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Explore the collection: https://lnkd.in/eUKF2HzH Provenance used to authenticate. Now it seduces. For decades, an object's history served a single purpose: verification. A paper trail to confirm authorship, to satisfy due diligence. But something has shifted. At Phillips and Piasa, bidders now pay premiums not for the name on the sketch but for the name on the invoice. A Jean Royère settee from a Parisian industrialist's private collection commands a different gravity than the same form pulled from anonymous storage. The story has become the material. This is the quiet inversion collectors sense but rarely articulate: form can be reproduced, provenance cannot. A Charlotte Perriand bookcase reissued by Cassina is geometrically identical to its 1950s ancestor. Yet the original, traced through a specific atelier, a specific commission, a specific life, that object exists exactly once. Scarcity has migrated from shape to narrative. The implications reshape what collecting means. Gallerists like Patrick Seguin and Friedman Benda are no longer selling furniture. They are selling irreversible time. The object becomes a vessel for cultural memory that no edition, however faithful, can hold. International Design Group curates at this precise threshold, where an object's formal discipline meets its singular biography. Every piece we present carries both: the rigour of design and the weight of passage. What you acquire is not a thing. It is a coordinate in time that will never repeat.