Esoteric Survey

 Anne Goldman, Wayne Chapman, Ikebana and Tom McMillin I bought these together. Alexander Girard, Hans-Agne Jakobsson and Harold Elberg. Experimental airplane model and tik-tek clock. You would think that with being around so much Eames, I would have been able to pick a piece up over the weekend.

Eero Saarinen and Fabricius & Kastholm There was an estate sale at the Chapman house last week and I bought this piece. The first thing that came to mind is  Svetozar Radakovich.  According to Dave Hampton, Barbara Chapman took a class at Palomar College taught by  Svetozar Radakovich. This sculpture is most likely a product of that. 

The weekend pile from Downtown Modernism is always a great one. It's good to bring back some San Diego clay by the likes of Wayne Chapman and Marg Loring.  There's also a Ken Starbird, Ikebana and a Freeman Lederman bell (more on that soon). Another John Caruthers creature! Carl Auböck, Jack Boyd and other bronze things. Wood Some nice paper turned up as well! The Herman Miller catalog is a hard one to find.

  Boundless: Reflections of the Southern California Landscapes in Midcentury Studio Ceramics explores how the physical, social, and political landscapes of the area shaped craft. Nearly 150 objects from Mingei’s permanent collection, set against large-scale photography, transport us to the breathtaking locations reflected in the ceramics. Through these landscapes and the awe-inspiring science of clay, glaze, and fire, this exhibition celebrates Southern California mid-twentieth century ceramics. Curated by  Guusje Sanders There are a large number of Laura Andreson pieces in the exhibition and there's a reason for that. Andreson started the ceramics department at UCLA in 1933. Over 5,000 students studied under her  until she retired in 1970. This includes Martha Longenecker in 1939, who founded Mingei International Museum in 1978.  In 1982, Mingei organized the exhibition Laura Andreson — A Fifty-Year Retrospective in Clay. It was curated by Mingei founder and then D...

Lamps, including  Giuseppe Ostuni for Oluce You know it's a cool lamp if Alexander Girard had one. Malcolm Leland and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  Wayne Chapman More Wayne Chapman Bill Lam Log Basket by George Nelson Associates (Irving Harper) for Howard Miller

Evelyn Ackerman Hot Summer Landscape Wayne Chapman and Tom Tramel Maurice Grossman watercolor Ted Saito hanger

More pots... Laura Andreson, Roger Marshall and Wayne Chapman More books Some really good ones

  Pond Farm, Barbara Willis and Erik Gronborg A pile o' clay, in cluding Joel Edwards, Charles Counts, Ed Thompson, Wayne Chapman and Robert Maxwell Elizabeth Madley Soleri, watering can and Aubock

  Eames and Paavo Tynell Smalls, including David Stewart, Martz, Peter Shire, Robert Maxwell, Wayne Chapman and Paul Rand More reading material