Contents from the former home of the eccentric music composer Lord Berners (1883-1950) will provide the focal point of Christie’s London Interiors Sale on April 12.
Berners, together with his companion Robert Heber-Percy, lived at Faringdon House, a Georgian country pile in Oxfordshire, from 1932 until his death in 1950. Famous house visitors during the Berners years included the Mitfords (Nancy Mitford immortalised Berners in her novel The Pursuit of Love as the whimsical character Lord Merlin), Gertrude Stein, Cecil Beaton and Margot Fonteyn.