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Article: Design after 1945: post-War design is still affordable--but the best pieces are commanding much higher prices as collectors demand rarity and good provenance.(Collector's Focus)
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- August 1, 2004
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The market for design between 1945 and 1975 is young: 'Less than a decade,' says Simon Andrews of Christie's, who was responsible in 1997 for the first dedicated sale of such pieces by one of the big two auction houses--a useful test for the arrival of a new market. Private collectors, however, have bought such pieces at market stalls for decades, and small dealers that worked for love rather than lucre, such as 50/50 in New York and Target Gallery in London, have slowly found themselves with larger client bases. One of those private collectors, Warner Daily, disposed of his collection at Bonham's, London, in 1991, and as the market continued to grow in the late 1990s, ...