Esoteric Survey

My pile from Downtown Modernism. A very good Soleri bell Tackett Koyo Sangyo, 1980 Tom McMillin and Dean Santner Knoll Laverne Originals Books and bookends Eames from the weekend before.

Doyle Lane Bill Curry for Design Line and Peter Pepper Products table by Howard McNab & Don Savage  Architectural Fiberglass, Architectural Pottery ashtray and Earthgender I finally found a Byron Temple in the wild. You should have seen the pile of garbage I pulled it out of.

Two Stan Hawks makes for a great weekend. Also, Evelyn Ackerman, Bill Curry, Jens Quistgaard, Peter Shire and Earthgender. Wilhelm Wagenfeld salt and Pepper shakers in a Frasier's box for that California-Bauhaus connection.  

 

  Malcolm Leland for Architectural Pottery, La Gardo Tackett, Design Line, Dansk, Timo Sarpaneva.

Smalls: Peter Pepper, Design Line, Doug Ayers and David Stewart Antonio Vitali Herman Miller, 1961 George Rickey

Smalls from the weekend. Bill Curry, Stan Bitters and Martz

Roland Smith lamp , Takeshi Nii stool, German lamp and fire tools. Martz, Harwood Steiger fabric and a bowl. This is actually from last week. There's a Design Line lamp and a Don Shoemaker table.

My haul from LA Downtown Modernism Hans Coray Landi chair

Alvar Aalto stool, George Nelson Chronopak clock, Bill Curry for Design Line pedestal, fire tools and a Japanese lamp.  Design Line bookends and an interesting Martz covered vessel. 

Very big David Cressey Smalls, including a very small Vivika and Otto Heino cup

The Bill Curry exhibition by Reform Gallery at the Parachute Market in downtown Los Angeles The Curry family and a couple of collectors worked with Reform, so the collection was quite impressive. The mold to the Stemlite globe is on top of the far pedestal. The Stemlite factory mold Cattail Screen Painting by Bill Curry Sweet ephemera NFS  had a nice spread, including this Cees Braakman table.  ..also this Architectural Fiberglass trashcan. So stealth. There was also a lot of really good contemporary art and design at the market.  I'm a vintage guy so I failed to capture most of it. I did get a photo of the  Ricky Clifton installation from the Window .

June 6th and 7th,  Reform Gallery will be showing the works of designer William "Bill" Curry at the Parachute Market sale  in downtown Los Angeles. In 1962, Bill Curry and his wife Jackie founded the El Segundo-based company Design Line Incorporated, for which Bill created innovative lamps and furnishings. Design Line's first lamp, the Stemlite, was wildly popular at the time of its introduction; it was the first lamp to eliminate the base-plus-shade concept and therefore exist as a single piece. Curry's subsequent items for Design Line include the Cattail Lamp, the smaller Lolite Lamp, and the multifunctional Honeycomb Module, which can be used as seating, as a display surface, or as a coffee table. Curry-designed items will include a Cattail Lamp, Honeycomb Modules, Stemlite lamps and original paintings by Curry himself courtesy of his son, Eric, and his estate. Parachute Market: AD HOC June 6th and 7th, 11 AM-7 PM Preview party on Friday, J...