Biography
Louis-Xavier Joseph has run the furniture department in Paris for the last 6 years. He has developed his expertise in Furniture for over 20 years, first joining Sotheby’s in 2011 after which he became the Head of Furniture in Paris in 2019. Under his leadership, Sotheby’s has become the dominant Furniture market leader in Paris since 2020.
Mr Joseph has developed close advisory relationships with some of the category’s most influential collectors worldwide and has cultivated cross-category engagement with a new generation of Furniture buyers. During his time at Sotheby’s, he has sold some of the most important pieces of furniture to appear at auction and has been involved in numerous landmark single-owner sales, including the Pierre Bergé collection, the Ribes collection, the Karl Lagerfeld collection, the Hôtel Lambert collection and the Hubert Guerrand-Hermès collection. He has set several world auction records, including a pair of Louis XVI armchairs from the sisters of King Louis XV, a chair from Queen Marie-Antoinette’s boudoir at Versailles and a table by Andre-Charles Boulle.
Before joining Sotheby’s in 2011, Louis-Xavier worked for eight years in the Furniture department of an international auction house in Paris. He is a graduate of ESCP Business School and also holds a UK Master of Science in Management from the University of London, as well as the German Diplom-Kaufmann degree from ESCP-EAP Europäische Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin.
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