Esoteric Survey

  Ceramic tile floor by Doyle Lane at the Lytton Savings Bank in Canoga Park (1966). The carpet is by Edward Fields.  Photo: Julius Shulman,  GRI Digital Collections The tables also have Lane ceramic tile inserts. Kurt Meyer, AIA (1922-2014) was the architect and did multiple Savings and Loan Association buildings for Lytton. It was featured in Arts & Architecture and won an honor award from the Precast Concrete Institute.  The interior of this branch was designed by  Adele Faulkner  F.A.I.D. She did multiple Lytton interiors and was the first woman in Southern California to be named a fellow in the American Society of Interior Designers. Photo: Julius Shulman,  GRI Digital Collections A Claire Falkenstein wall sculpture in the upstairs office of the branch.   The bank's founder, Bart Lytton (1912-69) was a major art collector and helped found LACMA .  The Lytton Gallery was one of the museum's first 3 buildings. In 1968 it was renamed th...

The 2018 Palm Springs Modernism show Archive 20th Century It's always great to see an Eames ESU 4 stacker.   Red Modern Allen Ditson and some Scandi stuff. I guess Finn Juhl is cool. Funkis had a great booth, as usual. Ken almost sold out. Sputnik Modern This was one of my favorite things at the show.  Ruth Duckworth, in bronze Reform Gallery The J.B. Blunk corner at Reform Bernard Rosenthal plaque  Converso It was Converso's 15th year of doing the show. He showed some great classics. 20C Design  from Texas Their fiber game was strong. They also had this Bonniers iron bowl by Isamu Noguchi (probably) MoModerne from St. Louis brought this Ray Eames catch all. A super rare form. BILLINGS with Damama Hunt Modern from Santa Fe had some serious top shelf merchandise. Objects USA Lots of straps

A monumental Sheila Hicks fiber sculpture at the preview for the May 22nd  LAMA   sale. It appears they also have some Walter Lamb furniture KEM Weber desk and side table designed for the Disney studios in 1938. KEM Weber music cabinet designed for the Disney studios in 1938. This was the KEM Weber set up at Disney, complete with an "Airline" chair on the right  Source: Walt Disney Archives Three paintings by Oskar Fischinger Coincidentally, Oskar worked as motion picture cartoon effects animator at Disney right around the same time KEM Weber designed the new offices. Theoretically, he could have been using a Weber desk when he was working on Fantasia. Fischinger at work at the Disney studio in 1939. He hated it. More on that, here . Source:  Elfriede Fischinger  via Michael Sporn Animation   Salvador Dali was around the Disney studio too. There is an "Airline" chair in the corner. Sour...