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Boston’s Best 2010, Vintage Furniture
“If your dream home comes in stainless steel, leather, teak and rosewood, make a pilgrimage to this 6,000-square-foot temple to design from the Mad Men era.” Read more…
“Recycling 2.0 – Furniture” ArchitectureBoston
“As concerns about sustainability permeate our culture and influence our values, it’s hard not to wonder if vintage Modern furniture will serve as gateway antiques, introducing a new generation to a marketplace that currently bemoans the graying of its customer base.” Read more…
Boston Home Magazine FP3 Concept Home
“A show-stopping 1975 Vladimir Kagan sofa for Directional, available at Machine Age, is accented by a pillow in Missoni fabric…” Read more…
Best of Boston 2009 Furniture, Specialty
“A favorite stop for interior decorators and movie stylists, Machine Age takes midcentury furnishings from around the world—dining sets, sofas, storage systems, lamps—and restores them to perfection, and also frequently updates pieces with new but always appropriate upholstery. Like so much of what it purveys, this place is a genuinely rare find.” Read more…
“A Local Design Diva Spills Her Styling Secrets” STUFF Boston
“Where do you look locally for one-of-a-kind pieces? Machine Age in South Boston for mid-century classics. I got a Danish chest of drawers and my Corbusier chaise.” Read more…
Best of Boston 2008 Furniture, Vintage
“If tripping over midcentury treasures is your idea of a good time, then you’ll party like it’s 1959 in this 9,000-square-foot showroom where Charles and Ray Eames are alive and well.” Read more…
“Fusco & Four Brings Modernism and More to Boston” Maine Antique Digest
“Normand Mainville of Machine Age, South Boston, has that perspective. He was pleased enough to reconnect with former clients at this first-ever show for him. “For many years we were on Congress Street. People we are seeing here have discovered our new location on Summer Street and are realizing that we are much more upscale,” he said.” Read more…
“Going With the Flow” The Boston Globe
“For the last 15 years, Normand Mainville, owner of the mid century-modern furniture store Machine Age, has been a Fort Point Channel pioneer, living and working in the artsy industrial loft neighborhood.” Read more…
“Seven Places to Find Boston’s Coolest Collectibles” Panorama Magazine
“After the Art Deco movement and before the Modern Age, there was the Machine Age-a time when design met mass production and became industrialized. The plethora of bold, sleek furnishings that make up Normand Mainville’s showroom in Fort Point offer a stylish representation of this era.” Read more…
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