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La Jolla / Architecture & Art

September 18, 2013, 9:28 pm
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Case Study House 23 / Triad A House by Edward Killingsworth, 1960

B-C
A
This project is three separate houses, all designed by Killingsworth. Triad parts B and C are next to each other, across the street from A. 
Source: Beautiful Homes and Gardens in California

Killingsworth kills it with those reflecting ponds!

Photo: Beautiful Homes and Gardens in California


Photo: Beautiful Homes and Gardens in California

House A looking at B.
Photo: Beautiful Homes and Gardens in California

Also in La Jolla, El Pueblo Ribera Courts by Rudolph Schindler, 1923

1923, incredible


This project was designed as 12 vacation units. I guess now it's only 6.

Too bad about the "updating" and that furniture.
Photo: The Agency

John Baldessari, "Brain/Cloud (with Seascape and Palm Tree)
Part of the Murals of La Jolla project
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Tackett / Thursday

September 19, 2013, 6:32 am
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CALIFORNIA DESIGNED - TABLEWARES

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Tackett / Thursday

October 17, 2013, 6:41 am
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La Gardo Tackett studio ceramics

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Seated / Mingei

October 18, 2013, 7:01 am
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Mingei Please be Seated 
The survey includes over 100 examples of seating from a wide range of cultures and time periods.


Early modern, Bauhaus, Memphis and contemporary. 

Eames

Lawrence Hunter, from Dave Hampton's (Objects USA) collection

Isamu Noguchi rocking stool from David Skelly's (Boomerang) collection. 

Maurice Martine -- that's mine

My Eugene Weston stool looks pretty important on that pedestal 

Douglas Deeds, 1961

 Japan

 Seating from long ago and far away.

There's a lot more to see, including seating by George Nakashima, Sam Maloof, Sori Yanagi, Hans Wegner, and many more.
Rob Sidner, the Musuem’s director, curated the exhibit and really put together a fine group of examples.

Please be Seated is on view until February 9th.

Also, If you haven't seen C. CARL JENNINGS, CALIFORNIA ARTIST-BLACKSMITH, this is 
your chance to see two great exhibits.
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Weekend / Stuff

October 21, 2013, 10:38 am
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A not very exciting bric-a-brac weekend
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Neutra / Mariners Medical Arts

October 22, 2013, 8:12 am
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Mariners Medical Arts Plaza by Richard Neutra, Newport Beach, 1963

 The medical plaza directory, 1964
Image: Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Getty Research Library
Via HISTORICAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE MARINERS’MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING




The beds with the river rocks were originally reflecting ponds.  

Image: Julius Shulman. Neutra. Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht, Peter Gössel


Dental examination room...nice
Image: Julius Shulman. Neutra. Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht, Peter Gössel

Image: Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Getty Research Library
Via HISTORICAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE MARINERS’MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING

The missing staircase seems a little dangerous.






Image: Julius Shulman. Neutra. Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht, Peter Gössel


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Jack Rogers Hopkins / Archive

October 22, 2013, 12:31 pm
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Jack Rogers Hopkins, 1972 at Archive in Laguna Beach, CA

 Archive always has great stuff, but this is ridiculous.





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Edward Durell Stone / Beckman Auditorium

October 23, 2013, 7:27 am
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Beckman Auditorium by Edward Durell Stone, on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, 1964







The model
Image: Architectural Record, 1962 


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Library / Art

October 23, 2013, 6:37 pm
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After 30 years of waiting, the new San Diego Central Library is finally open.
Even though I can see the R2-D2 dome from my window, I haven't been inside since it opened a few weeks ago. 
Luckily, architectural photographer Darren Bradley and local art authority Dave Hampton have made it inside. 

Darren took a great set of photos that can be seen on his blog, Modernist Architecture.
Photo: Darren Bradley

Dave has written a piece for KPBS's Culture Lust about the art on display:
Which Artist Has The Most Work On View In New San Diego Library? 

