The beautifully photographed, full color catalog is over 600 pages; total of 1330 lots featuring 17^th through 20^th century European furniture, decorative arts, ceramics, carpets, paintings, and silver.

The catalog includes rare photographs of Doris Duke, and of her properties in New Jersey, Hawaii, and Rhode Island.

“One of the most glamorous figures of the 20th century, Doris Duke was also one of the most private. Her many homes—which she refined and enhanced throughout her life with objects and collections of discerning and often exquisite taste—provided a refuge from the relentless publicity that followed her.

And now, for the first and only time, the decorative arts she collected and lived with at Duke Farms, Falcon Lair in Los Angeles, and her New York penthouse will be seen publicly as part of this spectacular sale, which will benefit the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

The items from Duke Farms to be auctioned by Christie's have, until now, been left largely undisturbed. Also included in the sale are pieces that Doris Duke moved to Duke Farms from 'Rough Point', her family's dramatic cliff-top mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and from the Duke house on the corner of East 78th Street and 5th Avenue, one of the most elegant private mansions ever built in New York, which Doris Duke and her mother donated to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1958.”

-William Russell, Christie's European Furniture & Sculpture Department, New York

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