Mid-century modern set would command more in shop

It’s hard to page through a design magazine without seeing some evidence of the ongoing popularity of mid-century modern design. The streamlined style of the 1940s and 1950s has been rediscovered by both antique enthusiasts and furniture companies rushing to reproduce it.

So it’s not surprising that Maria Cornellier thought she might be sitting on a tidy sum in the form of her Heywood-Wakefield bedroom set. “It came through the family,” she explained to appraiser Bob DuMouchelle at a recent Trash or Treasure event at the downtown gallery and auction house.