Everybody Hustle to Bureau

Our Everybody Hustle print at Bureau San Francisco
Read about Studio O+A's concept shop in the New York Times here

Photo via the extraordinary Kelly Lynn Waters



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California Trip

Our candles will be hitting the west coast pretty soon..... :)

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Tony Roberts and Diane Keaton's place in Play it Again, Sam

Woody Allen films always have fantastic apartments, but this may be my favorite.

related:
Claes Oldenburg
Woody Allen's NYC apartment, 1972

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LA-San Fran or bust

Tape-ography and hitchhiking tips, Oui Magazine, 1975

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The Ritva Man x Ian McShane x The Last of Sheila, 1973

Among the myriad of cool things in the 1973 Hollywood Jet-Jet Whodunnit "The Last of Sheila", Ian McShane's Ritva Man David Hockney sweater is the star.

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R.I.P Paolo Soleri, 1919-2013

Today the world has lost one of its great minds...
via Esoteric Survey







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Design Research see-thru briefcase

...Gimme... 

a family portrait that cool, and a briefcase that awesome.

From Design Research, where everything was cool, even their delivery van.

via a Oui magazine gift guide, 1973

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Hot Tub Time Machine

It was the best of times

it was the worst of times

from Cannibal Soup: Tubbing with the Thompsons (1978), in the shop.

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Debbie Harry, Eric Idle, Lauren Hutton and Princess Leia

Cool people hanging out together, 1982.

 from Monty Python's Autobiography.

Considering this v-neck and no shirt look this fall... (but not the medallion)

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Kent Twitchell's Ed Ruscha Monument

Kent Twitchell's "Ed Ruscha Monument" in progress, Los Angeles, 1980.

Finished in 1987, it was thoughtlessly painted over by some idiot one day in 2006. (LA Times)


top: from the book "Street Murals" by Volker Barthelmeh (1982)
the bottom two from Kent Twitchell's MySpace page

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Never get out of the boat

 From the 1977 book Houseboat: Reflections of North America's Floating Homes... History, Architecture, and Lifestyles. by Ben Dennis and Betsy Case. 

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White Lines

Beverly Hills. the awesome endpapers of Eliot Elisofon's The Hollywood Style, 1969.

We were going to use this as the basis for a huge room divider (2" deep roads, the red being cut away), but it turned out to be too difficult to sand the edges smooth enough for a lacquer finish.
It's still on the back burner....

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Valentine's Day getaway idea! The Madonna Inn

Buck Henry, Anita Morris, Beverly D'Angelo, and Gary Kasper foolin around at the Madonna Inn, from Julien Temple's "Rigoletto" segment of the movie Aria.

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Marvin Gaye, California 1976

By Annie Leibovitz, from Rolling Stone, 1977.
One of my favorite photographs ever.

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Elaine Katzer lidded bowl

Always on the lookout for interesting, hippie, handmade, design-y pottery, this fit the bill on all counts.

It was only after picking it up we saw the name Katzer.

Above, Elaine Katzer on the kick wheel in 1962, from here, which looks like it's going to be an awesome show. And below, slightly more impressive than our bowl is her giant stoneware work "Sea Chanty" (1976), from the book California Design...
In fact, this may be my new favorite thing .

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David Hockney in A Bigger Splash

1973.
This trailer should have been an aria in the movie Aria. How great is Henry Geldzahler's appearance from behind the flowers?

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Ram On

Actually it's a goat, hangin' out on the back of this Lopez Designs stoneware planter from 1975. This is perhaps the coolest piece of pottery I've seen in a while- so Southern California-70's. Look at that logotype!
One of the new additions to our shop.

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The Ghost and Mrs. Snowblood

Squeaky-voiced 1930's actress Jean Arthur's house in Carmel California, 1976.
Equal parts Lady Snowblood and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,
with a little helping of the Mines of Moria and Fangorn Forest.

And that's just the living room.

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Calif.

Chateau Marmont by Jenny Agutter (Logan's Run, An American Werewolf in London) from her awesome book Snap.

Coincidentally Dennis Stock's more awesome book is loaded with photos of ape extras hanging around Los Angeles, taken during the filming of Planet of the Apes, 1968. But I just love these two photos.

somewhat related, and if you've never seen it,

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Happy Earth Day

Make it every day.

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