NEW YORK – Christie’s Friday, June 7 Design sale features three sunburst mirrors by the currently white-hot French designer Line Vautrin (1913-1997). Her so-called Petit Roi Soleil mirrors, made in the material she called Talosel, have soared in value in the past decade. The complete sale catalog is open for preview now at LiveAuctioneers. Born […]

CHICAGO — A signature example of ‘protest furniture’ by Brazilian designer Jose Zanine Caldas (1919-2001) is among the starring lots in the Wright Design sale on Thursday, March 28. Previously in a collection in Sao Paulo, the Namoradeira tete-a-tete rocker dating to circa 1963-1967 was consigned by a vendor in New York and is estimated […]

NEW YORK — Dubbed the dean of industrial design, Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883-1960) began his career in advertising and expanded into typography and commercial packaging before focusing on industrial design in the late 1920s. This proved to be a key time for the nascent field, as the United States would soon suffer severe economic […]