Showing Records: 1 - 10 of 56
3x3' Living Structure sketches in brown marker
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_32_14_05
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
Article clipping; New York Times, 1969-01-03
File — Box: 52, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Comprises Isaacs’ personal reference library, used by him for in-house reference as well as in press kits. For business, he produced and kept documentation files including drawings, plans and photographs about his designs and copies of any media coverage.
Dates:
1969-01-03
Book jacket, How To Build Your Own Living Structures
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_40_10
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
Carson and guest laugh, turning away from each other on loft
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_78_37_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Carson Guest in Gown Stands on I-Chair
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_78_37_15
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Carson looks at camera while seated in Living Structure
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_78_37_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Contact sheet; Cover art, How to Build Your Own Living Structure book, c. 1973
File — Box: 71, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Records Isaacs’ design work, including studio and process shots, and classroom activity and student work. There are also some personal photographs of Isaacs’ parents, his youth, and his family. Most photos were created by or for Isaacs, although some are copies by photojournalists covering Isaacs for newspapers and magazines. Photographic prints and transparencies make up most of the series, though there are recordings of lectures by and about Isaacs, audio notes, media appearances, and...
Dates:
c. 1973
Contact sheet of Ken Isaacs assembling 8x8' Living Structure
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_70_07_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Correspondence; Wilma Keppel, grid beam construction, 2006 - 2007
File — Box: 50, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates:
2006 - 2007
Dinnertime for a Family Using 6x6' Living Structure
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_67_33_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
Filtered By
- Subject: Living Structures X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Type
- Digital Record 49
- Archival Object 7
- Subject
- Living Structures 41
- How to Build Your Own Living Structures 16
- Furniture 13
- Furniture design 9
- Publicity 5
- Books 4
- Life magazine 4
- Fun House 3
- Portraits 3
- Shoebox House 3
- tools 3
- Art 2
- Building 2
- Clothing and dress 2
- Farms 2
- Hardware 2
- Packaging 2
- Publications 2
- Artists' studios 1
- Booksellers and bookselling 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Classroom design 1
- Classrooms 1
- DIY 1
- Design 1
- English language -- Writing 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Farm buildings 1
- Fittings 1
- Groveland (Ill.) 1
- Illinois -- Description and travel 1
- Knowledge Box / Information Structures 1
- Learning Modern exhibit 1
- Museum exhibits 1
- Photography 1
- Superchair 1
- T-cube chair 1
- Textiles 1
- The Knowledge Box (film) 1
- Vacations 1
- assembly 1
- copyright 1
- grid beams 1
- magazines 1
- wood 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Isaacs, Ken 50
- Isaacs, Carole 4
- Witanowski, Bob 4
- Abraham & Straus 2
- Isaacs, Barbara 2
∨ more