Auction

Concorde

A Relic of the Skies: The Concorde Radome Nose Cone and the Art of Owning History

Concorde remains an indelible symbol of what humanity can achieve when ambition soars beyond the mundane. Sleek, audacious, and unapologetically extravagant, it was more than an aircraft—it was a statement. A statement that speed could marry elegance, that the Atlantic could be tamed in three hours, and that Breakfast would indeed be had in London and Lunch certainly in New York. David Frost, the silver-tongued titan of a broadcaster who once raced the sun aboard its cabin, famously declared: “You can be in London at 10 o’clock and in New York at 10 o’clock.

The Benjamin Ichinose Collection

“It was perfection,” wrote the late Michael Broadbent MW. The legendary wine critic and author, not to mention the man who launched Christie’s wine auctions more than 50 years ago, was describing the equally-legendary private cellar of Dr. Benjamin Ichinose at his home in Hillsborough, California. The cellar was, he insisted, “Absolutely perfect in every sort of way.”