Modern Makers at MM
We always get really excited when our November show comes around as it is always the most popular with contemporary designers getting busy with it before clocking off for Christmas. To add to our usual Midcentury master dealers we have a host of incredible contemporaries. One designer we are proud to introduce you to is Jo…
Stand Out Ceramics
Petra and I love going to auctions. We have a couple of pieces in the 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design sale at Chiswick Auctions taking place on Tuesday 9th October at 11am so we are doubly excited to see how they do. To add to our Scandinavian offering, which we will bring to light at the…
Our Goldfinger Show
Buy tickets now for this outstanding show for collectors and public alike. To find out more head to the main Modern Shows website where you will find a directory of the high standard we expect from dealers and the huge range of prices of collectables and lower cost pieces or buy tickets. Make a day…
Hepworth Return
We are very excited to announce that we have been asked back to the Hepworth Gallery for 2019 and are booked into a lovely warm end of June slot to ensure you have all come out of Winter hibernation, have done your Spring cleaning and are geared up for a Summer of interiors love. Modern…
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. To help her manage the hardship of being away, local business types ran up a home away from home evoking as much Victorian pomp and…
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 the SAS check in, more or less. It has changed, like a lot of things, but, it is still only about 20 minutes from Copenhagen Arrivals before you…
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 to the Danish Embassy. As founding partners of Modern Shows® we put on four shows where dealers and designers gather to sell beautiful wares to an…
Midcentury Modern® is back
This March, Midcentury Modern® returns with its heady mix of modern and vintage ready to kickstart Spring. Bring on the sun with Living Room’s sunflower yellow sofa part of a fabulous range of midcentury-inspired designs including sumptuous wool sofas and armchairs in ochres, rich reds and moss greens made by a designer who used to work for Made. You can be sure…
Mixing it up at The Hepworth
We are not only gearing up to furnish your home with design classics priced to suit all pockets from carefully selected top dealers at the first Northern pop-up event from Modern Shows®. We also can’t wait to hear Trevor McNamee, the owner of Jalapeño Records, who counts Smoove & Turrell, The Allergies, Kraak & Smaak and Gizelle Smith…
Nordic Exhibition 2018
Thanks to all who made our Hepworth Gallery show in Wakefield such a success. Our midcentury weekends are always a lot of fun and the follow-up stories really fuel our passion to do more shows. Neil Sully from Modern ID was particularly delighted when a couple of ladies bought the Verner Panton Moon Lamp for Louis…
