Furniture on JFK's Florida home fetches $400,000 at auction

MIAMI: Furniture on late US owner John F Kennedy’s season retreat beneath Palm Beach, Florida provided on Saturday with regard to such $400,000, an sale house said.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers provided furniture and also vibrant arts during the celebrated “Winter Refined House” with mainstream items which includes twin sleeps and one massage table.

“Well-liked items include a couple of Venetian style walnut twin pads exactly where the forthcoming president slept with his brother Joe, and then (first lady) Jackie Kennedy” Hindman expressed in one report, adding the pads sold with regard to $20,000.

“The walnut body manipulate table exactly where the president brought massages to alleviate his back hurt provided for $10,625,” this said. “A pair of organic faux leather furniture during the bedroom exactly where John F Kennedy remained sold with regard to $6,250.”

The auction remained conducted at the same time on the market and around the Hindman Palm Beach display room. The collection on Kennedy paraphernalia was consigned through John and also Marianne Castle, a few who purchased both the home and also a lot of its ingredient during the Kennedy family beneath 1995.

The walled, beach Kennedy estate beneath Hand Beach which contents had remained sold towards the Castles once the death on parents matriarch Rose Kennedy beneath 1995. JFK as a child holiday at the mansion, and also spent a great deal of period there after as elected president beneath 1960, holding employer visits and lots press conferences.