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19 DESIGNER PROFILE: EVA ZEISEL

Hungarian-born designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel spent much of her career in the U.S., where she became renowned for designs inspired by the human form.

24 WEST COAST MODERN

Midcentury-modern design is synonymous with California. As a 2012 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibit pointed out, there are good and specific reasons for that.

38 SIMMER IN STYLE

Vintage Dansk Kobenstyle cookware, designed by Jens Quistgaard, fuses great design and bold colors.

44 DREAM HOMES

Manufacturers of appliances, flooring, furnishings, and paint used catalogs to give homeowners all the ideas they would need to create—or, at the very least, fantasize about—their dream homes.

54 IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

Giftware designers of the 1940s and ‘50s, knowing that Americans had a newfound penchant for foreign travel (or at least an interest in exotic, faraway lands), created ceramic figures that brought miniature representations of the world’s peoples right into consumers’ living rooms.

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After several months of drab winter weather, we need something bright, warm, and cheery, so we’ve pulled together a treasure trove of vintage finds-—all in yellow.

8 RETRO LOOKS

Many midcentury-modern, Art Deco, and 20th-century designs—plus newer objects created with those traditions in mind—are still produced today. In this issue, we focus on a handful of inspiring new pitchers.

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14 SHOWS This August, Dana Cain will be

presenting her annual Denver Modernism Show. She shares her secrets to success and provides plenty of reasons to should attend this August.

31 CALENDAR

This issue’s events calendar covers U.S. antiques shows, flea markets, and collectibles shows through late spring.

64 WHY I LOVE IT

Motorcycle enthusiast and musician Ben Mars has several makes of motorcycles in a barn on his Midwest farm. But his vintage BMW R90/S always beckons him to ride. Find out why he loves that bike.

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A couple months ago, I was wandering through the housewares department at a T.J. Maxx store and was surprised to see a brand-new piece of Dansk Kobenstyle cookware on the clearance shelf. Just that week I had spent time at the office making preparations for an upcoming photo shoot, where we would be photographing a large collection of vintage Dansk Kobenstyle cookware, most of it from the 1960s and ‘70s. (The photo you see here is from that shoot.) While I knew that Dansk (now owned by Lenox) had again started producing this terrific line of cookware, I had only seen the new pieces online. Seeing a teal-colored casserole (with lid) at T.J. Maxx store helped me look A collection of vintage Dansk Kobenstyle cookware on a new gas stove. at the vintage pieces in a new way. It bolstered my opinion that it’s better to have the original vintage object when possible. However, knowing that vintage pieces aren’t always easy to find or afford, this experience also reinforced a decision I made last year to create “Retro Looks,” a Treasures department that’s devoted to new products— either reissues and vintage designs that never went out of production, or all-new products created using a design vocabulary that’s consistent with midcenturymodern, Art Deco, and other modern-leaning moments in 20th-century design. In this issue, the Retro Looks department highlights some of the best “new” pitchers on the market. Some are old designs, some are new, but they’re all part of the same family known as good design. Digital Issues

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It’s Spring — Say Yes to Yellow! Visit your local vintage stores and online marketplaces to hunt for these vintage finds

Pencil Vase

Nutcracker

Called the Pencil Vase due to its long and slender shape, this Italian Murano matte-finish glass piece (circa 1960), designed by Italian artisan Carlo Moretti, was produced for U.S. distributor. 14 inches tall, $50-$75.

Dana-Plast of Denmark created these handy little ‘70s-era nutcrackers. 2¾ inches in diameter, $10-$20.

Ceramic Bowl

Celebrated Italian designer Pino Spagnolo is credited with giving shape to this bowl produced by Sicart of Italy. 12 inches in diameter, $50-$75.

Side Chair

Designed in 1948, the Eames Molded Fiberglass Side Chair is stylish, durable, and comfortable (especially if you throw a seat cushion on it). $275--$350.

Radio and 8-Track Player Weltron of Japan created this Space-Age-looking sound system (Model 2001) with 8-track tape and AM/FM capabilties. The external speakers are hard to find, but they aren’t necessary because the main unit has two built-in speakers. Battery or AC powered. 12 inches tall, $500-$650 6

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Ice Bucket

This recessed-handle ice bucket, created by Italian designer Sergio Asti for Heller, is a 1970s classic. 7¾ inches tall, $15-$30.

Clock

Get the 1960s California look with this Charles Chaney hanging clock designed for Vohann of California, Inc. Ceramic clock body is 15¼ inches tall; clock movement is battery powered, $175-$225.

Watering Pitcher

With Art Deco and midcentury influences, this unmarked ceramic watering vessel was originally sold by a floral shop, probably in the 1960s or ‘70s. 8¼ inches tall at tip of spout, $10-$20.

Record Rack

Originally sold by Heller in the 1970s as a 2-pack, the Record Rack is a colorful and spaceconscious solution for holding record albums. Created by Italian designer Giotto Stoppino. 12½ inches tall, $10-$30 each.

Objects shown are from the John Sayles personal collection.

Deda Vase

This large, curvaceous vessel can be used for holding magazines or flower arrangements, or as a stand-alone sculptural piece. Designed by Giotti Stoppino for Heller. Just over 13¾ inches tall, $60-$100.

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London-based craft-furniture and accessories maker Another Country’s Stoneware Pitcher is made of clay fired at an unconventionally high temperature. The process vitrifies the clay and gives it the strength of stoneware. Available in Terrcotta (shown), Natural White, and Black, with glazed interior. Just over 6½ inches tall, $75. yliving.com or anothercountry.com

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Designed in 1987 by Swiss architect Mario Botta, the Tua Pitcher is crafted of stainless steel with a plastic handle. 11½ inches tall, $240. alessi.com

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Santa Fe-based Nambé offers a select grouping of pitchers, including the Infinity Pitcher (left), designed by Wei Young and made of stainless steel. 10½ inches tall, $150. At right, the Skye Medium Pitcher, created by U.K. designer Robin Levien, is inspired by the Isle of Skye and is made of bone china. 9½ inches tall, $50. nambe.com

Iittala

Finnish housewares maker Iittala first released the classic Ultima Thule Ice Lip Pitcher in 1968. Designed by the late Tapio Wirkkala, the pitcher is made of fine- textured glass. 8 inches tall, $150. finnstyle.com

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The Form Jug, a 2012 design, is made from spun brass that is polished and then dipped in a warm gold wash to give a subtle matte surface. 10 inches tall, $140. tomdixon.net

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Recent auction results featuring midcentury objects, artworks, and ephemera

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Mario Puzo Collection In February, an archive originating from the estate of author Mario Puzo sold for $625,000 at Boston-based RR Auction. Expertly organized within 45 banker’s boxes, this collection surveys the lifework of Puzo on a scale never before seen, and is highlighted by the book-to-screen progression of the work that defined Puzo’s career. From origin to finale, over six boxes’ worth of written material captures the exhaustive process Puzo undertook in bringing the Corleone family saga to vivid life. Consisting of personal correspondence, numerous early drafts and manuscripts, the archive includes the step-by-step 10

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progression of nine screenplays and 10 novels, from his first novel The Dark Arena (1955) through to Omerta (2000). Highlights include a 744-page working draft manuscript for The Godfather novel, originally titled Mafia; six large storyboards outlining the novel’s progression; a 15-page handwritten novel outline revealing that the Johnny Fontane character was based on Frank Sinatra; and Puzo’s 1965 Olympia typewriter—the one almost certainly used to write The Godfather. No writer has created as indelible an image of the world of organized crime as Puzo. Just as the release of his fourth

novel, The Godfather, brought the author into the public spotlight in 1969, the subsequent film adaptation ushered the Mafia out of the shadows and into the public eye. Introducing the mob to the mainstream, The Godfather reshaped Italian-American culture—and the world’s perception of it. Puzo’s ascendance from obscure writer to best-selling author to Oscar-winning screenwriter is a tale of hard work, sleepless nights, and innumerable hours of research. This archive typifies the meticulous nature of its late owner with an extensive and revealing clarity, leaving no doubt of the legend Puzo left in his wake.

Scandinavian Furniture

Hundreds of exotic and unusual objects, antiques and collectibles, gathered over the course of 17 years while Dale Vining served as an agricultural attaché at four overseas U.S. embassies, from 1964-1981, were put up for auction on Feb. 27 by The Specialists of the South, Inc. in their Panama City, Florida, gallery. Among the midcentury-modern highlights: A set of six teak dining chairs, below, made by Randers Mobelfabrik in Denmark ($325); and a Swedishmade teak armoire, bottom ($150).

Italian Modern Table

Palm Beach Modern Auctions’ February sale featured an offering of modern design, art, furniture, and accessories. Among the furniture highlights: an Elisse coffee/occasional table, above, of brass and lacquered wood with four retractable disc-shaped leaves, 18 inches tall ($22,000), the table was created by celebrated designer Gabriella Crespi (Italian, b. 1922).

Louisiana Arts

Original artworks—many by renowned New Orleans painters and other regional artists—were just part of a two-day estates auction Feb. 27-28 by Crescent City Auction Gallery at the firm’s gallery in New Orleans. Among the highlights: “Mother and Child” (1959), right, by Louisiana artist Enrique Alferez (1901-1999), terracotta figure, pen signed and dated verso, and placed “New Orleans,” 29½ inches tall ($8,500); and a pair of Jazz and Heritage Festival Posters (1970), above, featuring paintings by Noel Rockmore that depict Sister Gertrude Morgan and a drummer from the Olympia Brass Band, unframed, 22 inches tall ($1,600).

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Pook & Pook, Inc. held a twoday online-only sale Jan. 18-19. Eleven-hundred lots of Americana, including stoneware, furniture, and tramp and fine art, crossed the auction block. Included in the sale was an oil on board modernist composition by R. John Foster (American 1908-1989), signed, 20 inches tall ($760).

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Modern Settees More than 1,200 lots, mostly local estates WHY I LOVE IT pulled from prominent WHY I LOVE IT and collections, came up for bid over the two days of the Signature Estates and Modern & Contemporary Collections Auction held Jan. 2-3 by Ahlers & Ogletree in the firm’s gallery in Atlanta’s Buckhead design district. Two settees wowed the crowd. One was a rare, circa-1966 midcenturymodern bronzed steel wire settee covered in terra cotta boucle, right, designed by Warren Platner (American, 1919-2006) for Knoll International ($7,670). The other was a Molar group settee (not shown) in white gel-coated and molded fiberglass with a black trim base by Wendell Castle (American, b. 1932), circa 1969 ($3,835).

