# Herve van der Straeten artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/herve-van-der-straeten/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:26:25.017Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Jewelry design, Furniture design, Mirror design, Lighting design

## About Herve van der Straeten

Herve van der Straeten is a French designer born in 1965 in Bretigny-sur-Orge. Wikidata identifies him as an interior designer, while the collected French, Dutch, and German biographies describe a practice spanning jewelry, furniture, mirrors, and lighting. The Dutch account indicates that jewelry preceded his later work in furnishings and related design objects. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across several distinct auction categories rather than within a single fine-art medium. Identification should begin with the object's function—such as a jewel, piece of furniture, mirror, or light—and then check the designer's name against stable authority records. The available source pack supports this broad identity and practice profile, but it does not establish individual model names, materials, production dates, editions, or documented series. Those details require object-specific evidence before stronger cataloguing or valuation conclusions can be made.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter jewelry, furniture, mirrors, and lighting associated with Herve van der Straeten. The collected sources do not identify particular materials, named models, editions, production workshops, signatures, or series, so those characteristics should be established from the object and its documentation rather than inferred from the designer's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by placing an object in the correct design category and comparing it with like objects. Jewelry, furniture, mirrors, and lighting can require different sets of comparables, making object type the clearest valuation factor supported by this source pack. Appraisily's collected input signals associated auction records, but the public page request was rate-limited and no underlying sale dates, realized prices, materials, edition information, condition notes, provenance, or attribution evidence was supplied. This profile therefore cannot support predictions about price direction or rarity. A defensible valuation would require object-level identification and comparable public auction records matched as closely as possible by category and documented characteristics.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this profile, the collected pack supports identity and broad design categories but does not expose the underlying lot or price evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3134682
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_van_der_Straeten
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Van_der_Straeten
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_van_der_Straeten
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/240139374/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012025675
- Herve van der Straeten: http://www.vanderstraeten.fr
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/herve-van-der-straeten/