Esoteric Survey

This post is the stuff from the weekend before last. I'm catching up. Paul Rand and a chair frame by the Martins. I'll go more in depth on them later. L-shaped coffee table Robert Maxwell Ruth Asawa from 1997

  Eames and Paavo Tynell Smalls, including David Stewart, Martz, Peter Shire, Robert Maxwell, Wayne Chapman and Paul Rand More reading material

  Isamu Noguchi Rudder table Paul Bellardo and Alvar Aalto Harry Gitlin for Stamford, NY Smalls... Peter Shire, Arabia, Rose Dodds and Doug Ayers Very smalls Ephemera Photos. More on these later. William Stout Architectural Books is now owned by the Eames Institute. More on that here .

Angelo Testa textile for IBM and Eames Computer House of Cards. Part of  Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 at LACMA .  The exhibition looks at the interaction of art/design and computer technology.  This is pretty high up on my want list. It's hard to talk about design and computers and not include Paul Rand. In the last 1960's Frederick Hammersley used an IBM mainframe at the University of New Mexico  to do a number of computer works.    Donald Judd Hans Haacke, News, 1969/2008 - continually prints the news of the day.   This Lillian Schwartz piece is on loan from The Henry Ford Museum. My buddy  Kristen Gallerneaux, The Henry Ford's curator of communications and information technology, helped bring the Schwartz estate to the Henry Ford.  Speaking of Kristen, here she in front of a Tanya Aguiniga piece recently acquired by LACMA. I was at the border during the making of it. Mostly for the party. More about that, h...

Back to my IBM score.  This all came from the estate of an IBM employee. His name is on one of the signs but I couldn't find much about him. I was told he was an engineer at IBM. I've covered the importance of Eliot Noyes in past posts  but here's a summary.  He studied architecture at Harvard under Bauhaus  founder Walter Gropius. He  worked for Marcel Breuer and Gropius' architecture firm shortly after graduating.  Noyes was also the first Director of Industrial Design at MoMA and was a central figure with the Organic Home Furnishings and Good Design exhibitions. This was all interrupted by WWII.   While working at the Pentagon during WWII, Noyes became friends with Thomas J. Watson Jr., future president, CEO, and chairman of IBM. After the war, Noyes worked in the Norman Bel Geddes office, which won a commission to redesign IBM’s office machines. Eventually the Geddes office closed and Noyes won the typewriter contract for himself. He then famo...