a store visit with Galerie Half

<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >melodies</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;">in my mind <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(2011)</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6601631317_e83707f88d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6601631317_e83707f88d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><br style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.galeriehalf.com/galerie_half/new_enter.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galerie Half</span></a></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">is a transcendent place. It is a store that blends American primitive works, with the lines of great Swedish, Belgian, French, and Danish furniture works. Galerie Half is for those that believe that<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" >rooms need a soul and a sense of history and purpose</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">.</span></span> On trips to the store, I've come across stunning works by Jean Royere, Kurt Olsen, Poul Henningsen, and Borge Mogensen to name a few. For those that read YHBHS, Galerie Half wrote one of my favorite Card Catalog entries last year for the site. <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/12/y-h-b-h-s-card-catalog-selection-26.html" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">(read it here.</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">)</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">When researching furniture/design,<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">songs are often in my mind</span></span>. I see shapes and lines that will remind me of a melody, that slowly turn into muted colors, that eventually become a room. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">These images were taken by <a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Marco Annunziata</a>, a photographer based in Italy and L.A. who specializes in architecture/interior photography. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galerie Half</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">6911 melrose avenue los angeles CA 90038</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6601637439_3662018f29_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6601637439_3662018f29_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 685px; height: 1027px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Zhang Huan 'Ash Painting No. 4' 2007, ash & incense<br /><br /><br /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Underneath our feet, Crystals grow like plants</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> (Listen how they grow)</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> I'm blinded by the lights</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">(Listen how they grow), In the core of the earth</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">(Listen how they grow)</span><br /></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFf-5bg5ZaA" style="font-style: italic;"><br />(crystalline, listen here)</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6601610293_72f8046d84_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6601610293_72f8046d84_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 703px; height: 469px;" /></a><br /><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />I've been looking for your touch.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I've been looking for your touch.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">I've been looking for your touch.</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">everything, you touch</span>....<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3qlkOBd9o"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">listen here: <span style="font-weight: bold;">holy other</span></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6601608579_8f8430fd98_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6601608579_8f8430fd98_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6601610721_25e5dc934d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6601610721_25e5dc934d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Don't ask me when <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">but ask me why </span><br />Don't ask me how but ask me where<br />There is a road, there is a way<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">There is a place, there is a place </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I know places we can go babe </span><br />Coming home, come unfold babe<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3P2o5gryfs"><span style="font-style: italic;">(I know places... here</span></a>)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6601631041_06c8725397_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6601631041_06c8725397_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 1048px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6601609951_3e39253ec8_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6601609951_3e39253ec8_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Do you feel any better now? </span><br />I'm trying to follow what you told me,<br />A little, lost colony from the start,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">We never see what only you can say </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-n2O50BSQ"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Relocate, <span style="font-weight: bold;">KAUF</span>, here)</span></a><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.galeriehalf.com/galerie_half/new_enter.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" >Galerie Half</span></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">6911 melrose avenue los angeles CA 90038</span><br /><a href="http://marcoannunziata.tumblr.com/"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photography by Marco Annunziata </span></a>

a store visit with Galerie Half

.... the melodies in my mind (2011) Galerie Half is a transcendent place. It is a store that blends American primitive works, with the li...

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a store visit with Reform, Los Angeles

<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"There are your good friends and I like them fine.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> 'Cause <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">they are your past and your present time</span></span>.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> But would you even be the same if you left them behind?"</span><br /><br />-<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIDPQM91l9U"><span style="font-style: italic;"> Kathleeen Edwards</span></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6526878115_46d16f230d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6526878115_46d16f230d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 505px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />all photographs by</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marco Annunziata</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br />Gerard O'Brien's store <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reform </span></span>on Melrose in the heart of Los Angeles tells a specific story of craft & design. It is here in this store that I have been firsthand introduced to the works of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >J.B. Blunk</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >Howard Werner</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >David Cressey's ceramics</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Gerald McCabe's sculptural furniture</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span><span class="description" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;">Tanya Aguiniga's felted works</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Kapel</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">,</span> only to name a few.<br /><br />For collectors or design geeks like myself, Reform is what I might call a <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"temple of the hands."</span> A place where the lines are blurred between craft + art + design. Gerard's enormous collection of books in the back room is the best public archive of this sort that I know about here in L.A. I've spent many hours of the afternoon speaking with Gerard about the current state of craft in America , as well as attending the store's events. Last year he hosted <a href="http://lesliewilliamsonphoto.blogspot.com/2011/06/tonight-handcrafted-modern-book-party.html" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leslie Williamson for her book, Handcrafted Modern</span></a>, and spoke recently at <a href="http://www.reform-modern.com/news.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">LACMA on The Legacy of California Design.</span></a> Designers such as myself are extremely grateful for Gerard's dedication to telling the story of Southern California's design, and encouraging a new generation to work with their hands. Please take time to visit Reform. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6526866231_09687f7257_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6526866231_09687f7257_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 468px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />Pacific Standard Time since 2003.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6526865119_d605227c06_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6526865119_d605227c06_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-style: italic;">a portion of the library at Reform....</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6526865835_c4b8f47d55_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6526865835_c4b8f47d55_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 467px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It's All Good!...</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6526865445_3a79cc9c12_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6526865445_3a79cc9c12_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br />large ceramic text based sculptural works....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6526866507_1fd6626dac_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6526866507_1fd6626dac_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 466px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6526864673_65aef1fe2c_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6526864673_65aef1fe2c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 468px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tanya Aguiniga's felted chairs</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6532872997_5cb3f65525_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6532872997_5cb3f65525_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 704px; height: 470px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">all photographs by</span> <a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marco Annunziata</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">a store visit with</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.reform-modern.com/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reform</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">6819 Melrose, Los Angeles</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------</span>

a store visit with Reform, Los Angeles

.... "There are your good friends and I like them fine. 'Cause they are your past and your present time . But would you even be t...

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