Grading System

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  Finn-al Exam

  Dallas design dealer Abby Malowanczyk, whose gallery, Collage 20th Century Classics, specializes in Scandinavian design, rates the work of Finn Juhl, one of the most creative and prolific design talents Denmark produced…

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  Family Business

  Family Business: New York modern design dealer Paul Donzella describes how he weighs the aesthetic and market merits of particular artisanal works, using the example of the late twentieth-century father-and-son design team of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne For me, it always makes for an interesting conversation when a collector asks how I perceive a specific [...]

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  Wild West Virginia Artisans

  Wild West Virginia Artisans: We ask experts to weigh in on the merits of particularly iconic pieces of modern design. Here, Damon Crain, proprietor of the New York by-appointment gallery Culture Object, discusses the mod, mad, and vivid studio-style work of the first four postwar designers at the Blenko Glass Company There are many important [...]

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  How to Play Poul

  We ask Experts to weigh in on the merits of the work of a particular iconic modernist designer. Here, Evan Snyderman, co-principal of the New York City gallery R 20th Century, discusses the subtle differences that determine the quality of pieces by the Danish designer Poul Kjaerholm.