Icons of the Past
A trove of intriguing items is up for sale this week, including a number of film icons. Collectors get ready.
Created to provide an accessible platform for the sale of quality modern design, furniture, art, decorative objects and accessories, BILLINGS was initiated to fill a void in Los Angeles’ design market through a decided absence of curated channels for the acquisition of exceptional historical and contemporary items.
Since its launch in 2015, BILLINGS has hosted quarterly auctions offering 300 - 400+ lots of modern design, featuring pieces from the pedigreed to the anonymous, the classic to the unusual, and the rare and note-worthy. Representing a wide range of American and international art and design, BILLINGS’ catalogs are often heavily weighted in mid-century modern selections with offerings from the 1960s through the early 2000s
A trove of intriguing items is up for sale this week, including a number of film icons. Collectors get ready.
Common sense dictates that in the age of email, mobile phones and social networks, technology is relegating postage stamps to oblivion. But when it comes to collecting, common sense isn’t always right: each year, the scattering of legendary stamp collections makes headlines at auctions.
The sneaker category is growing at auction houses. Sneakers, and collecting them, can now be considered an art form.