Esoteric Survey

ROWAC stool designed by Robert Wagner Chemnitz. They were used in the classrooms and workshops at the Bauhaus . Oh yeah, and I finally stopped off at the dunes to take a photo. I guess the off roaders don't go out when it's 107 degrees...wimps! I've bought so many wire baskets over the years hoping it was the one shown in this photo of Good Design 1953 at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago.  I finally found the right one. Here is the designer, Helen Pope, holding it. I also picked up another Edward Durell Stone table/bench. Plus, a  Kipp Stewart & Stewart MacDougall bench for Wichendon. Wood Maurice Grossman cup for the collection Baby weed pot

A-frame mailbox. Made in Los Angeles, 1950s Susan Peterson Edward Durell Stone for Fulbright Industries, 1951 Euro stuff

Stuart Pharmaceutical Company (1958) by Edward Durell Stone, with landscape design by Thomas Church. Pasadena entrepreneur Arthur Hanisch hired Stone and Church to design a factory on the nine acre site.  The building was selected by The American Institute of Architects as one of the five best designs for 1958. The hanging discs are planters, although none of them are planted.   The employee recreation area, including patio furniture from Brown Jordan (they were based in Pasadena at the time).  Source: Julius Shulman via  Pasadena Digital History Collaboration Photo: Julius Shulman,  Getty Research Institute Photo: Julius Shulman,  Getty Research Institute 1958 Photo: Julius Shulman,  Getty Research Institute The site in 1990.  Source:  Pasadena Digital History Collaboratio n Stuart Ph armaceutical Company was acquired by  Merck/Johns...

Kresge Chapel at the Claremont School of Theology by Edward Durell Stone (1957)

Beckman Auditorium by Edward Durell Stone, on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, 1964 The model Image: Architectural Record, 1962