Esoteric Survey

The Center of the World Felicity, CA Felicity is also the home of the Museum of History in Granite There are 922 granite panels installed, 700 are etched with history and the rest will document future events. The Church on the Hill The 150,000 ton "hill of prayer" is man made. The graveyard behind the church Source: History in Granite Staiway to? Learn more at  History in Granite

Alvin Lustig chair for Paramount Furniture in Los Angeles. I can't wait to get the awful 90s green suede off. Lamps, including Gross Wood and Heifetz Clay, including Beato and David Stewart

Fancy fish at  JF Chen

Tanya Aguiniga fiber sculpture at  JF Chen More Tanya The Clair Graham room I really wanted to take this Lester Geis Heietz lamp This Mitchell Bobrick Controlight too

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Frank Lloyd Wright design for a Cinema in San Diego (1905) Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: The Taliesin Architects In the decades following World War II, those who had studied under architect Frank Lloyd Wright in both Spring Green, Wisconsin and Scottsdale, Arizona through his Taliesin apprentice program, designed and built a fabulous array of structures throughout San Diego. Five of them – Sim Bruce Richards, Loch Crane, Frederick Liebhardt, Vincent Bonini and William Slatton lived and/or established their architecture practices in San Diego. In addition to these focal studies, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his two sons Lloyd Wright and John Lloyd Wright (the latter lived in Del Mar), as well as others heartily influenced by the Wright legacy will be presented. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: the Taliesin Architects will frame the remarkably rich portfolio of work with architectural drawings and models; period and contemporary photographs;

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Cranbrook Academy of Art Library and Museum (1942) by Eliel Saarinen These are hallowed grounds in term of design.  Harry Weese, Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Benjamin Baldwin, Ralph Rapson, Kevin Roche, Edmund Bacon and Eero Saarinen all went to Cranbrook. Charles Eames (behind camera), Eero Saarinen to the left of Eliel Saarinen (center with hat) on the site during construction. Source: Cranbrook Eliel designed some great doors Harry Bertoia There was a great Bertoia print and jewelry exhibition in the museum, but they didn't allow photography.  Bertoia and Eero Saarinen hanging out with Sol LeWitt (walls) Pipsan Saarinen Swanson for Ficks Reed Steve Frykholm posters for Herman Miller

Cabinet by Maurice Martine Other stuff

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Maurice Martine With photos and pegboard Paul Mayen Smalls

Dodge Fountain at Philip A. Hart Plaza  by Isamu Noguchi One Woodward Ave (1963) by Minoru Yamasaki is in the background. One Woodward Ave was Yamasaki's first skyscraper. Not bad. Busted I guess I wasn't supposed to be taking photos inside the building. A pedestrian bridge was added in the 1980s that connects to the Guardian Building (1929). The bridge is closed now. The People Mover tracks are below. Someone has been trying to get the bridge converted into a bar/nightclub. Read about it here . I'd like to see a coffee shop. Noguchi is dry. I suppose Detroit has bigger issues to deal with in terms of infrastructure. High security Noguchi. I wonder who they're watching? It must be the Canadians. They're right across the river.