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Weekend / Stuff
Stuff from France, including a Finnish chair by Olavi Hanninen and a wall mount Lampe Gras designed by Bernard-Albin Gras. Le Corbusier with a Lampe GrasI went to Berlin and bought a book. More on...
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Visuals in Clay / Stan Bitters
Stan Bitters "Visuals in Clay" at Mohawk West, with Ten 10The installation is always tight with Ten 10.A lot of folks showed up for the opening. The garden at Mohawk West was the perfect venue and they...
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LAMA Auction / June 2018
LAMA Art & Design Auction is this Sunday, June 10th.Ruth Asawa (1965)Gio PontiIf I were ever to live with a Scandinavian table, I would like it to be with this one by Paavo Tynell for Taito Oy,...
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Weekend / Stuff
A-frame mailbox. Made in Los Angeles, 1950sSusan PetersonEdward Durell Stone for Fulbright Industries, 1951Euro stuff
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Richard Saar Ceramics / AMOCA
Discovering Saar CeramicsCurated by Jo Lauria, AMOCA Adjunct CuratorRichard Saar (1924 – 2004)To be honest, although I know I've seen Saar's work around, it never really registered with me. The only...
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Weekend / Stuff
Huge Martz lamps and Ben SeibelSmalls, including Susan Peterson and a Pond Farm-y pot.
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Dieter Rams / Wright
On July 12th Wright presents Dieter Rams: The JF Chen Collection at auction. Featuring over 130 works by the seminal designer and his colleagues at Braun and Vitsoe.The items up for sale were exhibited...
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Harwell Hamilton Harris / Hawk House
The Edwin (Stan) Hawk House by Harwell Hamilton Harris (1939) is for sale.Back in 2011 I posted about Stan Hawk's house being the actual Hawk House, of California iron fame. It was nice to actually see...
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Bauhaus / Dessau
In May I spent some time in Europe. I saw a lot of castles, but this was my favorite. Bauhaus at Dessau was constructed in 1925-26. It was designed by the founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius and...
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Weekend / Stuff
Alvar Aalto at my favorite rest stop on the I-5.The George Nelson gods were smiling down on me.Robert Maxwell, Donald Saxby and a clockMore rusty iron.
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Dessau / Bauhaus Architecture
Kornhaus (1930) by Carl FiegerLocated on the Elbe River, the city of Dessau, with the brewery Schultheiss-Patzenhofer, commissioned the construction of the Kornhaus restaurant. Fieger was a draftsman...
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Soleri Homes / For Sale
The Paolo Soleri and Mark Mills, Dome House (1949), in Cave Creek, Arizona is for sale. The house is listed at only $300,000! The photos on Realtor.com were actually just lifted off a post I did in...
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Weekend / Stuff
I found some pots this weekend. David Cressey Pro Artisan designs for Architectural Pottery. A couple are on Malcolm Leland forms. The striped one is an atypical piece by Stan Bitters.
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JB Blunk / Oakland Museum of California
J.B. Blunk: Nature, Art & Everyday Life at the Oakland Museum of CaliforniaI began making wood sculpture in 1962. I knew how to use a chainsaw and it was one of those things. One day you just...
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Weekend / Stuff
ROWAC stool designed by Robert Wagner Chemnitz. They were used in the classrooms and workshops at the Bauhaus. Oh yeah, and I finally stopped off at the dunes to take a photo. I guess off the off...
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Cité Frugès / Le Cobusier
The Cité Frugès housing complex (1924-1926) was designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. French industrialist Henry Frugès commissioned Le Corbusier to design 135 housing units for workers in...
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Weekend / Stuff
Large ceramic platter by Felix Tissot. This was made while he was living in California, prior to his move to Mexico. There's also a iron bowl from Japan, a welded metal sculpture and a 1940s cerused...
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