Lluria Fine Art Services, Inc.



    

ABOUT LFAS AND JUAN P. LLURIA

 

 
       

Lluria Fine Arts Services, Inc., under the direction of Juan P. Lluria, is prepared to accommodate its clients in the appraisal and disposition important collections or simple estates. LFAS provides its clients with a wide range of related services including the appraisal of antiques, decorative objects and fine art; the sale of entire estates; and consultation on the sale or acquisition of single objects or works of art as well as aiding and advising serious collectors with acquisitions at galleries, art fairs and auctions.  Mr. Lluria is USPAP qualified as now expected by the IRS for estate appraisals of art, antiques and related fine residential contents.

 

A Note About the Illustrations in This Website: More often than not, the illustrations seen on the websites of various appraisers and collection advisors are just copied and pasted from various galleries, auction houses or other photo archive sources. Please note that, unless otherwise stated, all the illustrations of art and antiques you will see on this website were taken by Juan P. Lluria during the course of his professional and research activities and represent an authentic sampling of his “hands on” experience as an appraiser, estate liquidator, broker and advisor to collectors during these past 25 years.

 

Juan P. Lluria is a long established and prominent member the South Florida arts and antiques collecting community. At the same time, in his 30 years of experience Mr. Lluria is often active on various projects with clients and colleagues all over the country. And he has been mentioned and quoted in such respected national publications as Art and Antiques as well as having been discussed and cited for his knowledge in the French press.  Mr. Lluria, an art historian, has devoted his professional life, for more than 20 years, to the study and valuation of antiques and fine art. His areas of particular study in the past years are antique French and Continental furniture and decorative arts, early 19th Century American antiques, and old master paintings, and after 25 years experience is qualified in the valuation of general residential contents while also having access to an enviable network of specialist colleagues all over the world who can be engaged in the appraisal of world class estates and collections requiring exceptional expertise in very specialized fields of the fine and the decorative arts.  He enjoys a reputation for outstanding professionalism and for obtaining superior results for his clients. Mr. Lluria is closely connected to, and works frequently with many of the most renowned art and antique, auctioneers, dealers and experts in the United States and Europe, thereby serving LFAS clients with an efficient and lucrative disposition of their objects.
 

 

Juan P. Lluria seen on the right while examining a French 18th Century voyeuse by Geroges Jacob at The Chinese Porcelain Company with the world class expert on French 18th Century furniture Thierry Millerand at an connoisseurship seminar Mr. Lluria led in October 2007.

 

Juan P Lluria is a locally raised South Florida professional with serious roots in Coral Gables and surrounding area. After earning his degree in Art History from University of Miami, Juan P Lluria gained an invaluable “hands on” experience as personal assistant to the legendary Edward J. Robinson, owner of Miami’s oldest and premier antiques gallery, The Curio Shop on Miracle Mile during the 1980’s into the mid 1990’s. While there, Mr. Lluria was directly involved in the purchasing, restoration and marketing of the entire gallery inventory along with its owner. During that time, Mr. Lluria began to steadily build his experience, contacts and clientele which today count many of South Florida’s most prominent law firms, collectors and other professionals in need of his services and expertise.

 

Mr. Lluria is also a well known lecturer in this community. His lectures on the fine arts and antiques in their social and cultural context are avidly attended whenever announced.  These lectures have been given in respected locations including The Lowe Art Museum, the Wolfsonian, and at Sotheby’s Institute in New York City. In May 2006, Mr. Lluria returned to lecture at the Institute of Art in Minneapolis, where he spoke this year on Marie Antoinette and French Fashion in the 18th Century.

 

LFAS is a frequent participant in community affairs and, as time permits, offers Mr. Lluria’s abilities to cultural fundraising efforts in South Florida. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Lluria was an active board member and a highly successful fundraiser of the former Foundation for Villa Vizcaya which later evolved into the Endowment and Major Gifts Committee for Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Vizcaya is South Florida’s premier museum of European Decorative Arts from the 16th through the early 19th Century, and to which Mr. Lluria has also occasionally served with great love and enthusiasm as guest lecturer, informal advisor and consultant.

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Juan P Lluria (seated 3rd from the left) with various participants of an appraiser’s seminar on 18th Century French Furniture and Decorative Arts which he led in NYC in October 2007

 
Juan P Lluria has spent his entire adult professional life studying the decorative arts and the social history without knowledge of which the history great design is not complete. He is avidly engaged in a lifelong pursuit of connoisseurship in his particular area of special interest being French and Continental Furniture and Other Decorative Arts from the 17th, 18th and early 19th Century and has arranged special visits to many of France's greatest private country chateaux and Parisian hôtel particuliers arranging to meet and discuss the collections with owners, colleagues and other specialists. In October 2007, Mr. Lluria organized and directed an independent connoisseurship workshop on French 18th Century furniture which was avidly attended by appraisers, interior designers and antique dealers in New York City.

 

 

 

Juan P Lluria in the front centre after taking a group of participants to see the 18th Century French furniture at the Frick Collection during an connoisseurship seminar he led in NYC in October 2007.

 

 

Juan P Lluria with participants at an connoisseurship seminar he directed in NYC in October 2007 about French 18th Century Furniture while visiting the sensational Dalva Brother’s Gallery.