Karl Lagerfeld orchestrated the "XXVIth Biennale des Antiquaires" at the Paris Grand Palais (14-23 September 2012).
Collections
New objects
- Automate gadget cane representing a parrot made in England at the end of the 19th century
- Powerful four legs brass dividers made in France circa 1790/1800
- Meerschaum pipe representing a sea creature
- Imposing 19th century opium pipe made of nine black horn discs
- Ivory diptych sundial signed Nicolaus Miller made circa 1650
- Photos of the exhibition "Circinus" at the Galileo Museum in Florence
- Brass and silver octagonal equatorial sundial made in France circa 1680
- Antique cane with handle representing a duck's head
- Antique cane with Milord-shaped handle made of Meissen porcelain
- Compass made in Germany circa 1730 in its original case
- Cane with cigarette holder system from the Art Deco period
- Antique cane with ivory handle representing a greyhound
- Boxwood rasp made by Cesar Bagard in Nancy at the end of the 17th century
- Short opium pipe with tube made up of eight pieces of turned bone
- Exceptional cane in polychrome porcelain representing a woman in bust
- Large wooden octant of Hadley type made in England circa 1750/1770
- Impressive black stained turned wood microscope made in Germany circa 1780