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Weekend / Stuff

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Malcolm Leland ceramics and Esther and Gross Wood lamp Sori Yanagi

Albert Frey / Palm Springs Loewy and Aluminare

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The Raymond Loewy house by Albert Frey (1946) or "Tierra Caliente" as Loewy called it. The house was a collaboration between the designer and architect.  Like the next door neighbor,  Kaufmann house , the terrain looked a lot different in the late 40s.   All vintage photos: © Julius Shulman, Peter Stackpole. Source: The Getty Research Institute, Julius Shulman Archive; LIFE The pool continuing into the living room is the most noted aspects of the design This happened more than once. During Palm Springs Modernism I was able to get a close-up look at The Aluminaire House by Albert Frey and managing editor of Architectural Record, A. Lawrence Kocher (1931). Source: Albert Frey / Inventive Modernist

Weekend / Stuff

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Evelyn Ackerman Hot Summer Landscape Wayne Chapman and Tom Tramel Maurice Grossman watercolor Ted Saito hanger

Weekend / Stuff

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Peter Shire, Italian and a pair of BJ Product Design candlesticks from 1953   Roto-Beam fan from 1933

ART / LA

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  Hun Chung Lee, Curated by Bianca Chen at JF Chen Jonathan Ryan at The Landing  ‘Implicit Explicit’, curated by Meaghan Roddy at Hauser & Wirth

Kaufmann Desert House / Richard Neutra

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The Kaufmann Desert House by Richard Neutra (1946) I finally made it inside! When the Kaufmann's lived there, the furniture was mostly Van Keppel Green and Eames DCM's. The DCMs were special.  Rosewood with exposed metal shock mounts. The house was finished in 1946 so it makes sense that they would be such early examples. They probably had the inside line through their son, Edgard Kaufmann Jr. (aka Mr. Good Design)  Source: The vintage photos are by Julius Shulman  © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10) There is still a lot of VKG. Let's head up to the gloriette. The Palm Springs Modernism Week tour bus pulled up when I was up there. In 1947 the neighborhood looked very different. Source: Julius Shulman  © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10) This is what their view looks like. I've been in front of the house more times than I'd care to admit. This photo actually was taken in September of last year.