Christies sale of Design achieved a total of 4,863,375 with 79% sold by lot and 93% sold by value. This season again, the department presented a solid sale which was offering 107 lots covering all periods and categories from Art Deco with Armand Albert Rateau (1882-1938) and its pair of `Fennecs` lamps sold 466,000, Design with an exceptional jardinière by Jean Goulden (1878-1946) sold 175,000 or a nice Lampadaire 1050/2, realised in 1951 by Gino Sarfati (1912-1985) which more than tripled its pre-estimate, sold for 97,500, the animal bronzes with a remarkable Jaguar Accroupi by Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916) which sold for 826,000 against a presale estimate of 400,000-600,000. International collectors also paid a beautiful tribute to Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne whose 8 lots offered realized a combined total of 1M. The top lot of this section, a pair of
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