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Robsjohn-Gibbings? At least, that's what they remind me of. Very, very nice, and they seem very well-made. Edit: Donald Deskey made some designs for Thomasville, so he would be a good bet. In that case, congrats!

That looks like a very well-made set from beween, say, between the mid-thirties and the mid-fifties. Looks like wood with sterling silver fittings? Any hallmarks or other markings? The fact that the metal is used so sparingly points to sterling. To check for silver, take it to a a good...

Very true - the Big Names like Nelson and Eames will always command a premium. There are lots of no-name stunning MCM furniture to be found still, though. I've given up on buying the big names, though, the pieces are better investments, but the prices may just have taken a toll with the crisis...

Thanks! I have no regrets about buying it - the price was quite good for what it turned out to be.

Yes! It's either that, or we'll put the corner sofa in storage and get another sofa for that "niche" in the wall. I'm dreaming of a Josef Hoffmann "Kubus" sofa, but they cost something like $12K... And then I'd probably want the armchair too: It's a very Norwegian thing! I haven't...

Well, it's time for a three-year thread revival, I suppose, - I completely forgot about this thread, it seems. My apologies, and thank you all for kind words! Update: I had two glass sheets cut and chamfered, one to go into the "bottom" of the table-top, the other one to rest at the outer...

Living-room: I'm planning on placing the corner sofa around the fireplace, and having the diinner-table by the window/balcony, like the previous occupants. That huge cabinet/shelf thing has left, and will be replaced by something lower. "Nursery": Thankfully, the previous...

Here's a few photos of the new place, it's from the sales brochure, so none of the furniture and stuff is ours, although some very nice pieces, I have to admit. 1939 and 1950s photos: The penthouse flat was originally built as a place-in-town for Wagner soprano Kirsten...

Thank you! That's very high praise in my ears - Gray is one of my absolute designer favourites. Actually, I'm loving the new place; it's a 1939 building in a far more radical modernist/international style, and built to higher standards - there's polished oak floors, a big fireplace, a...

Some of my family travelled quite a bit across the Atlantic in the late forties and fifities, so I have some trinkets of the "passenger souvenir" type - pocket knives, matchbooks, luggage tags, etc., mostly from The Norwegian America Line. A lot of it was thrown out when we cleared up my...

Here's the estate agent's photos. (We're somewhat reluctantly selling, as the son-and-heir arriving in a couple of weeks demands his own room, better kindergartens and schools than in the area - and we wanted an elevator, at least if we were going to live six tall flights up with a small child.)...

We also bought a late 17th century table (OK, I'd say roundabout 1700 exactly), and some mid-century-modern chairs that match passably in the tone of the wood: And a cocktail cabinet, wedding present form my co-workers:

Furniture: There's the rococo table from this thread, that's already moved over to our new apartment. Some tubular steel furniture we bought in various places and had reupholstered, here's the "before" condition: And after:

Third post; I managed to find doorhandles of the correct type for the whole apartment, nickel-plated, with bakelite grips. (Pics later.) We also changed the frames around the windows from a very misunderstood previous attempt at "retro-ing" the place. The simple square ones are far more...

Continuation (please bear with me, the apartment gets better in time)... View from kitchen or living-room, sundown: Same side, late afternoon: And in winter: View from bedroom, late afternoon: