Mid-Century Modern Freak

Happy Memorial Day Weekend...Stay Safe! - midcenturymodernfreak

"Rhythm-A-Ning" | Thelonious Monk Quartet w/ Johnny Griffin | Album: Thelonius In Action (1958) | Recorded at The New York's Five Spot Cafe 

Familiar Faces

1954 Edris House | Palm Springs, CA

1970 Jane & Serge | Photos: Bert Stern for Vogue | New York

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Sculptured Tables | Philippe Hiquily

Born in 1925 in Montmartre, Philippe Hiquily studied at the Parisian Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in the same class as Gimond-Janniau and César. One of his works, La Bicyclette, was acquired in 1956 by the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 1959, he exhibited in the New York gallery The Contemporaries. He then met the surrealist artists, Max Ernst and Georges Bataille at Ninette Lyon's. He is celebrated for his work on metal, and began to design pieces of furniture in the 1960s. In the 1980s, he created mobile sculptures propelled by electric motors.

Moby's House

Is Paul Tuttle a Forgotten Designer?

In the annals of Los Angeles mid-century modernism, Paul Tuttle may not loom nearly as large as Charles Eames and Pierre Koenig, but he should. He created spare but elegant interiors and custom furnishings such as those shown in the 1952 floating glass-box home in Pasadena (2nd photo). (The house was designed by Tuttle's employer, architect Thornton Ladd.) - David A. Keeps of the Los Angeles Times

Denied entrance to Art Center School in Los Angeles, Tuttle “audited “ a class out of sight of the instructor, Alvin Lustig, a highly respected designer. Tuttle created a model and presented it to the class as if he were enrolled. When Lustig realized he was not, he summarily dismissed him—but he didn’t forget him.

Impressed with Tuttle’s ability, Lustig contacted him within weeks, offering a job in his office. While he was not there long, Tuttle’s lasting friendship with the “pioneer of modern design” was the first of several opportunities that would propel him into the design field.- Jane Ellison of Seasons Magazine

This Looks Safe

Opposites Attract

1963 Hanging Wall Case with Free Edge | Design: George Nakashima from the Edmund J. Bennett Collection

(pictured) George Nakashima, Doris Harris, and Edmund J. Bennett of Bethesda, Maryland. Edmund J. Bennett acquired the largest Nakashima collection from a single owner in history.