This week, we’re featuring a fairly unique sale. It’s the entire contents of an HNW executive home – to include designer furniture, lighting, cinema, gym, snooker table, garden furniture & more. It takes the format of a timed auction, that ends from: 28th September 2023, 1pm.
As the ‘Through the Keyhole‘ catchphrase goes, “Who would live in a house like this?”. I had to Google the term, ‘HNW’; it’s short for ‘High Net Worth’. I’d guess at the owner being a premiership footballer, international pop star, London banker, Oligarch or member of the Saudi Royal Family. It’s the kind of home that would grace the centre spread of Hello or OK Magazine.
Anyhow, the top-end fixtures & furnishings are being sold off, room by room. If you’ve just bought yourself a new mansion, you could furnish it in one fell swoop. But don’t expect to get anything dirt cheap – most of the 95 lots already have hefty bids on them – but none have even reached the reserve prices.
I’m shocked at the slushy drinks machine; bidding is already up to £600 (a figure that’s still below the reserve). How much does one of those cost brand new?
On top of the winning bid amount, there’s a buyer’s premium of 20% (not including VAT). The auction is to be held in North London – therefore, you need to ensure that you can get there to collect if you are a winning bidder, and have the knowledge and capacity to break down and carry away your purchases if necessary:
Collection is strictly by appointment. You must book your time slot to collect. It is the buyer’s responsibility to arrange for decommission, dismantling, removal and loading of items within the timescale specified. We do not offer a Delivery or Decommissioning service unless it is specifically stated in the individual lot description
Lot 1: Contents of kitchen
Includes all appliances shown: GAGGENAU 5 burner range, double sink, wine cooler, double fridge, ovens, coffee machine, dishwasher, marble worktop, glass surround extractor, faulty hot tap. EXCLUDES ceiling lights. To be dismantled and removed by the buyer
Current bid: £8,500
Lot 10: Licht Im Raum Stilio 10/7 glass chandelier
The basic elements of the Stilio collection can be stringed together like a string of pearls and combine playfully our system concept with refined light that never dazzles. The long success story of our Stilio-family has started 2005 with the beautiful basic module. Each light head is equipped with dimmable LED filament lamps. To be disconnected, dismantled and removed by the buyer
Current bid: £200
Lot 15: 1 x Vitra soft pad chair EA 219 by Charles & Ray Eames
Plus 5 x chairs in the style of Vitra & meeting table
The model EA 219 are the office swivel chairs in the Soft Pad Group by Charles and Ray Eames. Their dignified aura makes them especially suited for management areas. The extraordinary comfort of the chairs results from the combined effect of their tilt mechanism, which can be adjusted to the user’s weight, and the soft upholstery. Signs of general use. To be dismantled and removed by the buyer
Current bid: £1,600
Lot 25: Tom Dixon copper pendant light
Intended to create an extravagantly proportioned spotlight that could warm the greenish hue of early LEDs and create a more appealing luminosity, Copper shade is an over-sized, blow moulded and perfectly reflective globe that kick started the recent craze for copper in interiors the world over. To be removed by the buyer
Current bid: £300
Lot 30: Minotti Still side table in glossy gold nickel
Light and fine quality draw your attention immediately. Yet Still can also boast a profound dimension, minimal elegance as linking up six identical circles in the cube. Nor does the interplay of reflections, of full and empty spaces, avoid Baroque echoes. Design beyond design. Metal Ornament. To be removed by the buyer
Current bid: £300
Lot 50: Slush machine
Untested, 240v. To be removed by the buyer
Current bid: £600
Lot 58: Contents of utility room
Appliance unit H 266 W 135 D 71
Current bid: £1,000
Lot 62: Contents of music room
Includes: Diesel stud stools, Ingo Maurer Campari lights, acoustic panelling. Excludes: CDJ’s, mixers, vinyl/CD’s, bass guitar
Current bid: £800