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Leon Polk Smith Works Approximately 30 vibrant works of art by Leon Polk Smith (American, 1906-1996) were placed at auction on March 13 by Myers Fine Art, which worked with Smith’s longtime life partner Bob Jamieson. “Because there was such a positive reception to previous consignments of Leon Polk Smith art, the estate decided to release more of his paintings, and they are some of his finest,” said Mary Dowd, co-owner of Myers Fine Art. A leading American non-objective color-field precisionist, Smith was heavily influenced by Brancusi and Mondrian. His works have been described as simple, colorful, and having a “hard-edge” presence. Black Triangle, his folding screen maquette painting (8 inches tall), was estimated to sell at $1,500-$2,500. (Final sale price not available at press time. Visit myersfineart.com for updates.)

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INTRODUCTION How did the show get started? In 1989, I launched my first big show, Baby Boomerama. It celebrated all things ’50s, ’60s, ’70s from the Baby Boom era. It had a mix of furniture and toys and everything from the period. Eventually, over the years, it turned into a toy show and morphed with another show into the Collectors Supershow—now the Toy and Doll Supershow that I still run in April. However, I was totally bummed that the home decor and furniture aspect had gradually been pushed out. I wanted that show to exist! In the mid-’90s, I found out about modernism shows. I was totally psyched, but local folks who’d been to them said that Denver could not support it, so I reluctantly shelved the idea until 2005. Around that time, the Mod Livin’ store hosted a sidewalk sale and flea market in their alley. It was a huge hit, and they invited other dealers—folks without shops—to set up. It was packed! I had also just made friends with the manager of the Capsule Event Center in Denver’s Art District, and I was becoming very active in the local art scene. The light bulb came back on! There were obviously vendors who would set up at the show, and if I made modern art a big secondary component, I could surely fill the 4,000-square-foot Capsule

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Event Center with a modernism show. And, boy, did I! It sold out with a wait list and we had an amazing turnout the first year. It was wall-to-wall vendors, buyers, and excitement. It was fantastic. That show would now fit into our current show’s Tiki Bar area! The second year, we expanded into a 14,000-square-foot studio space and since year three we’ve been at the National Western Center, where we now occupy about 60,000 square feet.

Now that you’ve been at it for more than a decade, what are some of the keys to putting on a great show?

All you really have to do is make everyone happy. That is always my goal—happy attendees, happy exhibitors, happy entertainers. Of course, the Tiki Bar helps! But my focus is always on the people. I use George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life as my business-person template. If someone needs a refund—no problem, full refund. If someone wants to move their space, no prob—we do all we can to make it happen. If a customer needs help, we help. I try to get the best possible variety of great merchandise—with a full range of price points. I want everyone to have a

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good experience, whether they come in with $10 to spend, or $10,000. I search for entertainment and stage talks that are either really fun, really inspiring, or both. I try to give the attendees plenty to do in between shopping binges.

What’s the modernism scene in Denver? Are LOOKS there lots of stores, RETRO architecture buffs, etc.?

A big part of the scene is the shops, for sure. And we have a great unifying resource in Modern in Denver magazine that William Logan issues quarterly, and they send emails and have online content. But a lot of folks are just individuals, in their cool homes, who just love the stuff and sometimes they go to the shops—but they always go to the Denver Modernism Show. I hear lots of people tell me it’s like their family reunion, where they see their friends every year.

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YouVINTAGE have lots ofSTYLE out-of-state sellers and attendees. What attracts them to your show?

The Denver Modernism Show got a reputation years ago as “the fun one.” Other, more established shows had grown out of the tradition of classic antiques shows. They had rules that nothing could be on the show floor if it was manufactured after 1975 or so. Well, that doesn’t make sense for modernism. Many of the primary companies, like Herman Miller, Knoll, etc., still manufacture their classic pieces with the same design plan, same materials, so people should be able to buy a new one instead of a vintage one. One of the big, groundbreaking things we did was to allow vintage and contemporary modern design. We let in the newly manufactured classics, and we let in brand-new mod designs as well, which really opened things up. It added life and zing and made the show less stodgy. Then we added the Car Show on Sunday for another big boost. Many of our pioneering efforts have now become the industry standard for modernism shows. I’m very proud that shows around the country copy lots of our innovations. We also have a couple of stages, with ongoing entertainment, ranging from live bands to enlightening slide shows, 16

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educational talks, and some crazy contests. Our Miss Modernism Pageant is a huge favorite, and the winner gets a $500 shopping spree at the show and a free trip to the Palm Springs Modernism Show in February, where she is treated like a VIP, strolling around in her sash and crown. Another thing that attracts folks from out of state is the fact that some of our vendors have really reasonable prices on things—much less than folks are used to paying on the coasts.

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What’s in store for entertainment and fun at this year’s show?

This year is already stacking up to be utterly mind-blowing! Our theme this year is “Mod Beach Party” and we’re moving the Tiki Lounge out into the open, where the concession stand has been, so it will now be decorated like a Tiki Beach Party, open to the middle of the show. We’ll have lots of surf bands and maybe even a vintage swimsuit fashion show. We’re also introducing the Denver Modernism Design Competition, with big cash prizes in several categories. The entries and winners for the competition will be displayed front and center at the show, and the grand prize winner will get a free double booth. And we’ve just contracted with a new vintage-trailer club, and they are bringing out a spectacular 15-trailer display complete with inside tours, etc. for Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, the Motorama Car Show takes over that space, but it’s all been moved up to the front room!

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Since I only do this once a year, I am not up on it like the shops are. Every customer is unique, and some have ’70s palaces and some have ’50s rec rooms, and they buy a wide variety of things— all across the board—from chrome dinettes to mod fiberglass chairs and tons of smalls from every era.

What are some of the more amazing pieces that have been shown/sold at the show?

Every year, we sell plenty of high-end designer pieces. But the things I like are the really weird, cool things like the amazing, big monorail painting I bought last year—and original oil by a Denver artist. One year there was a giant fiberglass lumberjack head that sold. Another year we had a booth full of originals by the late Rex Ray. Every year there are How to find show stoppers.

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Eva Zeisel Inspired by the human form, her creations are both beautiful and functional BOOKS TEXT BY BRIAN LIBBY

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Large jug/pitcher in Allegro; lid and interior in Yellow, 1957.

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y the time industrial designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel was selected for a prestigious one-woman show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1947, she had already experienced, at the age of 41, a dramatic life and career. And many of her most acclaimed creations were yet to come. Designing fine china, dinnerware, and housewares over a 75-year career for manufacturers like Sears, Roebuck & Co., Red Wing, and, more recently, Crate & Barrel and Design Within Reach, Zeisel would stake a place in history for having imbued modern design with a playful, graceful touch of humanity. Born Eva Stricker in 1906 in Budapest, Zeisel studied painting at the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts before apprenticing with a local potter. She soon set up a home studio and was selling her wares at a local market. But times were changing, and the owner of a new pottery approached her with a job offer. “He explained that the industrial revolution had broken out and I should join,” Zeisel recalled in a 2001 speech. Within months, her designs were being mass-produced for sale in the U.S. and Europe. But Zeisel wasn’t satisfied. “I was incredibly curious to see the world,” she said. Zeisel moved on to factories in Germany and Russia, and even was named Russia’s national artistic director for its porcelain and glass industries.

Bay Ridge Specialty bowl, vase, and ashtray, 1939.

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Cup and saucer, gravy bowl, handled pot, and sugar from Zeisel’s “Pals” line for Western Stoneware’s Monmouth Pottery division, 1953.

In 1936, Zeisel was one of thousands unjustly imprisoned in Stalinist purges and spent 16 months behind bars, where she was subjected to brainwashing and torture. One day, expecting to be executed, Zeisel was instead released without explanation. She quickly joined her fiancé, Hans Zeisel, who had been waiting for seven years in London; they married and emigrated to the U.S. in 1938. Within a year, Zeisel was hired to create the department of ceramic arts and industrial design at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. By 1942 MoMA came calling with the invitation to design its signature Museum series with Castleton China; due to wartime restrictions it would not be produced until 1945. It later appeared in the museum’s 1947 one-woman show. “That put her on the map in this country and was the turning point,” says Zeisel’s daughter Jean Richards. Zeisel’s colorful, whimsical style reflected an optimistic spirit that her ordeal as a political prisoner could not suppress. “Design wasn’t for self-expression. It was always a gift to other people,” Richards explains. “She was always proud of the fact that in her fan mail, they almost always used the word ‘love.’” As Zeisel’s career blossomed in the 1930s, Germany’s Bauhaus school came into prominence, favoring functional, linear design. While Zeisel didn’t outright reject such streamlining, “she felt that the modern vocabulary was very limiting,” Richards says. “When Eva was asked about form and function, she said of course it has to function. That’s obvious. But there are lots of ways to do it.” Continued

Right: Zeisel at work with a glassblower at Heisey Glass Company, 1953. Below: Zeisel in her ceramics studio, 1926.

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Pieces from Zeisel’s 2008 One-O-One line for Royal Stafford, from left: salt and pepper, sugar, teapot, cup with saucer, large prototype teapot, and creamer.

