Filth Avenue
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
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Eames,
Ed Ruscha,
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Los Angeles,
Moulton Bike,
Movies,
Richard Neutra
Architectural critic and Moulton bike fan Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in this 1972 BBC documentary. Brilliant.
Sam Maloof
“Ray Charles couldn’t see my furniture,” Maloof told a reporter. “But he said he could feel that it had soul. When he asked about my rocker [at a friend’s house], his host told him, ‘That’s a chair made by Sam Maloof.’ Ray ran his hands over the wood shouting, ‘I know this man! I know this man!’ On his next visit, the first thing Ray Charles said was, ‘I’d like to touch that furniture again that Sam Maloof made.’
Sam Maloof (1916 - 2009)
Liking is for cowards. Go for what hurts.
“Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly, and makes us feel all powerful, and doesn’t throw terrible scenes when it’s replaced by an even sexier object and is consigned to a drawer.”
Jonathan Franzen via The New Shelton wet/dry / NYT.
