Curate Excellence
Three centuries of desire-making, still waiting to cross into real estate.
Sotheby’s has spent nearly three hundred years perfecting a singular craft: transforming the exceptional into the unmissable. That expertise — honed on Basquiats, on Fabergé, on objects with no fixed price because their value is staged, not stated — is arguably the most valuable intangible asset the house possesses. Sotheby’s International Realty carried the name into property. What it hadn’t yet carried across, when this mandate began, was the method itself.
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I buy Basquiats at Sotheby’s in a room where every detail is orchestrated to create desire. Then I look for a $40 million property and receive a PDF talking about square footage. The inconsistency is staggering.