Mid-century Modern: High-end Furniture In Collectors' Interiors (Hardcover)
Recent years have brought a real revival and appraisal of the mid-century modern movement among architects and interior designers, whose most exclusive projects now integrate furniture, lighting and objects by Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Poul Kjaerholm, Le Corbusier, Børge Mogensen, George Nakashima, George Nelson, Verner Panton, Charlotte Perriand, Gio Ponti, Jean Prouvé, Eero Saarinen, Hans J. Wegner and many others, whose best pieces now sell at record prices at Christie's, Phillips and Sotheby's. In 20 reports, interior designers and passionate collectors of mid-century furniture, lighting, objects and artworks show how carefully selected touches of high-end mid-century modernism can contribute to a unique living environment. A chic, over-sized coffee table book, it is an essential object for mid-century design aficionados, interior designers with a passion for the modernist 1950s, and refined readers seeking inspiration for their own interiors.