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Take A Peak

 

 1960s – Living with Art 
 This is the living room at “Four Winds” in Palm Beach, Florida, showing the collection of J. Patrick Lannan.  A huge painting by Nicholas Krushenick almost dwarfs the python covered sofa and Italian chairs below it.  Its vidid colors (?) are reflected in the brass around the mosaic top of a coffee table.

 1960s – Art Indoors and Out 
In one of the rooms devoted to the collection of the Lammam Foundation, even the furniture is art.  Two chairs and table by the Mexican sculptor, Pedro Friedeberg


  1960s – The New Look of Swimming Pools 
A delightful surprise is in store for first-time vistors to the DOnald Sheff’s pool at Great Neck, New York – a table top island emerging a few inches above the water level.  Like the pool and surrounding terrace, the island is built of concrete, but faced with mica stone that blends naturally with the encircling greenery and flowers.
1930s – The Coming and Going of Tides of Taste
In this exciting circular setting-combination studio-library-Katherine Brush writes her alluring tales.  California redwood burl with German silver moldings and green leather wainscot welted in black.  Chairs are black satin corded in green, the desk redwood burl with green leather top.  Carpet is green and black.  The architect was Joseph Urban; Irvin L. Scott, associate

1950s – Build the Outdoors Right into Your Kitchen or Bath
Kitchen designed by architect Thorton M. Abell, with Interior by Jane F. Ullman, showing barbecue grill, with revolving baffle, tiled counter, with translucent sliding panel that functions as a pass-through into the dining area.  Glass wall and skylight provide light and view of nature.


I’m giving you a peak into a book published in 1980 that I picked up at the Long Beach Antique Market last weekend.
These are my favorite pages and the captions that went with the photo.
*Attention.  Dinner will now be served in the pool.
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The Other Glass House

I thought I would stay on the subject of movies and post a few pics of the glass house located outside Stockholm, Sweden and featured in the movie The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo.  I did get to see this movie over the holidays and thought it was pretty good as well.
According to Curbed.com the director declined “to include the swimming pool out front, and fog obscures the view in a few scenes.  The house had been lingering on the market for the indie-film budget of $5.62M for a while, but very well may have sold since the movie was released-the listing was pulled from the Southeby’s Stockholm website just last night”.  

~images via curbed


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The Prominent West Coast Collection

Paolo Piva Andy Sofa B&B Italia Designed 2002
Dan Johnson Gazelle Lounge Chair
Seff Weidl Untitled

   
Frank O. Gehry Wiggle Stool 

Josef Albers Variant II (from Ten Variants)
 Pablo Picasso Mat Owl Platter

Max Finkelstein Castle 
Giuseppe Gambino Bambino con L’Aquilone (Child with Kite)
Over 100 lots in the December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design Auction come from a prominent West Coast collection, creating a rare opportunity to acquire some of the best California Design ever offered in one auction. Whether or not you are planning on buying, you must see this incredible collection on display at LAMA for the first time ever.

The preview is open today through December 10th; open daily from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the LAMA Showroom (16145 Hart St. Van Nuys, CA 91406) ~LAMA
See online catalogue here.
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TASTEMAKER TAG SALE: JOEL CHEN, J.F. CHEN

I don’t think you should miss this one: TASTEMAKER TAG SALE: Joel Chen of J.F. Chen on One Kings Lane.  It starts Saturday Nov. 19th.
He has the most fabulous collection of Furniture, Accessories & Vintage Finds.  My most recent visit to his Highland Ave location was just last week to check out the Collecting Eames exhibit and was blown away (as usual).  He has to have the largest, most impressive, coolest items you will see anywhere.
A hub of eclectic objects spanning centuries and continents, J.F. Chen‘s vast inventory includes modern and vintage furniture, lighting, accessories, and art. Omnipresent throughout the collection is the curatorial eye of Joel Chen, who is as passionate about collecting things that intrigue him as he is about sharing them, and whose vision is a style journey with scenery that ranges from neoclassical European commodes to ’50s chairs and African stools. 
Be sure to check it.
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Collecting Eames, The JF Chen Collection

I’m looking forward to the de LaB tour of Collecting Eames at JF Chen tonight in Hollywood. The collection features 425 objects including furniture, rare posters, toys and graphics designed by Charles and Ray Eames.  
If you can’t make it to tonight’s event, you can go see Collecting Eames at  JF Chen between now and January 14 as part of the “Pacific Standard Time” series of art shows.  The hardcover book “Collecting Eames, The JF Chen Collection,“ is now out and available here.
JF Chen is located: 941 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90038
~image via de LaB
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The Architect and The Painter


The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mindbending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood.
Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
Get the DVD here.
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Shop the Store : : DERING HALL


“Ooh-ooh-ooooh!”
 Yes, I did just say that. I know, its a dorky reference to Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter, but that’s how I feel after checking out Dering Hall.  It is “an online marketplace for the finest interior designers, architects, artisans, and design dealers to showcase their work and sell new, high-end home furnishings and accessories.”  This isn’t IKEA people.  This is some high-end, bespoke home furnishings and accessories.
The things pictured above are a few things I found that I’m head over heels in LOVE LOVE LOVE with.
Sign up here and you will be able to see the links to my selections and find some of your OWN.
clockwise from top left:   Mosaic Mirror-Re-Purposed Vintage and Antique Mirror from Downtown (price on request), Molded Aluminum Tripod Chair in Yellow-Original design by Poul Kjaerholm ($15k), Unique Brass & Mineral Inset Splendora from Michelle’s Rock Candy Collection (price on request), Aubusson Tapestry Wallhanging from Rug Company ($3,595), The Zoid brass Console ($6,800)  “Biomorphic Bubble” Illuminated Sculpture ($20k), Triangle Lucite Bookends  ($450)