2022Aspire Auctions, Inc.Brazilian Antique Penca de Balangandan Silver/Silver Plate Slave Charms/Amulets, ca. 19th/early 20tSee Sold Price
Brazil midcentury modern furniture gets a new look NEW YORK – Brazil’s modernist architecture may be better known, but the country’s distinctive midcentury modern furniture is getting new international attention. Sensuous curves, tropical woods, woven leathers, and traditional techniques like caning and netting were all part of a style that developed from the 1940s to the 1970s called Brazil Modern.
Evans ‘Cityscape’ pieces soar at Palm Beach Modern auctionWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Palm Beach Modern Auctions’ (PBMA) autumn-themed Nov. 22 sale included the most expensive grouping of furniture ever to be offered by the company. Buyers signaled their approval of the carefully curated selection with bids that set records for many specific designers and resulted in an 85 percent sell-through rate (by […]
Palm Beach Modern to auction Studio 54 Steve Rubell archive Jan. 19WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (LAPRS) – Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the only place hip New Yorkers wanted to be seen after dark was Studio 54. But slipping past the uber-chic disco’s velvet rope, which separated jet setters and film stars from ordinary folk hoping to gain admission to the glitzy inner […]