Everything Old is New Again: Modern Furniture in the Modern Market

Vladimir Kagan armchair with original velvet upholstery

Remember that coffee table your grandparents had?  The one made out of Lucite?  Or maybe they had a stereo cabinet with paneled doors and metal grillwork.  Or maybe you just always wanted to live in the Brady Bunch house!  Modern furniture is popping up everywhere, and many people aren’t aware of how popular modern design is in the current market.

A big factor driving modern prices are designer names.  George Nakashima’s amazing work is hugely popular, as is the work of Edward Wormley, and while many of us might have passed by this Kagan chair pictured above with fabulous orange velvet upholstery at a neighborhood yard sale, it brought an astounding $10,200 at auction!  Egg chairs, stereo cabinets, blonde wood, and abstract forms – it’s all here.  Prices4Antiques can help you recognize a goldmine buried underneath blue shag upholstery.

-Hollie Davis, Senior Editor, p4A.com