Hotel Chelsea, Madonna, Basquiat & Dylan

In 2018, Guernsey’s conducted one of the most unusual, memorable auctions ever when it sold 52 doors discarded from NYC’s iconic Chelsea Hotel. Saved from destruction by a homeless man who was able to link them (by their attached numbers) to the rooms of such celebrated Chelsea tenants as Kerouac, Pollock, Dylan and Warhol, the auction attracted global attention with many of the doors fetching six figure amounts…each! The auction house is now preparing for a more expansive follow-up, an auction celebrating the people, art and music that made NYC’s downtown the place to be in the latter decades of...