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Long Beach / Killingsworth
"U" As a Set, Claire Falkenstein at CSU Long BeachAlthough various architects designed the individual buildings, it was Killingsworth, Brady and Smith who did the original mater plan for the campus....
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Herman Miller / Berverly Blvd
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...
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Ruth Asawa / RIP
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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California Loops / Electroprints
MARVIN LIPOFSKY & GARRY KNOX BENNETT: CALIFORNIA LOOPS AND ELECTROPRINTS FROM BERKELEY AND OAKLAND, 1967-1970The Landing at ReformIn the 1970 book Objects:USA, Lipofsky is referred to as the Peter...
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Prouvé / LA
Jean Prouvé at Maxfield in Los AngelesThis gallery is located across from Maxfield, the high end avant-garde clothing shop on Melrose Ave.Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret and Serge...
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SD / P
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,...
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Killingsworth / Long Beach
The Edward A. Killingsworth office he designed for himself, 1955 Now the office of Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architects If it's possible for a building to get better with age, this is a perfect...
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Greta Grossman / Hurley House
Hurley Residence, Hollywood, 1958. Designed by Greta GrossmanSource: Great Magunusson Grossman: A Car and Some ShortsAccording to LACurbed,the house will be on the market soon -- for the first time...
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India Independence / Eames
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....
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Ruth Asawa / Memorial
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
Andrew Romano from Newsweek has written a sad tale of how people with more money than sense (and taste) arebuying up Los Angeles mid-century modern architecture only to rip the structures down to build...
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C. Carl Jennings / Struck By Modernism
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...
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Palos Verdes / Architecture
Wayfarers Chapel, Palos Verdes, CA by Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.), 1951 and 1954It's a memorial to Emanuel Swedenborg"Architect Lloyd Wright has put together a new king of church--a sparkling...
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Ray & Charles / August 21
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 1988Charles and Ray in LA, 1941Image: Eames Office
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