Esoteric Survey

I didn't even go shopping last weekend and I still managed to get a chair.  Nathan Lerner, Chair in a Box

  Nathan Lerner, Marilyn Kay Austin, David Cressey and some other stuff. Nathan Lerner at my normal stop along the 5.  Japanese things Mel Bogart for Felmore

Nathan Lerner chair and some other things Sorry Rodney : ( Doug Ayers Galef or Wood??

Nathan Lerner chair and Davis Pratt and Harold Cohen table for their company, Designers in Production. All the designers were part of the 1940s New Bauhaus school in Chicago.  Arthur Umanoff candelabra and stool, Stuart Barnes for Robert Long lamp and waste paper bin by Einar Barns for PS Heggen Freeman Lederman lighter

Eames display at the  Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan It was great to finally get to see the John Wills fiberglass shell in person. It's the sole surviving example of the first two Eames fiberglass shells ever made. This is pre-Zenith Plastics. The shell sits is on the original   trashcan  base used by boat builder Wills in his shop.  Learn more about this important prototype, here . Herman Miller production mold.  Eames screen and Nathan Lerner chair. More about the Lerner chair, here . Hey, what's that up there? The recently acquired Eames-designed World's Fair kiosk is proudly on display.  Mathematica will be installed close by. It's scheduled to be on permanent display beginning sometime in 2016.   I was able to take a peek at it behind the scenes and it's pretty great. I'd like to thank Kristen Gallerneaux, Curator of Communications and Information Technology and Marc G...

Chair by Nathan Lerner ( 1913-1997)   This is a full-scale foldout pattern for the DIY modernist handyman to complete at home.  For those less adventurous modernists, the chair was also sold in kit form with pre-cut pieces that were sent disassembled in a box. Lerner was part of the New Bauhaus at the Chicago Institute of Design and was Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s star pupil. Upholstery instructions. Source: Historical Design Source:  Historical Design Source:  Historical Design Nathan Lerner   'LIGHT EXPERIMENT' photograph from 1937/1938  Annotated 'second semester' and 'Institute of Design Class Kepes-Smith' in pencil and with 'the new bauhaus chicago' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1937, printed in 1938 Source:  Sotheby's  (The auction note has a great bio on Lerner)