Esoteric Survey

Stan Hawk, Alvar Aalto and Eames
Good books
Signed by Esther McCoy and includes annotations by Sim Bruce Richards.
Milo Baughman for Pacific Iron Products
Dean Santner jewelry box
Japan

Another bowl by Stan Hawk and a Norwegian polar bear by Arne Tjomsland
It's always nice to pick up more California Design catalogs.
Especially ones that used to belong to great local architects like Sim Bruce Richards
Another Henry Takemoto!

Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern, at theUniversity Art Museum at CSULB  Curated by Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland. The exhibition sources the Frank Brothers archives at the Getty Research Institute and the Frank family collection.Photo: Julius Shulman, Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern
Unlike the Eames, the Frank Bros. were actually brothers. Maurice and Edward Frank joined forces to continue on with the family's furniture business. They opened Frank Bros in Long Beach in 1938. It was first located in downtown, and then relocated to Long Beach Boulevard, where it remained until 1982. It was one of the great retail entities bringing modern to the masses in post-war America.
 A wall of the store's Arts & Architecture magazine ads.


I didn't see this one in the exhibition, but with Maurice Martine, Eero Saarinen and Jens Risom, it's one of my favorites.
Source: Arts & Architecture

Frank Bros aligned themselves with the best architectural pro…

While a lot of people were gearing up to watch America's race to the bottom (AKA the presidential debate), a ton of great art and design was up for sale at LAMA. Wall of Gordon Onslow Ford
Helen Frankenthaler
George Nakashima
DeWain Valentine
R.M. Schindler chairs designed these chairs for Sardi's Restaurant in 1933. The chars were manufactured by the Warren McArthur Corporation. The restaurant was demolished by a fire in 1936. These are rare! George Rickey
Oskar Fischinger is so underrated.
Classic hard edge modern
Model no. T-3-C Heifetz Manufacturing Co. by James Harcey Crate This one came out of The Bailey House (Case Study House 20A) by Richard Neutra. See more on The Bailey House here. 
Eames Colouring Toy. I wonder why some of them use the British spelling? Mine doesn't have the "u". Anyway, it was a gift from Ray Eames to Dale Bailey, who I assume lived in Case Study House 20A. It's next door to the Eames House. The one I own was a gift from Marylin Neuhart to th…