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Paris Mon Amour
The Drouot will auction some old Paris pieces. From a lamp post to a park bench go on the auction block next week. Highlight of the event is the piece de resistance 40 iron steps from the Eiffel Tower, all 7.8 meters (25.6 feet) of them.
Among the 301 items to be auctioned is a section of glass broken during the construction in 1987 of the glass pyramid now standing at the entrance to the Louvre Museum. Estimated at euro500 to euro1,000 ($735-$1,470), it is accompanied by a photograph taken at the time.
Exceptional event December 14 next to Richelieu Drouot auction extraordinary tribute to Paris.
This vacation, organized by the auction house Christophe Lucien will please all lovers and lovers of the City of Light by offering over 300 lots emblematic.
Exhibit highlights will be a section of the spiral staircase of the Eiffel Tower, which will be offered on an estimate of 60 000 / 80 000 €. Numbered 16, with a height of 7 m 80 and includes 40 steps, it is one of the largest ever auctioned.
On March 31, 1889, at the opening of the Exposition Universelle in Paris, Sadi Carnot, President of the French Republic, inaugurated with pomp the Eiffel Tower. It is far from imagining that the Iron Lady will quickly become the symbol of Paris, of France and the monument paying the most visited of the planet. At a height of 313.20 meters behind, subsequently extended to many branches peaking at 324 meters, the Eiffel Tower remained the highest monument in the world until 1930, dethroned by the Chrysler building built New York.Malgré its 120 years, the Eiffel Tower has not aged. It is ubiquitous in decoration, fashion accessories, the tableware, photography, games for children, Audiovisual and even cartoons internationaux.Alors as elevators were not working yet, Gustave Eiffel, who had won the competition against 700 other proposals, climbed the 1 710 steps of stairs leading from ground floor to the top. 200 people with it. Half stops at the first platform, only 50 reach the second floor, and 20 have the courage to climb the steps of the spiral staircase that leads from the second to the third floor, top of the Tower. At this level, Eiffel has installed a flat privé.Près hundred years later, to lighten the weight of the Tower and meet new safety standards, the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel decided to remove the spiral staircase in lacquered iron to replace a staircase lighter and less dangerous. At the same time, the hydraulic lifts are also changed. In total, the tower is reduced from 1 340 tonnes.L staircase is divided into 24 pieces of different lengths of 2.10 m to 9 m for more long.L one of them is kept at the first floor Tower, three others have been offered to French museums (Musée d'Orsay, Musee de la Villette in Paris, Museum of the History of Iron Janville-Nancy). To fund the restoration work, the other twenty pieces are scattered on 1 December 1983 during a public auction from the first floor of the Tower. A plaque was affixed to each of them, giving them a number and proof of their origine.Des collectors worldwide flock. One of the parts installed in the garden of the Yoshii Foundation in Yamanashi (120 km from Tokyo). Another of these pieces now adorns the Statue of Liberty in New York, which Gustave Eiffel was made structure métallique.Un other was acquired by the Walt Disney Company to be installed at Disneyland, near a replica of the Tour.Quelques others stayed in France, both acquired by singer Guy Béart, one by the city of Levallois - Perret, which is common Gustave Eiffel, one by the City of Nogent sur Marne.D other finally leaving for Canada or Switzerland. The town of Nogent sur Marne acquires the section No. 16. It is one of the highest, 7.80 m for 40 runs.
The auction will continue through the spread of other pieces of furniture. Examples include a newspaper stand in painted wood of the Belle Epoque, "The Bulb Zinc, in the Rue Reaumur (1 500 €), streetlights, the Champs Elysees as well as scenery of Parisian shops. A punch in the Paris metro is estimated 80 to 100 € while a urinal iron Second Empire will be available from 1 500 €. No less original schools of Paris cast, the arms of the city are estimated 300 / 400 €.
Collectors can afford paintings of the nineteenth century and the 1950s representing the legendary streets of Paris. Numerous blood and tables Henry Tenré representing elegant on the Champs Elysees, dated to 1910 / 1920 will be estimated between 200 and 1 000 €.
Records, books and scores of street songs will delight fans of the picturesque atmosphere of the capital.
Historians and bibliophiles China books, journals and papers on the theme of the history of Paris from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mention any particular structure in plano de Gustave Eiffel: La Tour Three hundred meters, carrying his handwritten dedication. Universal Expositions will not be outdone, with books estimated between 50 and 1 500 €.
Finally panoramic photographs of Paris from the late nineteenth century, under fire will auction between 400 and 500 €
Public exhibitions at Drouot Richelieu:
Saturday, December 12 from 11am to 18.
Monday, December 14 from 11am to 12pm
Street furniture will be exhibited in the garden of the Hotel Sales Nogent sur Marne
and inside the Pavilion Baltard of 7 to 11 December 2009
Sale at Drouot Richelieu:
Monday, December 14, 2009, Room 3 at 14 h
Hôtel Drouot is a large auction house in Paris, for fine art, antiques and antiquities, consisting of 16 halls hosting 70 independent auction firms, operating under the umbrella grouping of Drouot.
It is situated on Rue Drouot in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, on a site once occupied by the Académie Royale de Musique, with a number of outlying locations. The nearest metro station is Richelieu - Drouot (Paris Métro).
Details of forthcoming auctions are published in the weekly Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, sold at newsstands and by subscription.
In 2008 Hôtel Drouot was ranked fifth by sales amongst Paris auction houses, after Sotheby's, Christie's, Artcurial and Tajan.
History
The Hôtel Drouot was inaugurated on 1 June 1852. From 1976 to 1980, while its present building was being constructed, sales took place in the former Gare d'Orsay. In 2000, reform of the monopolistic French auction laws, regulated through the system of commissaires-priseurs, opened Drouot up to international competition. It is now owned by a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.
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The section of the Eiffel Tower's original staircase has sold for euro 105,400 ($154,380)
The pair of benches from the Paris Metro dating to the late 19th or early 20th century sold for euro 22,320.
The hexagonal wooden newspaper kiosk sold for euro 14,260.