Esoteric Survey

Harrison McIntosh, Dora De Larios, Tom Tramel and Rupert Deesse  Jack Boyd Design Line jacks and smalls Jens Quistgaard

CA Designed 1955 at  the Long Beach Museum of Art Museums are opening back up and I was happy an exhibition I missed last year was still up at the LBMA . The title wall.  Here's the catalog for the original 1955 exhibition. It was a collaboration between the Long Beach Municipal Art Center (now LBMA) and the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibitions ran simultaneously. Campbell and Wong designed the exhibition at the de Young.   The 1955 Long Beach  exhibition was juried by John Entenza, editor of Arts and Architecture Magazine; Greta Grossman, designer; Richard Petterson, ceramist; Samuel Heavenrich. the Long Beach Municipal Art Center director of CALIFORNIA DESIGNED. I did a little post on the original  California Designed in 2012 . As  you can see in the top photo, there is a Marshmallow Sofa right at the beginning of the exhibition. The exhibition is called California Designed 1955 and George Nelson was an east coaster a...

Southern California Edison building in Long Beach, CA I thought the building had an Edward Killingsworth look to it, but Nate Cole from Unique California Property sent out the KBS bat signal and confirmed that it was not a Killingsworth, Brady, Smith and Associates project. Although, in 1970 KBS did design a building in Huntington Beach  for Southern California Edison  that was never built. I'm guessing this building came about a couple years before that.  Those are Interpace tiles. This particlular pattern was designed by Harrison McIntosh. I'd like to thank the American Museum of Ceramic Art  for confirming that.  I took the image above at the  Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California exhibition at the   American Museum of Ceramic Art .  In 1962, Gladding, McBean & Company merged with Lock Joint Pipe Company, forming International Pipe and Ceramics Corporation, or Interpace. Millard Sheets w...

Stewart MacDougall was in the house.  Harrison McIntosh and Rupert Deese shared a booth. Tony Duquette, Barker Bros and John Smith were all there too.   The Festival of California Living was held at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, which was located at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard Photo: LA Times After years of neglect, the Pan-Pacific was destroyed by a fire. Photo:   LAFD Historical Archives  via LAist Now it's a Rec Center Photo:   LAist