The Home of Susan and John Gutfreund: Old World Elegance | Christie's
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Designed with Henri Samuel and furnished with the finest classical furniture, Russian works of art, silver, and porcelain, the Manhattan apartment of Susan and John Gutfreund was described as ‘the most beautifully opulent home in the city’.
In the mid-1980s, John and Susan Gutfreund acquired a 20-room duplex in one of the most prestigious buildings in Manhattan. Designed in 1929 by the architect Rosario Candela (1890-1953), the apartment block was also home to the businessman Charles Schwab and members of the Rockefeller family.
Samuel had a talent for incorporating a client’s taste into his designs, says deputy chairman of Christie’s Jonathan Rendell. The Gutfreunds had traveled widely in Europe, and the artifacts they collected provided aesthetic inspiration for the interiors. As Susan Gutfreund recalled, ‘Henri would discuss with me doing the perfect base, like giving a woman a couture dress that was sheer perfection whether she added fantastic jewels or not.’
On 26 and 27 January, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue will be offered for sale at Christie’s in New York. The live sale comprises important English and French furniture, Russian works of art, silverware, and porcelain, while three complementary online sales focus on The Art of Entertaining, Selections from the Library, and Chanel Fashion Jewellery.
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This is elegance! No minimalistic pay-more-for-less nonsense, or shabby not-so-chique, or property brother Chain Store homes. An age of craftsmanship, every piece invested to become an heirloom, interior that reflects class of soul and depth of intellect. Those were the days.
This style can be suffocating. I like it, and I find it exquisite, but there is a lot to say for rustic and shabby and minimalist and bauhaus and what have you style... it’s not surprising that people who have homes like this usually also have countryside residences / city apartments / beach resorts etc.
This residence has more class, taste, refinement, and beauty than any of the vain sky palaces rising on Billionaires Row.
This is just the old world version of a vain sky palace
La belle maison ...
@@InsaneNuYawka yes, and the old version is classier. So your point is...?
He was a very wealthy banker…very famous.
I think the point, more specifically, is that new high-end homes are no longer built with objective beauty in mind. In this video, it seems authentic and beautiful. Today, it's more about fitting in with society rather than what is beautiful. White on white on white with no art or little decor in modern design feels lifeless and unwelcoming.
I don't know where to begin... The decorating here is at a level so far above anything I've ever seen anywhere and I'm equally in awe with how beautifully shot this was. Either there are two genius at work here, or the person who decorated this house also filmed the video. Just amazing.
Thank you. I couldn’t have said it better myself, but the feeling was mutual.
So beautiful it should be kept as a museum. I could spend all day just browsing there.
Or rather, so beautiful that it should *not* be kept as a museum. Expressly so.
So classy!This is the epitome of coziness!Incomparably elegant!
Stunningly beautiful. Exquisite taste, this is the personification of elegance. And it’s not about money. Sure these things are worth a kings ransom, but the ability to put any objects together to create a beautiful space is an art in itself.
Exactly.👍
Agreed
Agreed, to a certain extent. Put a few millions in my bank account and I’ll gather as lovely a collection. I am confident I am not the only one able to do that with the right figures in the bank. In fact, it’s more of an accomplishment - however dubious - to not be able to once you’re at those prices. I mean, just buying a couple of Goya’s or Rembrandt’s and hanging them on the wall is already more than half the work done. That said, I have to sadly acknowledge the great number of people who manage to achieve the goal of creating monstrosities at whatever price point.
Money never buys taste. Lovely home.
A good catholic family.
Thank you for showing this lovely home without narrative or a person insight.
Merci, Christie's! YES...
It appears to be a hybrid cross of Victorian and colonial style..very classy.
The library is so inviting to sink in a comfy chair and slide out a book ,and enjoy the ambience at the same time.
Very nice pile.
The beauty of this!
I can't.
It makes me cry!
Get real it’s creepy.
This beauty makes me cry as well
Stunning but what really ties it all together is the diffused lighting. People don't realize how important lighting is.
A very good observation. I am not sure, I paid attention to it. And if I did, most likely, I didn't characterize it as "diffused lighting"...
All those lamps create the atmosphere- far better than bright lights pounding your eyes from above!
