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From our own world of finds we have curated a selection of essentials, vintage and one-of-a-kind items from our travels, bringing the greater design world home to you.
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Pueblo, 1986, Silkscreen
20 × 15 in | 50.8 × 38.1 cm Signed and numbered 55/100
Piece is sold unframed.
Artist: Roy Ahlgren
The Story: Roy Ahlgren (1927-2011) was an American artist known for his mathematically precise op art and hard-edged geometric abstractions. Born in 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania, Ahlgren was a self-taught painter who began working in the op and hard edge technique in 1964.
During the 1960s he worked as an artist-designer for the Louis Marx Toy Company in Erie and was a partner in Erie's Galerie 8 art gallery. In 1970, he began teaching art at Tech Memorial High School—the same school from which he had graduated—and retired in 1990 to paint full time.
Ahlgren's compositions depicted motion and volume through modulated color, created using both serigraphy and traditional painting. His work showed influences from Victor Vasarely but maintained a more lyrical style. Over his career, he received more than 60 prizes, including purchase awards from the Seattle Art Museum, Minot State College, Texas Tech University Museum, and the Mississippi Art Association.
His work resides in over 100 institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, and museums in Norway, Japan, Poland, Vietnam, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He exhibited widely at prestigious venues including the National Academy of Design and the Library of Congress.
Designer: Comme de Garçons (early 2000’s) cotton fabric, 13×28 inches
Piece is sold unframed.
The Story: This piece was found from a textile seller at the LA Rose Bowl Flea Market, typefaces match back to the CDG style guide and it is clear what the original purpose of the textile wasn't evident based on the collections at the time. Currently the textile is being stored in a frame and can be sewn into a piece once purchased. Textile has cut edges and is not hemmed.
Designer: Unknown
Print is sold unframed.
The Story: This Rams Head Poster print (24x36) is direct from the Sea Ranch Lodge, one of Northern California’s modernist gems. In vibrant orange and bold typography it is a beautiful graphic statement for any room.
The Sea Ranch Lodge is located on 53 acres along Sonoma County's rugged Northern California coastline. The land was historically used for timber harvest and sheep ranching from the late 1800s. In 1964, Oceanic Properties, Inc. decided to build a new community, and architect Al Boeke was sent from Hawaii to find the right site.
Oceanic hired the architectural firm Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, and Whitaker to design a community with a lodge at the center based on "living lightly on the land" with respect for nature. The Sea Ranch Lodge was one of the first three structures erected on the land in 1968, designed by Joseph Esherick. It originally contained a restaurant, solarium, bar, café, general store, and post office.
In 1988, the Lodge was sold to The Sea Ranch Village, Inc., a private corporation. Over the decades, the property fell into disrepair. A group of families from the Bay Area purchased the property in 2018 and began a multimillion-dollar renovation. The public spaces reopened in October 2021, and the 17 guest rooms were completely reimagined and reopened in July 2023, designed by Nicole Hollis and Charles de Lisle, restoring the Lodge's vision of harmonious coastal living.
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Wanda
Hammerbeck
Lake and Cliffs (1982)
Original Signed Chromogenic Print
Designer: Wanda Hammerbeck
The Story: Original Signed Chromogenic Development Print (16” × 20”) in a vintage frame (36×48). This piece is one of a select few prints of her work, prints of this piece are in SFMoMA and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Her other work also hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the RISD Museum.
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Wanda Hammerbeck was born in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, followed by an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1976.
Before fully committing to photography, she served as assistant to the Dean of Women at UNC from 1969–1971, then as director of the graduate center there. She began teaching photography at Holy Names College in Oakland, California in 1976.
She won the Juror's Award, first place, for her MFA exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1977, and received a Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979.
Based in Northern California, she became a well-known landscape photographer and a key participant in the Water in the West collaborative — a group of photographers examining America's complex relationship with water resources across the Western landscape. She works in both black-and-white and color to explore human relationships to the land.
Her notable works include The Origination of the Los Angeles River, Polluting the Grand Canyon (1990), Living Beyond the Resources (1991), and Water Presence-Absence (1986). Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions.
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