Esoteric Survey

 Arthur Umanoff for Shaver-Howard, with original paint.  Cream and tangerine Dora De Larios wall sculpture from the mid-1960s. Isabel Parks Signed by Edward Killingsworth

Back at my favorite vista point on the way back from the Bay Area.  This time with a Robert Hanley for Modern Color Inc. floor vase. La Gardo Tackett Stan Bitters stool, Dean Santner jewelry boxes and a ceramic puzzle sculpture that opens up like a Russian doll. Victor Bisharat, Stan Hawk, Dora De Larios, Harrison McIntosh Irving Harper tray and some Euro stuff. Harvey Probber desk set and Carl Aubock Summerset Lounger

On my recent trip to New York I was able to see  Taking Shape:The Akari Light Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi exhibition curated by Adam Edelsberg for Wright . The auction already happened and was a major success. There was also wonderful catalog produced. It written by Glenn Adamson, with an intro by Edelsberg. The collection included examples of the earliest Akari lamps produced from the 1950's through the 1970's. The fact that any of these early paper shades have survived is incredible. How Adam was able to assemble this many is a major testament of how good he is at what he does.  Isamu Noguchi traveled to Gifu, Japan in 1951 where he visited the Ozeki lantern factory. He then started working on his own designs utilizing the craft. In 1954, Chuo Koron Gallery in Tokyo held the first exhibition of Noguchi’s Akari designs. Over the next decades Noguchi designed an incredible number of base and shade variations.  The earliest Akari mark with just the sun and moon. Later Japan is

 Timo Sarpaneva Saturnus CBS logo textile by William Golden, NIB Design Line lamp by Bill Curry and books William Golden Source: AIGA Houston La Gardo Tackett

  Paolo Soleri Special Assembly from the 60s Gertrud and Otto Natzler  Henning Koppel and Jerry Glenn Dick Seeger Mogens Koch MK-16 Safari Chair Fred Press magazine rack As seen in Good Design 1952