“The Standard Hotel Downtown LA”, recently submitted to our photo group by ChimayBleue
The restaurant at The Standard Hotel in downtown LA.
“The Standard Hotel Downtown LA”, recently submitted to our photo group by ChimayBleue
The restaurant at The Standard Hotel in downtown LA.
A 1950s ranch-style dollhouse went up on eBay today. One of our favorite sellers, momoderne, is opening the bids at $125, or buy it now for $135 (Update: the previous auction ended with no bids. The item is now listed again at $20.) It’s not entirely modernist (the drapes and bedroom furniture are traditional remnants) but there are many progressive details such as the walls of glass, the built-in woodwork and room divider, the fireplace, and the pedestal chairs.
Update: Thanks to Anne’s comment below, we have the original name: Magnetic Doll House by Child Guidance. TimeWarp Toys says it was produced in 1964.
Hope you’ll pardon the big fat Picnik logo above. I’m beta testing a new slideshow feature. What do you think? Do you prefer this preview of eBay listings, or is the standard column of static photos (below) better?
Rocket Gallery, who hosted Ib Geertsen’s first London solo show earlier this year, reports that the artist died peacefully on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
Geertsen is survived by his wife Birthe, and their grandson and granddaughter. The funeral will take place on 12 June at Timotheus Kirken, Valby, Copenhagen where there is a stained-glass window designed by Geertsen.
Ib Geertsen is the grand old man of Danish abstraction, but was little known in the UK until he was championed by London's Rocket Gallery in a recent group show with other Danes associated with an abstract movement known as Konkrete. This was followed by Geertsen's first London solo show [at Rocket] in 2009, at the age of 90.
He trained as a gardener rather than an artist, but came to prominence as a painter in the 1950s with other Konkrete artists, and pursued with them a distinctive hard-edged, geometric abstract language which arguably pre-dated comparable developments in America. Geertsen has pursued that approach consistently for 50 years and has also expanded into furniture, mobile sculptures and public design.
— Paul Carey-Kent from an interview with Ib Geertsen published in Art World, June/July 2009, which includes a feature on the Danish art world.
An exhibition of Ib Geertsen Mobiles opened on the day of his death at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Jutland, Denmark, curated by the Director Jens Erik Sørensen. This continues until September 27.
Following Rocket’s exhibition they published a small catalogue celebrating the show. It’s available on request.
“teal blue & wood”, recently submitted to our photo group by ooh_food
Arne Jacobsen designed the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen and all of the furniture (including the silverware!). The hotel has preserved only one room in the hotel to be completely original: Room 606. The hotel is mentioned in this Euromaxx doc.
The chairs pictured here are “Drop” chairs (or Dråben, as Jacobsen would have said in Danish). They were manufactured by Fritz Hansen exclusively for the hotel in 1958.
Thanks to ChimayBleue for the info and Maggi for the photo (via Desire to Inspire). See more at danish-furniture.com.
“ready”, recently submitted to our photo group by kaylovesvintage
Never seen a fan like this one by Itho, a Dutch company that doesn’t seem to make consumer products anymore. Pity.
See also: Erres Fan
Maxime Clair, whose impeccable home I featured a few weeks ago, has two of these fantastic Service à Orangeade for sale. Jean-Pierre’s Vitrac’s design, a melamine pitcher with stacking mugs that fit neatly in its handle, foreshadows Massimo Vignelli’s popular Heller dinnerware by two years.
Maxime also selling a Boby cart in brown, a color not being manufactured today.
