Esoteric Survey

Art and Ikebana.  Tony Paul tray and other iron. Gaetano Pesce Fish Design clock, David Stewart and some Scandi things.  Tork! and The Primitives.

The small pile from a Bay Area trip. I was really happy to get this Luther Conover table. It's a version I haven't seen before. It has a solid asymmetrical teak top with a base similar to the boomerang shaped tables. It's like if the two table below were morphed into one.  A very Pod Farm David Stewart. That's all the contact magic I could muster after visiting Pond Farm the day before. More on that in a future post. This little clay guy came home with me.  So did this fake Picasso. Uncharacteristic buy for me.

  Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Dorothy Schindele and Ed Ruscha Marg Loring, Peter Shire, Sandra Johnstone, David Stewart and Heino Miscellaneous, with some Heath and Quistgaard  I don't know what this stone sculpture is but I like it

  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...

  Back to regular scheduled programming. Stuff from the past few weekends. VKG Souvenirs from Mexico City Eames, Martz and Stan Bitters Josef Frank Good Design

Lot 123 Jean Balmer, Untitled Balmer, Boyd & Stewart By Dave Hampton Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the work of June Schwarcz, Kay Whitcomb and the Woolleys was exhibited repeatedly in the Pasadena Museum of Art's exhibition series California Design .  Jean Balmer Terrace Bottle, California Design 9 Pacific Beach-based potter Jean Balmer exhibited ceramics in California Design 9 . For California Design 10 , held in 1968, the prolific San Diego potter David Stewart contributed an elaborate handmade chess set. Described as a "limited production" item, it had ceramic pieces rendered in green and white animal forms on a tile surface playing board. David Stewart Chess Set, California Design 10 Stewart was studying sculpture at San Diego State in 1959 on the GI Bill when he saw a show of Marguerite Wildenhain's pottery organized by Martha Longenecker in the campus art department. He chanced upon Wildenhain in the parking lot and chatted with the Bauhaus master potter b...

  Eames and Paavo Tynell Smalls, including David Stewart, Martz, Peter Shire, Robert Maxwell, Wayne Chapman and Paul Rand More reading material

  I've been slacking. This post is from the last two weeks.  Here is a Domestic table by Roy McMakin and Sintesi lamp by Ernesto Gismondi. San Diego art score. I was happy to get another painting by Conrad Woods.  The lady who owned the art was an artist herself. She also was a longtime supporter of the San Diego art scene and had the ephemera to prove it. Tom Mcmillin, David Stewart and a jewelry box.  I'm sure many of these McMillin vases (top left) have been sold as David Cressey. McMillin called them Shadow Vases and this one is hand signed. Many aren't.  This is from last weekend. It was slim picking. I did pick up a couple more Richard Allen Morris paintings.