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This spring's Modern Art + Design includes several exciting collections. The most prominent is the cultural personality and GAN connoisseur Jan Torsten Ahlstrands, with more than 50 works, including an early neoplastic work by Erik Olson, "Fiskarna vid Seine", 1928 and a significant painting from 1920 by GAN, "Eiffeltornet", made in Paris. A little less extensive is "A collection of Danish surrealists", including about 20 early works by, among others, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Wilhelm Freddie and Elsa Thoresen, rarely seen at auction. "There is something magical about collections. Behind the w...

First published on Tue 29 Dec 2020 01.00 EST Don’t chuck out your old flatpack furniture just yet – you could be sitting on a fortune. Since Ikea launched a scheme to buy back and resell unwanted furniture in November, classic designs once sold at bargain prices by the retailer have become expensive must-have items. Some collectors are willing to pay thousands of pounds for vintage pieces designed for the Swedish chain, including some that were common in stores as recently as the 1990s. A set of four Vilbert chairs, a multicoloured MDF and melamine product sold by Ikea in the early 1990s ...