Collaboration: An Art Collector’s Minimalist Aerie, $4.9M

Philip Ferrato July 1, 2023

The late Chara Schreyer was one of the world’s great collectors of contemporary art, with a focus on art that was both radical and shifted paradigms rather than works that were safe, decorative or good investments. Over decades, she amassed a collection of more than six hundred works of art, all critical and defining by works by artists who broke the status quo including Ruth Asawa, Louis Bourgeois, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Gober, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd and Louise Nevelson, among many other pivotal artists of our time.

Shreyer didn’t simply store her acquisitions in a warehouse, but maintained five residences from Tiburon to L.A., collaborating over forty years with interior designer Gary Hutton in executing the most extraordinarily thoughtful and richly minimalist spaces for her collection, chronicled in Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer and Gary Hutton (Assouline, 2016).

One of those homes, her San Francisco pied-a-terre at The Four Seasons, just came on the market—an impeccable and luxurious setting of lacquered walls, gleaming epoxy flooring, custom carpeting, lighting and exceptional views.

Photo Credit: Jeffrey Norton Frisk for Sotheby’s International Realty

Even the primary suite bath is detailed and polished with Hutton’s signature attention to detail.

Photo Credit: Jeffrey Norton Frisk for Sotheby’s International Realty

Visit the listing for additional images, details and floor plans, plus an in-depth video interview with designer Gary Hutton about the design process. A a very special opportunity to acquire a unique San Francisco property, represented by luxury and architecture veteran Gregg Lynn at Sotheby’s International Realty.