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Hollywood or bust
What would you do if you had to choose between your new career as a furniture designer or working on the set of The Avengers with a cast you never dreamed you…
What the dealers say about Midcentury Modern
The lovely Dan Fontanelli from Art and Design films recently approached us to do a mini-film backstage at our Midcentury and Midcentury Modern shows and we could not be more…
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…
Goldfinger Going Going Gone
Snap up the Goldfinger Haggerston mug by ensuring you get into our spanking new show in East London early. Modern Shows (Midcentury Modern and The Midcentury Show) commissioned People Will Always…
‘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…
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.…
Desk Dynamo
We started checking our bank statements the minute this unusual English desk lamp by ‘Perihel’ Circa 1950 landed in our inbox. It was originally used as a medical ‘heat lamp’.…
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…