Esoteric Survey

Van Keppel Green chairs and table at Fallingwater, outside in the snow. That just doesn't seem right. California chairs like the sun.
Source: Kellan
Most of the furniture in the house are originals by Frank Lloyd Wright. I wonder how and when the VKG furniture ended up there?They're too late to be original to the house. I'm thinking Kaufmann liked the VKG he had at his Neutra pad in Palm Springs and decided he wanted a little CA in the PA.Source: Wright House
Here is Frozenwater today. I hope they brought the VKG in.
Source: Fallingwater

Phillip and Phyllis Schlessinger House (1954) by Rudolph Schindler in Los Feliz Here is your chance. Unique California Property is representing the sale of the last residence designed by Schindler. More information, here.
The furniture in the house is great. John Kapel for Glenn of California cabinet, Eero Saarinen Grasshopper chair for Knoll, Knoll stool, Vista of California VKG daybed, and that Bill Lam table! Nelson chairs / Eames DTM
Nice VKG set up in the kitchen
More VKG out back Source of all the photos: Unique California Property

On the surface, Gregory Ain's architecture is not exactly sexy, especially when compared to architects like Craig Ellwood or John Lautner.  Ain was less interested in making visual architectural statements and focused his attention on using modern architecture to solve "the common architectural problems of common people". Ain and firm partners Joseph Johnson and Alfred Day, teamed up with landscape architect Garrett Eckbo, and private developer B.M. Edelman to build the Mar Vista Housing project.  Built in 1948, the goal was to build a tract of cost-efficient housing that created a "community in a park" atmosphere. At this time Ain got away from building custom houses for individual clients and was focusing efforts on housing for "common people".  He tooka problem-solving approach tothe social and functional aspects of housing.  He developed the Mar Vista tract with similar house models to promote unity, but changed the orientation for variety. Flexibl…

Finally, a beer ad that speaks to me. Hawk House and Van Keppel-Green.

Van Keppel-Green ottoman with original black cord. Black seemed to be the theme this weekend.
Kenji Fujita
Eames DTM Ok, the top is white, but the bottom is the most interesting part of this table anyway.

Architecture / design exhibition at Scripps College. That's a pretty cool Abel Sorenson tray table. Source: Scripps College Photo Archives, hosted by Luna
Angelo Testa and Alvin Lustig textiles in the mix
Those are John Lautner and JB Davidson display boards in the back.
Look at all that VKG. Did any of those sun shades survive? The refractory table with the stools is a good look. 


Textiles- "Pavement" by Irving Harper / Nelson Office and "Sea Things" by Ray Eames, among others.
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Recurring theme: Tackett fish and VKG

That's a good VKG candelabra out there  Photos: Maynard Parker

Van Keppel Green refractory table / shelf

Photos: Maynard Parker, Huntington Library Archives

The unfurnished Stahl House by Pierre Koenig on the morning Julius Schulman shot the picture below.  
Van Keppel Green saves the day.

California Designed - Exhibition catalog, 1955 Sponsored by the Long Beach Municipal Art Center In collaboration with the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
325 items- All designed or made in California
Los Angeles Times Home Magazine
Stanley Young- Frank Bros.
Sam Maloof, Ida Dean Grae, John Freeman and Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman 
Sundial table and chairs - Van Keppel Green

Finally a reason to use that VKG candleholder and Leland lantern