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Mile High Poster Club
At Midcentury Modern there is one illustrator’s work people come back to again and again. It is so hard to keep your eyes off it. The images not only emote, big time, they proved, early on, how commercial art could succeed without words to draw people in. Back in the 1950’s TWA hit advertising gold…
Wilkinson’s Wonderland
Modern Shows is so impressed with the supreme talent of Midcentury Modern regular, ceramicist Louise Wilkinson, that we want everyone to see her latest collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. If you too love enchanting, story-telling illustrations or have a passion for ceramics do take a trip to see what she has created for…
A Modern Day Bed with Midcentury Pedigree
This month in The Modern Marketplace we are proud to announce an exciting collaboration between the SHEILA BOWNAS archive and furniture brand PARLOUR. THE EDWIN SOFA is the product of Parlour’s collaboration with Chelsea of Sheila Bownas, a beautiful piece inspired by the versatile daybeds of the 1950s. Rich solid walnut pairs beautifully with a range of printed linens from the…
It’s all Hush Hush
We are so excited Freyja Sewell will be joining the Midcentury Modern fold this September at our pop up of 18 dealers and designers on the ground floor of the Old Sorting Office, New Oxford St at the biggest show of The London Design Festival, Design Junction. Ever since we climbed into her womb of a…
‘Isokon – for ease, for ever’ – History of the Penguin Donkey
Would it make you feel good to hear that even those in the know get it wrong sometimes? They do, which means every Midcentury Modern you could be a sniff away from uncovering a rarity for a snip from even the most seasoned of dealers. One of our most compelling stories was when dedicated Midmod stallholder, David…
Mid-century Mick-takers
We love a new company with a fresh approach. Whatever you call them upcyclers, reconditioners or creative customising supernovas, Humblesticks is here to have fun as well as sell furniture. Set up by a former design agency geezer and his wife, a sculptress turned interior designer, Humblesticks’ Richard Holman and Katy Shooter love renovating and…
Things we have loved and lost
Determined not to be bad drug dealers – our drug of choice being mid-century furniture – Petra and I have let many beautiful pieces over the ten years go since we have worked in the field of pre-loved design classics. Not wanting to be slave to our profession but its master, we see ourselves as…