Esoteric Survey

My pile from Downtown Modernism. A very good Soleri bell Tackett Koyo Sangyo, 1980 Tom McMillin and Dean Santner Knoll Laverne Originals Books and bookends Eames from the weekend before.

Carl Auböck fire tools, Danny Ho Fong and Prescolite lamp A couple of ikebanas and another Tom McMillin  Carl Auböck Mel Bogart for Felmore fire tools With the Good Design label! 1955

  I've been slacking. This post is from the last two weeks.  Here is a Domestic table by Roy McMakin and Sintesi lamp by Ernesto Gismondi. San Diego art score. I was happy to get another painting by Conrad Woods.  The lady who owned the art was an artist herself. She also was a longtime supporter of the San Diego art scene and had the ephemera to prove it. Tom Mcmillin, David Stewart and a jewelry box.  I'm sure many of these McMillin vases (top left) have been sold as David Cressey. McMillin called them Shadow Vases and this one is hand signed. Many aren't.  This is from last weekend. It was slim picking. I did pick up a couple more Richard Allen Morris paintings.

Vivika and Otto Heino, Tom Tramel, Tom McMillin and Bill Curry make for a nice California grouping.   Tom Sachs - Six-in-One Screwdriver - Printed Matter

La Gardo Tackett, Kay Bojeson big guy, Isamu Noguchi Tom McMillin  Dora De Larios For books

California Cool: Mid-century Modernism on the Central Coast  opened last Friday at the Museum of Ventura County. Here are just a few pics. I'll do a more in-depth post later.  Ceramic sculpture by Santa Barbara-based artist Michael Arntz, on loan from The Landing .  Mosaic by Evelyn Ackerman , collection of Laura Ackerman.  Not only did the Ackermans have a long history collaborating with Central Coast-based companies Panelcarve and Forms + Surfaces, Evelyn designed a mural in Santa Barbara (below). Sea, Land, and Sky (1957) by Evelyn,  for a Louis Mazzeti office building on Victoria Street in Santa Barbara. Screen salvaged from a Rodney Walker house in Ojai that was the victim of an insensitive remodel. The screen is from the collection of Eric Huff. Architecture is a major component of the exhibition. The opening was a sell out.  California Cool: Mid-century Modernism on the Central Coast California Cool looks at ...

Holiday shopping : ( I did get a tall Harrison McIntosh vase to go with my other two.

Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture Smalls Soleri

Bowls by Alma Allen Allan Gould and Inco Amy Donaldson, Tapio Wirkkala and Tom McMillin You know, for fruit When is enough, enough? 

It was a good clay weekend...Tom McMillin, Jade Snow Wong and  Philip Cornelius Then there's this Harrison McIntosh The domestics...Angelo Testa textiles and a pepper mill