Esoteric Survey

Carl Auböck egg and Isamu Kenmochi Bauhaus dishes. It was a tough weekend on the picking front. Although the dishes do complete a set. 

In the late 1960s Mexican architect Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez (1936-2012) designed an all-plastic modular house for farm workers in Mexico. The f iberglass-reinforced polyester shell made them easy to produce and to construct.  My friend Arquetipo de Cambio has discovered a number of them around the Tijuana area. This example is the best so far. It is currently being operated as an  AirBnB  by an architect in Tijuana. The structure has been at the current site since the 1990s. He has plans to remodel the interior, but in the meantime he was generous enough to let us in to check it out.   Photo:  Air BnB In Tlayacapan, Mexico, architecture firm PRODUCTORA constructed a house with shells the client had inherited.  Originally, they were from the family's 1970s weekend house. Side note: Some years back, a friend of mine found some of these just south of Tijuana. They have since been installed at another friend's house in Valle de Guadalupe.  ...

 Here is my load from Downtown Modernism.  It was another great one! Donald Drumm wall mounted candelabra and more of the Raymor spot lamps. Some dealers/auctions have attributed them to Harry Gitlin but I don't think Raymor sold his lamps. Handmade stool that has a label from the City/County of San Francisco. I'm curious if they worked with someone we might know on some sort of commission. Freeman Lederman bell. These are from their Import Collection. Although it does have a Tackett look, I think it was part of a collection they imported from Japan. A tea set by Richard Shaw Aluminum box and a nice Joel Edwards Olga Lee, Charles Allen, Paul McCobb and George Nelson

  The Bailey House by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg made it to the Architectural Digest Unique Spaces video series. And our boy Dave was part of it. Hopefully he won't get too mad that I posted a picture of him. He did a great job talking about Kellogg, like no one else can. Watch it here.  Check out a recent post I did on the house  here . More about the house and short-term rentals and photo shoots can be found on their website:  https://www.baileykelloggresidence.com/about

This post is the stuff from the weekend before last. I'm catching up. Paul Rand and a chair frame by the Martins. I'll go more in depth on them later. L-shaped coffee table Robert Maxwell Ruth Asawa from 1997

Downtown Modernism April 27th, 2025 Market Hours are from 8AM-2PM 2901 Saco St. Los Angeles, CA 90058 This one is not to be missed!  Dogs Welcome! More info:  https://ladowntownmodernism.com/

  At 5:30 in the morning, in the dark, that weed pot looked like you know who.  It's not.  I don't know who did the ceramic bird either, but it's cute. Seymour Robins

Weston Havens House (1939-1941) by Harwell Hamilton Harris, way up in the Berkeley Hills. Docomomo Northern California  was hosting a tour that coincided with a shopping trip to the Bay Area. John Weston Havens Jr. (1903–2001) was the heir to Berkeley founder, Francis Kittredge Shattuck. Weston was an art collector and owned a large amount of property. He commissioned Harris to build him a house that took full advantage of the view  from site, which has a 35-degree slope. The sloping ceilings were designed to take advantage of the sky view. Source: Maynard L. Parker. Courtesy of The Huntington Library The "spider legs" on the bridge might be a nod to Neutra. Harris started his architecture career working at the Neutra office. The furniture was collected by Havens in Finland and Sweden.  He lived in the house until his 90's and made few changes. It was then donated to UC Berkeley and  is under the stewardship of the College of Environmental Design .  Source: Mayn...