Desk for Lauren Bacall

Bonhams will be holding the estate sale for the late Lauren Bacall on March 31st, 2015 in New York City. You can find the complete catalog here. We were happy to find lot 116, which is a desk our founder, Frederick Victoria provided to his friend and client, Ms. Bacall. This is something Mr. Victoria would have called in the "chateau" taste; a provincial piece that reflected a bit more of the Parisian sophistication than your average provincial piece of furniture. The design is one of a few chateau-style desk designs with a superstructure from our archive. Some of these superstructures have open cubby-style openings, leather fronted "cartonnier" style drawers, or as in the case of this design, wooden drawers and doors. 

Image of Victoria & Son desk 38, from the Bacall estate sale at Bonhams, 3.31.2015

Victoria & Son file image of Desk 38 model

Blue print and reference sketches for Desk 38 from Victoria & Son design archive 

The unfinished brass mount used on the knees of the legs for Desk 38

The raw brass mount used at the corners of the desk surface

Desk 38 with a later mounted cabinet in Lauren Bacall's Dakota Apartment