Notes

Vladimir Kagan , the son of a German immigrant cabinet maker and art collector, was one of America's foremost modernist furniture designers. His work is best known for it's avant-garde craftmanship combined with comfort, functionality and organic forms.

First designed in 1952, the Floating Curved Sofa united two early Kagan signatures- curved shapes and elegantly sculpted wooden frames.

His clients included Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra and Andy Warhol and as noted by Zaha Hadid, "While the works of his contemporaries are definitive, finite and frozen, you experience a wonderful sense of liberation in the nonlinear, organic forms of Vladimir's collections".