12/10/2020 Change — Yowza, this merchandise, estimated at $10,000-$15,000 provided for $132,300! Repeating: WHAT A TREASURE!
Marry a Vladimar Kagan rocking chair with embroidery completed by hand by Erica Wilson and what do you get? The. Most. Implausible. Chair. Ever. And did I say “marry”? As longtime readers or design aficianados may recall, Wilson and Kagan have been married — for optimistic, one of many very important ingenious {{couples}} of the mid century and previous design interval.
I seen this story on the Erica Wilson Nantucket Fb internet web page. There it acknowledged, “Only a few cases did Erica Wilson and her husband Vladimir Kagan confederate their designs,” spotlighting that one amongst this stuff — this very explicit “Contour” rocking chair — is up for public sale on December 9 — proper now! A second Kagan rocking chair moreover embroidered by Wilson, which the family will maintain — I presume it is the chair with owl “Belinda” confirmed on this video from Wilson’s PBS current. The stitchery was completed inside the Nineteen Seventies concurrent with Wilson’s PBS current; it’s unclear when the chair itself was made although the general public sale itemizing cites circa 1955. There are some totally different stunning Kagan gadgets inside the public sale as correctly.
Two of my favorite designers ever — what a legacy! I am optimistic whoever nabs it is going to treasure this… treasure!
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