In their gaunt simplicity they echo the early-19th-century Biedermeier style and anticipate the modernist furniture that followed.

The lounge area was created during the 2010 restoration and is decorated with modernist Brazilian furniture from the 1960s.

I collect 40's and 50's modernist furniture.

Midcentury modernist furniture may have accumulated many associations over the last 40 years; now, it represents hair spray and laundry detergent.

"I'm way over the office look," she said tersely, referring to the hard edges of much modernist furniture.

But that does not stop him from creating modernist furniture and appliances.

"When you see a Citibank commercial that has all modernist furniture, then you know it's time to try something else," he said.

The Noguchi table is a piece of modernist furniture first produced in the mid-20th century.

Solomon has filled the rooms with vintage modernist furniture - but not too much.

The market for modernist furniture, once young, fun and inexpensive, is superheating.