Weekend / Stuff
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
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LACMA / Coded
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...
LAMA Auction / June 2018
LAMA Art & Design Auction is this Sunday, June 10th. Ruth Asawa (1965) Gio Ponti If I were ever to live with a Scandinavian table, I would like it to be with this one by Paavo Tynell for Taito Oy, Finland. Bill Lam coffee table and VKG sofa. George Nakashima Conoid room divider with monster Moulthrop vases. Phillip is on the left and Ed is on the right. George again. This time with Dan Christensen. More George Espenet chess table. LAMbA Dave Muller Stephens Tru-Sonic Speaker by Charles and Ray Eames