Modern Living: Garage Sale

It was the garage sale to end all garage sales. Since the total take amounted to $4,307,650, the garage had, of course, to be something rather special.

And it was. The auction was held last week to dispose of sundry bric-a-brac from the Château de Ferrières, a mansion east of Paris that the Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild are giving up. The Rothschilds have bought a multimillion-dollar pied-à-terre in Paris—the exquisite 17th century Hotel Lambert on the Ile Saint-Louis, where their friend the Baron Alexis de Redé has lived for years with his...

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