DECORATIVE ARTS DIARY
by Brook S. Mason


Unbridled luxury with ancien régime-like flourishes is everywhere at the 23rd Biennale des Antiquaires, currently on view in the Grand Palais in Paris’ VIIIe arrondissement, Sept. 15-24, 2006. On hand are more than 110 dealers purveying an estimated 7,000 objects valued at a reported $1.3 billion, ranging from archéologie and art décoratif to tableaux modernes and contemporains.

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