Esoteric Survey

Scandi and Soleri
Rain and staying local = tough weekend

Archive 20th Century stacked it high with great stuff
Reform Gallery with California's finest
J.B. Blunk at Reform Gallery
Sputnik does not mess around. Get it, they're from Texas.
Sputnik
Funkis
Billings
Red had these great Allen Ditson chairs
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Red
Atomic Home Modern
Dharam Damama
Design One
Lisa Cliff Collection
Objects USA
Objects USA

Jack Boyd
Japan
Mosaic mural by Genaro Álvarez
Greta Grossman
Alexander Girard and George Nelson/Irving Harper

Executive Order 9066: February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt authorized the internment thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt's order affected 117,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds were native-born citizens of the United States. Ruth Asawa's father Umakichi, a 60 year-old farmer who had been living in the United States for forty years, was arrested by FBI agents and taken to a camp in New Mexico. The family did not see him for almost two years. Ruth (seated second from the left) was sent along with her mother and five siblings to the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California, where they lived for five months in two horse stalls. They took only what they could carry. “The stench was horrible,” she recalled. “The smell of horse dung never left the place the entire time we were there.” Read more, here. Source: Ruth Asawa
George Nakashima was forced, along with his wife and newborn daughter Mira, into a camp, in Id…

Greta Grossman bar cart 
Luther Conover stools


Ravenware
Ravenware

The J.M. Roberts House (1955) by Richard Neutra
The 2,580 square foot structure is sited on a 3.45 acre hilltop in West Covina, CA. 


The house is for sale and Nate Cole of Unique California Property has the listing. That's Nate in action off in the distance.

It was in sad shape just a few years ago and has been meticulously restored by Eric Lamers.




Can you tell that I'm into this corner?
The view from the living room. This is just a few minutes from the 10 freeway in West Covina!



There are three bathrooms; pink, yellow, and blue.



Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute

Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute

Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute

Here is what the house looked like before the restoration.