The late great Dodie Rosekrans, who passed away last year, lived in this fairy-tale kingdom, a 17,000-square-foot mansion built in 1917 in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights. Dodie had a fantastic appetite for beauty”and bountiful resources with which to accumulate it: Her husband John was an heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune and co-founder of the company that made Frisbees, Power Wheels, and Morey boogie boards; her own father founded a theater chain that became United Artists Cinemas. Sotheby’s is auctioning many of the pieces from the Rosekrans estate on December 8 and 9 in New York. I had the great fortune to overnight at the house in 2007, when I was on a book tour with my Tony Duquette coauthor Hutton Wilkinson. Once the door to the outside world closes behind you, this is what you see. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby’s