![]() You are selling some beautiful glass pieces in that style. In my new house, I built a street of little shops in the basement, and one of them is decorated in Art Nouveau. I will always love Guimard, the greatest French architect who did the Art Nouveau Metro signs outside the subway stations in Paris. It has flowing lines, and women with flowing robes and flowing hair. I remember thinking, “How could I ever have spent $45,000 for a Tiffany lamp?” But you look at it, and that just cannot be duplicated today. I don’t know why I am so drawn to the designs of the past - I must’ve lived before - but I love when something stands the test of time, when it is so beautifully made you just have to stare at it. Of course, when I was buying them then, beautiful beaded leather shoes were $4. When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. That design journey has included a “Hello, Dolly” chair, a Victorian table that nearly became a sink, and paint colors that she says are as indescribable as “the taste of an avocado.” The legendary singer-actress-director, who recently released her 63rd album, “Love Is the Answer,” phoned from Malibu to discuss her lifetime of collecting. A free public exhibition of the pieces runs from today to Friday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. 17 and 18 Julien’s Auctions event will benefit the Streisand Foundation, a nonprofit that supports environmental and women’s health programs. ![]() Because her current three-house compound in Malibu is devoted to these particular genres, Streisand is auctioning nearly 500 items from other periods and styles - Louis XV and XVI, Georgian, Art Nouveau, Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright and Art Deco - that once furnished homes in Beverly Hills, Malibu and Manhattan but have long been in storage. The singer-actor discusses her evolving interests as she auctions many pieces.īarbra Streisand, a well-educated student of antiques and vintage decorative arts, has finally declared a major: “Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love,” she says. ![]()
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