DESIGN GETS HOT
by Brook S. Mason
Leading off the this season’s design sales is the design auction at
Phillips de Pury & Company, which kicks off at the firm’s Park Avenue showroom at 2 pm on May 25, 2011. The 176-lot sale, which is expected to fetch $2.7 million-$3.7 million all told, features 20th-century and contemporary design along with studio ceramics by Brit legends
Lucie Rie and
Hans Coper as well as Japanese master
Sueharu Fukami, Italian designer and Memphis founder
Ettore Sottsass and others.
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