By Rob Wolfe of American Pickers Walk into any stylish home today, flip through Instagram, or browse a trendy furniture store, and chances are you’ll spot it: sleek wooden sideboards, low-slung sofas with tapered legs, and sculptural chairs that look…
By Shirley M. Mueller, M.D. In the mid-1950s, the United States experienced the emergence of a design movement that would forever shape our visual vocabulary: mid-century modern. Characterized by clean lines, organic forms, and an ethical embrace of new materials,…
by Jessica Kosinski The phrase “Mid-Century Modern” most often refers to goods produced in the middle of the 20th century. Today, the phrase is how we label a certain type of design, but that was not always the case. It’s…
Every year, Asheford Institute of Antiques takes a marketplace sampling of ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ by surveying its over 2,659 current students and past graduates actively employed or working within the antiques, collectibles, and vintage marketplaces in the United…
After falling out of fashion in the 80s and 90s, Mid-Century Modern is back as one of the biggest interior design trends of the early 21st-century. Last month in this column I shared results from Asheford Institute of Antiques’s annual…
by Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod $2,001 (65 bids, 18 bidders): 1950s Kelvinator Foodarama Fridge Refrigerator Retro. Listing my vintage Foodarama. I have been putting this fridge together for a long time. No room for it now. This fridge is…
