Finn Juhl | Self-taught furniture designer masterpieces
Finn Juhl (1912-1989) was the first Danish furniture to be recognized internationally. The trained architect and self-taught furniture designer drew the inspiration for his Finn Juhl Credenza (1955) from the cubist movement and Goether’s color wheel, reflected in the piece’s simple geometric shapes and interlocking planes and its sliding doors and six trays finished in […]
Curtis Jere | Vintage Mid Century Modern Metal Sculptures
Vintage Curtis Jere iconic mid-century sculptures are becoming increasingly popular and much sought after by collectors. The Curtis Jere wall art is equally at home in modern or traditional interiors as it ranges from enameled natural scenes to edgy metal abstract sculpture. It may come as a surprise by Curtis Jere is actually not a […]
Tommi Parzinger | Key creator of the Hollywood Regency look
Tommi Parzinger was a German furniture designer and painter, known for high-styled modernism. He’s considered one of the key creators of the Hollywood Regency look and many of his pieces were commissions or custom-built for discerning clientele. To this day, his designs are stylish, versatile and incredibly au courant. This Studded Console is an all […]
Percival Lafer | Brazilian Modernist Furniture Designer
After concluding his degree in Architecture at the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Percival Lafer took over his father’s furniture company The Lafer Co. His motto, since day one, was innovation. Every design should reflect state-of-the-art technologies applied to innovative ideas. Contemporary designs intended for the mass market; every design should be different and original, therefore […]
Kem Weber | The Mid-Century Modern Designer Who Paved the Way for IKEA
Like almost all the modernists in Los Angeles in the 1920s, Kem Weber was a transplant to the city. He was born Karl Emanuel Martin Weber (in his twenties, he began using his initials as his first name) in Berlin in 1889. After serving as an apprentice cabinetmaker in his teens, he studied architecture and […]
Gaetano Pesce | Italian Designer and architect – Italian Modern
Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Gaetano Pesce studied Architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 to 1963 and was a participant in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the Bauhaus. In the “Nobody’s Royal” queen armchair made by Zerodesegno. A unique piece signed and dated. The body […]