Weekend / Stuff
George Nelson for Howard Miller fire tools, Raymond Loewy for Mengel stool and a wire basket. Doyle Lane mask
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Modernica / Props
You know this famous Julius Shulman photo. It's Case Study House 21 by Pierre Koenig. Source: © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Here is the room looking from the other direction. Source: © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles And here is the Gerald McCabe sofa Pierre Koenig specified for the house. This is the one Koenig had McCabe produce in 1998, when Pierre was restoring the house. The original was damaged at some point. It is now part of the massive inventory at Modernica Props . The 65,000 square ft. prop house is located in the former Dolly Madison Bakery in Silverlake. As you can see, it's stacked high. There are some gems. Lots of Tropi-Cal Wes Williams The BBQ selection is deep. The Cadillac of grills. Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno (1954) You know these (1956) ...
Weekend / Stuff
Pepe Mendoza from Mexico and a stool from Ecuador La Gardo Tackett and Sori Yanagi California studio pottery, including Susan Peterson, Hal Fromhold, Ira Bates, Bernard Kester and Wayne Chapman Raymond Loewy
Henry Ford Museum / Eames
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...