"From the Spoon to the City": Objects by Architects from LACMA's Collection
6th August ’09 - 24th January ‘10
LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, California
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents "From the Spoon to the City": Objects by Architects, an exhibition highlighting a series of objects designed by architects in the twentieth-century.
Featuring an impressive selection of works by an equally impressive line-up of designers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Rudolph Schindler, Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, and Ettore Sottsass, the exhibition explores the desire of many architects to design both buildings and their contents.
Designed for reasons ranging from special commissions to the realisation of ideas on a smaller, more viable scale, each object on display functions as miniature buildings, helping to convey each architects ideas in compact form.
The Bubbles Lounge Chair, 1987 by Frank Gehry - Photo © 2009 Museum Associates/ LACMA
Coffee Table by Lustig, Alvin circa 1947-1948 - Photo ©2009 Museum Associates/LACMA
