Furnishing with design classics such as USM Haller

The little house is basically finished and the old furniture is already there. And now comes the question about the new furnishings, which we plan to acquire gradually and replace the old items with.

I am considering furnishing everything with used design classics. The reason: The classics from, for example, Vitra, Cassina, BB Italia, or USM Haller are practically indestructible and can be bought used relatively cheaply. In addition, there is the value retention. Most classics do not lose value over the years but rather tend to increase in price. If I furnish the house with furniture from Ikea or XXXLutz etc., the furniture is hardly worth anything after a certain time.

What is your experience with used furniture classics? Has anyone in the forum already dealt with used furniture

Can they be bought cheaply or do they have good value retention? Furniture is bought to emphasize a personal style and not as an investment. Therefore, I would rather ask the other residents than the forum how they envision the furnishing. Especially since a confused mix of these classics will not exactly underline a specific style...

The classics from, for example, Vitra, Cassina, BB Italia or USM Haller are virtually indestructible and you can buy them relatively cheaply second-hand.
In addition, there is the retention of value. Most classics do not lose value over the years, but rather tend to increase in price.

They increase in price, but are cheap second-hand – this not only reads like a contradiction, but is also not true. Many classics are currently being produced continuously, but prices of design pieces only rise once the supply runs out.

Basically, I find the idea likeable, but I agree with my predecessor that a lived-in collection also needs to be finely balanced. Do you also have the appropriate Tugendhat House or the Barcelona Pavilion for it? – in the terraced house in Tübingen, some classics could certainly "work" like a Chanel suit on a Jacob Sister.

No contradiction. The lounge chair from Vitra, for example, or a Vitra EA108, gets more expensive every year. Vitra continuously raises the new prices from time to time. And the used prices then rise accordingly. It is very similar with many other classics like USM, etc. The pricing policy of high-end furniture manufacturers is similar to that of Rolex.

[S`Häusle] is already such that the furniture would also fit...

hello,

personally, I really like the style of the 60s/70s, it also fits our house, so of course I am already a fan of the design classics. a lounge chair MUST be had... but preferably the old one from miller with the "old seat height" and the down filling and the rosewood-palissander (unfortunately not a bargain on the second-hand market either). but I have time and currently rather not the budget of a small car saved up for a chair. from experience, I do not agree with the statement "you can buy them relatively cheaply second-hand," rather the opposite; the dsw chairs made of fiberglass sometimes cost more than dsw at new price. a design classic remains a design classic; alone the term "classic" underlines the quite wide range of LIKES, meaning quite a lot of people appreciate this design and thus the target group that searches and buys is also large, high demand = high/higher price.

but one should decide for the style and liking for classics or design furniture, as an investment? (I mean you always see it and live with it) a watch, a picture etc. I can store away, but a house full of furniture just because it might be worth 5000 euros more in 10 years? (I find that a strange approach to furnishing) but I am neutral about that, everyone to their own taste.

we have a palissander sideboard nearly 3m long and a palissander coffee table / vitra dsw chairs as dining chairs / a vitra clock balls (because it fits so nicely with the chairs) and quite a few design lamps, staff, doria, sölken – I think they really make a statement.

otherwise a pretty colorful mix with lots of art on the walls

Anyone who sets up their house as a design museum sometimes only wants to conceal a lack of personal taste by surrounding themselves with "generally accepted standards of fame and brilliance."

Mr. Worldfamousname-architect A would never have thought of placing the chairs designed specifically for a certain building into a room with the cabinets of colleague Worldfamousname-architect B.

Today, only the philistine with money dares to do that.

Quoting Bible passages from design catalogs "replaces" personal taste only within a "culture can be bought" community.