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Niels Gammelgaard
Members of the Modern Shows® team have loved, lost and sold many pieces of Niels Gammelgaard over the years and still use pieces in our stagings at modernshowspropertystagings.com for developers…
Auctionet
Way back in 2011, a bunch of auctioneers, valuers, and tech-enthusiasts, deep in the trenches of a prestigious Swedish auction house, realised that the auction world was struggling to keep…
‘the show that never was’
“Above all, art should be fun,” said artist Alexander Calder best known for his huge mobile wire sculptures. And Geoffrey Powell at Twentieth Century Prints wanted to focus on exactly…
Modernism in Nice
In 1878 Queen Victoria, the woman dubbed “Grandmother of Europe” for making her children marry into almost every country on the continent, visited the capital of the French Riviera, Nice.…
Copenhagen & Bellavista
When it opened in 1960 Arne Jacobsen’s SAS Royal hotel acted as a kind of airport lounge, a place where guests could enjoy a glass before being driven right to…
Jacobsen’s London
While it is unusual for us to post a piece about a place where tours are few and far between, we thought you might like to hear about our latest trip…
Vienna
I thought I knew a little bit about Vienna. Chocolate cake, boys’ choirs, prancing horses, waltzing and a bit of Art Nouveau. That stuff (and some of it very good…
Silver Lake
You may know Silver Lake for its natural habitat, its sordid past as scene to the Manson murders or for its thriving Indie music and arts scene. Situated five miles…
Tokyo Suburbs
If you are ever in Tokyo, whether for a business trip or holiday, make sure you book ahead before making a beeline for Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan, The House of Tomorrow.…
Barcelona
Barcelona has such a rich history of Modernism it is difficult to know where to start. But without Gaudi and Miro, ‘Barca’ would not have the colours and sinuey shapes…