Esoteric Survey

A Rudolph M. Schindler painted douglas fir and frosted glass floor lamp from the Wolfe House, which was demolished in 2002. 
It's part of the Bonhams: 20th Century Decorative Arts and Designauction.


Wolfe House
Source: Schindler by David Gebhard


Ethel Wolfe in her living room Source: The Furniture of R.M. Schindler by Berns/Gebhard
Charles Wolfe
Source: The Furniture of R.M. Schindler by Berns/Gebhard

The demise of the Wolfe house was a long and sad saga. David Leclerc recounts his experience with the house from 1996 to 2001, here.. The house was condemned by that time and was being used by squatters and such. The custom Schindler furniture was piled up in front of the house.  According to the description in the Bonhams catalog, the lamp was acquired from the Wolfe House (basically a dumpster dive).Ultimately, someone bought the house and scraped the land to built a piece of junk that can be seen here. Photo: LA Forum




The person who consigned all the Schindler lots lived in the Walker Hous…

Malcolm Leland, Antonio Prieto and Peter Shire

Los Angeles Modernism was held this past weekend at 3Labs. I caught it on the last day. Inner Gardens and all their massive Architectural Pottery display was front and center. 
Reform had a booth dedicated to the work of Gerald McCabe
McCabe as far as the eye can see
Even a McCabe bed
McCabe rockers
Harrison McIntosh sculpture
The shiny California corner-- Palo Alto chair by Byron Botker and table by McCabe.
Peter Shire
Erik Gronborg cup getting a fill up. 
I did make it out of the Reform booth but the power went out shortly after, so I was only able to get a couple more photos...
Great table at NOHO Modern. They had some cool art too. 
Dharam Damama--always a cool booth and always cool to hang out with.

GRAPEVINE~ Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Peter Shire, curated by Ricky Swallow Published by Rainoff & David Kordansky Gallery Text by Ricky Swallow, Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne
Order yours here.
The Peter Shire autograph is epic.

You need this book!
More about the exhibition here and here.

GRAPEVINE~ Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Peter Shire, curated by Ricky Swallow Published by Rainoff & David Kordansky Gallery Text by Ricky Swallow, Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne
Book signing, with the artists.  Thursday, February 6th, 6 to 8 pm at the  The Mandrake, 2692 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034
I bet these guys will make some great marks in this beautiful book.


Exhibition shot at the David Kordansky Gallery If you can't make it to the book signing, you can order one here. All images via Ricky Swallow
More about the exhibition here and here. It was a great one.

Nagle - The amazing iridescent glaze on this piece was not captured by my awful cell phone picture. It's pretty incredible.
It's part of Grapevine, at the David Kordansky Gallery Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Peter Shire Curated by Ricky Swallow
Nagle, Mason, Shire and Frimkess were all there at the opening. This is not to be missed.
Mason
Frimkess
Make sure to check out the back room for some big time old clay.
Peter Voukos
Billy Al Bengston
Ken Price