Going “Midcentury modern”

March 21, 2008

How would you like to spend your weekdays scouting for vintage furniture? Rob Degenhard and Nini Sarmiento, owners of the Home Anthology store, do.

The couple’s Catonsville furniture store is open only on weekends, allowing them to spend the week hunting for vintage pieces - the habit that got them into the business. Their store is featured in today’s issue of The Daily Record supplement Distinctive Properties.

Now, Rob and Nini are two businesspeople filling a growing demand for “midcentury modern” furniture and accessories - vintage pieces made between 1945 and 1970. The functional, sleek pieces are in demand now as people aim to simplify their lives, and the prices are beginning to reflect that, with high-end pieces demanding tens of thousands of dollars.

Midcentury modern’s “appeal isn’t limited to the young and hip,” Mary Medland reports. Home Anthology has clients “ranging from newlyweds to those who are in their 70s.”

Browse through the inventory of Home Anthology, as seen through the eyes of Photographer Rich Dennison. (View larger here).

JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor

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Posted by Jackie Sauter | Filed Under business, howard county, retail 

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One Response to “Going “Midcentury modern””

  1. Jerry on March 21st, 2008 3:09 pm

    Love it!

    Looks like there is a trip to Catonsville in my future.

    And that picture of Silo Point is just stunning.

    Thanks for the post.

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