Esoteric Survey

  Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism  Contemporary Jewish Museum  This exhibition, curated by Donald Albrecht, is a survey of contributions made b y Jewish designers, architects and patrons on the midcentury modern America home.  The museum and curators did a great job on the exhibition design. Guest curator Albrecht couldn't have selected a better group of designers.   Alvin Lustig This Lustig combo deserves another angle.  The textile and Paramount chair are on loan from  Elaine Lustig Cohen. Muriel Coleman The Coleman chair is on loan from the Museum of California Design George Nelson George Nelson/Irving Harper marshmallow sofa and Anni Albers textiles Marcel Breuer Rudolph Schindler Ben Seibel Trude Guermonprez Ruth Adler Schnee Elaine Lustig Cohen Alvin Lustig covers and Eugene Deutch ceramics  Gregory Ain / Good Desi...

I was rolling in the LBC and came up on this huge wall of "Diamond" Sculpturted Tiles designed by Saul Bass. Bass, along with George Nelson, Millard Sheets, Paul Laszlo, Dorothy Liebes and Paul McCobb were part of a designer series for Pomona Tile Co. The tiles are on the outside of an antique mall.  Unfortunately they were the only thing worth buying there. Image: The Designer's Notebook  Image: The Designer's Notebook  Image: The Designer's Notebook Here is a really good post on this line by Pomona Tile: Planner, Perimeter, Predictor, Paul McCobb