Esoteric Survey

Join all the San Diego Eames nerds this Saturday, May 30th for a book signing and talk with Daniel Ostroff. The event is being hosted by  Boomerang for Modern , which is celebrating their 30th year in business!   Books will be available for purchase.

La Gardo Tackett

Henry Takemoto La Gardo Tackett and Kenji Fujita

Hunt House- Jerrold Lomax design under Craig Ellwood, 1955-57 I was fortunate to be able to visit the Hunt House before it sold in 2012 for $5.3 million. It was in incredible original condition, including some original furnishings. See more images  here . Architect Ardie Tavangarian purchased this architectural landmark and now wants to demolish it.  Here is an example of a project by Ardie Tavangarian.  Source: Eveett Fenton Gidley  Tavangarian also worked on a house for Jackie Collins, which was apparently inspired by a David Hockney painting. The architect reportedly  worked with Richard Meier at one point.  Source: The Real Deal  T he item was continued at the Malibu Planning Commission, so hopefully this  small house won't become another victim of  valuable real estate. It would be a major loss. Tavangarian ha s already upset some in Malibu with another proposed project on an empty lot  down the road.  Read more   here .   

La Gardo Tackett

Iron Department Tackett / Yanagi Weekend ceramics, including Tackett and Robert Maxwell

Chair by Nathan Lerner ( 1913-1997)   This is a full-scale foldout pattern for the DIY modernist handyman to complete at home.  For those less adventurous modernists, the chair was also sold in kit form with pre-cut pieces that were sent disassembled in a box. Lerner was part of the New Bauhaus at the Chicago Institute of Design and was Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s star pupil. Upholstery instructions. Source: Historical Design Source:  Historical Design Source:  Historical Design Nathan Lerner   'LIGHT EXPERIMENT' photograph from 1937/1938  Annotated 'second semester' and 'Institute of Design Class Kepes-Smith' in pencil and with 'the new bauhaus chicago' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1937, printed in 1938 Source:  Sotheby's  (The auction note has a great bio on Lerner)

Join Modern San Diego Real Estate this coming Saturday to preview architect Leonard Veitzer's Lincoff Residence (1964-66) before it hits the MLS. In the early 1960s, Leonard Veitzer opened his office on 5th Avenue in Lloyd and Ilse Ruocco's Design Center Building where he worked alongside the region's leading architects, landscape architects and designers in a collaborative environment. The Lincoff Residence, published in Sunset Magazine, in 1967, is the byproduct of a unique collaboration between architects Leonard Veitzer and Guy Anderson, builder Ted Mintz, landscape architect Joe Yamada and artist Svetozar.  See more HERE.   Exclusive Preview Date Saturday, May 16 Time 2-5 p.m. Location 152 Old Ranch Road, Chula Vista 91910 

La Gardo Tackett / Ray Eames "Sea Things"

LAMA  preview for the May 17th Auction RM Schindler, Jean Prouve and  Le Corbusier with Charlotte Perriand Early Eames three leg table and the other side of the Corbusier with Charlotte Perriand room divider LAMA always keeps it real with some good Eames lots. Max Gottschalk sofa  Custom Gerald McCabe desk and bench Claire Falkenstein Great clay. I'll take it all. June Harwood and Karl Benjamin = hardedge Oh, and then there's this 1976 Alexander Calder mobile. I bet it hits a million.

Incredible new work by Tanya Aguiñiga Tanya Aguiñiga, her husband Todd and baby Io : ) SHEvening - new works by Tanya Aguiñiga and Nancy Baker Cahill  MERRYSPACE/ Edward Cella Art+Architecture    (May 9-25, on Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment) 2754 S La Cienega Blvd.  Los Angeles, CA Tanya and Nancy will be be giving an artist talk about the dialogue between their current work on Saturday, May 23 at 1pm.  

You've seen these wicker and iron bar stools. Sellers claim they're designed by Arthur Umanoff for Raymor. Image: Chairish Well, return to Jakarta-  They're actually by Peir 1. They're pretty much on every vintage resale website. Here's Etsy. eBay too "In the style of" on 1stdibs  Another Pier 1 classic can be found here