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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Vladimir Kagan

Vladimir Kagan (1927- ) was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1938. His earliest focus was on painting and sculpture but in his formative years he became exceedingly attracted to architecture and design. He studied Architecture at Columbia University and in 1947 joined his father, Illi Kagan, a master cabinetmaker, to work in his woodworking shop and learn furniture making from the ground up.

Early commissions included the Delegate's Cocktail Lounges for the first United Nations Headquarters in Lake Success N.Y. (1947-48). In 1948 he opened his first shop in New York on East 65th Street and moved to fashionable 57th Street in 1950. His clients are luminaries in the world of art, theater, music and industry.

Connoisseurs and museums are avidly collecting his designs today. Kagan's furniture is in private collections worldwide. His prize-winning designs have been published in books and magazines internationally and are in the permanent collections of the V&A London, the Vitra Design Museum and Die Neue Samlung in Germany as well as in the most prominent museums in the United States.
 


From vladimirkagancouture.com



Contour chair, 1953
1stdibs.com

Floating sofa, 1950s
1stdibs.com

Sofa
icollector.com

Cabinets, 1950s
1stdibs.com

Rocking chair and ottoman
toddmerrillstudio.com

Snail coffee table, 1960
1stdibs.com

Ondine chair
haute-living.com

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