François-Xavier Lalanne’s ‘Troupeau d’Éléphants dans les Arbres’ table kicks off ‘A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller’ Evening Auction at Sotheby's New York, soaring to $11.6 million—nearly triple its low estimate.
Blending artistry and function, Lalanne’s ‘Troupeau d’Éléphants dans les Arbres’ table bridges the familiar and the fantastical, the functional and the sculptural, and the fine and the decorative arts, encapsulating the very best of Claude and François-Xavier. The octagonal table, accompanied by seven free-standing elephants that, in many configurations, seem to march amongst each other as a herd under the trees, thoroughly encapsulates the simultaneously functional and whimsical world that was espoused by Lalanne for the entirety of his career.
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