The market for 20th-century furniture has long been booming, with the well-crafted, highly polished pieces created in the postwar period routinely commanding huge sums at auction and in international furniture galleries. But in this piece for The Financial Tines I explore how the boom has spawned another expensive niche: original children’s furniture designed by modernist masters from Arne Jacobsen to Harry Bertoia.
Left, kids chairs designed by Arne Jacobsen.