Esoteric Survey

  Yasha Heifetz, Ravenware and Luther Conover Knoll letter tray, Carl Aubock bottle opening in the original packaging and a cool bull. I stopped off at a different vista point on the way back home. I don't know who did this one, yet. Steve Salisian Hal Rieger I also picked up some vintage photographs with models posing on VKG and T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

While a lot of people were gearing up to watch America's race to the bottom (AKA the presidential debate), a ton of great art and design was up for sale at  LAMA .   Wall of Gordon Onslow Ford Helen Frankenthaler George Nakashima DeWain Valentine R.M. Schindler chairs designed these chairs for  Sardi's Restaurant in 1933. The chars were manufactured by the  Warren McArthur Corporation.  The restaurant was demolished by a fire in 1936. These are rare! George Rickey Oskar Fischinger is so underrated. Classic hard edge modern Model no. T-3-C Heifetz Manufacturing Co. by James Harcey Crate This one came out of The Bailey House (Case Study House 20A) by Richard Neutra. See more on The Bailey House  here .  Eames Colouring Toy. I wonder why some of them use the British spelling? Mine doesn't have the "u". Anyway, i t was a gift from Ray Eames to Dale Bailey, who I assume lived in Case Study House 20...

Alvin Lustig chair for Paramount Furniture in Los Angeles. I can't wait to get the awful 90s green suede off. Lamps, including Gross Wood and Heifetz Clay, including Beato and David Stewart

Tanya Aguiniga fiber sculpture at  JF Chen More Tanya The Clair Graham room I really wanted to take this Lester Geis Heietz lamp This Mitchell Bobrick Controlight too

George Nelson, more here and here Sori Yanagi Heifetz, John Risley, etc.

EAMES prototype Radio gift from charles eames to alexander girard CHARLES EAMES AND EERO SAARINEN Organic design Chair heywood wakefield made something cool Don knorr GRETA MAGNUSSON GROSSMAN That's a good one EAMES ESU 400-C CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE GOOD STUFF:  WRIGHT

Meguro Dori in  Meguro-ku  is the street where most of the vintage shops in Tokyo are, including Case Study . Amongst a large collection of good stuff piled in there was this Heifetz lamp by Zahara Schatz.    There were also some good Nelson clocks and Eames pieces. Tetsumasa Suda is the owner of Case Study.  I tried hard to find some vintage mid-century Japanese designs. The thing that I kept hearing was that it's impossible to find. It turned out to be true for me.  He's friends with Riki Watanabe so if he doesn't have any vintage examples, prospects were looking bleak.  He did have a newer production Watanabe iron and wood stool signed by Riki  himself. He showed me the Ray Eames business card from his private stash. I think he said Sori Yanagi gave it to him. Meister is just down the street from Case Study. The upstairs has a nice mix of things for sale and a personal collection tha...