Topic: Modern can be good too!

[chriscooper]

Picked this up today lovely rich golden amber with white trailing, fire polished rim nearly 13" high and really well made do you think sometimes we are to quick to say 'it's modern' and put it back down again? I know I do  and I did  :huh:
Looked at the price £2 and of course picked it back up again, some nice glass around that was probably made yesterday but actually is rather nice.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/GoldThreadedVase#5601689020430626594

Chris

[jomo99]

  I'm with you on that Chris. It can take a while to overcome our 'snobbery' with newer pieces, but lets not forget they could quite easily be the collectables of tomorrow. My policy for some years now has been, If I like it I buy it!!

                                   Warmest Wishes,

                                         John

[astrid]

When I was in Germany in March, I deliberately picked up a Nachtmann Slice vase. It's still sold in the shops, it's not handmade, it's not crystal, the design is recent (2007), it's probably produced in very large numbers, and it's not even cheap (35 euros. Most of you would consider that overpriced, yes?). But despite all that I LOVE it, and I didn't want to leave Germany without picking one up.

So, I know exactly what you mean, Chris, and I echo the sentiment. I don't even care if it will never be valuable or if it will be sold for 1 euro on the fleamarkets a few years from now. Sometimes a great design is just a great design...

Nachtmann "Slice". A design by Viktoriya Braginsky (US designer) from 2007.

Astrid

[jomo99]

   Astrid,WOW!!!!! I'd pay 35euro for that! It's GORGEOUS!!! This is the kinda thing I'm talking about, truly a collectable of tomorrow! its what our parents and grandparents did, buy what THEY liked cos THEY liked it,not cos it was gonna be valuable. thats why we have such lovely things today!!! Thanks Astrid.


                                    Warmest Wishes,

                                              John

[flying free]

I don't have a problem with contemporary...but I have to admit I do have a problem with modern mass-produced glass vases. I have a few, but really if I admit it, it's because I would far rather have something others don't have.  I like unique, therefore studio glass is good for me, and vintage pieces even if they are pressed glass, just so I know I wont walk into one of my friend's houses and see they have the same thing. 
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[rosieposie]

They are both fantastic, Chris and Astrid!!    I would have bought them, and I don't even collect vases.....except when I do!!
Most of the Paul Miller animals I buy are pretty modern,  but I like them....nuff said! :sun:
Rosie. :sun: