“My mother,” says Victoria Brynner of Doris Kleiner Brynner, “would sit on this tiny chair near the phone in our kitchen, and her friends would all call: Sally Aga Khan, Valentino and Giancarlo, ...

Roughly one year after her passing, Doris Brynner’s personal belongings will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in Paris in late January, bringing to light her exquisite taste — and recounting her ...