Today I’m frantically trying to tie up some loose ends before I take off for Munich and Cairo (this little LAMA is in serious need of a vacation)! I have so many great sites lined up on my vacation agenda with the first one taking place right in the San Francisco airport. Since 1980, SFO has been treating it’s traveling patrons to a bit of art throughout it’s terminals. Through October, the San Francisco Airport Museum is exhibiting the work of the iconic American designer Russel Wright entitled, Wright at Home: Modern Lifestyle Design 1930–1965

RUSSEL WRIGHT IMAGE FOUR Residential line of plastic ware, shown in salmon.
Winner of the Museum of Modern Art?s Good Design Award in 1953, it was the
best selling dinnerware in the US in 1957.
Photo by Masca, courtesy Manitoga, Inc./Russel Wright Design Center.

Paving the way for future personality-driven lifestyle empires like Martha Stewart, Wright was considered to be the first brand name celebrity in home furnishings. Selling 250 million pieces of his American Modern dinnerware between 1939 and 1959, Russel Wright was hugely successful at bringing modern design to the general public.

photo via Apartment Therapy

I am so excited to have the fortune to catch this awesome exhibit on my way through SFO. Russel Wright is one of my favorite modern American designers of all time, right up there with Charles and Ray Eames. I’ll have to be sure to get to SFO with enough time to take in this can’t miss exhibit. *fingers crossed everything goes smoothly tomorrow morning.*

I’ll be sure to post some great travel photos while I’m away. I can’t wait to get back to LAMA! There are so many great new things coming to the shop when I return. Hasta luego!