Paris mansion’s contents at auction in house clearance par excellence

Baron de Redé, Amanda Lear and Salvador Dalí at the Bal Oriental in the Hôtel Lambert in 1969. Photograph: Sotheby's

It has been described as the “sale of the century”, an auction of more than 1,300 pieces of 17th to 20th-century furniture, art, jewels and interior decoration from one of Paris’s grandest mansions.

The lavish interior of the Hôtel Lambert, by interior designer Alberto Pinto, who in many rooms followed in the sumptuous style originally envisaged and conceived by Renzo Mongiardino. Photograph: Sotheby’s