Esoteric Survey

New Tackett from the weekend Some of the old Tackett getting dusted

"Furnitures" = cute    Yamaguchi table Source: Treadway I don't believe this has anything to do with Yamaguchi but it was in the stack . It does have something to do with Sori Yanagi Yanagi elephant stool

Doyle Lane photograph on the wall at Reform Photo: Ben Serar Doyle Lane pendant from the Rose Bowl flea

Designed by Walter E. Gindele. Vienna, 1960 Source: Dorotheum Designed by Maurice Martine, Corona Del Mar, 1950 Kinda fishy if you ask me.

A set of prints are now on sale to help fund the  continued conservation efforts at the Eames House. They will also be developing a 250 year maintenance plan and inventorying the entire contents of the house.  Learn more here . Source: Eames Office Purchase your prints here  to help the cause. This excerpt from an  Eames Foundation n ewsletter article by Foundation Director Lucia Dewey Atwood lists some of the conservation work that has already been done:   Phase I began with the move of the Eames House living room — now all returned — to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a highlight of its Pacific Standard Time exhibition  California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way , followed by testing, examining and working on the House structure. During this time, I am delighted to report that we have accomplished several key goals, with manythanks to the focus of our architects Escher GuneWardena, the...

Light fixture Legend has it that the largest bell here is one of the first bronze bells Soleri ever made. A sculpture in Soleri's old drafting studio. Cosanti- North Apse During the summer,  ‘Silt Pile’ workshops were held at Cosanti which enlisted volunteers from university architecture students.  This is presumably a list of people who helped build the North Apse in 1964.    This is a 1965 poster Paolo Soleri Studios designed to attract  volunteers  to help  with  the construction of Cat-Cast House and the South Courtyard Apse at Cosanti.   "These posters were distributed to architecture schools around the  country  and also sold through shops like the Dick Seeger Design Gallery in  Scottsdale. " Source: ObjectsUSA

A funny thing happened to me after I left the Greta Grossman house in Leucadia today... ...at my next stop I found this Grossman table. Anyway, Greta designed this house in 1966 and lived here until she died in 1999. She kept it pretty quiet in terms of design when she lived in San Diego. There is no record of her producing anything after 1965. The back view.