{"id":25950,"date":"2012-01-22T22:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T02:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=25950"},"modified":"2014-08-27T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:18:36","slug":"an-afternoon-at-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=25950","title":{"rendered":"an afternoon at the museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Modern design was born from the marriage of art and industry<\/em>.” – “The Architect and the Painter,” Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey<\/p>\n

I was worried the exhibit would be over by the time I finally scooted over to Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Living in a Modern Way<\/a>,” open until June 3, 2012, part of Pacific Standard Time<\/em><\/a>, an ongoing celebration of the works of Los Angeles artists between roughly 1945 and 1980, when the utopian notion of better living through design was taken very seriously.<\/p>\n

I could look at chairs all day. This aluminum chair by R. M. Schindler, made for Sardi’s Restaurant, Hollywood, 1932-33, could easily inspire an adaptation for weatherproof garden seating.
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Pottery from Pacific Clay Products and Catalina Pottery<\/p>\n

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Planted cocktail table by Milo Baughman, 1950. <\/p>\n

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Clothes, textiles.<\/p>\n

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Image of textile by Paul Laszlo from Dwell<\/a>, which also includes photos of LACMA’s re-creation of Charles and Ray Eames’ Case Study House #8 living room.
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The Eames’ DCW (Dining Chair Wood). <\/p>\n

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Like Steve Jobs, Charles Eames often appropriated other designers’ ideas and called them his own. But let’s not quibble — there’s genius in knowing what<\/em> to take.
\nFor more on the Eames, check out the documentary “The Architect and the Painter.” <\/p>\n