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EAMES prototype Radio gift from charles eames to alexander girard CHARLES EAMES AND EERO SAARINEN Organic design Chair heywood wakefield made something cool Don knorr GRETA MAGNUSSON GROSSMAN That's a good one EAMES ESU 400-C CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE GOOD STUFF:  WRIGHT

Snapshot in Sculpture 1960's San Diego Midcentury Art Dave Hampton curated an exhibit at the San Diego Airport -  Terminal 2 Baggage Claim Trip out on that Jean Balmer

Gleen of California y Muchas Mas Source: La Opinion, 1959

Lawrence Peabody fiberglass chair for Selig. Not Luther Conover.    Impostor stacking stools.  Go back to Jersey you washerless feet  thin tops! The original Conover stools, like this set, are so much better. 

Paul Frankl Paul Laszlo Photos: Maynard Parker

1947 drawing of a house Luther Conover designed for himself in Tiburon, Marin County, CA  The actual house was built in 1956 and some changes were made to this design.  Conover worked on the house with his architect friend Gale Taffinder.  Sketches by S pencer Deverill Source: Arts & Architecture, 1947

Jean Balmer ceramic and rawhide drum.  This is the coolest thing I've bought in a while...  so cool I had to Instagram it.

Stucco boathouses located a couple blocks away from the beach, in  Encinitas, CA.   The SS Encinitas and SS Moonlight  were built  by architect Miles Kellogg in the late 1920s using old timber from the  Moonlight beach dance house.  The dance house didn't make it through prohibition. Mile's dad was a sea captain. They look so much cooler with the anchors and the pointy things.  Image: Encinitas Preservation Foundation  More information:  Encinitas Historical Society

JBL Paragon with some McIntosh tube equipment in  Hideto Irikawa's house- Kamakura, Japan. Source: Selectism This Paragon was in the PST California Design exhibition at LACMA. The Paragon was designed in Berkeley, CA by  Arnold Wolf  and made in Los Angeles, CA. It was produced from 1957- 1983. Photo: Darren Bardley Image:   Audio Heritage  Source: Lansing Heritage

Museum of California Design 2012   AWARD BENEFIT  and AUCTION   Sunday, September 23, 2 PM to 5 PM Los Angeles, California   The event will be honoring  some of the artists whose work is included in the  CALIFORNIA’S DESIGNING WOMEN 1896-1986 exhibit at the Autry:   Marilyn Kay Austin Renee Firestone Arline Fisch April Greiman Judith Hendler Gere Kavanaugh Cher Pendarvis Deborah Sussman MOCAD's benefits are always excellent and take place at a great piece of architecture. In 2010 the event was  held at the  Eames / Saairnen  Case Study House 9 for John Entenza.  It's also a great group of people who attend.  At past events I was able to meet David Cressey, Raul Coronel,  Evelyn and  Jerome Ackerman, and Julius Shulman- just to name a few.  The auctions include some really good items and the proceeds fund the  Museum of California Design. More information  about this weekend's event is available  here . Photo:  Tanja M. Laden,   LA W

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The Eames Office  Eames dork paradise! The current exhibition at the Eames Office is called " Essential Eames: The Design of Knowledge"   It explores the educational philosophies of Charles and Ray Eames.  It includes displays from the 1961 exhibition they designed,   Mathematica. IBM sponsored the original exhibition.  The "Image Wall" "Celestial Mechanics" Probability Probability, the scale model. "History Wall" Vintage splints for sale! $650 isn't bad, especially considering they're coming straight from the source. Vintage ephemera for sale! Mathematica, the postcard This was the entrance to the 1961 exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry. Photo: Eames Office For a description, images and a video on Mathematica,  visit Eames Designs There is also more information about the exhibition at the Eames Office Photo: Ea