Bold, bright, and underappreciated: British furniture at mid-century.(What modern was)

In the dozen or so years since a new wave of collectors and design aficionados rediscovered furnishings of the mid-twentieth century, works from many countries--France, the United States, Italy, the Scandinavian nations, Brazil--have become prized (and pricey) artifacts. But one state that fostered a large and thriving furniture design and manufacturing community in the years prior to and after World War II has received surprisingly scant attention: Great Britain. The reason, explains Richard Wright, head of the Chicago auction house Wright, which specializes in modern design, is that British work was deemed "just not that interesting compared to the designs coming from ...