Love and Auctions: Midday Links!

My excellent taste was confirmed by the Yves Saint Laurent auction results. Check out the fabulous chair and the price of desire.

Also, check out a beautiful auction catalogue that tells a different kind of story, of love and its personal effects.

If you haven't yet planned your New York art fair visits, start here. Should be a busy few days!

Yves Saint Laurent Collection at Auction

Legendary clothes designer Yves Saint Laurent died last June at his residence in Paris, where he and his partner Pierre Bergé had created a house of style in bricks and mortar. Their art collection is now hitting the auction block at Christies this February. The collection is a testament to Saint Laurent's style in its wide-ranging combination of mediums, time periods and styles.

Quite conveniently, just as this collection comes to auction another style maven, moi, is moving to a new apartment and is in serious need of furnishings. Thus I did some online shopping at Christie's.

First there are practical matters to consider: how to sit, how to drink martinis, and how to eat cereal. My solutions:

Reading Chair

Amazing Silver and Coral Spoons

YSL bar: now that's a beautiful thing.

But what shall I contemplate, not that I'm set up in that luxurious chair, enjoying a martini and cereal? Leger's Profile and Hooch's Parrot, I think. Then for sheer exuberance I'll add Calder's Dancers and Sphere. But I'll have to find a table on which to display it.

Fernand Leger, The Black Profile

Pieter de Hooch, A Young Woman Feeding A Parrot Alexander Calder, Dancers and Sphere

This style, as I like to call it, is 'Manhattan Spartan-Chic,' combining essential luxuries in limited space. My new apartment will be a joy once I purchase these lovelies. There were many other temptations, but a blogger can only afford so much. As it is, I won't have any funds leftover for Vermouth.