Collecting Design

<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"><div><strong>Confessions of a connoisseur</strong></div><div>&#160;</div><div><strong>Insiders&#39; tips: discover the world of design with the help of thirty-two international experts and learn why the most valuable furniture is not what you think it is</strong></div><div>&#160;</div></div><div class="description_text"><div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"><strong>Adam Lindemann</strong>&#8217;s second volume is the follow-up to&#160;<em>Collecting Contemporary,</em>&#160;an unprecedented success, introducing the lay reader to collecting contemporary art, with tell-all interviews by the biggest players in the global art market. The idea for this volume&#160;came when he was furnishing his new house. &#34;Art collectors like myself who hung beautiful contemporary paintings on their walls suddenly saw their furniture look sad and tired,&#34; Lindemann writes in his preface, relating how hobby became passion and an overwhelming desire to know everything. Which is how this latest volume manages to give such <strong>a perfect introduction into collectible design</strong>: it follows the path its author took.<br><br>Today&#8217;s design market has its roots in the late eighteenth century: artists created porcelain pieces in editions that became in high demand. From Art Deco to the Wiener Werkst&#228;tte, Bauhaus to the Eameses, the French modernists, and a whole bunch of designers many haven&#8217;t heard of yet, <strong>this volume is the best guide to the collectability and overall desirability of design</strong> for connoisseurs and amateurs alike.<br><br><em>Collecting Design </em>tells all about an addictive occupation, vintage pieces vs. limited editions, the big names and what to keep an eye on, <strong>all from the perspective of a passionate collector meeting market luminaries for in-depth conversations</strong>&#8212;his fellow<strong> collectors</strong> (Bruno Bischofberger, Michael Boyd, Peter M. Brant, Dennis Freedman, Dakis Joannou, Reed Krakoff, Ronald Lauder), the <strong>dealers </strong>(Anthony DeLorenzo, Suzanne Demisch, Ulrich Fiedler, Barry Friedman, Didier&#160;and Cl&#233;mence Krzentowski, Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, Murray Moss, Patrick Seguin, Alasdhair Willis), <strong>select </strong><strong>tastemakers</strong> (Jacques Grange, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Marino, Robert Rubin, Ian Schrager, Axel Vervoordt), and <strong>auction experts </strong>(Gerti Draxler from Dorotheum, Vienna, Philippe Garner from Christie&#8217;s,&#160;Peter and Shannon Loughrey from LAMA, Los Angeles, Alexander Payne from Phillips de Pury, Richard Wright, James Zemaitis from Sotheby&#8217;s).<br><br>Lindemann writes: &#34;Sitting down for hours with 32 experts, I can now discuss the finer points of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann versus Eileen Gray, Carlo Mollino versus Gio Ponti, of Marc Newson versus Ron Arad, and so on. I hope you will enjoy and profit from this fascinating field as much as I have.&#34;</div></div>