Weekend / Stuff
Luther Conover dowel leg table and a Barba Corsini iron table designed in 1955 for a space within Gaudi's Pedrera building. Paul Volckening Warren Mackenzie, Dansk, wood
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Weed Pot / Wednesday
#WeedPotWednesday broke 200 today Antonio Prieto via farnsworthmodern Here are some really good ones... Super sick Doyle Lane via rewirela Early (1946) Harrison McIntosh via andrewmromano Rose & Erni Cabat via cebthree Nice pairing with Maxwell Yellen Another nice grouping via gonkedglookedslurped A rock form v ia themodernera I'm a sucker for rock pots. This one, v ia rosecitymodern I was showing off with all my Wayne Chapman pots. Heath studio joined in too. Great one Tung! via tungchiang Foreigners are also allowed. Here's a Bernt Friberg via racomer2 Another Doyle Lane with San Miguel Island Buckwheat via thesalmontrader (This guy knows his weeds) To see all the #WeedPotWednesday p osts, click here
Riki Watanabe / Modern Living
Riki Watanabe (1911 – 2013) After graduating from Tokyo Higher School of Art and Design in wood crafts, Watanabe worked with Bruno Taut, a German architect who had fled to Japan to escape the Nazis. Although he was well versed in the modernist ideals of the Bauhaus, Watanabe wanted to translate them into the Japanese culture. In 1949 he started his own design studio. Watanabe was involved in the formation of many of Japan's important design organizations, including the Japan Industrial Designers Association (1952) and the International Design Committee (1953). Masaru Katsumie, Isamu Kenmochi, Yusaku Kamekura, and Sori Yanagi were fellow founding members of the International Design Committee, which became the Good Design Committee (1959) and later the Japan Design Committee (1963). Rope chair, 1952 - "A low-cost item of furniture that struck a balance between Japanese traditions (low-level seating and natural ...
Tackett / Thursday
I don't usually straight up re-post things, but this is too good not to. It comes from Herman Miller's Instagram feed : Joining @esotericsurvey for #tackettthursday with a little esoterica from our Archives. Tackett was apparently contracted by Girard to lead Herman Miller's short-lived Objects program. This document opens.... "It is entirely possible that history will note the use of the word 'OBJECTS' as it is being used in the title of Herman Miller's newest division. It does indeed mark a new awareness of the significance of objects to our time. We who are aware of environment are excited by what Alexander Girard is telling us and showing us about objects. We are the first to understand that he is saying that objects are not incidental to our lives but primary and paramount. When Alexander Dorner used as his title for a book about Herbert Bayer 'The Way Beyond Art,' he accomplished the same function that Herman Miller accomplishes in us...
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