CALIFORNIA DESIGN / NINE. Pasadena Art Museum / Ward Ritchie Press, 1965. Eudorah M. Moore, Robert Rowan et al.

CALIFORNIA DESIGN / NINE

Eudorah Moore, Robert Rowan et al.

Pasadena Art Museum, 1965. First edition. Quarto. Printed paper covered boards. 144 pp. Fully illustrated in black and white and color. Saddle stitched 16-page Price and Listing Catalog laid in. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Boards with trivial wear to edges. Catalog wrappers rubbed and sunned. Overall a very good or better copy.

9 x 10.25 hardcover book with 144 pages showcasing hundreds of examples of the best in Californian applied arts and crafts from the mid- sixties. Amazing selection of objects, from ceramics and jewelry to industrail design for household appliances, furniture, etc. Stellar reference volume that includes scarce manufacturing information. Need I say more?

From the book: “The California Design exhibition of the Pasadena Art Museum is a triennial, highly selective, juried showing of articles for domestic use, designed and/or manufactured in California -- within the last three years. The exhibition includes the entire spectrum of production, from hand-crafted, one of a kind works of art, to designs made to meet the discipline of mass production. Approximately one-half of the exhibition is comprised of manufactured articles, either limited manufacture, mass produced, or prototype for manufacture. The other half is one of a kind objects conceived and executed by the State's finest craftsmen.” California Design/Nine: March 28 through May 9, 1965—this book provides an unparalled snapshot of the modern California crafts movement at the point of its mid-century zenith.

Contents:

• Foreword

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction;

• California Design: Accent on Doors

• California Design: Accent on Lights

• California Design: Accent on Clay

• California Design: Accent on Color

• California Design: Accent on Humor

• California Design: Accent on Office Furnishings

• California Design: Accent on Natural Forms

• California Design: Works of Hand and Machine

• California Design: Accent on Seating

• California Design: Accent on Wood

• California Design: Accent on Elegance

• California Design: Accent on Industrial Design

• California Design 9: Manufacturers

• California Design 9: Designers

• Designer – Craftsmen

Includes work by the following designers: Evelyn Ackerman, Max Alper, Michael Arntz, Ralph Bacerra, Roger Baird, Carlton Ball, Fred Ball, Jean Balmer, Faith Zink Banks, Stan Bitters, Glen Black, Porter Blanchard, Anne Blinks, John Blough, Oscar Bucher, John Burton, Mary Balzer Buskirk, Kent Child, Philip Cornelius, David Cressey, Edward Cromey, Stephen Daly, Annemarie Davidson, Rupert Deese, Esther Dendel, John Dickerhoff, Kenneth Dierck, Lillian Elliott, Arthur (Art) Espenet Carpenter, Arline Fisch, Dextra and Charles Frankel, Robert Fritz, Hal Fromhold, Walter Funk, Jerry Glaser, Ida Dean Grae, Trude Guermonprez, Richard Harrison, Joseph Hawley, Doris Heineman, Jack Hoag, Claire Jeanne Hooper, Sheila Hollingshead, Dora Hunter, Lawrence Hunter, Milon Hutchison, Elizabeth Irwin, Esta James, Dorothy Johnson, Ralph Johnston, Rick Kallis, John Kapel, Eleanor Kass, Robert Kingsbury, Maria Kipp, Freda Koblick, Ragnhild Langlet, Frederick Lauritzen, Jean Ray Laury, Ruth Law, John Leary, Esther Lewittes, Marvin Lipofsky, Mary Loveland, James Lovera, Fred Lucero, William Lumpkins, Harrison McIntosh, Laurie McKay, Sam Maloof, Rex Mason, Robert Maxwell, Susan Morrison, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Betty Newkirk, Win Ng, John Nyquist, Hal Painter, Dennis Parks, Boone Paul, Donald Pilcher, Alvin Pine, Ruth and Svetozar Radakovich, Merry Renk, Victor Ries, Ruth Rippon, Jerry Rothman, Herbert Sanders, Donald Saxby, June Schwarcz, Arthur Secunda, Zaven Zee Sipantzi, Joe Soldate, Paul Soldner, Kenneth Starbird, Cliff Stewart, Bob Stocksdale, Spaulding Taylor, Robert Trout, Everett Turner, George Uhl, Martha Menke Underwood, Janet Van Evera, Don Walton, James Wayne, Kirsten Weeke-Combs, Kay Whitcomb, Marguerite Wildenhain, Claudia Williams, Ken Wilson, James Wishon, Beatrice (Beato) Wood, Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley, Virginia Wysel, and many others.

"California Design -- The furniture, jewelry, recreational objects, ceramics, fabric arts, and other designs that emerged from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s California would come to identify its outdoorsy, eccentric, sometimes entirely funky persona. And the best of these were exhibited, sometimes idolized, through a series of popular shows at the Pasadena Art Museum.

The first six exhibitions of California Design were held annually at the Pasadena Art Museum from 1955-1960, funded by grants from the County of Los Angeles. The shows featured contemporary design of home furnishings, accessories, and equipment from Southern California designers, manufacturers, and retailers. Two exhibitions with similar themes were organized by other California museums during the same period: "California Designed" (1955) was produced jointly by the Long Beach Municipal Art Museum and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, and "Contemporary California Designers," was held at the Oakland Exposition Building in 1955.