Esoteric Survey

The small pile from a Bay Area trip. I was really happy to get this Luther Conover table. It's a version I haven't seen before. It has a solid asymmetrical teak top with a base similar to the boomerang shaped tables. It's like if the two table below were morphed into one.  A very Pod Farm David Stewart. That's all the contact magic I could muster after visiting Pond Farm the day before. More on that in a future post. This little clay guy came home with me.  So did this fake Picasso. Uncharacteristic buy for me.

  Inside the Design Center Ilse and Lloyd Ruocco’s Design Center, located in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, was a foundation for the modern design community of the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. Inside the Design Center brings to life a vignette of mid-twentieth century interior, lighting, and furniture design, featuring pieces by significant California designers, manufacturers, and craftspeople as selected by Ilse Ruocco for her 1950 showroom. This exhibition offers an immersive, revelatory window into San Diego’s culture of modernism through the lens of architecture, design, interior decorating, home goods retailing, landscape architecture, graphic design, and photography. Historic images of the Design Center set the backdrop for over 30 original pieces of modernist furnishings. Works by designers such as Ray Eames, Charles Eames, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Dorothy Schindele, Milo Baughman, and Edith Heath of Heath Ceramics are included.  Guest Co-Curators: Dave Hampton wi...