Esoteric Survey

David Stewart
Wayne Chapman
I now have a hanging friend for Malcolm Leland
Don Shoemaker
Roland Smith lamp with the early metal ball counterweight

Print Culture: Midcentury Modern Graphic Design
Curated by Dave Hampton Art Gallery - 9th Floor,  San Diego Central Library

Barney Reid and Kay Whitcomb silkscreened textiles 






At least the war machine used to have good graphics



The defense industry was a huge client for the creatives at the time. 
War machine architecture



Convair Astronautics by Pereira & Luckman
Convair Astronautics by Pereira & Luckman. It's long gone.  
Photo: Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Armin Richter was a great 1950s interiors shop in La Jolla


Bob Matheny was commissioned to do a sculpture for Psychology Today. Defini

Pipsan Saarinen Swanson
Victor Bisharat, Architectural Pottery and Seymour Robins

Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern, at theUniversity Art Museum at CSULB  Curated by Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland. The exhibition sources the Frank Brothers archives at the Getty Research Institute and the Frank family collection.Photo: Julius Shulman, Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern
Unlike the Eames, the Frank Bros. were actually brothers. Maurice and Edward Frank joined forces to continue on with the family's furniture business. They opened Frank Bros in Long Beach in 1938. It was first located in downtown, and then relocated to Long Beach Boulevard, where it remained until 1982. It was one of the great retail entities bringing modern to the masses in post-war America.
 A wall of the store's Arts & Architecture magazine ads.


I didn't see this one in the exhibition, but with Maurice Martine, Eero Saarinen and Jens Risom, it's one of my favorites.
Source: Arts & Architecture

Frank Bros aligned themselves with the best architectural pro…