Esoteric Survey

CLAREMONT MODERN: THE CONVERGENCE OF ART + ARCHITECTURE AT MIDCENTURY In conjunction with the exhibition  Irving J. Gill: New Architecture for a Great Country , the San Diego History Center hosts the San Diego premiere of a 90-minute documentary examining the vital relationship between art, design and architecture in Claremont, California in the years following War II. Come explore the development of a major center of Midcentury Modern design and learn about the San Diego connections afterwards. The event begins with a light reception in SDHC’s Atrium, then moves next door to the Museum of Photographic Art theater, and concludes with discussion and a Q&A session with the film producer Paul Bockhorst and Keith York from Modern San Diego. San Diego History Center (SDHC) Atrium + Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) Auditorium Thursday, January 19, 2017 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. More info,  here . Dave Hampton is giving a talk the next day. More info, here ....

Meridian clock by Raymor and Howard Miller Abel Sorensen Tunsi Girard, Alexander's brother Bruce Hill for Peter Pepper Products

Martin Luther King Jr. & Andrew Young, 1966 Montgomery AL airport Source: Bob Fitch, via  Stanford

In 1964, Alexander Girard redesigned the interiors of Saint Johns College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.   Artists painting the Girard mural. Source:  St Johns Digital Archive  It still looks great.  Gerard also designed this light fixture for the college. Source: ALEXANDER GIRARD ,  by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee Source: ALEXANDER GIRARD ,  by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee

A stack of Japanese architecture magazines Japanese iron Amy Donaldson enamel It was a tough weekend. Good thing I haven't posted for a few weeks.... Kay Sekimachi Vivika & Otto Heino Stools by Maurizio Tempestini for Salterini David Shaner Slab Gerald Thurston

In 1977, Isamu Noguchi's freind and  founder of the Sōgetsu-ryū school of ikebana,  Sofu Teshigahara,  asked  him to d esign an open space for flowers, of stones, and water titled “Heaven” in the Sogetsu Headquarters in Tokyo. Isamu Noguchi and Hiroshi Teshigahara exhibition at Sogetsu Plaza in 1980. Source: Sogetsu Tom Sachs  exhibition in the lobby of Sogetsu Kaikan. It was presented by  Tomio Koyama Gallery The sculptures by Sachs were related to an exhibition recently held at the the Noguchi Museum in New York. It was Sachs' interpretation of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony) and the associated rituals. More about that, here . Noguchi Noguchi Desk