Esoteric Survey

Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape Curated by Jo Lauria, at AMOCA Jo, Dan Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, Gary Wexler and the AMOCA team put together a wonderful exhibition. Displaying this many pots is not an easy undertaking. The wall graphics and photos are great as well. It all started with La Gardo Tackett in 1949.  Tackett assigned his students at the California School of Art to create forms for modern homes. They held an exhibition of their work at a Evans & Reeves nursery, where Max and Rita (pictured with Tackett above) Lawrence saw the work. In 1950, the Lawrences partnered with two of the students, John Follis and Rex Goode, on a company they named Architectural Pottery.   LaGardo Tackett with a group of his designed Totems; Photo: George Szanik, 1957 Courtesy of Monacelli Press from the accompanying book, Architectural Pottery Ceramics for a Modern Landscape.   by Daniel Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, and Jo Lauria From the collection of JF C...

Lamps, including  Giuseppe Ostuni for Oluce You know it's a cool lamp if Alexander Girard had one. Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  Wayne Chapman More Wayne Chapman Bill Lam Log Basket by George Nelson Associates (Irving Harper) for Howard Miller

Malcolm Leland ceramics and Esther and Gross Wood lamp Sori Yanagi

Malcolm Leland and Ikebana

George Nelson bench. I haven't bought one of these in a long time.  Amy Donaldson, Andrew Bergloff, Tom Tramel, Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  James Prestini Woolley

  Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf Malcolm Leland for Architectural Pottery, from the Barney Reid estate Paolo Soleri, La Gardo Tackett, Ed Cromey