RM Sotheby’s has announced a collaboration with Magnus Walker for The Magnus Walker Collection, a curated selection drawn from one of the most recognisable Porsche collections worldwide, and is due to go up for auction in late March.
The collection centres on a group of Porsche cars from Walker’s personal ownership, presented alongside a wide range of memorabilia and parts gathered over several decades.
“I bought my first Porsche in 1992, when I was 25 years old. It meant everything. It meant freedom. It meant speed. It meant a dream come true. It was the beginning of the next chapter of my love affair with Porsche. It represented a dream fulfilled, and it also represented a personal sense of accomplishment, having a dream that I worked toward and ultimately achieved,” said Magnus Walker. “I reached a point where this out-of-control hobby had come to define who I am in a way, and it feels like shedding my skin, a kind of rebirth. It has taken me some time to get to this point where I am ready to let some of these cars go.”
For the uninitiated, Magnus Walker is a British-born Porsche collector, designer and entrepreneur, widely recognised for his involvement with classic and custom Porsche 911s. Born in Sheffield in 1967, he moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s, where he established a career in fashion design, founding the clothing label Serious Clothing.
Over time, his focus shifted towards Porsche, where he has built a significant reputation as a collector, restorer and modifier of air- and water-cooled 911 models. However, he has also developed a relationship with TWR with its Jaguar-based Speedcat.
The collection, which goes up for sale between March 18 and 25, includes items from the early short-wheelbase models to the Turbo variants of the following decade and the front-engined Porsches of the 1980s and 1990s, and the lot list is said to reach as high as 160. However, specific items have yet to be made known.
More details can be found here.
