That morning, in the grandiose setting of the Salon Opéra at the InterContinental Paris Le Grand, the boxes were piling up.
Curtains for the numbered rooms, armchairs in red velvet or blue fabrics, stools, rugs, consoles, sideboards on casters, posters, tables, red leather chairs from the Café de la Paix… All the decor of the Grand Hotel as we know it travelers who testify in the last guestbook, must disappear this Wednesday auction (1).
Since yesterday, the whole has been exhibited under the large renovated glass roof, which has never seen this since the creation of this monument of the Parisian hotel industry on May 5, 1862. Behind the health security cordon, the public parades as in a Museum.
"It is a recent decoration and not period"
, warns auctioneer Thierry de Maigret, who hit the hammer for the first auction last year in Drouot.
Whatever.
"What counts is the association of the object and the souvenir"
, underlines Christophe Laure, general manager
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