A functional family of water-closet Hippo sculptures designed by François-Xavier Lalanne finished at Sotheby’s Paris this month at €2.1 million. Regular readers may recall that a Lalanne-designed sculpture from the...

At the Christie’s New York auction last month, the work 'Hippopotame I’ finished at $4.3 million, making the seller very happy indeed: the unnamed person’s $168K investment 13 years ago...