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Weekend / Stuff

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

Weekend / Stuff

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Mosaic Table by Mexico City artist, Genaro Alvarez and an ikebana vase from Japan. David Stewart Otto & Vivika Heino, Robert Maxwell and another ikebana vase Picking is slow, so this was actually from the last two weekends.

Weekend / Stuff

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Allan Gould Genaro Álvarez Arthur Umanoff Lamp John Follis for Architectural Pottery Clay Martz lamp Wayne Chezem

Museo de Arte Moderno / Mexican Modernism

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Museo de Arte Moderno (1964) by architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez The view from above, 1960s. Source: Museo de Arte Moderno There was a small exhibition of Mexican Modernism at the same time the Don Shoemaker exhibition was happening.  1950s iron table by Talleres Chacón Cube lamb by Diego Matthai, 1971 Gustavo Perez Enamels by Miguel Pineda Mosaic table by Genaro Álvarez A sculpture garden wraps around the museum. Manuel  Felguérez Mathias Goeritz, 1953 Kazuya Sakai Casa Aztecalita by Juan José Díaz Infante was getting a little makeover. The restoration was funded by Pemex. Juan José Díaz Infante created the structure in 1967 as a pre-fab solution to the housing crisis in Mexico. He was influenced by a trip to Disneyland a few years prior. The house was installed at the museum in 1967 as part of an exhibition, Man and Plastic. It's been there ever sin...

Weekend / Stuff

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Jack Boyd Japan Mosaic mural by Genaro Álvarez Greta Grossman Alexander Girard and George Nelson/Irving Harper