Indeed lighting is basically essential - in everything. From photography to cinema to painting to decor. And even the more primordial pastimes. One can “fix” a shabby, cheap place with proper lighting - especially at night. Put some music on and you can at least imagine that you’re somewhere nicer.
I lost my breath by looking at this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful home. My God, I have never seen a home as beautiful and harmonious in my life, and I've seen a lot already. Wouw!
I want to walk into the library and smell the leather on those books. I can almost smell it now.
Such beauty and order - love the filming
La belle maison ...
Henri Samuel is a GENIUS! And while I have NEVER been a fan of French antiques, (I prefer English antiques) he has managed to convert me from his grave...I return to this clip time and time again, swooning over the GESTALT, the energy, the beauty, the composition, its all so PALPABLE... It catapults my mind, my imagination, and soul to a place and space I long for, one uniquely my own...Today, I co-create my vision with Henri... Now universe--GET TO WORK!
True style is so rare these days. exquisite.
❤️
John and Susan,
Get it right Mr and Mrs.
What treasures they stored together ✔️
Beautiful! Feels and looks like a fairy tale! ❤️
Flora Danica dinner service on table. The most beautiful service, still in production after about 250 years.
You are so right! I love Flora danica.
Simply exquisite
One of the last truly great apartments in New York...
And a gorgeous video of it before it's dismantled. Thanks, Christie's!
yeah most of the grand dames on Fifth Ave are either dead or leaving...
The apartment is truly amazing also.
Epitome of style.
Beautiful just beautiful!
Eventhough the styles of today is more streamlined, the mind, heart and soul of this decadent interior will live on forever. New money style can't touch Old money visual. To underestimate the worth of this collection based on what is perceived as todays design is saddening. There may be skeletons in the closet at the Gutfreunds home, yet there is beauty and happiness at every turn.
? Who underestimates the worth? Do you know at how much these things sell? Just that table set up alone is probably a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Just the table set up. Nobody is underestimating anything.
@@kencur9690 it was stated that the property was underestimated due to it nonconforming to today's idealistic interior. They said it, not me.
@@bellakim9404 the property is not the collection. Huge difference.
Beautiful home thank you for sharing from Scotland
Stunning!
Maravilloso!!
Opulence and Luxury at the highest levels.
Stunning & Beautiful house❤
Beautiful!
Gorgeous absolutely stunning 😊 truly blessed, I love this video 👍❤ greeting From Texas ❤🐴🐎
This kind of beautiful makes me cry :💝love. Oh yeah the green my favorite kind of green
Wow very beautiful.
I’d love to live there...
Airline flight attendant hits the jackpot.
Lovely!
In the skeleton painting he is showing you all the things he collected over the years. Now that he has passed, well... he just wanted you to see it. Kind of like how we see this video.
I enjoyed the parrot and the library. It feels like my Grandma's house a bit so that feels like home.
Beautiful apartment, exquisitely furnished, and now apparently owned by Stanley Druckenmiller: keeping the property in the industry! Gutfreund was a symbol of Wall St during the 1980s and was largely responsible for the stereotypes that developed about the swashbuckling trader ever since.
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The charming retro lightness.
ugh
💯It's beaUtifuL, and comfortable.😍
Superbe , de bon goût !
This is breathtaking. Would anyone be able to provide the music credit as well?
Grandeur!
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Susan Gutfreund was a flight attendant! She married John, who was a "king of Wall St." for a while. She's still alive and he's deceased.
Anyway, very nice taste, but could have been a bit less heavy handed.
I'm splitting hairs, and I think its got a museum quality that makes it less of a home.
It shouts, "expensive" more than the word, "beautiful", 'tho beautiful it is.
Beautiful mausoleum
Ok here goes....I dont like the staircase or bannisters. I know its very New York style but it's a tad industrial looking compared to the rest of the apartment. Having said that I'm sure I could live with it and the rest of this dwelling is absolutely fabulous 😍
Fabulous painting, what is the name of the painter?
The elegance in the furniture is amazing.
Exquisite taste.
Beautiful 😍
Una maravilla
How can anyone be comfortable amidst this stuff
I am wondering, where can I put the Marshall Plexi.
I think we can call this class Conspicuous Consumption 101.
La belle maison ...
This is how I imagine Old Money.
