Esoteric Survey

Lamps, including  Giuseppe Ostuni for Oluce You know it's a cool lamp if Alexander Girard had one. Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  Wayne Chapman More Wayne Chapman Bill Lam Log Basket by George Nelson Associates (Irving Harper) for Howard Miller

  Vivika and Otto Heino, Danish mirror and a Mexican basket Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley Joel Edwards, Susan Peterson, Laura Andreson and Heath Insert AP here More books

Lot 107 Kay Whitcomb, Enamel Sculpture San Diego Enamel Scene by Dave Hampton During the mid to late 1950s, the Art Center in La Jolla was becoming an important hub for area artists and designer-craftsmen, including those working with enamels. When Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley began to focus on the medium in 1948-49 they lived in a unit at Rudolf Schindler's El Pueblo Ribera (above), (along with other Allied Craftsmen group member Harry Bertoia) and their important groundwork helped inspire a whole community of San Diego artists, including Barney Reid, Phyllis Wallen, Joann Tanzer, James Parker, Margaret Price and even the young sculptor Jack Boyd , all of whom eventually did significant work with enamel on copper.  Jackson and  Ellamarie  Woolley Certainly, the Woolleys defined and propelled this wave of enameling by San Diego artists, however, within just a couple of years of each other (1955 and 1957 respectively), Kay Whitcomb and June Schwarcz arrived in La Jolla t...

La Gardo Tackett and Hans Bellmann  Roy McMakin Van Keppel Green and Ferris Shaknove Ellamarie Woolley MillerKnoll A couple friends made a Good Design tote and gave me one. Speaking of friends, there's nothing like getting a group together in a parking lot at 4am on a Sunday morning.  It was  Downtown Modernism . This is pretty much my favorite flea market these days. The 8am view

George Nelson bench. I haven't bought one of these in a long time.  Amy Donaldson, Andrew Bergloff, Tom Tramel, Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  James Prestini Woolley

  Ellamarie Woolley enamel plaque. This was actually mine before and I sold it to a friend. Luckily I had the opportunity to buy it back. Once upon a time it belonged to Jean Balmer. I lent it to the Museum of California Design for their California's Designing Women exhibition and it made the cover.  Also, a huge coincidence that I picked up the exact Dorothy Liebes tiles that were in the exhibition and book. Bill Stern was a good guy.  More about that exhibition, here .  This Bob Stocksdale piece also has some good provenance. Pamela Weir-Quiton purchased it from Bob himself.  I rescued this DCM without a seat and the backrest on upside down. It had been inside a shabby chic mall for several months and then they moved to the back yard. It was left for dead under the elements and I just couldn't stand to see it that way. A real "chair"ity move, I know. 

San Diego Modernism: Furniture and Arts for Daily Living at Palm Springs Modernism - Tues Feb, 21st @ 1PM San Diego's unique culture of post-WWII art, design and architecture remains one of American modernism's best kept secrets. Dave Hampton reveals how it shaped the ‘California Design’ program. Photo: Doors by Svetozar Radakovich and Carl-Ekstrom, photo by Lynn Fayman Designed to complement and contextualize the film and panel discussion following this presentation, Jack Rogers Hopkins: California Design Maverick (below), Dave Hampton will talk about the design and making of Furniture and Architectural Elements –murals, doors, grilles, lanterns, windows, fountains, gates, handles, fireplace surrounds, etc.– in San Diego, connecting this work to San Diego's unique culture of modernism and architecture, from Irving Gill to Lloyd Ruocco, Sim Bruce Richards and Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, and illustrate furniture by John Dirks; Larry Hunter; Jack Rogers Hopkins; Wendy Maruyama; D...

  Ellamarie Woolley pendant and Melvin Best bird I've had my eye out for one of his birds. Best is pretty obscure but he was a pretty major designer. For plants I buy shiny stuff sometimes...Angelo Lelii The good stuff...Eugene Weston for Modern Color Inc.