Richard Allen Morris pointing at a Russel Baldwin painting in the new library.
Photo: Dave Hampton

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Tackett / Thursday

October 24, 2013, 10:21 am
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Continental Cup- FR
La Gardo Tackett



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Weekend / Stuff

October 28, 2013, 11:18 am
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Fish again? 
La Gardo Tackett / Quistgaard

Hal Fromhold 

Hans Wegner

Good Design

Robeson Cutlery was selected for Good Design more than once. They're listed in the 1950 and 1954 Good Design catalogs
and possibly others.

Front page news in Perry, New York


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California's Designing Women / Exhibition Catalog

October 29, 2013, 12:30 pm
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CALIFORNIA'S DESIGNING WOMEN: 1896–1986
A MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA DESIGN (MOCAD) catalog for their exhibition at The Autry Museum in Los Angeles.
Written and edited by Bill Stern, with contributions by Pat Kirkham and Jeff Weinstein. 
Photography by Larry Underhill. Book design by Felis Stella.

Marilyn Kay Austin / Architectural Pottery

The catalog includes biographies, photos of objects, and period resources for the designers who were in the exhibition.
MOCAD worked with many of the designers and/or their families to provide information that can't be found anywhere else.
A lot of great research went into this. I highly recommend getting a copy. 
Order yours here. 

Muriel Coleman

Evelyn Ackerman
Photos of the exhibition can be found here.
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Herman Miller / Wright & Wrong

October 30, 2013, 8:27 am
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Isamu Noguchi IN-62

Sam Grawe wrote a great article on the Herman Miller WHY blog. Along with Richard Wright, he explores some experimental 
Herman Miller designs that have passed through Wright auction. This includes some pre-production, limited production, 
custom designs, bastardized concoctions and some pieces that are a mystery.   

Read it here.

Mystery Herman Miller table



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Martha Longenecker / Mingei

October 30, 2013, 10:08 pm
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The craft world lost an important member yesterday with the passing of Martha Longenecker. 
The founding president and director emerita of Mingei International Museum was 93.
Along with starting the Mingei, Martha was was an artist-craftsman in ceramics and an educator.

Read more here and here.

Image: San Diego's Craft Revolution by Dave Hampton

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Tackett / Thursday

October 31, 2013, 7:39 am
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JB / ML / SB

October 31, 2013, 8:51 pm
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Jean Balmer, Marg Loring lantern and Stan Bitters

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Weekend / Stuff

November 4, 2013, 6:53 pm
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Peter Rooke Ley demountable bookcase for California Contemporary

Pacifica

General Merchandise

1955 painting by Richard Hackett

Renate Muller

Alvin Lustig

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Heath / Between Hand & Machine

November 5, 2013, 6:36 am
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Some months back I went to visit my friend Tung Chiang, Creative Lead and Studio Director at Heath Ceramics, at his
amazing studio space at the Heath factory in San Francisco (see here).  Apparently they've been hard at work. A show of prototypes 
the studio has developed was held this past weekend. They called it Between Hand & Machine.

Everything I picked up was marked sold, so it seems like the designs were well received.

Such a great collection

The NFS section


The machine part of the show

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Thorne / Brubeck

November 6, 2013, 7:15 am
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Brubeck House by Beverley "David" Thorne, Oakland, 1954

This is the first of two houses Thorne designed for Dave and Iola Brubeck. The other is in Connecticut. 
Photo: NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism

Trees are great, except when it comes to trying to take photos of buildings.

Too bad the tree the cut out was made for didn't make it. 
Source: Click Americana

 

Dave and Iola Brubeck
Source: Birth of the Cool by  Elizabeth Armstrong

Bethkehem Steel ad.  
Another steel house architect, Pierre Koenig, was also featured in their ads. I mentioned this in a previous post, 
but Thorne was also a Case Study House architect (#26).  More about him here and here.

Source: Click Americana


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Tackett / Thursday

November 7, 2013, 10:47 am
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