Beatrice Wood & Shamba

Beatrice Wood with manager R.P Singh, Tippi Hedren and Shamba the tiger, via Linc Art.

Laura Andreson

Today a post on renowned potter Laura Andreson. Andreson established the ceramics department at UCLA in 1934 and taught there until her retirement in 1970. Thats a lot of pots.

She was one of the first California studio potters to experiment and explore porcelain, which up to 1950 was mostly used in commercial products. She would become known as a leading West Coast authority on porcelain.

Smithsonian Archive HERE

The New Naturals

They are,

 from the top: Japanese Design Collective (images 1-2) Lief-Designpark

French Designer (images 3-4) Patrick Nadeau via Designboom

Swiss Design Collective (image 5) PostFossil via Inhabitat

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon HERE

Monday Morning Picnic

A few variations on the all-in-one classic, picnic case, including:(from top) the Heath picnic, the backpack picnic, the in-flight military aviator picnic, a 1960's picnic, and the classic.

Heath Picnic via Cool Hunting HERE

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies

From Drawger via the Design Observer comes the Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. Some seem still relevant, at least to me, hopefully I have not been forgotten.

Fernando Brizio

Portuguese designer Fernando Brizio and his felt tip pen investigations, including stained clothing and ceramic vessels. Each object and garment then becomes customized or at least unique. Via SwissMiss

Sargadelos

Today a post on Sargadelos, the fantastic Porcelain production factory in Spain, in the Northern region of Galicia in the town of Lugo. Sargadelos was founded in 1806 and by 1830 was producing 20,000 pieces of chinaware a year. Today it is a company using new technology mixed with traditional Galician forms and decoration to create amazing work. The blood red coffee set was commissioned for the opening of the new New Museum on the Bowery in New York, and produced by Antonio Murado at Sargadelos. Very informative website HERE

Making Chairs

Chairs in the making, via LIFE

Artist Lamps

artists living with light

from bottom:

Joseph Kosuth

Jason Meadows

Pae White

Manfred Pernice

Jorge Pardo