While big box retailers churn out cheap knock-offs of Eames rockers and Saarinen tulip chairs to meet consumers’ growing demands, Chicago collector and craftsman Michael Yurkovic has his eyes on a smaller market: mid-century modern miniatures.
Making tiny furniture is a relatively new pursuit for Yurkovic. After studying industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he spent 10 years as an independent toy inventor. “Toy design involved a ton of prototyping and making proof of concept models for different toy manufacturers,” he says, so learning to create miniatures came easily.
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