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

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."

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?