Zeisel’s work draws from the Hungarian pottery and folk art she grew up with, as well as broader European influences. “She looked back a lot at classical and folkart forms and realized they could be used as inspiration for more modern pieces,” says Cindy Trope, an associate curator of product design and decorative arts for New York’s Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Though Zeisel has described her work as “the playful search for beauty,” she insisted her pieces work properly. “Eva and her biggest rival, Russel Wright, were both masters at midcentury dinnerware, but Eva was much more obsessed with function: spouts that didn’t drip when you poured them,” explains Scott Vermillion, co-founder of the Eva Zeisel Forum, a group of Zeisel collectors. “Her pieces perform flawlessly.” Zeisel’s greatest influence was the human body. So many of her designs seem to resemble the curve of a neck or the twisting of a torso. Take perhaps her most whimsical work, a bulbous pair of salt and pepper shakers for Red Wing’s 1948 Town and Country series. Nicknamed “Shmoo” for their resemblance to the cartoon character, they seem to turn toward each other in a very human way. “This is a portrait of my daughter and myself,” Zeisel later explained. In the ’40s and ’50s, many of her dinnerware lines became classics. Zeisel created more than 50 stoneware pieces for Monmouth Pottery Company, for example, giving mass production a feeling of the handmade. “That was a favorite of hers,” Vermillion says. Zeisel’s Town and Country 22

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Left: Zeisel in 2006. Below: Zeisel at work on a teapot prototype, 1983.

series for Red Wing has become the most collected, but her best-selling line was the Tomorrow’s Classic series (1952) for Hall China. In the 1960s, however, with the American dinnerware and pottery industry decimated by cheaper competition from Japan, Zeisel retired—at least for a time. “There wasn’t a lot of work left for these designers,” Vermillion explains. “But then in the early ’80s, her husband passed away, and about that time some museums started doing retrospectives of her work, and it kind of got her excited again, so she got back into design.” Zeisel continued working until her death in 2011, even embracing new materials. For her 100th birthday in 2006, she designed her first teakettle, for Chantal, and also created her first flatware set, for Crate & Barrel. Ceramics designers David Reid and James Klein collaborated with Zeisel on a series of ceramic vases and pitchers for their company, KleinReid. Reid remembers her boundless energy: “She was always ready, and always interested in what was new and what was next,” he says. “We met her and started working together at the end of May and had the pieces introduced in August. It was all so intuitive, so ingrained. It was her language. Her curves were no different than her signature.” Nearly 70 years after her one-woman MoMA show, Zeisel is more popular and acclaimed than ever, but Richards says her mother was concerned more with enjoying the moment than seeking immortality. “Between the not-yet-gilded past and the time for which we strive,” the designer once wrote in a poem to her daughter, “lies unnoticed and not to last, the moment, which is life.” Below: Zeisel’s work in glass included these 2009 designs for Gump’s Vitreluxe collection: Bulb Vase, Lampere Vase, and Pedestal Vase.

Top: Eva Collection Centerpiece, 11 pieces, handmade porcelain, tallest piece is 12 inches tall. A collaboration of Eva Zeisel, James Klein, and David Reid. Produced exclusively by KleinReid of New York. Above: Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty, published in 2013 by Chroncile Books.

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Above: Recreation pavilion at the Miriam House in Arcadia, California. Architecture by Straub & Hensman Buff. Photograph (1959) by Julius Shulman (copyright J. Paul Getty Trust).

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West Coast Modern

California had just the right conditions to become an incubator of midcentury-modern design TEXT AND IMAGES COURTESY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA) AND ITS 2012 EXHIBITION “CALIFORNIA DESIGN, 1935-1960: LIVING IN A MODERN WAY”

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author Wallace Stegner famously declared in 1959. Throughout most of the 20th century, the state symbolized the good life in America. After 1945 a burgeoning, newly prosperous population—intoxicated by the power to purchase after the deprivation years of the Great Depression and the wartime rationing of goods— turned the state into America’s most important center for progressive architecture and furnishings. The California of our collective imagination—a democratic utopia where a benign climate permitted life to be led informally and largely outdoors—became a material culture that defined an era. As émigré Greta Magnusson Grossman declared in 1951, California design “is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions.… It has developed out of our own preference for living in a modern way.” Continued

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Shaping California Modern

In the boom economy of the 1920s, California experienced extraordinary population growth. As aerial views of Los Angeles demonstrate, millions of new denizens flocked to the state’s urban areas. All these people needed housing and furnishings. By the onset of World War II, these homes and their furnishings were characterized by a particular kind of modernism rooted in California culture and conditions. The general qualities associated with the state (optimism and democracy, fearless experimentation, and a love of new technology) and those specific to design (an affinity for light and brilliant color, an openness to Asian and Latin influences, and an advocacy of fluid spaces and cross-disciplinary approaches) made California’s best products distinctive. While championing new technologies, innovative materials, and simplified geometric forms, California modernists retained the individuality of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement, the sense of being particular to a place, and a connection to nature. In contrast to the stern moral dictates of the European International Style, a more humanistic modernism emerged here, one that fully embraced comfort and leisure, and responded directly to the environment.

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Right: “Strand” textile (1962), design by Bernard Kester for Crawford & Stoughton. Screenprinted cotton. 100 x 55 inches.

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Below right: Garden sculpture (1955) by La Gardo Tackett for Architectural Pottery (thereafter Group Artec). Tallest totem, 81 inches. Below: “Pin,” made between 1946 and 1957. Design by Margaret De Patta. 2 x 3½ x ½ inches.

“The people of America have found a new mode of living, and southern California, the richest community in the world, is fostering the economical, colorful, casual California Way of Life that you all enjoy.” – Richard Neutra in The Californian, 1948 Left: Desk with Storage Unit (1952), designed by Gretta Magnusson-Grossman for Glenn of California. Below: DCW (Dining Chair Wood) Chair (1946), designed by Charles Eames and Ray Eames for Molded Plywood Division, Evans Products Company (distributed by Herman Miller).

Making California Modern

After 1945 the United States became the world’s strongest industrial, military, and cultural power. California played a key role in this development, having dominated defense and aerospace production during World War II. After the war, this escalated production had a galvanizing effect on the design and manufacture of consumer goods in the state. Fiberglass, molded plywood, wire mesh, and synthetic resins were only some of the innovative materials developed in the early 1940s that would be imaginatively adapted to peacetime use. For the first time, such materials could be applied inexpensively to products for the home, opening a new middle-class market for California modern design. California artists working in traditional craft media also responded to the spirit of modernism and experimentation; many tried to adopt new methods of production to make their work more accessible to middle-class consumers. The state became the national model for “designer-craftsman” production—activities that sought to bridge the gap between the studio and the factory. The same qualities that characterized the modern California home—fluidity, openness, experimentation, and the abolition of boundaries— equally applied to the work of the modern California designer. The goal was to provide well-designed homes and furnishings, whether handmade or industrially produced, for the millions of newcomers who craved them. Continued

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Left: A circa-1960 surfboard “shaped” by famous big-wave surfer and craftsman Greg Noll.

Living California Modern

The climate and culture of California provided the ideal environment for modernism to take root and flourish. Like its counterpart in Europe, California modern was functionalist, anti-ornament, and utopian in the conviction that design and technology could transform society. California practitioners, however, adhered to a looser, warmer, more ad hoc modernism, one almost exclusively domestic in scale. California modern was not a single aesthetic but a loose—albeit clearly recognizable—group of ideas. It was democratic in the sense that it could be achieved by people of modest means. It was characterized by the easy commingling of all kinds of production for the home, whether handmade, industrial, or a combination of the two. It drew on influences from many different cultures, especially Asia and Mexico, for both materials and forms. And it embraced the informality that came with permeable spaces by blurring the distinctions between indoors and out as well as the functions of living, eating, and sleeping spaces inside the home.

Opposite bottom: Raymond Loewy, working in Palm Springs, California, designed the Avanti automobile for Studebaker in 1961.

Left: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art constructed a full-scale replica of the living room in the Pacific Palisades, California, home of Charles and Ray Eames. The objects in the display are originals and were brought to the museum from the Eames home for the 2012 exhibition, “California Design, 1935-1960: Living in a Modern Way.”

Selling California Modern

“Good design is seldom accepted,” Julius Shulman asserted. “It has to be sold.” He was referring to his own role in staging architectural photography, but the statement could be equally applied to exhibitions, stores, advertising, publications, and film, which were the principal agents in disseminating modern California design. After 1945, pent-up demand for new products was enormous, fueled by the lifting of restrictions on domestic consumption. A prosperous postwar America required the promotion of a consumer culture. In California, as elsewhere, museums teamed up with retailers and magazines; magazines formed alliances with building and furniture companies. For example, the Arts and Architecture Case Study House Program was supported with materials donated by the housing industry, and many of its furnishings were provided by local retailers. Such collaborations attest to the fluid boundaries between art and commerce, together with a democratic belief in the integration and equality of all forms of artistic expression. Descriptions of California between the 1930s and the 1960s portray the state either as a larger-than-life reflection of the country as a whole or as a portent of America’s future; they are usually characterized by a relentless, giddy optimism. As a journalist noted in 1946, “What America is, California is, with accents, with italics.” Selling California’s products could not be separated from selling the idea of California itself. Visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) website, lacma.org, to learn more.

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MAY CALIFORNIA MAY 13-15 Culver City, CA Los Angeles Modern Design Show 3Labs Studio, Dolphin Promotions MAY 29 Clovis, CA Glorious Junk Days, Old Town along Pollasky Avenue Business Organization of Old Town Clovis 559-298-5774 oldtownclovis.org

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MAY 12-15 Atlanta, GA Antique Show, Atlanta Expo Centers I-285 Exit 55 (Jonesboro Rd.) Scott Antique Markets

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OREGON APRIL 27-MAY 1 Portland, OR International Perfume Bottle Association 28th Annual Convention, Perfume Bottle & Vanity Show, Marriott, Downtown Waterfront, Teri Wirth, VP. Convention has many events open to the public. Flea Market of Vanity Items, Perfume Bottle Show & Sale, & Perfume Bottle Auction. www.perfumebottles.org

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MAY 28 Dundas, ON, CANADA Christie Antique Show Christie Lake Conservation Area 1000 Hwy. 5 West, Dundas, ON L9H 5E2 Hamilton Conservation Authority

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MAY 15 Bloomington, IL  Antiques Market, Collectibles Crafts & Garden, Interstate Center 2301 W. Market St. 3rd Sunday Market. Mike Raycraft, mgr. MAY 28-29 Chicago, IL Randolph Street Market 1340 W. Washington St. Randolph Street Market. Top source for 1stDibs and professional sellers. 10–5 both days. Outside season May–September (300+ vendors) Indoor season Oct–April (125+ vendors). Tickets: $8 online, $10 at the gate. randolphstreetmarket.com

INDIANA MAY 1 Lawrenceburg, IN Tri-State Antique Market, Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds, U.S. 50 at Hollywood Blvd. For 30 years Indiana’s Largest Antiques & Vintage Market with over 200 Dealers each month. 7AM – 3PM (Earlybirds at 6AM) $3.00 Adult Admission Queen City Shows General info: 513-738-7256. Vendor info: 513-353-4135. info@queencityshows.com. www.lawrenceburgantiqueshow.com

IOWA MAY 6-8 What Cheer, IA  Flea Market, Fairgrounds, Bill Ludwig, mgr. MAY 27-30 Story City, IA  Memorial Weekend Sale 1639 Broad Street, Antiques Iowa.

