To the small contingent of fashion-forward antiques dealers, add Liza Laserow, the chic daughter of the mother-daughter-owned company Laserow Antiques. Born and raised in Sweden, Liza moved to New York City six years ago, where, though she had trained to be a lawyer, she began to put her considerable knowledge of Scandinavian antiques to good use. Her mother, Karin, founded a showroom in Sweden 30 years ago and, in 2009, Liza helped launch a Laserow Antiques outpost in the New York Design Center in Manhattan. The exquisite gallery features furniture curated from Sweden’s most significant periods—Baroque, Rococo, Gustavian, and Empire—spanning from 1650 to 1820.

Liza’s youthful sensibility provides a refreshing lesson in living with antiques. “With interiors, you should combine high and low, old and new,” Liza explains. “That way, you’ll get a depth and contrasting energy not possible with just new pieces.” The New York store’s offerings are stunning counterpoints to any modern object: a Gustavian chest of drawers, Rococo dining chairs, gilt-wood mirrors, all sourced from Laserow’s flagship gallery in Vollsjö, Sweden.

Having supplied collectors and designers worldwide for three decades, Laserow Antiques can now add Miucca Prada to its list of clients—sort of. In a video Baz Luhrmann created for the Costume Institute’s exhibit “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” the legendary fashion designer is seated on an Italian Baroque side chair courtesy of Laserow Antiques. Which, come to think of it, is another good definition of “fashion-forward antiques.”

Laserow Antiques is located on the fourth floor of the New York Design Center, open to the trade only. 200 Lexington Ave., Suite 408, New York; 212-988-9194; laserowantiques.com