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Article: $2.1 million dining room set
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- Pasadena Star-News
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- December 18, 2006
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PASADENA - A mahogany dining-room set designed about 1908 by
architects Charles and Henry Greene for their Freeman House at 215 S.
Grand Ave. has sold for
$2.144 million at Sotheby's in New York City, fetching almost four
times its top pre-auction estimate.
"That's a pretty startling price," said local auctioneer John
Moran. "But Greene and Greene items have been fetching very, very
strong prices for certainly the last five, maybe eight years."
The market has been especially strong for the very top pieces,
Moran said.
Greene and Greene expert Ted Bosley, curator of the Gamble House,
said the 11-piece Craftsman-style dining set was indeed a "premier
work" of the architect brothers.
The ...