American Avant-Garde: The James D. Zellerbach Residence by Frances Elkins

Victoria Tudor began her career with christie’s in 2008 based in New York. As a Specialist with the Decorative Arts department and a contributing member of the Private and Iconic Collections team, Victoria participated in important sales The Private Collection of President & Mrs. Ronald Reagan (2016); the landmark sale of The Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection (2018); and oversale the single owner sale of affable art and antiques dealer Mr. Joel Chen of JF Chen, Los Angeles, Ca. (2018). The opportunity to celebrate the marriage of antique and 20th century design appeared again as Victoria acted as the head of sale for The Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio (2020), the concurrent single owner online sales of renowned French interior designer Henri Samuel interiors; and contributed as head of Design in the Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (2020). In 2021, Victoria joined the Design department as Head of Sale to spearhead the New York calendar of sales for the dedicated department.

In Design, Victoria has lead the team to increased marketshare and exponential growth for the category – through a combination of various owner and single owner sale opportunities. As head of sale for Design and Tiffany sales annually, in addition to key roles in unique opportunities such as Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private Collection (2022), Victoria has also implemented the first mid-season online auction series Modern Collector beginning in Spring 2022. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Victoria received her Bachelor’s from Bowdoin College in Maine with a focus in Latin American Literature, Spanish Language and International Relations. She has her Colored Stones certification from the Gemological Institute of America and is serving as an auctioneer for Christie’s since 2021.

Alex Heminway is a Senior Vice President and International Head of Design at Christie’s, New York. In his current role, Mr. Heminway is responsible for the global management of the department, which focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century decoratitive arts and design. The department holds multiple annual auctions in its various sale sites including New York, London, and Paris. He oversees business strategy with other sale departments, including Post-War and Contemporary Art. In 2019, after nine years at another international auction house, Mr. Heminway returned to Christie’s, where he began his career in 1993. Prior to this most recent auction experience, Mr. Heminway worked at Cove Landing, Manhattan-based dealers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English and Continental furniture, fine art, and sculpture. Prior to that he worked in sales for post-war and contemporary art dealer Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, where he also worked on painter Ed Ruscha’s catalogue raisonné. Mr. Heminway has worked in the auction and gallery business in both fine and decorative arts for more than sixteen years between 1993 and the present

After a double degree in Art History at the École du Louvre and in Management of Cultural Goods and Activities at the ESCP business school, Agathe started her career in an international auction house from 2015 to 2020. In April 2020, Agathe de Bazin joined Christie's in the Design department, as Head of Sale. She quickly took charge of organising sales, particularly collections that would mark the history of design sales in Paris in 2021: namely the Marion Lambert, Stéphane Danant, Annie and Jean Dalsace (Maison de verre) and also Daniel Lebard collections. All these names sound like ideal opportunities to confront the views of those who are at the origin of the most beautiful design collections of the 20th century. Since her arrival, Agathe has contributed to the numerous world records that have marked these sales: no less than 11 for the Stéphane Danant collection, 2 for Pierre Chareau (in the Annie and Jean Dalsace collection), 24 for the Daniel Lebard collection, as well as the world record for a Claude Lalanne work, the 'Structure végétale' chandelier, which reached €3,740,000.

Après une double formation en histoire de l’Art à l’École du Louvre et en management des biens et des activités culturels à l’ESCP, c’est dans une maison de vente internationale qu’Agathe fera ses premières armes de 2015 à 2020. En avril 2020, Agathe de Bazin fait son entrée chez Christie’s au département Design, en tant que responsable des ventes. Elle y prend rapidement en charge l’organisation de ventes et particulièrement de collections qui marqueront l’histoire des ventes design à Paris en 2021 : à savoir la collection Marion Lambert, Stéphane Danant, Annie et Jean Dalsace (Maison de verre), ou encore celle de Daniel Lebard. Autant de noms qui sonnent comme des occasions rêvées de se confronter aux regards de celles et ceux qui sont à l’origine des plus belles collections de design au XXe siècle. Depuis son arrivée, Agathe a contribué à obtenir les nombreux records mondiaux qui ont rythmé ces ventes : pas moins de 11 pour la collection Stéphane Danant, 2 pour Pierre Chareau (dans la collection d’Annie et Jean Dalsace), 24 pour la collection Daniel Lebard, ainsi que le record mondial pour une œuvre Claude Lalanne, le lustre ‘Structure végétale’ qui a atteint €3,740,000.