Vladimir Kagan on Sculptural Furniture, Louise Nevelson, and Tom Ford

kaganVladimir Kagan turned 87 in August, not that you would know it from his lively, globe-trotting blog or latest crop of projects, which includes new lines of furniture for Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Ralph Pucci (look for them at next year’s Design Miami). The designer appears in the January/February issue of Elle Decor, on newsstands today, looking back and pushing forward, with wit and wisdom firmly intact.

Among his own design heroes is Wendell Castle, a fellow octogenarian who Kagan has long admired and envied for “his ability to create furniture that is closer to sculpture than anything utilitarian,” he tells Elle Decor‘s Ingrid Abramovitch.

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