Esoteric Survey

LAMA Preview for the May 21 Art and Design auction
Here we have a Van Keppel Green table and a KEM Weber Airline chair for Disney
Claire Falkenstein ceramic sculpture from 1939
Ken Price cup
Ken Price cup on paper
Greta Grossman
Monster Beato mural above a monster Nakashima cabinet
Nice tie in with the Natzler pieces below their former student's work. 


George Nelson Catenary Group. A set like this doesn't show up very often. 
Emerson  Woelffer and Jerome Kirk
Richard Allen Morris
Alvin Lustig chair for Paramount Furniture. They were made to order and about 50 were produced. This should be interesting.

Bulmore and Kurt Versen on Japanese tables
The build quality of Bulmore lamps is incredible. This thing is so heavy! Dudley Bulmore and his son Robert ran the San Francisco company.
Jun Kaneko cup
Japanese metal
Soleri special assembly bell

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia atThe Berkeley Art Museum. 

The exhibition explores the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and its impact on art, architecture, and design.




J.B. Blunk and Lenore Tawney
The sign should have read Reform. The Landing/Reform has long been championing Blunk for over a decade and featured Tawney in an exhibition last year.



Gorilla Graphics and Kamikaze Design, 1970
The 50s modernists failed at creating a utopia with the Le Corbusier approach, so the hippies went small.




Ettore Sottsass architectural concepts from the early 70s
The Post-Modernist attempt at utopia took the hamster tube approach. So much cuter than the rat race.
It reminds me of L. Frances Smith Elementary School (1969) by John M. Johnson.

Japanese lamp
Eames, Alexander Girard, Herman Miller

Clay, including Myrton Purkiss and Amy Donaldson

The Wilshire Shopping Center (1964) by Robert Walters in Roswell, New Mexico
The center has a number of sculptures by New Mexican artist, Herb Goldman






Sadly, the Goldman sculpture seen here is no longer there.
Image: Road Arch
Janus (1964-65) sand-cast concrete sculpture by Herb Goldman (1922-2012)  Image: Smithsonian
See more work by Herb,here