Esoteric Survey

Paul Evans: Designer & Sculptor Architecture and design writer  Jeffrey Head has a great new book out on the east coast designer-craftsman. The foreword is by Adriana Kertzer, with an introduction by longtime Evans collaborator Dorsey Reading  and the afterword is by Richard Wright. Jefrey has put together a tremendous amount of research into the  exploration of the life and  work  of Evans. The 220 photos are pretty great as well.    Evans, the  metalsmith craftsman.  Rochester Institute of Technology Brochure, 1952 The showroom Paul Evans and Phillip Lloyd Powell shared in New Hope, Pennsylvania Paul Evans, Phillip Lloyd Powell and Jens Risom for Designer's Inc. I'm down for that. Paul Evans and Phillip Lloyd Powell stereo cabinet Sculpted panel, 1965  Sculpture  Sofa, 1964 Door knocker for Directional, 1964 Jeffrey does a great job exp...

Jeffrey Head, who has written a bunch of great articles on subjects like Luther Conover and Heifetz lamps, continues his list of great projects with a book on Airforms by architect Wallace Neff. No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff  Though, the construction cost were low and the uses were limitless, only 2,500 bubbles were built. How could people possibly like stucco tract housing better than living in bubbles?? Resort Housing in Turkey, 1950 1947 LA Times Home Magazine cover of the interior of Andrew Neff's (Wallace's brother) Airform in Pasadena.  Recognize that table? This is the Andrew Neff Airform today. I've been in this one.  A certain artist I know who has a pretty cool blog owns it. I have the feeling Roden might have come up with some of the ephemera in the book. He's that kind of guy. He's also the kind of guy that should be living in a house like this.  He's taking really good care of it and ...