Jay Ahr Ballet Mécanique Selling Exhibition
Jay Ahr's Ballet Mécanique, named for Fernand Léger's 1924 film, is a Sotheby's selling exhibition of vintage objects transformed by the Paris studio, and the studio's first major showing of automotive work. The centerpiece is three Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupés from the 72 Ahr has collected, each taken apart into more than 70,000 pieces and reassembled in more than a year, including a 1975 coupé with a GM V-8 and a 1981 coupé with a split rear window. Around them sit Louis Vuitton Keepalls and Hermès Kelly and Birkin bags embroidered or woven with motifs from the places and years they were made, plus Jean Prouvé beds that Ahr reengineered to double as a bench or a table.

