WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (ACNI) – Rico Baca and Wade Terwilliger, owners of Palm Beach Modern Auctions (PBMA), have confirmed to Auction Central News that CBS This Morning is planning to air a feature tomorrow about their January 17th auction. The story will air sometime between 8 and 9 a.m.
A CBS News team arrived at PBMA’s West Palm Beach exhibition center this morning to interview Baca about two archives containing personal notes Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote to her favorite couturier and interior designer, respectively. The dates on the various pieces of correspondence run from the mid 1980s through the early 1990s. An additional auction highlight is an estate archive of Kennedy family photos taken in Palm Beach by photographer Robert Davidoff.
The TV coverage is also scheduled to include interviews with the aforementioned designers who worked with Onassis: Bill Hamilton, longtime head of design for Carolina Herrera; and Richard Keith Langham, who was associated with the Keith Irvine interior design firm.
“The notes in Bill Hamilton’s archive show that his relationship with Mrs. Onassis wasn’t just about the business of making her look elegant and stylish; they were friends, as well,” Baca told Auction Central News. “Some of the notes reveal how involved she was in the actual design process, but others are simply very warm notes expressing appreciation for things Bill had done for her.”
A cordial relationship also existed between Onassis and Langham, who created English-country-style rooms in several of the first lady’s homes. Langham’s eclectic archive of correspondence includes thoughtfully composed thank-you notes and an illustrated book titled The White House, inscribed: “For Richard – Perhaps this great house will know your touch one day – your friend Jacqueline Kennedy” (dated March 4, 1987).
CBS This Morning, the award-winning TV show anchored by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell, covered a Palm Beach Modern Auctions event once before, in a broadcast that aired almost exactly two years ago. The subject was the company’s January 19, 2013 auction of the Steve Rubell/Studio 54 Archive, which garnered worldwide press and a then-record number of Internet bidders for PBMA through LiveAuctioneers.
PBMA’s Jan. 17, 2015 auction will begin at 12 noon Eastern Time, with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.
For additional information on any item in the sale, call 561-586-5500 or e-mail info@modernauctions.com.
UPDATE: View the video segment on CBS This Morning at this page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-letters-to-top-designers-up-for-auction/
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