Finnish modernist floor lamps shine at Woodbury AuctionWOODBURY, Conn. – Nine phone bidders and multiple Internet bidders competed for an unusual pair of Finnish modernist brass floor lamps that sold for $58,800 in Woodbury Auction’s annual Holiday Fine Estates Auction on Dec. 8. LiveAuctioneers.com provided Internet live bidding. The lamps were designed by Paavo Tynell (1890-1973) around 1950 and were produced by […]
Quaint Finnish homes in Warsaw face destructionWARSAW, Poland (AP) – Nearby the big city rumbles, but one feels almost transported to a quiet forest village when standing amid a colony of Finnish wooden houses in Warsaw’s government district. The homes, erected as temporary housing in the destroyed capital just after World War II, have dwindled over the years from 90 to […]
Cassandre, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Mucha star at Swann Feb. 29NEW YORK — Nearly 350 lots of vintage posters from the biggest names in Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Soviet governmental art will delight bidders at Swann’s on Thursday, February 29. The leap-year catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. So iconic in Finland that it was made into a postage stamp in 2006 […]
Titans of 20th-century design share the stage at Palm Beach Modern Auctions Feb. 17LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — Palm Beach Modern Auctions is mounting a massive 474-lot Modern + Contemporary Art, Design & Luxury sale featuring some of the biggest names in 20th-century design. The complete catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. The sale’s top-estimated lot is a 1982 work by Venezuelan optical and kinetic artist […]