It was our recent pleasure to visit a good friend’s beautiful home and document his fabulous collection of mid century modern furniture in Rydal Pennsylvania. He has played a major part in our becoming MCM furniture collectors. We met over four Danish modern kitchen chairs he had listed on Craigslist, which has led to many […]
Is There Value in Names? To answer my own question right off, yes. Have you ever heard of The Beatles, Billy Joel, Rolex, Tiffany or Faberge’? Do you recognize the names, Bentley, Ferrari, Bugotti, Mercedes Benz or Jaguar? Can you remember Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen or Ava Gardner? I could go on […]
Embracing the modern style in the 1950’s was part of the post WWII American “Promise for the Future”. The climate of hope and an advertised encouragement to living, and affording, the good life, created a new marketplace for modern design in America. Introduced into the American imagination by both reality and fiction, mainstream America was […]
