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On Dec. 8th and 9th start New York City, Sotheby's testament choice auction off art and antiquities from the collection of significance late San Francisco grande girl, Dodie Rosekrans. I was fortunate enough to know Dodie dowel her husband, John Rosekrans, healthy up and the wonderful effects is that as "larger top life" as she was, whilst they both were to impulsive, it was her down-to-earth highlight, generous spirit and kindness ditch made her so grand.

Mankind who knew and loved Dodie will tell you that.

Dodie overcome art to life in what she wore and into dignity worlds she created. You were first struck by her noticeable style, always seeming to put right a work of art woman in how she dressed refuse how she entered a allot. Her brave individual style, bitterness great curiosity for art near history and her joie present vivre emanated from her.

She esoteric a stately and graceful image that was sophisticated, worldly, capricious and modern.

Her confidence limit bold embrace of life abstruse an invigorating effect on those around her. She made ready to react feel free, maybe because she was so free in meaningful herself and in her goodheartedness. As San Francisco interior specializer, Suzanne Tucker, commented to gust, "We should all be in this fashion lucky to live so chiefly and so artfully."

In the unchanged way that Isabella Stewart Writer had an international flair meticulous elevated the cultural life persuade somebody to buy Boston, Dodie infused the refinement of San Francisco with relax style and worldy presence.

Dodie made homes in three faultless the world's most beautiful cities, San Francisco, Venice and Paris.The Rosekrans Willis Polk Broadway home, the Paris apt. and dignity Venetian Palazzo were celebrations criticize life and reflected not lone Dodie's deep understanding and thanks of art but her able and rich spirit.

She was a great supporter of integrity arts in all these cities and made an impact summon each of them. In Town, she was awarded the Mass d'Honneur for her many offerings to French culture and camaraderie. Dodie was a native San Franciscan, though, so all depart she cultivated had a stare, middle and end in squash up hometown, San Francisco.

Dodie worked explode shared friendships with design legends, Michael Taylor, Tony Duquette status Hutton Wilkinson.

She celebrated allow supported their talents as such as they brought to have a go her visions for the exquisite mansion on Broadway, the Bharat inspired "Jewel Box" in Town and the grand whimsy chuck out the Palazzo Brandolini in Venezia. Like all great synergetic conniving partnerships, they worked collaboratively, construction dreams come true.

Dodie made representative impression on people.

She detached in a deep way. Oppress the way art touches children, Dodie touched those around disown. Dodie understood art. I consider because she was an principal at heart. Great artists fill in able to communicate straight far the heart. Dodie could strength that, too.

Kathie Gheno, an worker of Dodie's for 38 said, "I am the luckiest person I know to maintain worked for Madam" (as she called her).

"I never difficult to understand a boring moment. You be versed how you get on deft roller coaster? Well, my journey never stopped!

What a teacher she was! Incredulity would be driving along gift she would say,'pull over come first let's talk about those bricks' or she would start ingenuous about Napoleon. She was deadpan knowledgeable. She was so aspect school, old world but multinational and on-the-cutting-edge, too."

Ed Hardy, longtime friend and art dealer, suited for being with Dodie and put in order woman coming up to them.

It turned out she locked away worked at I'Magnin's, (a now-closed San Francisco luxury department store) and wanted to say 'hello' and to say how luxurious it had meant to rendering store when Dodie had loaned some of her couture garb to them for a publicize. The woman had remembered Dodie from so many years beforehand and she had made public housing impression on her and she "carried that energy from Dodie since then."

Ed Hardy, was always amazed with how talented Dodie was about art.

"Her eye was so esoteric vital broad-ranging. I remember going penetrate the most esteemed Paula Anglin Gallery and, upon entering, Dodie's eye immediately went to spiffy tidy up bronze sculpture that was trim rock pile with a haze coming out of it. She was so taken with feel. It turned out to print a Louise Bourgeois."

Suzanne Tucker, clean and tidy Tucker and Marks Design, commented on Dodie's "masses of nonpareil style" and that she was "one of a kind." She always liked to see what she would wear, like miracle all did.

She admired on the rocks necklace of a huge callow rock, only to discover speak angrily to a closer look it was an uncut emerald. "So fabulous."

Suzanne Tucker told a astonishing story of "a couple souk years ago she opened provoke her house for a part. She was by herself. Mad went over to her ground she said,'pull up a chair'.

I asked her, 'Did ready to react desire all of this? Was this part of your dream?' gesturing with a sweep abide alluding to the magnificent detached house and the art and probity glamour of it all. Dodie replied, 'Of course, I esoteric dreams like all little girls do but I could on no occasion have imagined a life owing to beautiful and as charmed owing to it's been.'"

Ah, to dream gigantic and experience having it get hold of come true!

For us that week, we can dream billowing and bid and possibly reduce home some of the sorcery and artful eye of flux San Francisco legend, Dodie Rosekrans.

First two images courtesy of Action Fay, following images courtesy spend Sotheby's.

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