Below are Amy's favorites from the sale: original designs and society publications from a golden age of Beverly Hills glamour.

1. Dominique Aurientis Clip-on Earrings

2. Paloma Picasso Book Clutches

3. Chanel White Sequin Flower Brooch

4. Very Vintage Courrèges Dress

5. Vintage Saks Fifth Avenue Two-Piece Caftan Set

6. Marble Pattern Picture Frames

7. Pair of Vintage Joe Columbo Riedel Goblets

8. Van Cleef & Arels Cadenas Wristwatch & Ralph Lauren Cuff

9. The Vintage Princess Phone

10. Vintage Red Suede Boots

11. These Insane Platform Shoes

12. Vintage Plant Stand and Pot

13. Every Single Vintage Maruscha Dress

14. The 80S Celebrity Society Magazines

15. This Gorgeous Perfume Bottle

16. Vintage Leotard and Matching Tights, Never Worn

17. The Vintage TWA Travel Guides

18. A Title I Can Relate To

We expect a lot of interest and a lengthy line to enter for this one. Unfortunately we cannot safely accommodate 100 people simultaneously, so please understand there will be lines inside the home as well - one to enter the main fashion room and others to enter the accessories rooms -- even a line to pay. The AC is no bueno - of course. We’ll have fans blowing. As always we appreciate your patience and good humor as we help this family handle their loved one’s collection.

Our Beverly Hills Major Vintage Fashion Sale starts tomorrow, August 15th and 16th, with extended hours: 9am to 4:30pm (with a 5pm close). Be the first to know- receive personal invitations and early address reveal by email! Subscribe on our website: handledestatesales.com.

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Below are Amy's favorites from the sale: including rare pieces from local artists, an Alexander McQueen cocktail dress, and curated accents to complete any space.

1. The Monumental Tara Donovan

2. Alexander McQueen Corset Cocktail Dress

3. This Chic Hat

4. The Exploding Clock Paperweight

5. Dana White “Santa Monica Pier” Photo Collage

6. Sweet Little Cream Pitcher

7. Vintage Set of “Rice Grains” Arabia Finland China by Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg

8. Vintage Self-help Book

9. Janus et Cie Outdoor Chaises with Custom Cushions

10. Gorgeously Upholstered Louis XVI-style Armchairs

11. Leopard Needlepoint Pillow

12. Vintage Backgammon Set

13. Vintage Costume Statement Earrings

Brentwood At Its Best starts tomorrow, August 1st and 2nd, from 10am to 3:45pm. Be the first to know- receive personal invitations and early address reveal by email! Subscribe on our website: handledestatesales.com.

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The home is filled with beautiful discoveries—modern art, fine art photography, furniture, global décor, jewelry, fashion, and accessories—but the collection is best understood through the remarkable life of the man who assembled it.

A few glimpses into his story: He served in the U.S. Navy from 1958–1960 aboard the inaugural cruise of the USS Ranger, the legendary aircraft carrier later featured in Top Gun. He trekked through India with Sir Edmund Hillary, received a blessing from the Dalai Lama, summited Mount Kilimanjaro, and set foot on all seven continents.

His commitment to exploration and education continued long after his travels. He served on the boards of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the African Wildlife Foundation, and was Treasurer and a Life Trustee of the Leakey Foundation.

That lifetime of curiosity is reflected in every room. Tribal art, primitive ceramics, global decorative arts, and an extraordinary library devoted to anthropology, archaeology, indigenous cultures, natural history, and exploration tell the story of a man who never stopped learning about the world.

Below are Amy's favorites from the sale; black and white art prints, unique books from the anthropology library, and rare male cameo jewelry.

1. Roy Lichtenstein party hat

2. Embroidered cocktail napkins

3. This bullfighting photo

4. Beatrice Wood autobiography

5. Vintage Matisse exhibition poster

6. Peggy Guggenheim book

7. Vintage Town & Country magazines

8. This pair

9. Our homage to Indiana Jones moment

10. All of the black and white art prints

11. The collection of gentlemen cameos

12. The hand signed Paul Landacre “The Quest” print

Mid Century and Beyond starts tomorrow, 07/18, from 10am-3:45pm. Be the first to know- receive personal invitations and early address reveal by email. Subscribe on our website: handledestatesales.com.

