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Raul Coronel Ceramics

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John Lautner

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1953 Sunset Book Kinda lame table from a great architect.
2006 Bonhams Auction kitchen island and large light fixture circa 1969 Well, the lamp is cool.
2006 Bonhams Auction
2007 LAMA California Design Auction Looks familiar.

California Designed

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California Designed - Exhibition catalog, 1955 Sponsored by the Long Beach Municipal Art Center In collaboration with the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
325 items- All designed or made in California
Los Angeles Times Home Magazine
Stanley Young- Frank Bros.
Sam Maloof, Ida Dean Grae, John Freeman and Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman 
Sundial table and chairs - Van Keppel Green

PS Mess

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A nice day in Palm Springs to avoid the rain in San Diego
Clairtone Project G stereo console at Modernway ($16K).  I used to want one of these. 
I guess that wind advisory was serious. 


Blown out window at Swank.
Native Foods parking lot.  The power went out right after I placed my order. They gave me a bowl of free soup as consolation. 
Lights out at Hedge, so sad. The nice guys at Hedge actually let me in, so it wasn't that sad.

I hope they clean this mess up before Palm Springs Modernism next month.

“Living in a Modern Way” / LACMA California Design Symposium

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LACMA is conducting a two-day symposium on California Design, New Narratives for “Living in a Modern Way”: California Design at Mid-century Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25th


I like the sound of these two sessions: The Arts of Daily Living: Modernism and  the Los Angeles County Fair, 1954 by Monica Penick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wake-up Call: California Design after 1965 Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum
More information: LACMA The LAMA blog has better details on the specifics: LAMA Blog

Collecting Eames / The JF Chen Collection

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The JF Chen Eames exhibit has been extended through Saturday, February 18
Collecting Eames Channel: Daniel Ostroff - producer and editor of eamesdesigns.com -  has produced a series videos from items being shown  at the JF Chen Eames exhibit.  More here: Collecting Eames Channel

Greta Grossman Exhibition in Oaklahoma

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Greta Magnusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts

R 20th Century announced that this retrospective exhibition will make its United States debut in Oklahoma 
at The Price Tower Arts Center, a Frank Lloyd Wright designed National Historic Landmark. 


Greta Magnusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts, which originated at the  Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden, is the first-ever exhibition to chronicle  the career of Swedish-American architect and designer Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999).  Grossman is celebrated for the unique approach to Swedish modernism that she  brought with her when she moved from Stockholm to Los Angeles in the late 1930s.   The show opened on January 20 and runs through May 6, 2012.
More information at : Price Towers Arts Center and R 20th Century