Modern Shows is an extension of Showhome, a one off open house event, now webshop, set in Lucy’s 60s house in a wood in South East London.

Back in July 2002 Petra and Lucy mixed everything they loved from Eley Kishimoto homeware and Multi ceramics to Sixties Scandinavian sideboards and chairs. Selling 90% of the curated collection of midcentury and modern furniture in one day spurred them on to produce a larger event where midcentury dealers and modern designers gather to sell their work. Since that time, the dynamic vintage and design loving duo has gone on to produce bigger and better shows as well as advise TV producers and broadsheet journalists.

The Modern Shows team was picked by Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway and The South Bank to be the main furniture and homeware curator for Vintage Festival 2011.

Voted the show destination of 2009 by Time Out, both Midcentury Modern and The Midcentury Show have a cult following of midcentury aficianados and design lovers who gather one Sunday a few times a year to feed off their mutual love for design at what has been described as an inspiring museum style pop up shop.

Spotted shopping at Midcentury Modern:

Artists Dinos Chapman and Mike Nelson, SCP’s Sheridan Coakley, Britain’s top furniture Designers Russell Pinch and Matthew Hilton, Mary Portas – Mary Queen of Shops, South Bank buyers, Tate Shop buyers, The Crafts Council, The Conran Design team, Camilla Nicholls – Frieze, collector Dominic Palfreyman, curator Bruce Haines, Tent and Origin’s Ian Rudge, top property developers, interior designers, stylists and many celebrities beside that would rather keep their anonymity.