• Aug 28,2018 | 13:00 EDT By Bidsquare
    A Beginners Guide: Collecting Modern Furniture with Jad Attal It goes with everything. After several decades and multiple comebacks, midcentury modern furniture has proven to be endlessly irresistible. With major retailers such as CB2, West Elm and IKEA continuing to churn out replicas of 1950s designs, the coined phrase from the 1980s, "midcentury modern" is now a popular buzzword being fired off by buyers in their twenties.  The vintage "modern" style seems to become even more modern as time goes on, both in appearance and theory. Original midcentury modern pieces and copies alike are appreciated for many of the same reasons designers such as Herman Miller, Florence Knoll, Charles and Ray Eames and Ee... Read More
  • Jun 01,2018 | 17:00 EDT By Jessica Helen Weinberg
    Victory in Variation: Bidsquare's Top 5 at Rago! The surrealist, the classicist, the craftsman, the strategist; four designers deeply dedicated to their distinct methods and ideologies. However, despite their differences, these four (soon to be named) characters equally effected and swayed society's understanding of modern design. Grappling with the role and function that furniture played in peoples everyday lives was a fertile topic - quite literally “on the table” for 20th-century designers like Meret Oppenheim, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, George Nakashima and Pierre Jeanneret. On May 20th, Rago Auctions in Lambertville, NJ unified these four influencers, amongst many others, in their Modern ... Read More