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Originally Posted by jyl
Is this a broad economy thing, or that tastes are shifting from older antiques to "Mid Century Modern" stuff? Around here, you can't give away so-called "brown furniture", but anything "Danish" from the 60s/70s is flying off the shelves so to speak.
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Broad economy thing, and you're correct about furniture trends. People are overpaying for this stuff. Most of it is veneer over particle board. Can you imagine IKEA being worth big bucks some day?
There is some genuine Danish Modern designed by well known names of the time and built well. There is not much around. Repair items for Eames and other valuable furniture is a booming cottage industry. The parts don't come cheap.
The copies are faithful but the original furniture made of solid wood goes for $1000's. All of these Gen X'ers that are making good money now don't know an investment piece from a cardboard box.
For the last year or so I've been inundated with the stuff, the junk stuff. I'm sick and tired of repairing junk and I've pretty well closed the door to that furniture.
One dealer is literally paying off the inside folks at Habitat for Humanity so they save it all for him. He finds it in the alleys where Boomers are moving and tossing what they bought back then if they haven't already. Houses are full of heavy wooden Mediterranean furniture that is now firewood.
Hundreds of thousands of containers have come over from Europe with furniture from 1 to 2 centuries ago that sold for plenty enough money back when. It's "brown" furniture now. Baroque and Renaissance styles have depreciated 1000%. Empire is hanging on by a thread since the movement relates to MCM. Some Art Deco, the same, but AD spanned a long time originating from Art Novavax and segued into Bauhaus. And then the real MCM.
Arts and Crafts figured in there too, but it has had its run. That was likely the last of real furniture.