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Long Beach / Killingsworth

August 5, 2013, 8:59 am
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"U" As a Set, Claire Falkenstein at CSU Long Beach

Although various architects designed the individual buildings, it was Killingsworth, Brady and Smith who 
did the original mater plan for the campus. Edward Killingsworth was the master plan architect for the school for over forty years.

The Killingsworth influence is hard to miss. 



In 2006, the plaza in front of Brotman Hall was dedicated to Killingsworth.
This is also where this Lymon Lough Fountain is located.

Hollow Men, Tenold A Peterson, 1964

NOW, Piotr Kowalski, 1964

Ed Lovell was the landscape architect for the campus.

Across town on Ocean Blvd is this 1958 Killingsworth, Brady and Smith.
It could be yours, here.


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Herman Miller / Berverly Blvd

August 6, 2013, 7:52 am
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The Herman Miller Furniture Company showroom on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles is the only commercial building designed by 
Charles Eames. He designed the showroom in 1949, at the same time he was working on The Eames House / Case Study House #8.

The showroom was one of four by Herman Miller at the time. George Nelson designed the New York, Chicago and 
Grand Rapids locations. 
Image: Eames: Beautiful Details by The Eames Office and Ammo Books


Windows include both fixed and operable awning casements, just like at the Eames house below.
Image: Eames: Beautiful Details


Source: Progressive Architecture, 1950

The floor plan
Source: Progressive Architecture, 1950

Source: Progressive Architecture, 1950

Source: Progressive Architecture, 1950

Source: Eames: Beautiful Details

Source: Eames: Beautiful Details

Source: Eames: Beautiful Details

Source: Arts & Architecture

Source: Eames: Beautiful Details

Business card from the 8806 Beverly Blvd showroom

The address is 8806 but 8810 was on the building?
Image: Progressive Architecture, 1950

8806 Beverly Boulevard today. They should paint the address up there again.

The structure still stands and is in surprisingly good condition and is now domus design collection.
Gone are the the opaque sections of glass and the solid plaster compositions. The red brick is all painted black too.

The awning casements windows are still there.

Charles must have really liked those windows. They were also used on the Entenza House / Case Study House 9 that Eames
and Eero Saarinen designed in 1950.  That's three for three for the buildings designed by Eames in California.     

The inventory has changed over the years. The domus design collection is obviously going for a different look than Herman Miller was.
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Ruth Asawa / RIP

August 6, 2013, 2:58 pm
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Ruth Asawa passed away last night. She was 87.

To say that she was an amazing artists is a total understatement. 
Read more at the SF Gate
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Weekend / Stuff

August 7, 2013, 6:52 am
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Ben Seibel table for Post

Susan Peterson

Edith Heath

Japanese

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California Loops / Electroprints

August 7, 2013, 10:48 pm
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MARVIN LIPOFSKY & GARRY KNOX BENNETT: 
CALIFORNIA LOOPS AND ELECTROPRINTS FROM BERKELEY AND OAKLAND, 1967-1970
The Landing at Reform

In the 1970 book Objects:USA, Lipofsky is referred to as the Peter Voulkos of glass.  

California Loop, blown glass with flocking, 1970 

Sandblasted blown glass, copper plating, 1969


The show includes a great display of ephemera 




Gerard O'Brien with Marvin Lipofsky, at Marvin's Berkeley studio.
Garry Knox Bennett “Boxed Lightning – Red” Electroprint, 1974

Garry Knox Bennett Self Portrait Electroprint, 1974
The Bennett pieces were really hard to take pictures of. 
It's better to see them in person anyway. They are on display through Sept. 14th.

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Tackett / Thursday

August 8, 2013, 7:08 am
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Prouvé / LA

August 8, 2013, 2:16 pm
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Jean Prouvé at Maxfield in Los Angeles
This gallery is located across from Maxfield, the high end avant-garde clothing shop on Melrose Ave.

Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret and Serge Mouille. 
I guess they have some good stuff. 

Oh yeah, they're building a Prouvé house in the parking lot next to the clothing store.


The setting is a little different than Prouve's own house, here.

I came across these two Alfa Romeos down the street at Gray Gallery. 
Apparently they're for sale. The GTV in the back is pretty great. I'd take either. 

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SD / P

August 9, 2013, 7:11 am
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Parking garage designed by Tucker, Sadler, & Bennett Architects.  This is part of the Center City Concourse in Downtown San Diego.
It's where Mayor Bob parks. 

Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman

Malcolm Leland designed the fascia on many of the buildings in the complex.

Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman

Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman

Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman

Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman

Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman


Source: Arts & Architecture, June, 1965 - Photo by Julius Shulman

Not just amy issue of Arts & Architecture, this one used to belong to A Quincy Jones.

Malcolm Leland fountain in the plaza next to the garage.
There are a lot less people on the plaza now than there were on this day, here. 

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Weekend / Stuff

August 12, 2013, 9:01 pm
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La Gardo Tackett bird, cups and fishes, Soleri bells, and Martz

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Killingsworth / Long Beach

August 13, 2013, 1:15 pm
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Coffee Stands / Japan

August 14, 2013, 10:33 am
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Greta Grossman / Hurley House

August 14, 2013, 11:12 pm
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Hurley Residence, Hollywood, 1958. Designed by Greta Grossman
Source: Great Magunusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts

According to LACurbed,the house will be on the market soon -- for the first time ever. 
The Hurleys called it home from 1958 until2013, with the passing ofMrs. Hurley.
Source: LACurbed

1958, photo by John Hartley
Source: Great Magunusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts


The street view isn't the best side. 
Source: Google Maps

1958, photo by John Hartley
Source: LACurbed

Although similar, these T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings chairs are different from the chairs in the photo above.

