We have opened an exhibition dedicated to the next major event of the auction house A 10 by Artmark, the Interior Auction, with decorative art pieces, many from the collection of the family that owned the Royal Hotel in Kampulung Muscel. Yes, this is a favorite place of the royal family at the turn of the 19th century.

Built by the Stefanescu family, the hotel was visited many times by Charles I, Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Ferdinand, and one of these occasions was even immortalized in a famous 1891 photograph of the three on the balcony of the building, greeting each other. people gathered in the street to see them as close as possible.

It gives us the smell of those times and some lots of the current auction. Having left the country with the arrival of the communists, the family of heirs to the Royal Hotel in Kampulung Muscel continued to nurture their passion for style, beautiful life and culture, continuing to collect decorative arts in all registers, but especially exquisite, original glassware made by the great artists of the time – Halle, Lalique, Daum Nancy. We will give an example with o Becker lamp, with a laminated glass shade, uniquely decorated with bats, approx. 1905 (with a starting price of 1,000 euros), as well as p Halle vessel decorated with water lilies and reeds, ca. 1900-1910, the starting price of which is 600 euros.

Here are more details about the famous monument building. The grand Regal Hotel was built in the old center of Kimpulung Muscel, Bucharest’s chic stopover on the way to the Fegaras Mountains, Nice Stefanescu in 1890. After the advent of communism, it was confiscated, and its name was changed to Hotel Unique. In recent years, caught up in lawsuits between the state and the heirs, it has been idle, but its decorative profile still speaks of the city’s former grandeur and the taste of the anti-pendada it harbored, whether in residence or on the road.

Today, the building that once housed the royal family has lost its luster… And not everyone remembers that the city of Kimpulung-Muszel for more than four decades was the first capital and an extremely important political center during the time of the first ruler of the independent state of Wallachia – it was the residence of Basarab I (in the period 1310-1352).

However, the objects of the heirs’ historical collection have retained their charm. They can be admired at an exhibition with free entrance, which is already open at Palatul Cesianu-Racoviță (from CA Rosetti Street, No. 5). In the same event, which will take place on April 11 from 19.00, other outstanding works also take part: an impressive Regency wood console signed L. Deruelle à Gand (from the end of the 19th century) – with a starting price of 3000 euros, but also A Congolese ivory horn with an elegant Louis XV standgilded bronze (ca. 1900) – starting price 2000 euros.

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