KANSAS MAY 1 Hutchinson, KS Flea Market, Kansas State Fairgrounds Mid America Markets. MAY 22 Wichita, KS Flea Market, Kansas Pavilions Mid America Markets.

KENTUCKY MAY 15 Burlington, KY  Antique Show, Boone County Fairgrounds 5819 Idlewild Rd. Burlington Antique Show. 513-922-6847 www.BurlingtonAntiqueShow.com

MASSACHUSETTS MAY 10-15 Brimfield, MA Antiques & Collectibles Show Route 20, The Meadows Antiques Shows, Inc. MAY 11 Brimfield, MA  Antique Show Route 20, 37 Palmer Road Heart-O-The Mart. PSMA.

20,000 Sq. Ft. of Antiques

PENNSYLVANIA APRIL 22-24 Adamstown, PA  Spring Opening, PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove. APRIL 29-MAY 1 Adamstown, PA  Spring Extravaganza PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove. APRIL 30-MAY 1 Allentown, PA  Allentown Spring Antique, Advertising, Book, Postcards, Photography & Paper Show Agricultural Hall, 1929 Chew St., Allentown Fairgrounds, Allentown Paper Show, LLC.

MASSACHUSETTS (CONTINUED) MAY 11-15 Brimfield, MA Antique Show Corner Route 20 & Mill Lane Road Hertan’s Antique Shows. MAY 11-15 Brimfield, MA Antique Show 30 Palmer Road, Route 20 New England Motel & Antique Market, Inc. MAY 12-14 Brimfield, MA May’s Antique Market “Brimfield’s Best and Biggest Show” Opening Thursday 9AM $5 Adm. 413-245-9271 www.maysbrimfield.com MAY 13-14 Brimfield, MA Antiques & Collectibles Shows Route 20, GPS 35 Main St. J & J Promotions. PSMA.

MICHIGAN MAY 7-8 Utica, MI Huge all Outdoor Market in S.E. Michigan 11541-21 Mile Rd., Utica Antiques Market. 586-254-3495 www.uticaantiques.com MAY 21 Kalamazoo, MI Kalamazoo Antique Toy & Collectible Show, Kalamazoo Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Unique Events. 262-366-1314 unievents1@aol.com

MINNESOTA MAY 13-15 Rochester, MN Olmsted County Gold Rush Antique Show & Flea Market Olmsted County Fairgrounds, Hwy. 63 South Townsend Promotions, Inc.

UTAH APRIL 15-17 Salt Lake City, UT Salt Lake Antiques Show Utah State FairPark (Grand Pavilion) Nancy Johnson Events Mgmt. LLC. PSMA.

VIRGINIA APRIL 30-MAY 1 Chantilly, VA The DC Big Flea & Antiques Market Washington Modernism Show, Dulles Expo Center, 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center D’Amore Promotions. www.thebigfleamarket.com APRIL 30-MAY 1 Chantilly, VA  Washington DC Modernism Show Exposition of 20th Century Decorative Arts, North Hall, Dulles Expo Center, 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, The Art Deco Society of Washington.

MISSOURI MAY 13-15 Springfield, MO Antique Festival Fairgrounds, Ozark Empire Events Center Wade Hallett, mgr. Friday Night Special Preview, 5-8 pm $10 Adm. (good all weekend) SAT. 10-5 & SUN. 10-4, $6 Admission FREE PARKING Contact: wader8@yahoo.com or 608-346-0975 MAY 30 St. Charles, MO 44th Annual Antique Craft & Flea Market The Family Arena, St. Louis Symphony Gypsy Caravan. www.stlsymphony.org/gypsycaravan 314-286-4452

NEVADA MAY 14-15 Las Vegas, NV  Coin-Op & Advertising Auction 4520 Arville St. #1 morphyauctions.com

NEW YORK MAY 28-29 Stormville, NY  Antique Show & Flea Market Stormville Airport, 428 Route 216 Stormville Airport Antique Show.

PENNSYLVANIA MAY 6-7 Carlisle, PA  Eastern National Antique Show, #1 Glass Show Carlisle Expo Center, Holiday Promotions MAY 7-8 Adamstown, PA  Vintage Kitchen, Cook Books & Cast Iron Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove. MAY 14-15 Adamstown, PA  Marbles, Metal Detectors, (Metal Anything!) and Relic Hunters Show & Adamsburry Spring Craft Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove.

Auntie’s Antique Mall 15567 Main Market (Rt. 422) PO Box 746 • Parkman, Ohio 44080 Located 1 mile West of Rt. 528 on Rt. 422

Geauga's Largest Treasure Chest! Phone: 440-548-5353 AuntiesAntiqueMall.com

Open 7 days a week • 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

PENNSYLVANIA (CONTINUED) MAY 21 Gettysburg, PA Gettysburg Antique Show on the Main Streets of Downtown, John Angstadt, mgr. MAY 21-22 Adamstown, PA  China, Glassware & Silverware Show Adamstown Spring Hunting & Fishing Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove MAY 28-29 Adamstown, PA  Art Glass, Pottery, Primitives & Red Ware Show Sheep & Wool Festival “Fiber Treasure Trove in the Grove” PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove. MAY 28-30 Chadds Ford, PA  Antiques Show, US Route 1 Brandywine River Museum of Art.

VIRGINIA MAY 20-22 Fishersvile, VA  58th Shenandoah Antiques Expo Expoland, 277 Expo Road Heritage Promotions Early Buyers: Enter 9 am during set-up Friday 300+ Exhibitors Adm. $10, Friday, May 20 (9-5) Adm. $5, Sat. May 21 (9-5), Sun. May 22 (11-4) 434-846-7452 www.heritagepromotions.net

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JUNE 3-5 Springfield, IL  Antiques Show & Sale Orr Building, State Fairgrounds Enter using Gate 11 (Eighth St.) or Gate 9 (Fifth St.) Associated Antiques Dealers of America, sp. JUNE 4-5 St. Charles, IL Antiques, Collectibles, & Fancy Junque Kane County Flea Market, Kane County Fairgrounds 525 S. Randall Rd. between Rtes. 38 & 64 KCF Market, Inc. WE NEVER CANCEL March thru December Sat. 12 pm-5 pm & Sun. 7 am-4 pm Adm.: $5 Daily (children under 12 free) Free Parking 630-377-2252 www.kanecountyfleamarket.com JUNE 12 Naperville, IL  Naperville Doll & Teddy Bear Show Marriott Hotel, 1801 North Naper Blvd. Karla Moreland, mgr. 9 am – 3 pm, Admission $5, (12 & under Free) Free Appraisals, Onsite Restringing 815-356-6125, kmorela@ais.net www.napervilledollshow.com JUNE 19 Bloomington, IL  Antiques Market, Collectibles, Crafts & Garden Interstate Center, 2301 W. Market St. 3rd Sunday Market. Mike Raycraft, mgr. JUNE 25-26 Chicago, IL Randolph Street Market 1340 W. Washington St. Top source for 1stDibs professional sellers & collectors. 10–5 both days. Outside season June–September (250+ vendors) Indoor season Oct–April (100+ vendors) Tickets: $8 online, $10 at the gate. randolphstreetmarket.com

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INDIANA JUNE 5 Lawrenceburg, IN Tri-State Antique Market Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds, U.S. 50 at Hollywood Blvd. For 30 years Indiana’s Largest Antiques & Vintage Market with over 200 Dealers each month. 7AM – 3PM (Earlybirds at 6AM) $3.00 Adult Admission. Queen City Shows General info: 513-738-7256 Vendor info: 513-353-4135 info@queencityshows.com www.lawrenceburgantiqueshow.com JUNE 11-19 Friendship, IN Flea Market Variety of New, Used & Primitive Items, 1 mile East of Friendship on State Rd. #62 Friendship Associates, Inc. Open Daily 9 a.m. 859-341-9188 www.friendshipfleamarket.com

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JUNE 5 Hutchinson, KS Flea Market Kansas State Fairgrounds Meadowlark Building Mid America Markets. JUNE 12 Wichita, KS Flea Market Kansas Pavilions, Mid America Markets.

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JUNE 2-5 Paducah to Maysville, KY 400 Miles of Sales along Kentucky’s Historic Hwy. 68 through 60 Communities, Hundreds of Yard Sales plus discounts in Antique Shops & Stores along the route Visit our website 400mile.com for downloadable map & list of sales. 270-792-5300 400mile.com

MICHIGAN JUNE 4-5 Midland, MI  48 Years, Antiques & Collectibles Largest Festival Midland Co. Fairgrounds, 6905 Eastman Ave. Michigan Antique Festival. PSMA.  80 Acres of Treasures & Memories!  Classic Car Show - Free Entertainment  Adm.: $6.00, Sat. 8-6 - Sun. 9-4  Early Bird Friday 10-5 $15 Weekend Pass Facebook.com/AntiqueFestival  989-687-9001  www.miantiquefestival.com

MINNESOTA JUNE 4-5 Anoka, MN Antique, Vintage Show & Flea Market, Craft Market Anoka County Fairgrounds, Metro Promotions. 763-434-6664, kwel16421@aol.com

NEW YORK JUNE 25-26 Round Lake, NY  Round Lake Antiques Festival Old Fashioned Antique Fair with Antiques & Collectibles On the Village Greens & Parks Over 100 Dealers, Variety of Food, Free Parking Free Admission, Saturday & Sunday: 9am-5pm Fairground Shows NY (c/o Michael Green)  518-331-5004, fairgroundshows@aol.com www.fairgroundshows.com/roundlake

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OHIO JUNE 16-18 Newark, OH Glass Show & Sale, Reese Ice Arena 936 Sharon Valley Rd., Heisey Collectors of America, Inc. National Convention June 15-18 “All-Glass Flea” June 18, 8am-Noon, Downtown Newark, OH, 740-345-2932 www.HeiseyMuseum.org

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PENNSYLVANIA JUNE 4-5 Adamstown, PA

Stamps, Pens & Paperweights Show WHY ICoins, ITto exit 286, turn right on Rt.WHY I LOVE IT PALOVE Turnpike (I-76) 272 PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove. JUNE 11-12 Adamstown, PA  Black Memorabilia, Political, & Religious Memorabilia Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove. JUNE 18-19 Adamstown, PA Military Fest & Re-Enacters Encampment Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove. JUNE 24-26 Adamstown, PA  Summer Extravaganza PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left, Shupp’s Grove.

