Esoteric Survey

  Boundless: Reflections of the Southern California Landscapes in Midcentury Studio Ceramics explores how the physical, social, and political landscapes of the area shaped craft. Nearly 150 objects from Mingei’s permanent collection, set against large-scale photography, transport us to the breathtaking locations reflected in the ceramics. Through these landscapes and the awe-inspiring science of clay, glaze, and fire, this exhibition celebrates Southern California mid-twentieth century ceramics. Curated by  Guusje Sanders There are a large number of Laura Andreson pieces in the exhibition and there's a reason for that. Andreson started the ceramics department at UCLA in 1933. Over 5,000 students studied under her  until she retired in 1970. This includes Martha Longenecker in 1939, who founded Mingei International Museum in 1978.  In 1982, Mingei organized the exhibition Laura Andreson — A Fifty-Year Retrospective in Clay. It was curated by Mingei founder and then D...

  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

David Cressey Solar design on a Pro Artisan John Follis planter Two unknowns in the back and a beautiful Amy Donaldson in the front.  Here's that Amy Donaldson from the top Don Jennings from the OC.  I'm a sucker for fish plates. Deco

  Amy Donaldson vase on a Henry P. Glass table model  Danish table From the famed Illums Bolighus store in Denmark

Soleri bells, bowl and Galef catch all  Esta James vases and Amy Donaldson George Nelson for Arbuck

  Ikebana, Amy Donaldson, Hal Fromhold and David Stewart I went to the Peter Shire open house last weekend and bought a dustpan. and some ceramics George Nelson (with Isamu Noguchi and Bucky) and Irving Harper (right) From George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design , Nelson reminisced about that 1947 evening in his office: "And there was one night when the ball clock got developed, which was one of the really funny evenings. [Isamu] Noguchi came by, and Bucky Fuller came by. I’d been seeing a lot of Bucky those days, and here was Irving and here was I, and Noguchi, who can't keep his hands off anything, you know – it is a marvelous, itchy thing he's got – he saw we were working on clocks and he started making doodles. Then Bucky sort of brushed Isamu aside. He said, 'This is a good way to do a clock,' and he made some utterly absurd thing. Everybody was taking a crack at this ... pushing each other aside and making scribbles. At some point we left – we were suddenl...

George Nelson bench. I haven't bought one of these in a long time.  Amy Donaldson, Andrew Bergloff, Tom Tramel, Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  James Prestini Woolley

Bowls by Alma Allen Allan Gould and Inco Amy Donaldson, Tapio Wirkkala and Tom McMillin You know, for fruit When is enough, enough? 

Japanese lamp Eames, Alexander Girard, Herman Miller Clay, including Myrton Purkiss and Amy Donaldson