Design
 

It is time to ask design - from the investment point of view, it becomes more attractive.
In principle, I think it is entirely appropriate - for furniture and tableware to the 1940's. have long been in the category of "art" and have become collector's items, with prices of style «Art Déco», for example, reached a quite dizzying heights - think about the chair of the collections by Saint Laurent:)

Speaking about design, we have to deal primarily with brands, because here we are dealing with the production edits.
For example, all known names such as Rosenthal, Daum, Lalique ... As you see, I list the manufacturers of glass, and it is not by chance - I love glass and I think I know him well enough. I hope that the forum there are specialists in furniture and porcelain, which will continue the story.

However, to start this topic, I wish not to any brand, but with the designer, which I really like it Borek Shipek, Germanic-Netherlandish graphic designer, born in the P /raga in 1949 and who left Czechoslovakia in 1968
Now he is very famous. Он занимается полным решением интерьерыов (президентский дворец в Праге, магазин Лагерфельда в Париже, особняки миллионеров в Юго-Восточной Азии), а также проектирует мебель, стеклянные, металлические предметы.
In my opinion, his work is radically different from anything that can be found in this market. Style Shipeka - this is a kind of neo-baroque, and his subjects know instantly. Nowadays, design «clean» and «high tech», he is not afraid to overload his work ornamentation, violate the proportions shift the equilibrium point - what are some of its soliflory, which are not, and lie, its double-sided cups, his double, triple vase! Because of this excess is born a kind of unique beauty.

Now about the stamps, with whom he works. In general, the story of the design quite complicated: in this case, his compositions published Driade (Italy), Alter Ego (The Netherlands), Ajeto (Czech Republic), Steltman (Netherlands), which in turn contracts with galleries in different countries, however, it has little importance. The things are divided into very small print-run (from 10 to 50 copies, they, naturally, expensive) and more democratic things that were released in large quantities (which is nevertheless very reasonable).

Yes, I almost forgot to say about the investment aspect: I have quite a lot of glass Shipeka - and several pieces of furniture. So, the owner of the shop where I buy them, not so long ago told me that one of the small circulation of vases, which I bought somewhere in 1995 for 10,000 francs (1500 euros) now costs about 7000 euros.

In conclusion, the address of sites where you can see the work Shipeka: http://www.sipek.com/sipek/, http://www.boreksipek.cz/pages/design/furniture.html (there is a chair on which I sit at the moment, composing this message).

You will see that each thing is given its circulation, which in any case not exceed 99 copies. See also his furniture - in my opinion, this is great beautiful!
I am enclosing a picture of his works made of glass with one exception - a metal candelabra "Simon", which I like. Generally the furniture Shipeka and his dishes will need to talk separately.

By the way, here's a riddle: the annex to the first post there are 3 objects in my home, and in prilodzhenii second - a subject which is also located at my home, but not so long ago crashed (I did help you, this object is reproduced the picture with a few things):)

How do you think that more impact on the price in this case: the name of the owner or the quality of the work? Or perhaps the name of designer?


The most expensive sold furniture was "arm-chair with dragons»

MOSCOW, February 25. Antique chair of Irish designer Eileen Gray, entitled "The chair with dragons" from the collection of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent was sold Tuesday at auction Christie's in Paris for a record 21.9 million euros, RIA Novosti.

Thus, this chair has become the most expensive piece of furniture sold in the twentieth century and the second-ever auction, exceeded only by "Cabinet Badmintonskomu» XVIII century, during which the Prince of Liechtenstein paid in 2004, about 27.5 million euros, said the agency.

Buyer "chairs with dragons became a member of the Parisian art gallery and Cesky Robert Valois, who acted on behalf of" an extraordinary collector, whose name was not disclosed.

On Tuesday at the auction and for the record 9 million euros was sold to a picture of the French painter Theodore Gericault, and two works by the artist Jean Ingres, for one of them to pay 2 million euros, and for drawing on paper - 913 thousand euros.

The amount paid by art lovers for items from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent, for two days of bidding at the auction totaled nearly 307 million euros. Trades in Paris will continue until February 25.

According to experts, a collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, who was kept in their Paris apartment for 50 years - one of the most significant collections of art appearing on the art market. This is one of the largest private collections in the world, containing 733 the lot, including paintings, sculptures, carpets and tapestries, jewelry, furniture of different periods and styles. The total cost of the meeting, according to experts, is estimated at hundreds of millions of euros.

According to the director of international department for work with clients in Russia and CIS auction house Christie's Sandra Nedvetskoy, all proceeds from the sale of 850 art objects, collections will be sent to the newly created fund Laurent Berger and AIDS and for research.
 

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The quality is excellent, and the designer is quite respectable, but I think that price so frantically raised the origin of armchair - the same infamous "provenance" - as in many others from this collection, which, in my opinion, properly and was not a collection in the true sense of the word it was rather a set of items, among which were two very wealthy man, who loved luxury, who had a not bad taste and - most importantly - excellent information in the field of art.
I was especially amused by brush - amethyst, quartz, even some that you can buy at any little shops of souvenirs for 20 euros, and which are "collectors", if my memory serves me, more than 500 euros:)

Twenty-five times!? For consumer goods, not bad! :)

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Taste of him was - that's for sure!

A consumer goods, and when to buy a 500, had already bought a collectible.
There are many examples, he will do so a couple of famous artists dash designers.

It is very important! Agree. Without it anywhere!

See, you have managed to find a genius overnight project investment: buy brushes: D: D: D



This is not entirely clear - often the awareness replaces taste. I must say that I was terribly disappointed with their collection, not so much that it was much the fact that it was absent, and this is when that means they have virtually unlimited.

This is certainly understandable, but it is difficult to understand!

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The French, well, that'll take them!

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Sometimes, even necessary, in the interests of business, forget about their preferences and rely only on information.

I think I know what is at stake, I'm sure. : cool:

That's hard for me to understand how massive porcelain figurines Dulevo r da 57-58 years. bought for 30-50 thousand dollars.

Unfortunately, it's not all! We must convince all that they used the Saint-Laurent. : D
I was always interested in this issue, as evidence of the origin of any thing or what, whether famous historical character? Napoleon, for example ... It's a huge field of fraud!

You have answered your question.
In addition, I can only refer you to a plot of Alphonse Allais, the happy owner of "the skull of Voltaire in his childhood" and other rarities: p