Просто шикарно, жаль мало показали, ничего толком не видно
I fell in love. SHALOM
Better times...
like museum
If nobody is going to finish that scotch and cigar let me know...I cant be there in about 15 hours.
A green there - here - above - below, wondering what is their favorite color ?!
How expensive?
Rubando al tuo prossimo, tutto è possibile
Purdy!
Wow... im 23yrs old why dont we decorate like this
Cause it’s expensive. Nobody decorates like this: even in the past, it was only the rich who could afford to.
I like " flora danica"
So do I....
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I live in a house similar to this... It's a nightmare
The uncomfortable furniture, the many breakable objects that are a nightmare to dust... Just gah
I'd love to visit this house, but I can't wait to move into an apartment with cheap ikea furniture I can use aggressively
“Furniture I can use aggressively.” Now there’s a great mental image. It’s a simple phrase, but I believe I’’ll write that down and use it in one of my writings. Thanks for the inspiration, perfect stranger. 😉
@@SirJacob220 that’s not inspiration, that’s plagiarism.
"Old money elegance"
must be a bitch to dust
Все классно, но половик на мраморной лестнице не в тему, колхозновато.
Gives me the creeps. I don’t like New York as it is but this place is, well just creepy.
I would not call this home "elegance." It is indeed rich, but florid. Less would have been more. I expect they had staff.
👆.... please help.........
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are dogs allowed in?
Neither dogs, nor children...
You need to light it better thank you
the editing pace is annoyingly and way too fast....
I'm guessing the decorator was Hungarian.
No French, Henri Samuel.
@@cross75man75 well,there goes that theory.
He went to jail for corruption and she was ostracized from society.
Feels dark, heavy and oppressive
old money style
most dont understand it, you included
Poor camera work, hurried, servants' point of view. Awful music .
Shame no commoner can visit this
Up for Sale..they lost all their money. Whatever!
CAGED BIRD??????? NO FUCKING WAY!!!! I HATE THAT!WTF??????
It’s just a lot of money
It looks very uncomfortable and cold.
At one time in my life I thought this type of decor was the height of elegance and sophistication. I am older now and the thought of being surrounded by these essentially worthless, emotionless bric a brac makes me cringe. I would literally throw out or give away all of it and have as few possessions as I possibly could. Less is more.
It’s only emotionless if you see without emotion.
Wow, so you’re just admitting you have no appetite or ability to appreciate the arts. How devoid of life are you?
And you need not worry about how to manage such a collection since you’ll probably die without ever having the opportunity to be in the presence of such a collection.
I assume they're dead
He died. She has sold the apartment.
She lives in Paris now.
Beautiful but oh so impractical...In real life, no matter how rich, you are not going to allow guests to eat off Flora Danica dinnerware or smoke a cigar in room with 18th century masters. The house is an illusion of grandeur but where eventually are you going to live?
You might not. Of course they do. I mean, prominent people have parties with champagne in museum galleries, you know: the place where the plebs aren’t even allowed to bring a bottle of water inside.
20 rooms.duplex????? F OFF!!!!
Living in a museum, awful. Gawk away.
Another closeted Rothschild .?
A poor bird in cage ://
I have a bird in a cage, he comes out every day he wants to, flies all over and is so happy. Makes me happy too. Dont judge, lots of people have no other means of interaction and manage to look after their pets perfectly.
Queenie Botox well I know you believe you’re giving your bird a nice life, and maybe it’s a domesticated creature bread for the cage. But it’s like a fish in a bowl, or a human being in jail. The bird’s nature is to be free. They are social creatures. Very social creatures. So you possess the bird and it is your friend because it needs socialization to be healthy, ostensible.
@@milkshake3350 A BIRD IS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT A PET!!!!!!!
@@MrMrremmington Of course it's like a jail.IT SHOULD BE ILEGAL!!
@Livia Why are you shouting? It isn't illegal to own a bird and so I have one as a pet. I have been a twitcher since I was a child and look after the birds in my garden too, providing them with no end of nesting places. Ive rescued birds and helped others with theirs too. My canary is actually not a social bird at all and prefers to be by himself for most of the year. Just because you dont like something doesn't mean you can tell others what to do.
This is what happens when a hoarder has too much money 😒🙄
You can never have enough decorative arts..
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Stunning!