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Westchester Glass Club INTRODUCTION 40th Anniversary

Collectors Glass and Ceramics Show and Sale 2016 Greenwich Civic Center Old Greenwich, Connecticut 90 harding Road (Exit 5 off I-95, Follow signs)

Proudly continuing our show offering both ceramic and glass for sale

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We have 30+ Samplers, Early Fine Furniture, Lamps including Rushlight, Art including Sandzen, Clocks, Coverlets, Early Boxes including Tina, Collectables, Very Early & Unusual Primitives.

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CALIFORNIA JULY 22-24 Pasadena, CA Antique Show Pasadena Center, 300 E. Green Street Bustamante Enterprises, Inc.

20th Century Decorative Arts

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Antiques, Collectibles, & Fancy Junque Kane County Flea Market, Kane County Fairgrounds 525 S. Randall Rd. between Rtes. 38 & 64 Details: www.adsw.org · 703-568-3745 KCF Market, Inc. WE NEVER CANCEL March thru December, Sat. 12 pm-5 pm & Sun. 7 am-4 pm, Adm.: $5 Daily (children under 12 free) Free Parking Treasures THIS Ad.inddCOUPON 1 2/23/2016 OFF 9:52:25 AM IS GOOD FOR ONE DOLLAR ONE REGULAR ADMISSION AT THE 630-377-2252 www.kanecountyfleamarket.com 25TH ANNUAL JULY 17 Bloomington, IL  Antiques Market, Collectibles, Crafts & Garden Interstate Center, 2301 W. Market St. august 6 & 7, 2016 3rd Sunday Market. Mike Raycraft, mgr. Hours: Saturday 8 to 5 • Sunday 9 to 4 JULY 30-31 Chicago, IL Randolph Street Market ISANTI COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS 1340 W. Washington St. CAMBRIDGE, MINNESOTA Top source for 1stDibs professional sellers & WWW.CAMBRIDGEANTIQUEFAIR.COM collectors 10–5 both days WWW.METROPROMOS.COM Outside season June–September (250+ Like us on ONE MILE EAST OF FAIRGROUNDS 40 MILES vendors) HIGHWAY 65 NORTH OF THE Indoor season Oct–April (100+ vendors) ON HIGHWAY 95 TWIN CITIES METRO AREA Tickets: $8 online, $10 at the gate METROPROMOS, INC. randolphstreetmarket.com HAM LAKE, MN 55304 • 763-434-6664 • Kwel16421@aol.com

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KANSAS JULY 10 Hutchinson, KS Flea Market Kansas State Fairgrounds, Meadowlark Building Mid America Markets.

KENTUCKY JULY 29-30 Louisville, KY  International Antique Lamp Show & Sale Crowne Plaza Hotel The National Association of Aladdin Lamp Collectors, Inc.

CALENDAR ADVERTISER INDEX MASSACHUSETTS JULY 12-17 Brimfield, MA  Antiques & Collectibles Show Route 20, The Meadows Antiques Shows, Inc. JULY 13 Brimfield, MA  Antique Show Route 20, 37 Palmer Road Heart-O-The Mart. PSMA. JULY 13-17 Brimfield, MA  Antique Show Corner Route 20 & Mill Lane Road Hertan’s Antique Shows. JULY 13-17 Brimfield, MA  Antique Show 30 Palmer Road, Route 20 New England Motel & Antique Market, Inc. JULY 14-16 Brimfield, MA  May’s Antique Market “Brimfield’s Best and Biggest Show” Opening Thursday 9AM $5 Adm  413-245-9271 www.maysbrimfield.com JULY 15-16 Brimfield, MA  Antiques & Collectible Show Route 20, GPS 35 Main St. J & J Promotions. PSMA.

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MICHIGAN JULY 9-10 Utica, MI  Huge all Outdoor Market in S.E. Michigan Knights of Columbus Grounds, 11541-21 Mile Rd. Utica Antiques Market.  JULY 23-24 Midland, MI  48 Years, Antiques & Collectibles Largest Festival, Midland Co. Fairgrounds, 6905 Eastman Ave. Michigan Antique Festival. PSMA.  80 Acres of Treasures & Memories!  Classic Car Show Free Entertainment  Adm.: $6.00, Sat. 8-6 - Sun. 9-4  Early Bird Friday 10-5 $15 Weekend Pass Facebook.com/AntiqueFestival  989-687-9001 www.miantiquefestival.com

MINNESOTA JULY 7-9 Red Wing, MN 40th Annual Red Wing Collectors Society Convention Red Wing High School, 2451 Eagle Ridge Dr. Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. 3 days of events including OPEN TO PUBLIC pottery & stoneware SALE Sat. July 9 10:30am - 1:30pm www.redwingcollectors.org/rwcs-calendar-ofevents/annual-convention

NEW YORK JULY 2-3 Stormville, NY  Antique Show & Flea Market, Stormville Airport, 428 Route 216, Stormville Airport Antique Show. JULY 13-17 Brimfield, MA  Antique Show, Corner Route 20 & Mill Lane Road, Hertan’s Antique Shows. JULY 22-24 Liverpool, NY  Great American Antiquefest, Long Branch Park, 3813 Long Branch Rd., Allman Promotions, LLC.

NORTH CAROLINA JULY 15-17 Raleigh, NC  Antiques Extravaganza Expo Center-NC State Fairgrounds Antiques Extravaganza of N.C.

OREGON JULY 16-17 Portland, OR America’ s Largest Antique & Collectible Shows Portland Expo Center Christine Palmer & Associates. PSMA.

PENNSYLVANIA JULY 2-3 Adamstown, PA  Paintings, Prints, Sculptures & Architectural Pieces Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove. JULY 9-10 Adamstown, PA  Junior Dealers & Sports Memorabilia Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove.

PENNSYLVANIA (CONTINUED) JULY 15-17 Adamstown, PA  Shupps Grove Bottle Fest PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove. JULY 23-24 Adamstown, PA  Christmas & Holiday Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove. JULY 30-31 Adamstown, PA  Vintage Clothing & Accessories Show PA Turnpike (I-76) to exit 286, turn right on Rt. 272 North, then right on Rt. 897 South. Go 3/4 mile to Grove on left Shupp’s Grove.

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Vintage Dansk Kobenstyle open skillet in turquoise, $70-$90.

hether you’re cooking for a family of four or rustling up some quick late-night grub in your bachelor or bachelorette pad, a set of well-built cookware is an important part of your kitchen and plays a major role in preparing a successful meal. However, if you’re anything like me, you might find that today’s cookware lacks individuality or any real design flair. For midcentury collectors and skilled home chefs alike, Dansk cookware will handle all culinary needs and provide a kitchen with striking Danish Modern eye candy. Vintage examples are readily available and often quite affordable, especially when considering the brand’s timeless design, rugged construction, and time-tested longevity. For collectors who enjoy the thrill of the hunt or who are eager to flaunt their eBay-sniping skills, vintage Dansk can be found lurking in thrift stores, antique malls, and online auctions. If hunting for collectible vintage cookware pieces seems too time-consuming, Dansk cookware is again being manufactured and sold, and it has the same colorful midcentury-modern designs that made it popular more than 60 years ago. Why not upgrade from your nondescript big-box-store pots and pans to a set of cookware worthy of your daily use?

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Dansk Origins

Dansk Designs got its start in 1954 after American engineer and businessman Ted Nierenberg travelled to Copenhagen with his wife, Martha. The Nierenbergs were intrigued when they viewed an exhibit at the Danish Museum of Art and Design that displayed sleek, handmade cutlery. The designer of the unique teak-and-steel cutlery was Jens Quistgaard, an award-winning artist experienced in industrial design. The Nierenbergs met with Quistgaard and expressed interest in manufacturing his cutlery on a large scale. Setting up shop in New York state, Dansk Designs was driven by Nierenberg’s knowledge of engineering and mass-production combined with Quistgaard’s unique and visionary designs. Dansk Designs quickly experienced success as American consumers were captivated by the simple elegance of the company’s diverse wares, which included everything from magazine racks to ice buckets to stools—and all incorporated Quistgaard’s Danish Modern designs. One 1959

A collection of vintage Dansk Kobenstyle cookware and pitchers in Chinese red, white, and turquoise.

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advertisement perfectly sums up the Dansk mission, stating that the products were built “for living in today’s world with color, taste and basic simplicity.”

Kobenstyle cookware

Dansk Kobenstyle cookware was introduced around 1955 and is arguably the most recognizable and widelyappreciated Dansk line. Constructed of durable enameled steel, which is easy to clean and lightweight, Kobenstyle is as functional as it is beautiful. Kobenstyle includes everything you need to stock a functional and wellrounded set of cookware, from casseroles to paella pans to dutch ovens. When purchasing this vintage cookware, it is often helpful to determine an approximate era of manufacture, as earlier examples tend to fetch higher prices. Early Kobenstyle, made from 1955 to approximately 1965, will bear a logo stamp that denotes Denmark as the place of manufacture. While many of these dates are somewhat foggy, cookware made around 1959 and before will have a circular geometric border around this logo stamp. Cookware made around 1960 and later will have a logo stamp without the circular geometric border. Around 1965, production of Kobenstyle moved to France, and the logo’s language changed from “Dansk Designs Denmark” to “Dansk Designs France.” In the 1970s, the company changed its name from “Dansk Designs” to “Dansk International Designs,” and the logo stamp reflected this

Worthy of displaying on the dining table: A vintage Dansk fondue pot in blue with stand, $40-$75, and other Kobenstyle pieces.

