Esoteric Survey

Eames, Greta Grossman and Dansk One of the best chair designs. Pure architecture.  Smalls

  Japanese Iron, Venini hourglass, etc.. Scandi stuff Raul Coronel, 1966 Soleri Bells Speaking of Soleri bells, I came across this church right before I bought the bells. Divine intervention?

Joseph Yamada helped design many of the most well known landmarks in his hometown of San Diego. He studied landscape architecture at the University of California Berkeley, where he was guided by three legendary modernists; Thomas Church, Garrett Eckbo, and Lawrence Halprin. He graduated in 1954 and returned home to San Diego where he joined landscape architect Harriet Wimmer, San Diego's first woman landscape architect in commercial practice. A woman and a former Japanese-American internment camp prisoner would become the most sought-after landscape architects in Southern California.  In 1960 they became partners and renamed the firm Wimmer Yamada & Associates, a name they kept even after Wimmer retired.  For more than 50 years Yamada was instrumental in providing landscape design.   Wimmer Yamada and Caughey  is still in business and is the longest-running landscape architecture firm in San Diego. Source:  Cultural Landscape Foundation Joseph Yamada and Eli...

Ettore Sottsass, Soleri,Peter Pepper and Ravenware Luis Barragan

  Henry Takemoto! VKG, La Gardo Tackett fort Architectural Pottery, smalls and a lamp designed in 1951 by a  California designer (more to come... hopefully) La Gardo Tackett Robert Maxwell

Pacific Iron Products table, Soleri bell, Howard Miller clock, Isamu Noguchi, Japanese lamps and Italian ceramics. Rick Dillingham and Doyle Lane

CA Designed 1955 at  the Long Beach Museum of Art Museums are opening back up and I was happy an exhibition I missed last year was still up at the LBMA . The title wall.  Here's the catalog for the original 1955 exhibition. It was a collaboration between the Long Beach Municipal Art Center (now LBMA) and the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibitions ran simultaneously. Campbell and Wong designed the exhibition at the de Young.   The 1955 Long Beach  exhibition was juried by John Entenza, editor of Arts and Architecture Magazine; Greta Grossman, designer; Richard Petterson, ceramist; Samuel Heavenrich. the Long Beach Municipal Art Center director of CALIFORNIA DESIGNED. I did a little post on the original  California Designed in 2012 . As  you can see in the top photo, there is a Marshmallow Sofa right at the beginning of the exhibition. The exhibition is called California Designed 1955 and George Nelson was an east coaster a...