For this episode the focus is on post-war design and Thomas is delighted to be joined by Libby Sellers – design historian, consultant, curator and writer, and former curator at the Design Museum in London – and by Sebastian Holt, UK director of Modernity, the 20th-century Nordic design specialists based in Stockholm and London.

Masterpiece Conversations is a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field.


Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, will host for these discussions, in which we’re aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state’ separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between them makes possible. We’ll be talking about what first drew our guests to their particular fields – and what’s really inspiring them at this point about the art and design they’re immersed in. And we’ll dive into what the priorities are for museums and the market in that field at the moment – where they coincide and where they might even diverge productively.