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change, too. Blogger Jonathan Goldstein has written a terrific post, “A Rough Guide to Dansk Kobenstyle.” According to Goldstein, the coloring of Kobenstyle cookware can also help you to determine an approximate date of manufacture. Introduced for the first year of production and quickly discontinued, mint green is by far the rarest color. Any mint green cookware with the original Dansk Designs Denmark stamp on the bottom dates to 1955 or 1956. Chinese red was the longest-lasting Kobenstyle color and never changed. Yellow and turquoise, on the other hand, were manufactured until 1965, at which time they were replaced by Sun Gold and blue. Black and white were introduced around 1971 but only lasted a couple years before they were discontinued. Orange, brown, and dark green cookware most likely dates to the mid- to late 1970s or early 1980s. Kobenstyle production ceased around 1985 when the company changed hands (Lenox owns the brand now). However, due to the line’s popularity, Kobenstyle was recently put back into production. New Kobenstyle comes in a wide range of colors, looks nearly identical to vintage cookware, and can be purchased from a number of retailers.

Cookware Care

With proper care and cleaning, Dansk cookware can last a very long time. However, there are a few simple rules that you must follow. These apply not only to Dansk cookware but also to most other vintage enamel cookware. First,

A coffee pot (left) in turquoise, $150-$200, and pitchers in Chinese red and turquoise, $35-$100.

always make sure there is some sort of liquid in the bottom of a pan or pot when it is on a heated burner to prevent it from boiling dry. In general, avoid quick temperature changes such as removing a pan from the refrigerator and immediately placing it in the oven or dunking a hot frying pan in cold water. Cookware with wooden handles should not be used in the oven. Another important rule in maintaining enamel cookware is keeping metal away from it. This includes steel wool, scouring pads, and metal utensils. When washing your Dansk cookware, clean it by hand using soap, water, and a soft dish rag or cloth. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use abrasive chemicals, and never put Dansk cookware in the dishwasher! When buying vintage pieces, make sure to look for signs of heavy use and mistreatment, such as chips, scratches, and severe discoloration that can affect both the value and functionality of a piece.

The X-shape handles on Kobenstyle lids were designed to be used as trivets, but they also facilitate easy stacking.

Dansk cookware shown in this article is from the John Sayles personal collection.

Dansk produced white Kobenstyle pieces for just a couple of years in the early 1970s. Here, stacked pieces include (from bottom) paella pan, $25-$50, covered casserole, $25-$40, and baking pan, $40-$75.

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Dream Midcentury-era product catalogs offered consumers a path to modern living TEXT AND CATALOG IMAGES BY DONALD-BRIAN JOHNSON

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uilding a home is more than a romantic experience.” That statement introduced each edition of the Home Owners’ Catalogs, product guides that invited midcentury readers to imagine their dream homes. But who were they fooling? Romance was in fact the major selling point of these catalogs and similar compendiums of the era. Whether touting the advantages of home interiors “curtained by Kirsch” or the modern magic of the Westinghouse “Total Electric Home,” these publications cast do-it-yourself building and remodeling projects in the most romantic, so-easy-anidiot-could-do-it light. Living room too tiny? Add a few mirrored walls, and watch that space expand. Bathroom antiquated? Sparkling new fixtures will bring it up to date. Cellar dingy? Install new electric lights, and watch those cobwebs disappear. (And, even better, see the neighbors turn green with envy.) Continued

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The “Total Electric” exterior, with guests braving the blinding lights.

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No Place Like Home

Leading the suburban handyman brigade: the Home Owners’ Catalogs. Each lavish, hard-cover volume offered a healthy sampling of wares from the day’s “best of the best.” Some are names that remain recognizable—Armstrong Linoleum, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, and Libbey-Owens-Ford. Others may require a bit of head scratching—“Tidewater Red Cypress Home Exteriors,” for instance. “In ancient days,” Tidewater’s ad says, “Cypress was used for building mummy cases. Today, ‘the wood eternal’ offers the most for your building dollar.” Each page of glowing text was accompanied by full-color illustrations, often by name artists, placing the featured item in an idyllic locale. Why settle for black-and-white shots of bathroom fixtures, when the same items could be rendered in soft pastels, complete with a pretty gauze-clad model admiring herself in a mirror? Through the years, the Home Owners’ Catalogs offered capsule views of what was of paramount importance to consumers in each era. In the Depression years of the 1930s, the Catalogs focused on the nuts and bolts: Buy this, and you’ll save money in the long run; Buy that, and it will last (almost) forever. Art Deco influences are also seen, particularly in designs for floor coverings, mirrors, and wall accents. After World War II (and the production limitations 46

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Above: Illustrator Rockwell Kent combined classical and traditional influences in his rendition of a dream home, for an early decor guide, Sherwin-Williams’ The Home Decorator, 1936, $15-$20.

it caused), the emphasis was on a bright new future. Formerly rationed items were hailed as “once again available—now, new and improved!” One constant, however, was Home Owners’ comfortably soothing format. The introductory “Guide to Home Planning” always offered room-byroom descriptions, checklists, and sample room layouts complete with tiny furniture icons. These could be traced or cut out, then maneuvered to see how they would fit best. Consumers were continually made aware of the perils lying in wait for those who did not faithfully consult their Catalogs. Some words to the wise: • “Compromises are effected gradually. Flash ideas, at first hotly defended, subside. You can take time to get it right.” (1939) • “Cut your cloth to fit your purse. Nine times out of ten, an even better plan will emerge.” (1949) • “You may one day want to sell this home, so it’s sage to curb any leanings toward bizarre or odd features.” (1950) As the 1950 edition also noted, “you will probably never again spend so much money on one thing. You simply

The Crane Co. boasted that its fixtures lent bathrooms a “dignity and charm that will appeal to those who appreciate the finer things.” The lady admiring her reflection evidently agrees. Home Owners’ Catalogs, 1939.

cannot afford to make mistakes you might have to live with the rest of your days.” During their heyday, the Catalogs were touted for their exclusivity. In 1937, they were available “only to families planning to build a home within 12 months, at a cost of $4000 or more, exclusive of land.” Today, however, vintage Home Owners’ Catalogs are an affordable treasure for paper collectors, averaging $75 to $100 per edition. Because they were hard-bound, the pages are usually in pristine condition, a marked contrast to the often ratty, tattered state of vintage magazine ads.

Beauty Spots: Elegant Interiors by Kirsch

A 1950 catalog from the Kirsch Company stated: “In this book you will find inspiring pictures of beautiful rooms, a treasure chest of adaptable principles, and practical guidance. Make yours a lovelier, more livable home!” Adaptable…practical…lovelier…more livable. With prospects like those dancing in front of her eyes, what resourceful young homemaker of the 1940s and ’50s could resist? And who was making all those enticing promises? The Kirsch Company—the go-to name in the manufacture of window and drapery hardware in the mid-20th-century. Company founder Charles W. Kirsch actually invented the flat curtain rod (the telescoping one, too). And Kirsch even went Hollywood, where he made sure his were the only curtain rods used in 1939’s Gone With the Wind. Audiences got an eyeful of Kirsch splendor as Scarlett (played by Vivien Leigh) ripped down those green velvet drapes to stitch up an outfit. When Kirsch ads proclaimed “practically every woman—and most likely her mother, too—looks to Kirsch,” they weren’t kidding. But it’s hard to romance a curtain rod. Or even a Venetian blind. That’s where Kirsch Window Inspirations came in. Lavish color illustrations in these brochures depict home interiors in which window treatments are just one element among many used to create a dazzling decor. Each room is a sumptuous jewel box—a room that could exist only in a designer’s imagination. Furnishings are carefully coordinated, in a tasteful array of soothing colors. Decorative knickknacks are strewn about with an air of artful casualness. The overall effect is of a stage setting; inserting actual humans into the picture would be an intrusion. The drawings are idealized depictions of elegant living, 1940s and ’50s style. Even fantasy-purveyors have to advertise. So, ladled amongst the lavish illustrations are lots of useful decorating tips. Among those guaranteed to result in a happy home (and homemaker), both then and now: • Lighter colors make a room seem larger; darker colors smaller. • Narrow rooms looks wider if end walls are brighter. • If you can see into one room from another, avoid clashing color combinations. • Balance patterns and textures with solid colors and smooth surfaces. • Don’t risk a trip to the hospital by standing on an unstable stack of books atop a chair to hang your curtains. 48

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Invest in a good, firm stepladder! • And last, but definitely not least: “No room can rise above its window decorations. Beauty in the room begins at the window.” Continued

“Window beauty inspired by Gone With the Wind. A portion of the parlor at Tara, Scarlett’s childhood home, conveying the beauty and charm of the Old South.” The florid descriptions come from the Kirsch Window Inspirations brochure, 1950 edition. Complete brochure, $40-$50.

“A sitting room, in which all furnishings contribute to the motif of convenience,” Kirsch, 1950.

“A bedroom in the Modern manner, exemplifying good taste.” Kirsch, 1950.

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“How close does all this come to your idea of a perfectly wonderful kitchen?” The Westinghouse Total Electric Food Preparation Center, home of “piping hot food, turned out with amazing speed.”

Adding “an exciting fascination to learning-in-thehome,” the fully-equipped Westinghouse Total Electric Children’s Education Center. “When the call for homework help goes out, you’ll hear it over the intercom.”

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All cozied up for an evening in Westinghouse’s Total Electric Entertainment Center. Remote controls are hidden in the coffee table.

