BEAUTY: Sculpture--Jan Vogelpoel

Australian sculptor Jan Vogelpoel works in clay to realize some fantastic biomorphic forms. She says she is inspired both by Japanese and Mid-Century Modern design. In addition to sculptures, she also creates lighting, vases, framed wall tiles, and in the last two images below, multi-piece relief wall sculptures.

Pieces are for sale! Visit her website.
https://www.janvogelpoelceramics.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Laurence Jones

Painter Laurence Jones has been obsessed, like many people, with the incredibly famous (and rightly so) Stahl House. The house --or Case House Study #22 as it was known--was built in 1959 by Pierre Koenig in the Hollywood Hills area for the Stahl family. It is a masterpiece of Mid-Century Modern Architecture, showing up in films (Tim Allen's character lived there in the comedy sci-fi film "Galaxy Quest"), television shows (even an animated version showed up on "The Simpsons"!), and countless advertisements for things like food, kitchen appliances, and furniture. Jones is clearly entranced with the clean angularity of the cantilevered house and the equally important view of Los Angeles.

https://laurencejones.com/
https://stahlhouse.com/

BEAUTY: Drawing--Ryan McMenamy

Artist/illustrator Ryan McMenamy has illustrated men' fashion and clothing for some big names including Calvin Klein, Bergdorf Goodman, Abercrombie and Fitch, and H&M but his work stands on its own as fine art. I love the mid-century sense and the utter simplicity of his imagery as well as the fact that many are seemingly executed on wood. And he looks a lot like the men he paints and draws...handsome...

https://www.ryanmcmenamy.com/index.html

BEAUTY: Interiors--The Home of Colman Domingo

Actor Colman Domingo furnished his Los Angeles mid-century ranch house in an exuberant, charming, and very personal way that looks like so much fun. I'd love to visit him and hang out in the living room on the Michel Ducaroy sofas or by the pool...

I love that he loves and has kept intact so much of the mid-century elements of his home which was built in 1964 from a design by Jule Sulkan. And I also love his Eero Saarinen table and chairs, the tropical breakfast nook, the colorful master bathroom which utilizes leftover mosaic tiles from the 1964 LAX inter-terminal tunnel tile project designed by Charles D. Kratka (you can still see them if you use the LAX tunnels!), and the sweet, hidden pink reading nook in his office!

https://www.colmandomingo.com/
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/colman-domingo-southern-california-home-tour