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Style points-LBC-6AM.

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Vintage Canterbury Rugby jersey's from the bowl on Sunday "compositional".
another 9 here.

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BLENDO

Peter Shire holding his Henry award from the California Museum of Design 2011.

Jayme Odgers, an artist and designer friend of Shire's who first met Peter round 1978 at a Wet magazine party in Malibu, has said that Peter's works "bridge the terrain between art/design, function and non-utilitarianism. They are gorgeously outrageous. They smear the professional and personal.

In the early eighties we used a coined word to describe what Peter does with his life and art: we called it 'Blendo'. He's a fellow Blendo. He lives and works in the borders between the obvious, blending opposites, merging disparate elements into a unique whole that is all his own."

Frank Lloyd, from Peter Shire Chairs catalogue 2007.

*Limeys-see some PS work in the Postmodernism show at the V&A.

**Related posts here...here...here.

***South Willard PS shop exhibit here.

Beachbox

The Architects of Beach Clown, their influence is pervasive down here, occasionally vandalized by the Seagull tagging salty folk. Pre Palermo/Connors. Background here.

Littlest Hobo

Smuggling Lendog into Malibu with Andy's tote + Lechuza Beach Clown hideout.

Portable People

Mr Noonan's UDT's in cargo mode whilst scootering around Armorgos, Greece. Mr Conder's UDT's/Pierre Hardy's, the Malibu switch out, Beach Clowning from sea to sidewalk. NB-no modification going on here, uncut UDT's are like strapping 4x2's to your feet, propulsion at a price. In house UDT posts. Dr Greg Deets!

TCB

TCB'S Malibu debut, and the launch of the Beach Clown Jr movement. Learning to fly, Crescent Down Works Baby Bunting/kicking back CDW's Italian vest. Wait I know that hat...CDW here, and here.

Beach Clown Archives Vol. 1

Beach Clown

Beach Clown is the new style silently taking over this season, with labels like Band Of Outsiders & Dries Van Noten offering striped cotton shirts in sophisticated palettes. Whilst using the term 'Beach Clown' to specifically define a fashion style is a relatively new thing (*credit to Ms K.Breslin of Los Angeles here) its roots shoot back deep into the collective creative consciousness. Trying however to designate the original 'Beach Clown' can get as gratuitous as crowning an individual for producing the first striped painting.

All we know is this; that the Bauhaus were big players and early promoters of the Beach Clown aesthetic, and that by the time the movement reached the states it had been reconstituted into a somewhat softer more malleable 'lifestyle' movement. Whilst Brian Wilson's brothers denied his emphatic calls to name the band 'The Beach Clowns', for fear of being too closely associated with the style (viewed by many as European vice) they agreed to adopt the candy striped button down shirts as their signature look, and in doing so inadvertenty gave the Beach Clown movement its most enduring endorsement.