![]()
San Diego Modernism: Furniture and Arts for Daily Living at Palm Springs Modernism - Tues Feb, 21st @ 1PM
San Diego's unique culture of post-WWII art, design and architecture remains one of American modernism's best kept secrets. Dave Hampton reveals how it shaped the ‘California Design’ program.
Photo: Doors by Svetozar Radakovich and Carl-Ekstrom, photo by Lynn Fayman
![]()
Designed to complement and contextualize the film and panel discussion following this presentation, Jack Rogers Hopkins: California Design Maverick (below), Dave Hampton will talk about the design and making of Furniture and Architectural Elements –murals, doors, grilles, lanterns, windows, fountains, gates, handles, fireplace surrounds, etc.– in San Diego, connecting this work to San Diego's unique culture of modernism and architecture, from Irving Gill to Lloyd Ruocco, Sim Bruce Richards and Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, and illustrate furniture by John Dirks; Larry Hunter; Jack Rogers Hopkins; Wendy Maruyama; Douglas Deeds and Carl Ekstrom, and architectural elements by Ellamarie & Jackson Woolley; Svetozar & Ruth Radakovich; James Hubbell; Rhoda Lopez; Malcolm Leland; Kay Whitcomb & the Lemurian Crafts.
More information and buy tickets here.
![]()
Jack Rogers Hopkins: California Design Maverick - Tues Feb, 21st @ 3PM
The world premiere of the documentary Jack Rogers Hopkins: California Design Maverick and an expert panel of design historians explore Hopkins role in the California Design Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Hopkins is included in a small circle of fellow California studio designer-craftsmen such as Art Carpenter, J.B. Blunk and Sam Maloof who have emerged as the most influential West Coast studio makers of their generation. Exhibited nationally during his lifetime, Hopkins’s daring sculptural forms have earned him a permanent place in the history of the mid-century American Studio Craft Movement. Hopkins famously destroyed his own masterpiece, the Womb Room, and it is an intriguing part of his personal story, and a riddle well worth solving. What was it about his worldview that enabled him to undertake such an act?
Screening as part of this presentation, will be the world premiere of Jack Rogers Hopkins: California Design Maverick, a documentary film directed by 20th Century design specialist Katie Nartonis.
After the screening, Nartonis will be joined by her co-authors of the 2020 Hopkins book - co-editor Jeffrey Head, and noted design specialists Jo Lauria, Dave Hampton, and Glenn Adamson, for a discussion hosted by Reform gallery owner, Gerard O’Brien.
More information and buy tickets here.
San Diego Modernism: Furniture and Arts for Daily Living at Palm Springs Modernism - Tues Feb, 21st @ 1PM
