Esoteric Survey

  Ilmari Tapiovaara at my favorite vista point on the 5. These are the things I bought when I was in the Bay Area for The Good Flea. Japanese iron Melvin Best, Heath, Irving Harper, Finland and Quistgaard Minis

  Isamu Kenmochi Kathuo Mathumura for Yamaguchi. At least that is what the label says. The designer is really  Katsuo Matsumura. Obviously a letter was switched in translation. I had a set of tables before with the same incorrect label.  Eames ESU, another second series. Van Keppel Green Stools: Isamu Kenmochi and iron and leather Sori Yanagi pitcher and George Nelson (Irving Harper) Boltabest tray   Japanese iron and La Gardo Tackett  A California trio of Tony Hill, Elizabeth Madley, and Bob Stocksdale Kurt Versen and Gerald Thurston Early Soleri bell It was a good weekend!!

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

  Ikebana, Amy Donaldson, Hal Fromhold and David Stewart I went to the Peter Shire open house last weekend and bought a dustpan. and some ceramics George Nelson (with Isamu Noguchi and Bucky) and Irving Harper (right) From George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design , Nelson reminisced about that 1947 evening in his office: "And there was one night when the ball clock got developed, which was one of the really funny evenings. [Isamu] Noguchi came by, and Bucky Fuller came by. I’d been seeing a lot of Bucky those days, and here was Irving and here was I, and Noguchi, who can't keep his hands off anything, you know – it is a marvelous, itchy thing he's got – he saw we were working on clocks and he started making doodles. Then Bucky sort of brushed Isamu aside. He said, 'This is a good way to do a clock,' and he made some utterly absurd thing. Everybody was taking a crack at this ... pushing each other aside and making scribbles. At some point we left – we were suddenl...

Back at my favorite vista point on the way back from the Bay Area.  This time with a Robert Hanley for Modern Color Inc. floor vase. La Gardo Tackett Stan Bitters stool, Dean Santner jewelry boxes and a ceramic puzzle sculpture that opens up like a Russian doll. Victor Bisharat, Stan Hawk, Dora De Larios, Harrison McIntosh Irving Harper tray and some Euro stuff. Harvey Probber desk set and Carl Aubock Summerset Lounger

Stool and Akari lamp by Isamu Noguchi  Irving Harper for George Nelson - 1958 John Caruthers Esther and Gross Wood For books For plants For doors Andrew Bergloff Tackett and animals

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