The Bernheimer Chair Sold at Sotheby’s, London
Consul Otto Bernheimer’s famous chair, an Italian Renaissance-style walnut armchair upholstered with parts of a 16th-century small-pattern Holbein carpet, sold in Sotheby’s London’s evening sale on 24 November 2015, lot 13, for £100,000 ($151,460), at the top of its estimate range. The upholstery of ‘Holbein variant’ carpet fragments with large-pattern motifs in a small-pattern format… Read more »