Totally Cool: The Total Electric Home

In 1959, Westinghouse declared: “The Total Electric Home opens up a wonderful new chapter of living.” Sure, Barbie had her Dream House. But in the late 1950s, Mr. and Mrs. Mid-America had it even better. They had the “Total Electric Home”—and it wasn’t cardboard. By the 1950s, much of America kept toasty via electric heat. For manufacturers, the next step was a logical one: With all that power on tap, why not zap up some new electrical must-haves? The idea reached its zenith in 1959 with the debut of the “Total Electric Home,” a Jetson-y Westinghouse creation. This lavishly illustrated brochure promised “new and wonderful living for your family…today!” Total Electric Living, it noted, was “where electricity does absolutely everything: heats, air conditions, cooks, preserves food, lights, entertains, and encourages hobbies, making it the easiest ever for you and your family to be happier…healthier…to live fuller lives. It’s totally adaptable, too…for tomorrow, next month, or next year.” We start our tour with Mr. and Mrs. Mid-America welcoming guests at the front door, their home exterior lit up like an airport runway (“additional lights go on automatically as your guests come near”). For the paranoid, “a television camera takes your guests’ picture, transmitting it automatically to closed-circuit monitors, so you can welcome them over the intercom.” Once inside, where every environment was referred to as a “center,” the dazzle continued: • The Entertainment Center included “An automatic record player with a generous supply of 45s, a movie

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projector, and a pivoting 24-inch television.” The closedcircuit monitor came in handy, too. Confided the brochure, “That’s how you keep track of the kids—‘electrically’!” • The Dining Center. “Lights brighten or dim in the softest tints of aqua, pink, or candlelight. And have you tried buffet table-top cooking? This compact marvel powers any of today’s appliances.” • The Food Preparation Center. “Imagine a two-wayisland refrigerator. Food can be stored from the preparation side, brought out and served from the dining side.” • The Laundry and Home Planning Center. “Even the laundry hampers have gone Total Electric: soiled clothing is bathed in the rays of germicidal and deodorizing lamps.” • The Sleep Center. “Touch a button to make a ceiling panel slide back, disclosing a crystal-clear plastic dome. Music under the stars!” • The Health and Beauty Center. “When the mood strikes, or diet demands, work out with an electric exerciser. Top it off with a massage, an exhilarating shower, and a moment or two under the sun lamp.” • The Children’s Education Center. “An electrically operated planetarium projector brings the stars right down to earth. Wall maps of the world appear at the touch of a button.” • The Home Workshop Center. “Mr. Fixit will spend many an hour out here. Note the hot plate to heat metal 52

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and parts—or even fix a snack.” • The Outdoor Living Center. “The fun is all yours! Insects bent on sharing it run into protective screening that lowers at the touch of a button.” • The Weather Control Center. “Ice forming on the walks and drive? Electric de-icers will melt it away. Draperies in every center can be adjusted by remote control. And, should occasion demand that every light in your home go on at once, you’re wired for it.” Like Barbie’s Dream House, the Total Electric Home was no-muss, no-fuss, favoring clean lines, and a primary color palette. There are no newspapers to be picked up. No clothes to be folded. No dishes to be washed. The Total Electric Home doesn’t look particularly comfortable (nor do those neat-as-a-pin Kirsch interiors, or the oh-so-artfully-arranged Home Owners’ environments). But that’s not the point. Past promises of the “new and improved” offer a fascinating glimpse into the times when those promises where made. Sometimes, dreams of the future look their best when viewed in a rear-view mirror. Photo Associate: Hank Kuhlmann. Donald-Brian Johnson is the co-author of numerous books on design and collectibles, including Postwar Pop, a collection of his columns, and an upcoming second volume.

The Westinghouse Food Preparation Center, featuring that 1950s Total Electric stunner, the “two-way-island refrigerator/freezer.”

The Westinghouse Total Electric fun-for-all-ages Outdoor Living Center even protects guests from chilly breezes: “electrically adjustable wind deflectors do the job.”

The Westinghouse Laundry and Home Planning Center. “Included in this Total Electric area is a secluded, welllighted, efficiently designed area for sewing or other crafts.”

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“Harem Trio Suite” by Betty Harrington for Ceramic Arts Studio. Tallest figure, 4½ inches, $175-$200 for the set.

European peasant girl with oversize flower basket. Her head scarf is fashioned of Kaye’s signature slip “lace.” 10 inches tall, $100-$125.

Joy Thompson’s “Russian Noblewoman,” 11½ inches tall, $200-$225.

Schoop “Mountain Flower Girl,” 8½ inches tall, $50-$75.

“French Countrywoman” by Cordelia. 10 inches tall, $50-$75.

It’s a Small World After All Ceramics Go International TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DONALD-BRIAN JOHNSON

“Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI” by Florence Ward of Florence Ceramics. 10 inches tall, $500-$600 for the pair.

n 1872, when Jules Verne’s Around the World In 80 Days first appeared in print, readers were thunderstruck. Eighty days to traverse the globe? Impossible! The premise seemed as preposterous as those of Verne’s previous best-sellers, From the Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. And yet readers couldn’t get enough of the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his faithful valet, Passepartout, as they raced ’round the earth by rail, steamship, and even balloon, in an effort to beat the clock. Would they make it? Readers waited breathlessly for the latest translated edition of Les Temps, which published Fogg’s exploits in serial form, to reach American shores. That Jules Verne—what an imagination! Nowadays, when circling the globe can be counted in minutes, rather than months, the response to Verne might be: “Eighty days? What took them so long?” But well into the mid-20th century, the idea of traveling the world remained a fantasy for most. You “grew where you were planted.” Certainly there were occasional trips away from home—more than occasional if you had the time, the money, and the inclination. But in-person interaction with real exotica? Well, leave that to such intrepid explorer-scribes as Robert Ripley and Richard Halliburton. America stayed at

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Will-George console set. Bowl, 21½ inches long; tallest figure, 9 inches. $450-$475 for the set.

home, comfy by the fire, content to let them tell us all about it. Curiosity, however, continued to run rampant. Those folks from elsewhere: what did they look like? Dress like? What did we all have in common? Those not fortunate enough to view a Siamese temple dancer up close, or exchange face-toface bows with a graceful Japanese geisha, could still wonder about them. And, for giftware designers of the 1940s and ’50s who engaged in an ongoing quest to fill store shelves with new inventory, providing the answers to questions like these opened up a world of possibilities.

All Over the World

Translating impressions of other lands into threedimensional depictions for the mass market seems to have been a uniquely American undertaking. Few European knickknacks celebrated cowboys, dance-hall girls, or other examples of stereotypical Americana. But for midcentury American designers, the globe was fair game. There were paper dolls (Hallmark’s “Dolls of the Nations”) and real dolls (Madame Alexander’s “Friends from Many Lands”). Leading the international brigade, though, were ceramic figurines—in essence, dolls for the grown-up crowd. 56

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Nearly every U.S. ceramics firm of note (and many notof-note) included at least one representative of another culture in its product line. Some, such as Ceramic Arts Studio, offered a complete Foreign Costume Series with enough options to populate an entire United Nations. Although a preponderance of wooden shoes, sombreros, and artfully held fans were on view, the ceramic depictions were almost universally respectful. That wasn’t always the case during World War II, when grossly distorted renditions of the enemy were often trotted out for propaganda effect. Prior to World War II, inexpensive ceramics from Europe and Asia dominated giftware sales in the states. With the onset of the war, however, many of those production outlets were closed for export. If America wanted knickknacks, then America would have to produce its own. With clay one of the few raw materials not affected by the war effort, a multitude of domestic ceramic firms sprang up, particularly on the West Coast. Many began as home-based mom-and-pop operations. Betty Lou Nichols opened a ceramics studio in her parents’ backyard. Betty Cleminson of The California Cleminsons first created perky ceramic pie-birds in her

“Toy Ming” and “Ho Jai” are flower holders marked “Walter Wilson.” However, the design was most likely by Lee McCarty of the McCarty Brothers. 9 inches tall, $100-$125 for the pair.

Grecian-themed “Fair Damsel” by Joy Thompson, 8¾ inches tall, $225-$250.

Weil Ware Chinese “Fan Girl” and “Bucket Boy.” 12 and 11 inches tall, $50-$75 for the pair.

“Sakura” and “Cho Cho” geishas, by Muriel Joseph George, Josef Originals California. 11 inches tall, $100-$125 for the pair.

Betty Harrington’s “Temple Dancers” for Ceramic Arts Studio. 7 inches tall, $450$500 for the pair. garage. Once the public became enamored with their work, these designers, and others like them, moved on to professional manufacturing facilities, where they employed more than just immediate family members. Domestic ceramic production also paved the way for many previously untested designers. Meeting consumer demand meant an unprecedented opening for the talented but untrained, an opportunity that might not have existed outside of wartime. Madison, Wisconsin, for instance, had what would become the nation’s largest producer of figural ceramics, Ceramic Arts Studio (CAS). Betty Harrington, who designed most of the Studio’s 1,000-plus figurines during its 15-year existence, had previously been employed as a secretary.

Betty Harrington and CAS

With more than 100 different international figurines to her credit, Harrington ranks at the top of ceramics world explorers. Some sure-fire sellers were the expected (a squadron of “Chinese Boys and Girls” and “Dutch Dancers” of assorted shapes and sizes), but other Harrington designs ventured further afield. Her “Burmese Man & Lady” came complete with a “Chinthe,” a scowling beast described in catalogs as an “authentically styled Temple Guardian.” Among the most lavishly decorated and rarest of Harrington’s CAS creations: “Temple Dancers,” their sinuous poses based on her research into authentic dances of the Siamese court. Their gilded highlights made them expensive to produce. Making them more rare were those precarious, even if authentic, dance poses. With limited base support, the “Temple Dancers” often tipped over. Harrington was a stickler for accuracy. A detailed scrapbook, with reference illustrations and sketches, aided in figurine creation. As she noted in a late-in-life interview, “Whenever I got an idea that I thought was worth doing in clay, I’d make a sketch of it. Pencil sketches in my scrapbook date back some seventy years. My scrapbook is a pretty battered-looking thing, but it is full of ideas. Some were used, and some were not. For historical themes I spent a lot of time in the library looking at costumes. I thought it was nice to have costume designs of different eras and different countries, and I had to be sure that I was at least ‘sort of’ right on what would be accepted as proper. The most important thing is to have a clear image in your mind before you start production.” Among the most popular of the Ceramic Arts Studio international figurines were those in the Wee series. These colorfully costumed children, each just 3 inches in height, represented nations from Scotland to China, with plenty of stops along the way. In addition to increasing their adorability, the tiny size of the Wee figurines was a shrewd marketing move: They served double duty as salt-and Continued pepper shakers. 58

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Cole-Merris Asian birding duo. 12 inches tall, $125-$150 for the pair.

Howard Pierce “African Man & Woman,” 7 inches tall, $150-$175 for the pair.

Classic “Grecian Woman” dual vase by Red Wing Potteries. 10½ inches tall, $400-450.

“Siamese Dancers” by Hedi Schoop. Man, 14½ inches tall; woman, 14 inches tall, $300-$325 for the pair.

