The Galerie Kraemer
Karl Lagerfeld, Couturier and Collector
“For high-quality 18th-century pieces, Galerie Kraemer is my favorite.”
Le Monde.
São Schlumberger, Art Collector
“When my husband and I were furnishing our house, we bought several things from the Kraemers and the prices seemed terribly high. But when I decided to sell them, I sold every piece for more than we had paid, so I cannot complain.”
W Magazine. House of Treasures.
Laure de Beauvau-Craon, Chairwoman of Sotheby’s France
“They are the epitome of respectability and seriousness.”
W Magazine. House of Treasures.
Patrick Hourcade, Artist and Artistic Director
“We would walk in with Karl Lagerfeld, into the Maison on rue de Monceau, each time with a perfectly concealed impatience.”
“Kraemer: a universe, a world of curiosities, where treasures stand alongside the unexpected. As Karl once told me: ‘At the Kraemers’, there is always something to see.’”
Peter Marino, New York Architect and Designer
“I had to sell two of my children to pay for it.”
Speaking with humour about the day he bought a Louis XVI commode
for his own contemporary apartment.
ForbesLife, Forbes.
Mark Hampton, Interior Decorator
“They do not pressure you; they let the piece convince you.”
Susan Gutfreund, Art Collector
“And whether you buy a chest of drawers or a candlestick, they treat you in exactly the same way.”
W Magazine. House of Treasures.
A Client with a Taste for Beauty
«Ultimately, Monsieur Kraemer, you have never actually sold me anything; it is always I who have bought from you.»
La Saga des Kraemer. Point de Vue.
Gillian Wilson, Former Curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum
“The Kraemer family is extremely discreet and constantly reminds us that they are never supposed to speak of the things we purchase from them.”
Gillian Wilson developed the Getty Museum collection with several magnificent works of art from Galerie Kraemer.
Francesca Amfitheatrof, Artistic Director for Watches and Jewellery
at Louis Vuitton “The most beautiful and elegant of partnerships.”
On the occasion of a collaboration with Louis Vuitton.
Boni de Castellane, Art Collector
“Finally, I would live near a city filled with antiques dealers, among whom I would find again Seligmann, Kraemer, Davis, Duveen, with whom I have experienced the keenest satisfactions of my earthly life.”
Memoirs of Boni de Castellane, Perrin Edition, 1986.
Jacques Grange, Interior Designer
«Admiration and Friendship for the Kraemer family.»
Joseph Achkar and Michel Charrière, Interior Architects
“The great Kraemer tradition, perpetuated since the 19th century.”
Fahed Hariri, Chairman of Pinto Décoration “Galerie Kraemer travels through the centuries like a living memory of beauty.”
Laurence Dreyfus, Art Advisor & Curator
“Galerie Kraemer is synonymous with excellence and the highest standards, offering what the 18th century produced that is most rare and most refined in terms of furniture.Crossing the threshold of this hôtel particulier in the Plaine Monceau is to enter into a dialogue with History—with a capital H —as its collections have traversed the grand history of the arts alongside that of Europe.”
Angélique et Guillaume Féau, Féau Boiseries
“Happy and proud to share this wonderful story with you. Driven by the same passion for the decorative arts and craftsmanship, may our houses continue to keep this inspiring heritage alive and to share this beautiful human adventure.”
Jean-Pascal Hesse, Author, close collaborator of Pierre Cardin and Deputy
Mayor of Paris’s 8th arrondissement in charge of culture “The Kraemers are the heirs to an exceptional savoir-faire and the passionate guardians of a tradition that continues to illuminate art and time.”
Christopher Forbes (Kip), Vice-President, Forbes Media LLC
“For a century and a half, the Kraemer family has offered the best of the best to generations of demanding collectors and to the world’s greatest museums. My compliments!”
Jacques Garcia, Architect and Interior Decorator
“My teenage memories return to me: a young student, passionate about the 18th century and coming from a world where extreme luxury did not exist. Access to the unattainable—that is what generations of Kraemers, like other great Parisian dealers, allow by showing such marvels with such kindness and simplicity, helping us believe that all of this is within reach. They all help me remember this sentence by Daniel Boulanger: To rise is to lift oneself from little. I believe in the sonnet, the cantata, in the Sistine.’”
Pierre Assouline, Writer
“Whatever the day, one is very likely to cross paths with curators, clients,
discerning collectors, art historians, specialised journalists, decorators, interior
architects, designers… All have visited Kraemer’s for many years.
They know the way. They know that they will find the largest choice of the finest
furniture and works of art from the 18th century.”
