Esoteric Survey

Eames, Greta Grossman and Dansk One of the best chair designs. Pure architecture.  Smalls

  Japanese Iron, Venini hourglass, etc.. Scandi stuff Raul Coronel, 1966 Soleri Bells Speaking of Soleri bells, I came across this church right before I bought the bells. Divine intervention?

Joseph Yamada helped design many of the most well known landmarks in his hometown of San Diego. He studied landscape architecture at the University of California Berkeley, where he was guided by three legendary modernists; Thomas Church, Garrett Eckbo, and Lawrence Halprin. He graduated in 1954 and returned home to San Diego where he joined landscape architect Harriet Wimmer, San Diego's first woman landscape architect in commercial practice. A woman and a former Japanese-American internment camp prisoner would become the most sought-after landscape architects in Southern California.  In 1960 they became partners and renamed the firm Wimmer Yamada & Associates, a name they kept even after Wimmer retired.  For more than 50 years Yamada was instrumental in providing landscape design.   Wimmer Yamada and Caughey  is still in business and is the longest-running landscape architecture firm in San Diego. Source:  Cultural Landscape Foundation Joseph Yamada and Elizabeth Kikuchi were

Ettore Sottsass, Soleri,Peter Pepper and Ravenware Luis Barragan

  Henry Takemoto! VKG, La Gardo Tackett fort Architectural Pottery, smalls and a lamp designed in 1951 by a  California designer (more to come... hopefully) La Gardo Tackett Robert Maxwell