Each Friday, Russ Anderson, the president and CEO of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty and the CEO of Pacific Sotheby's International Realty, writes about luxury, trends, business and more in the advertising pages of the Mansion section of The Wall Street Journal. Below is his letter of December 12, 2025.
FROM THE PRESIDENT'S P.O.V.
Guess who has a brand-new home: Sotheby’s, the auction house, which has just restored and moved into a world-famous building in New York by one of Modernism’s masters, Marcel Breuer. (You may know his work another way, by his groundbreaking 1920s tubular steel chair with leather straps called the Wassily.) Come see it at 945 Madison Avenue. It’s a place that welcomes art lovers and collectors.
Sotheby’s has a thing for furniture and homes. The world’s leading auction house has 70-plus departments — art, wine, watches — that happen to include furnishings and design. A favorite? The 20th Century Design Department, which offers works ranging from the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco movements to the postwar years and up to the minute. It has sold furnishings by designers known by last names alone, including Lalanne, Giacometti, Prouvé and Perriand. Auctions take place in Paris in May and November, and in New York in March, June and December. It’s all at sothebys.com.
Did you know that Sotheby’s even has its own executive in North Texas who offers everything from valuations to sale advice? Our agents can introduce you to her. We love our affinity with Sotheby’s. It’s another asset for our real estate clients that no one else has. And, you don’t have to own a Picasso or a Basquiat to play. You may have a collectible table, chair or lamp that could bring you an impressive result.
Even better, if you need a wonderful table, chair or lamp, I know just the place to get it.
Russ Anderson
President and CEO, Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty
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