Early ‘Serpentine’ Sofa by Vladimir Kagan, circa 1960, Signed and Registered

“The Serpentine Sofa is indeed an excellent example of an early Kagan curved sofa. Our team have identified this sofa was likely produced shortly after Hugo Dreyfus retired in 1960 but at the same facility, which would burn down in 1972. Earlier examples (1950s) typically featured differently styled bases and more modest curves at each end, whereas your sofa flourishes into a smoothly rounded pouf atop a round base. This would have been difficult to achieve early on, and instead became a more popular stylization nearer to the end of the 1950s, early 1960s.”

Ideal for collectors of fine art and modern design or an interior designer looking for the best of the best for their clients. These early year examples of the Serpentine sofa only come up very rarely and are highly in demand and sought-after. While this was produced at the end or shortly after the Kagan-Dreyfuss decade (1950 to 1960) it was in the same factory and with the same equipment and techniques. In addition, as evidenced by Kagan’s design groups email explaining the particular design of this sofa versus the ones from the early 1950’s – this example has the more desirable curvature and larger pouf