How Rod’s hoping to make a pretty Penny...
Sir Rod auctions glitzy furnishings from his mansion
IT is not exactly your typical range of rock star memorabilia. But Rod Stewart fans will have the chance to own a piece of the singer when he auctions some of the contents of his Essex mansion next month.
Most items could hardly be called rock’n’roll. They range from ornate gilt bronze side tables to a Louis XV-style sofa. The only lot with a musical connection would appear to be a piece of ‘black Americana’ – a minstrel playing a banjo.
Sir Rod, 7 , is selling more than 60 items from Durrington House, the £4.65million retreat near Epping Forest he and wife Penny Lancaster bought in 201 . The Grade II-listed property, which dates from 1712, has ten bedrooms.
The Scots rocker, whose hits include Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, Maggie May and Sailing, is known for his garish fashion sense and much of his furniture is similarly striking, with plenty of gold, leather and leopardskin.
Two 19th century gilt bronze candelabra featuring a boar, a lion and a dog have an estimate of £2,000, while two 19th century carved giltwood brackets with cherub mounts are expected to fetch £1,800. A pair of gilt bronze mounted side tables with glass tops are valued at £ ,000, as are a pair of 7ft pier mirrors.
The collection is being sold by auction house Sworders, of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, on September 11. Sworders director John Black said yesterday: ‘We all have a good old sort-out once in a while and that is the case with Sir Rod Stewart in this instance.
‘He has accumulated many things over his lifetime and has decided now is the time to have a bit of a clear-out.
‘The items are all very glitzy and glamorous and there is lots of gold.’