Esoteric Survey

George Nelson bench. I haven't bought one of these in a long time.  Amy Donaldson, Andrew Bergloff, Tom Tramel, Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  James Prestini Woolley

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 Hammer museum Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school located in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It opened in 1933 and was owned by the faculty. Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, and Xanti Schawinsky is just a partial list of the faculty. Ruth Asawa, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg were all associated with the school. BMC closed in 1957. Source:  Western Regional Archives, States Archives of North Carolina Josef Albers painting and a desk he designed for the college Anni Albers Josef Albers Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Source: State Archives of North Carolina Emerson Woelffer Ilya Bolotowsky Robert Rauschenberg Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein and  Rauschenberg at BMC. I bet at lot of good times were had there.  Source:  S...

A Rudolph M. Schindler painted douglas fir and frosted glass floor lamp from the Wolfe House, which was demolished in 2002.  It's part of the  Bonhams: 20th Century Decorative Arts and Design   auction. Wolfe House Source:  Schindler by David Gebhard Ethel Wolfe in her living room Source: The Furniture of R.M. Schindler by Berns/Gebhard Charles Wolfe Source: The Furniture of R.M. Schindler by Berns/Gebhard The demise of the Wolfe house was a long and sad saga. David Leclerc recounts his experience with the house from 1996 to 2001,  here. . The house was condemned by that time and was being used by squatters and such. The custom Schindler furniture was piled up in front of the house.  According to the description in the Bonhams catalog, the lamp was acquired from the Wolfe House (basically a dumpster dive). Ultimately, someone bought the house and scraped the land to built a piece of junk that can be seen here . Photo:...

  The  10 Ten  booth at the 2013 Los Angeles Modernism show . Scott always dials it in with a great display. Having some really good pieces to show off doesn't hurt either. Vintage Cynthia Sargent rug at  10 Ten .  The George Nelson sofa is a good one too. David Cressey pots with Malcolm Leland door and birdhouse, at the Reform booth Gimme that Doyle Lane.  At  Reform   Espenet dining set at  Reform Jerry Ackerman messing around with Gerard in front of three Ackerman pieces at the  Reform  booth . Jerry is such a cool guy. He remembers every little detail about his and Evelyn's pieces. The wall of Myrton Purkiss at  Reform The Lisa Cliff Collection Beatrice Wood and Paul Soldner at the  Lisa Cliff Collection Archive  was showing vintage work by artist Brian Neary. Back in the day Brian's graphic art studio was across from Bill Curry's Design Line show...