European Furniture & Decorative Arts: Part I

Among numerous other estates and private collections, our July 14-15 European Furniture & Decorative Arts auction includes property from a jewel of the San Francisco peninsula. In 1912, Joseph D. Grant, the financier and San Francisco civic leader, commissioned architect Lewis Hobart to design and build "Villa Rose." The 40-acre parcel in Hillsborough, California remains as one of the original, historic Gilded Age estates with lush gardens surrounded by wooded parkland. When Charles R. Blyth and his wife purchased the estate in 1936, they renamed it "Strawberry Hill," a reference to the home's pleasing pink color and a nod to...