(I love this chair. It was just hanging out...)
Next is my favorite residential building in San Francisco. If I could choose to live anywhere in the Bay Area, it would be here. This Streamline Deco masterpiece was featured prominently in the 1947 Humphrey Bogart film " Dark Passage." On the facades of this building are three large silver relief-friezes. The friezes are stunning; the first showing California as a beautiful woman under a rainbow. The next frieze shows a European settler bravely exploring the Bay in a majestic old world sailboat. The third frieze depicts a stylized man, holding the world in his hand, stepping over the bay bridge with airplanes sailing above his head. I really love the prominent usage of airplanes as a design feature in the friezes, to indicate man's progress and ambition., and the exciting advances in technology bringing man out of the old world and into a life of leisure and luxury! Architect: Irvin Goldstine, 1937
Maybe if I just close my eyes and imagine buying the penthouse, currently for sale, I will find a way. Ommm...
I have to post a few pics of the interior of the penthouse. They are from the listing agents website...
Anyone have a cool $1,500,000 burning a hole in your pocket?
Marianne Brandt was an artist who trained at the Bauhaus. She became the head of the schools metal shop in 1928. Brandt's designs from that time and her illustrious career had a lasting effect on industrialist design and are considered a direct precurser to the later midcentury modern and industrialist movements to follow in art and design. Above are a collections of her ashtrays that I had found and wanted to share.
Marianne Brandt (Oct 1, 1893- June 18, 1983)
Sonia Delaunay (born Sarah Ilinitchna Stern) was the french artist who initiated the
Orphism art movement. Orphism can be described by its noted geometry and strong color blocking utilizing bold shades. She was the first living woman to hold a solo retrospective at the Louvre, which took place in 1964, and in 1975 she was initiated as an officer of the French Legion of Honor. She was a thoroughly modern woman, even marrying a gay man, to escape being brought back to Russia by her family; a choice that would ultimately lead to her connections in the art world. It pays to keep some homos around ;-). Her work transcends many genres but I had wanted to share her clothing and costumes.
During the Russian revolution, Sonia turned to selling clothes and costumes for the stage for her income. It was during this period that these clothes were from. I really want the top that is a pile of triangles in reds orange, blue greens and black.
Sonia died December 5, 1979, at the age of 95.
I would do Anything for that matching jacket/dress/Citroen combo. I am so jealous.....
