ALEXIS ET NICOLAS KUGEL
They have continued to host exhibitions showcasing the truly exceptional.
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Hôtel Lambert. The two brothers represent the fifth generation of a family of antique dealers with origins dating back to early 19 th -century Russia, and Elie Kugel, a clock collector. His son opened a business in Minsk and subsequently expanded his domain to jewellery and goldsmithing. After arriving in Paris in 1924, Alexis and Nicolas’ grandfather took over the reins, and his son Jacques subsequently broadened the scope to include furniture and paintings. When he died in 1985, although the two boys were only in their twenties, they nonetheless flawlessly maintained the family’s reputation. Today, it is with joy that Alexis has welcomed his children, Laura and Matias, to the team. “The sixth generation!” Their goal is to interest the younger generation in what we do. Laura manages the gallery’s Instagram account and recently posted a video that went viral with 1.2 million views!” The Kugel saga unquestionably has a bright future.
Renaissance Limoges enamels and the collectors who have passed them down over the years. Among them, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Bergé and Baron Guy de Rothschild, as well as wealthy late 19 th century Americans who at the time had little or nothing to learn when it came to good taste... Needless to say, the atmosphere is particularly refined, and the seventy-two pieces on exhibition are worthy of a museum. The signature of brothers Alexis and Nicolas Kugel. Since taking over from their father, antique dealer Jacques Kugel, they have continued to host exhibitions showcasing the truly exceptional. We recall the exhibitions of ambers two years ago, tortoiseshell, mother-of- pearl, and gold-studded boxes in 2018, and two years previously Renaissance automaton clocks, fascinating in their mastery and formal beauty. The salons are also filled with remarkable furniture, paintings and tapestries, giving the visitor the impression that they are in the private home of a great connoisseur of the 17 th and 18 th centuries rather than in a gallery. Visitors may be fooled into thinking that they have crossed the threshold of the
www.galeriekugel.com Until December 20 th , 2025.
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