Esoteric Survey

CA Designed 1955 at  the Long Beach Museum of Art Museums are opening back up and I was happy an exhibition I missed last year was still up at the LBMA . The title wall.  Here's the catalog for the original 1955 exhibition. It was a collaboration between the Long Beach Municipal Art Center (now LBMA) and the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibitions ran simultaneously. Campbell and Wong designed the exhibition at the de Young.   The 1955 Long Beach  exhibition was juried by John Entenza, editor of Arts and Architecture Magazine; Greta Grossman, designer; Richard Petterson, ceramist; Samuel Heavenrich. the Long Beach Municipal Art Center director of CALIFORNIA DESIGNED. I did a little post on the original  California Designed in 2012 . As  you can see in the top photo, there is a Marshmallow Sofa right at the beginning of the exhibition. The exhibition is called California Designed 1955 and George Nelson was an east coaster a...

LONG BEACH MODERN ARCHITECTURE TOUR Saturday, October 13 from 10 am - 4 pm Six Mid-century Modern Masterpieces Gibbs & Gibbs Office, by Donald Gibbs (1963)  The Mcwilliams Residence, by John W. McWilliams (1958)  The Killingsworth Residence, by Edward A. Killingsworth (1961)  Clock, Waestman, Clock Law Offices, by Killingsworth, Brady, Smith (1957)  The Pekrul House, 1968 addition to 1924 bungalow by Paul Tay for owners Gus and Carolee Pekrul  The White House, collaboratively designed by architect Bill Lockett and owner Dr. Katherine White (1957)  More information and tickets, here The Killingsworth Residence, by Edward A. Killingsworth (1961) Source: Julius Shulman,  © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute

Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern, at the   University Art Museum at CSULB  Curated by Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland. The exhibition sources the Frank Brothers archives at the Getty Research Institute and the Frank family collection. Photo: Julius Shulman,  Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern Unlike the Eames, the Frank Bros. were actually brothers. Maurice and Edward Frank joined forces to continue on with the family's furniture business. They opened Frank Bros in Long Beach in 1938. It was first located in downtown, and then relocated to Long Beach Boulevard, where it remained until 1982. It was one of the great retail entities bringing modern to the masses in post-war America.  A wall of the store's Arts & Architecture magazine ads. I didn't see this one in the exhibition, but with Maurice Martine, Eero Saarinen and Jens Risom,  it's one of my favorites. Source: Arts & Architecture Fr...