Esoteric Survey

My pile from Downtown Modernism. A very good Soleri bell Tackett Koyo Sangyo, 1980 Tom McMillin and Dean Santner Knoll Laverne Originals Books and bookends Eames from the weekend before.

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

  Japanese stool with storage Knoll and Joel Edwards

La Gardo Tackett and Hans Bellmann  Roy McMakin Van Keppel Green and Ferris Shaknove Ellamarie Woolley MillerKnoll A couple friends made a Good Design tote and gave me one. Speaking of friends, there's nothing like getting a group together in a parking lot at 4am on a Sunday morning.  It was  Downtown Modernism . This is pretty much my favorite flea market these days. The 8am view

TWA Flight Center (1962) by Eero Saarinen at JFK airport in New York City. The thin-shelled concrete structure was commissioned in 1956 by TWA owner Howard Hughes. It's one of Saarinen's signature projects, although he died in 1961 before the flight center opened.  After being closed for 16 years, a major renovation took place that included the addition of two new hotel structures behind the Saarinen building. It reopened in 2019.   In addition to being a hotel lobby, there are a number of dining/drinking establishments, historical displays and a gift shop. Besides a few kitschy aspects (like a Twister room), it's really well done. All-in-all the restoration as well as the reprogramming of the space is incredible.   Obviously a lot of Saarinen Knoll furniture. Catch Me if You Can There's even a TWA plane parked in back. It's a bar. This is one of the TWA hotel buildings. I can't imagine there being a single building anywhere with more womb chairs than that. Alt...

  Ceramic tile floor by Doyle Lane at the Lytton Savings Bank in Canoga Park (1966). The carpet is by Edward Fields.  Photo: Julius Shulman,  GRI Digital Collections The tables also have Lane ceramic tile inserts. Kurt Meyer, AIA (1922-2014) was the architect and did multiple Savings and Loan Association buildings for Lytton. It was featured in Arts & Architecture and won an honor award from the Precast Concrete Institute.  The interior of this branch was designed by  Adele Faulkner  F.A.I.D. She did multiple Lytton interiors and was the first woman in Southern California to be named a fellow in the American Society of Interior Designers. Photo: Julius Shulman,  GRI Digital Collections A Claire Falkenstein wall sculpture in the upstairs office of the branch.   The bank's founder, Bart Lytton (1912-69) was a major art collector and helped found LACMA .  The Lytton Gallery was one of the museum's first 3 buildings. In 1968 it was renamed th...