Esoteric Survey

Phillips  seems to have cornered the market on amazing ceramics by  Lucie  Rie and Hans Coper.  Seriously, where do they get all these? It seems like at every one of their auctions there's a stack of Coper and Rie. Now they're bringing some high level Ken Price to market.  Not just one either Ken Price, in a box It doesn't stop there. They also have some insane Natzlers. Natzler Starry Natzler These are all part of the Betty Lee and Aaron Stern Collection that will be sold  on November 17th  at  Phillips All photos by Phillips

Brubeck House  by Beverley "David" Thorne, Oakland, 1954 This is the first of two houses Thorne designed for Dave and Iola Brubeck. The other is in Connecticut.  Photo:  NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism Trees are great, except when it comes to trying to take photos of buildings. Too bad the tree the cut out was made for didn't make it.  Source:  Click Americana   Dave and Iola Brubeck Source:  Birth of the Cool by  Elizabeth Armstrong Bethkehem Steel ad.    Another steel house architect, Pierre Koenig, was also featured in their ads. I mentioned this in a previous post,  but Thorne was also a Case Study House architect (#26).   More about him  here  and  here . Source: Click Americana

Some months back I went to visit my  friend Tung Chiang,  Creative  Lead and  Studio  Director at  Heath  Ceramics , at his amazing studio space at the Heath factory in San Francisco (see here ).  Apparently they've been hard at work. A show of prototypes  the studio has developed was held this past weekend. They called it Between Hand & Machine. Everything I picked up was marked sold, so it seems like the designs were well  received . Such a great collection The NFS section The machine part of the show

Peter Rooke Ley demountable bookcase for California Contemporary Pacifica General  Merchandise 1955 painting by Richard Hackett Renate Muller Alvin Lustig

Jean Balmer, Marg Loring lantern and Stan Bitters

Think / Halloween Pumpkinhead by Maz