Gehry Cups 'n Saucers
Leslie Cicurel Engel was kind enough to send these to me:
Hi Steve, To my surprise, while packing up my kitchen in advance of a renovation,I found a coffee cup set from Chiat/Day days. These were given to us in commemoration of the opening of the Venice Beach 'binocular' office. Don't know if you can see the date on the back of the saucer ; it's 1991.They have a reproduction of the drawing Frank Gehry scribbled on a napkin and gave to Jay when trying to describe what the new building would look like... or so the story went. In any event, thought you and other C/Ders would get a kick out of seeing them again. I'm wondering if anyone else still has a set. Hope you are well. Best regards - Leslie
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Comments
I have 12 of them.
Posted by: Steve Rabosky | September 1, 2009 01:57 PM
I still have my set as well!
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | September 3, 2009 10:00 AM
still have a few of them myself. can't say i use them but do like the way the look.
Posted by: dede mcmahon | September 5, 2009 10:59 PM
still have a few of them myself. can't say i use them but do like the way the look.
Posted by: dede mcmahon | September 5, 2009 11:00 PM
I got a set tucked away somewhere
Posted by: troy hamblin | September 15, 2009 03:58 PM
Hi Leslie, Scot and Dede! I still have mine, too! I never use them but I can't seem to part with them either!
Posted by: lisa Shelnitz | October 29, 2009 07:34 PM
I gave my set to my mom. She has them in her China Cabinet. I also have the pair of Binoculars that we got when we moved it...
Thanks Jay! : )
Posted by: Darren Isabelle | November 3, 2009 07:30 PM
Annette and I also have a set and use them occasionally. The one I wonder about are those red bicycles we got one year. Anybody still have one if those?
Posted by: Scott Sanford | November 7, 2009 11:57 AM
I still have my set. In fact, a friend of mine is married to an architect and when he saw that they were Frank Gehry insprired, he loved them! I better check to see that he didn't steal them. What a great momento from a great time.
Posted by: Zach Rosenberg | November 15, 2009 07:13 PM
I still have my set in the original box with the "note" from Jay.... And those red bikes, I WISH I still had mine, I remember the day we got them, people assembled them that day and rode them around the 7th floor.
Posted by: Amy Ward | February 16, 2010 05:51 PM
I just came across this post and had to SMILE as those babies get pulled out whenever I start longing for the LA sunshine. That building brings back many fond memories1
Greetings to all from snowy Helsinki
Posted by: Ann Zemenak Sarimo | March 6, 2010 05:30 PM