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Set inside a stunning Mediterranean estate, this sale is brimming with everything you need to bring a little dazzle into your life. Inside the home, you’ll find show-stopping rugs, vibrant decor, and an entertainer’s dream assortment of china, serving pieces, and kitchen treasures.

Poolside, a fashion pavilion awaits — curated from the wardrobe of a true caftan queen. And in the guest house, a mermaid’s fantasy of jewelry spills from every corner.

Below are Amy's curated favorites from the collection — yellow tulip bowls, statement pillows, and the perfect summer accessories.

1. This set of mid-century spoons

   

   2. Small, colorful glassware

   

   3. Waving Mao wristwatch

   

   4. Tramp Art popsicle stick box

   

   5. A set of yellow tulip bowls

   

   6. This pillow

   

7. The epic assortment of shell jewelry

   

   8. Set of Steuben Tortoise martini glasses

   

   9. Chinese pillar rug

   

   10. The green ceramics

   

   11. This caftan

Dazzling & Decadent in Beverly Hills starts tomorrow, 06/27, with extended hours, from 9am-5pm. Be the first to know- receive personal invitations and early address reveal by email. Subscribe on our website: handledestatesales.com.

For additional photos check out our Estatesales.net listing, Dazzling & Decadent in Beverly Hills.

I get to answer that question differently every week. Owning a Los Angeles estate company is the closest I’ll ever get to time travel.

A few weeks ago, we worked at a Trousdale home filled with Hollywood Regency glamour. Nothing about it seemed out of the ordinary, just another estate sale, until I stepped into the daughter’s bedroom.

It was frozen in time: green shag carpet, floral metallic wallpaper, pops of pink, a brass trundle bed, a white wicker side table. The kind of room that could only exist in one decade… and anyone who grew up in that decade knows exactly which one. I wasn’t cataloging anymore. I was at my best friend’s house in 1983, sitting on her bed, sorting Garbage Candy by color, “Come on Eileen” playing, waiting for the honk of my dad’s Cadillac Seville in the driveway.

There’s a scene in Peggy Sue Got Married I think about more than I probably should. Kathleen Turner faints at her high school reunion and wakes up back in 1960, during her senior year, a grown woman trapped in her teenage body, knowing exactly how it all turns out. Then she sees her parents, just as they were back then — and for the first time, she sees them as people, not just as her mom and dad.

My parents are gone now. Some days I’d give almost anything for a week back in 1983, to see them both exactly as they were. For a moment in that Trousdale bedroom, I was back there.

This is the part of the job no one tells you about. Some weeks, you’re not just selling a lifetime of treasures. You’re handed back a piece of your own life you’d long forgotten.

I wouldn’t trade this job for anything.

Her collection is as stylish and sophisticated as she is—a thoughtfully curated mix of old-world treasures, fine antiques, and striking Mid-Century Modern style accents. Throughout the home, you’ll discover beautiful antique book sets and art books devoted to her passions: jewelry, fashion, design, architecture, nature, and more.

Below are Amy’s personal favorites from the collection — a curated mix of antiques, dessert plates, fine art, and Tom Ford for Gucci. An array you can only find at an estate sale!

1. 1970s Sigurd Ressell for Vatne Mobler “Falcon Chair”

2. 17th century antique chair

3. No words needed!

4. Gentlemen’s Gucci Loafers

5. Vintage Limoges Picasso Le Coq Dinner Plates

6. Trompe L’Oeil Sardine Server

7. Vast assortment of antique portrait miniatures

8. Miniature WWI German Infantry Painting

9. Vintage Architectural Digest issues

10. Enough antique “R” china for a state dinner

11. Vintage hat collection

12. Charming Majolica dessert plates

13. Vintage Fragrance

14. 1997 Tom Ford for Gucci dress

15. Vintage flask

16. Antique still life painting

17. Antique buttons

18. The accessory wall

Gorgeous & Glamorous in Beverly Hills: Saturday June 6th and Sunday, June 7th, 10a.m.-4p.m. Address will be revealed Sat the 6th at 9a.m. to subscribers, sign up on

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There was no vision board. No entrepreneurial spark that ignited in childhood. I did not wake up one morning in my twenties with a clear sense of purpose and march confidently toward it.