Hopefully someone good buys the house and they down't do one of these. 
It will be listed at $1.795 million
 Source: LACurbed

Related here 
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Tackett / Thursday

August 15, 2013, 7:58 am
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La Gardo Tackett at his Topanga Canyon studio, 1949

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India Independence / Eames

August 15, 2013, 12:57 pm
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Today, August 15th, is the 66th anniversary of the end of British rule over India. Ten years later, in 1957, the Indian government asked the Ford Foundation to invite Charles and Ray Eames to India. For three months Charles and Ray traveled the country and met with artists, writers, craftspeople, architects and people from industry. What came of this, was The India Report. One of the key recommendations was to establish the National Institute of Design (NID). With help from the Ford foundation, the institute opened in 1961. The Eames would have a lifelong relationship with the institution.
Source: NID 

Eames photo taken on their 1958 trip to India.
Source: Library of Congress

Eames Office at NID, 1964
Source: Design for India 
(A great blog with a detailed account of the Eames's relationship with the NID)


Charles back in India, 1978
Source: Design for India


Charles in India, 1978.  He died later that year.
Source: India Art N Design

Ray at the Eames Award Ceremony in 1988 at NID. The area is now called the Eames Plaza.
Ray died later that year --10 years to the day after Charles. 
Source: Design for India

Eames Plaza
Source: India///Diary

Read more here.
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Ruth Asawa / Memorial

August 15, 2013, 9:07 pm
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A memorial for Ruth Asawa will be held on Aug. 27 in San Francisco at 
the Music Concourse Band Shell in Golden Gate Park from 11 a. m. to 1 p.m.

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Modernist / McMansion

August 16, 2013, 11:10 am
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Andrew Romano from Newsweek has written a sad tale of how people with more money than sense (and taste) are
buying up Los Angeles mid-century modern architecture only to rip the structures down to build crap box mcmansions.

Included, is this update on the The Kingsley Jr. House by architect Julius Ralph (J.R.) Davidson.

Read the article here. 

See my post on the J.R. Davidson Kingsley house here,
and the Greta Grossman Backus house here.

Find out how you can help architectural preservation efforts at The Los Angeles Conservancy.

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Weekend / Stuff

August 19, 2013, 10:25 am
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Amy Donaldson, La Gardo Tackett, Soleri bell, and  Ernesto the owl.

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C. Carl Jennings / Struck By Modernism

August 19, 2013, 11:12 am
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Dave Hampton and the Mingei are at it again...
C. CARL JENNINGS, CALIFORNIA ARTIST-BLACKSMITH Guest-curated by San Diego contemporary craft authority Dave Hampton, this exhibition will feature large forged works including gates, headboards, chandeliers, and the free-standing sculpture of California artist-blacksmith C. Carl Jennings (1910 – 2003). Works by Jennings were previously featured in the Craft in America and California Design 11 exhibitions.
The exhibitions opens August 24th. More information can be found on the Mingei's website. 
Source: Mingei

Gate, which was shown in California Design 11, will be on display.  
You don't want to miss this. 
Source: Mingei

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Palos Verdes / Architecture

August 20, 2013, 6:58 am
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Wayfarers Chapel, Palos Verdes, CA by Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.), 1951 and 1954
It's a memorial to Emanuel Swedenborg


"Architect Lloyd Wright has put together a new king of church--a sparkling enclosure of glass framed in the modern equivalent of Gothic tracery and carrying the glass further than the Gothic builders ever carried it--up into the roof." Architectural Forum 1951

“When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment. This is done to give the congregation protection in services and at the same time to create the sense of outer as well as inner space.” - Lloyd Wright - A Visit with the Architect, 1974 via Wayfarers Chapel

Concrete with rocks, just like his dad.


Landscape lamps

1951
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute

1954
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute

Believe it or not, Palos Verdes High School was designed by Richard Neutra, 1962. 
Not one of his best projects, although he did have to contend with Palos Verdes zoning codes which require pitched tile roofs. 

Shulman was even struggling to make this one look good.
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute

Awe, "spider legs"

Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute


Oh Juilus and those fake branches.
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute



Just up the road from Palos Verdes High is the Beckstrand house by Neutra, 1937-40

Neutra hid the required pitched red Spanish red roof with parapets as a workaround.
This 1700 square foot all steel 3BR house was up for sale last year for $2.75 million.  It's hard to tell if it sold.
Here is some listing information from Curbed LA. 
Source: Julius Shulman. Neutra. Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht, Peter Gössel

I wonder what happened to the Neutra chair and VKG? 
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute

This original built-in desk from the Besckstrand house was up for auction at Sotheby's in June of this year.  
That is not a good sign for a house perched on prime real estate in Palos Verdes Estates. 
I hope this isn't another mcmansion in the works. 

Image: Sotheby's

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Ray & Charles / August 21

August 21, 2013, 12:01 am
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Charles and Ray Eames both died on August 21st. 
Charles died in 1978 and Ray died on the same day exactly 10 years later in 1988

Charles and Ray in LA, 1941
Image: Eames Office

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