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LAMA Auction / Ocotober 2015

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LAMA Preview for the October 11th auction
This is the Dan Johnson Department
Espenet
Evans Clark shelf/room divider. One of the coolest shelf designs.
 Luther Conover
With a rarely seen Conover stamp
Eames Department 
Evil Eames Department
JB Blunk Department
Fancy French Department
Fancy Fancy Department
Patio Furniture Department That's a lot of Lamb
Hard-edge Department
Ed Ruscha and Ken Price - Ferus Department
Ken Price
Joe Goode and Roy McMakin- LA Department <

LAMA / May 2015

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LAMA preview for the May 17th Auction RM Schindler, Jean Prouve and Le Corbusier with Charlotte Perriand
Early Eames three leg table and the other side of the Corbusier with Charlotte Perriand room divider
LAMA always keeps it real with some good Eames lots.
Max Gottschalk sofa
 Custom Gerald McCabe desk and bench
Claire Falkenstein
Great clay. I'll take it all.
June Harwood and Karl Benjamin = hardedge
Oh, and then there's this 1976 Alexander Calder mobile. I bet it hits a million.

LAMA / May 2014

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LAMA preview for the May 18th Auction
Harry Bertoia Sonambient sculpture hanging out with a few works by John Altoon
Custom designed Billy Haines furniture from a Samuel Marx-designed residence in the Holmbly Hills area of Los Angeles. I bet the fancy pants crowd is salivating over this stuff.
Easy to say for a guy who had lots of money and taste.
Henry P. Glass file cabinet and Alexander Girard ottoman-with original fabric!
Dan Johnson desk for Hayden Hall, in nice original condition with lots of patina and Eames
VKG
Eames Sofa Compact with Girard fabric and some 670/671s
Johnson, Knoll, Grossman and Baughman
The crafty corner with a lot of Nakashima and Maloof.
The craft continues: Maloof, Tuttle, Ackerman, Nakashima and a monster Michael Arntz mountain pot.
John Smith
This Dominic Di Mare weaving is one of my favorite things in the sale. It comes from the estate of Edurah Moore.

Naztler / LAMA

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This amazing Gertrud & Otto Natzler bowl is part of a major collection being auctioned off this weekend by LAMA. The pieces come from the collections of the owners of Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, a gallery  which represented the Natzler's work, and ceramic collectors Leopold and Patricia Hirschfeldt. 
Read Peter's post on the collection here.
Photo: LAMA
This stuff is major. 
Photo: LAMA
Leopold and Patricia Hirschfeldt living room with Natzlers-a-plenty.
Photo: LAMA

LAMA Auction / May 2013

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LAMA preview for the May 18th Auction
Ken Price
Ed Ruscha
Claire Falkenstein
Claire Falkenstein
Harry Bertoia
George Nelson

Isamu Noguchi Radio Nurse
Did you know that the Noguchi Radio Nurse had something to do with Charles Lindbergh’s son being kidnapped? It's true. Here's the story. Source: ArtInfo
J.R. Davidosn table for his Kingsley Jr. House Read LAMA Director of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design, Dan Tolson's post on this table here. He even get's a shout out from LACMA Curator Wendy Kaplan in the comments section. 
No food or drinks on the Nakashima!
Marcel Breuer Long Chair
Roy McMakin
Wright/ Knoll / Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright / Petroglyph logo
The big money painting is behind the desk...