Chandeliers, stylish armchairs, beds and even a branded pastry trolley… From this Monday, the Carlton, the legendary hotel on the Croisette, will be selling its furniture online.
“The idea is to buy a part of the dream and the glamor of Cannes,” says Sébastien Fernandes, artistic director of the Aguttes auction house, which will disperse nearly 600 lots from 40 euros, while the establishment is in works until 2023.
He expects "success with international customers", especially "Russians, Americans, British, Middle Easterners".
"It is above all the emotional side that we put forward," notes the management of the five-star hotel.
The Sofia Loren suite in one package
The last day of the sale is set for May 26.
The pieces are notably from the celebrity bar, such as a chandelier with 30 sconces and leafy scroll decorations, corridors and outbuildings as well as thirteen suites named after world-famous actors, from Sean Connery to Greta Garbo, through Liu Ye, Jean Dujardin or Alain Delon.
The Sofia Loren suite will be dispersed in one lot.
All the furniture was packaged in the fall of 2020 and decorator Tristan Auer was chosen, along with architect Richard Lavelle, to redo the hotel which, according to management, will not switch to modern design but will remain committed to style. Belle Epoque of the building and its listed facade.
Inaugurated in 1913, the Carlton, which became Qatari property in 2014 under the flag of the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).
Coronavirus
How the Martinez and the other palaces of the Côte d'Azur "got back on the road" after six months of closure
Health crisis
The Carlton in Cannes closes, the Riviera palaces in the panade
Auction
Heritage
Hotel
Cannes
Nice