I woke up in my forties, looked around, and thought: huh.

For two decades I worked in the entertainment industry. I won’t pretend it wasn’t sometimes glamorous, because it was. But somewhere along the way — gradually, then all at once — I fell out of love with it. It wasn’t dramatic. More of a slow fade. A mutual growing apart.

So there I was. Forties. Semi-talented (I told myself). Experienced (genuinely true). Completely, spectacularly lost.

I tried Real Estate. I grew up around the business so I knew a little about it. I learned an enormous amount about business development, marketing, negotiation. Skills I use every single day. The problem was that Real Estate requires a certain relentless, always-be-networking energy that bumps up hard against one inconvenient truth about my personality: I am, at least partially, an introvert. That coupled with the fact that I didn’t want to work weekends and didn’t have the stomach for its unpredictability. So Real Estate and I parted ways.

What followed I can only describe as The Wilderness Years; approximately a decade that included, in no particular order: working for a 24-year-old social media genius who was talented and not good at being a boss. Temping. Oh, the temping. I made copies. I stapled things. I answered phones in offices where nobody knew my name and nobody needed to. Then there was the holiday season at Williams Sonoma Beverly Hills, which I absolutely loved but is not for the faint of heart.

And then came the career coach.

I want to be fair to him. He was professional. He administered every assessment known to man: personality tests, interest inventories, Myers-Briggs type indicator, the works. He compiled the results, sat across from me, and delivered his findings with the careful expression of someone about to share difficult news.

According to the data, there was nothing I wanted to do. Zero. Zip. I laughed. What else are you going to do?

And then my mother’s health took a turn for the worse. I stepped off the hamster wheel of my uncertain Los Angeles life and went to be with her. It wasn’t a decision I agonized over, it was just the right thing. I became her caregiver. In the language of my heart, I was intent on making her final months as easy as possible.

That time was hard. It was also transformative. There is something about being present for someone’s final chapter that reorganizes your priorities with a ruthlessness no career coach or personality test can match.

She died. And then, because life is nothing if not logistical, I was left with two condos. In two different states. Full of a lifetime of things.

I did what any exhausted, grieving person would do: I handed the keys to an estate sale company and got on a plane back to L.A.

What happened over the next month — the way her items were handled. The way I was able to return to some semblance of normalcy while someone else handled the heavy lifting. The way her items found new homes. The quiet dignity of the whole thing. I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

So I called the company I used and asked if they were hiring in Los Angeles. It took a year of these regular calls for them to give me a shot. I knew immediately I was at the start of a new career journey.

My mother was many things: funny, warm, eternally optimistic, a woman with 75 pairs of the same black pants and enough jewelry to cover every inch of an entire primary bedroom floor. She spent the last decade of her life concerned about me, especially during The Wilderness Years, when my professional situation was, to put it generously, in development.

She didn’t live to see me find my footing.

But she gave it to me anyway.

I think about that a lot, the strange, roundaboutness of it. That the thing I’d been looking for found me in the middle of losing her. That her final gift to me was a direction.

I’m not lost anymore. I run an estate sale business in Los Angeles. I spend my days in other people’s homes, handling the things they treasured, helping families navigate one of life’s harder passages with as much care and expertise as I can bring. It’s a career path I could have never imagined for myself. It combines every skill I learned during The Wildness Years and then some.

Welcome to my Substack. Consider this your behind-the-sale pass to L.A.’s most iconic estate sales — the treasures, the tastemakers, the tea, and the occasional musing from someone who has seen the inside of more legendary closets than she ever expected.