Esoteric Survey

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Mickey and Minnie and a tile.   Table by Martin Perfit for Rene Brancusi Peter Shire, Don Shoemaker box and Earthgender

  A Tony Hill ceramic bowl (front) with a very Lukens influenced look. I put it on my coffee table already. Right next to Glen Lukens and Doyle Lane. Another Good Design catalog. I think I have all the years covered now. Also a period photo of Erwine & Estelle Laverne. And an Eames album cover,

  The California section: Pamelagirl by Pamela Weir-Quiton, Stan Hawk and Earthgender The others: Don Shoemaker, Jane and Gordon Martz and Hans Boling

 Genaro Álvarez, Fantoni bird, Don Shoemaker,  Joyce McCullough candle holders with Lee Weber candles. A ceramic umbrella.  Necklaces

  Kipp Stewart, Arthur Umanoff, Kurt Versen, David Stewart, George Nelson and La Gardo Tackett These came from a designer who was doing prototype packaging for Frank Bros. The two smaller boxes have design games that were sold at Frank Bros.  The large box is still sealed! Scandi Stuff. Henning Koppel cookware, Stig Lindberg, Hans-Agne Jakobsson Jack Rogers Hopkins  Signed Isamu Noguchi poster from the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Plaza I was in Mexico City the weekend before last and visited Casa Pedregal  again. The friend I was with had a discussion with person giving the tour about these Don Shoemaker chairs.   My first shopping stop back in the US, I found one.

Ben Seibel  Roseville /Raymor Informal bean pots Architectural Pottery, Ben Sebel and Don Shoemaker Maurice Grossman Yard Art

David Shaner pot,  iron and canvas stool, Pro Artisan planter with a Malcolm Leland shape and David Cressey glaze, Kurt Versen lamp Don Shoemaker bookends and a David Cressey ashtray for Architectural Pottery

A Handmade Modernism, Artisanal Design in Mexico, 1952–2022, curated by  Ana Elena Mallet The exhibition takes place at the MUAC at UNAM in Mexico City. The exhibition looks at  craft design that was produced in Mexico from 1950 to the present. It starts with  Clara Porset and the 1952 El arte en la vida diaria: Exposición de objetos de buen diseño hechos en México.  This was the  first design exhibition Porset organized.  The exhibition fittingly begins with designs by Porset. A number of them we part of the 1952 exhibition. Clara Porset design produced by Ruiz Galindo Industries lounge chair, 1957 Silla Totonaca by Porset Tea cart by Porset Michael van Beuren This Cynthia Sargent rug looked familiar. On closer inspection it turns out that it was mine.  Here it is . The collector I sold it to loaned it for the exhibition.   Michael van Beuren I did not do a great job documenting all the artists and designers. Luckily the curator,  Ana...