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Film Noir

Johnny Walker Noir, that is. 

Vintage Japanese 35mm Ceramic Camera Flask, with a 16 oz. capacity.

+ In the shop +

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Vintage Hartstone Wine Tote

The coolest stoneware wine tote ever made, and how it would look in your window if you lived in an awesome converted fire house stable.

In the shop

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Stig Lindberg's Poolside Ceramics

Stig Lindberg's "The Beach" stoneware decoration for the swimming hall, school of the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions, Gustavsberg, 1976

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Bowl, 1947

New in the shop, a great little black clay bowl signed JC Marsh, 47. Coincidentally the same year that Miracle on 34th St. came out...

Over the next few weeks we'll be stocking the shop with perfect gifts like this, so keep checking!

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Mushrooms

ceramic! 

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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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Coil Pots

Working on some coil pots lately (above, in the drying stage)

We have a collection of these (below) but we only ever find a good one once in a blue moon, so we thought "why not just make our own and then we'll have all the pots we'll ever need."
And of course we don't need that many, so they'll be for sale too...
(coming soon)

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Bjorn to Ride

Spectacularly whimsical 20" tall Bjorn Wiinblad ceramic horseman candelabra, new in our shop.
Also in our shop, which, thanks to Remodelista's mention has been recently depleted, are some Patrick Nagel prints, Alessio Tasca bookends, Gunnar Cyren cooking pots, a Gerald Thurston desk lamp, a Jack Russell needlepoint, a brass souvenir of Kuwait Towers, two more oil tankers, a Jens Quistgaard tray, a brass Beverly Hills key tray, and a lucite wine pourer,  among other things.
the Wary Meyers Shop

Below: A Gump's of San Francisco's incredible Bjorn Wiinblad display from the mid-70's. Notice the giant fountain overlooking a chrysanthemum-bordered reflecting pool. wow

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Pottery Class

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Valley Guy

Living Treasure of California ceramicist Stan Bitters making a cameo in his friends' Joyce Aiken and Jean Ray Laury's 1977 classic, "The Total Tote Bag Book", which, along with their "Handmade Rugs from Practically Anything", and "Creating Body Coverings", complete the must-have holy trinity of 70's craft books (with Alexandra Jacopetti's "Native Funk & Flash" and Peter Beagle's "American Denim" coming in close behind.

* Google mapping that address adds a healthy dose of 70's California Valley provenance.

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Going Green

Nesting ceramic hedgehogs, Marimekko panels, lilypads,

and other green things on a shelf in our green bathroom.

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