Vladimir Kagan’s last work

A few years ago at the Furniture Society Conference I met up with Vladimir Kagan at the time he was presented with the Award of Distinction.  A jovial fellow, his designs were going in some new directions, but I really didn’t keep in touch, so I lost track of what he was working on. This…

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Louis Comfort Tiffany – Chairmaker

At the Winter Antiques Show in New York this weekend, I ran across this chair at the Hirschl&Adler Gallery booth.   Made by Louis Comfort Tiffany (yes, the same guy who did all of those wonderful lamps) sometime around 1891-93, it is a sidechair, and H&A has a table that is also similar. So I…

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