Esoteric Survey

I was finally able to get my hands on a Giraffe family by Malcolm Moran  (1923 - 2011). In the original box from Hudson's! They were the anchor tenant and the company who hired Victor Gruen to design the  Northland Shopping Center Northland Shopping Center  (1954) by Victor Gruen. Located in Southfield, MI, a Detroit suburb. At the time, it was the largest shopping center in the country. Alvin Lustig collaborated with Gruen on the identity and signage. A number of artists were commissioned to do sculpture for the center.  Besides Moran, there was Marshall Fredericks, Joseph Anthony McDonnell, and Lily Saarinen (Eero's wife). Source: Victor Gruen and Associates The original Moran sculptures in bronze stood 25 feet high. Image: Life Magazine Hudson's offered dainty mementos for sale at the mall. Source: Detroit Free Press, 1954 Me too Billy, me too. Source: Detroit Free Press, 1954 Source: Architectural Forum 1961 Source: Detroit Public Library A fish sculpture by...

  The Modern Chair  at the  Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center  This exhibition is organized by Palm Springs Art Museum and curated by Brad Dunning, architecture and design specialist, with support from Rochelle Steiner. The Modern Chair traces the evolution from the first cantilevered example by Mart Stam, and then onward to designs of current times including examples by Cini Boeri, Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, George Nakashima, Charlotte Perriand, Rudolph Schindler, among many others. Technological and stylistic advances pushed chair design forward at a breakneck speed in the 20th century like no other time before. The exhibition will also contain important examples of 21st century as well. The exhibition starts with two Dutch designs by Gerrit Rietveld and Mart Stam. R.M. Schindler Cantilevered chair, 1926-1940  Alvin Lustig Paramount Chair, 1948 I'm without my one comfortable chair until April.  Only 55 chairs wer...