Single property

24-25 March 2014
Total sold € 1.196.139 Percentage of lot sold 88.8 % Percentage of lot sold by value 109.8 %
CONTACTS
Guido Wannenes
Chiara Guiducci
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ROME & CORTINA THE COLLECTIONS OF GENNARO BERGER AND CLAUDIO ZANETTIN

The pomp of Baroque Rome and the Grand Tour is the cultivated background of the antique dealer Gennaro Berger who, in over thirty years activity in his two Roman galleries, in Via Margutta and Via dei Coronari, collected an array of fascinating objects that ranged from painting and sculpture to archaeology and the wunderkammer. At first he purchased all that came before him then gradually became more selective as his career progressed – a career that stood out for the sobriety and fine taste of the pieces he collected. Cortina has always been the “Pearl of the Dolomites” and held the Winter Olympics in 1956. It has also been the backdrop to unforgettable films such as the “Pink Panther” with David Niven and Peter Sellers and “For Your Eyes Only” in which Roger Moore impersonated the seductive special agent, James Bond – 007. Cortina has long been a meeting place for Italian and international business makers and has, at the same time, always cultivated a strong artistic vocation with galleries and antique dealers who have made the resort ever more exclusive over the years. One of the champions of this continual rise in fortunes for the town has been Claudio Zanettin, a highly successful antique dealer and refined interior designer who, over the last thirty years, has dictated the style and tastes of such an exclusive destination. The effervescence of the 1980’s, the character of the 1990’s and the return to tradition witnessed in the last decade are all entrenched in the style that Claudio Zanettin chose to furnish his chalet. Objects displayed with elegance demonstrate the pleasure taken in furnishing and decorating a house – a variety of very different objects, all sitting splendidly together and all benefitting from such a contamination of genre. In La Ruota, his gallery in the centre of Cortina, famous personalities such as Elton John and Luca di Montezemolo, Pietro Barilla and Silvio Belusconi passed through over the decades. It was the true connoisseurs, however, who like Claudio Zanettin, loved and searched for beautiful pieces, who were the most prized customers, of his gallery in the Dolomites.
24-25 marzo 2014
Total sold € 1.196.139 Percentage of lot sold 88.8 % Percentage of lot sold by value 109.8 %
CONTACTS
Guido Wannenes
Chiara Guiducci
Tel. +39 010 2530097 Fax +39 010 2517767

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