Esoteric Survey

  Abel Sorensen, Glenn of California and Barney Reid Wilmer James and Tony Hill. I found the James on Saturday and the Hill in a different city on Sunday.  As you might recall from  this post , James and Hill were business partners.  More on this in a future post. Henry Dreyfuss

This should be fun. I hope to see you there.  Location: reform / the Landing 5118 West Jefferson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90016

I slacked off on shopping last weekend and went bike riding instead.  I did get a David Tisdale bowl. Here it is with a couple of the spoons from last week.

 Past as Prologue: The Last Decade of Furniture Design by Ray and Charles Eames (1968–1978) explores the final years of Eames furniture.  A couple weeks ago when I was in San Francisco for the Heath market, I was able to check out the latest exhibition by the   Eames Institute . It's being held at the Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery. In the late 1960s, with the post war housing boom fading, Herman Miller made the decision to turn their focus to office furniture.  “Only innovate as a last resort,” was an Eames mantra. Robert Propst's Action Office 2 line of modular panels brought Herman Miller into the corporate cubicle world. This brought along a number of developments to meet the needs of the office workers who would be spending long hours at their desks. Source: Eames Institute The  Eames Intermediate Chair was released in 1968. It was built off the Aluminum Group and Time Life chairs previously developed. The EC127 was introduced in 1972 and evolved f...

 David Tisdale PicNic (1986) in anodized aluminum.  I went bike riding instead of picking this weekend so that's it. I might do the same next weekend too. Image: davidtisdaledesign.com Image: 80s style : designs of the decade by Bangert, Albrecht

  Inside the Design Center at Mingei International Museum There is another Dave Hampton curated exhibition coming up at Mingei. Todd Pitman and I are also lending a hand. Ilse and Lloyd Ruocco’s Design Center, located in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, was a foundation for the modern design community of the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. Inside the Design Center brings to life a vignette of mid-twentieth century interior, lighting, and furniture design, featuring pieces by significant California designers, manufacturers, and craftspeople as selected by Ilse Ruocco for her 1950 showroom. This exhibition offers an immersive, revelatory window into San Diego’s culture of modernism through the lens of architecture, design, interior decorating, home goods retailing, landscape architecture, graphic design, and photography. Historic images of the Design Center set the backdrop for over 30 original pieces of modernist furnishings. Works by designers such as Ray Eames, Charles Eames, Greta...