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Paul Evans / Designer & Sculptor
Paul Evans: Designer & SculptorArchitecture and design writer Jeffrey Head has a great new book out on the east coast designer-craftsman.The foreword is by Adriana Kertzer, with an introduction by...
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James Hubbell / In Search Of Shadows
In Search Of Shadows: James Hubbell Sculpture at the Oceanside Museum of Art
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A Handbook of California Design / 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers,...
A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers This new publication by LACMA is a compendium of 140 profiles of California designers and manufacturers.It serves as a...
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Ray Eames / California Museum
Ray Eames: A Century of Modern DesignA collaboration between the Eames Office and the California Museum in Sacramento.Bernice "Ray" Kaiser was born in Sacramento in 1912. Here she is in the Class of...
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Ray Eames Exhibit / ESU
ESU in the Ray Eames: A Century of Modern Design exhibit at the California Museum.The placard in front of it didn't really say anything specific about this ESU. It was just a brief description of what...
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Bay Area / Goods
Joel EdwardsThat's a good one.Eames 6CO5 radio by ZenithLuck from the Ray Eames exhibit? I just learned this phenomenon is called "contact magic".
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Art Disposal Service / Epic Event
Bring On the Ides of MarchCeremony and press conference to signal "change of command" at Art Disposal Serviceto be held at 12pm on Friday, March 15th at Bread & SaltSan Diego, CA – Dave Hampton...
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Handcrafted Modern Europe / Kickstarter
This book needs to be made. Support Leslie Williamson's Kickstarter project:Handcrafted Modern Europe: At Home with Midcentury Designers. Image: Leslie Williamson
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Weekend / Stuff
Clay, Robert Arneson from the late '50s Metal, Japanese IronLeatherWood, critters from the Bowl
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LACMA / Permanent Collection
Isamu Noguchi, Coronos, BronzeOMG!John Mclaughlin with Claes Oldenburg pool balls in the foreground Donald Judd"I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what...
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Blankfort / Immaterial Zones
Over the years my friend Susan has shared many stories about her parents with me. I knew they collected art and some it was even exhibited at LACMA. It wasn't until recently, when Susan shared the...
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Art Disposal Service / Ceremony
The venue was set.The crowd gathered at high noon on the Ides of March.The sound system and commentators were ready.A specially commissioned piece called Fanfare For Paperwork, by composer Chris...
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Stanley Kubrick / Design
Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA The art and design...Instead of the black monolith, there was a black John McCraken plank sculpture in the 2001: A Space Odyssey room. Olivier Mourgue Djinn chairsAs...
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California Design / Tokyo
LAMA just posted some photos of the California Design, 1930 - 1965: "Living in a Modern Way" exhibit at The National Art Center in Tokyo on their blog. This is the first stop on a pacific rim tour for...
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Petroglyphs / Taliesin West
In 1937, with his fee for building Falling Water for Edgar Kaufman Sr.in hand, Frank Lloyd Wright purchased 620 acres of land in Scottsdale, Arizona. Taliesin West will be his winter home, studio and...
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Cosanti
Customary Cosanti money shot.Going to Cosanti never gets old.The bell as a lampThe bell as a water spicket thingamajigThe ceramic bell clapper as a doorknobI'm not sure what's going on here, but I like...
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Soleri / Mesa City to Arcosanti
Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art40 ft long Soleri design for Mesa City, 1959The Mesa City plan is where Soleri began articulating his urban design principles...
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Arcosanti / A
ArcosantiClay arcokittyaaACeramics Studio Apse The ceramics studio in operation. It's good to see connections to Soleri's time at Taliesin West.ASource: Soleri: Architecture as Human EcologyCeramic...
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