Esoteric Survey

Milo Baughman for Murray "Fibre" chair and a table he designed for Arch Gordon
Kinetic sculpture by Russell Secrest
Carl Aubock
Giorigio Belloli chair
Alvar Aalto Chair 69
More iron!

Gertrud + Otto Natzler
Hawk House / Stan Hawk
Milo Baughman / Glenn of California

Milo Baughman for Glenn of California, Sol-Air table by Pispsan Saarinen Swanson
Tackett!
Smalls

Catalina American BaptistChurch in Tucson by Architect Charles Cox, 1960 Here is the National Registernomination form for the building.
Not really the "Modern Service" I was looking for.

Rose and Erni Cabat Studio
Tucson is an interesting town
Gladys and David Wright House by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1951 in Phoenix
What's with the missing landscaping? 

The house is under threat of demolition.  You can read the story here. View a slideshow here. 
Interesting Max Gottschalk rolling chair in use at a gallery in Scottsdale. 
Arizona finds: Eames DTM and Milo Baughman for Pacific Iron coffee table. Brining California Design back to where it belongs.

A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers This new publication by LACMA is a compendium of 140 profiles of California designers and manufacturers. It serves as a companion piece to their PST exhibition catalog, California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modern Way". Edited by LACMA curator Bobbye Tigerman with contributions by Staci Steinberger, Jennifer Munro Miller and Lacy Simkowitz.
The handbook is set up with a short biography and photo for each entry. Here is the one Doyle Lane.
Barney Reid's photo
The elusive Hawk House
A great photo of La Gardo Tackett
Olga Lee and Milo Baughman  This is one of my favorite images in the book. 
 Connections and Collaborations inforgraphic from the handbook.  
This chart illustrates the common institutions, organizations and publications the designers in the handbook were associated with.  The most common linkage is the Pasadena Art Museum's California Design exhibitions. This really does attest  to t…

 Olga Lee and husband Milo Baughman
The Baughman-Lee showroom was located at 744 1/2 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles They were a full service design and decorating operation. Their line included furniture, fabric and wallpaper. 
 Olga Lee and Milo Baughman both designed for the short-lived designers' plan.
Where can I get one of those?
Olga Lee screen-printed fabric "Elements"
Olga Lee screen-printed fabric "Elements"
Olga Lee lamp for Ralph O Smith Collection of LACMA

Pacific Standard Time at the Getty. I went onthe last day of the exhibit, February 5th.  I guess there was a big football game going on that day too.  The Central Garden, by Robert Irwin
This is the PST nerve center.   It's set up like a war room to plan your attack on all the PST exhibits.
# 8, 1966, John McLaughlin.  The Marilynn and Carl Thoma Collection. Image courtesy of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York Photo: Getty Archives Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970 The first gallery in Crosscurrents is a mix off hard-edge paintings, like the John McLaughlin above and  big clay pieces by Peter Voulkos, John Mason and the Henry Takemoto pot below.
Here he is with his pot at the studio of John Mason and Peter Voulkos,  Los Angeles, ca. 1959. Image courtesy of Henry Takemoto Photo: Getty Archives
Avocado Mountain, 1959, Ken Price.  James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles.  Permission courtesy Ken Price Studio