... and the band plays on
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Munich, 8 July 2008, (kk) - Everything went off without a hitch so topping-out will be celebrated on 23 July in the authentic Bavarian way. A traditional toast will be followed by genuine Bavarian brass-band music, bouncing loaves of rye bread from Andechs accompanied by savoury Bavarian cheese and crispy grilled chicken. “The inaugural auction at our new House for Art will make a dream long cherished come true,” thus Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. “Then all our art auctions will be held centrally at a single venue planned specially for this purpose,” the auctioneer continues.
On a property covering some 3500 square metres, a three-storey structure will boast a state-of-the-art auction room, a spacious exhibition area, an art lounge with a reading corner, a café bar with a cosmopolitan ambience and, at 8 metres in height by 23 metres in width, what is most likely the world’s biggest art display window. The Munich architecture practice Franz + Sacher have designed it all. And what is so fantastic about it: an ultra-sophisticated lighting concept ensures that the new Munich temple to the arts, including its underground garage, will be shown in the right light.
Some € 1.5 m have been earmarked for the building engineering alone, which Zickler + Jakob have planned on environmentally friendly lines. An ecologically sound geothermal heat pump system using the ground-water will keep the building cool in summer and it will also be heated by ground-source water in winter by means of a low temperature water boiler. Hence the energy balance of the ground water will remain as close to neutral as possible.
Nor have the children been forgotten. The grown-ups will be at leisure to soak up the atmosphere while their offspring are being cared for in this new art environment.
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Since it was founded in 1954, Ketterer Kunst has been firmly established in the front ranks of auction houses dealing in art and rare books with headquarters in the Prinz Alfons Palais in Munich and a branch in Hamburg. Gallery rooms in Berlin as well as representatives in Heidelberg, Krefeld and New York have contributed substantially to our success. Ketterer Kunst has further rounded off its portfolio by acquiring the prestigious Ernest Rathenau Verlag, New York/Munich.