Esoteric Survey

Nice pot cutie Look at the way she's handling those Soleri bells Wow! The girl next door can throw a nice pot Henry Takemoto is keeping an eye on that one How much, baby? Sorry Billy, I can't go out tonight. I'm working on glaze formulas.   I've heard that it got pretty wild in Paul Soldner's studio.  This Ceramic Monthly ad for Soldner's pottery equipment gives a little insight on the way Paul rolled.  Source:  Official Website of Paul Soldner All the photos, except for the Solder ad above, are from the Scripps College/ Claremont Colleges Photo Archives, hosted by  Luna I was turned onto these archives by a post on   an ambitious project collapsing .  There is some good stuff going on over there. 

Joshua Tree / Indian Cove   My good friends got hitched here this weekend.  The reception was at the  Mojave Sands . Eames representing at the Mojave Sands. I picked up a JB Blunk ceramic cup while I was poking around out there. I like it a lot.

Gerald McCabe, Paul Tuttle and some great ceramics in the  Reform Gallery  booth at the Los Angeles Antiques Show .  There was some good music coming out the JBLs in that McCabe stereo on the back wall. The Gordon Onslow-Ford and Lee Mulican on the side wall were good to see.  John Altoon painting, Vivika and Otto Heino pottery, Gerald McCabe cube tables and dining set,  Evelyn Ackerman textilesand Design Line lamps / Reform Gallery booth. Look at those huge Heino bowls! Gerald McCabe, Evelyn Ackerman and Design Line /  Reform Gallery booth. Tanya Aguiniga  / JF Chen  booth. Sorry for the horrible phone images.

Eames House, 1950 Source: Life Eames House, 2012 Eames House petroglyph, 2012 It looks like my friend the rock has been there for a long time.

Irving Harper's Living room Harper worked in the George Nelson Office and is responsible for some of their best designs. Paper sculptures by Harper China Clocks/ Ceramic Clocks, 1953 by Irving Harper /Ceramic Housing by Hyalyn Porcelain Inc. These were never put into production in the 50s but Vitra makes them now. Source: George Nelson - Architect | Designer | Teacher Irving Harper video by Herman Miller

Girls Scouts of America announcement design by Alvin Lustig Source:  AlvinLustig.com   Charles Eames at the Eames House Source: Life Under Western Eyes book jacket by Alvin Lustig Source: Brickbat Books Charles Eames at the Entenza House CSH 9 Source: Life

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