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La Jolla / Architecture & Art
Case Study House 23 / Triad A House by Edward Killingsworth, 1960B-CAThis project is three separate houses, all designed by Killingsworth. Triad parts B and C are next to each other, across the street...
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Seated / Mingei
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. EamesLawrence Hunter, from Dave...
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Neutra / Mariners Medical Arts
Mariners Medical Arts Plaza by Richard Neutra, Newport Beach, 1963 The medical plaza directory, 1964Image: Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Getty Research LibraryVia HISTORICAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT...
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Jack Rogers Hopkins / Archive
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
Beckman Auditorium by Edward Durell Stone, on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, 1964The modelImage: Architectural Record, 1962
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Library / Art
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,...
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Weekend / Stuff
Fish again? La Gardo Tackett / QuistgaardHal Fromhold Hans WegnerGood DesignRobeson Cutlery was selected for Good Design more than once. They're listed in the 1950 and 1954 Good Design catalogsand...
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California's Designing Women / Exhibition Catalog
CALIFORNIA'S DESIGNING WOMEN: 1896–1986A 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...
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Herman Miller / Wright & Wrong
Isamu Noguchi IN-62Sam 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....
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Martha Longenecker / Mingei
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...
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Weekend / Stuff
Peter Rooke Ley demountable bookcase for California ContemporaryPacificaGeneral Merchandise1955 painting by Richard HackettRenate MullerAlvin Lustig
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Heath / Between Hand & Machine
Some months back I went to visit my friend Tung Chiang, Creative Lead and Studio Director at Heath Ceramics, at hisamazing studio space at the Heath factory in San Francisco (see here). Apparently...
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Thorne / Brubeck
Brubeck House by Beverley "David" Thorne, Oakland, 1954This is the first of two houses Thorne designed for Dave and Iola Brubeck. The other is in Connecticut. Photo: NorCalMod: Icons of Northern...
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