Esoteric Survey

Eugene Weston table for Modern Color Inc. This is cheating a little because I owned this table before but got it back in a trade.  Soleri bell, Richard Fisher and a crucifix. 

  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.

  Eugene Weston stools for Modern Color Inc.. Ettore Sottsass phone and an Alvar Aalto chair. This is actually from the weekend before last. I was distracted by the fate of democracy and all that.  Weed pots and a sculpture from 1983.

Model by Sim Bruce Richards Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: the Taliesin Architects  at the La Jolla Historical Society  frames the remarkably rich portfolio of work with architectural drawings and models; period and contemporary photographs; as well as objects and ephemera. Furniture by Sim Bruce Richards Sim Bruce Richards children's table and sofa. Tile prototypes by  Sim Bruce Richards and Rhoda Lopez   The table was designed with a "milk-retaining edge". Jane Chapman pillows Loch Crane rendering for Crane II in Point Loma The Onion House by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg and Bill Slatton  in Kona, Hawaii (1961–62) Vincent Bonini, Bonini House (La Cañada, CA), 1955 Vincent was fiends with Eugene Weston, who lent him furniture for this Julian Shulman photo shoot--hence the Weston table. He would later join the firm of Liebhardt & Weston in San Diego. More information can be found at Mode...

C. Carl Jennings Henry P. Glass This might work with the chairs I bought last  week . Clay Books on clay Louis Kalff Alexander Girard playing cards for Braniff International

Eugene Weston Jr. Residence (1951) in La Canada by Eugene Weston III  Another Weston house  on StoneGlen in La Canada A house Weston built for himself in 1955. It's been messed with a bit.  A house in Eagle Rock Weston designed for Norman Bilderback (1953). Bilderback was the director of design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at the time. It is now in the safe hands with Scott, Joanna and Clay of 10 Ten .

Eugene Weston table for Modern Color Inc. The Good Design group from 1950 is now complete. The Good Design Selection,  Modern Color Inc. I picked up another piece by Karl Lightfoot. This time it's a table to go with an upholstered chair I have. This is the kind of goofy stuff I get into.  Lightfoot Studio, 1949 Metal wastepaper basket by Grethe Kornerup-Bang for Torben Ørskov Smalls

Yes, San Diego is sunny in the winter and has some nice beaches. There's also some great architecture, like the  Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1964) by Lloyd Ruocco Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1964) by Lloyd Ruocco Liebhardt, Frederick & Marianne Residence (1951) by  Frederick  Liebhardt & Eugene Weston  House being demolished next to Scripps Institute of Oceanography Monsees Professional Building  (1959) by  Frederick  Liebhardt & Eugene Weston Compact Houses by Herbert Brownell Compact Houses by Herbert Brownell Compact Houses by Herbert Brownell Unknown in Pacific Beach Unknown in Ocean Beach Bailin Residence (1961) by Maggy Thomas Associates  in Ocean Beach Rhoda Lopez in Point Loma Spec Houses 3 and 1 (above) by John Reed If you find yourself in San Diego and want to see some architecture, Modern San ...