In 1928, in the elegant Trocadéro quarter of Paris, a young court-appointed auctioneer opened the doors of his study at 5 avenue d'Eylau. Nearly a century later, that modest office has grown into the largest independent auction group in Europe — a family-led maison spanning four countries and five millennia of art, design and the decorative arts.
Under the direction of Alexandre Millon, the group has quietly redrawn the map of the European market. Where once tradition dictated that prestige belonged to a handful of Anglo-Saxon names, Millon has built something quieter, deeper, and unmistakably French: a federation of historic houses bound by a single, exacting standard of expertise.
From the hush of the Drouot salerooms to the frescoed halls of Palazzo Crivelli in Milan, from the avenue Kléber to the chaussée de Waterloo — every hammer that falls under the Millon banner carries the weight of a century of scholarship.