Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947)

This remarkably diverse sale featured ancient coins, 20th-century bronzes and ceramics, together with sophisticated designer pieces.

With champagne (the exquisite nectar gets a sale all to itself on 27 December), wines and rare spirits (mainly from Bordeaux cellars, on the 28th and 29th), modern and vintage watches (30th), diamonds and jewellery (31st), Besch gets into the Christmas...

This sale brings together 25 great names from the 1880s to the 1980s, including Ruhlmann, Gallé, Lalique, Prouvé, Duvinage and Chiparus.

This sale of Asian art in Vichy included an outstanding head from the Golden Age of China and two works by Lé Phô.

La Masone—a neoclassical-style building standing in a star-shaped bamboo maze not far from Parma, Italy—is both a museum and the work of an outstanding publisher, bibliophile and collector: Franco Maria Ricci.