Esoteric Survey

Pacific Iron Products table, Soleri bell, Howard Miller clock, Isamu Noguchi, Japanese lamps and Italian ceramics. Rick Dillingham and Doyle Lane

CA Designed 1955 at  the Long Beach Museum of Art Museums are opening back up and I was happy an exhibition I missed last year was still up at the LBMA . The title wall.  Here's the catalog for the original 1955 exhibition. It was a collaboration between the Long Beach Municipal Art Center (now LBMA) and the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibitions ran simultaneously. Campbell and Wong designed the exhibition at the de Young.   The 1955 Long Beach  exhibition was juried by John Entenza, editor of Arts and Architecture Magazine; Greta Grossman, designer; Richard Petterson, ceramist; Samuel Heavenrich. the Long Beach Municipal Art Center director of CALIFORNIA DESIGNED. I did a little post on the original  California Designed in 2012 . As  you can see in the top photo, there is a Marshmallow Sofa right at the beginning of the exhibition. The exhibition is called California Designed 1955 and George Nelson was an east coaster and the manufacturer, Herman Miller, was and s

Danish Pepper Mills, Hans Agne Jakobsson lamp, Gambone, Peter Shire bowls from 1984, bowl by Christian Luc Table by Archie Kaplan for New Dimensions Furniture and a lamp  

Kipp Stewart and Stewart MacDougall for Glenn of California,  Apple by Ingeborg Lundin for Orrefors, Arthur Umanoff stool and an Earthgender planter La Gardo Tackett Smalls