Esoteric Survey

This is a cool lamp, but Sam Kaufman's description of it is GREAT! "One of those great anonymous pieces.  Why is there so much junk that is signed, while some amazing things are completely unidentifiable?  Is that part of some sort of cosmic equilibrium?" As for the lamp, I particularly like the  Oaxacan   wedding bell elements--  like the  the Eames House doorbell. Check out the lamp on Sam's website . 

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From Professor Kaufman: The "Molded Plywood" collection of four chairs designed by Charles and Ray Eames and their collaborators in the  middle of the 1940s, and introduced after the end of WWII, has the distinction of being the first example of avant-garde  furniture design finding immediate acceptance by the ordinary people for whom it was intended. Hitherto, highly  original modernist furniture appealed -- almost without exception -- to a relatively small audience of architects, college  professors, and wealthy socialites, however ideologically committed their designers were to the Common Man.  This frustrating pattern of unintended exclusivity was finally overturned by the playful and imaginative approach of the Eames  office, an achievement mostly repeated with each introduction of a new line of Eames designs. Source: Sam Kaufman