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"Steven A. Greenberg's Art Deco Collection Auctioned at Christie's\nOne of the world's most incredible private Art Deco collections goes on the blocks at Christie's\nCataracts of frosted-glass beads shade a pair of silvered-bronze table lamps made around 1925 by \u00C9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879\u20131933). They were exhibited in 2004 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Ruhlmann retrospective.\n\nEstimate: $600,000\u2013$800,000\nAfrican-inspired motifs decorate a circa-1923 screen of lacquered wood inlaid with eggshell made by Jean Dunand and Jean Lambert-Rucki (1888\u20131967). It was exhibited in 1925 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts D\u00E9coratifs et Industriels Modernes.\n\nEstimate: $400,000\u2013$600,000\nLalique's Avallon opalescent-glass vase is a 1927 design featuring molded birds perched in fruiting branches.\n\nEstimate: $1,000\u2013$1,500\nThousands of metal nailheads ornament an office suite created by French cabinetmaker Andr\u00E9 Sornay (1902\u20132000), who exhibited it at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Technique dans la Vie Moderne. The lot includes wall and ceiling panels, storage units, a desk, two armchairs, and a hanging light fixture. The materials include mahogany, Macassar ebony, Oregon pine, walnut, metal, and parchment.\n\nEstimate: $30,000\u2013$50,000\nFeaturing inset compartments for correspondence, this fan-shaped, double-pedestal desk made of lacquered wood was produced in 1932 by \u00C9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann. Before Greenberg acquired it, the desk was owned by Jean-Claude Brugnot, another Art Deco connoisseur.\n\nEstimate: $2\u20133 million\nDesigner Jean Rothschild (1902\u201398) produced these three low, gilt-wood chairs around 1934 for the Grand Salon of the SS Normandie. The Aubusson-tapestry upholstery, which is original, is the work of \u00C9mile Gaudissart.\n\nEstimate: $30,000\u2013$50,000\nA 1925 work by the eminent French designer Jean Dunand (1877\u20131942), this lacquered-metal vase features inlay made of crushed eggshells, a Dunand hallmark. Previous owners include the influential American art dealer Andrew Crispo.\n\nEstimate: $150,000\u2013$200,000\nCreated around 1925 by Jean Dunand, this covered candy dish, or bonbonni\u00E8re, is made of red-lacquered metal inlaid with fragments of eggshell.\n\nEstimate: $10,000\u2013$15,000\nDesigned around 1932 by George Frye, this nickel, steel, and frosted-glass console table was among the furnishings of the millinery salon at the G. Fox department store in Hartford, Connecticut.\n\nEstimate: $50,000\u2013$70,000\nFor H\u00E9l\u00E8ne Berthelot, an artist's model turned Paris hostess, Jean Dunand created a lacquered-wood bed fit for a nymph. Decorated in the manner of an Orientalist pond, the 1932 bed features mother-of-pearl water lilies and orange fantail goldfish.\n\nEstimate: $200,000\u2013$300,000\nMaison Cardeilhac\u2014a French design firm founded in 1804 and purchased by Christofle in 1951\u2014created this gourdlike covered box around 1925. It is made of Macassar ebony and topped with a silk tassel.\n\nEstimate: $5,000\u2013$7,000\nThe cover of this 1930 Gonin edition of Le Livre des Rois. L'Av\u00E8nement de Salomon, illustrated by French artist Fran\u00E7ois-Louis Schmied (1873\u20131941), is an Art Deco\u2013bookbinding fantasia, wrought in morocco leather in shades of orange, blue, and red, and highlighted with intricate gilding.\n\nEstimate: $8,000\u2013$12,000"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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