Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study for the Rodin sculpture Burghers of Calais-not the final work-went for $255,237 in Monaco. The price set a record for any Rodin bronze...
...crowd in the chandelier-hung room at Monaco's elegant Winter Sporting Club was certainly stellar, stippled with the rich (Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, London Merchandising Millionaire Sir Charles Clore), the royal (Britain's Princess Alexandra) and the pop (ex-Beatle Ringo Starr). But the real stunners were the prices being paid for the glittering collection of French antique furniture and objets d'art that were on the block in what Sotheby Parke Bernet hoped would be the auction of the year...
...three repeatedly raised the price in jumps of $117,000. Finally, Ciechanowieski, nodding his head, raised the bid to $1.7 million-more than three times the amount ever paid for a single piece of furniture in an auction. All told, the collection fetched $12.8 million, which made the Monaco auction second in size only to the sale, for $34 million, of the famed Robert von Hirsch collection of rare art and furniture in England last year...
...Shirley Mac-Laine's television special, the Bluebells from Paris' famed Lido nightclub were called upon to dance two almost identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...
...Jean-Louis Scherrer, one of her mother's favorite designers. The altar billowed with blue, white and pink jacinthes (hyacinths). After the honeymoon. the couple will move into a two-room Paris flat not far from the apartment of another pair of distinguished newlyweds, Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Junot...