I have always been a collector of one thing or another. When I was little, it was stamps, coins, charms, and even gum wrappers. As I got older, my collections grew up and I moved on to collecting clocks and folk art. I started collecting modern design in the early 1980’s when I changed careers from being an architect to that of a product designer. At the same time, I discovered I was not alone. There seemed to be a new interest among architects to design products. I was particularly inspired by the design duo Nan Swid and Addie Powell, former designers at Knoll, who founded SwidPowell Design to create a line of architecturally inspired tabletop objects. I also saw people like Michael Graves, Frank Gehry and Philippe Starck designing dishes and teakettles and toilet brushes, and was immediately attracted to these unique, accesible, and readily available objects. So being the natural collector I am, my ANTIQUES OF THE FUTURE collection was born, and today includes over 450 objects and counting.