Marc Jacobs Is Selling More of His Art and Decor
Marc Jacobs fans now have another chance to purchase items from his personal art and decor collection. The iconic fashion designer, who sold a number of paintings and artworks at the end of 2019, is teaming up with Sotheby’s Home to find new owners for his beloved possessions as he prepares to move into a new residence.
Among the items for sale are large gold Japanese vases with delicate bamboo inscriptions all over the exterior; a pair of peach-colored, upholstered armchairs, a Curtis Jere tree sculpture, and a pair of cardinal-and-cream striped fauteuil chairs. Other pieces include a carved sheep sculpture, a rectangular metal serving tray, and a gold painted skull sculpture.
“I’m not Marie Kondo,” he told Sotheby’s in an interview last year. “I didn’t decide everything must go.… When you move into a Frank Lloyd Wright house, there isn’t a lot of wall space and you can’t hang a lot of paintings. As much as I will have a difficult time parting with them, I just felt it’s time to give myself this window to start again.”
In April, right after Jacobs's wedding to model turned candle designer Charly Defrancesco, he closed the deal on a stunning 6,000-square-foot home known as the Max Hoffman House in Rye, New York. It was built by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1950s for Hoffman, who was an Australian-born businessman.
After securing the $9.175 million waterfront home, Jacobs promptly turned around and listed his longtime four-story condominium, situated in New York City's West Village, for $15.995 million. (He had lived there since 2009, when he purchased the home for $10.495 million.) The condominium was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects in the late 2000s, and was an apt reflection of Jacobs’s eclectic taste. “I’m not big on having a particular concept or look,” he told Architectural Digest in 2017. “I just want to live with things I genuinely love—great Art Deco furniture, pieces from the ’70s, and contemporary art.”
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
