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Architectural Pottery Eight-piece "Triennale" Totem, Model "IN," ca. 1950s designed by LaGardo Ta...

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Architectural Pottery Eight-piece Triennale Totem, Model IN, ca. 1950s designed by LaGardo Ta...
Architectural Pottery
Eight-piece "Triennale" Totem, Model "IN," ca. 1950s
designed by LaGardo Tacket
glazed white and green ceramic
71 in. (180.3 cm) high
Estimate: $8,000-10,000 <p>LITERATURE
Architectural Pottery, catalogue, Upton, CA, March
1961, p. 18
<p>Architectural Pottery began as a student project at the California School of Art in Los Angeles. In 1948, Professor LaGardo Tackett instructed his ten most advanced design students to "create, and execute in a local factory, garden ware of heroic dimensions" ("Landscape Pottery: A Student Project Becomes a Commercial Venture," Interiors, October 1949, p. 125). The assignment would encompass every aspect of production, from conception to marketing and retailing. Due to the financial constraints of the original assignment, the students were required to use pre-existing molds for their ceramic planters, but they did so in a creative manner, by using only half of a mold, resting one planter on another inverted one, stacking them up to create totems, or even hanging them from the ceiling.
<p> To culminate the project, John Follis, with the help of fellow students, staged a display at Evans and Reeves, a local nursery. The students' line of planters was a great success, and the nursery commissioned more for national distribution. In 1950, entrepreneur Rita Lawrence formed the Architectural Pottery company to produce and distribute the garden wares, and soon, new designs and designers were introduced into the Architectural Pottery repertoire. The company's output was featured in many exhibitions, including "20th Century Design: USA," sponsored by eight museums in 1959-1960; "Good Design" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the United States pavilion in the 1958 World Fair in Brussels.
<p>From the start, Architectural Pottery became an integral part of the California landscape, commonly displayed with the popular
Van Keppel-Green outdoor furniture and often featured in the great modernist houses of
the period.
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