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Weekend / Stuff

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  It's a great weekend when a new Jack Boyd is involved. Ceramics, including Amy Donaldson and Hal Fromhold Noguchi and another three legger. Robert Josten table Catalogs

Weekend / Stuff

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

Modular Housing / Juan José Díaz Infante

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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.  ...