Esoteric Survey

  Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Dorothy Schindele and Ed Ruscha Marg Loring, Peter Shire, Sandra Johnstone, David Stewart and Heino Miscellaneous, with some Heath and Quistgaard  I don't know what this stone sculpture is but I like it

Craft geek stuff  Richard Mills from the Artist-Foundary Movement that was happening in San Jose in the 1960s. Dave Hampton wrote a book about it: Pouring Metal in the South Bay Lamps Alvar Aalto stools Sottsass, Peter Shire and a metal Raymor vase Japanese things

Peter Shire, Italian and a pair of BJ Product Design candlesticks from 1953   Roto-Beam fan from 1933

  Ikebana, Amy Donaldson, Hal Fromhold and David Stewart I went to the Peter Shire open house last weekend and bought a dustpan. and some ceramics George Nelson (with Isamu Noguchi and Bucky) and Irving Harper (right) From George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design , Nelson reminisced about that 1947 evening in his office: "And there was one night when the ball clock got developed, which was one of the really funny evenings. [Isamu] Noguchi came by, and Bucky Fuller came by. I’d been seeing a lot of Bucky those days, and here was Irving and here was I, and Noguchi, who can't keep his hands off anything, you know – it is a marvelous, itchy thing he's got – he saw we were working on clocks and he started making doodles. Then Bucky sort of brushed Isamu aside. He said, 'This is a good way to do a clock,' and he made some utterly absurd thing. Everybody was taking a crack at this ... pushing each other aside and making scribbles. At some point we left – we were suddenl...

  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 .

Peter Shire sculpture Smalls, including Isamu Noguchi, George Nelson and Carl Aubock Max Chavez and Wayne Chapman Jade Snow Wong and Laura Andreson Andrew Bergloff, Earthgender and Martz Peter Shire and more Tackett and books Peter Shire exhibition poster designed by Jayme Odgers and April  Greiman Silla de Mexico This should be a weekendS stuff. I forgot to post last week.

 Raul Coronel, Isamu Noguchi,Peter Shire, David Stewart and Rose Dodds Another Isamu Noguchi Akari lamp Raul Coronel lion Peter Shire wood cup from 1988

Two Stan Hawks makes for a great weekend. Also, Evelyn Ackerman, Bill Curry, Jens Quistgaard, Peter Shire and Earthgender. Wilhelm Wagenfeld salt and Pepper shakers in a Frasier's box for that California-Bauhaus connection.  

David Cressey and Peter Shire  Grillo phone by Marco Zanuso