Antiques: French Regency period furniture set to be auctioned

The Givenchy Collection event will be a sale to remember, writes Des O'Sullivan 

A late 18th-century desk with a mechanism by David Roentgen

The almost unbelievable style involved in owning a door knocker by Diego Giacometti speaks volumes about Hubert de Givenchy — a collector with a unique taste for mixing and matching modernity and classicism.

Deeply rooted in the culture of his country the world-renowned couturier always considered furniture in dialogue with works of art. His magnificent homes — Hôtel d’Orrouer in Paris and Château du Jonchet in the Loire Valley — display the fruits of this hugely successful quest for an ideal of classical beauty.