Two Vintage Furniture Dealers Remake a Maine Home to Fill With Their Prized Collection

Debra Spark
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The owners of Home Union in Brooklyn updated an ’80s-vintage prefab that now hosts a who’s who of modern design.

Meghan Lavery and Daniel King are such design aficionados that they don’t always part with what they find for Home Union, their midcentury-focused furniture store in Brooklyn. So in 2021, following their decision to keep a wool Cassina Soriana sofa, they told each other, "We really need to get a house for this."

Meghan Lavery and Daniel King bought a 1987 prefab in Maine to fix up and fill with designs by midcentury modern luminaries the couple stock at their Brooklyn furniture store, Home Union.
Meghan Lavery and Daniel King bought a 1987 prefab in Maine to fix up and fill with designs by midcentury modern luminaries the couple stock at their Brooklyn furniture store, Home Union.

After renting apartments together in and around Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood for nearly a decade, the couple started looking for a home in Maine, where Meghan grew up—somewhere they could eventually live full-time that would sync with their penchant for vintage. A house for sale near Portland by Marcel Breuer was tempting but felt too close to neighbors. There weren’t many midcentury homes in the area and hardly any by major modernist designers. Would it be their only opportunity?

The living room features a Noguchi lantern, a velvet Soriana sofa by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Ingo Maurer Uchiwa 6 fan lights, and a teak Hans Wegner credenza.
The living room features a Noguchi lantern, a velvet Soriana sofa by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Ingo Maurer Uchiwa 6 fan lights, and a teak Hans Wegner credenza.
The kitchen features custom-lacquered cabinets with white oak handles and, in lieu of upper cabinets, a wall niche to display dishes.
The kitchen features custom-lacquered cabinets with white oak handles and, in lieu of upper cabinets, a wall niche to display dishes.

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