The end of the dynasty leaves a lot to Roger to treasure
Now the contents of the apartment buildings in London – in Addison Road, Portland Place and Walton Street href = "Http://www.zentaistore.co.uk/play-costumes-c-1.html"> Spiderman costume – and elsewhere, are the last to be auctioned off after the recent death of his three Sons, the famous dandy, "Bunny" Roger mentioned.
Among the 1,500 lots is a £ 15,000 chandelier and dozens of six-figure paintings. All go catsuit under the three-day sale at Sotheby's from 28 January, which is likely to increase hammer around £ 1,500,000.
The list of treasures is almost endless: gilt mirrors, ornate rosewood tables, ceramics by Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, candelabra, papier mache, barbecue statues and dressing kits – Even a £ 1,000 silver chamber pot. Bunny Roger's exotic clothing – matching "subtitled by Sotheby's as" the cupboard from the 20th Century Dandy – are the "Amethyst Ball" Zentai Bodysuit he was until 1981 its 70th Birthday party in.
Bunny, a designer who opened his own clothing shop in Bruton Street in 1937, patience with £ 1,000 backing from his father, invented the "Amethyst" Anniversary because he admired the color mauve.
The Spiderman costume pearls to fetch up to 500 EUR.
Roger Alexander, the archetypal Self-made man, went from poverty to incredible wealth as chairman of the Telephone and General Trust. He married mayor's daughter Helen Clark in 1908 and they had three sons – Alan, Neil (Bunny) and Alastair (always known as Sandy). After the Second World War and Bunny Sandy shared a house in Walton Street, where her New Year's Eve parties were notorious. Photography by a "fetish" party, shows men in bondage straps catsuit High Heels and their wives move to chains, ended in a Sunday newspaper. Sir Alexander was furious, but Lady Roger said only: "I wonder how high in these managed to go heels all night. "
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