Esoteric Survey

Objects USA booth at the 2015 Palm Springs Modernism show.
Sol-Air canvas and iron lounge and side table by Pipsan Saarinen Swanson for Ficks Reed, 1950. Sol-Air was selected for the first “Good Design” exhibition in 1950.  The lounge was also used in Case Study House 1950 by Rafael Soriano. So was the Bill Lam lamp in the corner. I'm not sure anyone else cared, but I was excited to put that group together.  Ficks Reed promotional photo by Herbert Matter Source: Via an excellent post on Pipsan Saarinen at Cranbrook

Reform Gallery showed up with some major California work, as usual. That's a big Hassel Smith on the back wall.

Luther Conover and a lot of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman at Reform.

Red Modern
Allen Ditson screen at Red
Sputnik Modern had all the power stuff
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nakashima


Archive

Swift and Monell, Doyle Lane and Olga Lee
Doyle Lane
Eliot Noyes / IBM
I hit a good ephemera pile too.

La Gardo Tackett / Architectural Pottery Palm Springs edition

901 Washington Boulevard (now Abbot Kinney)  The building was the Eames Office from 1943 to 1988. Prior to that it was the Bay Cities Garage. 
I was in the neighborhood with a California made Zenith LAX, so a homecoming was in order.


Eames Office, 1976 Source: The Story of Eames Furniture, Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart
Film by Eames Demetrios on 901. More here.

Smalls
Iron
Eames
More Eames  Zenith LAX

La Gardo Tackett
Here's the pitcher on a VKG table in the Stahl House by Pierre Koenig

Took my new Eames LAR for a drive down the coast.
Raymor triangular table and shelves
Smalls
Trash