"Interiors\" sale where bargains abound\nFor a bit of Rothschildian splendor, flank a fireplace with matching Boulle-style cabinets made during the reign of Napol\u00E9on III. Tortoiseshell, brass, and gilt metal enrich the surfaces, and the doors swing open to reveal velvet-lined recesses. Estimate: $3,100\u2013$4,500.\nA seemingly mid-20th-century sideboard by Gordon Russell, a British firm whose namesake founder was knighted in 1955 for his contributions to design. Its satinwood drawers are encased in an Indian-rosewood carcass, the two materials offering spectacularly different textures\u2014the former has the rippling effect of watered silk, while the latter's graining is rigidly linear. The recessed knobs are an eye-catching touch. Estimate: $1,900\u20132,700\nPure sculpture\u2014a Regency mock-rosewood-and-parcel-gilt chaise longue held aloft on saber legs. Estimate: $1,200\u2013$1,800.\nDublin-born artist Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894\u20131973) was founder of the Emotionist Group, an utterly forgotten mix of London writers and artists known for works where, a critic observed, \"emotion bursts direct and deep.\" An undated Dunlop piece, Portrait of Norah fulfills that description, with a mesmerizingly melancholy quality that more than makes up for its small size (16 inches by 10 inches). I imagine it casually propped atop a mantel or resting on a tabletop easel, where the vigorous impasto can catch the light. Estimate: $1,200\u2013$1,800.\nThis Victorian chesterfield sofa is upholstered in an Orientalist fabric that would easily spark a fantastical decor redolent of a pasha's tent. Estimate: $1,600\u2013$2,300.\nThe sale offers several trophy fish displayed in glass cases. Suspended as if swimming through weedy waters, this pair was mounted in 1932 by John Cooper &amp;amp; Sons, the great British taxidermists. The lot includes, curiously, a preserved specimen in a verre-\u00E8glomis\u00E9 case. Estimate for all three is $1,900\u2013$2,700.\nA relic of an unknown Edwardian-era haberdashery, this oak cabinet would be the perfect addition to a dressing room, its 47 sliding trays (one is missing) waiting to be filled with the sort of glorious shirts that brought Daisy Buchanan to tears in The Great Gatsby. Estimate: $3,100\u2013$4,500.\nTurned side supports lend a touch of the Raj to a set of ebonized Victorian bookshelves. Estimate $1,200\u2013$1,800.\nA sumptuously scaled daybed from the late 19th century is just the thing to make a living room more convivial. Imagine a cocktail party where some of the assembled guests pile on, drinks in hand. It could also be pressed into service for overnight guests. Estimate: $1,200\u2013$1,800.\nRosewood handles adorn this swaggering George IV mahogany wardrobe, the sort of storage unit that would have provided a gleaming backdrop to fashion plate George \"Beau\" Brummell's influential morning toilettes. Estimate: $1,600\u2013$2,300\nI'd knock the pomposity out of this early-20th-century parcel-gilt walnut desk chair by replacing its formal upholstery with an overscale cherry-red-and-white gingham. Once owned by Sir Arthur Gilbert, an up-by-his-own-bootstraps billionaire and noted silver collector, the chair is expected to bring $1,200\u2013$1,800.\nA smart, boldly colored abstraction by Tim Jenkins, Three Steps to Heavenwas exhibited in Liverpool, England, in 1978, the year it was painted. The acrylic-on-canvas work measures an impressive 60.5 inches tall by 72 inches wide. Estimate: $1,600\u2013$2,300. (Note: It sold at Bonhams in London in 2011 for around $200.)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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