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Lalanne Furniture Sells for $2.3m in Paris Sale

September 15, 2017 by Marion Maneker

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.

The Year of Lalanne

December 22, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Colin Gleadell nominates the Lalannes as artist of the year for the spectacular rise of their work on the auction market. Here in New York, there has been real excitement about the pair of designers, especially since Paul Kasmin organized a show of their work on Park Ave. But one assumes Kasmin is having the same sourcing problems as his London counterpart, Ben Brown, that Gleadell discusses here:

It was the Yves Saint Laurent sale in Paris that really put them on the map. The designer had been a major patron and his commissions made spectacular prices; a cocktail bar by Francois-Xavier made €2.8 million. Since then 180 works by the Lalannes have hit the auction block, mainly in Paris, London and New York. The most recent design sales at Christie’s in New York this month saw more than 50 examples of their work sell. A small lamb sculpture, for instance, brought $60,000, or twice the retail price from the galleries. Continue Reading

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