Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris: Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton Sale, November 25
A sale of 295 lots devoted to luxury houses opens in Paris this November, bringing together heritage pieces and unexpected discoveries from three of the world's most coveted brands.
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Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr is selling 295 lots of Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton on Wednesday 25 November at avenue Hoche, Paris, a catalogue that gathers handbags, jewellery, accessories and unexpected pieces across the three houses: furniture, skis, a bicycle, tableware and shoes drawn from decades of their output. The sale is a survey of what collectors choose to keep and what they eventually pass on, a secondary market reckoning where provenance and condition override the brand’s own narrative.
The Hermès Constance 18 in Chamkilight Doré leather, estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 euros, anchors the maroquinerie section. The Constance is the house’s smallest structured handbag, its proportions tighter and its H clasp more architectural than the Birkin or Kelly; it has become the piece connoisseurs choose when they already own the monuments. Alongside the signature pieces sit the surprises that reveal how luxury houses extend themselves beyond clothing: Chanel skis, Hermès furniture, Hermès tableware and that bicycle. These objects make a claim about philosophy rather than fashion, suggesting a vision of how one moves through the world from morning to mountain.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr carries the weight of its own genealogy. Cornette de Saint Cyr was a legendary Parisian auction house before the merger, and that history matters when selling handiwork that demands to be understood by someone who knows its grammar. The venue, avenue Hoche in the eighth arrondissement, sits within sight of Place de la Concorde, placing the sale within the grand Parisian tradition of objects being weighed, catalogued and passed on.
The preview opens Saturday 21 November through Tuesday 24 November, afternoons and evenings, allowing collectors to handle the leather, study the stitching and understand what the estimate means in hand. The sale itself takes place Wednesday 25 November at 1 pm. The maroquinerie section surveys the evolution of the shoulder bag, crossbody and clutch as three houses have imagined them across decades. Jewellery, tableware, accessories, fashion and shoes complete a collection that treats the object as primary, each piece a conversation between discipline, material and vision.
The preview runs across three days, from Saturday 21 November through Tuesday 24 November, each afternoon and evening an opportunity to handle the leather, study the stitching, understand what 15,000 euros in Hermès really means when you hold it in your hands. The sale itself takes place on Wednesday 25 November at 1 pm. What makes such catalogues matter is not the outcome but the ritual: the acknowledgement that these objects, once new and hoped for, have moved into the realm of the chosen few who understand their grammar.
The maroquinerie section alone surveys the evolution of the shoulder bag, the crossbody, the clutch as it has been imagined by three houses across decades. Jewellery, tableware and accessories fill out a portrait of luxury as it was lived: pieces for the wrist, the table, the hand. Fashion and shoes round out a collection that treats the object as primary. Each acquisition reveals what happens when discipline and materials meet vision, and what those conversations are worth when they come to rest in the secondary market.
Imagery courtesy of Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr (@bonhamsparis).
