As the frontman of Queen, Freddie Mercury’s musical legacy is undisputed – the band had more than 50 UK Top 40 hits across three decades. But, as an auction and exhibition opening this week at Sotheby’s details, the singer was a style leader too.
Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own is made up of the contents of his home, Garden Lodge – he left the property and everything in it to his close friend Mary Austin when he died in 1991, and she has decided to sell the contents. It includes 30,000 items, everything from the baby grand piano used to compose Bohemian Rhapsody to his personal Polaroids, original song lyrics, and paintings and drawings by artists including Goya and Salvador Dalí. It is his clothing that dominates the exhibition rooms of Sothebys, with more than 200 items on display.
