In the three-day, thousand-lot sale of designer Alberto Pinto’s stock, three lots by Claude Lalanne—with a combined high estimate of $500k—sold for a total of $2.3m.

The Bureau Croco by Claude Lalanne is the top lot of the entire sale and was sold on Tuesday evening for €847,500/£771,225/$1,118,700 after several minutes of intense bidding, involving 11 parties, becoming the fourth highest price for the artist. Two further lots by Lalanne realised also very strong results: a Tabouret Crococurule sold €439,500 and a Table Lotus et Singe was acquired for €463,500.