New York
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At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, Bonhams will relocate its American headquarters next month. The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an opulent neoclassical rotunda in the historic Steinway Hall.
It’s a move that follows on the heels of Sotheby’s transformation of the Breuer Building, just one mile north, displaying coveted high-priced treasures in a space that has long functioned as a museum.
Both represent a push for auction houses to bring in the public, drawing them in with larger…