Esther Shirey’s Latin American-themed lady head vase, boasting a Carmen Miranda-style headdress. 8 inches tall, $75-$100.

“Young China” lantern girl and console bowl by Hedi Schoop. Bowl, 11 inches long, $25-$50; figurine, 8½ inches tall, $50-$75.

Hedi Schoop

Also accomplished in the production of foreign-costume figurines, although more limited in her ethnic scope, was California artisan Hedi Schoop. A native of Switzerland, she and her husband, composer Frederick Hollander, fled Nazi Germany in the early 1930s. Hollander’s booming success writing music for the movies (Falling In Love Again was one of his hits) gave him the means to initially bankroll Schoop’s foray into ceramics. Schoop’s early studies in dance and fashion design carried over into her work as a ceramist. Schoop figurines often appear caught in motion—arms extended, skirts aflutter, heads bowed—but that motion is fluid and unhurried. Rough and incised textures combine with smooth ones; colorful glossy glazes contrast with bisque. Her subjects seem captured at a specific moment in time. In homage to Schoop’s Swiss heritage, it’s only natural 60

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that her figural lineup would contain assorted barefoot “Tyrolean Girls,” and peasant-bloused, laced-bodice-clad “Mountain Maidens.” Other favorites earning return visits: interpretations of Dutch and Chinese couples. Broadened horizons resulted in Schoop renderings of Caribbean market women and, from India, sari-clad water-bearers. When it came to secondary uses, Schoop international figurines upped the ante. Ceramic Arts Studio may have cornered the market on figural salt-and-peppers, but Schoop figurines covered all the bases. There were figural flower holders, planters, wall pockets, candlesticks, bowls, ashtrays, candy servers, and even soap dishes. Thanks to that added marketability, Schoop became the most commercially successful California ceramics designer of the World War II and postwar eras—and certainly the most ubiquitous. Continued

“Mexican Boy with Cactus” and “Mexican Girl,” Ceramic Arts Studio designs by Betty Harrington. 6¾ and 6¼ inches tall, $125-$150 for the pair.

Mary Jane Hart’s “Asian Girl with Puppy,” for her Copa de Oro line. 10 inches tall, $250$275.

Copa de Oro “Chinese Butterfly Girl” by Mary Jane Hart. 6 inches tall, $175$200.

“Josephine,” Caribbean market woman by Hedi Schoop. 13 inches tall, $225-$250.

“Lotus” head vase by Betty Harrington for Ceramic Arts Studio. 7¾ inches tall, $100$125.

Hedi Schoop’s “French Peasant Couple”, 13½ and 14 inches tall, $150-$175 for the pair.

Sari-clad “Serving Women” by Hedi Schoop, sculpted in profile. 14 inches tall, $250$275 for the pair.

California Connections

Although Harrington and Schoop were the most prolific ceramic designers taking the world tour, their contemporaries also brought unique perspectives to envisioning inhabitants of other lands. Here’s just a handful of California notables: Florence Ceramics. Florence Ward’s delicately detailed figurines are noted for their elaborate costuming. French and Chinese characterizations were among her favored subjects. Regardless of the country they were supposed to represent, the facial features of Florence figurines were remarkably similar (and much like those of the artist herself). Joy Thompson. Produced in limited quantities, each hand-decorated Thompson ceramic is literally one-of-akind. Languid and long-limbed, Thompson’s vine-draped, flower-bedecked figurines are quite deliberately of nonspecific Asian or mythic European heritage. Copa de Oro. The work of ceramist Mary Jane Hart, these fanciful figurines of terra cotta or white clay are noted for their gold ornamentation and applied handmade flowers. Due to the detailed work involved, these were costly even in their day. Hart’s international figures, like Thompson’s, are indeterminately Asian. Will-George. Famed for their flamingos, the three Climes brothers who made up this partnership proved equally adept at figural design. Often their figurines were part of a console set: a narrow bowl “boat,” for example, accompanied by Chinese oarsmen, a seated maiden, and bamboo-leaf candleholders. Walter Wilson/McCarty Brothers. Although many exquisite international figurines bear the mark or label “Walter Wilson,” it’s unclear whether he actually designed the pieces or simply manufactured and distributed the work of others. What is known is that the McCarty Brothers, Lee and Willard, whose ethnic figurines Wilson distributed in the early 1940s, later successfully struck out on their own. McCarty works, both before and after the separation, are remarkably similar. Wilson’s work varied, perhaps dependent on his firm’s roster of designers. Ceramics designers of the 1940s and ’50s fashioned figurines that ran the global gamut. Thanks to their creative ingenuity, the buying public of the time received a no-limits passport; they could explore the world without ever leaving home. Today we can circle the globe in far less time than Jules Verne’s 80 days, but the thrill remains. Ceramics of this wide and wonderful world send us on a journey to parts unknown— a journey that continues to beckon and enthrall. Photo Associate: Hank Kuhlmann. Donald-Brian Johnson is the co-author of numerous books on design and collectibles, including Postwar Pop, a collection of his columns, and an upcoming second volume.

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Allentown Summer Paper Show...................................................5

RETRO LOOKS RETRO LOOKS The Antique Market of Michigan City.........................................36 The Antique Shoppe...............................................................18

VINTAGE STYLE VINTAGE STYLE Antiques Iowa........................................................................13 Associated Antiques Dealers of America Antiques Show & Sale.......30

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Kane County Antique Flea Market.............................................17

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Madison-Bouckville Big Field Antiques Show...............................30 Maquoketa, Iowa, Flea Market Antique and Collectible Show........32

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May’s Antique Market, Brimfield................................................30 Michigan Antiquarian Book & Paper Show..................................34

WHYAtomic I LOVE WHY IInside LOVE IT Mobiles IT ................................................ Back Cover

Michigan Antique Festivals.................................. Inside Back Cover

Auntie’s Antique Mall .............................................................33

Mid America Markets.............................................................31

Bags Unlimited ........................................................................3 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION

Morphy Auctions................................................Inside Front Cover

Beaverdale Vintage.................................................... Back Cover

New Englad Motel & Antiques Market.......................................18

VINTAGE STYLE Bill Egleston ..................................................... Inside Back Cover

Portland, Oregon, Antique & Collectible Show..............................3

Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show............................5

Roller Mills Antique Co............................................................18

Brimfield The Meadows...........................................................18

Shupp’s Grove Antique Market..................................................13

Burlington (Ky.) Antique Show...................................................30

Sparks Antiques and Collectibles Flea Market..............................13

Cambridge (Minn.) Antique Fair................................................36

Springfield (Mo.) Antique Festival................................................5

Christie Antique & Vintage Show...........................Inside Front Cover

St. Louis Antique Festival..........................................................35

Collectamania.......................................................................32

Stormville Airport Antique Show & Flea Market.............................17

Country Side Antique Mall.......................................................32

Team Antiques.......................................................................18

Dave’s Flea-4-All ....................................................................32

Third Sunday Market...............................................................13

Eastern National Antique Show (Glass).......................................17

Thummel Real Estate & Auction’s Antique Auction..........................35

Fairground Shows NY Antique Fair and Flea Market.....................35

Tomah Antique Mall & Cranberry Country Mall............................30

Fostoria Glass Society of America ............................................17

Tri-State Antique Market ..........................................................13

Gettysburg Outdoor Antique Shows...........................................17

Tulsa Flea Market...................................................................31

Grainry Antiques & Other Needful Things...................................17

Utica Antiques Market.............................................................18

Heart-O-The-Mart, Brimfield........................................................3

Valley Junction Antique Jamoboree...............................................5

Hertan’s Antique Show, Brimfield...............................................17

Volo Antique Malls and Mercantile Mall................ Inside Back Cover

Hillsborough Spring Antiques+Art+Design Show...........................30

Walnut Antique Show.............................................................30

Howard Feed-N-Wax.........................................Inside Front Cover

Washignton D.C. Modernism Show..........................................36

International Perfume Bottle Association �� 3, 18

Webb’s Antique Malls ..............................................................5

Iowa City Postcard, Stamp & Paper Show...................................34

Westchester Glass Club Collectors Glass & Ceramics Show/Sale...35

J-Display Case.......................................................................34

What Cheer’s Flea Market.......................................................31

JFK Promotions Flea Market & Antiques Show...............................34

Winick, Russel G. - Lawyer for Antique Dealers and Collectors........13

J & J Promotions Antiques & Collectibles Shows............................17

Zurko Promotions Antique Markets (Ill., Mich., Wisc.)....................36

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Kalona (Ia.) Quilt Show & Sale.................................................31

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1974 BMW R90/S Owned by collector Ben Mars of Adel, Iowa How did you acquire this bike?

Our dear friends, Rich and Tina McCullough, had talked about maybe selling this bike for a year or so because they have a lot of great old BMWs and they were not riding it a lot. When they finally decided to let it go to make room for another great project, they made my girlfriend Meghan Moorlach and me a deal we couldn’t refuse so they could “keep it in the family.”

What do you love about it?

I love the simplicity of it. These bikes were designed to be reliable, robust, and workhorses. I am by no means a professional mechanic, but the way this motor is laid out it makes it very easy to learn how to maintain and repair it. You will often hear BMW Airhead Club guys say “this bike will always get you home,” and that has been true. There has always been a very special community around motorcycles, but the Airhead community is hard to beat. We have met some of the most generous and eccentric people at BMW campouts and cookouts. They will get together and spend a day fixing all the little things on your bike, pull parts from their archives, and make sure you know how to repair it again in the future. And, after all that, fill you up with food. 64

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Do vintage bikes ride differently from new ones?

Oh, absolutely! I wouldn’t go as far to say that one is better than the other—they are completely different animals.

You own other motorcycles, so when do you ride this one? If we are heading out for a long trip, or if its questionable weather, I ride my new Triumph. But whenever we are just going for a relaxed ride, exploring back roads or heading to a bike show, I usually take the BMW. It also comes out to do campouts and rides with the BMW Airheads Club.

What can you fit in those Wixom saddlebags?

You get creative! We always have a tool roll and a smattering of parts floating around in those bags. Most of the time it’s stuff for work—laptop, notebooks, etc.

Any memorable rides on this bike?

Always the first ride! It’s been a lot of fun to spend time with Meghan on it, too—though she prefers to ride it by herself!

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