Esoteric Survey

  It's a great weekend when a new Jack Boyd is involved. Ceramics, including Amy Donaldson and Hal Fromhold Noguchi and another three legger. Robert Josten table Catalogs

Harrison McIntosh, Dora De Larios, Tom Tramel and Rupert Deesse  Jack Boyd Design Line jacks and smalls Jens Quistgaard

John Caruthers and Jack Boyd  Alvar Aalto More Aalto and Luther Conover James Grant, Doug Ayers, Archie Kaplan, Robert McKeown Knoll x 3  

Lot 123 Jean Balmer, Untitled Balmer, Boyd & Stewart By Dave Hampton Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the work of June Schwarcz, Kay Whitcomb and the Woolleys was exhibited repeatedly in the Pasadena Museum of Art's exhibition series California Design .  Jean Balmer Terrace Bottle, California Design 9 Pacific Beach-based potter Jean Balmer exhibited ceramics in California Design 9 . For California Design 10 , held in 1968, the prolific San Diego potter David Stewart contributed an elaborate handmade chess set. Described as a "limited production" item, it had ceramic pieces rendered in green and white animal forms on a tile surface playing board. David Stewart Chess Set, California Design 10 Stewart was studying sculpture at San Diego State in 1959 on the GI Bill when he saw a show of Marguerite Wildenhain's pottery organized by Martha Longenecker in the campus art department. He chanced upon Wildenhain in the parking lot and chatted with the Bauhaus master potter b...

 Evelyn Ackerman mosaic, Bob Stocksdale bowl, Fey Marshall enamel and a great Joel Edwards bowl. Jack Boyd pendants  Ben Goo and another Boyd Here's a closer look at that Joel Edwards. Atomic Espresso maker designed by Giordano Robbiatti in 1947 A new set of fake Tackett canisters I'm not sure if this qualifies as a problem yet.

Evelyn Ackerman tapestry, Soleri bell, Don Shoemaker bookends and some other crafty things. I was told that this rug was from the Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman estate. I took their word for it.  Then I tracked down the estate sale photos online.  It was true. Also, I bought the tapestry from another place shortly after buying the rug. Do you believe in contact magic?  I also picked up a nice little pile of ephemera. A few I have never seen before.  Local boy Jack Boyd Vivika and Otto Heino

Jack Boyd X 2 and George Nelson ("Numbers", 1959 designed by George Nelson Office Associate Don Ervin)

  Slim pickings but at least it was two of my favorites... Jean Balmer Jack Boyd

Happy New Year Wood vase by Roger Sloan Jack Boyd buckle

  Jack Boyd sculpture, a bench and ceramics by Jean Balmer and Adam Silverman More desert picking. The Boyd isn't for sale, but the house is... Kaufmann Desert House by Richard Neutra Source: Wall Street Journal