Adrian Pearsall: The most overrated furniture designer of all time?  

Zephyr, it is a bit creepy sometimes how you use my name and voice my thoughts.
As to raulduke's question, there is a lot of stuff that I personally find to be kitsch that many other people highly respect and value. I would rather not start delineating what I find kitschy and what not, because I don't want a flame war. 1950s Americana is always kitschy in my eyes.

I don't think Scandinavian Modern would have sunk into oblivion if the kitsch kraze had not come along. It would have been rediscovered no matter what, because it's really beautiful and really practical.

And all the estate sales. It is pretty hard to think that the furniture of an entire generation that is extremely well made, and often using very fine materials would be completely overlooked. One can go on and on about what made it as appreciated as it is, or would have made it more appreciated, or less, but that sort of quantity of furniture does not magically disappear without a passing glance.

Sorry Leif. We can switch names if you like. You can be you, and I can be the Viking conqueror!