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Time / Life

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The 48 story Time & Life Building is  at 1271 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) in Rockefeller Center, NYC. It opened in 1959 and was designed by the Rockefeller family's architect, Wallace Harrison. The exterior is really not much to look at, but the interior was incredible. Source:vintagemanhattanskyline
There is also a Josef Albers installation in the lobby: Portals (1961) carrara glass, nickel bronze and bronze Portals was installed in 1961 and is 42 feet wide by 14 feet high Source: Albers Foundation
Also in the lobby, is Relational Painting #88 (1959) by Fritz Glarner Source: Lost at E Minor
Relational Painting #88 detail Source: Blake Gopink
Charles and Ray Eames designed this reception area.  Source: Time
Another view Image: Eames Design, Neuhart
Coincidentally, when I was putting this post together, Herman Miller posted a blueprint of the desk above for #blueprintwednesday on InstagramSource: Herman Miller
The Time-Life Lobby furnishings by Charles and Ray Eames Source: Eames Office…
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Tackett / Thursday

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I don't usually straight up re-post things, but this is too good not to. It comes from Herman Miller's Instagram feed: Joining @esotericsurvey for #tackettthursday with a little esoterica from our Archives. Tackett was apparently contracted by Girard to lead Herman Miller's short-lived Objects program. This document opens.... "It is entirely possible that history will note the use of the word 'OBJECTS' as it is being used in the title of Herman Miller's newest division. It does indeed mark a new awareness of the significance of objects to our time. We who are aware of environment are excited by what Alexander Girard is telling us and showing us about objects. We are the first to understand that he is saying that objects are not incidental to our lives but primary and paramount. When Alexander Dorner used as his title for a book about Herbert Bayer 'The Way Beyond Art,' he accomplished the same function that Herman Miller accomplishes in using 'OB…
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Eames / Miller House

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To celebrate Charles Eames’ birthday today, the Miller House and Garden Collection posted some Eames-related items from their archive. The Millers purchased an Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman in 1977 for their Alexander Girard decorated Saarinen house (pic below). It looks like they got a deal too!Source:  Miller House and Garden Collection Source:  Miller House and Garden Collection
Source:  Miller House and Garden Collection
Source:  Miller House and Garden Collection
Too see all the Miller House Eames posts, click here.  There are some good ones.  If you aren't keeping up with their Documenting Modern Living project, you're blowing it! 
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LAMA / May 2014

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LAMA preview for the May 18th Auction
Harry Bertoia Sonambient sculpture hanging out with a few works by John Altoon
Custom designed Billy Haines furniture from a Samuel Marx-designed residence in the Holmbly Hills area of Los Angeles. I bet the fancy pants crowd is salivating over this stuff.
Easy to say for a guy who had lots of money and taste.
Henry P. Glass file cabinet and Alexander Girard ottoman-with original fabric!
Dan Johnson desk for Hayden Hall, in nice original condition with lots of patina and Eames
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Eames Sofa Compact with Girard fabric and some 670/671s
Johnson, Knoll, Grossman and Baughman
The crafty corner with a lot of Nakashima and Maloof.
The craft continues: Maloof, Tuttle, Ackerman, Nakashima and a monster Michael Arntz mountain pot.
John Smith
This Dominic Di Mare weaving is one of my favorite things in the sale. It comes from the estate of Edurah Moore.
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Modernism Week / Palm Springs

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Kaufmann house by Richard Neutra, obviously It's hard for me to go to Palm Springs and not stop by.
Palevsky House (1969) by Craig Ellwood, More here.
Edris House (1954) by E. Stewart Willams
Palm Springs Art Museum
Barbara Hepworth
Alexander Girard
Gio Ponti
Billy Haines and Rudolph Schindler
Claire Falkenstein

Judy Chicago and Frank Stella
Ed Ruscha
Richard Diebenkorn I made it to the last day of the Diebenkorn exhibition. It was incredible. This is blurry because the guard was running towards me. I swear there wasn't a sign.

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