Decorative art collection from the heirs of the famous Royal Hotel in Campulung Muscel, up for auction

Objects of decorative art, many of them from the collection of the family that owned the Royal Hotel in Câmpulung Muscel, will be sold, on April 11, by Artmark.

The hotel, built by the Ştefănescu family, was visited many times by Carol I, Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Ferdinand, and one of these occasions was even immortalized in a famous photograph from 1891, with all three of them in the balcony building, greeting the people gathered in the street.

Leaving the country when the communists came, the heir family of the Royal Hotel in Campulung Muscel continued to cultivate their passion for style, beautiful life and culture, continuing to collect in all registers of decorative art, but especially refined glassware, by the author, made by great artists of the time – Galle, Lalique, Daum Nancy.

The grand Hotel Regal was built in the old center of Câmpulung Muscel, Bucharest’s chic stop on the way to the Făgăraş Mountains, by Niţă Ştefănescu, in 1890. After the advent of communism, it was confiscated and its name was changed to Hotel Unique. In recent years, caught in lawsuits between the state and the heirs, it has been dysfunctional, but its decorative profile still speaks of the former greatness of the city and the taste of the patronage it housed, in residence or in transit.

Today, the building that once housed the royal family has lost its luster. The town of Câmpulung Muscel was, for more than four decades, the first capital and an extremely important political center, during the time of the first ruler that the independent state of Wallachia had – it was the seat of Basarab I (during 1310 -1352).

A Becker Lamp, with a laminated glass shade, uniquely decorated with bats, circa 1905, (starting at €1,000), as well as the Gallé vase decorated with water lilies and reeds, approx. 1900-1910, which has a starting price of 600 euros.

The objects from the historical collection of the heirs, however, retain their charm. They can be admired in an exhibition with free entry already open at the Cesianu-Racoviţă Palace (from CA Rosetti Street no. 5).

In the same event, which will take place on April 11, from 19.00, other remarkable pieces also participate: such as a spectacular wooden Regency console, signed L. Deruelle à Gand (from the end of the 19th century) – with a starting price of 3,000 euros, but also a Horn of Congolese ivory, with an elegant Louis XV support, in gilt bronze (ca. 1900) – with a starting price of 2,000 euros.

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