A Ford family estate is auctioning off 650 treasures worth more than $5 mn
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Last Updated: Feb 15, 2021, 09:21 AM IST
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Christie’s will auction items from the estate of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of auto titan Henry Ford II.
The third wife of the industrialist split her time between a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, the Belgravia apartment, and Turville Grange in Buckinghamshire after his death in 1987. (Image: Mrs. Henry Ford II’s Palm Beach residence/christies.com)
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On March 30, Christie’s will auction about 250 lots from the estate of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of auto titan Henry Ford II. A few weeks later, the auction house will host a separate sale from her estate in London, where she had an apartment on Eaton Square.
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She married into one of the most famous American dynasties of the 20th century, so it is no surprise that Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the third wife of the automotive millionaire Henry Ford II, acquired a stunning collection of artworks, interiors and homeware in her lifetime. Now, over 650 pieces from her three homes - Turville Grange in the English countryside (once the home of Lee Radziwill and her husband Prince Stanislas), a mansion flat in London s Eaton Square and a beach house in Palm Beach, Florida - are to go up for auction in two sales by Christie s in New York and London.